Democratic Left Front

[1][2][3] It was formed from the Conference for a Democratic Left launched in 2008, at an event held in Johannesburg in January 2011.

The South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement welcomed the DLF as an "historic opportunity".

[6] The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front expressed reservations about the entirely middle class nature of the leadership of the DLF[7] and lack of internal democracy.

[8] The leadership of the DLF included notable figures pushed out of the South African Communist Party, like Mazibuko Jara, and the party therefore kept its distance, and has, for several years, proposed instead a "left popular front.

[10] The DLF was actively involved in the Occupy Johannesburg movement in coordination with Taking Back South Africa!