Anti-Privatisation Struggles Around the World

Canada - Failed Privatization Attempts Damage Power Production Facilities: Residents Warned to Expect Breakdowns and Rolling Blackouts

Colombia - Energy Deregulation Opens the Way for Spanish Multinational to Take over in "Energy Coup." The Result: Arbitrary Electricity Suspension and Faulty Billing Practices.

Ghana - UN Study Concludes that Energy Privatization is Driven "Only by Financial Concerns" without Consideration of Detrimental Effects on the People and the Environment

Korea - The Struggle against Privatization of the Energy Industry Continues as Trade Unionists vow to Stop Globalisation, Commercialisation and Privatisation through International Solidarity!

Mexico - Energy Privatization Opens the Way for Foreign Ownership: Allows US Companies to Exploit Labour and the Environment

Philippines - People's Groups Mount Legal Struggle to Stop Disastrous Power Privatization

South Africa - Transition to Privatized Energy Causes Thousands to have Power Cut Off, Leaving them in Darkness

USA - Massive Blackout of Summer 2003 Caused by Deregulation: Power Privatisation Creates Dangerous Problems both in the US and Abroad