Over the past decade, the private sector has been utilised to step up attacks on the welfare state and to profit from providing services. The Welfare Reform Act is one such example of Labour’s neoliberal tendencies argues Robert Stevens.

What more can the government shut down, asks George Monbiot. Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.

Shareholders and accountancy firms are the biggest beneficiaries of the privatisation of public transport in Britain. Unjum Mirza, RMT rail union member and Left List candidate in the GLA elections, proposes a different vision of a publicly run, environmentally friendly and efficient system.

A reinvigoration of the idea of the public realm is vital to mitigating climate change, says Andrew Dobson.

With little public support for private healthcare, the proponents of marketisation are finding new ways to undermine the NHS. Stewart Player and Colin Leys investigate

The EU’s mania for privatisation is standing in the way of a solution to the growing crisis of water supply in Europe and beyond, says Steve McGiffen

Extended opening hours will transfer resources away from those in most need, and allow private companies to fill the gaps, writes George Monbiot.

Why should inefficient private companies continue to rake in profits on public utilities? The government needs to act, says the Morning Star

The huge price increases for gas and electricity announced by Npower, which will be mimicked or even exceeded by the rest of the energy privateers, are a further argument for taking these utilities back into public ownership, argues the Morning Star.

Jim and Margaret Cuthbert examine why PFI is bad for everyone, especially tax payers – with a disastrous impact on the delivery of vital public services.

SchNEWS examines the effects of privatisation on Britain’s water services.

It beggars belief that US health privateers straight out of Michael Moore’s Sicko are being lined up to run core NHS services, writes Seumas Milne.

Loukas Christodoulou looks at what has been done in Kosovo since the Nato invasion to ‘promote economic prosperity’, and questions whether mass privatisation and economic deregulation have really been for the good of the local population.