The English Internationale is Distilled Entitlement and Laziness

Where's the entitlement?

Of course you're not gonna find good songs in the current SJW culture. Starting by looking somewhere else: youtube.com/watch?v=fTJWLVdoa1c

forgot to add, "The Last Lincoln Veteran" literally drives me to tears

Fuck, that's a nice song. One of the few leftist songs in English I've heard that doesn't sound 80 years old.

that the revolution would start if we just sing songs.

Gee user, I wonder why?

holy shit how did the CPUSA manage to make
their lyrics WORSE than the american version's existing "The international working class"

(british version maintains "internationale" but replaces "will be the human race" with "unites the human race" which IMO misses the point: it's not some organization on high that will save us, the Internationale is the people.)

youtu.be/Hfx87Nl3dXY
youtu.be/n8Kxq9uFDes

The French version is and has always been the only true version.

Debout les damnés de la Terre
Debout les forçats de la faim…

Then you'd REALLY hate the Dutch version, which literally says: "The Internationale will rule on Earth tomorrow!"

The Danish version says "Og Internationalen slår bro fra kyst til kyst", which means "And the International will build bridges from coast to coast".

Is Danish infrastructure really that bad?

I prefer the German version
youtu.be/L9Sy6BP_CNY

Man, videos from ☭TANKIE☭ countries always make me sad.

Nah because the nature of the Internationale is ambiguous in that case, it's still open that it COULD be The People ruling on earth tomorrow. "humanity will unite humanity" is just incoherent, on the other hand.

It not very compelling when some barely starvation avoiding peasants on potato diets tell the rulers of the world about ending starvation while those gulp down burgers and stakes, so they probably changed it to something appealing.

Billy Bragg is liberal trash and people have always thought he ruined it
Along with the CPUSA one, I'd recommend the Socialist Victory Choir's rendition

Yo why not just make a new modern version anyone? Maybe just modernise up the old English version?

In Swedish it's "ty Internationalen, åt alla lycka bär" which translates to "For the international will bring fortune to all"

there are multiple English internationale versions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale#English_lyrics
interestingly the "entitlement and laziness" one dates from the 1980s, despite seeming more Blair era in general.

I like the Socialist Victory Choir version on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=PTKgW4xej5s which I believe is just the British version.

maybe it's because i'm mad but I tend to interpret "The Internationale unites the human race" as being the song uniting the human race.
though this may be transposing the (abysmal) bragg version interpretation that "The Internationale unites the world in song."

Speaking of the internationale uniting people,
MULTI LANGUAGE DISCO VERSION
youtube.com/watch?v=MK-Eee_RkJQ
it's not the best lyrics, but unlike Bragg it gets let off because it's fun

my n'wah

The Bragg version is bland liberalism but the CPUSA version is grating LARP to anyone born after the 1940s. The only good english rendition of the song is drunkely shout-sung in a crowded pub

i'm not sure if this is some kind of advanced trolling or cuckdem false flag shitposting of a quality i have not seen before but "the internationale" is refering to the IWA, i mean you gotta be fucking kidding me, right?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPX9cJHXyI

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnEAH5wCzo

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVnur5DkdI

Tbh, I wrote my own set of lyrics because most english versions are either really archaic or shite (although Alistair Hulett gets a pass because his arrangement is good). Here they are:
Brothers and sisters come join us
For our time has fine’ly come
The old regime shall not destroy us
The elite will be undone
We call for liberty and freedom
and the products of our toil
We care not if it is treason
We demand our sacred soil

Chorus:
So comrades come rally, for the last fight let us face
The internationale, unites the human race
So comrades come rally, because we’ve waited oh so long
The internationale, shall never be undone

Second verse, with nicked lines from Billy Bragg:
We sha’n’t be pawns for their conflicts
We won’t die for their pride
We’ve seen before their old tricks
We know of their lies
Let ignorance and hate be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom’s just privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by all

Also the British leftist movement doesn't sing the Internationale, it sings the Red Flag and Jerusalem:
youtu.be/-SHhXMzXFl0

Now Scotland has the best leftist songs:
youtu.be/m4j-tWfvSsw

the red flag
youtube.com/watch?v=kL6pps_s4K8
the commonwealth of toil
youtube.com/watch?v=Nj_8I1Ion5U

Okay I have never heard that version my god it is beautiful.

The red flag is awful, besides using the same melody as O Tannenbaum, it sounds like a funeral dirge, I've been to political parties (yes they're full of weirdos and nerds and other misfits), and one can sing uplifting songs like Bandierra Rosa, Solidarity Forever, Ode To Joy and The Internationale after a drunk stuppor, but The Red Flag is a pretty sombre song.

I cringe that the Labour Party uses it as their anthem, we need something lively and catchy.

The Co-op Party funnily enough uses Auld Lang Syne which feels too placid and restraint, I've actually sung it at two of the conferences, it doesn't feel very inspiring.

Honestly thats why I like it. The Red Flag is a song of grim determination that says that no matter how bad things get we will keep fighting.

Eh depends, The Red Flag was originally meant to be sung to the tune of "The White Cockade".
youtu.be/-v3qM24EwVI

I like it, it works very well with a brass band tbf.
youtu.be/WHgEzLrw3MQ

Always prefered Jerusalem as the hymn of English socialism tho.
"And I shall not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
'Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's Green and Pleasant Land".
It was written in the backdrop of the 1800s British Revolutionary revolts, so it's not some weird appropriation.

I love the Commonwealth of Toil. Wobblies are best

forgot to bad that singing it to The White Cockade is way better

*add

[triggered]

rodina is still cuter

sounding like a funeral dirge is great for political theatre though
I mean, could you imagine the Labour government singing Bandierra Rosa when it fell in 1979?

Tbh the Internationale is horrendously out of date; I personally mix bits and pieces of all the different English versions together.

At the rate the world is going The Stand (Man or Machine) is more appropriate than The Internationale.

Try this version of "The Red Flag," has much more of a jaunty and defiant tone to it. I think it was in some earlier versions of Kaiserreich for Darkest Hour.

youtube.com/watch?v=zEKYQ4GOqmk

What the fuck is this image?

Kaiserreich is a mod for a couple Paradox games where the US remains neutral during WWI, the Central Powers eke out a victory, the Bolsheviks fail in Russia, and political unrest in the defeated Entente countries causes successful syndicalist revolutions in the UK and France. The US gets hit even harder by the Great Depression than in our timeline and has an administration that takes a hard lassiez-faire line and fails to implement even succdem measures, radicalizing national politics and causing a multi-party civil war in most playthroughs. The image is stereotyping who plays as what side in the conflict. CSA = IWW on steroids under Jack Reed, MacArthur = military junta controlling what's left of the federal government under General MacArthur, AUS = faction that can range from succdemish Southern populists under Huey Long to full blown KKK mode under Pelly. Garner's leadership almost never happens.

...

i always still play the darkest hour version and i hear the next update will have more CSA options w/ earl browder if you want to go full ameri-stalin. it's gonna be good.

Brothers and sisters come join us
For our time has fine’ly come
The old regime shall not destroy us
The elite will be undone
We call for liberty and freedom
and the products of our toil
We care not if it is treason
We demand our sacred soil
Chorus:
So comrades come rally, for the last fight let us face
The internationale, unites the human race
So comrades come rally, because we’ve waited oh so long
The internationale, shall never be undone
Second verse, with nicked lines from Billy Bragg:
We sha’n’t be pawns for their conflicts
We won’t die for their pride
We’ve seen before their old tricks (or We can see through their deception)
We know of their lies (or And we know of all their lies)
Let ignorance and hate be ended (or Let hateful ignorance be ended)
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom’s just privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by all
(Chorus)
It is we who design all their cities
It is we who build them high
Yet they claim ownership our work
All their wealth is one great lie
They cannot be voted out of power
They won't go without a fight
We must ready for a revolution
Workers of the world unite!
(Chorus)

Thanks for this. "Preacher and the Slave" is amazing. Unironically my new favorite song.

Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:

CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

…

Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight;
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

FINAL CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you've learned how to cook and to fry.
Chop some wood, 'twill do you good,
And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.

Aren't you forgetting somebody?

Eh the last verse could use some word setting, but apart from that pretty decent. What about this:

T'was we who ploughed the counties
We built the cities high
Yet they claim all the work we have done
All their wealth is one great lie
They cannot, be ask'd out of power,
They won't go without a fight
Prepare, comrades for revolution
Workers of the world unite!

Also tbh might do a recording of The Red Flag to the White Cockade like tomorrow.

Mm Das da good shit.
I love your chorus m8.
"The Internationale shall never be undone!"
Da tru truth. Should chuck your shit on the Wikipedia page as "The Internationale 2: Proletariat boogaloo"

Fuck yes

t.12 yearold

I do my best.

Self-described communist band
youtu.be/QkM-r4ZdX1o

Woody Gutherie (arguably the great impact)
youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

Thank you

"Union Town"
youtu.be/a5ZT71DxLuM

To be fair Irish are honorary non anglo

We are Celts, not Anglo. However we are in the Anglosphere in a way, as we speak English. Similar to Francophone Africa, some regions of India or South Africa can be considered Anglosphere

shouldn't you be liking Minion macros on faceboot, boomer?

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Rate my literal translations. French is copied from wikipedia, rest are OC.

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Ignore the markup, couldn't find any other site that keeps the formating.