The Cracks

Cracks in the ice

Last month, sea-ice cover in the Arctic extended to just 5.95 million square kilometres — 1.68 million square kilometres less than the average between 1979 and 2000. While native fauna such as polar bears are threatened by dwindling summer sea ice, commercial opportunities are opening up in this newly accessible summer sea and are being pursued apace. The first commercial supertanker succeeded ...

Papering over the Cracks

Beyond the limelight of teaching hospitals, the psychiatric profession is in a state of near-collapse. A lack of resources and man-power is resulting in an incomplete service which is unfair to patients and demoralising for doctors-the situation needs salvaging, and soon.

Through the cracks.

Papering over the Cracks

An important article by Ben Fine and Laurence Harris entitled 'Controversial Issues in Marxist Economic Theory' appeared in the last Socialist Register. I t has an integrated structure and is free from the Fundamentalist habit of settling debates by quoting huge chunks of Marx, in appeal to divine authority. For these and other reasons it cannot simply be brushed aside. It demands a reply, both...

Falling Between the Cracks