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Using South African case studies of water provision,sewerage disposal and industrial electricity consumption,Patrick Bond illustrates the inequities that still pervade urban development approaches, and the hardships experienced by the poor and marginalised. The role of the new social movements is discussed in the context of the seeming inability of government to address the concerns of the poor and its focus on a neo-liberal agenda.
Noting that direct action protest by the new social movements has had some degree of success, he encourages the participation of progressives in the development of protest politics into a politically structured entity.
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