This page records the earliest Forays of the Turtle into cyberspace. In March 1998, the Turtle was awoken from extremely dogmatic slumbers; in the Summer our initial Manifesto was in orbit; by Autumn the site began to take determinate shape, with the launch of the Dictionary of the Turtle and the regular Monthly Missives. A Pinochet Page was briefly published in December, then discontinued; and although the "Bolshevik Soundbite of the Week" no longer graces the front page, the best of them are now lovingly preserved in the Turtle's Adage Archive, for use in the Permanent Revolutionary Slogan Generator.

The Articles
Asian Financial Crisis: The Movie	Walden Bello	December 1998
An Intellectual Left?	Dave Renton	November 1998
A Very Uncivil Society	Arash Abizadeh	October 1998
Copyright and the Internet: All Rights Reserved	Steve Pugh	August 1998
Not Suckered but Seduced	Raj Patel	July 1998
New Forms: Pelé, The M25 and Artistic (Post) Modernism	Martin O'Neill	July 1998
What Shall We Tell the Children?	Caroline Brooke	June 1998
Letter from America	Sasha Abramsky	May 1998
New Britain Revisited: The Democratic Renewal of the United Kingdom	Martin Meenagh	April 1998
The Book Reviews of The Turtle
On John Laughland's The Tainted Source: A Review and a Polemic	Chris Brooke	August 1998
The Poems
The Fridge Poetry of the Turtle	Michaele Ferguson	November 1998
Leonid Brezhnev, You Are Always With Us!	Vitalii Trukhan and Caroline Brooke	October 1998
The Bits and Pieces

Antebellum Parasexuality:The Early Years. The now notorious American Studies email discussion forum from May 1998 has found its archival resting place. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

Two puzzles proved popular in 1998: the Wordsearch of the Turtle, and a Communism-themed Logic Problem.

And the Turtle issued the intial Monthly Bulletins in October, November and December 1998.