In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s the same tactic for the NHS in the UK, the one remaining publicly-owned service the Tories can’t get away with selling off, so they’re letting it slowly die.

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      11 months ago

      so they’re letting it slowly die.

      It’s the exact same thing here in South Africa with the electricity grid - popular resistance is too strong for the ANC-regime to just sell it off to billionaire parasites, so they are just “sabotaging it in place.”