(en) Southern Arica, African Anarchist Collective Newsletter Tokologo #2 - TOKOLOGO AFRICAN ANARCHIST COLLECTIVE (TAAC) - STATEMENT OF INTENT -

Adopted at TAAC general meeting, 16 March 2013 ---- A. What is the TAAC? ---- The Tokologo 
African Anarchist Collective is a loose collective of anarchists and 
anarchist-sympathisers who are community and worker activists. Its members function 
primarily as educators. ---- It seeks to meet regularly to learn about and work towards 
spreading the ideas of anarchism within the working class residing in South Africa. These 
ideas are aimed at contributing to building: ? a revolutionary counter-culture, and ? 
revolutionary organisations of counter-power to fight and defeat domination and 
exploitation. This can be done by promoting direct working class organisational democracy 
and accountability

B. What does the TAAC seek to do?

The members meet regularly at general meetings once a month
to discuss, debate and learn about the ideas of anarchism. The
members meet to learn community and worker organising
skills.

The members meetThese are:
to co-ordinate the activities of the TAAC.

1. Organising and carrying out working class community-
based workshops

2. Creating and distributing propaganda relevant to the work
of the TAAC and anarchism (this propaganda includes, but
is not limited to TAAC newsletters, statements and t-shirts).

C. Why do we do this?

The TAAC seeks to develop an understanding of anarchism
? its ideas, strategies and tactics ? amongst those living and
organising in working class and poor communities in South
Africa. The TAAC seeks to do this through the activities
mentioned in B.

The TAAC seeks to organise these activists and communities
around the ideas, strategies and tactics of anarchism.

The TAAC seeks to build itself by attracting more people to
join the TAAC.

The TAAC seeks to revive a spirit of counter-culture and
optimism about struggle and organisation against domination
and exploitation in these communities. Another way of doing
this is by seeking to regularly meet with active community-
based organisations.

D. Who can join the TAAC?

Membership to the TAAC is not open to everyone on request.
Members must be educators of the ideas of anarchism. As such
those who seek to join the TAAC must have been educated
about these ideas beforehand, as well as being taught how to
educate others about the ideas.

The TAAC seeks to develop an individual?s understanding
of anarchism. In so doing, the individual must become
fully aware of the ideas of the TAAC and the processes and
commitments required to join the TAAC.

Membership is granted to an individual by collective member
decision. It will be based on:

1. An individual having participated in a community-based
workshop. At the workshop, individuals either approach
TAAC members with a desire to continue their anarchist
education, or are identified by a TAAC member present;

2. These individuals are then invited to participate in the
already existing process of education (the Anarchist
Political School, APS); and then

3. the individual?s own desire to join once they have graduated
from the APS

Membership is open to APS graduates who identify as
anarchists or to those who do not identify as anarchists.
However, membership is granted to those who share the
vision of the TAAC. Members then commit to spreading the
ideas of anarchism in working class and poor communities as
determined by collective TAAC decision.

E.How are TAAC decisionsby whom?
made and

All TAAC decisions are agreed to at the monthly general
meetings of the members. It is at these meetings that mandates
are decided on and volunteered to.

These decisions and mandates are decided by general
agreement at these monthly general meetings.

The TAAC may choose to form smaller collectives to carry
out specific tasks, e.g. an Editorial Collective. These collectives
are decided on and formed at their monthly general meetings.
These collectives may decide on their own tasks. However,
these collectives must be accountable to the general body
of members. These decisions and tasks must fall within the
mandate for these smaller collectives as decided by the
members at the monthly general meeting. These collectives
must report back to general monthly meeting, as determined
by their mandate and collective decision.