[Mgj-discuss] Reminder - This Wednesday, 7 pm: Book Launch w/Patrick Bond

[Neil Watkins]

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Center for Economic Justice and Luna Books presents


AGAINST GLOBAL APARTHEID:
A BOOK LAUNCH WITH PATRICK BOND

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2002
7-9 p.m.
LUNA BOOKS
1633 P Street, N.W., 3rd floor

Join us as Patrick Bond discusses and signs copies of his two latest books:

  ** Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and 
International Finance (U. of Cape Town, 2001)

South Africans hold positions of great influence in the world of 
international finance. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, for example, 
recently chaired the World Bank and IMF Board of Governors. In his book, 
Bond questions whether these leading South Africans are aspiring to break 
the chains of global apartheid, or merely to shine them. Patrick’s honest 
and detailed analysis explores the implications of corporate 
globalization’s ‘race to the bottom’ and the varied reactions from the 
people of South Africa.

  ** Zimbabwe’s Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the 
Struggle for Social Justice (Africa World Press, 2002), with Masimba Manyana

Zimbabwe's government is tired and discredited. What will come next? Can 
the society shift from domination by an exhausted nationalist clique, 
ruling by terror and intimidation, to a "neo-liberal" free-market economy, 
as advocated by international financiers and the big-business wing of the 
opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)? Taking the plunge in 
either direction will depend upon whether voters can cast ballots in a 
free-and-fair March 2002 presidential election. No matter who wins, this 
book argues that Zimbabwe must explicitly confront the myriad of 
political-economic contradictions that bedevil both nationalists and 
neo-liberals. In the book, an alternative political project is sketched 
out, inspired in part by Frantz Fanon, drawing upon the Zimbabwean people's 
own struggles for social justice and correlating to the rising 
international movements for social justice.

Patrick Bond is a South African economist and activist. He is Associate 
Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public 
and Development Management, and a research associate of the Alternative 
Information and Development Centre in Johannesburg. He is a leader of the 
World Bank Bonds Boycott campaign in South Africa 
(www.worldbankboycott.org). He is also a fellow at the Center for Economic 
Justice, and a member of the South Council of the 50 Years is Enough Network.

For more information: Contact Tanya Margolin or Neil Watkins at 
202-393-6665 or tanya at econjustice.net




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