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By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Greed for profit, not goals of efficiency. Groups under the banner of the Stop Privatization Alliance and the Confederation for the Unity, Recognition, and Advancement of Government Employees (COURAGE) held a protest...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“We directly pin the blame on Aquino’s relentless drive to retool all services under the Public Private Partnership, which is really just privatization.” – Gabriela
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño urges his fellow lawmakers to withdraw support from privatization of public hospitals.
By DEEPA PANCHANG and BEVERLY BELL Commondreams.org "I am optimistic that in 18 months, yes, we will be autonomous in our decisions. But right now I have to assume... that we are not." With these words, Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive watched a swath of...
After postponing the planned increases in LRT and MRT fares because of the widespread protest over this, the Aquino government is now hell-bent on pushing through with it. Why? Because of pressure from private investors. By Flon Faurillo...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The world economic crisis has not yet abated and there is still no recovery in sight even after three years. The governments of the advanced capitalist countries had already spent trillions of dollars in bail out programs, and these...
Two employees unions of the University of the Philippines in a joint statement expressed their opposition to the latest plan to accelerate the privatization of government services which, they said, makes government employees the sacrificial lambs in the...
By IBON FEATURES
Experiences show PPPs did not guarantee savings for the government but even bloated the public debt. It can only get worse under the Aquino government's new schemes for more of PPPs.
The P25-fare hike for railway MRT is a telling sign of more hard life for women, according to the Center for Women’s Resources (CWR), a research and training institute. “The proposed fare hike is not only unjust, it is insensitive to the conditions of the people...
By ARNOLD PADILLA
Aquino’s promotion of PPPs and privatization in his SONA has further reinforced the view that his administration is incapable of introducing new policies that will reverse the old pro-business, pro-market neoliberal policies of the past administrations, including the Arroyo administration.
By MARYA SALAMAT (Bulatlat.com) Manila – After thousands of North Harbor workers and residents protested in Mendiola last Sept. 15, glowing promises of abundant jobs in soon to become privately-run North Harbor came out in ads and news in the papers. But instead of...
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