Comrades!
In an ever changing world,
there are few certainties. But the Turtle can be depended upon to
slow down a little from June to August, and this year has been no
exception. The writers of the Peoples' Organ are, however, a very
different breed, and while the Turtle pottered about the garden, it's
trusty writers have been spinning silk. We've over a dozen new bits
and pieces to herald in this month's missive.
We've a parliament of articles
to tickle almost any fancy. Dave Renton tells us about U.S. trade
unionist Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn, Aziz Choudry derides Australian
Xenophobia, Joe Bord argues morally
against capitalism, Pat Bennett wags a finger at the Dogs
of War, and the Ithaca
Radical Cheerleaders cock a snoot at corporate rule. We have two
new inductees into the ranks of Turtle writers: Sarwat Viquar, who
writes on the G8
Summit, and Shereen Essof, who sends news from her work at the
National Land Committee in South Africa about the World
Summit on Sustainable Development, a disappointment predicted
in advance by Raj Patel's Faulty
Shades of Green.
The summer book season
has brought a bounty of reviews. We cover a disappointing book on
Priests
who Fight, and review Joel Schalit's far more satisfying Jerusalem
Calling, which has been romped through by Turtle Neophyte Mikush
Schwam-Baird. Indeed, in the book review section, we're pleased to
announce the Turtle's second père-et-fils combo. Following
the inspirational example of Seneviratne father and son, David Schwam-Baird
has joined Dan Moshenberg, Joe Guinan, Martin O'Neill, Raj Patel and,
soon, Chris Brooke in a fine symposium on Empire.
So much has the Turtle
received this month that we're holding back two fine articles on Orwell
and Anarchism for next month, as well as a cloud of poetry that we've
not yet managed to filter. Editorial indolence hasn't hampered the
onward march of a certain a bear, his best friend, and socialism with
Chinese characteristics. The Mao
of Pooh has a new installment, and Mao of Pooh T-shirts will soon
be available.
The Voice of the Turtle
this month is male, female and intersexed, and heard across the land,
from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. The domination of Latin
American cyberspace can surely only be a matter of time. Hasten this
day forward, dear reader. For as you must by now know, the Turtle
survives on the kindness of its contributors. Please send polemic,
invective, one-liners (the Turtle always needs more jokes), and sundry
counter-culture to the editors. After the revolution, you'll wish
you had.
The Editors
