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Bond: Reimagining Postneoliberalism
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Patrick Bond
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If neoliberalism may have another breath of life, with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation applied from above by Barack Obama or the International Monetary Fund, much stronger pressure is needed from below to resist. Some forms have been well tested in s...
Bond: South Africa: Balance shifts left, anger grows
Znet Article, July, 03 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township "service delivery protests", rhetorical and real conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa.
Bond: SA political power balance shifts left - though not yet enough to quell grassroots anger
Commentary, June, 13 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
With high-volume class strife heard in the rumbling of wage demands and the friction of township 'service delivery protests', rhetorical and real conflicts are bursting open in every nook and cranny of South Africa.
Bond: Shell on trial while Nigerians are slaughtered
Commentary, May, 25 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The state's most recent assault against the Delta left the villages of Opuye, Okerenkoro, Kurutie and Oporoza (site of the new documentary Sweet Crude - www.sweetcrudemovie.com ) burned to the ground in mid-May, with hundreds of Ijaw people - both...
Bond: Dying for the cause in Durban
Commentary, April, 07 2009
Patrick Bond
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There are special places dedicated to the memories of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi, Martin Luther King in Memphis, Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem and South Africa's own Hector Pieterson in Soweto. These and many other activists strivin...
Bond: Apartheid reparations and other courtroom brawls
Commentary, March, 19 2009
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The movement for reparations against transnational corporations that profited from apartheid is finally making progress within the generally hostile US judicial system, using the 'Alien Tort Claims Act' (ATCA) and public pressure. Along with Denni...
Bond: Durban for Palestine via BDS
Commentary, February, 05 2009
Patrick Bond
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The decision on February 3 by South African dockworkers to refuse handling of Israeli imports is of enormous importance for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and will prod more local Durban citizens - including academics and cu...
Bond: End of neoliberalism? Sorry, not yet.
Commentary, December, 24 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Those who declare that the Great Crash of Late 2008 heralds the end of free market economic philosophy - "neoliberalism" for short - are not paying close enough attention.
Bond: Obama's economic advisors
Commentary, November, 12 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
One of Barack Obama's leading advisors has done more damage to Africa, its economies and its people than anyone I can think of in world history, including even Cecil John Rhodes. That charge may surprise readers, but hear me out.
Bond: New African resistance to global finance
Commentary, October, 25 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Far-reaching strategic debate is underway about how to respond to the global financial crisis, and indeed how the North's problems can be tied into a broader critique of capitalism.
Bond: The financial meltdown: Roots of the economic crisis in overaccumulation, financialisation and ‘global apartheid’
Znet Article, October, 14 2008
Patrick Bond
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The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has increased the leading powerbrokers’ capacity to devalue large parts of the Third World (including major emerging market sites), ...
Bond: SA and Zimbabwe politicos join global financiers in self-destruction
Commentary, September, 21 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The past week has been a wild roller-coaster ride in and out of Southern African ruling-party politics, down the troughs of world capitalism, and up the peaks of radical social activism. Glancing around the region and world from those peaks, we ca...
Bond: Ecological debt and our center's survival
Commentary, August, 22 2008
Patrick Bond
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"We are the creditors!," insist African social activists victimized by the ongoing Third World debt crisis, but now gathered to fight back.
Bond: Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?
Commentary, July, 06 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
A telling remark about US imperialism's double standards was uttered by Clinton-era deputy treasury secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who a decade ago was the driver of reparations claims against pro-Nazi corporations, assisting plaintiffs to gain $8 bi...
Bond: How Europe underdevelops Africa (but how some fight back)
Commentary, June, 13 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
In early June, the British-Dutch firm Shell Oil - one of Rodney's targets - was instructed to depart from the Ogoniland region within the Niger Delta, where in 1995 Shell officials were responsible for the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa by Nigerian di...
Bond: Xenophobia tears apart SA's working class
Commentary, May, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
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The low-income black township here in Durban which suffered more than any other during apartheid, Cato Manor, was the scene of a test performed on a Mozambican last Wednesday morning.
Bond: Johannesburg Water Denialism Attracts Street and Court Protests
Commentary, April, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
South African neoliberal state brutality was on display last week in the famous Soweto suburb of Kliptown - where the African National Congress (ANC) "Freedom Charter" was signed 53 years ago - as the municipal-owned but commercially-oriented Joh...
Bond: Zimbabwe's Political Roller-Coaster Hits Another Deep Dip
Commentary, March, 12 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The March 29 election in Zimbabwe is very likely to result in Robert Mugabe winning, by hook or by crook, a slim 50% majority, so as to avoid a run-off. In the last presidential election, in 2002, his main opponent Morgan Tsvangirai - leader of t...
Bond: Uneven Health Outcomes and Political Resistance under Residual Neoliberalism in Africa
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
In the wake of the devastation wrought in Africa by two decades of ‘neoliberalism’--i.e., state policies that are market-oriented, export-led, subjet to fiscal austerity and characterized by the commercialization/privatization of public sector fun...
Bond: Uneven Health Outcomes and Political Resistance under Residual Neoliberalism in Africa
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
In the wake of the devastation wrought in Africa by two decades of ‘neoliberalism’--i.e., state policies that are market-oriented, export-led, subjet to fiscal austerity and characterized by the commercialization/privatization of public sector fun...
