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The day Greece’s TVs went dark
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Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content.Putting Water Back into Public Hands
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Venezuela and Latin America after Chávez
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The future of Public Enterprises in Latin America and t...
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Articles
Activities 2012 Public Services & Democracy
Public Services and Democracy in 2012
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE): An exceptional public enterprise in an atypical social democracy
Despite immense pressure by corporations that have sought to undermine it, Costa Rica's public energy and telecommunications company stands out as a model in terms of its coverage, efficiency, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.
Alter Summit: A People's Manifesto
TNI was one of the participating organisations at the Alter Summit and signatories to the Manifesto: Our urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe.
Publications
Race, space and punishment in urban sociology
Structural circumstances of deprivation and criminalization facing African-Americans and the racialized perceptions of criminality appear to be some of the salient features that recently led to a young black teenager being killed by neighborhood watch patrolman George Zimmerman.
Privatising Europe
This working paper and infographic provide an overview of a great ‘fire sale’ of public services and national assets across Europe that is providing profits for a few transnational companies but is often fiercely opposed by its citizens.
Participatory alternatives to privatisation
Experience worldwide shows that EC-imposed privatisation on crisis countries will not work. The alternative is not reinforcing the status quo, but using citizen power and labour to reinvigorate public services and democratically transform the state.
Events
June 2013
Transforming Activisms 2010+
The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is inviting for a presentation and public debate on the new Development and Change Forum 2013, with its theme ‘Transforming Activisms’. With David Sogge and Kees Biekart from TNI.
May 2013
Rethinking labour in an age of networks and movements
Networked Labour seminar is supported by Networked Politics, Transform! Europe, Transnational Institute and IGOPNet. The overall focus will be on the impact of the internet and informatics on labour, value creation, and production processes and emerging radical communities as new or renewed political agency.
News
Renowned political activist Susan George to deliver the 2013 Ted Wheelwright Lecture
28 August 2013
One of the world's leading political thinkers and human rights activists, Susan George, will speak out against the growing influence of "illegitimate corporate power" in a keynote address at the University of Sydney this Thursday 29 August.
G20 Summit and Counter Summit in Saint-Petersburg
27 August 2013
On the 3-4th of September in St. Petersburg a counter-summit, a large-scale international event that aims to be an alternative to the September G20 Summit and to develop new principles of economic and social policy that are not based on the "Washington Consensus" will be held.
The Road to the Alter Summit
5 June 2013
Susan George speaking in short documentary film about the Alter Summit
