On this
May Day
we dedicate the first issue of Rabble Lit
not only to the Haymarket Martyrs
Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolf Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg
but also to the other thinkers and leaders
who dedicate(d) their lives to the Struggle
including
Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman, Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Luigi Galleani, Joe Hill, Margaret Sanger, Helen Keller, Paul Robeson, Sid Hatfield, Ammon Hennacy, Utah Phillips, Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day, César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Elaine Brown, Peggy Terry, Stokely Carmichael, Cha Cha Jimenez, Russell Means, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Saul Alinsky, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn
as well as to the numberless and nameless many,
including the workers of the
Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Lawrence Textile Strike, Everett Massacre, Lattimer Massacre, Ludlow Massacre, Battle of Blair Mountain, Harlan County War, Flint Sit-Down Strike, Delano Grape Strike, Justice for Janitors
May we read our history and write our future.
ISSUE ONE CONTENTS
POETRY:
Hold the Fort by Jen Fitzgerald
FICTION:
How to Disappear by Kaj Tanaka
NONFIC:
Di sotto in sù by Hannah Cohen
FICTION:
NONFIC:
In a Far Away Land by Margaret Elysia Garcia
POETRY:
FICTION:
Nelta and the Wolf by Tom Weller
INTERVIEW:
POETRY:
FICTION:
HYBRID:
3 Hybrid by Jim Warner & Beth Gilstrap
INTERVIEW:
Hypothetical Bar Fights & Other Cool Shit: An Interview w/ Bud Smith
COMICS:
Two Comics by Daniel Christopher Cain
NONFIC:
Shit and Gold by Elliot Patterson
FICTION:
This Tyrant, This Child of Pride by Sheldon Lee Compton
POETRY:
POETRY:
Three Poems by Monique Kluczykowski
FICTION:
Roller Coaster by Jared Silvia
POETRY:
During my shift at Circle K, a young girl asks for cigarettes by Jacob Little
FICTION:
Train Approach Warning by John Tormey
POETRY:
The Farewell Lasso by Ron Gibson, Jr.
FICTION:
HYBRID:
POETRY:
Tying a Hand by Sherry Chandler
POETRY:
POETRY:
HYBRID:
Questions for the Blue Collar Girl by Jan Stinchcomb
NONFIC:
SPOKEN WORD:
Solidarity in a Minute 46 by Mick Parsons
ISSUE ONE COVER IMAGE: Mural by featured artist Niki Ortiz/ Ajo, Arizona
Niki: “I participated in the Ajo Mural Project in March, 2017. I invited some of my best friends to Ajo, Arizona with me to paint this design on a public wall, along with dozens of other artists from Arizona, other parts of the US, the nearby reservations, Mexico, and Europe. Juntos, means, in Spanish, “Together.” This is an homage to the converging and beautiful collaboration of the “Three Nations” – our Native Reservations, new America, and Mexico.”
RABBLE LIT 
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