My dad used to sing this all the time at wrp meetings in the 80s. He was a communist from Iran. For me though the internationale isn't a communist song....its not concerned with such trivia as political ideology,far more beautiful and simpler than that!
For those that want the lyrics (mostly correct): Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers Arise ye criminals of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. Refrain x2: So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. Thank you for the upload comrade
Did you know... If you sing this song in the Philippines, your chances of being targeted by our repressive government increases to one hundred percent 😂?
Greetings from Russia. I hope we will build a better version of socialism in Europe (or anywhere) during 21st century. But it will be hard enough in postmodern society.
Socialism is inevitable considering the state of our world and planet. The final struggle will be during the 21st century. Это есть наш последний И решительный бой! С Интернационалом Воспрянет род людской!
Is there a branch of the IMT in your area? Today, the Russian Marxists in the International Marxist Tendency are carrying on the legacy of the Militant in Russia, and across the world. Greetings from the US! I hope to see you one day at one of our international congresses!
@@Ashley-1917Terry was a proud socialist from Liverpool. He was an MP for Liverpool broad green from 1983-1991, he was banned from office after going to jail for refusing to pay the poll tax He took the average workers wage of his industry (he was a fireman) as an MP and he is loved and respected by all in our city. Rest in Power Terry, and long live Militant and it’s successor the Socialist Party!
The truth they don't want you to know: liberals are not the left, and the left is still the working class. In Kerala, India there are Marxists in charge and the state has the highest HDI, the highest literacy rate, the highest life expectancy, and has the highest media exposure in all of India. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_Legislative_Assembly
When I sing The International, I'm touched with tears, tears on two levels 1, The people who have stood together across the world against oppression Now and Before. 2, Many working class people across the world who do not know this song or understand it.
Militant could have gone a lot further than that! But they lost sight of the importance of Marxist theory, of understanding that you need ideas and understanding, not just blind activism. The shameful actions of the clique that formed around Peter Taaffe because of this have set the British working class back years if not decades.
@@fenceyhen4249 lol they were still advocating labour entryism until a couple of years ago. They've only just learned the lessons that Militant learned in '82
The results speak for themselves. Socialist Appeal is growing very rapidly - how has the open turn worked out for SPEW? They've fallen off. It's not even a matter of debate as as far as whether entryism vs the open turn worked better in 1991 - 2023, one approach has objectively succeeded and the other failed @@ginnybayliss8201
Given all that's happened in the Labour party, it makes me sentimental watching this video. Thanks! May I ask what documentary this is? would you mind sending me some details, thanks!
HI comrades, can any of you tell me what year this was? I think it was when Terry had been re-elected in Broadgreen in the 1987 general election. Am I right?
Derek Hatton and his entourage ..used to intoned Militant times three to the tune of Here we go here we go here we go. Are Momentum any better at singing.?
Interesting that Trots actually knew the words (one verse anyway), even more interesting and ironic that they used the Communist Party's (the old CPGB) version of the song.
I mean, Trotskyism as an ideology isn't that bad, but the way it rose, dividing the international socialist movement, is. Dammit, if only party democracy was restored in the Soviet Union, things would be so much better
Just revisited the documentary this came from. Set in the time around the 1992 election as Militant was removed from Labour and effectively fought under its own steam. The politics on display here couldn't be further from my own but it was an interesting insight ( and part of social history now I suppose). It wasn't mentioned but this took place not long after the Berlin Wall came down and Eastern Europe was moving away from the very ideas espoused by Militant. This song might be seen as rousing to some, it is somewhat darker to me
I would say "Scratch a Liberal, and a fascist bleeds", but I'm not even sure if you are a liberal, rather just somebody who thinks offing people because of colour is based
