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).
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
