The Internationale

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Tovarisch!

What with all this hysteria about "the far left" and "leftist radicals" around here, I thought it would be nice to post The Internationale.

This is a song that real leftists sing, as opposed to mainstream Democrats who happen to support civil rights.

there may be some, but mainstream dems support the civil rights of Corporations not people

To hear people around here lately, you would think that anyone who's not a "pragmatic" "centrist" is Pol Pot.

And to those that are in the Southern and/or Boomer minority I'm really sorry for you but you know I'm right.

by the way, real lefties no longer sing it either. It stopped being in-fashion around the 1980s

Problem is that most of our center right friends, wouldn't know a real commie if one wiggled in their faces. Trust me on that one.

thinking that corporations shouldn't own the country is apparently enough now to make on a commie.

Billy Bragg's Version of the Internationale:

Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all.

CHORUS: So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The Internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race

Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We'll live together or we'll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We've one but one Earth on which to live

And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by life and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above.

(Circa 1990. Supposedly, Bragg complained that the traditional lyrics to the Internationale were somewhat dated. Pete Seeger said: why don't you write new ones? So Bragg did.)

At this page: http://www.hymn.ru/internationale/index-en.html you can find not only Billy Bragg's version, but Pete Seeger singing it as well.