by Jonathan Payn, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
Failures
of democracy have been a big part of the history of the DLF. We in
the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) have had to raise such
challenges several times (see “DLF structure: concerns and
proposals” by ZACF). We have long been troubled by the lack of
proper democratic structures, by a leadership that consists far more
of middle-class intellectuals than of grassroots militants, and by a
programme that seems to be determined in advance by the academic and
NGO interests of these intellectuals instead of by the immediate
needs of the workers and the poor.