A US Federal agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, USA on 7 January. Videos widely circulated online show Renee using her car to block a road in the city, in solidarity with her neighbours, to obstruct immigration raids carried out by ICE.

Already this autumn, tens of thousands of school students in North Carolina walked out in protest. This latest brutal killing will spur more protests. Under Trump’s instructions, ICE agents terrorise working-class neighbourhoods and workplaces across the US. Workers are organising to defend their communities and co-workers.

And the cost-of-living squeeze for ordinary Americans grinds on. No president has ever become so unpopular so quickly. Trump has already faced the two biggest single-day protests in US history.

Already this year, Trump has kidnapped the Venezuelan President and threatened to take ownership of Greenland – both blatant attempts to pursue US capitalist interests. Including the pursuit of access to oil ahead of their biggest rival, China. The plunge towards deeper climate crisis continues.

Beyond his so-called ‘backyard’, Trump has threatened intervention into Iran. Mass protests have erupted, fuelled by a rising cost of living and the brutal experience of a repressive regime. Reportedly thousands have been killed by state forces, including 23-year-old student Rubina Aminian, shot in the back of the head at close range.

Youth and workers in Iran can in no way rest hopes on a Trump intervention to help them to pursue their aims. They must get organised to settle their own scores with the theocratic regime.

Trump’s second presidency is an accelerator of world instability and crisis. The world is simmering with uprisings and protests – including those led by youth and students, so called ‘Gen Z protests’, bringing down governments and regimes in Nepal, Madagascar and Bulgaria, for example. Millions have protested against the Israeli state’s slaughter in Gaza, including those who took part in a general strike in Italy in September.

When the red carpet was rolled out for Trump at Windsor Castle by Keir Starmer in September, Socialist Students helped to organise school and college walkouts. Building our own struggles of workers and young people, including a new workers’ party to challenge Starmer’s Labour and fight for a decent future for young people in Britain, is the most effective act of solidarity young people and students take with those fighting for change internationally.

If you’re angry at Trump and Starmer, and the capitalist crisis they represent – get organised!

Come to Socialist Students conference in Manchester

Saturday 14 February, University of Manchester