Comrades!
This month's missive has
more of a Soviet feel than usual. It arrives in your inbox - depending
on which part of the world you live in - round about 7 November 2002,
the 85th anniversary of the October Revolution, no less. And it comes
brimming with a veritable Kremlin of articles, additions and appointments
at the People's Turtle.
Our articles section is
over quota this month with new pieces by Old Turtle Hacks Patrick
Bond, on Lula's
working class credentials, and Raj Patel, on the Pope's
Genetically Modified inexpertise. They are joined by Turtle Neophytes
Peter Waterman, who reminiscences
on non-revolution, and Binoy Kampmark, who treks through the hills
of Balino-Australian
politics; and we reprint the thoughts of the Midnight Notes collective
on the forthcoming War
on Iraq.
We're also bang up to date
on our regular monthly commitments. We salute Paul
Wellstone, popular hero (deceased). We continue our Long March
through One Hundred Acre Wood with the Mao
of Pooh. We will shortly be posting the first ever online translation
of the Communist
Manifesto in Zulu. And, as if all this weren't enough, our laureate
for Stakhanovite of the Month is Michael Brooke, who is currently
in the former Soviet Union thinking about film for us, and thinking
about his honeymoon with his brand new wife, bless.
And how could we end this
missive without a nod to the Soviet Formalism of which we are so fond?
A missive isn't a missive without our usual plea: we cannot remain
above quota without your constant help. Please send articles, poetry
and ponderings our way. The Editorial Collective is only as good as
the People make it, after all.
The Editors
