antiprivatization

Opposing private ownership

Antiprivatization describes opposition to transferring public assets or services to private ownership.

The term appears in debates over utilities, healthcare, transportation, and education: antiprivatization activists protested the sale of the water system.

Often hyphenated as anti-privatization.

ideology

nationalization

Government acquisition of industry

communalism · mutualism · syndicalism · egalitarianism · redistribution · commonwealth · communitarian · common good · statism · interventionism

policy

regulation

Official rules governing conduct

public utility · public sector · renationalization · social welfare · universal healthcare · public education · public transport · public funding · oversight · accountability

activism

protest

Public expression of disapproval

rally · grassroots · unionism · strike · advocacy · mobilization · resistance · opposition · referendum · boycott

Opposites
economic policy stance

antiprivatizationprivatization

State sells public assets

private ownership · denationalization · deregulation · free-market · neoliberal

Family

private, privately, privateness, privation, privacy, privatize, privatization, privatise, privatisation

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