privatization
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New on Strategic Culture Foundation 16-22 October, 2010
22 October, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation Budget Austerity in the West: New Food for the Privatization Parasite? 22.10.2010 | 10:04 | KERANS David (USA) To borrow a formulation from Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the world: the specter of the privatization of public assets. At an accelerating rate, the infrastructure that makes civilization Continue reading
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More back-door privatization of the National Health Service proposed
NHS Direct, perhaps the only effective addition to the Health Service the Labour government contributed, is to be axed under new proposals being put forward by the Tory/Lib-Dem government in spite of all the pre-election promises to ‘ring-fence’ the NHS. Continue reading
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Starving Healthcare A Forum on Health, Poverty and Privatization
Starving Healthcare A Forum on Health, Poverty and Privatization Continue reading
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South Africa: Momentum against climate-destroying World Bank loan grows By Patrick Bond
In an indication that the climate justice movement is broadening, deepening and going local, there is now intense opposition to a climate-destroying energy loan for South Africa. The campaign is led by community activists in black townships allied with environmentalists, trade unionists and international climate activists. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Fighting against water privatisation in South Africa
12 October, 2009 — LeftClick Water is Ours (Amanzi Ngawethu) 10 mins (Medium 20MB) Authorship: Coalition Against Water Privatisation, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Anti-Privatisation Forum, Friction Films, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.885984 more about “LeftClick: VIDEO Fighting against wat…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Colombian Trade Unions: A Target for Intimidation and Assassination
For most of its modern existence, Colombia has struggled with internal violence, most recently in the form of human rights abuses and brutality against organized trade union groups carried out by paramilitary and insurgent armies. This group in particular has been subjected to a disproportionate amount of violence. In the past twenty years, over 2,000… Continue reading
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Water in Latin America: The Importance of Gender Relations
As caretakers and homemakers, women are usually responsible for finding water according to its accessibility, availability, quality, and use. Despite their prominent role in the use and management of water, women are generally not consulted on matters of water infrastructure or policy, even though United Nations researchers suggest that the perspectives of women need to… Continue reading
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Rostam Pourzal, "Iran's Business Elite, Too, Is a "Dissident""
The opposition insists that Ahmadinejad unfairly buys voter loyalty with consumer subsidies, low interest loans, and similar ‘handouts.’ The president has especially enraged the managerial class with his wildly popular monthly rallies in the provinces, where he orders funding on the spot for the infrastructure needs of common folks. A special flashpoint is the pace… Continue reading
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Water for Sale: Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
The People’s Water Forum, a global water justice movement which has referred to the World Water Forum as ‘false’ and ‘corporate driven,’ also gathered in Istanbul to protest the Fifth World Water Forum. In the People’s Water Forum Declaration, they sharply criticize the World Water Forum, stating that it is motivated by private interests and… Continue reading
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Shawn Hattingh, South Africa and the "The Disease of Privatization"
The South African Department of Health was not willing to go any further and discuss the underlying reasons why, fifteen years after apartheid, people still don’t have toilets or clean drinking water. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 