ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the question of how to build a global pro-public movement focused on redefining and remaking the ways in which public services are conceived and delivered. Criticisms of privatization are relatively easy to articulate and broadly consistent across place and sector, lending the anti-privatization movement a relatively stable platform upon which to build global coalitions. The chapter provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities of building such a movement, starting with a summary of where anti-privatization struggles fit within the development of pro-public actions and visions. It then examines concrete initiatives that have been undertaken in different parts of the world to advance pro-public narratives, the challenges they face and potential ways to expand these pro-public activities in the future. Democratic public services will constantly be under review and modification, responding to shifting needs and changing forms of democratic engagement across time and place. Building pro-public coalitions therefore requires us to embrace instability.
