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- Monday, Aug 23, 2010
Commentary The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government vow to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against a confident government leadership ... -
- Monday, Aug 16, 2010
Commentary The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials. Reinvestment is negligible and the prices, royalties and taxes paid are inadequate to compe... -
- Saturday, Aug 07, 2010
Commentary Shortly before Pretoria’s presidential power change from Thabo Mbeki to Jacob Zuma two years ago, the South African state announced its War on Poverty (WoP). What news from the front, in the immediate wake of World Cup host duties that showed obse... -
- Friday, Jul 09, 2010
Commentary Acting against our alleged ‘ambush marketing’ and ‘incitement’ (sic), the South African Police Service, newly augmented with 40,000 additional cadre for the World Cup, detained several of us here in Durban last weekend. -
- Tuesday, Jun 29, 2010
Commentary Soccer-loving cynics have long predicted problems now growing worse here in South Africa because of World Cup hosting duties... -
- Saturday, Jun 12, 2010
Commentary The World Cup begins this weekend here in South Africa, with the home team playing Mexico on Friday before 95,000 fans at Johannesburg’s Soccer City. -
- Saturday, May 15, 2010
Commentary On June 11, South Africans start partying like no time since liberation in April 1994, and of course it is a huge honor for our young democracy to host the most important sporting spectacle short of the Olympics. All the ordinary people who have w... -
- Thursday, Apr 01, 2010
Commentary Fierce debating about United States climate justice (CJ) strategies and tactics on ZNet over the past couple of months leave us ready to continue exploring comradely but sharp differences. -
- Monday, Feb 15, 2010
Commentary Before we get to some hot South African political economy and political ecology, first consider the psycho-socio-sexual-sporting context. -
- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
ZMag Article Remembering an anti-apartheid organizer, prisoner, and poet -
- Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010
ZNet Article Patrick Bond replies to Robin Hahnel's ZNet article "Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?" -
- Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010
Commentary Dennis Brutus died at age 85 on December 26, battling cancer, climate change and capitalism. -
- Saturday, Dec 26, 2009
ZNet Article World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85. -
- Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009
Commentary In Copenhagen, the world's richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out. -
- Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009
Commentary Eight million people viewed Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch. -
- Monday, Nov 30, 2009
Commentary Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of African elites' stiffened spines. That's a great development (maybe decisive), more about which below. -
- Sunday, Oct 25, 2009
Commentary On a day that 350.org and thousands of allies are valiantly trying to raise global consciousness about impending catastrophe, we can ask some tough questions about what to do after people depart and the props are packed up. No matter today’s act... -
- Sunday, Sep 06, 2009
Commentary Here's a fairly simple choice: the Global North would pay hard-hit Global South sites to deal with climate crisis either through complicated, corrupt, controversial 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) projects with plenty of damaging side effects ... -
- Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Jul 03, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Saturday, Jun 13, 2009
Commentary 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. -
- Monday, May 25, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Tuesday, Apr 07, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Mar 19, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Thursday, Feb 05, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Dec 24, 2008
Commentary 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. -
- Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008
Commentary 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. -
- Saturday, Oct 25, 2008
Commentary 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. -
- Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008
ZNet Article 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), ... -
- Sunday, Sep 21, 2008
Commentary 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... - All Most Recent Content
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Book "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... - All Recent Books
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- Saturday, Dec 26, 2009
ZNet Article World-renowned political organizer and one of Africa's most celebrated poets, Dennis Brutus, died early on December 26 in Cape Town, in his sleep, aged 85. -
- Friday, Jul 03, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008
ZNet Article 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), ... - All Featured Content
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