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Comrades, the reason, of course, why our movement’s anthem is such a great anthem *is because our movement is a great movement*, comrades. And now, let us sing it all-together, with real passion, joy and conviction! (and by the way, I’m not being sardonic here. On the contrary, Of course I mean every last word...) So then... Tis the final conflict, Let us unite and tomorrow, The International Will be the human race Arise, the damned of the earth! Arise, prisoners of hunger! Reason thunders in its crater, ’Tis the eruption of the end. Let’s make a clean slate of the past, Enslaved mass, arise, arise! The world’s foundation will change, We are nothing, now let’s be all! There are no supreme saviors, Neither God, nor Caesar nor tribune; Producers, let us save ourselves, We decree common salvation! So that the thief should offer us his throat So that spirit be wrested from its cell, Let us fan the forge’s flames ourselves And strike while the iron is hot. The state represses, the law cheats, Taxes bleed the poor; No duties are imposed on the rich, The rights of the poor are empty words, We have languished long enough under domination, Equality wants other laws: “No rights without duties,” it says “Equals, there are no duties without rights.” Hideous in their apotheosis, The kings of mines and rails, Have they ever done aught But rob from labor? In the safes of that gang What is created is smelted, By decreeing that they turn it over The people only want what is their due. Kings intoxicated us with smoke, Peace among us, war on tyrants! Let’s apply the strike to armies, Rifle butts raised on high and breaking ranks. And if they insist, those cannibals, On making heroes of us, They’ll soon learn that our bullets Are for our own generals. Workers, farmers, we are The great party of the workers, The earth belongs only to men, Idlers can go someplace else. How many on our flesh eat their fill? But if the ravens, the vultures One morning disappeared The sun would shine still! ’Tis the final conflict Let us unite and tomorrow, The International Will be the human race https://youtube/watch?v=t8EMx7Y16Vo
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:57:32 +0000

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