Comrades!
To the untrained eye, the
Turtle has been up to remarkably little over the past few months.
While it is true that we've fallen a little behind quota in terms
of our posting of new articles, the Editors have been very busy behind
the scenes, teaching, protesting and researching -- and a couple of
awkward computer smashups on each side of the Atlantic have set things
back a bit. (Only one of these smashups involved booze, but both have
resulted in unanswered email from May/June or so, for which we apologise:
do get in touch again if you think you've been affected by this).
The deficiencies of the Headquarters are not reflected in the rude
health of the Rank and File, however, and the Editors' failings have
been more than compensated by the Readers of the Turtle, who continue
to read, subscribe, post comments, and send us poetry -- quite a bit
more of which will be published soon.
Since the last missive
in May, we've cast our net wide, to bring you all the views that are
fit to print. And so we begin August with a belated, but nonetheless
relevant hail to our correspondents around the world, and an unusually
widespread catch of articles. As Lula engages in orgiastic Third Wayism
in the UK, Adriano Nervo Codato and Renato Monseff Perissinotto inform
us about The Republican University in Brazil; Raj Patel ponders Land
Reform in South Africa; Leo Zeilig reports - at no small cost to himself
- the Truth from Zimbabwe; Ekekiel Pajibo shares some expatriate thoughts
on the crisis in Liberia; Tariq Ramadan chastises the assumptions
of parts of the global justice movement; and our team of dedicated
Chinese Socialists have completed a long-promised and mystery-plague-related
instalment of the Mao of Pooh.
With these, dear comrades,
we fortify ourselves for the seemingly never-ending season of insanity,
as we end, as ever, with our standard plea: the Turtle is only able
to brush away the cobwebs of confusion because of the intellectual
generosity of our readership. Please send your thoughts, opinions,
experiences, confessions, poems, reviews, eulogies and ramblings to
the Turtle, and we will get them onto the site as quickly as we can.
Send, send, send, and we shall, inevitably, inexorably, though occasionally
a little slowly, wrest the entirety of cyberspace from the clutches
of international capital.
Avanti popolo!
The Editors of the Turtle
<editors@voiceoftheturtle.org>
The Voice of the Turtle
<http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org>
