Conflict: The Ungovernable Farce & The Ungovernable Force

* 0:33 The Ungovernable Farce
* 2:48 The Ungovernable Force
(Lyrics below) in memory of the Toxteth riots. The songs are +20 years old. Are they any less relevant today?

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The Ungovernable Farce

Still the warning same fucked weary government hell bent on war / Wondering where the reinforcements for the next attack are coming from / Afar they are led like cattle to be scapegoats to the scheme / While the lady laps up double cream, Mr. Newman plans and dreams / First, that means deception lets be clever, "we can fool the poor" / Secondly, attempts are made to cover up mistakes they make / When all else fails the boot boys, jump, get kitted out in blue / The rest is left to the imagination, you get the point, or it will get you.

Some people said "no more of this", planned carefully their resistance / Made plans whilst staying underground then up to overthrow the system / Moves worked well and feeling spread that "victories" were made / They raised their mighty fist again, and:

Clamped down hard on passive resistance / Slammed shut the door to freedom, no entry given / Built bombs, tanks, threw shit at our reality / Destroyed peace, made war, then called it sanity, no....!

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The Ungovernable Force

Fuck off you fuck your violent threats your attempts to control the nation / Fuck off you fucked up facist cunt, understand the situation / Back off you slimy worthless prick, you ain't got a clue what you are facing / Eat bricks you het up bastard shits, scabs; you'll get what you are creating.

Who the fuck do you think you're pushing, "stay in place or get it" / I would think again to save your skin, because if you come too close you'll fucking regret it / You whine on all the hell you like, repeat your warnings of plastic bullets / The gas, the batons, the water cannon - the more you oppress the more we will resist.

Riots, there ain't been a riot, but one's knocking at your door / You have seen nothing yet but household pets but you'll soon feel the lion's claws / Proclaiming law's last victory, of containing rebel shower / When the time is right you'll get the fight that will totally test your power.

Inciting, provoking trouble that you know can easily be beaten / To maintain the image that we need you, to thus re-confirm your position / You might trick some, you scheming scum, but you'll never get our obedience / You can batter, beat us, even imprison us, yet still you will never ever never defeat us:

Belfast...Brixton...Toxteth...Tottenham...St Paul's...Handsworth... Reclaim the streets, reclaim the towns, reclaim the nation!

What revolution? This revolution, we all wanted a peaceful solution / But this institution, that institution, smashed all hope of getting through to them / Confrontations, escalating violations of the law / Repercussions of the mass destruction which in the end is sure
to mean them...

...Pumping out the bullets, their protection from the poor / We will win because we have to; we ain't got nothing to lose no more / And what they lose they undoubtedly will forfeit forever / "They've got the guns, but we've got the numbers"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Conflict
• Anarchy
• Anarchist
• Anarcho
• Punk
• Rock
• Anti
• War
• Direct
• Action
• Reclaim
• Riots
• Toxteth
• Brixton
• Liverpool
• ALF
• Police
• Protest

[0badda0]

fuk white man fight 4 freedom black praide to all me niggazzz wat sufferd 4 the commutiy are heros

[TheReliquary]

Fair enough, but in Toxteth in the eighties, working class people of all races joined together to fight oppression. It was the conservative, right wing government that tried to paint it as a "race riot" in order to divide working class people against one another. It's happening today. If oppressed people don't stand together, regardless of skin colour THEY will always WIN.

[7jem331]

There were also riots in other parts of the city and numerous other towns and cities during that time that just went unreported.

There were also white people involved in the riots that took place in Liverpool, London and Manchester so not sure what the "If your white" comment was all about.

[TheReliquary]

You wrote: "the lead singer of Conflic was a middle class kid from a public school. What does he know..."

Is it wrong for men to fight for women's rights or white people for racial equality or middle class kids to fight the state?

Political movements contain:

1) Those obsessed with personality, status, tribal rules, gossip and (crucially) their place in the inevitable bloody pecking order

2) People who actually believe in something & want to achieve change

Can we discuss ideas instead?

[majorMcpharter]

No War but the Class war comrades.Workers of all lands unite.

[ReadThisIfYourStupid]

And you're right - he is losing it - mainly because of growing economic inequality, police brutality, censorship, erosion of civil liberties, mental as well as environmental pollution and the fact that he's forced to pay for all this with his tax money!

[poulsontheprick]

What a pity its always trendy ,rich ,privelidged students who rampage these days.I mind the Miners Strike whenthe pigs got really good fucking kickings.

[2008Sameoldfitup]

Leeds United

[Triixcee]

@0badda0 you know not all white people are against you =/

many are helping us

alongside with other nationalities

theres no need for rascism

and why are u still calling yourself 'nigger'

you use the term that they used to degrade us

as if its something good

[Triixcee]

@Trevor9849 lol but how are you guna buy the stuff you need =/

unless you just shop at charity shops or something

[Triixcee]

whoa this song just lit me up inside :)

[Trevor9849]

i used to go to the mall for cool music and shirts. if u like punk and live where i live then you cant get that stuff anywhere else. but now i know that the mall is just a big bunch of pigs and capitalists! i've just recently become a punk, when i realized that a few nights ago! fuck the mall, fuck money, im never going to that shithole again! Thank you conflict for helping me realize this. Don't be a consumer and don't support capitalism!

[ButherLi55ett]

@17spiderMr It's either that or the destruction of humanity, comrade. Up the working class!

[17spiderMr]

it is a informative and immpartial video and track tells how it was always at least 2 sides to a story or arguement and the old bill were in the wrong but as blair peach[rip] they can and do get away with murder but it is up 2 us nowadayz to stop and halt the vile small?percentage of power hungry fascist and thuggish ways of these scum do not give up the struggle fight we shall prevail as we are right and will go down in history fighting 4 all injustice in all its guises peace

[toniandmike00]

Oppression, my arse. I was behind a shield in toxteth and the law abiding residents supported the police 100%.

Everyone knew that the riots were orchestrated by drugs dealers who didnt like the police getting in their way. This fact was sadly overlooked by the appeasing Scarman report

[badwolf66]

The police got massacred in the Toxteth riots.