We Fight Back 2025 was a series of demonstrations in Washington, D.C and other cities across the United States on January 20, 2025, or Inauguration Day, to protest the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States. 1
Background
As of January 2025, several organizations, activist groups, and individuals were listed as “initial endorsers” for the planned protests. According to the website, they include the People’s Forum, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), the ANSWER Coalition, the US Palestinian Community Network, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Labor on the Line, Black Men Build (BMB), the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, former PSL presidential candidate Claudia De La Cruz, left-wing activist minister Graylan Hagler, Artists Against Apartheid, Bangladeshi Americans for Political Progress, labor union activist Chris Smalls, Rowan Blanchard, CODEPINK, Damayan, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, IFCO/Pastors for Peace, the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU), Nodutdol, the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), and Union de Vecinos. 1
As of 2025, the coalition’s website derided “Trump’s Extreme Right, Billionaire Agenda” and stated, “On Inauguration Day, over 80 cities held protests to tell Trump loud and clear: We will fight back and defeat your war on our rights! Despite freezing cold in many parts of the country, many thousands of people took to the streets and set the tone for the next four years of struggle against Trump and his billionaires’ agenda. Trump and his administration want to help big corporations and the ultra-rich loot the government, destroy the planet and exploit the people. But we will fight back! Like Dr. King taught us, our fight is against the entire system of war, racism and poverty!” 2
Among the many far-left groups that support the series of protests was Theater Workers for a Ceasefire, which stated: “ON INAUGURATION DAY, JANUARY 20TH, 2025, Theater Workers will join thousands in Washington Square Park to protest Trump’s extreme-right, billionaire agenda, powered by what is slated to be the wealthiest administration in modern history…What does this have to do with theater workers? The Trump agenda wants to loot our country. This would deplete arts and education spending, and undermine working class dignity by dismantling social security, deregulating the financial sector, and privatizing healthcare.” 3
The organization’s website listed over 45 “actions,” publicizing anti-Trump protests across the United States between January 20 and February 9, 2025. As of late 2025, the group had not updated its website or publicized additional activity. 4
Funding
A donation page for We Fight Back directs to a fundraising page for the People’s Forum, which had raised $6,900 of a $50,000 goal as of late 2025. The People’s Forum is a socialist organization that acts as project incubator. From its location in New York City, the Forum hosts events, readings, operates a cafe and a library, and publishes various cultural works and media. It has collaborated with a number of radical-left and Marxist philosophers and activists. Despite being a socialist organization that prides itself on its supposed working class, anti-capitalist orientations, the People’s Forum has been the recipient of over $18 million through donor-advised fund provider Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund. 5 6 7 8 9
References
- We Fight Back 2025, Accessed January 3, 2025. https://wefightback2025.org/
- “Home.” We Fight Back 2025. Accessed September 25, 2025. https://wefightback2025.org/
- “Fight Back.” Theater Workers for a Ceasefire. Accessed September 25, 2025. https://theaterworkersforaceasefire.com/fightback
- “Action Listings.” We Fight Back 2025. Accessed September 25, 2025. https://wefightback2025.org/action-listings
- “Donate: We Fight Back.” The People’s Forum. Accessed September 25, 2025. https://secure.givelively.org/donate/peoples-forum-inc/we-fight-back
- “About.” The People’s Forum. Accessed September 25, 2025. https://peoplesforum.org/about/#mission
- Return of Tax-Exempt Organization. Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, 2019. Accessed 11 July 2022.
- Return of Tax-Exempt Organization. Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, 2018. Accessed 11 July 2022.
- Return of Tax-Exempt Organization. Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, 2017. Accessed 11 July 2022.