Millions of people took to the streets in the US on 18 October, tens of thousands marched in thousands of cities and towns in ‘No Kings’ demos, protesting against Donald Trump’s presidency.
Organisers estimated that the protests drew nearly seven million, about 2% of the entire US population, which would make it the largest single-day protest in US history.
It follows a similar day of action in June and the over one-million-strong ‘Hands Off’ protests on 5 April, and took place despite smears and intimidation by the Republican Party ahead of 18 October.
From Alaska to Florida and from Hawaii to Massachusetts, millions took to the streets in 2,700 locations. There were trade union feeder marches in New York and Los Angeles, protests in Utah where a protester was killed in the June march, and there were also solidarity demonstrations in Barcelona, Madrid, London, Berlin, Dublin, Paris, and other cities.
Trump’s authoritarian actions are provoking struggle, in which the trade unions (who were among the organisers) and workers’ movement should put itself central, fighting for a mass working-class political alternative.
