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Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond is a political economist and global justice activist. From October 2004, he directs the Centre on Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu–Natal in Durban, South Africa. Among his books are Unsustainable South Africa (Merlin Press, 2002), (with Simba Manyanya) Zimbabwe's Plunge (Merlin Press, 2003), Against Global Apartheid (Zed Books, 2003 ), and Talk Left, Walk Right (Pluto Press, 2004).

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Top down or bottom up? A reply to David Held

David Held’s critique of globalisation lacks the toughness and radicalism required to generate the understanding and politics that the world’s people need, says South Africa–based scholar and global justice campaigner Patrick Bond.