Privatisation Follow

Workers in Tunisia have been protesting, and in some places striking, against the privatisation of factories that were nationalised during the revolution.

The failure of security firm G4S to find enough staff to cover the Olympics is the latest in its long history of scandals and privatisation.

Are the Tories scheming to use a cash crisis in the NHS as an excuse for a new wave of cuts and privatisation?

The leaking of Michael Gove's plans to return to O-levels in place of GCSEs reignited a row about "falling standards" in British schools. Here Terry Wrigley argues it is not enough for the left to simply dismiss such claims - instead we must argue that the root of the problem lies in the marketisation of education

Around 60,000 tax office workers struck on Monday of this week. As the row over the rich avoiding tax grew, the PCS union members pointed out that they face 10,000 job losses and privatisation.

Some 55,000 civil service workers in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) struck on Monday against job cuts and privatisation.

Around 60 health workers and activists met at London South Bank University on Saturday to organise against NHS cuts and privatisation.

Health workers in the Unite union won support for their strike after massive anger at the Tories’ NHS privatisation bill.

Election results in Greece and France have sent our rulers into a panic. They insist that austerity—savage programmes of cuts, job losses and privatisation—is the only cure for Europe’s ailing economies.

Workers at a major IT firm are bearing the brunt of the chaos that privatisation and outsourcing has brought to the NHS.

As the Tories accelerate the drive for schools to become Academies, Terry Wrigley looks at why local education authorities are being sidelined

Protests hit Virgin stores as part of a day of action against NHS privatisation last Saturday.