Book

  • Challenging the rise of Corporate Power in Renewable Energy

    New book by Dexter Whitfield, Spokesman Books – https://spokesmanbooks.org/(paperback £18.00, ePub £10.00) Contents Crisis and opportunities – Corporate domination – Trading renewable energy assets – Tax havens and market interventions – Public ownership and public values – Wide use of PPPs for renewable energy projects in emerging economies – The commodification and marketisation of nature…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • New Book: Challenging the rise of Corporate Power in Renewable Energy

    by Dexter Whitfield, adds new dimensions to the climate crisis. It is an exposé of corporate domination of the renewable energy sector based on an analysis of the global trade buying and selling onshore/offshore wind farms, solar parks, battery storage and other projects. It includes strategies for a democratic public future for renewable energy, protection…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • Public Ownership and Provision

    The European Services Strategy Unit (previously the Centre for Public Services and Services to Community Action and Trade Unions) have consistently made the case for alternative policies in providing strategic advice to community organisations, trade unions and public bodies. It is reflected in the reports and strategies advocated with these organisations. We have consistently believed…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • New Book – Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life

    Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life by Dexter Whitfield sets out a radical agenda for decommodification, public ownership and provision, re-municipalisation, reconstructing democracy, radical public management, public investment and strategic action. It explains the drivers of financialisation, marketisation, individualisation and privatisation and sets out a political economy framework of privatisation. It details the corporate…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • Now published: Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life

    Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life provides comprehensive evidence of the failure of privatization and the economic, social and environmental damage to people’s lives, working conditions and undermining of equalities. It details radical strategies for decommodification for a new era of public ownership and provision with participative and democratic accountability, quality public services, the…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • The Welfare State

    The Welfare State: Privatisation, Deregulation and Commercialisation of Public Services: Alternative Strategies for the 1990s Dexter Whitfield, Pluto Press, London, 1992. Out of Print. Includes the need for public services, demands of a capitalist economy, the political economy of privatisation, deregulation and commercialisation, new forms of control, the need for new strategies, controls on capital…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • Making it Public: Evidence and action against privatisation

    Pluto Press, London, paperback, ISBN 0-86104-509-2 – Out of Print. Exposes the scale and scope of the Thatcher privatisation drive, the new right and multinational offensive, the effects of privatisation on workers, users and services and proposes a political strategy for public services and a seven-point action strategy. David Berry, New Statesman, 9 September 1983…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • Unmasking Austerity

    Unmasking Austerity: Opposition and Alternatives in Europe and North America, by Dexter Whitfield, Spokesman Books (eBook)

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • Global Auction of Public Assets

    Global Auction of Public Assets: Public sector alternatives to the infrastructure market & Public Private Partnerships

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.

  • New Labour’s Attack on Public Services

    New Labour is creating markets in public services on an unprecedented scale. Education, health and social care, children’s services, housing, planning and regeneration, the criminal justice system and the welfare state are all being marketised. Privatisation inevitably follows marketisation, eroding democratic accountability and embedding business interests. The impact will be far reaching. Any benefits in…

    Published on 27th January 2023. Last updated 9th June 2023.