The Miners’ Strike: Renewed Class Struggle in Chiatura, Georgia
Sopiko Japaridze via Transnational Social Strike Platform Over 3,000 workers in the manganese mining town of Chiatura (Georgia) started a wildcat strike 15 days ago in spite of the...
Rio water privatisation: Interview with Renato Cinco
Corporate Europe Observatory A few weeks after the May coup against Dilma Rousseff by conservative parties backed by the country’s largest corporations, Brazil’s “interim” government, led by Michel Temer,...
Time To Halt The Great Public Asset Boot Sale — and Create Social Wealth Funds
by Stewart Lansley, reposted from Social Europe Britain’s public assets are now the subject of a giant boot sale. The great rolling privatisation juggernaut not only includes the £4bn...
How a Candidate’s Mega-Donors Get Served After the Election
by Eric Zuesse An example will be described here of a way in which corrupt Presidential candidates load up their campaigns’ advertising budgets by pushing for policies to increase...
Ukraine privatizations to exclude Ukrainian and Russian capital
Photo © Roman Pilipey/EPA/TASS by Systematic Ukraine is creating privileged conditions for Western countries to participate in the upcoming privatization and has actually excluded both national and Russian capital from...
