Unofficial SWP declaration...
The Left Opposition | 11.07.2002 23:03
Even in these days of the rise of Fascism and the upmost necessity of unity between all tendencies in society, the proud followers of Cliff can be a little crytpic and speak of such ideas as 'revolution' or 'Leninism'– here's what they really want to say...
Here follows the unofficial –yet quite unreformed– declaration of the Cliffites:
(Sing along to The Internationale)
Arise ye Labour from ye slumbers,
Arise ye prisoners of Blair,
For reason in reform no blunders,
There is no Lenin there,
Oh how we sacrifice our values [sigh],
For the Ministers, now they must give,
We hold faith in Livingstone's endeavours,
We have one class with which to live,
(Chorus)
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face,
The Labourite mass party,
unites the human race, (x2)
No more deluded by inaction,
On carnivals we rest our faith,
Racists no more shall they murder,
We'll crush 'em with the bass,
And if those communists keep trying,
To break us away from the high embrace,
They soon shall hear the sirens crying,
'sectarians! [we can't keep pace]'.
No saviour from on high delivers,
So we'll petition, and petition some more,
The torture victims must they shiver,
But we all know it's against the law,
When the hour of need progresses,
Us Cliffites, we shall up bold,
Each voter they must poll for Labour,
And we'll strike when the iron's cold.
(Three cheers for Tony Benn, he joins us again.)
We know, it doesn't say State Capitalism, but fear not,
for China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam there is only one solution– counterrevolution!
(Sing along to The Internationale)
Arise ye Labour from ye slumbers,
Arise ye prisoners of Blair,
For reason in reform no blunders,
There is no Lenin there,
Oh how we sacrifice our values [sigh],
For the Ministers, now they must give,
We hold faith in Livingstone's endeavours,
We have one class with which to live,
(Chorus)
So comrades, come rally,
And the last fight let us face,
The Labourite mass party,
unites the human race, (x2)
No more deluded by inaction,
On carnivals we rest our faith,
Racists no more shall they murder,
We'll crush 'em with the bass,
And if those communists keep trying,
To break us away from the high embrace,
They soon shall hear the sirens crying,
'sectarians! [we can't keep pace]'.
No saviour from on high delivers,
So we'll petition, and petition some more,
The torture victims must they shiver,
But we all know it's against the law,
When the hour of need progresses,
Us Cliffites, we shall up bold,
Each voter they must poll for Labour,
And we'll strike when the iron's cold.
(Three cheers for Tony Benn, he joins us again.)
We know, it doesn't say State Capitalism, but fear not,
for China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam there is only one solution– counterrevolution!
The Left Opposition
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