Sub-imperialism
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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 (…) -
Political self-determination for Kashmir
22 June 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar
The recent Indo-Pakistani armed conflict, accompanied by bellicose rhetoric and jingoism between the nuclear-armed neighbours, has heightened tensions in the South Asian region. Ultimately, US President Donald Trump reportedly brokered a (…) -
Both the BRICS and Bandung revivalism need tough critiques – not quasi-cults
22 April 2025 - by Patrick Bond
How to interpret these inspiring words, by one of the most eloquent, prolific exponents of Global South politics and economic development, Vijay Prashad? The New Bandung Spirit is about Industrial Development... The original [BRICS] members – (…) -
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 (…) -
Rising dangers of imperial+sub-imperial partnering:
19 October 2024 - by Patrick Bond
Following the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS+’ – whose leadership will be hosted by Vladimir Putin in Kazan from October 22-24 – now consist of not only Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but also Egypt, (…) -
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 (…) -
US imperial dominance, BRICS sub-imperialism and unequal ecological exchange
10 January 2024 - by Patrick Bond, Federico Fuentes
Patrick Bond is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg, as well as a political economist, political ecologist and scholar of social mobilisation. He is the author of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique and Extreme (…) -
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 (…) -
BRICS+ emerge from Johannesburg, humbled as sub- (not anti- or inter-) imperialists
30 August 2023 - by Patrick Bond
However, the notable intensity within the new membership of fossil-addicted economies, of tyrannies and of human rights violations – civil, socio-economic and environmental – amplifies the existing group’s dangers. Still, the other 17 countries (…) -
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 (…) -
The G7 prepares a divide-and-conquer trap, as BRICS countries spall, fall and try to reconstitute
24 June 2022 - by Patrick Bond
On Friday June 24, a hasty one-day virtual summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa will occur, hosted by Xi Jinping. The date is important because on Monday June 26, two of the three intrinsically pro-Western leaders from the bloc – (…) -
Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict
19 August 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere as acutely as northern Mozambique. There, the Cabo Delgado province is a site for military intervention against Islamic (…)
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