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We all lose as water companies line the pockets of shareholders
Labour’s plan to nationalise utilities is the only way forward and best evidenced by private water companies which bleed us dry
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
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In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
The right to buy may have been scrapped in Scotland, but the damage it has done lives on even now, writes MATT KERR
Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism
It was recently revealed that the privatised water industry has shelled out over £13bn in dividends since 2010.
For those of us who opposed Thatcher and the Tories’ privatisation drive, including water, initiated in 1989, and the love affair of all governments with privatisation and linked policies such as PFI and outsourcing ever since, the findings may not have come as a surprise, but the findings of Labour’s recent analysis are still shocking.
Access to water is a human right, it is essential to our day-to-day lives, yet the current “market” is clearly failing.
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