“This is public ownership for the future” – McDonnell’s broadband speech
Below is the full text of John McDonnell’s speech on Labour’s plan for broadband in the UK. I…
Public Ownership
The Derbyshire dam collapse shows we need to transform our water industry
The scenes from Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire over the partial collapse of Toddbrook Reservoir dam are deeply worrying. More…
Why our water should be owned by the public – not by co-operatives
I agree with Gareth Thomas MP that if democratic public ownership is to survive a future Tory government,…
We must trust the public to run their own utilities
‘We Own It’ published an interesting proposal earlier this week for the future democratic public ownership of the…
We need innovative forms of public ownership, not state-run corporations
When I am chatting to my constituents about being a Co-op Member of Parliament, many of them talk…
Here’s what poses the biggest threat to Labour’s public ownership plans
The EU poses no threat to a Labour government’s plans to bring rail, energy, the post office or…
When markets fail, we bail them out or take ownership. But there’s another way
In Marx’s seminal work Wages and Capital, he describes the economic relationship between the capitalist (owner of productive capital)…
John Denham: “Put Britain’s water back in your hands”? It’s England’s water!
Most LabourList readers will welcome the idea that water should be socially owned or at least run on…
Gareth Thomas: Thames Water is failing. Here’s my plan for a People’s Water
Thames Water should be converted into a mutual – The People’s Water – operating in the private sector…
No, nationalisation isn’t nationalism. We want both public ownership and international solidarity
At the launch of Labour Digital’s technology innovation competition, Darren Jones MP set out his “answer to globalisation”…
