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Brown’s blues
Gordon Brown’s honeymoon is over. His initial
commanding lead in opinion polls fuelled speculation of a snap election.
Now, the new prime minister trails miserably and a series of potential
crises loom: anger at public-sector cuts, economic slowdown, calls for
an EU referendum. Brown has shown himself to be indecisive and
manipulative. As HANNAH SELL reports, this marks a significant shift in
the political situation in Britain today.
Public
sector unrest grows
The privatisation of our public services has brought
cuts, worse provision and often dangerous practices, whether it is
public transport, health care, education or local and national
government services. To provide big business with opportunities to make
even bigger profits, public services are primed for selling off by
making cuts which include attacks on public-sector workers’ pay, jobs
and conditions.
These cuts also impact on the services that
public-sector workers provide. However, this year has seen a number of
unions taking industrial action against these attacks. JANE JAMES
reports.
The scramble
for Arctic resources
When Russian submarines planted a flag 4,000 metres
below the ice at the North Pole last August, they were signifying a new
stage in the scramble for control of the potential resources of the
Arctic. Ironically, the shrinking of the ice cover, along with the
increasing price of oil, could make extraction of gas, oil and minerals
more economically feasible. Global warming, linked to greenhouse gases
produced in the burning of fossil fuels, has been identified as a factor
in this year’s reduction of Arctic sea ice to its smallest area of
coverage since satellite measurements began 30 years ago. STEVE SCORE
reports.
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Women's right to choose
Forty years since the Abortion Act
The brutal face of Toryism
Following the death of the 'liberal Tory' peer, Ian Gilmour, we
reprint a review by Peter Taaffe of Gilmour's book, Inside Right
The Soviet Union's place in history
On the ninetieth anniversary of the Russian revolution Niall
Mulholland looks at Moshe Lewin's book, The Soviet Century
Testing time for modern physics
Science is back in the news. But what is the state of physics
today? Geoff Jones reports
Inside Hamas
Power shifts in Palestine
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