File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-04-03.022, message 21


Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 05:59:29 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-I: Re: Internationale (was Re: New Telephone call from Wall street Journal!)



>Dear Robert;
>
>This is the version we sing in Workers' Voice.
>
>
>Internationale (first verse):
>
>Arise ye pris'ners of starvation
>Arise ye wretched of the earth
>For justice thunders condemnation
>A better world's in birth
>
>No more tradition's chains shall bind us
>Arise ye slaves, no more in thrall
>The earth shall rise on new foundations
>We have been naught, we shall be all!
>
>'Tis the final conflict
>Let each stand in their place
>The International Soviet
>Shall be the human race
>
>'Tis the final conflict
>Let each stand in their place
>The International Soviet
>Shall be the human race
>
>

Thanks Martin, of all the versions (thank you all) sent to me Workers voice 
was the most complete.

Here in Sweden we sing the second verse also which takes up the point of 
"shooting our generals and singing the song of Brothership".

Bob Malecki



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