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		<title>Italy&#8217;s new privatisation drive is Thatcherite madness</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/11/23/italys-new-privatisation-drive-is-thatcherite-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Giorgio Cremaschi This week Italy&#8217;s government launched its privatisation plan, ostensibly to boost the economy. This is a thoroughly reactionary operation. In 2008, with the start of the Great Depression, the ultra-liberal economic model launched in the early &#8217;80s by Reagan and Thatcher failed. Since then, countries have broadened the scope of their intervention &#8230; <a href="/2013/11/23/italys-new-privatisation-drive-is-thatcherite-madness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7477&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Spain&#8217;s teachers and students are striking</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/10/24/why-spains-education-system-is-on-general-strike-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Javier López* The crisis is having a devastating impact on essential public services such as education. Until 2009 the public expenditure on education was approaching the European average, reaching 5.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Since then central and regional government have been brutally cutting their education budgets, leading to a 30.5 percent drop &#8230; <a href="/2013/10/24/why-spains-education-system-is-on-general-strike-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7374&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy: Tens of thousands of students take to streets to demand investment in education</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/10/11/italy-tens-of-thousands-of-students-take-to-streets-to-demand-investment-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Milan to Palermo, from Venice to Bari, in 70 cities across Italy, tens of thousands of high school students took to the streets Friday to demand investment in education. Local reports said twenty five thousand marched in Naples, 5,000 in Rome, 4,000 in Bari, 5,000 in Milan, 4,500 in Turin, 1,000 in Genoa, and &#8230; <a href="/2013/10/11/italy-tens-of-thousands-of-students-take-to-streets-to-demand-investment-in-education/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=7343&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mad Men of the Roundtable</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/06/26/mad-men-of-the-roundtable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merkel and Hollande have given key positioning to the European Roundtable of Industrialists and their corporate wish-list. They are set to influence a future Competitiveness Pact – a next step towards authoritarian neoliberalism. Corporate Europe Observatory<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6989&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Troika&#8217;s Men in Black and the Crime of Organised Money</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing to force states to finance themselves at high-interest rates is just a strategy to justify wage control, the privatisation of public services and, ultimately, to enslave peoples, says Juan Torres Lopez Spain has once again received a visit from the so-called Men in Black, the Troika inspectors, coming to elucidate if all is going as &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/27/the-troikas-men-in-black-and-the-crime-of-organised-money/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6874&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands rally for publicly run health services in Madrid</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/19/thousands-rally-for-publicly-run-health-services-in-madrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 60,000 health workers and citizens turned out in the streets of Madrid in the fifth mass protest against the privatisation of the capital&#8217;s health services since the start of the year. Unions CCOO and UGT and the radical United Left party formed part of the &#8216;white tide&#8217; rising against the plans of the &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/19/thousands-rally-for-publicly-run-health-services-in-madrid/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6842&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>929,903 reasons to oppose health privatisation</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/13/929903-reasons-to-oppose-health-privatisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 900,000 Madrileños have rejected plans to privatise state hospitals. In a popular consultation 99%  of those who voted ((or 929,903) said No to proposals by the regional Popular Party government to hand over six hospitals and 27 health centres to privateers. The organizers of the petition, which closed Friday, are members of the &#8216;White Tide&#8217; of health workers who &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/13/929903-reasons-to-oppose-health-privatisation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6800&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands protest in Spain against education cuts, reforms</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/09/thousands-protest-in-spain-against-education-cuts-reforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unions say up to 70% of Spanish teachers followed a national strike Thursday over cuts, according to El Pais and other Spanish newspapers. Classes in Spain &#8211; from kindergarten to university - have been affected by this general strike in education, which is the second in a year, against budget cuts amounting to 6,700 million euros since &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/09/thousands-protest-in-spain-against-education-cuts-reforms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6771&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italian lessons on privatisation</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/05/05/italys-experience-shows-that-privatisation-just-benefits-the-few/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 09:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Privatisation has benefitted the very few, leading to massive job losses, delivering a bad deal for consumers and sowing the seeds of today&#8217;s financial and economic crisis, and yet the process goes on, says Marco Bersani. In an extract from his new book, Bersani surveys the case of Italy, home of one the world&#8217;s largest public &#8230; <a href="/2013/05/05/italys-experience-shows-that-privatisation-just-benefits-the-few/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6737&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish unions call fresh wave of strikes over healthcare privatisation</title>
		<link>https://revolting-europe.com/2013/04/25/spanish-unions-call-fresh-wave-of-strikes-over-healthcare-privatisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish unions have launched a prograrmme of rolling strikes in May and early June against the regional government&#8217;s plans to privatise health services in Madrid. The unions have called this fresh wave of strikes on May 7, 16, 22, 29 and June 4 Six hospitals are to be privatised by the Popular Party administration in &#8230; <a href="/2013/04/25/spanish-unions-call-fresh-wave-of-strikes-over-healthcare-privatisation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revolting-europe.com&#038;blog=17583418&#038;post=6677&#038;subd=revoltingeurope&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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