Multinational Monitor

JAN/FEB 2002
VOL 23 No. 1

FEATURES:

Derailed: The UK’s Disastrous Experience with Railway Privatization
by Brendan Martin

Business Goes to School: The For-Profit Corporate Drive to Run Public Schools
by Barbara Miner

Off the Grid: Mexico’s Free Market Extremism and Labor’s Challenge to Privatization
by David Bacon

Power to the People In South Africa: Operation Khanyisa! and the Fight Against Electricity Privatization
by Patrick Bond

System Failure: Deregulation, Political Corruption, Corporate Fraud and the Enron Debacle
by Andrew Wheat

INTERVIEWS:

Theft of the Century: Privatization and the Looting of Russia
an interview with
Paul Klebnikov

Undermining Security: A Warning Against Social Security Privatization
an interview with
Dean Baker

Accounting for Bad Accounting
an interview with
John Coffee

DEPARTMENTS:

Letters

Behind the Lines

Editorial
Preparing for the Next Enron

The Front
The Big Ugly at Ok Tedi - The Boeing Boondoggle

The Lawrence Summers Memorial Award

Names In the News

Resources

Resources

Organizations Publications

International Transport Workers’ Federation
49-60 Borough Road
London SE1 1DR
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ift.org.uk

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
155 Boulevard Emile Jacqmain
1210 Brussels
BELGIUM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.icftu.org

Trade Union Congress (Britain)
Congress House
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3LS
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: [email protected]
www.tuc.org.uk

Public Service International
BP 9
F-01211 Ferney-Voltaire Cedex
FRANCE
E-mail: [email protected]
www.world-psi.org

Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
1714 Franklin, Suite 100-306
Oakland, CA 94612
E-mail: [email protected]
www.commercialfree.org

Edison Schools, Inc.
521 Fifth Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10175
www.edisonschools.com

Alternative Information & Development Centre/South African People’s
Solidarity Network

P.O. Box 12943
Mowbray 7705, SOUTH AFRICA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.aidc.org.za/

50 Years is Enough
3628 12th Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
E-mail: [email protected]
www.50years.org

Pacific Environment and Resources Center
1440 Broadway, Suite 306
Oakland, CA 94612
E-mail: [email protected]
www.pacenv.org

Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia
1601 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 301
Washington, DC 20009
E-mail: [email protected]
www.isar.org

Center for Economic and Policy Research
1015 18th Street NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.cepr.net

America Association of Retired People
601 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20049
E-mail: [email protected]
www.aarp.org

United for a Fair Economy
37 Temple Place
Boston, MA 02111
E-mail: [email protected]
www.FairEconomy.org

Globalization Challenge Initiative
7000-B Carroll Avenue, Suite 101
Takoma Park, MD 20912
E-mail: [email protected]
www.challengeglobalization.org

AFL-CIO
815 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
E-mail: [email protected]
www.aflcio.org

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
1625 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.afscme.org

American Federation of Government Employees
80 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.afge.org

Service Employees International Union
1313 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.seiu.org

Enron
1400 Smith Street
Houston, TX 77002
www.enron.com

Texans for Public Justice
609 W. 18th Street, Suite E
Austin, TX 78701
E-mail: [email protected]
www.tpj.org

Common Cause
1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW #600
Washington DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.commoncause.org

Project on Government Oversight
666 11th Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20001
E-mail: [email protected]
www.pogo.org

Taxpayers for Common Sense
651 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
E-mail: [email protected]
www.taxpayer.net

Boeing
100 North Riverside Plaza
Chicago, IL 60606-2609
www.boeing.com

Mineral Policy Institute
P.O. Box 21
Bondi Junction
NSW 1355
AUSTRALIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.mpi.org

Third World Network
228 Macallister Road
Penang 10440
MALAYSIA
E-mail: [email protected]
www.twnside.org.sg

Bretton Woods Project
Hamlyn House
Macdonald Road
London N19 5PG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: [email protected]
www.brettonwoodsproject.org

International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way
Berkeley, CA 94703
E-mail: [email protected]
www.irn.org

Economic Policy Institute
1660 L Street, NW
Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
E-mail: [email protected]
www.epinet.org

Center for Responsive Politics
1101 14th Street, NW
Suite 1030
Washington, DC 20005-5635
E-mail: [email protected]
www.opensecrets.org

U.S. Senate Committee on Government Affairs
http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/

U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
http://energycommerce.house.gov/

In the Public Service
by Brendan Martin
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey:
Zed Books, 2001

In the Public Interest? Privatization and Public Sector Reform
by Brendan Martin
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey:
Zed Books, 1993

Off the Rails: The Crisis on Britain’s Railways
By Andrew Murray
London: Verso Books, 2001

Rethinking Schools: Urban Educational Journal
1001 E. Keefe Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53212
www.rethinkingschools.org

The War Against America’s Public
Schools: Privatizing Schools,
Commercializing Education

by Gerald Bracy
Boston: Allyn & Beacon, 2001

Giving Kids the Business: The
Commercialization of America’s Schools

by Alex Molnar
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996

Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
by Paul Klebnikov
New York: Harcourt, 2000

Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin:
Neo-Liberal Autocrac
y
by Boris Kagarlitsky
Pluto Press, 2002

Privatization and Political Change
in Mexico

by Judith A. Teichman
Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1995

Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal:
Essays on South Africa's
New Urban Crisis

by Patrick Bond
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to
Neoliberalism in South Africa

by Patrick Bond
Durban: University of Natal Press, 2000

Social Security: The Phony Crisis
by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Privatizing Health Services in Africa
by Meredeth Turshen
New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Rutgers University Press, 1999

Privatization: An Economic Analysis
by John Vickers and George Yarrow
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988

Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations
New York: Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/reports/1999/enron

Blind Faith: How Deregulation and
Enron’s Influence Over Government
Looted Billions From Americans

Washington, DC: Public Citizen
www.citizen.org

The Enron PAC’s Last Waltz
Austin, Texas:
Texans for Public Justice
www.tpj.org

Our Communities Are Not For Sale!
Local-Global Links in the Fight against
Privatization

Eds., Mike Prokosch and Karen Dolan
Boston: United for a Fair Economy
www.FairEconomy.org/Privatization

The Decline and Fall of
Public Broadcasting

by David Barsamian
Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2001

 

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