Jacobite, not Jacobin. This is the original tune of the Red flag Sung as a march and not the usual dirge. The main vocals on this track are actually Dick Gaughan.
Then who pays the workers? Socialism just trades one boss for another. Now you become the workers of a large government bureaucracy that sees you as just a number. You are a comrade because no one cares to learn your name. You are a cog in a machine and you can no longer protest or advocate for yourself. You are now meaningless. Stand in line and hope you get there before provisions run out. Pull your head out of the the fog of the fantasy and look at the history of socialism and communism and the price that people have paid. Socialism has failed everywhere it has gone. Without competition, with everyone expecting equal outcome no matter what measure of effort they put out, people will work at their minimum. Societies will fail. Look at Venezuela. Are you really willing to give up freedom for free things?
First raised by Dick Penderyn and Lewis yr Heliwr at the Merthr riots against the iron masters, Crawshay et. al, in 1831 when the British State sent troops from Brecon to confront the insurrection. Dick Penderyn was hanged at Cardiff Jail
Abolish income tax, instead tax all financial transactions where money passes from one person to another. Worlds problems solved. I think only the bosses (nowadays mega rich billionaires) would hate it.
Are all the people commenting underneath actually serious? Because this comments page reads like a parody of socialism, as if they're all neo-cons mocking the socialist movement for how ridiculously out of touch it is with the majority of the working population.
I once sided with socialism, until the blue and pink haired trigglypuffs turned me away. I'm too manly, too white, and too educated to fit the red agenda...
and good riddance to you then!, I say. What an odd thing to say? Go to a labour party meeting and see how many "blue and pink haired trigglypuffs" you'll find.
The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed in every fold Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It waved above our infant might When all ahead seemed dark as night It witnessed many a deed and vow We mustn't change it's color now Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It well recalls the triumphs past It gives the hope of peace at last The banner bright, the symbol plain Of human right and human gain Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It suits today the meek and base Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place To cringe beneath the rich man's frown And haul that sacred emblem down Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here With heads uncovered swear we all To bare it onward 'til we fall Come dungeons dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here
The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed to every fold Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath it's folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It waved above our infant might When all ahead seemed dark as night It witnessed many a deed and vow We must not change it's color now Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath it's folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It well recalls the triumphs past It gives the hope of peace at last The banner bright the symbol plain Of human right and human gain Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath it's folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It suits today the meek and base Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place To cringe beneath the rich man's frown And haul that sacred emblem down Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath it's folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here With heads uncovered swear we all To bare it onward till we fall Come dungeons dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath it's folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here
Where is the proofreader? All the "it's" should be changed to "its." Jeesh! Must one be "illiterate" to support socialist ideas? Hint: use "it's" only where "it is" would also be correct.
"Though cowards flinch, and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flying here!" Hats off to Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, may tonight be just the beginning!
Unfortunately, due to an unhealthy spike in weirdos trying to add the word 'National' in front of the word 'Socialism' in the party manifesto at the moment and Brexit about to chop our economy off at the knees, you may be a bit disappointed. Okay, rant over... (Hum's to self) "Oh, cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flyin' here..."
Cuba is actually far more successful than it's neighboring Nations in the Caribbean and Central America which is pretty impressive when you take the American Trade blockade into account.
Bragg is a great artist. He used to be in a punk band called Riff Raff. Check them out. "Romford Girls" is a great tune. All the tunes on the EP are terrific.
Lal Salaam (Red Salute) from Kerala (the state in India which had world's first democratically elected communist govt in 1957.) to comrades of World. Let borders never divide us. Communists unite.
@user-vr2vf9ty2j I mean, every Communist government is arguably democratically elected on some level or other - if the people were not with the Communists, then the Communists could not win, simple as. We don't have vast hordes of wealth and a history of world domination like the capitalists so we are built on people power
Alex Jones Actually that isn’t quite what happened. Labour got 33% of the vote after one of the most unfair campaigns in the history of this country, still beating the results of Brown and Miliband and getting more votes than Blair in 2005.
And on this day the United Kingdom took one massive step back to the left. The one the Tories belittled and mocked, whom the leaders past of his own party slandered and harangued him, has taken charge of her majesty's opposition!! The Labour party may very well wave the red flag again. I am full of hope.
+pendulumx On the contrary, Corbyn's exactly what the party needed. Whatever he costs Labour in the center, he'll more than make up by re-energizing the left which hasn't even bothered to vote because Labour just became the party of Austerity-Lite. That's why Labour lost voters to the SNP. It's even why they lost voters to UKIP, who simply wanted to join ANY party that was willing to stand up to the entrenched elite. Rather than driving people from Labour, Corbyn's campaign saw new members flocking to the party in droves. Labour will win because unlike New Labour, it's finally returned to representing the people rather than hugging the coat tails of the Conservatives.
Solidarity with our comrades across the globe-of all races, nationalities, abilities, sexualities, genders. Solidarity with our comrades from the past, our comrades today, and our comrades of tomorrow.
Since the downfall of the Soviet Union the working people have been under ever increasing attack by the ruling classes around the world. It’s time for another ideology to confront the Capitalist system. Up the Workers
I've loved Billy Bragg for a while now, but didn't know his version of this song until some commie friends played it in the closing scene of a play they put on in NYC. Now I listen to it every time I need a pick-me-up!
Why does this song always go against rising in its chorus? I feel like that would be more sonically satisfying to end with more intensity than they started. The whole piece feels anti-climatic and disappointing despite the great harmony and lyrics as a result, why Bill?
The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed in every fold Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It waved above our infant might When all ahead seemed dark as night It witnessed many a deed and vow We mustn't change it's color now Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It well recalls the triumphs past It gives the hope of peace at last The banner bright, the symbol plain Of human right and human gain Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It suits today the meek and base Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place To cringe beneath the rich man's frown And haul that sacred emblem down Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here With heads uncovered swear we all To bare it onward 'til we fall Come dungeons dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here
Fascism is pure depravity, as shown in the Horst-Wessel-Lied, a rhetorical and musical obscenity. The best fascist tune is Dixie, which says much (the KKK took it over)... but even that is good for a spoof. Oh, way down south in the Land of Traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators... Fascism, reactionary as it is, has never been friendly to creativity because it stands for a vile monstrosity, the degradation of workers into mere machines of meat either in the regimentation of the sweat-shop or the literal armies of subjection and enslavement.
@Alex Jones why are gender neutral toilets a problem for someone like you, also the real answer for this problem is genuine systemic change that will help working class people who vote torries to understand that they are only voting for the 1% and instead of fighting your fellow man you should work to benefit the collective something most of the people in my country understand
In the “Workers’ Song” by Scottish singer Dick Gaughan, he sings, “When the skies darken, and the prospect is war, who’s given a gun and pushed tae the fore? We’re expected to die for the land of our birth and we’ve never owned one handful of earth.” Raise the scarlet standard high!
Imagine Playing this as the revolution starts in london, pitchforks in hand, out with the current regime out with the monarchy, our voices no-longer heard.
I don’t know if you’ll ever see this but I’m looking for a documentary or an article (really anything) on the conception of the cpusa and the roll folk and country music had. I saw a documentary about 2 years ago on blues music and jazz; i remember it having a segment about how the cpusa was a primary factor for country music being so popular. It’s of my own opinion since seeing this video that cpusa used folk/country music to lure in burgious and thus plays a role in establishing rock and roll/ honky tonk. Obviously all these music genres take from the Blues and its scale. My point is Jazz music while it was big, it had subconsciously always been over shadowed by decadence. We live in a time of great immaturity and I think the music everyone listens and goes out of their way to find has had great affect on that.
Usually this song is sung to the tune of "Tannenbaum" but here it's sung to "The White Cockade", a Jacobin song.
Jacobite, not Jacobin. This is the original tune of the Red flag Sung as a march and not the usual dirge. The main vocals on this track are actually Dick Gaughan.
The white cockade? That’s it.
And he teases us with a bar of Tannenbaum before switching over to the White Cockade!
Well observed..
"O Tannenbaum" not "Tannenbaum". "Oh Christmas Tree" or "Oh [Pine {?}] Tree" not just 🇩🇪 "[Baum Spezies]baum" | 🇬🇧 "[Tree Species] Tree".
Edit:
And Jacobite not Jacobin.
Jacobin = 🇨🇵 French = _Invented_ the Red Flag 🚩 = 🚩🟥🔴 Left-wing (albeit eventually Terrorist 🚩⬛️🏴☠️🩸🩸💀☠️ Left-wing 🚩🟥 & Tyrannical 🟦⬛️🟫 🟪🟣👑🩸🩸🩸💀☠️☠️ "Left-Wing" "🚩🇫🇷"
Jacobite = 🏴 Scottish = 🟦⬛️🟫 🏴 🟣👑 ➕️ 🏴 🟣👑 ➕️ 🟩🟦 🟣👑 Reactionary 🏴 🟦✝️ 🟦 Tartan Tories = 🟦⬛️🟫 Right-Wing
The Bosses need the workers, but the workers don't need the Bosses. *Social Solidarity Forever*
Please Comrade join my Socialist circle.
Very Very Thanks Comrade
I wish all the working class could understand that
don't need the Bosses???Really?
Workers with no job are called: unemployed!
Unemployed peolpe are very happy, you should try it!!!
Then who pays the workers? Socialism just trades one boss for another. Now you become the workers of a large government bureaucracy that sees you as just a number. You are a comrade because no one cares to learn your name. You are a cog in a machine and you can no longer protest or advocate for yourself. You are now meaningless. Stand in line and hope you get there before provisions run out. Pull your head out of the the fog of the fantasy and look at the history of socialism and communism and the price that people have paid. Socialism has failed everywhere it has gone. Without competition, with everyone expecting equal outcome no matter what measure of effort they put out, people will work at their minimum. Societies will fail. Look at Venezuela. Are you really willing to give up freedom for free things?
@@claudialapa3594 interesting. but do not forget the bosses are not born, they are also from workers
By far my favourite version of this song.
Socialists ❤️
Solidarity from Bangladesh 🇧🇩.
The Noman It’s probably been a bit too long So probably won’t see this but solidarity form a Socialist from the uk 🇬🇧
me too 🇧🇩
@@suvodipadhikari9815 Fatten your pets up, socialist always end up eating them
If Bangladesh was communist it would be even more of a shithole than it already is
@@leaderofthebunch-deadbeat7716 Bangladesh is a shithole because corporate greed. It shall be the first to go red in the global revolution
Love and solidarity from Canada!
best version! off tho a world with one red flag!
Anarchist here. Hi to all my socialist brothers and friends!!! Unite against borders, governments and fascists
@@slavestongue6536 Probably both, comrade.
Proud social democrat. Not socialism but social democrat. I made myself a mini sign for the SOC DEMs to put out.
Christmas tree... oh christmas tree...
Thank god I'm not the only one who heard that
Yeah, its sung to the tune of "Oh, Tennenbaum" traditionally.
A German hymn with English lyrics written by an Irishman.
*plants red flag* its freedom time kidos
Common Pleb Radio 2017
This sounds like a communist American soldier...
ohhhh Jeremy Corbyn! #forthemanynotthefew.
First raised by Dick Penderyn and Lewis yr Heliwr at the Merthr riots against the iron masters, Crawshay et. al, in 1831 when the British State sent troops from Brecon to confront the insurrection. Dick Penderyn was hanged at Cardiff Jail
Jezza for PM!!!
Greetings from Ukraine!
Abolish income tax, instead tax all financial transactions where money passes from one person to another. Worlds problems solved. I think only the bosses (nowadays mega rich billionaires) would hate it.
Big up to you BB
Viva la revolution comrades
Happy May Day comrades!
Oh Tannenbaum :)
Merry Christmas Santa Marx
>bunkers
It is kind of weird that in 2019 I have to worry about commenting on a TH-cam tune.
Go hong Kong!!!!
Are all the people commenting underneath actually serious? Because this comments page reads like a parody of socialism, as if they're all neo-cons mocking the socialist movement for how ridiculously out of touch it is with the majority of the working population.
Great tune - much better than the dismal dirge which it is usually sung to. Might even persuade me to become a socialist. Or possibly not!
I once sided with socialism, until the blue and pink haired trigglypuffs turned me away. I'm too manly, too white, and too educated to fit the red agenda...
and good riddance to you then!, I say.
What an odd thing to say?
Go to a labour party meeting and see how many "blue and pink haired trigglypuffs" you'll find.
Mate i think ya went to a feminists rally
Well I'm glad to see the back of you, you fascist.
Same here brother! They want to destroy us!
*capitalism intensifies*
Hope y’all like bread shortages
Raise your fuckin fists!!!!
Cheers, corrected.
One of the best English-language songs of all time in my opinion. Gorgeous. Overflowing with truth, history and pride.
Salute to our Red Flag it makes so proud to be socialist
I always get chills listening to this song.
Beautiful.
Solidarity, comrades.✊
Socialists have all the best music. I don't know if I could be called a socialist, but I'm definitely a music lover
All extreme ideologies have great music it's a propaganda technique
@@gavinbalter9464 The liberalism is an extremist ideology,
that's the reason why USA music is so good
The tune not Socialist, I believe it’s a Jacobite tune ‘the White Cockade’
@WeeWeeJumbo nice profile pic
@@TheJollyReiver Robert Burns was a socialist. (well a proto socialist)
The people's flag is deepest red
It shrouded oft our martyred dead
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
Their hearts' blood dyed in every fold
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It waved above our infant might
When all ahead seemed dark as night
It witnessed many a deed and vow
We mustn't change it's color now
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It well recalls the triumphs past
It gives the hope of peace at last
The banner bright, the symbol plain
Of human right and human gain
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It suits today the meek and base
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe beneath the rich man's frown
And haul that sacred emblem down
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
With heads uncovered swear we all
To bare it onward 'til we fall
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim
This song shall be our parting hymn
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
We will fly red flag everywhere and keep it flying. Greetings from an Indian comrade to all comrades world over.
You can try bitch
Solidarity to you in these trying times under Modi and the fascist BJP, comrade.
@@NapoleonBonaparde we about to make it 3-0
Red 🔴🏳✊✊
Four legs good , two legs better meeeh
I have a flag pole in my garden (mad eh!) but I have just raised the red flag in honour of the Tory Party conference starting this week!!
Good on you! I have a red Chienese lamp cover that my Carer hung for me❤
Red flag for the Tory’s?
Every one needs to hear this song -it’s got heart and lives us all
'Ol crimson
We are all one nation... Our flag is red.. Long live the socialist revolutionarists. Greetings from a Turkish socialist to all bros and sisters..
+saykoloci73 Greetings comrade, one day we shall prevail and create one nation
+Martin Putt greetings from Dublin a working family man with the Turkish origins
+BrianJones1888 Greetings to you too
+saykoloci73 Greetings from former USSR.
+saykoloci73 You've got a long, hard struggle ahead of you, comrade. Best of luck.
Red salute and revolutionary greetings from India
From Italy too 🇻🇳
The people's flag is deepest red
It shrouded oft our martyred dead
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
Their hearts' blood dyed to every fold
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it's folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It waved above our infant might
When all ahead seemed dark as night
It witnessed many a deed and vow
We must not change it's color now
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it's folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It well recalls the triumphs past
It gives the hope of peace at last
The banner bright the symbol plain
Of human right and human gain
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it's folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It suits today the meek and base
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe beneath the rich man's frown
And haul that sacred emblem down
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it's folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
With heads uncovered swear we all
To bare it onward till we fall
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim
This song shall be our parting hymn
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it's folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
Hero.
Where is the proofreader? All the "it's" should be changed to "its." Jeesh! Must one be "illiterate" to support socialist ideas? Hint: use "it's" only where "it is" would also be correct.
@@miggiewarms632 Oh no, a random person on the internet used incorrect grammar! Whatever shall we do?
@@miggiewarms632 don't be classist. Improper grammar isn't our enemy.
I understand why the labor party omits it, but why do so many versions remove the verse about socialism in other countries?
"Though cowards flinch, and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flying here!"
Hats off to Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, may tonight be just the beginning!
Unfortunately, due to an unhealthy spike in weirdos trying to add the word 'National' in front of the word 'Socialism' in the party manifesto at the moment and Brexit about to chop our economy off at the knees, you may be a bit disappointed.
Okay, rant over... (Hum's to self) "Oh, cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flyin' here..."
Vote labor, vote left, end all of the capitalists!
If Labour really cared about the worker they wouldn’t be flooding your country with cheap workers and driving down wages.
Alex Roselle
> jeremy corbyn
> being a true internationalist anti capitalist
choose one or the other.
@@jamesbhollingsworth5452 you do realise that communism is meant to be borderless , we aren't against immigration
The time will come, and I myself will raise back the red flag over the Kremlin.
Сергей Строганов that will truly be a great day.
Reinhard Heydrich How do you know he's a jew comrade? Also are you a Nazi?
Reinhard Heydrich well yeah in socialism every one is equal but Don't be racest or anti-gay thank you
Liberty equality solidarity
Red flag
Solidarity to comrades in the UK.
Raise the scarlet standard high.
greetings from turkey long live socialist revolution...
+tufan yasar Long fight ahead of you, comrade. Let us hope the forces of fascism and imperialism do not heed you as they did in decades past.
Peace be with you comrade.
Yoldasssshhhhh!
Every day is a good day to be a Socialist! Raise the Red Flag high!
Come Comrade please join my Socialist circle.
Many Many Thanks Comrade
Right because you don't work you live off the labor and effort of others.
Cuba is actually far more successful than it's neighboring Nations in the Caribbean and Central America which is pretty impressive when you take the American Trade blockade into account.
Thats not what socialism is though Read a book.
TV-94 Why, Baby crying so much. Will you not like to be transported to past and Commit massacre.
Theres alot of wealth out there it just needs to be distributed.
means of production
It is distributed, just not very fairly! I think you meant redistributed!
Bragg is a great artist. He used to be in a punk band called Riff Raff. Check them out.
"Romford Girls" is a great tune. All the tunes on the EP are terrific.
Braggs a tosser🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Lal Salaam (Red Salute) from Kerala (the state in India which had world's first democratically elected communist govt in 1957.) to comrades of World. Let borders never divide us. Communists unite.
The first democratically elected communist government was in San Marino, 1945.
Solidarity to you in these trying times under Modi and the fascist BJP, comrade.
@@user-vr2vf9ty2j :p runner up is still nice but I didn't know that!
@user-vr2vf9ty2j I mean, every Communist government is arguably democratically elected on some level or other - if the people were not with the Communists, then the Communists could not win, simple as. We don't have vast hordes of wealth and a history of world domination like the capitalists so we are built on people power
Good riddance centrists from the Labour Party!
True Labour not new Labour.
You want to keep some centrists in the Labour Party because it keeps the party more electable.
@@henrystaples521 Corbyn did better in 2017 than anyone has since Blair's first term.
I wouldn't mind a few centrists in the party but they aren't even that.
Alex Jones Actually that isn’t quite what happened. Labour got 33% of the vote after one of the most unfair campaigns in the history of this country, still beating the results of Brown and Miliband and getting more votes than Blair in 2005.
And on this day the United Kingdom took one massive step back to the left. The one the Tories belittled and mocked, whom the leaders past of his own party slandered and harangued him, has taken charge of her majesty's opposition!! The Labour party may very well wave the red flag again. I am full of hope.
+Morgan Farr You're going to get fucking obliterated come the next election! You thought getting wiped out in Scotland was bad...
+pendulumx We won't get obliterated. We'll get a right kicking at the worst. Even then it's better die on our terms than live on someone elses.
+pendulumx , you obviously don't get the lyrics of 'The Red Flag'. And didn't everyone predict Corbyn wouldn't get this far? But there he is.
+pendulumx On the contrary, Corbyn's exactly what the party needed. Whatever he costs Labour in the center, he'll more than make up by re-energizing the left which hasn't even bothered to vote because Labour just became the party of Austerity-Lite. That's why Labour lost voters to the SNP. It's even why they lost voters to UKIP, who simply wanted to join ANY party that was willing to stand up to the entrenched elite. Rather than driving people from Labour, Corbyn's campaign saw new members flocking to the party in droves. Labour will win because unlike New Labour, it's finally returned to representing the people rather than hugging the coat tails of the Conservatives.
Richie Lomas To be honest I'm not too sure about him winning in 2020. However, I'm confident he's going to be damn effective leader of the opposition.
Left! Left! Left! Left!
Devastated for the uk after the GE... I'm still red
@Alex Jones big man
Greetings from Corsica comrades!
Watching this while waiting for the 2019 results. Now we must keep the red flag flying.
I like this version better than the Labour Party's version. This song sounds happier.
Solidarity with our comrades across the globe-of all races, nationalities, abilities, sexualities, genders. Solidarity with our comrades from the past, our comrades today, and our comrades of tomorrow.
Who else bumps this at max volume with the windows down through busy streets
🙋♂️
Crveni pozdrav or red salute from ex Yugoslavia, Belgrade
Good to hear it sung to the right tune! Down with Tannenbaum! Hold the scarlet standard high!
No mention of the great Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan? He takes at least an equal part in this performance, and is easily the better singer.
Since the downfall of the Soviet Union the working people have been under ever increasing attack by the ruling classes around the world. It’s time for another ideology to confront the Capitalist system. Up the Workers
What about trying anarchosyndicalism this time?
I've loved Billy Bragg for a while now, but didn't know his version of this song until some commie friends played it in the closing scene of a play they put on in NYC. Now I listen to it every time I need a pick-me-up!
Why Commie, bud? My Dad used to sing it. He was the best!! God rest him.
@@neilbendon844the red flag is the universal symbol for socialism, which itself is the path toward the final stage of human development - communism.
@@fredfairley7724 A lot better than RWNJS. eg. Hitler.
yes laaads
I love this version, too!
Why does this song always go against rising in its chorus? I feel like that would be more sonically satisfying to end with more intensity than they started. The whole piece feels anti-climatic and disappointing despite the great harmony and lyrics as a result, why Bill?
The people's flag is deepest red
It shrouded oft our martyred dead
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
Their hearts' blood dyed in every fold
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It waved above our infant might
When all ahead seemed dark as night
It witnessed many a deed and vow
We mustn't change it's color now
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It well recalls the triumphs past
It gives the hope of peace at last
The banner bright, the symbol plain
Of human right and human gain
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
It suits today the meek and base
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe beneath the rich man's frown
And haul that sacred emblem down
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
With heads uncovered swear we all
To bare it onward 'til we fall
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim
This song shall be our parting hymn
Raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here
Thanks
The volume gets lower in some parts, and the lyrics are a bit muddled sometimes. Other than that, great song!
Although i am not a socialist i do agree with some of their ideals and their music absolutely smashes any of the fascist anthems
Fascism is pure depravity, as shown in the Horst-Wessel-Lied, a rhetorical and musical obscenity. The best fascist tune is Dixie, which says much (the KKK took it over)... but even that is good for a spoof.
Oh, way down south in the Land of Traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators...
Fascism, reactionary as it is, has never been friendly to creativity because it stands for a vile monstrosity, the degradation of workers into mere machines of meat either in the regimentation of the sweat-shop or the literal armies of subjection and enslavement.
Do not lose heart comrades, FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW
@Alex Jones why are gender neutral toilets a problem for someone like you, also the real answer for this problem is genuine systemic change that will help working class people who vote torries to understand that they are only voting for the 1% and instead of fighting your fellow man you should work to benefit the collective something most of the people in my country understand
@Alex Jones They might help some people, yeah. Because we care about people other than ourselves.
@AJ K. Lawson was that honestly necessary?
I stand beneath the scarlet standard.
In the “Workers’ Song” by Scottish singer Dick Gaughan, he sings, “When the skies darken, and the prospect is war, who’s given a gun and pushed tae the fore? We’re expected to die for the land of our birth and we’ve never owned one handful of earth.” Raise the scarlet standard high!
Ecosocialism is the way to go!😅
281 Blairites hated this.
Let's do this United workers will never fail one worker nothing collective power there is nothing like it solidarity comrades brothers and sisters
Keep her Flying!
Imagine Playing this as the revolution starts in london, pitchforks in hand, out with the current regime out with the monarchy, our voices no-longer heard.
It will never happen because people are not that stupid to vote for communism
Republicanism is dead in Britain because we have a Constitutional Monarchy with Fair Representation for the people.
@@Jockster109 boss and business is capitalism, not socialism or communism, though you do make some good points.
@@JamesTQuack I changed my mind on the monarchy lmao
For republicanism. No more kings and queens. Free Ireland, free Scotland and Wales.
How German Christmas caroll became red :D But good song especially Billy version.
what side are you on boys corbynn forever
So you're a fascist.
Of Corbynn.
since when was ukip a fascist party
@@newg4515 This comment hasn't aged well, has it
N T British politics has been tipped on its head since I made that comment lmao
Who else is re-watching this on “Flag Day” (June 14th in the USA)?
Without us there's nothing, yet when we can't we're nothing.
Fair?
Thoughts.
JEZZA BOUT TO DO IT, THE ABSOLUTE BOY
We will keep the red flag flying here
Shake of your chains to earth like dew wit with sleep as enslaved apon you YE ARE MANY THEY ARE FEW
Solidarity ✊️
Yes!!!! A good song, A Great song. Good on ya Billy Bragg!
Joey
👍🍀Ireland 💪 🇮🇪🇮🇪
comrade any chance you could make "In Defense of Enver Hoxha
" videos available? or if you prefer give me access privately
THE ABSOLUTE BOY
Aye, there's Billy Bragg singing but don't forget about Dick Gaughan...
gooooo corbynnnnn
Now
SUPERB
Solidarity is needed across the world together we stand as our voices are becoming whispers!
Solidarity now, solidarity forever
Loud tonight in the heart of Maryhill!! ✊ ☭
Solidarity Comrades
JC4PM!
BS4Prez
I don’t know if you’ll ever see this but I’m looking for a documentary or an article (really anything) on the conception of the cpusa and the roll folk and country music had. I saw a documentary about 2 years ago on blues music and jazz; i remember it having a segment about how the cpusa was a primary factor for country music being so popular. It’s of my own opinion since seeing this video that cpusa used folk/country music to lure in burgious and thus plays a role in establishing rock and roll/ honky tonk. Obviously all these music genres take from the Blues and its scale. My point is Jazz music while it was big, it had subconsciously always been over shadowed by decadence. We live in a time of great immaturity and I think the music everyone listens and goes out of their way to find has had great affect on that.
Not Labour, For now✊🏻🚩