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Thread #116075   Message #4009523
Posted By: Jim Carroll
19-Sep-19 - 03:17 AM
Thread Name: Left wing political parodies
Subject: RE: Left wing political parodies
One that sprang back into my mind like a whippet after a ferret with the rise of 'New Labour

The Worker's flag, red, white and Blue, it flies for me, it flies for you
And though he tried to pull it down, it even flies for old George Brown,
So raise the umbrella high, the bowler hat and old school tie.
And just to prove we're still sincere we'll sing The Red Flag once a year

a bit more

The cloth cap and the Working Class are symbols now outdated
For we are Labour's avant garde, but we've been educated



William Brown is one of the most succinct works on on the theory of Surplus Capital I have ever encountered
Marx should have concentrated on writing songs rather than those impenetrable bloody books

I remember spending a study weekend in Hastings in the early sixties - some of us put on a mini-review based around the China-Soveiet conflict, which started with three of us dressed up as Mikado-ladies (complete with parasols), singing:

"I'm Lenin, I'm Trotsky, I'm Mao"

Wish I could remember the rest of it - a lost gem
Jim Carroll