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Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Rip-Off Poll

Commentary, March, 17 2002 Patrick Bond
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Report and analysis of the election in Zimbabwe.

Commentary Bond: Thabo Mbeki addresses his compatriots

Commentary, February, 18 2002 Patrick Bond
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South African president Thabo Mbeki's opening of parliament on February 8 was eagerly awaited, and began with a grand motif: "The global struggle to eradicate poverty and underdevelopment is fundamental to the well-being of human society."

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe: On the brink of change, or of a coup?

Commentary, February, 01 2002 Patrick Bond
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Here comes the most fascinating election of 2002: Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe through guerrilla war to liberation from Rhodesian colonists in 1980, facing a presidential vote in March where the challenger is Morgan Tsvangirai, who led the Zimb...

Commentary Bond: Momentum Returns to the Movements against Corporate Globalisation

Commentary, December, 17 2001 Patrick Bond
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I was glad to see Mokhiber/Weissman writing for ZNet last week on the durability of the anti-neoliberal movement. Here in Johannesburg, September 11 came and went, with linkages made between the Left peace movement's urgent agenda--anti-war demons...

Commentary Bond: Interpreting Thabo Mbeki's various African initiatives

Commentary, November, 18 2001 Patrick Bond
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Thabo Mbeki's speech last Saturday morning at the UN is the highest-profile opportunity yet for the South African leader to plead for a permanent Security Council seat for Africa. He's already been told that two seats--his first prize (presumably ...

Commentary Bond: Blue Planet targets PRIVATE commodification of world's water

Commentary, July, 28 2001 Patrick Bond
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The July 5-8 "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver opened with a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution. This is the first of many international civil society meetings to take back control of our water." The host Council of Can...

Commentary Bond: ÒSustainable" South Africa?

Commentary, July, 12 2001 Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...

Commentary Bond: “Sustainable" South Africa?

Commentary, July, 12 2001 Patrick Bond
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In South Africa, three interesting processes related to "sustainable development"--that ghastly phrase, denoting an allegedly more eco-friendly capitalism, often with a few "polluter-pays" regulations and social safety- net provisions added to ort...

Commentary Bond: Ghana's hydro-class struggles

Commentary, May, 23 2001 Patrick Bond
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ACCRA -- Notwithstanding the horrific soccer stadium disaster in which at least 165 people were killed in a police-incited stampede on May 9, the past week offered signs of genuine hope in Ghana.

Commentary Bond: The World Bank in the time of cholera

Commentary, April, 13 2001 Patrick Bond
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One of the most painful preventable diseases known to humankind, cholera, continues to spread in South Africa, affecting hundreds of people a day. More than 80,000 people have been infected over the last eight months, and approximately 180 have lo...

Commentary Bond: Globalization from Below

Commentary, April, 05 2001 Patrick Bond
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In the year since Seattle, the movement for global economic justice has shown that it's here to stay. It has staged three national demonstrations against the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the one-party system controlled by corpo...

Commentary Bond: Globalization from Below

Commentary, March, 18 2001 Patrick Bond
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(Review of `Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidarity,' by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith, Cambridge, MA, South End Press.) There are more than a dozen new english- language books aimed mainly at an audience of internation...

Commentary Bond: Welcome to Jo'burg

Commentary, January, 26 2001 Patrick Bond
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If you had a choice, which host city would you choose for Rio+10, a.k.a. the 2002 `World Summit on Sustainable Development,' where 60,000 delegates will jawjaw about social and environmental problems, maybe in the process constructing more bits of...

Commentary Bond: Africa's Progressive Movements

Commentary, December, 28 2000 Patrick Bond
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ZNet Commentator Patrick Bond (pbond@wn.apc.org) chats with South African poet/activist ZNet Commentator Dennis Brutus about the state of the African Left PB: Good to see you back in Johannesburg, comrade Dennis, even briefly, in the midst of you...

Commentary Bond: South Africa's municipal elections: Finally, basic services for the masses?

Commentary, December, 06 2000 Patrick Bond
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Tuesday, December 5, is a national election in South Africa, as nearly 9,000 councilors in 284 municipalities seek the support of ten million voters. The African National Congress (ANC), which since 1994 has won three national, provincial and loca...

Commentary Bond: The African grassroots and the global movement

Commentary, October, 19 2000 Patrick Bond
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In a ZNet commentary last month, Noam Chomsky observed South-South-North alliances "taking shape at the grassroots level--an impressive development, rich in opportunity and promise, and surely causing no little concern in high places." I want to f...

Commentary Bond: South-South-North alliances

Commentary, September, 22 2000 Patrick Bond
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Here are two sentences in the concluding paragraph of Chomsky's September 17 ZNet Commentary (`Summits');, in which he champions the Havana South-South Summit of `G77' country leaders that took place in April: "African leaders pointed out that the...

Commentary Bond: Can Thabo Mbeki change the world?

Commentary, August, 22 2000 Patrick Bond
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In a formidable recent speech, South African President Thabo Mbeki, quoting Shakespeare, publicly attacked not only a senior white politician for alleged racism and arrogance over the AIDS treatment tragedy. He also castigated the section of the "...

Commentary Bond: A Political Economy of South African AIDS

Commentary, July, 17 2000 Patrick Bond
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Johannesburg, South Africa Up to a point, Danny Schechter is absolutely right to focus on the power and the appalling discursive-policy mistake of a single personality, SA president Thabo Mbeki, in this country's recent HIV-AIDS fiasco ("Mbeki'...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Election: Who's Right, Who's Left?

Commentary, June, 25 2000 Patrick Bond
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On Saturday and Sunday, Zimbabweans cast their vote for members of parliament in the most important election here since the country's first democratic poll, in 1980. It won't be a truly democratic, free-and-fair poll, thanks to intimidation and th...

Commentary Bond: New Film Projects South African Anti-Globalisation Struggle Onto Washington

Commentary, May, 29 2000 Patrick Bond
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Those in the Z community anxious to hear organic voices from the South debating global socio-economic injustice are probably aware that South African rhetoric is especially hot these days. For evidence, check out the documentary "Two Trevors Go To...

Commentary Bond: Zimbabwe's Crisis Showcases Reasons for Bank/IMF Protest

Commentary, April, 28 2000 Patrick Bond
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In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe appears to have taken leave of his senses, potentially plunging his country of 12 million into civil war. What does this have to do with the mid-April protests against the World Bank and International Monetary ...

Commentary Bond: Run on the Bank

Commentary, April, 05 2000 Patrick Bond
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"We can't REALLY aim to shut down the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, you know, Patrick. What would we do without them? What would take their place?"

Commentary Bond: Workers of the world, transcend the wedge!

Commentary, February, 24 2000 Patrick Bond
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Divide-and-conquer is an all too familiar gambit of a ruling elite under stress. Thus Seattle demonstrators, together with a growing international movement struggling in the same spirit in many other sites, have found themselves subject to both re...

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