And so begins the Trump era: with worldwide protests, pessimism, and polarization – full of combustible material, to put it mildly. The most anti-worker administration in decades has formally taken possession of the White House, and an avalanche of austerity and attacks on the working class is on the order of the day. A turbulent period of class struggle lies ahead.

On Saturday 21st January, millions of demonstrators took part in women-led marches across the world, protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration and the threat to democratic rights that he represents. We publish here a collection of reports and pictures from the mass protests against the newly-inaugurated US President.

This week, the global business elites are congregating in Davos, a Swiss ski resort, to discuss the state of the global economy at the annual World Economic Forum. Coinciding with this gathering of the Establishment, Oxfam have released their latest figures on the eye-watering inequality on a world scale.