@pasttense @workingclasshistory

Janine Booth former member of the RMT national executive; author of Plundering London Underground: Private Capital and Public Transport 1997-2010 (2013) and Railworkers 200: Two Centuries of Rail Workers and their Struggles (2025).

There is an urgent need for RMT’s rank and file to assert themselves.

https://notesfrombelow.org/article/lessons-for-unison-3

#FromBelow #Labourmovement #privatisation #publictransport #railworkers #RMT #transportworkers #Unions #workingclasshistory

« les étudiants internationaux paient plus de 850 000 dollars australiens pour un diplôme [...] soit 722 500 euros »

[rappel] : avec la privatisation rampante des université en France (voir ce charognard de Blanquer par exemple https://mamot.fr/@matiu_bidule/116019144416961106 ) c'est aussi l'avenir qui attends les universités françaises.

#Université
#EnseignementSupérieur
#ESR
#Privatisation

Final bids are in sight as the government moves closer to exiting IDBI Bank in FY26. Why this deal could reshape India’s privatisation roadmap. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/money/idbi-bank-privatisation-fy26-exit-target-m08bucnd?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #IDBIBank #Privatisation #BankingSector #GovernmentDisinvestment

Après avoir été le pire et le plus détesté Ministre de l’Éducation que la France ait jamais connue revoilà JM Blanquer toujours aussi ignoble, qui abuse de façon éhontée de son statut douteux au sein d'une université, pour y faire entrer un bachelor privé dispensé par une boite de merde qu'il a lui-même créé.

Un peu comme si ton médecin te faisait acheter le médoc' vendu par un fabriquant dont il est actionnaire majoritaire.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/050226/avec-son-institut-jean-michel-blanquer-fait-de-l-entrisme-l-universite-publique

#Université
#ESR
#Privatisation

Nouvel épisode d'#ArgentMagique sur un sujet compliqué (le #marché de l'#électricité, mais clairement expliqué par #StupidEconomics et #Heu7reka.

"Vous trouvez le marché de l'électricité trop compliqué ? C’est normal, c’est foutu n’importe comment !
Comment le marché de l'électricité fonctionne ? Pourquoi sa #privatisation n’a pas fait baisser les prix ni encouragé l’#innovation ? Et surtout : comment faire pour RÉELLEMENT baisser nos factures d'électricité ? Les réponses dans ce nouvel Argent Magique !"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcrPLGap0Zc

@keepournhspublic.bsky.social co-chairman @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy said as the #NHS faces fragmentation, #privatisation and growing regional inequality, this should not be preferentially for trusts in better-off areas morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...

NHS privatisation behind caree...

#Water #Privatisation
https://mastodon.scot/@Eceni/116000579541283413

@RAHU

Aged in Public Housing “economic cleansing” - relocation for gentrification?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-29/seven-melbourne-high-rise-public-housing-towers-redevelopment/106283344

Youth homeless until they become Aged houseless ?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-29/act-youth-homelessness-significant-need-for-funding/106282250

Think Small but NIMBYs?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-29/tiny-homes-community-given-green-light/106280720

#Capitalism #HousingCrisis #Landlords #Privatisation #PublicHousing #Rent

“Royal Mail delivered Christmas letters and parcels late to about 16m people.” But it made £12 million profit so that’s a #Privatisation win!

Royal Mail delivered Christmas letters and parcels late to about 16m people https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/28/royal-mail-christmas-letters-parcels-late-citizens-advice #RoyalMail #Business #UkNews #CouriersdeliveryIndustry #Privatisation #Politics #DanielKetnsk #Ofcom #Regulators

Outsourced call centre staff at NDIS have to pretend to work for government, workers say https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/25/ndis-outsourced-call-centre-pretend-government-workers #AustraliaNews #NationalDisabilityInsuranceScheme #Disability #Privatisation #Serco

“Reform MP Backs Privatising the NHS to Make It More 'Efficient'”

by Adam Bienkov in Folded With Adam Bienkov on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty
@UKLabour

“Andrew Rosindell, who defected last week from the Conservatives, says he ‘would not object’ to replacing free healthcare with a private insurance system”

https://open.substack.com/pub/adambienkov/p/reform-mp-backs-privatising-the-nhs

#Press #UK #NHS #HealthService #ReformUKLtd #Farage #Privatisation #PrivateInsurance

#NHS #Privatisation
https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/115951296834090621

Q: Do YOU agree, the UK’s water companies have become a national disgrace?

#Privatisation #WaterCompanies #Defra #WaterWhitePaper #Ofwat #EnvironmentAgency

Privatisation not the problem for England’s water, says author of review https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/privatisation-not-the-problem-for-englands-water-says-author-of-review #Water #WaterIndustry #Utilities #Privatisation #England #UkNews #Environment #Politics #Business

Privatisation not the problem for England’s water, says author of review https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/privatisation-not-the-problem-for-englands-water-says-author-of-review #Water #WaterIndustry #Utilities #Privatisation #England #UkNews #Environment #Politics #Business

🚨Le dernier épisode du #GrainDeSon est disponible sur #PeerTube et #Spectre 🔴

🎙️On démarre un nouveau cycle sur le système carcéral, avec Anaïs, ancien médecin en milieu carcéral et Étienne, membre fondateur de l'association Albin.

▶️ ep1 : Les conditions de détention
➡️ https://peertube.stream/w/qqSpv5rpf5yT913Rzptosi

dispo en #podcast sur #SpectrePodcasts

🎧 https://spectremedia.org/le-grain-de-son/

et depuis notre site:

▶️ https://attac63.site.attac.org/podcasts/le-grain-de-son/article/prisons-liberons-nous-des-idees-recues

#Prisons #SystèmeCarcéral #Privatisation

^^ @Solidaires63

#180 - Prisons : libérons nous des idées reçues -- 1/4

https://peertube.stream/w/qqSpv5rpf5yT913Rzptosi

New City & Guilds owners tripled bosses’ pay amid £22m cost-cutting drive https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/20/new-city-guilds-owners-tripled-bosses-pay-amid-22m-cost-cutting-drive #Business #VocationalEducation #London #UkNews #Charities #Society #Apprenticeships #Education #Privatisation

“Starmer urged to sack ‘disloyal’ Streeting”

by Willem Moore in The Canary

@thecanaryuk
@uk_politics

“Make no mistake; Streeting is offering continuity dead-end centrism at a moment when the public is united in their loathing of wishy washy half measures that benefit no one besides private corporations”

https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/01/17/streeting-starmer-urged-to-sack/

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #Streeting #NHS #Privatisation #Bungs #Armitage #HedgeFund #PrivateHealthcareLobbyist