Covid-19 has once again demonstrated the significance of safe, accessible and affordable water for all. It has also highlighted enormous disparities in service provision while at the same time dealing a blow to public water and sanitation operators around the world due to massive drops in revenues, rapidly rising costs and concerns about health and safety in the workplace. This book provides the first global overview of the response of public water operators to this crisis, shining a light on the complex challenges they face and how they have responded in different contexts. It looks specifically at ‘public’ water and asks how public ownership and public management have enabled (or not) equitable and democratic emergency services, and how these Covid-19 experiences could contribute to expanded and sustainable forms of public water services in the future.
La pandemia de covid-19 ha demostrado una vez más la importancia del agua segura, accesible y asequible para la población. También ha puesto de manifiesto las enormes disparidades en la prestación de servicios y, al mismo tiempo, ha asestado un duro golpe a las empresas públicas de agua y saneamiento de todo el mundo, debido a la enorme caída de los ingresos, el rápido aumento de los costes y la necesidad de priorizar la salud y la seguridad en el trabajo.
Support for public services and limits on private profit is at an all-time high in the wake of the pandemic. How do we ensure this prioritisation of public needs and goods becomes permanent? What are the best models of democratic and participatory public services? Join a webinar with trade unionists and activists in Italy, Nigeria and India advancing bold new visions for a public future.
En tant que maire de Barcelone, je suis convaincue que la réponse à la crise du Covid-19 n'est pas davantage d'austérité. Nous avons besoin d'investissement public dans des services publics de qualité comme la santé et l'éducation pour reconstruire l'engagement et la capacité du secteur public et la résilience locale. En même temps, nous devons protéger les biens essentiels de la spéculation. Avec ses études de cas et ses contributions d'experts, 'L'avenir est public' est une lecture plus que recommandée pour les élu.e.s, les travailleur.se.s et les militant.e.s.
حركة المقاومة ضد الخصخصة تحولت إلى أداة قوية للتغيير: إعادة تفويض الخدمات العامة لسلطة البلديات. يقصد بمصطلح إعادة تفويض الخدمات العامة لسلطة البلديات، باسترداد الملكية العامة للخدمات وإنشاء خدمات عامة جديدة. خلال السنوات القليلة الماضية، قام معهد ترانزناشيونال ومنظمات شريكة أخرى بتحديد أكثر من 1,400 قضية ناجحة لإعادة تفويض الخدمات العامة لسلطة البلديات، شملت أكثر من 2,400 مدينة قائمة في 58 دولة حول العالم.
Resistance to privatisation has turned into a powerful force for change. (Re)municipalisation refers to the reclaiming of public ownership of services as well as the creation of new public services. In recent years, our research has identified more than 1,400 successful (re)municipalisation cases involving more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries around the world.
Overal ter wereld heeft het verzet tegen privatisering zich ontwikkeld tot een sterke kracht voor verandering: (re)municipalisering. (Re)municipalisering houdt in dat diensten weer in publieke handen komen en dat nieuwe diensten in publiek beheer ontwikkeld worden. De afgelopen jaren hebben het Transnational Institute en partnerorganisaties ruim 1.400 voorbeelden van succesvolle (re)municipalisering geïdentificeerd, waarbij meer dan 2.400 steden in 58 landen over de hele wereld betrokken waren.
Edição brasileira publicada pelo Comitê Nacional em Defesa das Empresas Públicas e pela FENAE - Federação Nacional das Associações do Pessoal da Caixa Econômica Federal,mediante autorização do Transnational Institute. (Brazilian edition published by the National Committee for the Defense of Public Enterprises and by FENAE - National Federation of Personnel Associations of Caixa Econômica Federal, with authorization from the Transnational Institute.)
Özelleştirmeye karşı direniş, değiştirme kudreti olan bir güce dönüştü: (yeniden) belediyeleştirme. (Yeniden) belediyeleştirme terimi, hizmetlerin yeniden kamu mülkiyetine alınması ve yeni kamu hizmetlerinin yaratılması anlamına geliyor. Son yıllarda, Ulusötesi Enstitü (Transnational Institute) ve ortak kuruluşlar, dünya çapında 58 ülkede 2.400’den fazla şehri kapsayan 1.400’den fazla başarılı (yeniden) belediyeleştirme örneği tespit etti.
An outcry from city governments has helped shelve the European Commission’s power grab over services. The Commission has failed to install a Services Notification Procedure, which would have given it advance veto power over new laws by regional and local governments, and could have further limited local democratic initiatives in areas as varied as affordable housing, energy supply and waste management. The Commission should learn its lesson and support municipalities to enact social and environmental measures, respect their democratic right to regulate, and roll back obstacles that prioritise corporate interests over local residents.
Uruguay and Costa Rica are world leaders in clean, public, democratically accountable energy. Their success owes much to state-owned companies with the power to drive systemic change.
The debate on alternatives to privatised ownership models for public services is back on the academic and political agenda. What's driving remuncipalisation and why is it a better alternative than private provision?
En el webinario contaremos con análisis feministas de la crisis y la forma en que la pandemia se vincula con el patriarcado, el poder de las corporaciones y la división internacional del trabajo, que es sexista y racista.
More than two thirds of the homes in Hungary are insufficiently insulated. As a result millions of people are living in energy poverty. Straw bale insulation and construction offer a simple, inexpensive, environmentally sustainable and socially just housing solution.
How can clean and renewable energy remain in people's hands? Listen to energy experts and activists from all over Europe discussing energy efficiency, cooperatives, mobility, remunicipalisation and much more.
Join a conversation with an inspiring global panel of feminist thinkers and activists to reflect and discuss how we can collectively reorganise, shift power and pivot towards building transformative feminist realities that can get us out of the worsening health, climate and capitalist crises.
Catalan Network for Energy Sovereignty (Xse), Transnational Institute (TNI)
29 October 2020
Paper
This is the Municipalist Manifesto for building energy democracy and energy sovereignty locally, presented to you by the Catalan Network for Energy Sovereignty (Xse) and the Transnational Institute. The Municipalist Manifesto aims to be a tool that can be used as a guide by (municipalist) citizens platform, municipal councils and opposition parties, organisations and collectives, and any person who wishes to take action.
Discussions of the threat to liberal democracy have neglected perhaps the most surprising source that is one of the major arcs of history of the last three decades: globalization. It promised the promotion of liberal democracy encapsulated in neoliberal economics whose components include free movement of capital and finance, free trade, free movement of people, and the free transfer of ideas through social media. While globalization has achieved many of these four freedoms, it has also fostered its precise opposite: a borderless world that has stripped the principal source of political democracy – the nation state -- of much of its political and economic legitimacy for the liberal democracy that created globalization. Governments became weakened by the very fraying of its borders wrought by a globalization they promoted.
