ACTIVISTS vowed today to mobilise “in our thousands and our millions” against Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States.

The Stop Trump Coalition of thousands of campaigners, which includes trade unionists and climate activists, released the statement on the day Mr Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US.

This came as Amnesty International warned that multi-billionaire Mr Trump was returning to power during the dangerous tsunami of global conflict, rising authoritarianism, unchecked corporate power and climate emergency.

The group organised some of the biggest protests in British history in response to Mr Trump’s state visits in 2017 and 2018.

Zoe Gardner, a spokesperson for the Stop Trump Coalition, said: “In the coming weeks, we are likely to witness appalling attacks on migrants and minorities in America — just as we saw with the racist ‘Muslim ban’ in the opening days of the first Trump administration in 2017.

“It is essential that there is a broad, democratic coalition which can bring together the opposition to Trumpism — and to the new far right here in Britain.”

The statement described Mr Trump’s inauguration as a “dark moment,” and was a sign that “the far right is on the march.”

The statement said right-wing figures such as Mr Trump, Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Tory leader Kemi Badenoch “are symptoms of the failure of our political and economic system.

“Free market economics and austerity laid the ground. By failing to challenge the far right on immigration and other key issues, and instead mirroring their rhetoric and narratives, Starmer — like Macron, Harris and Scholz — is handing victory to the far right.”

“Fighting back means mobilising in our thousands and in our millions — but it must also mean a more fundamental effort to unite and strengthen movements dedicated to social and environmental justice, working-class organisation and universal human and civil rights.” 

The statement added: “We pledge ourselves to that work, and to building a resistance to Trump and the politics he represents.”

Activists from the Stop Trump Coalition were set to join with Stand Up to Racism, Friends of the Earth, CND, Abortion Rights, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign Against Climate Change, Keep Our NHS Public and others for a protest opposite Downing Street as Mr Trump was being sworn in.

Campaigners are warning of a wave of racism that could be unleashed during Mr Trump’s presidency, following the escalation of racist rhetoric during the election campaign.

They described in a statement how the presidential election campaign as the most racist in living memory. 

The statement points out how Mr Trump claimed migrants and refugees are genetically predisposed to commit crimes, describing migrants as “animals’” who will “cut your throat” while telling nearly all-white audiences that they had “good genes.”

They also describe how Mr Trump vowed during the election campaign to build massive detention camps and conduct mass deportations, claiming that migrants have invaded, destroying the country from inside its borders. 

The statement also said that Mr Trump along with Vice-President-elect JD Vance, spread baseless claims during the campaign about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, allegedly eating pets which led to bomb threats at local schools.

Stand Up to Racism co-convener Sabby Dhalu said the incoming president “escalated the rhetoric, used dehumanising, white-supremacist and violent language during the most racist presidential election campaign in living memory, pledging mass deportations of migrants and refugees.”

She added: “Our movement must be braced for the racist onslaught that is set to be unleashed by the next Trump presidency that will embolden the far right and racists in the US and across the globe.”

CND general secretary Sophie Bolt told the Morning Star that Mr Trump’s “‘America First’ agenda is all about using military threats and economic coercion to maintain US world domination — whatever the cost.”

She added that with the incoming president’s “sights on Iran and China, and his finger on the nuclear button, the need for a nuclear-free world has never been more urgent.”

Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths warned that “the empowerment of this megalomaniac and his far-right and billionaire backers poses a grave threat to democratic rights, the environment and peace.

“Trump and his clique’s contempt for women, trade unionists, immigrants and for the national rights of the peoples of Palestine, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Panama and Greenland demands the united, militant opposition of left, progressive and anti-imperialist forces across the world.”

Mr Griffiths told Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Foreign Secretary David Lammy that “instead of queuing up behind Nigel Farage to kiss Trump’s rump,” they should, instead, prepare to remove Britain from Nato and all US military bases from Britain. 

He added: “More than ever, we need an independent foreign and defence policy based on international peace, co-operation and solidarity — not a ‘special relationship’ with the world’s aggressive, money-mad, war-mongering superpower.”

Co-leader of the Scottish Greens Lorna Slater described Mr Trump as “a clear and present danger to our climate and to human rights around the world. The politics that he represents are the exact opposite of everything that Scotland should stand for.”

Ms Slater added: “There are millions of people across the US who will be concerned about what Donald Trump and his administration will do with their rights. Those are the people who we should be standing in solidarity with today.”

Amnesty International said Mr Trump was beginning his second term “under a dramatically changed global environment of growing inequality, rising authoritarianism, ongoing conflicts, attacks on bodily autonomy, unchecked corporate and tech power, displacement from violence and insecurity, and a climate emergency accelerating and exacerbating human rights violations and suffering.”

Amnesty’s secretary-general Agnes Callamard said: “Mr Trump is taking office at a time when the already fragile multilateral and human rights system, often targets of the first Trump administration’s disdain, have been further severely undermined by President Biden’s inconsistencies and unwillingness to push allies and partners to respect international law.”

She added: “The decisions that President Trump makes will have far-reaching consequences that impact the lives of everyone on this planet and even future generations who have yet to be born.”

A statement from the US based Black Alliance for Peace said Mr Trump must be seen as a continuation of “what is, in reality, the dictatorship of capital.”

BAP said: “Focusing attention on the Trumpian wing of the capitalist class as the primary or principal contradiction facing the people in the US or in the world, obscures the reality that the dominant wing of capital, finance capital, along with the US-based transnational corporations, have captured and are operating through both the Democrat and the Republican parties.”