Yes I vaguely remember Serge and I. The second verse simple went: We were sent to school In the town of Tomsk Where we continued To manufacture bombsk At this distance in time it gets a bit hazy after that, except that the last verse is after stalinization and it ends with them going back to their beautiful bomsk for their exiled leader Trotsk! I'll think hard and see if I can get back any more. The one I remember much better concerned Gerry Healy of the Socialist Labour League/Workers Revolutionary Party: To the tune of For All The Saints For all the Trots who now have been expelled Who gainst their leader furiously rebelled And to resign have all now been compelled By Gerry Healy, by Gerry Healy We now are few who once were lots and lots Such is the fate of little groups of Trots But never mind we'll beat up Roger Protz Says Gerry Healy, says Gerry Healy Though we're adept at putting in the boot Still Workers Press is losing tons of loot I think it's time we kidnapped comrade Foot Says Gerry Healy, says Gerry Healey The situation now is very glum The revolution it will never come Till we have stuck an icepick in the bum Of Gerry Healy, of Gerry Healy For the uninitiated Healy was notorious for expelling any dissidents in his party. A friend of mine who had been in the SLL swears he sent a letter to the party taking issue with Healy over some minor point about economics he had made in a speech and concluded 'I enclose an sae for notice of my expulsion. Roger Pritz and Paul Foot were well known members of International Socialism/Socialist Workers Party
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