Comrades!
Welcome to the sixth Voice
of the Turtle, an issue that celebrates Labour victory in Central Ward
and multiple rent strikes across Oxford - mere glimmers of hope against
a backdrop of worldwide reaction from France to Argentina, Malaysia
to Italy.
Issue Five's free complete
socialist classic - Marx's Theses on Feuerbach - proved to be
so popular that we have enclosed another. Scattered throughout this
issue you will find Patricia Hewitt and James Cornford's recent heart-warming
revolutionary text, Ten Commandments - Dos and Don'ts for Social
Democrats, which is the final chapter of David Miliband's collection,
Reinventing the Left. It will inspire you all in your oppositional
struggles.
There is no Chris Brooke
or Ben Dalby in this issue, for the first time, but to compensate we
have a feast of Anne Alexander to celebrate her return to Oxford, as
well as a series of Apologies for Tyrants in order to annoy the International
Socialists, our most regular and reliable contributors. There are, alas,
no new Turtle-authors, unless we count Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and
Kim Il Sung.
PPE finals have now been
and gone, so this is the final issue to be assembled in the bowels of
Balliol's computer room. The Turtle plans to migrate to a different
clime, and will croak in future from Cambridge, Massachusetts. But croak
he (or she - does anyone know how to sex a turtle? - Ed.) will,
so please keep contributions rolling in - it may be a useful, if idiosyncratic,
way of keeping in touch with people and opinions you thought (and hoped)
you left behind in undergraduate Oxford. We hope to keep an extensive
international mailing list going, and Turtles may even, one day, begin
to colonise the World Wide Web.
Avanti popolo! Tough
on crime, tough on the causes of crime!
Chris Brooke,
Ben Fender
