Privatisation

Privatisation

The land of national health care

March 2010
Mike Marqusee

Britain’s National Health Service is much more effective than the US’ privately-run system. But Britons may not be spared the US’ healthcare nightmare for much longer.

Beyond the casino state

March 2010
Hilary Wainwright

Still in thrall to neoliberal nostrums, British politicians compete to dismantle the state as a provider of services, leaving its function as primarily a prop to private capital.

Venezuela's CANTV: What should a 21st century "socialist” telecommunications company look like?

March 2010
Daniel Chavez

Venezuela's revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?

The new opiate of the masses

February 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

If the new law recently passed by the State Duma goes into force, it will deliver a big blow to the Russian culture, education and public health.

Call to the Peoples' Alternative Summit, Enlazando Alternativas 4

February 2010

Call to all the social networks and organisations, trades unions, political forces and civil society movements to join the Peoples' Alternative Summit in defense of peoples' sovereignty, human rights, participatory democracy, labour rights, the rights of women and indigenous peoples, social justice, the defense of the environment in the face of climate change, and the establishment of peace.

Haiti's Classquake

January 2010
Jeb Sprague

The 'classquake' in Haiti today is compounded by decades of capitalist globalization and U.S. intervention.

The struggle of electricians in Mexico goes on (Part 2, final)

January 2010
Manuel Perez Rocha

Behind the shutdown of the Mexico's Central Power and Lighting Company is Calderón's obligation to fulfill his commitments with foreign corporations.

The AvtoVAZ fairy tale

October 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

For those who believe that privatisation automatically increases efficiency, just take a look at today’s AvtoVAZ, once considered a flagship of Soviet industry.

"Two boots are a pair"

October 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

The corruption of the Russian state entirely corresponds to the choice of domestic bourgeoisie, as reflected in a TV debate.

The Ghost of Nationalization

August 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

The government isn't prepared to face the contradictions of a policy that takes over and nationalises enterprises from inefficient and corrupt owners at taxpayers' expense, yet then seeks to restore the same companies to the same corrupt private hands.