And how a Canadian province might show the way forward to deliver cheap, sustainable, democratic, planned electricity supplies.

Jeremy Corbyn is right - this is a ‘watershed moment’ for the ideology of privatisation that has plagued our public services for over 30 years.

Cameron claims that the NHS is becoming more efficient - and is not being privatised or cut. But doctors know these claims are false.

Investigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have stalled. Can anyone wrangle the private security behemoth? 

American academic and corporate knowhow and Mexican low-wage manufacturing are to fuse with Israel’s border and homeland security companies.

The urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming commonplace in other parts of American life.

Multinational companies–including two listed on the NASDAQ–have been quietly providing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with increasingly sophisticated surveillance technology to aid state repression.

Railway privatisation has failed. It's time to put the public in charge.

OurNHS openDemocracy Editor Caroline Molloy debates with Andrew Haldenby, head of the Reform think tank, in a discussion hosted by Ian Collins for the Express newspaper.

Honduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world. 

The overwhelming weight of evidence suggests market-based reforms are bad for healthcare, finds the latest report by the New Economics Foundation.

New charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for members of Pinochet's regime. 

 Is repeated failure actually the key to the success and endless expansion of the US intelligence community?  

The NHS has become the burning issue of the Scottish Independence Referendum. OurNHS takes a close look, and finds in favour of the Yes campaign.

Known to the international community since 1976, why has the world dragged its feet for decades to find a vaccine for Ebola—and where has the money gone for public health research? 

Despite the crumbling facade of its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is  preparing for a new century of 'light footprint' warfare, using Africa as its laboratory. 

Though the US may be finally addressing some of the fictions propping up its security policies, the question remains: who rules Washington? 

No industry, especially one as powerful as the fossil fuel industry, is going to allow governments or international bodies to tax or trade it out of existence.

Environmental management consistently projects an image that the risks of climate change can be managed and the extraction of dirty energy resources should continue. 

Mental health services are amongst the hardest hit by cuts and privatisation. A new Charter suggests how people can build alliances and fight back.