Talk Left, Walk Right - South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms (Paperback, 2)

Thabo Mbeki President of South Africa has advocated unity with global justice movement activists. "They may act in ways you and I may not like and break windows in the street, but the message they communicate relates." This raises critical questions. Is the South African government genuinely opposed to what Mbeki calls 'global apartheid?' Are the reforms advocated by Pretoria succeeding, even on their own limited terms? This new edition of Talk Left, Walk Right answers both questions in the negative. With incomparable political cartoons, the book considers the dynamics of international political economy and geopolitics. The book reviews a series of contemporary examples where Pretoria is frustrated by unfavorable power relations including: US unilateralism and militarism, the UN's World Conference Against Racism and reparations for apartheid profits, soured trade deals, stingy debt relief and counterproductive international financial flows, unsuccessful reform of multilateral insti