Red & Black Forum: Does the Vote Bring Democracy?

southern africa | education | anarchist communist event Thursday March 12, 2009 14:38 by Jon - Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front zacf at zabalaza dot net

The ZACF will be facilitating a Red & Black Forum (anarchist communist educational workshop) with the theme "Does the Vote Bring Democracy?" this Saturday in Protea South, Soweto. The RBF will be hosted by the Protea South Landless Peoples' Movement.

The RBF is intended to be an outcomes-based interactive workshop whereby we will facilitate the interrogation of ideas by posing questions such as:

* What are people's understandings of democracy, both pre- and post-1994?
* What do people understand by political parties and their role?
* What is the structure of political parties, and why do they resemble the class pyramidal structure?
* Where do people locate themselves and various political leaders on the class pyramid?
* What are the functions of the different classes?
* If voting replicates the top-down organisational models of political parties and capital, what alternative models of organising can be used to bring about real democracy and equality?