Socialists used a walkout for schoolchildren protesting against Donald Trump’s visit to call for a strikes and a general election.

Pupils at from Park View School in West Green, Tottenham and Highgate, joined youngsters across London in missing lessons on Friday.

The walkout was organised by the group Socialist Students. National organiser Theo Sharieff, 23, went further than anger at Trump’s visit.

He said: “These walkouts prove that young people are politically engaged and ready to fight for our future.

“Socialist Students is calling on Jeremy Corbyn and the trade union leaders to coordinate strikes and protests, demand a general election now, and fight that election on a socialist programme.”

The 23-year-old called for a £10 minimum wage, for corporations to fund mass building programs and the reinstatement of Education Maintenance Allowance for students aged 16 to 19 in England.

He then denounced Trump as an example of the inequality and bigotry of the “capitalist system”, which he said was punishing working-class and young people to defend the profits of big business and the super-rich.

He said: “We can support resistance to him in the US by bringing down our own Trumps in Government in Britain.

“We say that should include scrapping tuition fees, reinstating EMA, an immediate £10-an-hour minimum wage, rent caps and council house building, and public ownership of the banks and biggest corporations to pay for it.”

After demonstrating at the school gates around 8.30am, students travelled to Trafalgar Square.

Protesters called for an end to the Tory government, as well as its relationship with the Trump administration, describing it as “racist” and “sexist.”

Some carried placards reading, “Fight Trumpism, fight capitalism,” and many chanted “Tories out, Corbyn in.”