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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCities versus multinationals: who will win our post-COVID future?Municipalities and social movements have gained new energy from the crisis. Can they win against corporates set on...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow a programme for public ownership can bridge the political divideThere have been dramatic swings lately in Britain's politics of public services. The future holds opportunities.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow Africa is leading the way to a zero waste futureFrom Egypt to Tanzania, public waste management schemes are offering green alternatives to privatisation.
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Published in: ourEconomyWater should be a public good, not a commodity. Catalonia is showing howThe Terrassa Water Observatory puts citizens in the driver's seat of water management.
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Published in: ourEconomyHow a communist mayor is defeating privatisation in ChileThe municipality of Recoleta has created an open university, public housing projects and popular pharmacies.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPublic ownership in times of coronavirusA new ourEconomy series with TNI putting the spotlight on struggles to bring services into democratic control.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPutting the ‘public’ back into public servicesAmsterdam is one city among many where economic democracy on a municipal level is taking off.
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Published in: ourEconomyIt's time to tax for gender justiceUnfair tax systems hit women and girls the hardest. We need to make corporations pay their share.
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Published in: ourEconomyDude! Where’s my democracy?People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally...
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Published in: ourNHSHow ‘self-pay’ is shrinking the English NHS by stealthOne hospital trust last week announced a 'pause' its controversial MyChoice scheme after an outcry. But Warrington...
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Published in: ourNHSThe latest multi-billion pound move in NHS privatisation – is the endgame in sight?Private healthcare firms have just been offered a substantial say in deciding how billions of pounds of NHS mental...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy Labour's pledge to "renationalise electricity" doesn't go far enoughAnd how a Canadian province might show the way forward to deliver cheap, sustainable, democratic, planned...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to stop the next Carillion - 7 steps to public ownershipJeremy Corbyn is right - this is a ‘watershed moment’ for the ideology of privatisation that has plagued our public...
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Published in: ourNHSWe saved Lewisham hospital - but its future depends on stopping NHS privatisationCameron claims that the NHS is becoming more efficient - and is not being privatised or cut. But doctors know these...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S abuses in South African prison still ignoredInvestigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have...
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Published in: openSecurityHow Israeli high-tech firms are outfitting the US-Mexico borderAmerican academic and corporate knowhow and Mexican low-wage manufacturing are to fuse with Israel’s border and...
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Published in: openSecurityIncarcerating America
The urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming...
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Published in: openSecurityBehind the rise of the private surveillance industry in Central AsiaMultinational companies–including two listed on the NASDAQ–have been quietly providing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThree signs that privatised rail is unsustainableRailway privatisation has failed. It's time to put the public in charge.
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Published in: ourNHS"Should there be competition in the NHS?"
OurNHS openDemocracy Editor Caroline Molloy debates with Andrew Haldenby, head of the Reform think tank, in a...
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