Showing posts with label privatisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privatisation. Show all posts
Friday, 1 May 2020

Water privatisation? Finland says no!

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In early January 2020, the municipality of Jyväskylä, located in the Central Finland Region, announced its intention to part-privatise bet...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Privatising Water as an Effective Route Towards Development?

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In June 2010, the UN declared safe access to ‘clean drinking water and sanitation’ a human right. For many this highlighted the importanc...
Monday, 30 July 2018

Holding on – The public water company Acqua Bene Comune in Naples.

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In the ongoing struggles over public water in Italy, it is the municipality of Naples and its water company Acqua Bene Comune (ABC), whic...
Thursday, 28 June 2018

Privatisation by stealth: ongoing struggles for public water in Italy.

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On 12 and 13 June 2011, the Italian Water Movements Forum secured a clear victory in the referendum against water privatisation. More th...
Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Greece under the Troika: colonialism and resistance in the 21st century - the struggle for public water.

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When in May 2014 98 per cent of Thessaloniki’s citizens voted against the privatisation of their municipal water company EYATH and the Gr...
Monday, 5 October 2015

Working for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe: the EuroMemo Group meeting in Roskilde.

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Further austerity imposed, democracy attacked – the third bailout of Greece in July 2015 has demonstrated the brutal face of neo-liberali...
Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Alternatives to privatising public services!

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‘What we are for is equally important as what we are against’, declared Dexter Whitfield in his presentation ‘Capitalist dynamics reconf...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Resisting Privatisation: Assessing the impact of the ECI 'Water is a Human Right'.

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The first European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) on ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’ was an enormous success. Between May 2012 and S...
Thursday, 10 September 2015

Against the grain: The European Citizens’ Initiative on ‘Water is a Human Right’.

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Between May 2012 and September 2013, close to 1.9 million signatures were collected throughout the European Union (EU) and formally submi...
Monday, 13 April 2015

Challenging Corporate Capital: Creating an Alternative to Neo-Liberalism.

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From 25 to 27 March 2015, the second meeting of the Futures Commission, hosted by the Chris Hani Institute , was held in Cape Town/Sout...
Thursday, 27 November 2014

The People against Capital: Stop-TTIP!

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The conflict over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a struggle between different blocs, argued John Hilary, Ex...
Thursday, 13 November 2014

The Struggle for Public Water in Italy

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On 9 October, I gave the paper ‘Sic Vos Non Vobis’ – ‘For You, But Not Yours’: The struggle for public water in Italy at the Department ...
Monday, 28 July 2014

The struggle against water privatisation: Victory for Greek union and social movements.

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Proposals to privatise the water company in Thessaloniki/Greece were overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum on 18 May 2014 with 98 per c...