Dick Gaughan - Workers' Song
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Uploaded by barcelona36 on Nov 21, 2008
This is Dick Gaughan's rendition of a great working class rebel song, which appeared on his 1981 album Handful of Earth. Originally written by the north-east of England singer and songwriter Ed Pickford (who has his own page here on YouTube), the Dropkick Murphys version of this song is, IMVHO, the tune of the century so far.
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A better world is coming! We just need to clear the obstacles in its way.
International working class solidarity
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@SirPrised I think I've already spent a few years in an environment comparable. Wasn't that bad once you get used to it. You just do a lot more for yourself rather than relying on other people - and can't take anything for granted. Seems living is less cheap that way.
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@intricatic I doubt you'd enjoy living in a pre-industrialised world. We need 'responsible capitalism' but it ain't going to happen.
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@intricatic Absolutely right! The ideal of capitalism is not corporations and big business, but small and medium businesses. THAT is where where ideal competition comes from. What we are seeing in this country are to many monopolies and not enough competition.
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This song is sung so well that it bring a tear or two up.
On the other hand, those who think we have ideal capitalism (that the academics of all stripes in the enlightenment called for) are deluded. It is a phalasy that we have capitalism... What we have is STATE Capitalism which seeks to centralise everything. The same goes for Conservative Socialism. What we need to do is ban central organisations like Central Banks and central regulation, we need to divide power to the PEOPLE.
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@SirPrised The ideal capitalism is not industrial.
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@wrath1987 Individuals have no voice. Thinks about it. Only the law ended slavery, outlawed 12 hour days, along with dangerous machinery, practices and substances. Little of this has been done voluntarily, if anything. The ideal capitalism IS slavery.
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Alba gu brath. First they ignore you, then they insult you, then they fight you, then you WIN.
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Beautiful version of a wonderful song
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