Z Needs Your Help!
The time has not been more ripe for a Marxist regroupment here and globally for at least a quarter century
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond is a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. From 2020-21 he was Professor at the Western Cape School of Government and from 2015-2019 was a Distinguished Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance. From 2004 through mid-2016, he was Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies and was also Director of the Centre for Civil Society. He has held visiting posts at a dozen universities and presented lectures at more than 100 others.
Upward gazing can be politically blinding
If there is anywhere deserving of corporate corruption probes to the extent of the FIFA investigation, it is Washington itself
Political symbols in South Africa are here today, gone tomorrow, but oppressive political economy endures
Our wealth redistribution was the second worst of major countries after Brazil, and now is much, much, much worse, is the worst major country in the world
“…we need to give people hope that there is a purpose to the mobilisation”
Intersectionality missing-in-action at Cape Town’s Alternative Mining Indaba
Around 3000 protesters from the new United Front party recently marched to parliament against new economic plans
After an explosive start to his State of the Nation Address last week, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma turned to nuclear, coal, fracking and offshore drilling projects – but what about the country’s free sunshine, wind and tides?
A Muddle, a Meltdown or a Miracle?