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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…
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.
In spite of an encouraging backlash led by Brazil, the poor nations are preparing for another unsatisfying round of trade talks in…
As a Johannesburg resident since 1990, and an academic who teaches environment and development in a public policy school, the WSSD was…
Another water war is brewing here in Johannesburg. If local and international trends are anything to go by, the people could defeat…
The petro-military-commerce safari that George Bush embarked upon this week may well succeed in the areas that progressive critics fear most. Those…
Any visitor initially experiencing Cuba might easily deduce that growing pressures make the continuation of the revolution and social progress untenable. The…
ZNet commentator Patrick Bond and his colleague Simba Manyanya — a Zimbabwean currently employed in Johannesburg by a UN agency — provide…
The surgical counter-attack from the international left which impressed me most last month at Porto Alegre, was bullshit detection in relation to…
W hen it comes to anti-capitalist resistance, the most economically marginalized sites are among the most interesting. Not because the greatest number…
My favorite haunt, Zimbabwe, is the delight of aggressive bourgeois commentators, one of whom wrote a month ago about that country’s meltdown…