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The decision on February 3 by South African dockworkers to refuse handling of Israeli imports is of enormous importance for the Boycott,…
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.
Those who declare that the Great Crash of Late 2008 heralds the end of free market economic philosophy – "neoliberalism" for short…
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October 3, 2008 — The global economy’s vast financial sector expansion – in the context of productive sector stagnation tendencies – has…
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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…