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Commentary Bond: End of neoliberalism? Sorry, not yet.

Commentary, December, 24 2008 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: Obama's economic advisors

Commentary, November, 12 2008 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: New African resistance to global finance

Commentary, October, 25 2008 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: SA and Zimbabwe politicos join global financiers in self-destruction

Commentary, September, 21 2008 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary Bond: Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?

Commentary, July, 06 2008 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: How Europe underdevelops Africa (but how some fight back)

Commentary, June, 13 2008 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary Bond: Johannesburg Water Denialism Attracts Street and Court Protests

Commentary, April, 27 2008 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Political Roller-Coaster Hits Another Deep Dip

Commentary, March, 12 2008 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: The Neoliberal Loo

Commentary, February, 19 2008 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change

Commentary, January, 06 2008 Patrick Bond
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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 ...

Commentary Bond: Jacob Zuma's Election

Commentary, December, 23 2007 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: Politicians' pleas for global justice ring hollow at home

Commentary, November, 12 2007 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: Who killed Sajida Khan?

Commentary, July, 18 2007 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: Elite power and weakness across time and space

Commentary, March, 19 2007 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: From WSF 'NGO trade fair' to left politics?

Commentary, February, 01 2007 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: Global capital still volatile, uneven, destructive

Commentary, December, 24 2006 Patrick Bond
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This month we've heard some surprisingly sanguine views from elites celebrating the fall in the value of the dollar.

Commentary Bond: The UNDP's wrong turn on water rights

Commentary, November, 27 2006 Patrick Bond
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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...

Commentary Bond: A Nobel loan shark?

Commentary, October, 19 2006 Patrick Bond
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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?

Commentary Bond: The World Bank/IMF during neoliberal and neoconservative fusion

Commentary, September, 25 2006 Patrick Bond
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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-...

Commentary Bond: African Workers And Scholars Unite

Commentary, June, 12 2006 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure

Commentary, March, 24 2006 Patrick Bond
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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.

Commentary Bond: Wolfowitz's 'anti-corruption' hoax

Commentary, March, 08 2006 Patrick Bond
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A few weeks ago, Colin Powell's former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal: 'I participated in a hoax on the American people...

Commentary Bond: Municipal elections won't appease furious South Africans

Commentary, February, 13 2006 Patrick Bond
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The run-up to March 1 elections for 284 South African city, town and

Commentary Bond: Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Climate Change Titanic

Commentary, November, 29 2005 Patrick Bond
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Climate change damage, the subject of a major Montreal 'Conference of Parties 11' which aims to update the Kyoto Protocol from November 28-December 9, is apparent to anyone following the news.

Commentary Bond: World Bankers And Oil Barons Loot Africa

Commentary, October, 04 2005 Patrick Bond
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With apartheid-like race/class practices in New Orleans so recently unveiled, Washington's self-congratulatory rhetoric about sub-Saharan Africa at last weekend's IMF/World Bank annual general meeting was not just sickening but also counterintuiti...

Commentary Bond: Dragging SAÕs Land Debate from the Neoliberal Quicksand

Commentary, August, 29 2005 Patrick Bond
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There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.

Commentary Bond: Dragging SA’s Land Debate from the Neoliberal Quicksand

Commentary, August, 29 2005 Patrick Bond
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There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.

Commentary Bond: Are mainstream NGOs failing Africa?

Commentary, June, 21 2005 Patrick Bond
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by Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus and Virginia Setshedi What's on offer for Africa from the trendy but top-down initiatives called Make Poverty History and Live 8, and even the Johannesburg-based Global Call to Action Against Poverty? We worry tha...

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