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Bond: Anti-(sub)imperial Solidarity: The Case Of SA-Zimbabwe
Commentary, May, 23 2005
Patrick Bond
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Last month (April 15), David Moore and I wrote in ZNet about Zimbabwe's March 31 election scam. On May 22, Johannesburg's Sunday Independent newspaper reported on a leaked copy of an official - and thoroughly ludicrous - South African mission cove...
Bond: ZimbabweÕs Stolen Elections (continued)
Commentary, April, 15 2005
Patrick Bond
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What just happened in ZimbabweÕs March 31 national parliamentary poll?
Bond: Zimbabwe’s Stolen Elections (continued)
Commentary, April, 15 2005
Patrick Bond
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What just happened in Zimbabwe’s March 31 national parliamentary poll?
Bond: A New War?: On Wolfowitz's World Bank!
Commentary, March, 23 2005
Patrick Bond
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The 1200 anti-war/profit demonstrators who wound their way through central Johannesburg on Saturday heard fiery speeches, music and poetry. At the start and finish, protesters were inspired by 80-year old Dennis Brutus, the great anti-apartheid po...
Bond: Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto
Commentary, February, 22 2005
Patrick Bond
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Discussing the Porto Alegre Manifesto
Bond: World Financial Volatility
Commentary, December, 27 2004
Patrick Bond
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World financial volatility
Bond: Crunch time for US capitalism?
Commentary, December, 04 2004
Patrick Bond
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If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing is welcome indeed.
Bond: Bankers go to Baghdad
Commentary, October, 25 2004
Patrick Bond
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund's annual meeting in Washington earlier this month witnessed the members' rejection of two big ideas - debt cancellation and institutional democratisation. No surprise. There wasn't much pressure from ...
Bond: NGOs and Pretoria nod-nod, wink-wink to IMF/Bank
Commentary, September, 12 2004
Patrick Bond
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The 60th birthday of the Bretton Woods Institutions - the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ð will be formally celebrated early next month, amidst the distraction of the US presidential campaign. Finance ministers and bankers will g...
Bond: Africa again foiled by elites, North and South
Commentary, July, 22 2004
Patrick Bond
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Mutare, Zimbabwe - 22 July is a good day to consider problems caused by the rancid combination of neoliberalism and imperialist geopolitcs, because it's the 60th birthday of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). It's a good time to...
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 2)
Commentary, June, 30 2004
Patrick Bond
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Early last month, at the University of Wisconsin's Havens Center - supported by Amsterdam's Transnational Institute - radicals from ten countries came to discuss the "The New Latin American Left." In my last ZNet commentary, I reported on six of t...
Bond: Assessing the Latin American Left (part 1)
Commentary, May, 11 2004
Patrick Bond
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One of the great punchlines in politics I was fortunate to hear first-hand, was during a 1989 interview for Pacifica Radio with Brazilian presidential candidate Lula. ?You?ve just been in New York, meeting the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerc...
Bond: Fake Forests, Extractive Industries And Elusive Aids Medicines
Commentary, March, 01 2004
Patrick Bond
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One of South AfricaÕs most fascinating environments is the terrain leading from the eastern mountain range in Mpumalanga (Ôland of the rising sunÕ) province, down to the ÔlowveldÕ and the well-stocked Kruger game park bordering Mozambique. The dra...
Bond: Target: Mugabe, victim: Mbeki?
Commentary, January, 12 2004
Patrick Bond
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The leadership of one African country, Zimbabwe, still gets disproportionate demonisation from the West, for good and bad reasons. In addition to hostile media coverage, president Robert Mugabe and nearly 100 of his cronies face Ôsmart sanctionsÕ ...
Bond: Can Victory On Aids Medicines Catalyse Wider Change?
Commentary, December, 02 2003
Patrick Bond
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A rare activist-driven win for some of Africa's wretchedly poor women, men and children leaves me humbled. In June 2002, I wrote a ZNet column-'Corporate cost-benefit analysis and culpable HIV/AIDS homicide'-in which the main prediction proved par...
Bond: Mexicans Seek Alternatives To Socio-economic Rot
Commentary, October, 31 2003
Patrick Bond
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ÔWe are becoming critical again,Õ said a delighted Maria de los Angeles of El Colegio de Mexico midway through an October seminar at this Mexico City university. ÔAcademic economists used to stop at analysis of causality. Now we are ready to propo...
Bond: Cancun to Dubai
Commentary, September, 20 2003
Patrick Bond
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Well, that was a really great moment on the southeast corner of Mexico on Sunday, was it not?! A few Third World elites -- led by Kenyan and Ugandan delegates -- finally walked out of the World Trade Organisation summit, insulted to the bitter end...
Bond: Alliances and conflicts prior to Cancun
Commentary, September, 09 2003
Patrick Bond
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The poor nations are preparing for another unsatisfying round of trade talks in Cancun, and South Africa once again is lining up in a manner consistent with Third World rhetoric--and First World interests.
Bond: Rolling Back Water Privatisation
Commentary, August, 05 2003
Patrick Bond
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Another water war is brewing here in Johannesburg. If local and international trends are anything to go by, the people could defeat capital.
Bond: Bush in Africa
Commentary, July, 12 2003
Patrick Bond
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The petro-military-commerce safari that George Bush embarked upon this week may well succeed in the areas that progressive critics fear most. Those critics, ranged in protest in several African cities, are not shy about what's wrong with Washingto...
Bond: Cuba Dares
Commentary, May, 31 2003
Patrick Bond
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Any visitor initially experiencing Cuba might easily deduce that growing pressures make the continuation of the revolution and social progress untenable.
Bond: Commodification: Kyoto threatens, WSF inspires resistance
Commentary, March, 05 2003
Patrick Bond
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The surgical counter-attack from the international left which impressed me most at Porto Alegre, was bullshit detection in relation to two Kyoto deals: the 1997 Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and the upcoming World Wate...
Bond: "Deglobalization"? Sure, but...
Commentary, January, 13 2003
Patrick Bond
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My favorite haunt, Zimbabwe, is the delight of aggressive bourgeois commentators, one of whom wrote a month ago about that country's meltdown in the Economist (30 November 2002):
Bond: Southern Africa: support for ex-SLA fugitive and opposition to commodification
Commentary, December, 02 2002
Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg: Most ZNet readers will have heard of the November 8 arrest of former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive, James Kilgore, known here as John Pape. Across this region, first reactions--an outpouring of support from comrades, friends an...
Bond: Southern African Movements Seek Antidotes To Neoliberalism
Commentary, October, 14 2002
Patrick Bond
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Last week's two-day national labour stayaway against the impending privatisation of South African electricity, telephones, water and transport services was only a mixed success. But combined with other recent regional dynamics and ruling-party con...
Bond: Geopolitics of Jo'burg Protests: Independent Left beats Ruling Party
Commentary, September, 03 2002
Patrick Bond
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For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakout day, with South Africa's mos...
Bond: Johannesburg Lefts Prepare To Summit Against The Global Elite
Commentary, August, 01 2002
Patrick Bond
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How mature and unified must a broad Left front in a given city become before it establishes a coherent critique of, and hosts demonstrations against, the international establishment?
Bond: ÒNepad, no thanks,Ó say African progressives
Commentary, June, 22 2002
Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Bond: “Nepad, no thanks,†say African progressives
Commentary, June, 22 2002
Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki made the cover page of the international edition of Time magazine in early June, with the misleading heading: `He has finally faced up to the AIDS crisis and is now leading the charge for a new African developme...
Bond: Moderates Wilt But Radical South Africans Struggle On
Commentary, April, 19 2002
Patrick Bond
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"Breaking with some of its anti-globalization allies, the aid agency Oxfam International issued a report yesterday that praised international trade as a potentially enormous boon to the world's poor... `The extreme element of the anti-globalizatio...
