The Internationale by the Militant Tendency

Liverpool

[@aryashar2542]

SUPPORT FROM IRANIAN COUMMINST!!!!!!!!!!!!......

[@shojaejlali1290]

My dad used to sing this all the time at wrp meetings in the 80s. He was a communist from Iran. For me though the internationale isn't a communist song....its not concerned with such trivia as political ideology,far more beautiful and simpler than that!

[@toribenita_kyo]

Did you know... If you sing this song in the Philippines, your chances of being targeted by our repressive government increases to one hundred percent 😂?

[@firefirefire3277]

Some people even play this in a loud speaker near a military camp.

[@inzlt8142]

@@firefirefire3277 respect and solidarity to those people

[@SCARRIOR]

@@inzlt8142 Nah fuck those commies. If they had their way everyone would be bees no culture, no religion, nothing to be an individual about

[@rachelkaraoke7461]

My dads funeral we had 200 fists in the air singing this

[@Zizeksagalma]

Your father will not die in vain, for he is just one of the millions who fought their mortal lives for a future of freedom and prosperity!

[@Zizeksagalma]

@Sick Clips awesome

[@southerneruk]

@Sick Clips Not Communism. It's Socialist. Communist sing the Red Flag, Socialist sings the Internationale

[@southerneruk]

@Sick Clips Your right there. You can see the massive difference in Lenin Russia and Stalin Russia

[@unusedsub3003]

Brilliant! Must have been some fella! Solidarity from Lancashire ✊

[@fivequackingzephyrs]

For those that want the lyrics (mostly correct):
Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers
Arise ye criminals of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Refrain x2:
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
Thank you for the upload comrade

[@quizchallenger4350]

I’m going to play this to my 92 year old mum in her nursing home. She’s been a staunch socialist all her adult life

[@anothertime1282]

@@G1CAAAAEO Twerp.

[@fivequackingzephyrs]

@@G1CAAAAEOyou truly are a disgusting human.
neoliberal or pure reactionary I take it

[@trainpushingtutorials2822]

​@@G1CAAAAEO be ready for barbara pit 2.0 porky

[@MP-ut6eb]

Based af

[@edgarma4037]

@@G1CAAAAEO Most decent and empathetic capitalism supporter

[@Irontherion]

Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!✊

[@GamesNestful]

Greetings from Russia. I hope we will build a better version of socialism in Europe (or anywhere) during 21st century. But it will be hard enough in postmodern society.

[@Tom-ni1vl]

Socialism is inevitable considering the state of our world and planet. The final struggle will be during the 21st century.
Это есть наш последний
И решительный бой!
С Интернационалом
Воспрянет род людской!

[@mareklimanowski]

@@Tom-ni1vl 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul]

I don’t think Russia is going to be doing that any time soon…

[@Ari-ne2yb]

Yes, postmodernism is certainly an issue

[@Ashley-1917]

Is there a branch of the IMT in your area? Today, the Russian Marxists in the International Marxist Tendency are carrying on the legacy of the Militant in Russia, and across the world.
Greetings from the US! I hope to see you one day at one of our international congresses!

[@basicallystupid7080]

my funeral will be this.

[@eleanorcm7033]

A strong rendition

[@markcoupe845]

Terry Field what a truly great Socialist and a humble man RIP love from Manchester

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

Is Terry dead???? 😳😳😳😳😳

[@markcoupe845]

@@AsadAli-jc5tg yes brother he as gone a few years ago , what a great guy though ,love from Manchester

[@AsadAli-jc5tg]

@@markcoupe845 Sad news, utterly sad!

[@Ashley-1917]

Who was this comrade?

[@deanyoung5772]

@@Ashley-1917Terry was a proud socialist from Liverpool. He was an MP for Liverpool broad green from 1983-1991, he was banned from office after going to jail for refusing to pay the poll tax
He took the average workers wage of his industry (he was a fireman) as an MP and he is loved and respected by all in our city.
Rest in Power Terry, and long live Militant and it’s successor the Socialist Party!

[@kumbaya976]

Legend says singing this song for 5 hours straight with your fist in the air summons harold wilson

[@smuilc]

underrated comment

[@kr9297]

The last bit gives me goosebumps

[@tanpiltanpil]

Terry Field. What a great human being!!

[@AndrewArminRyan]

When the Left was working class.

[@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682]

The truth they don't want you to know: liberals are not the left, and the left is still the working class. In Kerala, India there are Marxists in charge and the state has the highest HDI, the highest literacy rate, the highest life expectancy, and has the highest media exposure in all of India.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_Legislative_Assembly

[@internationalrtg5602]

It still is to a large extent. Just that some have been brainwashed by corporate media

[@dafyddroff8084]

And when the working class was left, instead of being taken in by the false conciousness of the constantly online world

[@seductive_fishstick8961]

the left still is working class what are you talking about

[@laxin1231]

and before the working class bought into bourgeois culture war

[@briankiernansmith2433]

the good old days before the crap kicked in and destroyed the british labour movement.

[@anothertime1282]

It never dies. ruclips.net/video/n8Kxq9uFDes/видео.html

[@lizzieogrady9255]

Beautiful!

[@merseydave1]

When I sing The International, I'm touched with tears, tears on two levels 1, The people who have stood together across the world against oppression Now and Before. 2, Many working class people across the world who do not know this song or understand it.

[@soldierbhoy]

Workers of the world Arise.

[@kambge]

brilliant. love ya liverpool

[@cypherpillar9009]

Beautiful. Struggle songs are meant to be solos, sung by c-tier pop stars and folk artists. They're supposed to be sung en masse.

[@colinmcdonald8521]

Agreed, though I'd love to have heard the Internationale led by Joan Baez.

[@badger1296]

That was inspiring!

[@VigilantnotMilitant]

Solidarity forever!!!

[@GNRA1GreatNorthern1470]

Me and the bois when the gas/petrol prices rise by 1%

[@chestikov2011]

"Arise ye starlings from your slumber" Thats really cool a pub full of scouse Trotskyists singing about wildlife. I never knew Starlings hibernated.

[@JayNewberyy]

starvlings

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Starvelings. Google is your friend.

[@chestikov2011]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 No sense of humour then fishface ?

[@chestikov2011]

@@JayNewberyyNanas

[@robshepherd3782]

Idiots clearly don't.

[@ajwilliamson82]

Something you don't come across very often - a group of Anglo-Saxons singing The Internationale.

[@LeonWagg]

What do you mean lol? It's Liverpool. They have always been a socialist city.

[@mattymaclean621]

Scousers aren't particularly anglo-saxon

[@southerneruk]

@@mattymaclean621 What about Southampton and it is sung every year in London

[@mattymaclean621]

@@southerneruk largely Celtic descent in Liverpool

[@nopasaranexetercityfc4666]

Love lt.

[@theotimeyt]

Very descriptive description

[@idfk1123]

nice

[@menshevik7735]

We will get there. The trouble with people know is they think because they own their own homes there middle class there nor.

[@MFTQ]

Honestly I feel like militant could have defended the working class base of labour if they weren't destroyed.

[@DeepSohelia1]

Militant could have gone a lot further than that! But they lost sight of the importance of Marxist theory, of understanding that you need ideas and understanding, not just blind activism. The shameful actions of the clique that formed around Peter Taaffe because of this have set the British working class back years if not decades.

[@fenceyhen4249]

​@@DeepSohelia1 I've heard good things about Socialist Appeal. They're on the right track

[@beck7326]

@@fenceyhen4249 Come join us, comrade!

[@ginnybayliss8201]

@@fenceyhen4249 lol they were still advocating labour entryism until a couple of years ago. They've only just learned the lessons that Militant learned in '82

[@fenceyhen4249]

The results speak for themselves. Socialist Appeal is growing very rapidly - how has the open turn worked out for SPEW? They've fallen off. It's not even a matter of debate as as far as whether entryism vs the open turn worked better in 1991 - 2023, one approach has objectively succeeded and the other failed @@ginnybayliss8201

[@roadend78]

Scouse power !

[@trismica]

unite

[@rickyj5547]

Sing it in Saturday. The useless king.😊

[@sunnyxdays1036]

Love this fuckn city I salute you Liverpool from a Scottish comrade.

[@kr9297]

✊

[@drrbrt]

😍🥰

[@052delta]

Nice one Matt K, I just want to ask would you have the original documentary?

[@polakbolszewik234]

I do have it on a disc, I will PM you with details.

[@lizhang9898]

Given all that's happened in the Labour party, it makes me sentimental watching this video. Thanks! May I ask what documentary this is? would you mind sending me some details, thanks!

[@052delta]

Li - I have this documentary I can have a look over the weekend to see the best way to get it to you. I think you'll like it

[@lizhang9898]

Thanks so much Ciaran! I look forward to it.

[@andybentley2529]

HI comrades, can any of you tell me what year this was? I think it was when Terry had been re-elected in Broadgreen in the 1987 general election. Am I right?

[@tedphillips2121]

No it was the year he lost Broad Green. I was there.

[@angelsuarez6486]

@@tedphillips2121 it´s from a program on fields campaign in 92, when he lost in broadgreen

[@spartacusforlife1508]

Funny watching this. So many of the early 80's young militant activists had left by then. They'd grown up

[@user-jr3dx7wl6j]

Cry me eyes out looking at that.
Thank you.
Wheres it from ?

[@user-qe5ko2ss2w]

🥺✊️

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

Derek Hatton and his entourage ..used to intoned Militant times three to the tune of Here we go here we go here we go. Are Momentum any better at singing.?

[@Ashley-1917]

Is that a song? Where can I find it? How does it go? Do you know the lyrics they sang it with?

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

Militant Militant Militant Ere we go ere we go ere we go...and Dialectical Materialism with a Scouse accent. A wedge of red...

[@markcoupe845]

god bless the left

[@namethathasntbeentakenyetm3682]

o7

[@Liam000077]

What word does Terry use instead of prisoners in the opening line?

[@vizio444]

Starvelings.

[@aldenscoconut8785]

What year is this?

[@taylorturner8591]

1992

[@richarddarnell7205]

#CasinoPolitics?

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

When the country needed a labour government the most this is what they were doing

[@billhaywood3503]

trotskyites

[@ianedwards60]

Yes. Real socialists

[@zeeshanasif476]

I mean, Trotskyism as an ideology isn't that bad, but the way it rose, dividing the international socialist movement, is. Dammit, if only party democracy was restored in the Soviet Union, things would be so much better

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

Interesting that Trots actually knew the words (one verse anyway), even more interesting and ironic that they used the Communist Party's (the old CPGB) version of the song.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

What’s the ironic part of communists singing a communist song?

[@mauricecooper8786]

this song belongs to the working-class. sit down and shut up

[@anothertime1282]

The song was never owned by the Stalinists.

[@willjennings5252]

Just revisited the documentary this came from. Set in the time around the 1992 election as Militant was removed from Labour and effectively fought under its own steam.
The politics on display here couldn't be further from my own but it was an interesting insight ( and part of social history now I suppose).
It wasn't mentioned but this took place not long after the Berlin Wall came down and Eastern Europe was moving away from the very ideas espoused by Militant.
This song might be seen as rousing to some, it is somewhat darker to me

[@robshepherd3782]

What is your opinion on Ukraine.

[@billygough3636]

Hi Will, what's this documentary called? Thanks!

[@willjennings5252]

@billygough3636 I'm more concerned with what it's context is and what it's subtitle should be.

[@lucasscott-nk4oq]

Viva la franco 😂

[@bangpow6160]

Labor today is a bunch of posers

[@_steamfunk_2271]

I prefer to raise my hand like this
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[@zeeshanasif476]

I would say "Scratch a Liberal, and a fascist bleeds", but I'm not even sure if you are a liberal, rather just somebody who thinks offing people because of colour is based

[@_steamfunk_2271]

@@zeeshanasif476 huh?

[@SCARRIOR]

Heil Brother :)

[@kathymcbride2425]

loosers

[@Alan_Mac]

Great song, terrible politics.

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

You could say the same about the Horst Wessel Song

[@samirnodormir3097]

Yeah, trotzysts sucks

[@horacethemoocow2320]

Disgusting

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Ah, The Internationale. Still successfully triggering sad reactionaries of all sorts after 130 years.

[@georgeli4989]

like ur mum

[@horacethemoocow2320]

@@georgeli4989 lol, the ten year old is triggered, suck it up buttercup

[@oogatooga8280]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 It has a tendency to do that.
.. A Militant Tendency, if you will.

[@mlzplayer9243]

@@bigbowlowrong4694 "Disgusting" "no im not the one triggered its you"

[@miguilim1]

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