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Time to sideline government and just build the new society

We have more power than we think - but we're held back by our obsession with the State.

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Anti-austerity march
Anti-austerity march

Like it or not, this government is not going away. Flickr/Rowan Gillette-Fussell. Some rights reserved.

Protest is a good thing. People making their voices freely heard on our streets, out in the open, is vital, as we seek to build real democracy and popular empowerment across Scotland and Britain.

With this in mind should we then welcome an apparent upsurge in political activism and the revival of protest? A Scotland reinvigorated by the independence referendum and people across the UK more engaged and angry against Tory austerity and reactionary politics?