Labour sing Communist anthem in Parliament

[eternal_spirit]

Red Ed sings the Commie hits (30Sept10) - YouTube
and the party sings the Commie song that Labour know so well.

Recorded from BBC Parliament, 30 September 2010.

Note the last line of the the song "We'll keep the red flag flying."

[eternal_spirit]

The red flag is most strongly associated in public consciousness with Communism and forms the backdrop to the flag of the People's Republic of China and the flag of the Soviet Union. As well, "waving a red flag" is a euphemism for incitement.

The five-pointed red star is a symbol of Communism and represents the five fingers of the worker's hand, as well as the five (inhabited) continents. It was often used to represent the rule of the Communist Party.

[eternal_spirit]

"Things Can Only Get Better"
"The Red Flag" was a key part of UK Labour Party conferences for most of the party's history. In 1986, the symbol of a red flag ceased to be the Labour Party' s official symbol, replaced with a red rose. Veteran Labour Cabinet Minister, Tony Benn wrote a version of the song to mark the moment:
"The People's Rose in shades of pinks,
Gets up my nostrils and it stinks,
But e'er our limbs grow stiff and cold,
Our old red flag we shall unfold." (Tony Benn, End of an Era: Diaries 1980-1990)
The song continued to be sung even during the New Labour era, despite the popularity of the D:Ream 1997 general election anthem, "Things Can Only Get Better"


. The tradition was ended after the 1999 conference but brought back in 2003 amid recognition of its important place in the A Pleasant Change from Politics: Music and the British Labour Movement Between the Wars: Amazon.co.uk: Duncan Hall: 9781873797297: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510NHHZR39L.@@AMEPARAM@@510NHHZR39L. It was also the norm for Labour Party delegates to sing "Auld Lang Syne" after "The Red Flag" as a sign of solidarity and fellowship.


Read more at Suite101: The Red Flag: History of a Song (http://www.suite101.com/content/the-red-flag-history-of-a-song-a260446#ixzz13XikB5XM) http://www.suite101.com/content/the-red-flag-history-of-a-song-a260446#ixzz13XikB5XM

[blue2]

The tune she sang also sounds like the American song..

[eternal_spirit]

The tune she sang also sounds like the American song..
Which one?

Oh Christmas tree is the one I recognise we sang this at school in the UK, different words of course but same tune.

"The Red Flag" Sung to "Tannebaum" (aka Oh Christmas Tree)


It was standard practice for socialist songs and anthems in the late 19th and early 20th century to be set to very familiar tunes. This way crowds, and in even choirs and singers, could learn and sing a song without being able to read music. Working-class school children were taught the "tonic sol-fa (http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/education/music-ed/curwen-method/curwen.php)" system of learning tunes in elementary schools once such schooling became the norm (from 1870 onwards). However, it took some time for students equipped with this skill to make it to socialist gatherings, and by that time, the practice was declining.


"Tannenbaum" was a well-known tune and the words fitted to it very easily. This became the well-known, anthemic version of the song. It did not win universal acclaim, however.



Connell is said to have preferred his original choice of tune, and George Bernard Shaw condemned it as a dirge, apperently calling it "the funeral march of a fried eel", according to Winston Churchill in Great Contemporaries (1937).

[hadabusa]

yup, tannenbaum remix.

they call opposition traitors.

lol

[meksar]

Communist cocksuckers the lot of them.

[the freeman]

lol,

I do not vote, never have voted and favour no political party.

I would however like to air my opinion on the above.

I call it as i see according to the facts of the past.

Were it not for the Labour party the vast majority of families in Britain would still be living in one bedroom flats as there great grand-parents were at the beginning of the 1900's.

[eternal_spirit]

Sang in honour of Stalin, Marx, Kaganovich (Stalin's brother in law) Lenin, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao.

All nice folks who never killed no one :rolleyes:

[one666]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUDM4ryVo0
and the party sings the Commie song that Labour know so well.

Recorded from BBC Parliament, 30 September 2010.

Note the last line of the the song "We'll keep the red flag flying."

I have known this for years as my mother was mixed up with them in the 1970's and they always sang keep the red flag flying and all wore communist red ties and their emblem was a communist red carnation but strangely enough, try telling someone on the street and they won't believe you. No one believed me.

[eternal_spirit]

Ed Miliband's Labour-Communist Gang

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[ragnarok]

I don't see what everyone's beef is about The Communists... what harm did Jimmy Somerville ever do anybody?

[ladybird]

Ed Miliband's Labour-Communist Gang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEl1pVe4NT0&feature=related

It's the same here in Germany aka FRG LTD.
And everyone who is no communist/extreme leftist gets defamed as NAZI.

Seems as if communism must gain momentum worldwide to bring about the final financial crash.

Prophecy has it like this.

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[eternal_spirit]

I don't see what everyone's beef is about The Communists... what harm did Jimmy Somerville ever do anybody?
He was used as state propaganda in the "80's" to run away on a train. It wasn't about being gay the subliminal message was really this - "Get on the train and look for work."

[meksar]

How many people did Stalin and Mao kill? and we are not constantly reminded about that by the media and education system, Communists create the problems, the gutless public react to them and the Fascists offer the solutions to the problems created in the first place.

[steevo]

It's almost as if New Labour are doing all this on purpose :confused: It's as if they WANT us to hate them :confused: I mean, how can ANYONE (even the sheeple) like New Labour ? :confused: New Labour are incredibly ridiculous, and have been that way for a long while now.
Maybe they are such evil bastards, that they are unable to hide it. Or maybe it's all part of the plan to have scapegoats ? Who knows.

[eternal_spirit]

I think some of them are Neo Stasi reds.

We buy gas and (coal also?) from Russia, we used to have our own industries and mines.
Borrowed money from the Chinese.
Formely two of the biggest red countries known.

[eternal_spirit]

Red is red.

[baucanflag]

Oh no what about my avatar and flag name. Is this good or bad for me. I only choose it because it sounded good.