What began as routine student protests in April quickly escalated into a battle for the UCLA campus, and Daily Caller investigative reporters were on the ground to document it all.

Since the 1960s, there has been a familiar image of campus protests: bright young students radicalized by left-wing ideology on campus become activists: they gather, camp out, occupy buildings, make absurd demands on university officials, sometimes get violent, but always end up returning to class.

The Daily Caller's new documentary, “Anarchy U,” chronicles it all in real time as it unfolded on UCLA's campus in April: the violence, the occupation of buildings, the construction and destruction of encampments, and the power struggle between force, justice and the law.

We learned that these are not the activists your parents were in college — they are a whole different kind of radical — and going back to class is the last thing on their minds.

“Anarchy U” is available exclusively to Patriots members. Watch our exclusive sneak peek below:

Investigative reporter Cam Higbee went undercover to the so-called “Student Intifada Encampment” on the UCLA campus to expose the reality of the protests, but the militants who took over the campus were not just made up of tuition-paying students.

“There were definitely people within the campsite who were not students, faculty or local residents,” Higbee explained.

“At every campsite, about 50 percent were at least college age, and the other 50 percent were probably not college age.”

“In a way, this just blows a hole in the whole notion of 'student activism,'” he concluded.

So who are these outside instigators?

First, Higbee clashed with the “designated media liaisons” sent to manage the flow of information to the first encampment site, barricaded in a courtyard on the UCLA campus: they knew how to distinguish between friendly and “hostile” media, and they were clearly not first-year journalism students.

Additionally, organizers made sure the campsites were well-stocked with supplies for an extended stay.

“The camp contained at least tens of thousands of dollars worth of food, water, feminine products, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, hygiene products, etc.,” Higbee noted.

“Hey, who's funding this?” he asked one of the organizers before being pushed away from the barricades.

And the security forces were left to do the heavy lifting.

A private security company called CSC “patrolled” the barricades, directing guards to designated media checkpoints and helping protesters control the situation. Higbee explained that CSC is a well-known company “employed by a number of universities,” but they “were certainly guarding the encampment at the behest of the universities.”

“This is a public campus,” Higbee protested, but security physically dragged him off the campsite while allowing other friendly media to pass.

“Okay, great,” the guard replied dismissively.

Things came to a head around 11pm that night, when protesters decided they had had enough of outside activists terrorising the campus and restricting the flow of travel.

They tried to destroy the camp, but the people inside responded violently. The metal bars of the barricades became weapons. They had bear clubs ready to defend their territory.

“There's blood,” Higbee told police. “They have weapons and they're stabbing each other.”

“The LAPD came and they left,” he explained.

But the LAPD had not arrived on the scene for three hours, instead standing there for a while as protesters violently clashed with one another before quickly leaving.

When we hear the words “campus protest,” we think of student activists. We believe it was all spontaneous and well-intentioned. Sure, they're just spoiled, bored rich kids, and the habits die out as they grow up. But that couldn't be further from the truth.

Today's “student protests” involve outside groups. Experts and often High salary Protesters come to campuses and incite students, organize and carry out long-term protests, and tightly control the flow of people and information to frame their desired narrative. The campus radicals of the 1960s did not grow up to be responsible adults; they infiltrated academia, bureaucracy, and philanthropic organizations, creating entirely new platforms for their extremism, all in order to ensure that the permanent revolution would continue forever.

Watch “Anarchy U” today to learn more about all the outside groups organizing anti-Israel student protests and how their goals extend far beyond campus.

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