HOW THEY DO IT | Socialist Action 1983

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PRIVATISATION is a multifaceted policy. It extends from the sale of public corporations to the whole spectrum of state-provided services.

Contracting out INCREASINGLY the public services becoming supervisory overseeing work done by private conFor while the present leve o contracting out is lów, the scale of sermanual to technical and adminstrative Architectural design, school meals, crematoria recreation and sports centres have already beer privatised or threatened.

In the NHS, hosnita's have beer directed to increase contracting out of cleaning, launarics, calerng anu nonlemergency ambulances.

Among the nationalised industries British Rail is considering: contracting out track maintenance Private owner. ship of goods wagons has meant the threatened closure of Horwich Shildon rail engineering workshops.

In government departments a wide variety of cleaning jobs, vices and catering facilities have either already been taken out or will be.

Selling state owned companies HALF the shares „Dode British Aerospace, Cable and Wireless. Amersham Associated British Ports have been sold off to private shareholders.

for t his British Telecom catering nuaNteH HIC ICKLSASSOIeoausi Shipbuilders and British Airways sales arc blaniicu Selling publie land and property COUNCIL house sales head the list under this category. have been sold at a discount of f2bn. Entire housing estates have been sold to companies like Barratts.

In addition the NHS has been compelled to sell hospitals , secretarial serof companies like vices gone the of going through the own services.

Nearly 400,000 lakıng conluk cluding une.

nursing homes to private medicine interests and property developers.

acres of Forestry Commission land has been sold along with land and propertles owned by th Property Services Agency, itself sold off into private hands.

Exploitațion of public serIN SOME cases the government has not whole way 1n selling off strategic industries like the transport and energy systems.

There was ; some debate about the wisdom of selling-off British Telecom Instead they allow companies to use publicly provided network of routes, cables and pipelines to sell their already announced of London Transport away from the GLC. Privatising parts of the system is now possible, even in the hiving-off of whole tub allowing private coach operators to take over bus routes.

NHS hospitals are now allowed a