Showing posts with label Zabalaza Anachist Communist Front. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Towards a Truly Democratic Left: An Anarchist Assessment of the DLF at COP17

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.