Then who pays the workers? Socialism just trades one boss for another. Now you become the workers of a large government bureaucracy that sees you as just a number. You are a comrade because no one cares to learn your name. You are a cog in a machine and you can no longer protest or advocate for yourself. You are now meaningless. Stand in line and hope you get there before provisions run out. Pull your head out of the the fog of the fantasy and look at the history of socialism and communism and the price that people have paid. Socialism has failed everywhere it has gone. Without competition, with everyone expecting equal outcome no matter what measure of effort they put out, people will work at their minimum. Societies will fail. Look at Venezuela. Are you really willing to give up freedom for free things?
Jacobite, not Jacobin. This is the original tune of the Red flag Sung as a march and not the usual dirge. The main vocals on this track are actually Dick Gaughan.
"Though cowards flinch, and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flying here!" Hats off to Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, may tonight be just the beginning!
Unfortunately, due to an unhealthy spike in weirdos trying to add the word 'National' in front of the word 'Socialism' in the party manifesto at the moment and Brexit about to chop our economy off at the knees, you may be a bit disappointed. Okay, rant over... (Hum's to self) "Oh, cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flyin' here..."
The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed in every fold Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It waved above our infant might When all ahead seemed dark as night It witnessed many a deed and vow We mustn't change it's color now Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It well recalls the triumphs past It gives the hope of peace at last The banner bright, the symbol plain Of human right and human gain Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It suits today the meek and base Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place To cringe beneath the rich man's frown And haul that sacred emblem down Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here With heads uncovered swear we all To bare it onward 'til we fall Come dungeons dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here
Lal Salaam (Red Salute) from Kerala (the state in India which had world's first democratically elected communist govt in 1957.) to comrades of World. Let borders never divide us. Communists unite.
@user-vr2vf9ty2j I mean, every Communist government is arguably democratically elected on some level or other - if the people were not with the Communists, then the Communists could not win, simple as. We don't have vast hordes of wealth and a history of world domination like the capitalists so we are built on people power
Bragg is a great artist. He used to be in a punk band called Riff Raff. Check them out. "Romford Girls" is a great tune. All the tunes on the EP are terrific.
And on this day the United Kingdom took one massive step back to the left. The one the Tories belittled and mocked, whom the leaders past of his own party slandered and harangued him, has taken charge of her majesty's opposition!! The Labour party may very well wave the red flag again. I am full of hope.
+pendulumx On the contrary, Corbyn's exactly what the party needed. Whatever he costs Labour in the center, he'll more than make up by re-energizing the left which hasn't even bothered to vote because Labour just became the party of Austerity-Lite. That's why Labour lost voters to the SNP. It's even why they lost voters to UKIP, who simply wanted to join ANY party that was willing to stand up to the entrenched elite. Rather than driving people from Labour, Corbyn's campaign saw new members flocking to the party in droves. Labour will win because unlike New Labour, it's finally returned to representing the people rather than hugging the coat tails of the Conservatives.
Solidarity with our comrades across the globe-of all races, nationalities, abilities, sexualities, genders. Solidarity with our comrades from the past, our comrades today, and our comrades of tomorrow.
In the “Workers’ Song” by Scottish singer Dick Gaughan, he sings, “When the skies darken, and the prospect is war, who’s given a gun and pushed tae the fore? We’re expected to die for the land of our birth and we’ve never owned one handful of earth.” Raise the scarlet standard high!
Cuba is actually far more successful than it's neighboring Nations in the Caribbean and Central America which is pretty impressive when you take the American Trade blockade into account.
I've loved Billy Bragg for a while now, but didn't know his version of this song until some commie friends played it in the closing scene of a play they put on in NYC. Now I listen to it every time I need a pick-me-up!
@Alex Jones why are gender neutral toilets a problem for someone like you, also the real answer for this problem is genuine systemic change that will help working class people who vote torries to understand that they are only voting for the 1% and instead of fighting your fellow man you should work to benefit the collective something most of the people in my country understand
Tomorrow, we can bring Britain back to the folds of the red flag. I'm scared, excited, nervous. Raise that scarlet standard high, beneath it's folds we will indeed live or die. ✊
I don’t know if you’ll ever see this but I’m looking for a documentary or an article (really anything) on the conception of the cpusa and the roll folk and country music had. I saw a documentary about 2 years ago on blues music and jazz; i remember it having a segment about how the cpusa was a primary factor for country music being so popular. It’s of my own opinion since seeing this video that cpusa used folk/country music to lure in burgious and thus plays a role in establishing rock and roll/ honky tonk. Obviously all these music genres take from the Blues and its scale. My point is Jazz music while it was big, it had subconsciously always been over shadowed by decadence. We live in a time of great immaturity and I think the music everyone listens and goes out of their way to find has had great affect on that.
Imagine Playing this as the revolution starts in london, pitchforks in hand, out with the current regime out with the monarchy, our voices no-longer heard.
This one loosely follows the tune of "The White Cockade," which is what the song was originally written for. The tune to "O Tannenbaum" was adopted later because it was more widely-known.
Fascism is pure depravity, as shown in the Horst-Wessel-Lied, a rhetorical and musical obscenity. The best fascist tune is Dixie, which says much (the KKK took it over)... but even that is good for a spoof. Oh, way down south in the Land of Traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators... Fascism, reactionary as it is, has never been friendly to creativity because it stands for a vile monstrosity, the degradation of workers into mere machines of meat either in the regimentation of the sweat-shop or the literal armies of subjection and enslavement.
Hey there. Question, do you have the picture of the video (the people running forward with flags) Or do you know where I can find it. I had it on a t-shirt in the 80:s and lost that shirt, would love to see the pic in full again. This goes for anyone else out there. Anyone that can offer a link to a copy of that picture? Cheers comrades.
First raised by Dick Penderyn and Lewis yr Heliwr at the Merthr riots against the iron masters, Crawshay et. al, in 1831 when the British State sent troops from Brecon to confront the insurrection. Dick Penderyn was hanged at Cardiff Jail
