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. This was planned to be the Summer issue, but I didn't finish it in time, so there is no Summer issue and this will be the Fall issue. All subscriptions will be extended by one issue.
. Our Table of Contents is too large this time to fit onto this page, so following is a list of our contributors, in order of their appearance in the magazine: poetry -- Marek Jagoda, Katisha Burt, Amanda Sochor, G. M. Stevenson, CaLokie, Nadine Wolf Budbill, Gary Beck, Sonja Haughton-Bloetner, Kenneth Pobo, Suzanne Freeman, Francis Alix, Jennifer Edwards, Cherise Wyneken, Timothy McCoy, Rita D. Costello, Vittorio Carli, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Robert Pomerhn, Sam Stringer, Coral Hull, Rachel P. Davis, Normal, Jammes, Jon Mathewson, Bob Randolph, An Unknown Proletarian, Tim Hall, Justin Carroll, M. Freedom and Jamie Cavanagh; fiction -- Keith Laufenberg.
. Struggle wishes to thank all its subscribers and contributors, who have managed to enable the magazine to keep afloat for 18 years. But we must once again appeal for financial help. Good literary material is constantly arriving, but the magazine's finances are always shaky. Subscriptions do not come close to covering expenses, necessitating frequent appeals from me for contributions. I imagine you readers get sick of hearing them, but here I am with another one. In this time of great clashes and crises, the working class needs a voice in literaure. Please send subscriptions and/or contributions!
. Our next issue will be a Prison Poets Issue. One out of 32 people in the U.S. today is in prison.
This is a greater proportion than were imprisoned in South Africa in the heyday of apartheid.
Thsi indicates the inability of capitalism to solve social problems and provide a decent, humane
life for the producers of its vast wealth -- the working masses (including the unemployed, for
whom it cannot provide livable jobs). African Americans constitute a disproportionately large
part of the prison population and the number of Latinos imprisoned is also large. Forty years after
the civil rights movement capitalism still treads mercilessly on people of color. But many
prisoners refuse to be cowed. Today a large number are analyzing their situation and the
condition of the world and deciding to fight back against oppression and exploitation. Struggle
has been receiving increasing amounts of powerful creative writing by some of these men and
women. We will be devoting most of the coming issue to that literature. Prisoners who have not
submitted their material but wish to do so should write soon. We are not setting a deadline for
submission. Good writing that arrives after the issue is sent to the printer will be considered for
future issues.
By Tim Hall
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