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Bond: Embryonic African anti-capitalism
Znet Article, February, 27 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
When it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically-marginalized sites are amongst the most interesting. Not because the greatest number of militant activists are out in force--but because the trials and tribulations they overcome a...
Bond: Housing
Znet Article, February, 26 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The pages below are from the introductory and concluding chapters to Unsustainable South Africa, which makes a long, detailed case that the host city for the August 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development needs revolutionary change. The case ...
Bond: The Neoliberal Loo
Commentary, February, 19 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Sanitation occasionally needs our attention. Usually it's when there's a water shortage. Today it's because toilet ("loo") technicians are having a major summit here in Durban, South Africa.
Bond: Global Migrants for Climate Action
Video, January, 15 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The Scam Called Carbon Trading...
Bond: From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change
Commentary, January, 06 2008
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva's ZNet commentary last month (December 13, 2007) also made this point: 'The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping activities that lead to higher emissions ...
Bond: Jacob Zuma's Election
Commentary, December, 23 2007
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Congratulations are due Jacob Zuma – apparently far more Machiavellian than even his arch-opponent since 2005, Thabo Mbeki – and the tireless band of warriors from the Congress of SA Trade Unions, SA Communist Party and African National Congress Y...
Bond: Politicians' pleas for global justice ring hollow at home
Commentary, November, 12 2007
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Eloquent sounds are reverberating into South Africa from faraway lands, and I don't mean thuds from the Rugby World Cup, won by SA's Springboks in Paris last week.
Bond: Commanding Heights and Community Control: New Economics for a New South Africa
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bond: Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: Essays on South Africa`s New Urban Crisis
Book, October, 12 2007
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Bond: Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance
Book, October, 12 2007
"This is by far one of the best critical contributions from the left in the continuing controversial role which the World Bank and IMF play in developing countries' economies and societies. Bond comes from a dying tradition of the activist/scholar...
Bond: Who killed Sajida Khan?
Commentary, July, 18 2007
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Internationally-known environmental activist Sajida Khan passed away on Sunday night, July 15, in her Durban home. Aged 55, she was suffering her second bout of debilitating cancer, and chemotherapy had evacuated her beautiful long hair.
Bond: Elite power and weakness across time and space
Commentary, March, 19 2007
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
Who thinks coming hostilities with Iran are about military, material and religio-ideological support for Shiite militias, or even construction of a nuclear energy plant? Only in the context of a several-decade scan does the Bush regime's panicky n...
Bond: From WSF 'NGO trade fair' to left politics?
Commentary, February, 01 2007
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
A mixed message - combining celebration and autocritique - is in order, in the wake of the Nairobi World Social Forum. From January 20-25, the 60,000 registered participants heard triumphalist radical rhetoric and yet, too, witnessed persistent d...
Bond: Global capital still volatile, uneven, destructive
Commentary, December, 24 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
This month we've heard some surprisingly sanguine views from elites celebrating the fall in the value of the dollar.
Bond: The UNDP's wrong turn on water rights
Commentary, November, 27 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
A fortnight ago, the global launch of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report 2006 (HDR) was in Cape Town, an appropriate choice in a diabolical way. South Africa is apparently considered the UN's ideal-type settin...
Bond: A Nobel loan shark?
Commentary, October, 19 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
What sort of dogmatic free-market ideologue would use poor people's (often socially-constructed) desire for credit to justify shrinking the already beleaguered welfare policies of wretched Third World states?
Bond: The World Bank/IMF during neoliberal and neoconservative fusion
Commentary, September, 25 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings just completed in Singapore were a disaster for the Third World, especially Africans who face a dramatic decline in voting shares on the IMF board, at the same time a few middle-...
Bond: African Workers And Scholars Unite
Commentary, June, 12 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
At Workers University in Cairo, a mid-May gathering of 100 trade union leaders and intellectuals from across Africa adopted surprisingly common radical language, exhibiting a pent-up desire to jointly fight global neoliberalism.
Bond: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure
Znet Article, March, 25 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
On March 16 in Mexico City, thousands of grassroots water warriors marched against an equivalent number of establishment delegates from governments, corporations and international agencies at the World Water Forum. The activists, opposed to what ...
Bond: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure
Commentary, March, 24 2006
Patrick Bond
Bond's ZSpace page
On March 16 in Mexico City, thousands of grassroots water warriors marched against an equivalent number of establishment delegates from governments, corporations and international agencies at the World Water Forum.
