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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhat Cameron and the Greensill app tells us about NHS digital privatisationGreensill’s app may appear an obscure product for Cameron to stake his reputation on. But it is emblematic of the...
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Published in: ourEconomyHow Paris's public water supply is beating CovidCompared to the waste and short-termism of privatised services, Eau de Paris is taking a holistic approach to serve...
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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...
