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Class War issue 81: Community Choir
Dear Class War,
One of the saddest things about mass protest at the start of the 21st Century is the lack of a decent sing song. The dominance of "what do we want" type chants is a great way of deflating everybody and is shit. Perhaps Class War could remedy this by starting a lyrics section? It could confirm old favourites and new numbers.
Here's a little ditty that went about in Prague on S26. It's called Blue Group 2000 and should be sung in a Johnny Cash style:
Petrol is a fiery thing and it burns every fucking thing
Armed with our desire, we produced a wall of fire
It started in Boltic Vale
Someone threw a Molotov Cocktail
And they burned, burned, burned the lines of police
And they burned, burned, burned the lines of filth
W.E. Bam
CW Reply: One of the best developments in recent years has been the rise of Samba bands and drummers on actions as they give it a bit of backbone and make it possible to change the direction of a crowd. One of the failures of May Day 2000 was the band not being around to draw the crowd away from the trap at Trafalgar Square. As for old songs we are rather partial to Harry Roberts Is Our Friend!
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