Re: Blair Party Sing-along
- From: "gricer" <shrbw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Sep 2005 10:37:49 -0700
lorad474@xxxxxx wrote:
> 'The Red Flag'?
> What's that commie crap into?
In European history, the red flag has a very long tradition. It
predates the communist era, and it even predates Marx. Instances of its
use can be traced back to the seventeeth century.
It has always symbolised the plight and the resolution of the opressed
and downtrodden in society, and the red symbolises their lifeblood -
shed on the battlefield as cannon fodder, or paid as a result of
exploitation.
The Independent Labour Party, and then the Labour Party, adopted it as
their symbol in the days when working people suffered from the ravages
of a capitalism that was also red in tooth and claw. It is still used
by the present Labour Party as a tradition. But when decent people see
it performed by a platform that includes Tony Blair, they feel like
vomiting. Mr. Wolfgang, by the way, a man in his eighties, had been
physically ejected from the Conference the previous day for shouting
"rubbish" in the course of a speech touching upon Iraq by Jack Straw,
our Foreign Secretary.
That, I suppose, is what happens if you mix too much with George
Bush...you get smeared by the poltical slime that trails in his
wake....
Dr. Barry Worthington
>
> For educational purposes:
>
> "Julian Glover, political correspondent
> Friday September 30, 2005
> The Guardian
>
> Labour sang the Red Flag yesterday and a modest man in a blue suit was
> back in the hall to join in. With a CND badge, a shock of white hair
> and a slow, stooping gait Walter Wolfgang returned to his party's
> conference to steal it back from New Labour on behalf of the
> grassroots.
> "Hi Walter, shout out if you are here - or maybe you shouldn't," said
> John Reid from the conference platform, his menacing Glasgow humour
> capturing the tone of a day that was half jocular, half threatening."
>
> http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2005/story/0,16394,1581611,00.html
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