Tag: privatisation
Analysis: Capitalists Have Found a Lucrative Fix to England’s Allotment Shortage
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Opinion: Finnish Trains Are What the UK Could Have If It Gave a Shit
by Rivkah Brown
Feature: Private Companies Are Stealing Public Parks
by Rivkah Brown
Opinion: Privatisation is Killing Glasgow – And No One’s Coming to Help
by Jonathon Shafi
Feature: Charities Are Taking Over NHS Drug Clinics and Patients Are Terrified
by Daisy Schofield
Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right
by Charlotte England
Analysis: The IMF is About to Enforce Worldwide Austerity
by Matteo Tiratelli
Opinion: NHS Workers Are Striking to Save Lives
by Dr Rita Issa & Alia Butt
Explainers: How Private Water Companies Are Killing Britain’s Rivers
Last year in Britain raw sewage was pumped into rivers and coasts 375,000 times. Not a SINGLE river in England has a clean bill of health. Aaron Bastani explains how private water companies are killing the country’s waterways – and why water bosses should face jail time.
Feature: Why Are Italian Beaches So Damn Expensive?
by Jack Harmsworth
Explainers: Why Postal Workers Are Going on Strike
While company management are paid in the millions, and receive bonuses for failure, postal workers at Royal Mail are being treated like mud. Today they are going on strike. Aaron Bastani explains the reasons behind the strike – and how bosses at the top are out of control.
Analysis: Why Do We Still Fetishise Homeownership?
by Aidan Beatty
The Bastani Factor: Britain Is Now Fyre Festival
During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]
Analysis: Money Alone Won’t Fix the Care Crisis – We Need a Radical Rethink
by Emma Dowling
Report: Big Business Is Muscling in on the UK’s Nursery Racket
by Sophie K Rosa
Opinion: Nationalisation of Airlines Could Lead to Political-economic Transformation – If the Left Can Get Organised
by Grace Blakeley
In response to Covid-19, an increasing number of airlines are being nationalised with a view to re-privatising them as soon as the pandemic is over. But if the left can get organised and put pressure on these companies, argues Grace Blakeley, the recovery from coronavirus could also be a time of working class empowerment.