The Durban rapper Ewok captured the spirit of progressive social forces in South Africa with his condemnation of elite politics at a March 2013 protest outside the Durban International Convention Centre:
“You dropping BRICS from above? We’re throwing bricks from below!”
- Patrick Bond
- CounterPunch
For the second time, the leaders of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-SA (BRICS) summit in South Africa, this time at Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre from July 25-27.
The bloc has great potential to change the world in positive ways.
But under increasingly…