State Labor governments’ opposition to the August 3 pro-Palestine marches across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge and in Naarm/Melbourne shows capitalism cannot stomach popular democracy.

The whole point of the right of freedom of assembly is that people can do it when they are ready to and be seen doing it — otherwise it’s not needed. It’s voluntary, not institutionalised, and won’t happen in set numbers or to a schedule, but rather when people are moved to act.

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But these governments and state bodies, like the police, which would facilitate this action if they were democratic, won’t have people expressing their views in the streets, nor on bridges in particular.

Capitalism might adopt some of the forms of democracy, such as electing representatives. But these representatives, as a........

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