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Patrick Bond
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
09 Jan 2019
The old guard of South Africa’s ruling party put on new clothes last year, and a new party of the working class finally made its debut.
Patrick Bond
‘New Imperialism’ Debate Suffers from the Omission of Subimperialism
25 Apr 2018
“The immense needs of their own populations do not drive their policy orientations.”
Patrick Bond
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa Relaunches Neoliberalism
28 Feb 2018
“In spite of repeated rhetorical gestures from Pretoria to the contrary, the BRICS have amplified unfair and inequitable world order processes.”
Patrick Bond
New Evidence of Africa’s Systematic Looting, From an Increasingly Schizophrenic World Bank
07 Feb 2018
“’Sub-Saharan Africa loses roughly $100 billion of ANS annually because it is “the only region with periods of negative levels’ of gross national income.”
Patrick Bond
The State of Revolutionary Movements and Marxism in South Africa
01 Feb 2017
by Patrick Bond In South Africa, even the neoliberal Black ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), speaks the rhetorical language of Marxism. The ANC is challenged by NUMSA, the continent’…
Patrick Bond
What Does a Trump Victory Mean for Africa?
23 Nov 2016
by Patrick Bond Donald Trump is mostly bad news for Africa, including reduced U.S. aid and possibly more support for “imperial African adventurism" – unless, of course, Africa uses Trump’s lemons to…
Patrick Bond
Austerity Gathers Pace in Schizophrenic South Africa
16 Mar 2016
by Patrick Bond The unprecedented contagion of what President Zuma has called “gossip and rumor” around his inner circle threatens the internal stability of the Pretoria regime. The loyalty of many…
Patrick Bond
World Bank Punches South Africa’s Poor and Coddles the Rich
17 Feb 2016
by Patrick Bond Despite abundant evidence of pro-corporate bias, the Bank endorses the government’s “sound policy” on redistribution because Bank researchers cannot grapple with the core problem that…
Patrick Bond
South Africa’s Deal with the Devil, Revisited: Mandela’s ‘Faustian Pact’ with World Capital
16 Sep 2015
by Patrick Bond An intelligence document has surfaced claiming that the white establishment through the private sector has a huge influence in the running of the South African National Treasury and…
Patrick Bond
World Soccer Corruption, Africa’s “Illicit Financial Flows” and Elite Silences
10 Jun 2015
by Patrick Bond Corruption is built into the ruling structures of the United States, which has launched globe-trotting prosecutions of soccer bribery, and South Africa, which is suspected of paying…