A positive mine of worthless information
Part of the union lyrics
Now I'm a union man
Amazed at what I am
I say what I think
That the company stinks
Yes I'm a union man.
When we meet in the local hall
I'll be voting with them all
With a hell of a shout
It's out brothers out
And the rise of the factories' fall.
Chorus Oh you don't get me
I'm part of the union
You don't get me
I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die,
till the day I die.
As a union man I'm wise
To the lies of the company spies
And I don't get fooled
By the factory rules
'Cause I always read between the lines.
And I always get my way
If I strike for higher pay
When I show my card To the Scotland Yard
This what I say.
Chorus Oh you don't get me
I'm part of the union
You don't get me
I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die,
till the day I die.
Before the union did appear
My life was half as clear
Now I've got the power
To the working hour
And every other day of the year.
So though I'm a working man
I can ruin the government's plan
Though I'm not too hard
The sight of my card
Makes me some kind of superman.
Chorus Oh you don't get me
I'm part of the union
You don't get me
I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die,
till the day I die.
(The song is by the Strawbs and it has been taken (presumably bought off) by the Norwich Union bank formerly a building society. Capitalism incorporates dissent. It is a trick as old as the class struggle is old.)
Wannsee Conference
The basis of the film "Conspiracy" which deals with a conference at which the final solution was given the nod by high-ranking Nazi and SS officials and the primacy of the SS was asserted.
A copy of the minutes of the Wannsee conference (as edited by Heydrich)
Lyrics to What did you learn in school today
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine ?
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
1 I learned that Washington never told a lie,
I learned that soldiers seldom die,
I learned that everybody`s free,
and that`s what the teacher said to me.
That`s what I learned in school today, that`s what I learned in school.
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine ?
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
2. I learned that policemen are my friends,
I learned that justice never ends,
I learned that murderers die for their crimes,
even if we make a mistake sometimes.
That`s what I learned in school today, that`s what I learned in school.
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine ?
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
3. I learned that government must be strong,
it`s always right and never wrong,
our leaders are the finest men,
and we elect them again and again and again and again.
That`s what I learned in school today, that`s what I learned in school.
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine ?
What did you learn in school today, dear little boy of mine?
4. I learned that war is not so bad,
I learned about the great ones we have had,
we fought in Germany and in France,
and some day am I to get my chance.
That`s what I learned in school today, that`s what I learned in school.
(Pete Seeger)
Benjamin Zephaniah's response on being offered an OBE:
"Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought. I get angry when I hear
that word "empire"; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands
of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped
and my forefathers brutalised. It is because of this concept of empire
that my British education led me to believe that the history of black
people started with slavery and that we were born slaves, and should
therefore be grateful that we were given freedom by our caring white
masters. It is because of this idea of empire that black people like
myself don't even know our true names or our true historical culture. I
am not one of those who are obsessed with their roots, and I'm
certainly not suffering from a crisis of identity; my obsession is
about the future and the political rights of all people. Benjamin
Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly
anti-empire."
...snip...
"Me, OBE? Whoever is behind this offer can never have read any of
my work. Why don't they just give me some of those great African works
of art that were taken in the name of the empire and let me return them
to their rightful place? You can't fool me, Mr Blair. You want to
privatise us all; you want to send us to war. You stay silent when we
need you to speak for us, preferring to be the voice of the US. You
have lied to us, and you continue to lie to us, and you have poured the
working-class dream of a fair, compassionate, caring society down the
dirty drain of empire. Stick it, Mr Blair - and Mrs Queen, stop going
on about the empire. Let's do something else. "
This contrasts with the disgusting Roger McGough. The author
of "Conservative Government Unemployment Fugures" responded to an offer
of a gong from Thatcher by kissing her ass (metaphor!)