The process of selling off state assets and services, when there is opposition to privatization, usually begins by de-funding them.
The state reduces its contribution to the maintenance of public services in order to deliberately undermine their efficiency, thus making privatization a more appealing alternative.
When a service becomes very poor and unreliable, corporations can move in to promise greater efficiency and higher quality. It is the same tactic used by slumlords who want to force tenants out of a building so they can sell it.
De-funding education, a key component of neoliberalism, takes place incrementally. The president emeritus of the University of Michigan famously quipped that they used to be able to say that state universities were “state-supported”, then they said they were “state-assisted”, and eventually they could only say they were “state-located”. Ultimately, he had to admit that the situation worsened to the point where you could say state universities were “state-molested”.
De-funding education translates to promotion of unemployment and crime in the long-term. Both of these are great for corporations, and catastrophic for society.
You should have no doubt about whom the police were serving when they attacked these protesters.
The corporate plan for the privatization of education in Morocco is being imposed by police truncheons.
External Context سياق خارجي
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/01/18/morocco-protests-violently-dispersed-0