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After a triumphal relaunch in February, regular subscribers may have noticed that The People's Organ fell promptly silent. Being involved in a variety of rites of passage, the editors had rather neglected their duties. But no more! The happy news is that the Turtle's second symposium, on Naomi Klein's No Logo, is finally on the site. Better yet, we have six symposiads, four of whom have never before written for the Turtle, all of whom are now one step closer to Stakhanovism. The symposium offers six very differently positioned perspectives on a central question in Naomi's book: how to extricate ourselves from a set of social relations that seem as total as they are oppressive? Linnie Rawlinson, who launched this symposium at the end of 2000, writes from the grassroots struggle in the UK, summarising Klein's argument magnificently, pointing to its lacunae, particularly in her coverage of resistance to globalisation, and despairing slightly of the possibilities of change. Andrew Reston is a little more upbeat, suggesting in examination of the dialectal and anti-dialectical relation between political aesthetics and Anglo-Saxon capitalism, that there is and must be hope. Jim Murphy suggests that resistance is futile, because unnecessary. He takes issue with Klein's exuberance, with the exaggerated crisis narrative that gives the book its breathless urgency, and with the silence over the middle classes whom, he argues, both benefit from and enjoy this particular brand of capitalism. John Venice, agreeing with Klein that all is not well in Mammon's house, scrutinizes the complicity of the middle classes, queer and otherwise, and sees No Logo as more a symptom than a cure. This complicity, suggests Paul Dundon, is a function of a political crisis, by the capture of democracy by capital. Finally, Palash Davé slots No Logo into a wider media world. And there's more. The Turtle is pleased to welcome Doug Henwood to the ranks of its contributors, with his thoughts on Leninism in 2001. And Raj Patel, once again, has been taking potshots at World Bankers, past and present, in our reviews section. Together with Uncle Rosa's advice on family values, this month's issue is packed to the brim with creamy goodness. The Turtle would not, however, stick in the craw of the oppression were it not for its contributors. So please, send your opinion, reaction, polemic, poetry and problems to your ever watchful and constant Avanti!
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