The 'No King' protests in the United States have reminded us that people power is the only antidote to the rule of a few. Democracy is not a gift bestowed from above, but a struggle waged from below. In a week that will see over 100,000 New Zealand workers go out on strike, the same grassroots power displayed on the streets of Los Angeles and Chicago can be harnessed here to seek the end to a suffocating and oppressive neoliberal orthodoxy that remains unaccountable.
