Deregulation
George Monbiot: Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path
We are destroying the planet. There is no doubt about that, just about how long we can ignore this fact. Read here
Deregulation
Deregulation
Michael Roberts: Carillion and the ‘dead end’ of privatisation
We did not want to post any articles concerning Carillion. It was a specifically British event. The collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest leading construction and service companies, has resulted in important analyses […]
Deregulation
Allyson Pollock: Think Carillion is bad? Wait until you see what the government wants to do with the NHS
Allyson Pollock, writing in the New Statesman, feared that the lesson hasn’t been learned. The government has its eye on outsourcing yet more NHS business to two autonomous sorts of companies NHS Property Services and […]
Deregulation
James Moore: Death of an out-sourcer
James Moore in the Independent lamented that PFI is bleeding Britain’s National Health Service dry. Read here
Deregulation
Adam Leaver – Out of time: The fragile temporality of Carillion’s accumulation model
The state as the Ponzi scheme investor of last resort. “Is it for outsourcing firms to help the state with its service delivery problems, or is it for the state to help capital with its […]
Deregulation
Bill Mitchell: Renationalisation – when self-promoted genius becomes plain lame
Privatisation has been one of the greatest wealth re-distributions in history – to the benefit of the wealthy. Now that most Europeans have understood this, the same perpetrators are coming up with people friendly privatisation. […]
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: Globalisation is stuck in a trap. What will it be when it breaks free?
Globalisation has been caught in a steel trap of its own making. Its crisis is due to too much money in the wrong hands. Yanis Varoufakis analyses the world crisis and offers concrete solutions. Read […]
Austerity
Farewell, neoliberalism: An interview with Wolfgang Streeck
“Act local, think global. The only ones that can act globally are the CIA and Goldman Sachs, and only as long as there is no effective local resistance. In the real world, there is no […]
Deregulation
The Guardian: Families with stable jobs at risk of homelessness in Britain, report finds
Nurses are among those ending up with nowhere to live after being evicted by private-sector landlords, says watchdog. This cannot be blamed on Brexit. Read here
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here