The EU's Wholesale Privatisation Drive

[polly7]

The EU's Wholesale Privatisation Drive
By Gawain Little

Source: Morning Star OnlineWednesday, April 25, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-eus-wholesale-privatisation-drive-by-gawain-little

However, when you put them all together, the pattern becomes unmistakable. This government is aiming at nothing less than the complete destruction of state education delivered through locally accountable schools by qualified teachers.

The intention to replace this system with a fully privatised one based on a "free" market in education is made clear in government statements both on pay and on pensions.

Training and education services are specifically not excluded from the service directive.
On an even wider scale the General Agreement on Trade in Services of the World Trade Organisation will prevent any effective protection being given to "state monopolies" in the provision of anything other than such areas as police, the military, prisons, the justice system and government.

In this context the trade union movement can no longer respond to these attacks on a case by case basis.

[LongTomH]

1. Where will the pushback against this begin?

I'm willing to bet that Europeans are not going to take this! They've had a relatively egalitarian society with guarantees for health care, education and retirement. Americans are a few decades away from the (relatively) egalitarian society of the late 40s through the 60s, and they've never had health care for everyone.