Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign

Despite a sense of euphoria among significant sections of South Africa’s poor and working class that a Jacob Zuma presidency will usher in the long awaited better life for all, writes Dale McKinley, socialists know that Zuma will not dismantle the alignment of class forces consolidated by the ANC since the early 1990s, but rather further entrench them. Since social movements are not in a position to present an alternative parliamentary option to the masses, the Anti-Privatisation Forum is calling on communities, workers, the unemployed, youth and students not to vote in the national elections on 22 April 2009, rather than ‘wasting their vote and time on parties that have no intention of bringing about real fundamental changes’ and that do not ‘represent the aspirations and interests of the poor and working class communities’.