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Barely two hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation’s president, a group of around 50 protesters led by members of the Industrial Workers of the World marched through downtown Missoula to voice their opposition to the country’s new leader and the “capitalist system” that put him in office.

The rally gathered at the University of Montana before heading toward downtown carrying signs reading “No war but the class war,” “An injury to one is an injury to all” and “Wobblies against fascism.”

As they waited for the march to start, the protesters chatted among themselves about their disgust with the morning's inauguration ceremony and how the heads of major banks should be imprisoned.

After crossing the Higgins Avenue Bridge, the protesters stopped briefly at the intersection with Front Street, the site of the famous IWW free speech soapbox protest in 1909. Wobblies member Tyson Gerheart stepped onto an overturned wooden crate and delivered a brief speech to the group crowding the sidewalk corner around him.

“The International Workers of the World have been fighting people like Donald Trump for over a century,” he said, referring to the new president as the “physical embodiment of capitalism.”