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But there have been moments of “big bang” privatisation where governments and oligarchs speed-ran the process of looting the public coffers and transferring them to private hands — think of the sell-off of ex-Soviet state industries to connected insiders.
How Palantir Will Steal the NHS
Cory Doctorow
There will be times when all the members in your group hit this point together. You’ll have a meeting set on the calendar, and you’ll realize that nobody has submitted pages for a critique. Or, if you’re in an online group, you’ll see that nobody has submitted for the upcoming month. Don’t skip the meeting. And don’t let your Internet connection stay silent.
The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide
Becky Levine
White poverty undermined the premise of biological superiority upon which the entire edifice of white power rested. The Apartheid regime ac- cordingly sought to systematically uplift poor whites while debasing in- digenous livelihoods.
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