Category: Public Goods
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Hands Off Our Healthcare, Hydro, Transit and Housing
Toronto — 21 February 2016. Privatization is everywhere in the city, our province, and across the country, whether is is selling off public resources and services; financing and managing public … Watch video »
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The Ontario Liberals and Long-Term Care: The Struggle Against Privatization
Governments across Canada have been caught in a fiscal bind over the entire period of neoliberalism. On the one hand, they have pursued austerity and restraint almost without interruption since … Keep reading »
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NUMSA and Allies Call for Dismantling the ‘Mineral Energy Complex’ in South Africa
Electricity Crisis Conference Declaration We, as representatives of trade unions that organize in the energy sector and delegates from communities that are struggling around outages, loadshedding, high electricity prices and poor … Keep reading »
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Rally to STOP Devastating Hospital Cuts
Hospitals in crisis, hydro privatization, mounting student debt and rising inequality! Stop devastating cuts to public services and social programs that are hurting our community — the rallying cry outside the Ontario Pre-Budget consultation at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Monday, February 1, 2016. Watch video »
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Against Privatization: Health Coalition Demands Funding for Hospitals
The 1960s were about much more than protesting the war in Vietnam. It was also a time of cultural upheaval as a new generation challenged capitalist values, including its shallow … Keep reading »
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Public Transit Struggles in London and Toronto
Toronto — 9 August 2015. A forum to discuss the struggles over public transit in London, England and in Toronto, over P3s, privatization, funding public transit, and posing alternatives, such … Watch video »
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Public Healthcare Against Privatization
Lessons From the British Struggle Over the NHS John Lister interviewed by Robin Chang NHS For Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception by Tamasin Cave, Jacky Davis, Paul Evans, John Lister, Martin McKee, … Keep reading »
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A Win for Pittsburgh Public Transit
Since port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC) cut 15 per cent of its service, residents of Baldwin, Mooncrest and Groveton – working-class suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – had to walk … Keep reading »
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Wynne Gives Big Retail the Gift of Beer
The heads of big retail might be walking with a spring in their step this week due to a potentially generous gift from Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. After months of … Keep reading »
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TRANSITogether: Building A Movement
Toronto — 1 March 2015. The election of John Tory creates new openings and challenges for the public transit movement in Toronto, as does the large vote for Ford in … Watch video »
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Rapid Transit Rip-Off
How Kathleen Wynne became a transit privateer, and what we need to do to get back on track Campaigning for re-election in April 2014, Liberal leader and Premier of Ontario … Keep reading »
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Beyond the Gridlock
Toronto — 9 October 2014. Public Transit Struggles from across Europe and North America Struggles to expand public transport and to block privatization are central to overturning neoliberalism and addressing climate … Watch video »