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Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize spotlights South African and global battles for justice

12.10.2026 10

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Patrick Bond

Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize spotlights South African and global battles for justice

11.10.2026 9

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Patrick Bond

Why Elon Musk Should be Boycotted, as Seen From South Africa

Musk symbolises a no-holds-barred, crisis-prone, ultra-exploitative racial capitalism whose ideology fuses corporate-dominated economic libertarianism...

17.08.2026 50

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Patrick Bond

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 70

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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 30

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 80

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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 90

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Patrick Bond

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 40

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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 50

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 40

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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 60

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Patrick Bond

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 90

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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 60

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Patrick Bond