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Like South Africa, the BRICS suffer from Trump appeasement syndrome
1 December 2025 - by Patrick Bond
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. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in (…) -
Palestine solidarity discussions in Johannesburg stress ongoing protest:
10 October 2025 - by Patrick Bond
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 learned how brief the reprieve can be. And once Hamas releases 20 living Israeli hostages and has no (…) -
Why Does Historian Eric Toussaint Accuse China, India And Russia of Being "Silent Accomplices” in the Horror in Palestine?
27 August 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
While the skies over Gaza are stained red and Palestinian children die under the rubble, the emerging powers of the planet — the BRICS — prefer to look the other way. Have they become silent accomplices to one of the greatest crimes of our era? (…) -
Real and fake antidotes to Trump’s latest tariffs, seen from South Africa
10 July 2025 - by Patrick Bond
U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. The self-harm to his own MAGA lower-middle-class social base – (…) -
The structural foundations of gender-based violence in South Africa
22 June 2025 - by Roomaan Leach
Every ten minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies at the hands of someone who claimed to love her. In South Africa, the rhythm of death beats with particular intensity. Out of every 100,000 women, 5.5 are killed annually by intimate (…) -
2025/26 Budget Statement: Budget 3.0 continues the anti-poor direction of the’ Government of National Unity’
24 May 2025 - by Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC)
The Alternative Information and Development Centre is convinced that the Budget tabled by Minister Enoch Godongwana will further impoverish South Africans, exacerbate unemployment and deepen the social crisis tearing our country apart. The (…) -
BRICS nations and Israel: Hype, Hope and Helplessness
9 May 2025 - by Patrick Bond, Mariam Jooma Çarikci
Mariam Jooma Çarikci, Media Review Network (Pretoria). Prof. Patrick Bond sat down with the MRN to offer insights into the reality behind the rhetoric on Israel. He explains the deep-seated links between the SA elite ruling class and corporate (…) -
Washington-Pretoria power spasms:
25 March 2025 - by Patrick Bond
Heads continue to turn northwestwards, here in South Africa. Eyes and ears are carefully tuned not only to the latest X.com and TruthSocial dispatches from Donald Trump’s White House, Mario Rubio’s State Department and Elon Musk’s overstressed (…) -
U.S. rulers versus South African rulers – versus both their peoples and ecologies
18 February 2025 - by Patrick Bond
Cyril Ramaphosa vainly hopes Trump’s threats – on racial redress, woke G20 management and calling out Israel’s genocide – will be retracted over a round of golf and a bilateral trade deal Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm (…) -
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness:
5 February 2025 - by Patrick Bond
ABSTRACT – Frantz Fanon warned in his 1961 Wretched of the Earth of various ’pitfalls of national consciousness’ associated with the shift to post-colonialism. What of a more recent shift, from resource looting to resource nationalism? Are (…) -
From South Africa to Syria, rising perils for Palestine solidarity
10 December 2024 - by Patrick Bond
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they come at a time that poses profound problems for (…) -
‘The Blessing’ for genocide
1 October 2024 - by Patrick Bond
The Biden-Harris genocide-facilitation team is celebrating the latest atrocities from Gaza to the West Bank to Lebanon, as is to be expected from an imperialist core power bloc lacking an iota of humanity when it comes to the peoples whom (…) -
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation evades contradictions at the end of the Belt and Road: Chinese investment, finance and trade controversies in Southern Africa
22 September 2024 - by Patrick Bond
Introduction The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in early September follows a markedly unsuccessful Dakar FOCAC in 2021 (where Chinese investment commitments dropped radically), in turn following overhyped events in Beijing in 2018 (…) -
When the new South Africa of the betrayed expectations, also betrays its hero Dimitri Tsafendas!
7 June 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias
“You are guilty not only when you commit a crime, but also when you do nothing to prevent it when you have the chance”. (Dimitri Tsafendas) Why do we have recourse to the story of the Greek-Mozambican ’tyrannicide’ Dimitri Tsafendas, in an (…) -
South Africa: hanging on
29 May 2024 - by Michael Roberts
South Africa has a general election today with 28m citizens registered to vote. Since the end of the apartheid regime three decades ago, the African National Congress (ANC) has won all the elections with substantial majorities. But this time (…) -
South Africa’s failed infrastructure privatisation and deregulation
12 February 2024 - by Patrick Bond, Greg Ruiters
Introduction The South African state is commonly said to be ‘failing’ – not only because yet again at the end of 2023, a recession hit. An alleged fiscal crisis, in the form of a public debt to GDP ratio in excess of 70 percent (mostly due to (…) -
Letter urging the States of the world to support South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza
15 January 2024 - by CADTM International, Collective
On 30 December, representatives of a group of organisations, including the Black Alliance for Peace, Progressive International, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the Women’s (…) -
How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson
Summary In the months prior to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference (hosted in Dubai), summits held by global, ‘multipolar’ and continental-African elites are worthy of consideration in part because their (…) -
Samir Amin’s diagnosis of worst-case racial capitalism
11 November 2023 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract: Samir Amin’s critiques of both apartheid-era and post-apartheid political economy contributed to his scathing view of the crucial ‘semi-peripheral’ layer of the world system, a perspective typically ignored in binary formulations of (…) -
Grant distribution failures foil ‘financial inclusion’
25 September 2023 - by Patrick Bond, Milford Bateman, Lena Lavinas, Erin Torkelson
The Postbank ‘glitch’ in early September was devastating to 600,000 social grant recipients, and although the problem was solved last week, according to the state-owned bank, advocacy NGO Black Sash reported ongoing crises. This is a tragedy, (…) -
Durban deceits threaten global climate politics
27 June 2023 - by Patrick Bond
The potential new leader of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world body’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific network – could well be a long-serving Durban municipal official, Debra Roberts, assuming she wins (…) -
Climate-Financing Carrots and Sticks in South Africa
29 March 2023 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract At a time international climate finance is hotly contested, especially in Britain, Europe and the United States, durable demands from the Global South have again arisen, especially that major greenhouse gas emitters’ contributions to (…) -
French fossil imperialism, South African subimperialism and anti-imperial resistance
15 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract As protest against TotalEnergies stretching from South Africa’s Cape coastline to eastern Uganda rises, the main Big Oil target of African climate activists is facing an historic choice. It can continue long-standing patterns of (…) -
Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick
5 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa
In 1965, Ho Chi Minh described U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese – and simultaneous threat of endless bombing – as a “rotten carrot and broken stick.” The National Liberation Front’s aim was to achieve (…) -
Decarbonisation financing foiled in Egypt: World Bank and Pretoria sabotage global climate justice
12 November 2022 - by Patrick Bond
In Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where the 27th United Nations annual effort at solving the climate crisis is half-way to failure, negotiators and anyone interested in South Africa’s welfare might get the wrong impression, given hype flowing in (…)
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