Alanah Carey-Peacher, Leicester Socialist Party
Trump, Charles and Starmer dine while Gaza starves.
On 17 September Donald Trump is set to make a state visit to the UK. He will be hosted by King Charles for a ‘glittering’ state banquet at Windsor Castle – a stark contrast to the genocide and man-made famine that the people of Gaza are facing.
Israel’s military will not be pausing the slaughter to let needed aid into Gaza. This is a decision which will likely worsen the famine, prolonging the starvation of frightened, malnourished children and families across Gaza already struggling to survive.
Trump, heading up US capitalism, the world’s biggest capitalist power, backs up Netanyahu’s murderous regime, including by sending arms to the Israeli state.
Children and families who could only dream of the luxuries that those at the top indulge in will continue to be killed, continue to be broken and continue to starve, while Trump goes gallivanting to Windsor Castle.
This is why Socialist Students has been organising for walkouts of young people across the country on 17 September, showing their disgust for Trump’s power and brutality and solidarity with those workers and young people in the US fighting against him. We are sick of profit and power coming before people and planet.
