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From: Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow. A water Chubais. If they did that in Russia, they
would have mass opposition rallies. The very idea of
paying bills is a novelty here. What are water costs
like in South Africa? Water is free here (two things
Russia is not
Nice to be back with y'all again.
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From: Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Even with the recent price hikes, my monthly
electricity bill in Moscow (pretty large Stalin-era
apartment, with two big rooms, kitchen, bathroom,
water closet) is a whopping $8.
Come to
ON TRADE
NUMBER 90, AUGUST 2003
SOUTH AFRICA'S SUBIMPERIAL TRADE AGENDA:
Splitting Africa to launch a new multilateral round
Patrick Bond*
The September meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Cancun will
again reveal how little the African continent has gained from trade
liberalisation
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From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
People steal electricity regularly in Turkey (maybe Patrick Bond would
offer some information about a similar phenomenon in South Africa) not
only because they cannot pay for it but also because it is very
difficult to determine who
Hi Michael; isn't 'finance capital' a problematic phrase, given that
Hilferding meant that various fractions of capital would be bought up by the
banks -- and this is the opposite?
Doug Henwood told me once that the Ford strategy -- which in the 1980s
entailed not only a major emphasis on
It's terribly controversial, of course, with many good greens supporting it
as a means to implement Kyoto. The worst aspects must be the Clean
Development Mechanism projects in places like Brazil, Thailand and here in
South Africa. I spent a week in Oxford recently with comrades Rising Tide,
In Johannesburg, we drink water tainted by WB-supported corruption,
which included a false promise to fund the investigation and
prosecution into Lesotho Highlands Water Project dam-related bribery.
A couple of years ago, the Bank even gave a green light to more work
by Acres Int'l and Lahmeyer --
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... But I'm still not clear on what you're
advocating as an alternative. 100% autarchy is impossible. But 50%?
25%?
Give me a case and I'll think about it. Here in Johannesburg, I'd say 100%
delinking from hot money by imposing
a profound shock to the global trading system, on the
order of the payments freeze and transport crises of 1929-45, to allow for a
bit more sanity and balance in the restructuring of economies, and for
peace-building, at least in Africa.
Patrick Bond
phone: (27)83-425-1401 and (27)11-614-8088
fax: (27)11
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're doing the same thing that the IMF-Treasury-Wall Street complex
does - equate trade with capital flows. Keynes said goods, which
you elide into capital.
Doug, come on, you know the rest of the quote: Above all, let finance
This issue bedevilled the EU/S.Africa free trade talks here a few years ago.
The most obvious point -- that it doesn't matter at all what's inside the
package, profitability depends upon the brainwashing of consumers who
associate a brand name with a product -- was never made.
Let's hope that
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From: Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Devine, James wrote:
Instead of being pelted with petty personal attacks, Domhoff should be
given credit for doing excellent research to produce his books.
re. domhoff, his study of social backgrounds of powerful white men
:
Environment, Development and Social Protest
by Patrick Bond
with George Dor, Michael Dorsey, Maj Fiil-Flynn, Stephen Greenberg, Thulani
Guliwe, David Hallowes, Becky Himlin, Stephen Hosking, Greg Ruiters and
Robyn Stein
'The nations of the world elected to come to our country', explained
I like Harris' conclusions, and they reflect the arguments of a Harare
group, Afrodad (let me know if you want direct quotes/citations by Africans
calling for an end to debt AND aid). However, a different take is coming out
next month in Z Magazine (though it was drafted in early December, prior
Global Exchange did a book in cooperation with Joan Hecksher recently that,
when I had a glance at it, seemed about the best around...
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:53 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:32436]
A member of my PhD committee at Johns Hopkins, ~1987... nailed me on obscure
Ricardo/Marx distinctions... his reputation at JHU was one of the sharpest,
but denied tenure because of his writer's block, so off he went to the WB
for the requisite panel-beating...
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From:
TRANSITION: FROM APARTHEID TO NEOLIBERALISM IN SOUTH
AFRICA
by Patrick Bond
Pluto Press, London and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, SA
Box 1.4: Black economic disempowerment
There is a tendency in South African political discourse to blame the
victims, and failed black entrepreneurs--an easy
After noting on Mark's A-list that I got Robert's excellent book for $15
equivalent in South Africa a year or so ago, I went over to the Johannesburg
Workers Library bookshop and found many many other recent Zeds for $6.
Farouk, great cross-subsidisation (for us who are in the US$1,000/month
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From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shiva's biggest fans are among Western NGOs. She has almost no
followers in India. How does someone get nominated as the authentic
voice of the oppressed anyway?
Hey comrades, she has lots of grassroots South Africa fans after
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I don't recall this incident, but it suggests a US connection. Any
comments?
In Zim's main weekly, the Financial Gazette, I used to have a column, and
this is what I wrote on this story on 29 January 1993:
How Rhodesia poisoned SA
The South African Defense
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From: Ian Murray
Even those of us at business schools are implicated, Garten
said. It's not like the educational establishment sounded any
warning. We were cheerleaders, too.
Is that the slimey-smiley Jeffrey Garten from Yale? Here in Jo'burg we show
the film The
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27187] G8 and Africa
From: Devine, James
At the seat of empire Africa is forced to take the blame for the devastation inflicted on
it by the rich world
George Monbiot
Monbiot's work is great. But the emphasis here is
mainly on Northern domination without
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From: Time magazine
The model for a new approach is Jubilee 2000, which campaigned with great
success to reduce developing-world debt.
Come off it, silly mainstream reporter. Jubilee 2000 (North's) campaign was
a great failure. The scams introduced as conditionality
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From: Devine, James
Jane, that the dollar was in danger if
other countries ceased buying new financial assets because they needed
their
foreign exchange for other uses.
I've known Jane since 1976 when I was a wee lad playing viola in a Bethesda
string ensemble with
An update, for allies of the struggle for social justice in South Africa:
Last night, well-known Soweto activist Trevor Ngwane and 49 other
progressive community/labour activists were involuntarily moved to one of
apartheid South Africa's most notorious prisons, Diepkloof, to sit another
week
. For further information, please contact Greg Ruiters
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (phone 2711-717-4373) or Patrick Bond
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (2711-717-3917).
Services for All?
Draft Programme of Events, 15-18 May
***
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15
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From: Franco Barchiesi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Patrick,
The guy that was killed, Marco Biagi, was a professor
quite well known in Bologna university environments.
Defined by people I know there as not so disgusting
was an observer (for the Southern African
Development Community) in the Zimbabwe parliamentary elections. The
experience leads me to endorse the basics of bourgeois democracy...
Here's something a friend and I did on ZNet last Friday:
Interpreting Zimbabwe's election
by Patrick Bond and Raj Patel
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From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At first, I was irritated by Uchitelle's assertion that concrete proposals
for change are not coming
from the streets but from more moderate types like Dani Rodrik. But then
I thought about it, and it
seemed to be more or
Are you disaggregating the extremely high profits that derive from corporate
interest earnings or financial-asset capital gains, as US firms hollowed out
from the early 1980s and took higher earnings shares from their
financial/treasury operations? They would have paralleled the
interest-payments
if
you're around and want details...
***
Thabo Mbeki and Nepad:
Breaking or Shining the Chains of Global Apartheid?
by Patrick Bond
1. Introduction
This essay considers Thabo Mbeki's analysis of globalisation, strategy and
demands for global-scale and continental socio-economic progress
Back from holiday in sunny Zimbabwe and saw this. While I was away, the
South African currency was beat up massively, falling from around 6 Rand to
the US$ in January 2000 to R13.85/US$ at the low point in late December 2001
(now back to a bit less than R11/US$).
The main villains behind the
. Mandela was freed from prison, his vision was of a South Africa
that offered economic, as well as democratic, freedom. Basic needs for
housing, water and electricity would be met through massive public works
programs.
But as power came into the ANC's reach, writes South African professor
Patrick Bond
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From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Patrick Bond, if you're 'out there' what's up with this? Ian]
ANC fears union plot to launch rival party
(Can I advertise my book on this topic of the new ultra-left - we jokingly
call each other, Hey, m'ooltra' to make it sound
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:34:57 +0300
From: Michael Keaney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If Wolfensohn really is inflicting such damage on the World Bank,
should he not get some sort of PEN-L award in recognition?
Nah. Since whatever excellent destruction of that institution's
esprit
Africa is also grappling with divisions between
and among union and eco-social movement activists,
writes Patrick Bond from Johannesburg. The only way
forward is to make shutting the WTO, World Bank and IMF
the first strategic priority.
***
Divide-and-conquer is an all too familiar gambit of a
ruling
From: Mark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The problem of debt, which you raise about Zim, is simply a red-herring. In
context, debt, though not trivial, is symptomatic rather than causal. Your
hopes about renewables are equally illusory.
You're jumping
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:52:05 +0100
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But fundamentally the enemy is not a policy: it is the blind workings of
global finance capital. That is why we need regulation not de-regulation.
This may not come through the reform of Bretton
generating capacity, even on a cold
winter day like today...
(Sunday Independent, 27 July 1999)
Power to the powerful:
Ideology of apartheid energy still distorts electricity sector
by Patrick Bond
South Africa's surreal energy problems reflect the
kinds of contradictions you would expect during
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:11:38 -0400
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The expansion of mass consumption regional linkages (in opposition
to elite consumption subordination to financial centers) under the
Bond program (if ever implemented -- but who bells
of whether the economic argumentation
associated with aggressive debt management is convincing...
Zimbabwe's lurch
towards a pauper's burial?
by Patrick Bond
(Bvumba mountains, Zimbabwe, 19 June)
Last year, I spent June rambling the roads
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:32:48 +0100
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To what extent is there still relevance in the ANC/SACP concept of the
National Democratic Revolution?
Concept is great. Problem is, some of the key actors are talk-left,
act-right sell-outs.
since 1998) and b) Black Economic Empowerment
completely collapsed (black-owned firms fell from 9+% of the JSE to
2+% over the last three years)...
... No doubt Patrick Bond and others may have interesting points to clarify on
the nature of the South African economy before and after apartheid
From: Mark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
All talk of articulated modes etc, simply misses the point;
and this is why we insist on (a) uneven and combiend development as the
characteristic dynamic, the key word being *development* and the key
descriptor
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 09:04:41 -0700
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a key issue is what limits exist that cause over-investment to eventually
collapse.
Jim, here's a poli-econ answer from this neighbourhood. The case of
Zimbabwe, a land-locked and historically
From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:31:54 -0700
ICG President Gareth Evans, a former foreign minister of
Australia.
This is a slick chappie, remembered in these parts as a key promoter
of financial sanctions against apartheid-era South Africa, but
and living
conditions.
Said Sithole: Whatever the campaign in the military,
in the final analysis soldiers are human beings and
they feel the same way as any ordinary Zimbabweans.
Patrick Bond ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
home: 51 Somerset Road
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:48:25 +
From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Back in the sixties, when I lived in
those parts, tribal lines were politically decisive, too. I wonder if there
remains a dangerous tension between Shona and N'debele, and if it's still true
that an
From: Keaney Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:00:18 +0300
Patrick's views here would be interesting. I ask this because much is made
of Ramaphosa's new identity as a successful businessman
Well, Ramaphosa as leader of Black Economic Empowerment is
and Patrick Bond.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 12:16:30 -0700
From: Brad DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But the ability to successfully run a developmental state appears to
be confined to (a) East Asia, (b) Northwest Europe, (c) Mauritius,
and (d) Botswana.
Chiming in from this side (3 hours from
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:29:59 -0700
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brad wrote:
But the overall record in terms of improvements in material welfare is
astonishing. (Although, alas, Botswana is about to be hit very hard by the
AIDS crisis.)
Although, aas? I.e., no
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:20:12 -0800 (PST)
From: ALI KADRI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Indeed it was harmful because it was ahistorical; it
generalised an immediate manifestation of history into
a rule of historical development. There is a certain
rigidity that belongs more to
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home: 51 Somerset Road, Ken
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That was one of the slogans on the placards in Pretoria yesterday
I held that placard.
The real solution has to be the global socialising of capital in the drug
industry. The IMF needs to set up a development fund (with resources, good
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:34:03 -0800
From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I appreciate the spirit behind Bello's piece (as exerpted here), but, stripped to
its elements, it strikes me as much too reformist. It hearkens back to the pre-1982
dispensation as a sort-of golden
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This sort of linking local-global-local is incredibly inspiring, and
puts microcredit blahblah to shame. (I gather Pluto has a new book
trashing microcredit but I haven't seen it yet...)
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Trendy women's finance scheme not necessarily effective
Patrick Bond questions the
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Who benefits by the death [of Laurent Kabila]?
A lot of Zimbabweans think they do, but it's premature to think the
12,000 troops will come home...
We are right on the faultline that we debate in different forms: how much
should the democratic
I haven't got to De Soto yet. But what's the conceptual difference,
here, between this orientation to property rights, and the
old-fashioned modernisation theory strategy of invoking "native land
husbandry" (their words) in the form of commodified titles to land,
in what were previously
.)
Patrick Bond ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
phone: (2711) 614-8088
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa
work email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
work phone: (2711) 717-3917
work fax
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:17:05 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, family planning is important. The question is who runs family
planning programs. I don't like the idea of "international family
planning organizations" running them. I'd rather see
ohmer, Professor of Economics, Evergreen State College,
Olympia, Washington
Edna Bonacich, Depts of Sociology and Ethnic Studies, University of
California, Riverside
Patrick Bond, Associate Professor, School of Public and Development
Management, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Af
(i remember (classic guitarist) Julian Bream saying, "I have a
hard time keeping up to my recordings!")
Yeah, but that's because he is a notoriously erratic performer
anyhow... and I bet he said that before the era of CDs.
Meanwhile possible schemes for greater global democratic control of the
world economy are criticised by ultra-leftists, some in the name of
Marxism, as reformist, even though they have no strategy for precipitating
the instant definitive world revolution against capitalism.
Chris Burford
) is in Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance,
Development and Underdevelopment (Trenton, Africa World Press, 1998);
I can forward, offlist, my theory chapter to the comrade if
desired...
Patrick Bond ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
phone: (2711) 614-8088
Perhaps Patrick Bond or others in South Africa might comment on this.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Patrick is in NYC right now. He just gave a talk at the Brecht Forum on
"Can Thabo Mbeki Change the World" which mentioned John Saul favorably. I
will put Patrick's talk up on the web when he
**
Radical Rhetoric and the Working Class during
Zimbabwean Nationalism's Dying Days
by Patrick Bond
Presented to the Rand Afrikaans University
Department of Sociology Zimbabwe Seminar
28 July 2000
1. Introduction: Political Turmoil Continues
Zimbabwe remains in "crisis"--a situation
tutional protections should trump those of
"juristic persons." Even if does not please Professor Krugman, a great
many people here will continue to support the jurisprudential route
urged by Mr.Nader, of prioritizing people's rights over those of
corporations.
Signed,
Patrick Bond (A
Fair point, Charles. I guess my strategy was to start with
conventional wisdom and wratchet it left. Sorry, won't do that again!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/29/00 08:25PM
With a nod and a wink, Thabo Mbeki stood by
him, alone amongst respected world leaders.
CB: Who are some of the other
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting to see Patrick Bond tonight in a heavily clipped interview on
BBC 2 Newsnight about the Zimbabwe elections. Patrick was suggesting, if I
got the point correctly, that Morgan Tsvangirai was boxing Mugabe in by
offering some sort
From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This may have made them boring, sort of, much of
the time, but I think they were worthy of respect anyway.
Hear hear, re FM Scherer.
If in Washington Thursday, this Washington protest video is not to be
missed!
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I've seen a couple of longer things Marty has done that spell out
the argument. One is a superb new book on Japan/East Asia with Paul
Burkett (St Martin's Press), whose last chapter blew me away, as it
really tackles the problematic of progressive social/labour-movement
organising against
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Patrick:
I'm only half-on PEN-L at the moment, but I see there's been
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't think it's worth my time forwarding the articles on Mozambican
cashews to Krugman, since he's already staked his reputation on the cashew
question in the NY TIMES and is unlikely to back down.
Joe Hanlon's the english-language guru on the
Comrades, is this at all helpful?
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Here is today's ZNet Commentary Delivery from Patrick Bond.
If you pass this comment along to others, please include an
explanation that Commentaries are a pr
legitimation), and
into the realm of challenging capitalism itself...
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050
From: "Mathew Forstater" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone heard that Angola and South Africa were nominating Stanley
Fischer to head the IMF??? (I hadn't known that he was born in "Northern
Rhodesia.") Ouch.
Hey, it's deeply embarrassing. All we can say from Jo'burg today is
that it
ct the
spoils of debt peonage. And to ensure Citi makes amends.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South A
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Patrick Bond
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PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa
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ssain)
Rainforest Information Centre * Lismore, Australia (John Seed)
Partizans * London, UK (Roger Moody)
Humanitarian Law Project * Washington, USA (Patricia Krommer)
Campaign for Labor Rights * Washington, USA (Trim Bissell)
Nicaragua Network * Washington, USA (Chuck Kaufman)
Individua
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Africa
work: University of the Witwatersrand
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
PO Box 601, Wits 2050, South Africa
emai
Regrettably yes, there is a diametric opposition between North and
South strategies (though to pose it in these terms, rather than
class terms, is terribly misleading). It's mainly between those who
want to shut down embryonic forms of the global state (not just
WTO, but IMF/WB etc), and
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...An uncharacteristically humble and modest national leader
This rings absolutely true. My only contact was at a conference
commemorating his 75th birthday in 1997. After he had the first
comment on a paper on post-apartheid S.African
When I was briefly in Brazil, meeting anti-racism comrades a few
years ago, I got the distinct sense from them that church support
for the PT and other movements was understood as based in part
upon a desire to control the movements' potentially redistributive
impulses, particularly regarding
Right, Peter. That's why the Jubilee Southern Hemisphere
movement is so interesting. There's a strong recovery from these
mistakes now underway, in part because the contradictions really
broke to the surface at the Cologne protests. Check Dot Keet at
http:\\aidc.org.za (no www needed, thanks
Forgive me for just another point. Not stated in the article below,
but now in motion in Washington at the 50YearsEnough
conference, is that J2000SA is also joining a couple of excellent
movements -- from Haiti and Focus on the Global South/Bangkok --
to defund, respectively, the World Bank
global civic society.
Kim Young-ho
Chairperson, Taegu Round Korea Committee
September 1999
Patrick Bond
(Wits University Graduate School of Public and Development Managemen
Chris, this is a bit unfair, really. On our e-debate list in South Africa, we've had a lot of pondering around this problem of why a particularly conservative faction of the SACP -- including several national ministers and a parliamentary committee head -- are promoting (as reflected in the
On 22 Sep 99, at 8:36, Chris Burford wrote:
It is quite true that the reformatory strategies under consideration are in
themselves inadequate, partial and limited. Like all reforms they have a
dialectical dual aspect - they may help the onward process of change, or
they may restabilise the
frenetic, and if it coincides with the restructuring of elite-
politics, with geopolitical tensions and with the possibility for
informed resistance, you don't want to just deny the process, do
you?
On 22 Sep 99, at 14:27, Doug Henwood wrote:
Patrick Bond wrote:
For the early 1990s, take away
ked around the continent, I mainly saw 1950s per capita GDP
land.
Patrick Bond
(Wits University Graduate School of Public and Development Management)
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094, Johannesburg
office: 22 Gordon Building, Wits University Parktown Campus
mailing address: PO Box 601 WITS 2
rinciple to what you're arguing in the US, these
groups should be talking to each.
Which they'll do this week at UDC, at the 50 Years
is Enough! parallel conference to the IMF/WB
annual meetings. Wish I was there! Our AIDC
and Jubilee2000 SA comrades will be there in
force (you can get to know
lliances, a) will these slip into strategic territory, and b) who calls the shots when the deals get done (as the IMF recapitalisation fiasco demonstrated last October)... ?
Again, the answer is largely within the balance of forces, once clarity is gradually achieved on these broader strategic pro
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But could you explain the apparent discrepancy between this remark
Go for the nation-state, man, it is the only hope.
and this remark in your post on Jubilee 2000
this movement is about neither a "final" or a
"short" burst of activity up to 2000. An
Charles Brown wrote:
On the other hand, the industrial plants established in Korea,
Mexico, Brazil, China (et al ? South Africa) in the last 20 years
continue the export of capital trend that Lenin (Hobson ?) marked.
If anyone's interested in South Africa, the 1980s witnessed TNC
Not to dispute the imporance of the J2000UK comrades' work and
success in mobilising so far, but there's an interesting debate about
anti-debt strategies, tactics and analysis, including whether to call
G-8 Koln reforms "a great step forward." Many in Jubilee South argue
precisely the
P.
(Ok Chris, you can trash my somewhat more pessimistic array-of-forces
perspective if you like, which is here:
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr/vol5/num2/v5n2a11.htm )
Patrick Bond
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088
home: 51 Somerset Road, Kensington 2094 South Afri
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