Comrades!
The Voice of the Turtle
has been still in cyberspace for a little longer than is usual, hibernating
long into the Spring. For this, please accept the Apologies of the
Editors of the Turtle. April was a cruel month; January, February
and March not much better.
From time to time, the
Editors have been on the streets, variously being shot at, teargassed
and rained on by the forces of oppression, all in active resistance
to the war in Iraq. But we've been busy with other things, too, and
Cheloniana has taken too much of a back seat over the last few weeks
and months. Now we return to cyberspace tired by the struggle but
mindful that there remains, as ever, a world to win. And what better
reminder of the price of struggle, and the immense rewards, than the
sacrifice of the 1886 Cornmarket Martyrs in Chicago, celebrated as
May Day, the holiday established all around the world through the
mass struggles of the wretched of the earth. May Day Greetings to
all.
Turning from the global
to the local, we do have some new material in the Columns of the Turtle
to report, and we'll be adding much more quite soon. To the day's
swelling chorus of international festivity, the Turtle has in the
opening months of the year added the hefty bass notes of new articles
by Peter Waterman, Shereen Essof, Daniel Patrick Welch, Daniel Campione,
Oliver Francis, Iain Boal, Aziz Choudry, Joe Guinan, Joe Bord, Sean
Jacobs, Alasdair Campbell, Dave Renton, Suzanne Bosworth and Terry
Cantwell, all of which you can find on our Articles Page. Above these,
we can trace the soaring descant of recent poetry by Sophie Woolley,
all of which are held together through the percussion of Hakim Bey's
classic article on the Temporary Autonomous Zone, which is newly added
to the Library. We shall shortly be adding the canned laughtrack,
in the form of a timely and medically-themed sixth installment of
our serial, The Mao of Pooh.
The preponderance of New
Authors among our offerings demonstrates not only the happy dispensability
of the Editors, but also the Turtle's evergrowing command of the world
of virtual politics. Our subscriber list has topped four hundred,
the serried phalanx of our contributors ever more diverse, and our
range of interests evermore catholic. None of this would be possible
without you. You identify the lacunae. You fill them with your wisdom,
opinion, prejudice and poetry.
Do keep going, and we'll
start replying to your emails before too long.
Let us march, into the
future, bravely (through what's left of our Five Year Plan). Abnormal
service is now being resumed.
Avanti!
The Editors
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