Sing it! This is Deutschland!
Oktober 9, 2007“This Is England”
I hear a gang fire on a human factory farm
Are they howling out or doing somebody harm
On a catwalk jungle somebody grabbed my arm
A voice spoke so cold it matched the weapon in her palm
This is England
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
This is how we feel
Time on his hands freezing in those clothes
He won’t go for the carrot
They beat him by the pole
Some sunny day confronted by his soul
He’s out at sea, too far off, he can’t go home
This is England
What we’re supposed to die for
This is England
And we’re never gonna cry no more
Black shadow of the Vincent
Falls on a Triumph line
I got my motorcycle jacket
But I’m walking all the time
South Atlantic wind blows
Ice from a dying creed
I see no glory
When will we be free
This is England
We can chain you to the rail
This is England
We can kill you in a jail
The British boots go kick them
Got ‘em in the head
Police ain’t watchin’
The newspapers been read
Who cares to protest
A (???) in the eye like a flare
Out came the batons and
The British warned themselves
This is England
The land of (il)legal dances
This is England
Land of a thousand stances
This is England
This knife of Sheffield steel
This is England
This is how we feel
This is England
This is England
The Clash, 1985
Was die britische Protofaschistin Thatcher mit ihren Miners 83/84 durchzog, nämlich den mittleren und kleinen Einkommensbeziehern Großbritanniens das Rückgrat zu brechen und sie bis ins Mark zu demütigen, das erledigt in Deutschland die Justiz: Die Urteile der Arbeitsgerichte im Tarifstreit zwischen der Bahn AG und der GDL markieren eine Wegscheide in der Tarifautonomie. Künftig werden verhandlungsunwillige Arbeitgeber Streiks einfach verbieten lassen. Der zweite große Schlag der Neofeudalen nach dem § 116 AFG!
Es wird Zeit für einen neuen Klassenkampf, in dem starke Gewerkschaften der vereinten neoliberalen Macht die Stirn bieten und sagen: “Arsch lecken! Wenn unser starker Arm es will, dann stehen Eure Räder still!” Dann kann der Staat so viele Leute in den Knast stecken wie er will oder seine faschistische Fratze zeigen. Es wird nicht helfen.
Es reicht!
Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And put it in the attic with the emperors old clothes
When did it fall apart? Sometime in the 80s
When the Great and the Good gave way to the greedy and the mean
Britain isn’t cool you know, its really not that great
It’s not a proper country, it doesn’t even have a patron saint
It’s just an economic union that’s passed its sell-by date
Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And ask our Scottish neighbours if independence looks any good
‘Cos they just might understand how to take an abstract notion
Of personal identity and turn it into nationhood
Is this the 19th century that I’m watching on tv?
The dear old Queen of England handing out those MBEs
Member of the British Empire - that doesn’t sound too good to me
Gilbert and George are taking the piss aren’t they?
Gilbert and George are taking the piss.
What could be more British than here’s a picture of my bum?
Gilbert and George are taking the piss
Take down the Union Jack, it clashes with the sunset
And pile all those history books, but don’t throw them away
They just might have some clues about what it really means
To be an Anglo hyphen Saxon in England.co.uk
Billy Bragg