Page 21 - Patrick Bond News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Sipho Mabena "It is a shameful abdication of duties, making this government one of the most irresponsible on earth, all in the name of fiscal discipline" With millions out of work, Mboweni faces an uphill battle to balance the budget and revitalise the economy. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark The cost-containment measures announced by finance minister Tito Mboweni was unprecedented and worse even than in 1998, Patrick Bond, according...

February 25, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Global Ecosocialist Network — Ecosocialism now rests on strong theoretical foundations as a result of the tremendous pioneering work done by John Bellamy Foster, Paul Burkett, Michael Lowy, Ian Angus, Fred Magdoff, Kohei Saito, Jonathan Neale, Sabrina Fernandes, Martin Empson, Patrick Bond, the adjacent work of Naomi Klein and many others. As a result of this work we can confidently assert that: Contemporary environmentalism needs to be anti-capitalist That capitalism, not humanity as such, is the ca...

In Less is More, Jason Hickel, an anthropologist based at the University of London, has written a readable book that seeks to promote hope rather than doom in the era of the Anthropocene or, more appropriately, the Capitolocene. As a fellow anthropologist, there is much in his book with which I agree and points with which I disagree, in part due to the fact that I am a historical materialist and an ecosocialist, and he an idealist and a proponent of the relatively recent degrowth framework. Nevertheless, I am pleased that Hickel is willing to make global-local linkages and grapple with the b...

South Africa’s Covid-19 responses are marred by policy paradoxes. How does a country with one of the most sophisticated health systems in Africa account for the highest number of Covid-19 fatalities? This brief argues that contemporary approaches to South Africa’s social, domestic, and foreign policy responses should be viewed through the theoretical lenses of racial capitalism—a racially hierarchical political economy constituting war, militarism, imperialist accumulation, expropriation by domination, and labour superexploitation. Departing from current paradigms, the brief advocates t...

Mining CEO accused of inciting violence as cops probe activist's murder Tmg Digital"> By Tmg Digital - 29 March 2016 - 16:25 at work: Journalist Greg Marinovich's book says Cyril Ramaphosa's Shanduka Coal was a front for mining giant Glencore Photo: Katherine Muick-Mere The Bench Marks Foundation has accused an Australian mining company’s CEO of inciting violence in an area where an anti-mining activist was murdered last week. The murder of Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe is continuing to makes waves as condemnation of the killing and calls for po...