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Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?
by Patrick Bond October 2008
The campaign for apartheid reparations is in the US courts at present, pitting black South Africans in the Jubilee and Khulumani organisations (as well as individuals) against three dozen multinational corporations and friendly governments in Washington, London, Berlin and Pretoria. The demand for reparations extends the logic of international anti-racism solidarity campaigning, dating to the sanctions era. Plaintiffs’ use of the Alien Tort Claims Act extends a precedent set by Holocaust victims’ descendants. The US justice system’s conservatism is stretched, due to plaintiff appeals in 2008 reaching even the Supreme Court. And the change in SA government leadership may open up space to debate the critical questions: how to achieve justice from pro-apartheid corporations, and also disincentivise future exploitation in similar circumstances?
Can reparations for apartheid profits be won in US courts?

Global political-economic and geopolitical processes, structures and trends 2 September 2008

An August 2008 World Health Organisation study concludes that a “toxic
combination of bad policies, economics, and politics is, in large
measure, responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world
do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible.” CCS
director Patrick Bond contributed this analysis (as well as a coauthored
study on water and health) to the Commission's Globalization and Health
Knowledge Network: "This chapter assesses major shifts in global
political economy and geopolitics since the 1970s, which have brought
together processes of governance and liberalization in often
uncomfortable ways. These processes have important manifestations in
society, including the generation of structural constraints to improved
health policy. Geopolitical realignments and neo-liberal policy
ascendancy can be observed in a series of several dozen moments in which
key events reflect important power shifts. The context has been a series
of durable economic problems: stagnation, financial volatility and
uneven development. Political alignments have followed, and remain in an
adverse balance of power, from the standpoint of redistributive
socio-economic reform. Any expectation that global governance offers
solutions, given the prevailing political-economic and geopolitical
processes, structures and trends, should be carefully reevaluated."
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Global political-economic and geopolitical processes, structures and trends





Global Uneven Development, Primitive Accumulation and Political-Economic Conflict in Africa
By Patrick Bond

The world is witnessing a political-economic passage on a global scale:
from economic stagnation, amplified uneven development and financial
volatility to worsening primitive accumulation (‘looting’) and
socio-economic conflict. Considering Africa’s plight in this way
suggests intellectual links between the political economy and security
disciplines. Reforms proposed at the global level by elite bodies are
apparently ineffectual and actions taken by elites in the name of
conflict resolution often undermine peace because they reinforce the
very dynamic of external looting. If these reforms continue to fail, it
is to popular struggles that we should turn, especially in Africa where
oppression is most extreme and global and local elites have the least
credibility. For social movements, the objective of transforming power
relations as the basis for ending conflict and underdevelopment requires
engaging this new theoretical approach with a critique of capitalism.
Conflict and peace theorists should also consider other innovations in
political economy which address uneven and combined development,
primitive accumulation and imperialism more broadly.
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Primitive Accumulation, Enclavity, Rural Marginalisation & Articulation
By Patrick Bond

In March 2006, the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Civil
Society in Durban aimed to reinvigorate a tradition of political economy
by considering the legacies of Guy Mhone and José Negrão (who died in
2005) along with two others whose work was based on accounts of
‘primitive accumulation’: Rosa Luxemburg and South African sociologist
Harold Wolpe (who died in 1996). The analytical traditions are diverse
but complementary. Together they capture many of the ways that primitive
accumulation continues to structure and reproduce systems of inequality.
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The Dispossession of African Wealth at the Cost of Africa's Health
By Patrick Bond

This article synthesizes new data about the outflow of Africa’s wealth,
to reveal structural factors behind the continent’s ongoing
underdevelopment. The flow of wealth out of sub-Saharan Africa to the
North occurs primarily through exploitative debt and finance, phantom
aid, capital flight, unfair trade, and distorted investment. Although
the resource drain from Africa dates back many centuries—beginning with
unfair terms of trade, amplified through slavery, colonialism, and
neocolonialism—today, neoliberal (free market) policies are the most
direct causes of inequality and poverty. They tend to amplify
preexisting class, race, gender, and regional disparities and to
exacerbate ecological degradation. Reversing this outflow is just one
challenge in the struggle for policy measures to establish a stronger
funding base for the health sector.
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Transcending Two Economies
In the pages that follow, a group of South Africa’s leading political
economists tackle President Thabo Mbeki’s ‘two economies’ thesis, the
framework most popularly invoked for contemporary poverty policy in
South Africa. In short, poverty can be beat if sturdy (market-focused)
ladders are found between the second and first economy, which
unfortunately at present are ‘structurally disconnected’. On at least
two earlier occasions, a critical mass of university-based intellectuals
gathered in various publications to contest ideas of this sort: the
mid-1970s when radicals fought liberals over the relationship between
race and class; and the early 1990s when the South African version of
the Regulation School was established. Both contributions were flawed,
we will see. Since then, there has been a growing sense of the need to
revisit and reconstruct old frameworks, in part because of the
tremendous upsurge in popular social struggles associated with new types
of exploitation.
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Competing Explanations of Zimbabwe’s Long Economic Crisis
By Patrick Bond

When did Zimbabwe’s apparently endless economic downturn actually begin?
  • February 2000, when Robert Mugabe began authorizing land invasions?

  • November 1997, when ‘‘Black Friday’’ decimated the currency’s value
    (by 74% in four hours)?

  • The prior months, when war vets were given pensions and Zimbabwe put
    troops into the Democratic Republic of the Congo to back the Kabila
    regime and secure investment sites?

  • September 1991, when the stock market crashed once interest rates were raised to high real levels at the outset of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP)?

  • The early 1980s, not long after Mugabe took power?

  • Or around 1974, when per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) began a
    fall that has not yet reversed itself?

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    Are Norway's Global Financial Reforms Post-Imperialist?
    Patrick Bond

    Given the prevailing global balance of forces, what can the North’s most
    progressive government do, particularly if it’s in financially excellent
    shape? Global reforms have been few and far between since neoliberalism
    took hold at the world scale during the 1980s, especially in financial
    markets: from the 1982 Third World debt crisis outbreak in Mexico, via
    hundreds of major riots across the South against structural adjustment
    policies, to the mid-late 1990s emerging markets crashes (whose
    epicentre was also Mexico in 1994) and Joe Stiglitz’s late 1990s
    “Post-Washington Consensus” gambit at the World Bank, to the status quo
    UN Financing for Development summit in 2002 (also held in Mexico) and
    subsequent failures to democratize the Bretton Woods Institutions during
    the 2000s, notwithstanding the election of mainly Centre-Left and Left
    governments in Latin American. Is there a new day dawning from one of
    the northernmost capitals, Oslo? Might a “Post-Imperialist” North-South
    agenda emerge thanks to its leadership, particularly in aid and finance?
    Do trends in the petroleum markets permit a self-interest review of
    Norwegian foreign financial policy?
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    Microcredit Evangelism, Health and Social Policy
    By Patrick Bond

    The awarding of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, provides an opportunity to consider the use and abuse of microfinancing, especially because credit continues to be touted as a
    poverty-reduction strategy associated with health education and health
    care financing strategies. Not only is the Grameen diagnosis of poverty
    dubious, but many structural problems also plague the model, ranging
    from financial accounting to market failures. In Southern Africa, to
    illustrate, microcredit schemes for peasants and small farmers have been
    attempted for more than 70 years, on the basis that modern capitalism
    and peasant/informal system gaps can be bridged by an expanded financial
    system. The results have been disappointing. A critical reading of
    political economy posits an organic linkage between the “developed” and
    “underdeveloped” economies that is typically not mitigated by capitalist
    financial markets, but instead is often exacerbated. When applied to
    health and social policy, microcredit evangelism becomes especially
    dangerous.
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    Events

    NOVEMBER CIVIL SOCIETY & SOCIAL JUSTICE




    Debating local/global analysis and practice

    NOVEMBER 23 CIVIL SOCIETY & SOCIAL JUSTICE

    Thursday, November 23, 5-7pm
    CENTRE FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31-37 Orange Street, Cape Town

    Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond launch three books and DVDs from the Centre for Civil Society:

  • POETRY & PROTEST

  • Dennis Brutus (UKZN Press 2006)
  • LOOTING AFRICA

  • TALK LEFT WALK RIGHT
    Patrick Bond (UKZN Press & Zed 2006)

  • CCS WIRED (DVD set)

    Interrogation by: Ronald Suresh Roberts



    From analysis to resistance (and back)
    NOVEMBEBR 25 CIVIL SOCIETY & SOCIAL JUSTICE

    JOIN US FOR WINE, CHEESE, ACTIVISTS, BOOKS, FILMS

    XARRA BOOKS, NEWTOWN, JOBURG
    Saturday, November 25, 3:30-5:30PM
    1 Central Place, Jeppe Street – across from Market Theatre

    Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond launch three books and DVDs
    from the Durban, South Africa CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY:

  • POETRY & PROTEST

  • Dennis Brutus (UKZN Press 2006)
  • LOOTING AFRICA

  • TALK LEFT WALK RIGHT
    Patrick Bond (UKZN Press & Zed 2006)

  • CCS WIRED (DVD set)
    Interrogations by: Prishani Naidoo & Trevor Ngwane
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  • The Annual Corpse Awards

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    A COLLOQUIUM ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND NATURE
    THE UKZN CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY and PARTNERS PRESENT:A COLLOQUIUM ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND NATURE

    PHOTO'S FROM THE COLLOQUIUM ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND NATURE

    For assistance that made the colloquium possible, we are grateful to the
    Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust, Open Society Initiative Of Southern Africa,
    Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Research Council of Norway, SA National Research Foundation, Sanpad, two journals - Capitalism Nature Socialism and the Review of African Political Economy - and CCS core funders C.S.Mott and Atlantic Philanthropies.

    28 February - 4 March 2006
    University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa


    In cooperation with partners who have indictated in-principle support - The Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust, The Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa, The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the journal Capitalism Nature Socialism - CCS will be opening thematic research projects on 'Economic Justice' in 2006. We are anxious to launch this theme by reviewing some of the finest traditions of national, regional and international political-economic theory and contemporary analysis, and invite you to join us. We seek inputs from individuals and organisations who would like to participate.

    We are mainly concerned with market- nonmarket interactions and new forms of 'primitive accumulation'. Ideas about a supposed 'dual economy' in South Africa (and indeed the region and world) are now being debated at the highest political/policy levels.

    This is an opportune time to discuss whether formal markets and the informal economy plus other aspects of society and nature are really as divorced as is often argued.

    Four scholar-activists - Harold Wolpe in South Africa, Jose Negrao and Guy Mhone in Southern Africa and Rosa Luxemburg in Europe - developed consistent arguments about the way markets systematically exploit 'nonmarket' opportunities, in other modes of production, in society(especially women's unpaid labour) and in the natural environment.

    At three scales of analysis, we want to pick up their stories, review past
    and contemporary contributions on their legacies, and assess whether current and future political-economic scenarios require new insights:

    SOUTH AFRICA is a crucial site to explore how the apartheid economic system evolved into a still racialised, highly gendered, increasingly unequal and ecologically disastrous system of capital accumulation. For Harold Wolpe, these relations could be understood partly as the 'articulation of modes of production'. Wolpe died in 1996; a decade later, the intellectual memorial on 28 February is one of several major events devoted to recalling his contributions, with its focus on Wolpe's political-economic writings. (Another conference sponsored by the Wolpe Memorial Trust will be held in September.) From the 1960-80s debates about apartheid and capitalism, we have much to learn about the current conjuncture.

    SOUTHERN AFRICA faces increasing polarisation, both within and between the countries of the region. For Guy Mhone, this represented a problem of 'enclavity', by which economic linkages were truncated and state policies distorted, to meet the needs of global and regional business interests, not the majority. Mhone passed away on 1 March 2005, so a year later, the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa will assist us in remembering his exceptionally fruitful career. Experts from other regions - including Latin America and South Asia - will also join us, for comparative purposes and to build intellectual solidarity required at a time India-Brazil-South Africa connections are deepening.

    THE GLOBAL SCALE is characterised by a system based not upon the inter-imperial rivalry of a century ago, but instead in part upon vast new forms by which the 'North' loots the 'Global South' and the world environment. By arguing - in her 1913 book The Accumulation of Capital - that this process was not accidental but a necessary outcome of economic processes, and by showing how the theory applied to 19th century South Africa, to German colonialism in Namibia and to Belgian control of the Congo, Rosa Luxemburg gave hints about how to understand the subsequent imperialist project. The Southern African Regional Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is assisting so that on 2 March, not only the strengths but also the weaknesses of her approach are discussed, at a time of international revival of interest in her work.

    Many local/regional - and several international - social scientists will be addressing the problems associated with market exploitation of nonmarket (society and nature) from 28 February through 2 March, in an event open to the public. From 2-4 March, activists from across KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the region are especially invited to help move from analysis to praxis, with open discussions and strategy debates in the framework of the Rosa Luxemburg Political Education Seminar.

    National, regional and international internet-based streaming and participation from other centres are also being explored.

    To get involved, or for more information, please contact Patrick Bond: bondp@ukzn.ac.za



    Programme Details


    28 February: SOUTH AFRICA OPENING AND INTRODUCTION: LEGACIES OF 'ARTICULATION OF MODES OF PRODUCTION'
    Ann-Marie Wolpe (Wolpe Trust)
    'ARTICULATION' FROM FEUDALISM TO NEOLIBERALISM:
    Michael Perelman (CalState)
    SA SOCIAL CRITIQUE POST-WOLPE:
    Ari Sitas (UKZN)

    11:15AM PANEL 1 - SA URBAN-RURAL, RACE, GENDER AND LABOUR MARKETS
    Caroline Skinner & Imraan Valodia (UKZN)
    Renato Palmi (UKZN)
    Sthembiso Bhengu (UKZN)
    Richard Pithouse (UKZN)

    11:15AM PANEL 2 - SA'S NEW 'DEVELOPMENTAL STATE'?
    Nina Hunter (UKZN)
    Hein Marais (ind.)
    Devan Pillay (Wits)
    Mark Butler (groundWork)

    2PM PANEL 1 - SA URBAN-RURAL, RACE, GENDER AND LABOUR MARKETS
    David Hemson (HSRC)
    Simon Mapadimeng (UKZN)
    Lubna Nadvi (UKZN)
    Richard Ballard (UKZN)

    2PM PANEL 2 - SA'S NEW 'DEVELOPMENTAL STATE'?
    Isobel Frye (Naledi)
    Charles Meth (UKZN)
    Bill Freund (UKZN)
    Ashwin Desai (UKZN)

    4PM CAPITALISM, RACISM, SEXISM IN SA POLI-ECON THEORY
    Vishnu Padayachee (UKZN)
    Margaret Legum (SANE)
    David Masondo (Wits)
    Martin Legassick (UWC)

    6:30PM EVENING EVENT (INCLUDING DRINKS/FOOD)
    Booklaunches at Ike's Books, 48a Florida Road
    Articulations: A Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Collection (editor: Amanda Alexander, CCS; copublished by AWP) Dennis Brutus: Poetry and Protest (UKZN Press & Haymarket Press)
    Tributes: Vonani wa ka Bila (Timbila),
    Mphutlane Bofelo and Pinky Magwaza (Jubilee SA)



    1 MARCH - SOUTHERN AFRICA AND AFRICA OPENING AND INTRODUCTION: LEGACIES OF 'ENCLAVITY':
    Adebayo Olukoshi (Codesria)

    11:15AM REGIONAL LABOUR MARKETS AND LABOUR REPRODUCTION
    Lloyd Sachikonye (UZ)
    David Moore (UKZN)
    Horacio Zandamela (Wits)
    Judica Maketha (ILO)

    2PM REGIONAL ECONOMIES: IS SOUTH AFRICA SUB-IMPERIALIST?
    Tandeka Nkiwane (Unisa)
    John Daniel (HSRC)
    Riaz Tayob (Seatini)
    Patrick Bond (UKZN)

    4PM SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN RESISTANCE
    Mohau Pheko (Genta)
    Dennis Brutus (Jubilee SA)
    Horman Chitonge (UKZN)

    EVENING EVENT LAUNCH (MTB COURTYARD)
    The Great Trek North by Console Tleane
    Personal Tributes to Guy Mhone and José Negrão: Yvonne and Pat
    Mhone, Omano Edigheji (CPS), Sabina Asselle, Patrick Bond (UKZN),
    Horacio Zandamela (Wits) and Tawanda Mutasah (Osisa)



    2 MARCH - GLOBAL LEGACIES OF LUXEMBURG'S 'IMPERIALISM' LUXEMBURG AND SA HISTORY:
    Jeff Guy (UKZN)
    NEOLIBERALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE COMMONS: Nicola Bullard (Focus on the Global South)
    ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL IN CONTEXT:
    Arndt Hopfmann (RLF)

    11:15AM FRONTIERS OF PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION
    Massimo De Angelis (U.of E.London)
    Ahmed Veriava (UKZN)
    Prishani Naidoo (UKZN)
    David Whitehouse (ISR)

    2PM IMPERIALISM AND NEW COMMODITY FORMS Elmar Altvater (Free University)
    Gill Hart (Berkeley)

    4PM CONTESTING COMMODIFICATION
    Joel Kovel (CNS)
    Virginia Setshedi (FXI)
    Rehana Dada & Trusha Reddy (UKZN)
    Salim Valley (Wits)

    5:45PM ROSA LUXEMBURG'S TRADITIONS:
    Arndt Hopfmann (RLF)

    EVENING OPTIONS INCLUDE THE 'TOXIC TOUR' OF SOUTH DURBAN WITH THE WORLD-RENOWNED COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE, AND A NEW FILM ON IMPERIALISM'S FEBRUARY 2004 KIDNAPPING/OUSTER OF HAITIAN PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE



    3-4 MARCH The Rosa Luxemburg Educational Seminar 2006 will air political-economic ideas, strategies, tactics and debates amongst social, labour and environmental activists from KZN province, SA and the region. Resource people include Elmar Altvater, Vanessa Black, George Dor, Des D'Sa, Ulrich Duchrow, Lenny Gentle, Joel Kovel, Muna Lakhani, Thabo Madihlaba, Ntwala Mwilima, Trevor Ngwane, Bobby Peek, Karen Read, Greg Ruiters, Virginia Setshedi and S'bu Zikode.

    3 MARCH ACTIVISTS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS SHARE STRATEGY SESSIONS
    'Accumulation of capital in national, regional and global perspective'
    Film screening of »Rosa Luxemburg« by Margaretha von Trotta (Including
    drinks/food)

    4 MARCH ACTIVISTS SHARE STRATEGY SESSIONS
    'Popular resistance to the accumulation of capital'



    Detailed Programme

    Upcoming Conferences & other Events
    Mining, Investment and Eco-Social Damages: Assessing the Human Rights Impacts
    National Union of Mineworkers Elijah Barayi Memorial Training Centre 49 Old Harrow Road (corner of Alexandra and Saunders Streets) Yeoville, Johannesburg
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    Taking on the Multinational Corporations: Addressing their Social and Ecological Debt
    20-24 September 2006, NUM Training Centre, Yeoville, Johannesburg
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    Relevant Publications

    Civil society and Wolfowitz’s World Bank: Reform or rejection revisited. By Patrick Bond

    The World Bank during neoliberal and neoconservative fusion. By Patrick Bond




    A COLLOQUIUM ON THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND NATURE: PAPERS



    Altvater, Elmar (2006) The social formation of capitalism, fossil energy, and oil-imperialism. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-21.
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    Amri-Makhetha, Judica  (2006) Tribute to Professor Guy Mhone. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-3.
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    Ballard, Richard  (2006) Social Movements in Post Apartheid South Africa: An Introduction. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-20.
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    Bhengu, Sithembiso (2006) Exploring interlocking linkages of wage labour to livelihoods Beyond the rural-urban divide. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-14.
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    Bond, Patrick (2006) South African subimperialism. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-69.
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    Bond, Patrick & Desai, Ashwin (2006) Explaining uneven and combined development in South Africa. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-29.
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    Chitonge, Horman (2006) The Role of Civil Society in New Approaches to Development. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-20.
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    De Angelis, Massimo (2006) Enclosures, Commons and the “Outside.”.  Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-14.
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    Devey, Richard & Skinner, Caroline & Valodia, Imraan (2006) Second Best? Trends and Linkages in the Informal Economy in South Africa. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-21.
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    Duchrow, Ulrich (2006) Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-13.
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    Freund, Bill  (2006) South Africa: A Developmental State?. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-7.
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    Frye, Isobel  (2006) The “Second Economy”; Short hand, underhand or sleight of hand?.  Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-19.
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    Guy, Jeff (2006) 'no eyes, no interest, no frame of reference': Rosa Luxemburg, southern African historiography, and pre-capitalist of modes of production.. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-15.
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    Hart, Gillian (2006) Denaturalising Dispossession: Critical Ethnography in the Age of Resurgent Imperialism. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy: 1-29.
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    Hopfmann, Arndt (2006) The Accumulation of Capital« by Rosa Luxemburg in Historical Perspective. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-7.
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    Hunter, Nina  (2006) Crises in Social Reproduction in a Developmental State: Home-Based care in KwaZulu-Natal. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-18.
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    Kamidza, Richard  (2006) Governance and the Economic Partnership Agreements Negotiations : a contestation of the European Union’s interests and exclusion of the poor constituencies in Eastern and Southern Africa. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-27.
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    Legassick, Martin  (2006) South African political economy. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-54.
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    Legum, Margaret  (2006) Capitalism In South Africa’s Political Economy. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-3.
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    Mapadimeng, Simon (2006) On Ubuntu Culture and Economic Development in South Africa: A Critical Review of Debates.. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-51.
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    Masondo, David  (2006) Revisiting the Relationship Between Capitalism and Racist Forms of Political Domination and Post-1994 South African Policy Alternatives. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-19.
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    Meth, Charles (2006) What was the poverty headcount in 2004? A critique of the latest offering from van der Berg et al. Centre for Civil Society  : 1-50.
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    Moore, David (2004) The Second Age of the Third World: from primitive accumulation to global public goods?. Third World Quarterly  Vol 25, No 1, pp 87–109: 1-23.
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    Mwilima, Ntwala (2006) The role of the Labour movement under present conditions of globalization. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-6.
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    Padayachee, Vishnu (2006) Progressive Academic Economists and the Challenge of Development in South Africa’s Decade of Liberation.. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature:: 1-23.
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    Palmi, Renato (2006) Stitching For Survival: H ome-Based Clothing O perations in the Informal Economy. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-19.
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    Perelman, Michael (2006) Articulation from Feudalism to Neoliberalism. Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-18.
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    Pillay, Devan  (2006) Zuma, the Scorpions and the Developmental State . Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: -.
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    Skinner, Caroline & Valodia, Imraan (2006) Two Economies? A Critique of the Second Economy Notion in Recent South African Policy Discussions . Centre for Civil Society Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-10.
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    Vally Salim & Spreen, Carol Anne  (2006) Education Reforms and Education Rights: How policies continue to create inequality in South Africa
    Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy: 1-27.
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    Whitehouse, David (2006) Chinese workers and peasants in three phases of accumulation. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-7.
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    Zandamela, Horacio  (2006) Labour Market Discrimination and Its Impact on Credit Absorption Capacity in Mozambique Rural Settings: A Conceptual Note. Centre for Civil Society  Colloquium on the Economy, Society and Nature: 1-36.
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     Relevant Publications
     The Accumulation of Capital. Chapter 27: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST NATURAL ECONOMY: Rosa Luxemburg 
     Capitalism & cheap labour power in South Africa: Harold Wolpe 
     Labour Market Discrimination and its Aftermath in Southern Africa Guy Mhone 



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