Build the walkouts against Trump
Socialist Students is calling on students to walk out of their schools, colleges and universities on 17 September, to protest against the chaos that Trump represents for our futures.
Trump defends a rotten capitalist system that prioritises profits for the billionaires while creating wars, climate crisis, and poverty for the rest of us. While our planet burns, Trump has encouraged the mega-rich oil companies to “drill, baby, drill”.
Trump is a warmonger. He has backed the Israeli state’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza and the Palestinians. In an attempt to prevent young Americans and workers from fighting back, he has stoked racism, anti-trans hatred and discrimination to try and divide people.
When we walk out, we can send a powerful message of solidarity to the young people fighting back against Trump in America and globally that we stand with them – not with Trump, Starmer and the rest of the politicians defending this capitalist profit system.
Let’s get organised to fight for a real future. For a socialist world free from war, poverty, and discrimination.
We can beat Starmer’s Labour
A decent future for young people is a million miles from what Starmer’s Labour Party wants. Just like the Tories before them, their main concern is protecting the profits of big business and the super-rich.
Starmer’s Labour says there isn’t enough money to have high-quality mental health services, decent housing that we can actually afford, free education, and reopening youth clubs. But this is a lie! In the last 15 years of attacks on our living standards, the richest 1% globally have increased their wealth by £30 trillion. We need a mass movement of workers and young people that fights to take this wealth into our hands, to provide the things we all need.
We’ve seen that Starmer’s Labour can be beaten back. Under pressure from massive opposition, they have made U-turns over attacks to disability benefits and the winter fuel payment. No wonder they are clamping down on our right to protest, to try and stop us from resisting them and the capitalist system they defend.
On Wednesday 17 September, let’s show young people are ready to join the fightback. Some people say we aren’t political – but who can blame us for feeling no enthusiasm for capitalist politicians that offer us no future?
Young people need a political alternative to Labour, Reform and all the establishment parties. The huge enthusiasm for the initiative of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana to launch a new party shows the potential for this – a mass workers’ party that makes the super-rich fat cats pay, not young people.
Join Socialist Students
Socialist Students is an organisation active in schools, colleges and universities across the UK. We campaign against all the attacks that young people face under capitalism. We want to help students get organised in the fight for a socialist alternative to capitalism – for a world free of discrimination, war and inequality. A world where the needs of all are put before the profits of a tiny few. If you agree, then join Socialist Students!
