
Tag: privatisation


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.

Lockdown Is Revealing the Need for Land Reform in the UK
by Yali Banton-Heath

Asylum Seeker Evictions Will Cause ‘Crisis on the Streets of Glasgow’, Charities Warn
by Charlotte England and an anonymous case worker
A housing provider has announced it will resume a controversial policy to evict hundreds of asylum seekers in Glasgow, in a move charities say will leave scores of vulnerable people street homeless. Serco, which until recently held the government contract to house asylum seekers in the Scottish city, first announced plans to evict people denied […]

‘Like an A&E run by Virgin Active’: Physiotherapy Firm Awarded £86m NHS Mental Health Contract
by Sophie Hemery

The 21st Century Needs Public Ownership
by Cat Hobbs

NovaraFM: When We Own It: The Politics of Public Ownership

Privatisation Is Creating Unfair Access to Immigration Services
by Rachel Connolly

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate
by Rudy Schulkind
