Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

All articles in English by Patrick Bond (107)

• Incoming World Bank President Ajay Banga’s predatory-finance background threatens even more prolific Bank poverty-creation

  12 April, by Patrick Bond , Milford Bateman , Lena Lavinas , Erin Torkelson

• Climate-Financing Carrots and Sticks in South Africa

  29 March, by Patrick Bond

• World Economic Forum plutocrats suffer vertigo on contemporary capitalism’s roller-coaster

  17 January, by Patrick Bond

• French fossil imperialism, South African subimperialism and anti-imperial resistance

  15 December 2022, by Patrick Bond

• Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick

  5 December 2022, by Patrick Bond , Desmond D’Sa

• Decarbonisation financing foiled in Egypt: World Bank and Pretoria sabotage global climate justice

  12 November 2022, by Patrick Bond

• Austerity budget accelerates both South Africa’s “Arab Spring” and climate crimes

  1 November 2022, by Patrick Bond

• Thorny questions for Western and South African “Just Energy Transition Partnership” negotiators (from whom we won’t get satisfactory answers)

  21 October 2022, by Patrick Bond , Desmond D’Sa

• In South Africa, resistance rises to the World Bank’s climate-killing mega-projects

  16 October 2022, by Patrick Bond

• Philanthrocapitalism seen from South Africa

  9 August 2022, by Patrick Bond

• The BRICS spall, fall and (try to) reconstitute

  11 July 2022, by Patrick Bond

• The G7 prepares a divide-and-conquer trap, as BRICS countries spall, fall and try to reconstitute

  24 June 2022, by Patrick Bond

• Latest IMF controversy unveils biased policies and a Harvard economist’s skewed views

  12 January 2022, by Patrick Bond

• Das Kapital’s Unfortunate Fate, in South African Left Scholarship and Political Strategy

  17 December 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Can South Africa urgently evolve, from victim-globalisation to passive-deglobalisation to active-localisation?

  29 November 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Glasgow’s ‘Conference of the Polluters’ again confirms that global arson needs local fire extinguishers

  15 November 2021, by Patrick Bond , Desmond D’Sa

• As Climate Crisis Worsens, the Case for Eco-socialism Strengthens

  3 November 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Lessons from the assassination of Fikile Ntshangase: Climate violence, the “Right to say No!”, uncompensated resource extraction, financial profiteering and unpaid ecological debt in South Africa’s coal mining belt

  22 October 2021, by Patrick Bond

• The latest Bretton Woods bean-counting scandal nearly evicts IMF director Georgieva: “Torture the data until they confess” (or until you’re busted), economists profess

  13 October 2021, by Patrick Bond

• BRICS New Development Bank Corruption in South Africa

  5 September 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict

  19 August 2021, by Patrick Bond

• China’s role in amplifying Southern Africa’s extreme uneven development

  30 June 2021, by Patrick Bond

• ‘Unequal ecological exchange’ worsens across time and space, creating growing Northern environmental liabilities

  19 May 2021, by Patrick Bond , Rahul Basu

• Measuring Capital’s Super-Exploitation of People and Nature in South Africa: First-Cut Empirical Evidence drawing upon Rosa Luxemburg’s Methodology

  7 April 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Learning from Hilferding’s Finance Capital: Money, banking and crisis tendencies

  25 March 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South

  13 January 2021, by Patrick Bond , Ana Garcia , Miguel Borba

• As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across

  2 January 2021, by Patrick Bond

• Putting an end to the EU’s neo-colonial policies in the field of trade and investment: Economic pressures from above, social reaction from below

  22 September 2020, by Patrick Bond

• World Bank’s rating obsession will negate debt justice

  31 August 2020, by Patrick Bond , Dominic Brown

• South African should be wary about long term repercussions of new IMF loans

  5 June 2020, by Patrick Bond

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