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It became famous as the song of the British transportation workers. It is now used by many union movements, especially in the Caribbean. [3] The Preacher and the Slave: Joe Hill: 1911 United States: Written as an anti-religious, syndicalist song for the IWW. [4] There Is Power in a Union: Joe Hill: 1913 United States: Written for the IWW.
The song was performed the next year in the First International Workers Music Olympiad held in Strasbourg by a choir of 3,000 workers. [1] Its first record was printed in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, performed by communist actor and singer Ernst Busch. [2] It was later published in Brecht's 1939 collection Svendborger Gedichte. [3]
The song in its original French version was written in June 1871 by Eugène Pottier, a member of the First International and Paris Commune, after the Commune had been crushed by the French army on 28 May but before Pottier fled first to Britain and then later (1873-1881) to the United States.
“In the spirit of artists supporting democracy, and for our fans, my bandmate Danielle and I are soft-launching what was nearly New Radicals’ late ’90s debut single, ‘Murder on the ...
The song also appears on UK punk band Angelic Upstarts' 2002 album Sons of Sparticus. The title of the 1986 Israeli film Avanti Popolo is taken from the song. The film's protagonists – Israeli and Egyptian soldiers, particularly unheroic in their attitudes and actions, wander the Sinai Desert in the aftermath of the 1967 War .
The Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Aggression Song (Chinese: 反共抗俄歌; Wade–Giles: fan 3 kung 4 kʻang 4 o 2 ko 1; lit. 'anti-communist and resistance to Russians song'), also known as Fighting Communism and Rebuilding the Nation (Chinese: 反共復國歌; Wade–Giles: fan 3 kung 4 fu 4 kuo 2 ko 1; lit. 'anti-communist and national restoration song') is a Chinese anti-communist and ...
Songs of the Spanish Civil War (1 C, 13 P) T. Trade union songs (25 P) Pages in category "Socialist songs" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
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