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

While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalism’s main internal contradiction – the overaccumulation...

07.05.2026 20

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Patrick Bond

Which BRICS Bark At Imperialism, And Which Are Its Running Dogs? – OpEd

Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people’s revolution, remarking that a

18.03.2026 10

Eurasia Review

Patrick Bond

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

Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people’s revolution, remarking that a...

18.03.2026 30

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Patrick Bond

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

At the close of a year in which Africa’s underlying economic problems continue to worsen, the Johannesburg G20 summit on November 22-23 utterly...

30.12.2025 50

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Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome

The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power....

02.12.2025 20

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Patrick Bond

G20, COP30 And More Mickey-Mouse Multilateralism To Come – OpEd

The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon

27.11.2025 20

Eurasia Review

Patrick Bond

G20, COP30 and More Mickey-Mouse Multilateralism to Come

The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém...

26.11.2025 20

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Patrick Bond

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

The October 24 decision by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to end the ‘grey list’ stigmatization against the banking systems of...

28.10.2025 30

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Palestine Solidarity Discussions in Johannesburg Stress Ongoing Protest 

Will the Trump-Netanyahu deal at least pause the mass killing of Gazans? Maybe, and Gazans have every right to celebrate. But we have repeatedly...

14.10.2025 50

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

On September 8, at an emergency online meeting called by Lula to discuss trade, the BRICS leaders will be put to a serious test: in the face of...

08.09.2025 50

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Patrick Bond

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

U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make...

15.07.2025 30

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Patrick Bond

BRICS nations and Israel: Hype, Hope and Helplessness

The BRICS Bank actually sanctioned its 20% member Moscow because of the credit rating agencies in New York… I think the reparations we should be...

13.05.2025 30

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Patrick Bond

Trump’s Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles

Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and...

08.04.2025 20

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Patrick Bond