A contentious City Council push to ban 24-hour shifts for home health aides is being propped up by radical left-wing groups who have shared pro-communist sentiments and vile anti-Israel rhetoric online, The Post has learned.
Far-left Chinatown groups like the “The New York Young Communist League” and “Youth Against Displacement” have campaigned, picketed and petitioned outside of City Hall in support of Lower Manhattan Councilman Chris Marte’s “No More 24” bill.
The bill would repeal the 24-hour workday for the estimated 130,000 home care workers across the Big Apple by requiring criteria like providing a one-week notice and consent from the employee to work longer than 12 hours.
Youth Against Displacement, a group that was originally formed to fight displacement within Chinatown, described the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israeli civilians as “chickens coming home to roost” in a 2023 open letter published to Medium.
The group even previously promoted a “F–k the Fourth” Town Hall” in 2025 that complained about the US being a “settler colony” and urging attendees to resist “US fascism and imperialism.”
The New York Communist League bills itself as a “training ground” for young people to convert the US into a communist society and has shared positive messages about communist dictators like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and the current Communist Party led government in China.
“Joseph Stalin may have departed, but he left excellent advice on the task of party-building and the true purpose of a worker’s newspaper as a collective organizer,” the New York Young Communist League previously posted on X.
“Mao said that a revolutionary must have lots of patience. It takes time and sometimes the contradiction to capitalism must become starker for people to see,” another post reads.
Another post claimed that it “Almost seems like the things about which the media have been trying for years to make us hate and fear China are actually bulls–t.”
Even though the bill has languished in the council the last few years, City Council Speaker Julie Menin has said the it could be brought to a vote this session as early as April.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani supported ending 24-hour shifts while serving in the state Assembly but has not committed to signing the bill as Hizzoner.
The bill originally promised to completely ban the 24-hour work week but changed the bill to add the one-week notice and consent policy after the mayor’s office intervened, according to DocumentedNY.
Activist groups supporting the legislation said that they would undertake a hunger strike to push for a vote – a thinly veiled swipe against Hizzoner, who went on a 15-day hunger strike with taxi drivers to rally against for debt forgiveness.
The outlet also reported that Gov. Kathy Hochul has pressured the council to kill the bill because it could send Medicaid costs soaring.
Reps for the governor did not respond to requests for comment but Menin poured cold water on the report at an unrelated Thursday press conference.
“The bill had gone under a number of different changes,” she said, when asked about the governor’s involvement. “We’ve been working with Councilmember Marte and other stakeholders and additional changes have been made – so we look forward to sharing a new version of the bill with the governor’s office.”
The two activist groups are just some of the latest radical organizations getting involved with NYC politics, after former Mayor Bill de Blasio jetsetting to Columbia with the alleged Chinese Community Party-linked lefty group Code Pink.
Reps for the mayor and Councilman Chris Marte did not respond to request for comment.
