Comrades!
As Spring gets underway,
sort of, in the Northern Hemisphere, The Voice of the Turtle
explodes into bloom. In the last three weeks or so, we've posted a
slew of new material on our Articles page, with many debut contributions
from our friends old and new. These include David Bleakney's attack
on the Silliness
of U2's Bono and Petie Petrovich's dogged
defence of his conduct; Radha D'Souza offers some thoughts on
the problems of the Global
Commons; and reports from the world's crisis-spots come in two
by two, with a pair of reports from Friederike Habermann,one in English,
the other in German,
from Buenos Aires; and a couple more from the crisis in Zimbabwe here
and here
by the blatantly-pseudonymous "Zim Admin". As well as these
vibrant newcomers, our old Stakhanovite Jonathan Wilson breaks his
excessively long silence with an piece on the changing world of football
in the former Soviet Union; Naima Bouteldja has been talking with
Susan
George; and we inaugurate a useful cooperative agreement with
Freezerbox Magazine by finding
a home on our site for Michael Manville's excellent article on the
Drugs
War in the USA.
The Library of the Turtle
swells anew, this time with a German
text of the Manifesto of the Communist Party and the text
of Ken Knabb's new translation of Guy Debord's Situationist
Classic, The Society of the Spectacle, complete with hypertext
index.
And the Turtle
Salutes Femi Aborisade this month, returning to a tradition we
have shamefully abandoned for the last year or so, in order to draw
attention to the fine work of the Justice for Femi Campaign. We also
unveil a new Stakhanovite, for the latest bright red star in our firmament
is Leo Zeilig, who has been
steering some excellent writing in the Direction of the Turtle for
the last four months, and has thereby earned himself our highest honours.
The future, as ever, looks
bright. More material is coming our way: new articles and poetry and
book reviews are in production as this message goes out; and content
for the forthcoming Symposium on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's
book Empire is beginning to be assembled. It's never too late,
of course, to resolve to Write for the Turtle -- and we hope that
the inspiration provided by this month's debutant\es will nudge a
handful of you into print for the first time.
Avanti popolo!
The Editors of the Turtle.
