Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond is professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He can be reached at: pbond@mail.ngo.za

Can Workers Push Back Against Capital’s Devaluation? Dangers Revealed in South Africa

Which BRICS Bark at Imperialism – and Which Are its Running Dogs?

Africa Deindustrializes Due to China’s Overproduction and Trump’s Tariffs

Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome

G20, COP30 and More Mickey-Mouse Multilateralism to Come

A Western Financial Whip Was Lifted From South Africa’s Back – But Now We Need Another

Palestine Solidarity Discussions in Johannesburg Stress Ongoing Protest 

Towards a Needed Paradigm Shift in Economic Policy

As BRICS Meet to Fight Trump Tariffs, is It Time for Multi-Polar or Anti-Polar Politics?

Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen From South Africa

At the Rio Summit, signs of BRICS in Retreat…Just When We Need Serious Anti-Imperial Muscle

BRICS Nations and Israel: Hype, Hope and Helplessness

Trump’s Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles

Washington-Pretoria Power Spasms: The Ambassador’s trauma

U.S. Rulers Versus South African Rulers – Versus Both Their Peoples and Ecologies

From South Africa to Syria, Rising Perils for Palestine Solidarity

Rising Dangers of Imperial and Sub-Imperial Partnering

“The Blessing” for Genocide: Nearly all BRICS+ Regimes Nurture Israel, Economically

South Africa’s ‘Government of Neoliberal Unity’ is Constructed on Shaky Ground

Boris Kagarlitsky and the Future of the Russian Left

Beckenbauer, Rest in Shame: South African Memories of German Corruption

John Pilger on Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Injustices: “South Africa is Where Much of My Political Education Took Place”

How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson

“Breaking Off Diplomatic Relations with Israel will be Counterproductive,” Claims South Africa’s (Unreliable) Foreign Minister

The IMF and World Bank Talk Good Governance, But Walk With State-Capturers

After Johannesburg: BRICS+ Humbled as Sub- (not Anti- or Inter-) Imperialists

The BRICS Johannesburg Summit’s Hype, Hope and Helplessness

Mischief-Making in Pretoria-Moscow-Washington Foreign and Trade Policies

World Economic Forum Plutocrats Suffer Vertigo on Contemporary Capitalism’s Roller-Coaster

In South Africa, Resistance Rises to the World Bank’s Climate-Killing Mega-Projects

Biden, Ramaphosa and Cul-de-Sacs of Imperial and Sub-Imperial Diplomacy

The G7 Prepares a Divide-and-Conquer Trap, as BRICS Countries Try to Reconstitute

Latest IMF Controversy Unveils Biased Policies and a Harvard Economist’s Skewed Views

The Latest Bretton Woods Bean-Counting Scandal Nearly Evicts IMF Director Georgieva

Biden-Kerry International Climate Politricks

As South African Climate Justice Veterans Fall, Consciousness Begins Reviving, From Below and Across

Wallerstein Expanded the South African Independent Left’s Horizons

Should South Africa Follow the Law of the Jungle … or the Doctrine of Odious Debt?

Covid-19 Attacks the Down-and-Out in Ultra-Unequal South Africa

As Brazil’s ex-President Lula is Set Free and BRICS Leaders Summit, What Lessons From the Workers Party for Fighting Global Neoliberalism?

Bretton Woods Institutions’ Neoliberal Over-Reach Leaves Global Governance in the Gutter

Fighting Fossil Fuels in South Africa: Campaigners Invoke Specters of Climate Chaos

Lonmin’s Murder, by Money: Autopsy Reveals the British-South African Corpse’s Poisoning by Microfinance, ‘Development Finance’ and Corporate Finance

Budgeting for Black-Out in South Africa

Zimbabwe’s Capitalist Crisis: Imperial Vultures and Subimperial Doves Both Turn Away From Economic Carcass

Zimbabwe’s Capitalist Crisis: Finance Minister a ‘Fraud’ and ‘Political Moron,’ as Army Represses Protests

Jim Yong Kim’s Mixed Messages to the World Bank and the World

South Africa Searches for a Financial Parachute, Now That a $170 Billion Foreign Debt Cliff Looms

Mining Conflicts Multiply, as Critics of ‘Extractivism’ Gather in Johannesburg

South Africans Peer Down Trump’s World Economic Shithole