Socialist And Labor Songs: An International Revolutionary Songbook

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Features 77 songs - including lyrics and sheet music - of solidarity, revolt, humour and revolution. Compiled over several generations from American and around the world, these powerful songs were originally written in English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Yiddish. From IWW anthems such as 'The Preacher and the Slave' to Lenin's favourite 1905 revolutionary anthem 'Whirlwinds of Danger', many works by the world's greatest radical songwriters are anthologised herein.

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"I've always known our political and social movements as singing movements, and have been continually astonished at the scope and variety of our people's music... These songs are like endangered species that have been restored to the present, to the land of the living. They stuck up for us long ago during dark and troubled times. Our times are dark and troubled, too, but our old songs are still here with us to see us through. Sing away!"
--Utah Phillips

Author Bio

Elizabeth Morgan is a longtime socialist activist who ran for Congress in Ohio on the Socialist ticket. She is a progressive educator and founder of the Arthur Morgan School, a progressive boarding school for grades seven through nine in Burnsville, North Carolina. She lives in Chicago. Utah Phillips was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet who often promoted the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words.