On A-level results day, students just declared a mass action during Trump’s state visit

As students collect their A-level results, many will be looking ahead at an increasingly uncertain future. Student-led campaign organisation answer to this? To stick it to US president and epitome of late-stage capitalist ruin Donald Trump.

A-level results: an uncertain, unstable future

Students heading to universities this autumn after getting their A-level results will face the first tuition fees increase in eight years. Graduate job prospects have shrunken massively since the pandemic, student maintenance support is inadequate, and the university funding crisis means more cuts are on the way next term.

This is all in the global context of the Israel’s genocide in Gaza and other wars, increasing climate catastrophe, and attacks on democratic rights.

That’s why Socialist Students will be meeting students on A-Level and GCSE results days across the UK. They will discuss what young people can do to take action for their futures.

Part of that involves standing up to fascist politicians laying the groundwork for all this.

Walk out against Trump

Socialist Students is calling for students to walk out against Donald Trump on Wednesday 17 September. This is the day Trump arrives in the UK for his state visit. It will urge them to protest against the chaos and brutality he represents for young people’s futures.

Adam Gillman, Socialist Students National Organiser, said as students get their A-level results:

Young people are being attacked on all fronts – from cuts to our services, to increasing fees, the soaring cost of living, and the horror of a future filled with uncertainty, war and climate catastrophe.

Donald Trump, who represents this increasingly unstable world, is coming to the UK on his unprecedented second state visit on September 17. He will be treated to an exquisite banquet with the King whilst thousands are starved in Gaza.

Socialist Students is organising the biggest possible walkouts of school, college and university students on September 17. We want to talk to young people collecting their exam results about how we can build the walkouts, to show the young people fighting back in America that we stand with them against Trump, Starmer and the capitalist system that they defend.

We welcome the announcement by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana of their intention to found a new political party. In some polls it is projected to be the biggest party among 18-24 year olds, which shows the huge enthusiasm that exists among young people for an alternative to this world of capitalist chaos.

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