Inequality
Guthrie Scrimgeour – You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
‘Welcome to the fully privatised city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
privatisation
Environment
Kate Bayliss, Gwyn Bevan – Only public ownership of Britain’s water system will solve its crisis
England and Wales’ polluted water is a monument to the disaster of privatising public resources. Kate Bayliss is a Research Associate at SOAS University of London. She has been working on the political economy of […]
Environment
Emma Belmonte – On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?
We are still living in a time where, whatever the question, the answer of politicians is: privatisation. Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist with a double specialisation covering Europe and Asia. After gaining expertise in […]
Austerity
Emma Dowling – Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Solidarity
With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity. Emma Dowling is a sociologist at the University of […]
Deregulation
Eleni Stamatoukou: Greek ‘Towel Movement’ Seeks to Reclaim Beaches
A growing number of Greeks are taking to the streets to demand the restoration of free public access to the country’s beaches as enshrined in the law. Published in ‘Balkan Insight’. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Gwyn Bevan: Why are our current systems of governance failing?
Neoliberalism is ultimately a systemic governance failure. Gwyn Bevan is Emeritus Professor of Policy Analysis in the Department of Management at LSE and author of ‘How did Britain come to this? A century of systemic […]
Austerity
James K. Galbraith: The Austerity Train Wreck
A skewering of the brutal austerity in Greece which led to the country’s train disaster. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Andreas Sartzekis: Rail disaster in Greece: “Our dead, their profits”
This article on ‘International Viewpoint’ documents the dilapidated and privatised state of Greece’s railways. Read the article HERE.
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Océane Blavot, Rodolfo Bejarano, Mae Buenaventura: Down With Public-Private Partnerships. Up With a Future That Is Public
On the ‘Santiago Declaration for Public Services, an agreement signed by more than 200 organisations after a conference in Santiago de Chile of over 1000 people on the future of public services. Océane Blavot is […]
Finance
Guy Standing: Can Labour de-commodify Higher Education? It has a minor problem
Tony Blair’s son, Euan, is spearheading a new phase in the commodification of Higher Education in the UK. Guy Standing is a labour economist and professorial research associate at SOAS. Cross-posted from the Progressive Economy […]