The Red Flag - Billy Bragg

Hey! Good song isn't it? This is "The Red Flag" by Billy Bragg in his album "The Internationale".

[@30071997kario]

The Bosses need the workers, but the workers don't need the Bosses. *Social Solidarity Forever*

[@Kapil70]

Please Comrade join my Socialist circle. Very Very Thanks Comrade

[@helloskinny510]

I wish all the working class could understand that

[@claudialapa3594]

don't need the Bosses???Really? Workers with no job are called: unemployed! Unemployed peolpe are very happy, you should try it!!!

[@maxmaere2253]

Then who pays the workers? Socialism just trades one boss for another. Now you become the workers of a large government bureaucracy that sees you as just a number. You are a comrade because no one cares to learn your name. You are a cog in a machine and you can no longer protest or advocate for yourself. You are now meaningless. Stand in line and hope you get there before provisions run out. Pull your head out of the the fog of the fantasy and look at the history of socialism and communism and the price that people have paid. Socialism has failed everywhere it has gone. Without competition, with everyone expecting equal outcome no matter what measure of effort they put out, people will work at their minimum. Societies will fail. Look at Venezuela. Are you really willing to give up freedom for free things?

[@ubiquity-wk5nb]

​@@claudialapa3594 interesting. but do not forget the bosses are not born, they are also from workers

[@modelemployee]

One of the best English-language songs of all time in my opinion. Gorgeous. Overflowing with truth, history and pride.

[@DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb]

Every one needs to hear this song -it’s got heart and lives us all

[@Ambidexter143]

Usually this song is sung to the tune of "Tannenbaum" but here it's sung to "The White Cockade", a Jacobin song.

[@janejones5292]

Jacobite, not Jacobin. This is the original tune of the Red flag Sung as a march and not the usual dirge. The main vocals on this track are actually Dick Gaughan.

[@seanhartnett79]

The white cockade? That’s it.

[@dblissmn]

And he teases us with a bar of Tannenbaum before switching over to the White Cockade!

[@vincebrannon3353]

Well observed..

[@Doctor_Who_Rocks]

"O Tannenbaum" not "Tannenbaum". "Oh Christmas Tree" or "Oh [Pine {?}] Tree" not just 🇩🇪 "[Baum Spezies]baum" | 🇬🇧 "[Tree Species] Tree". Edit: And Jacobite not Jacobin. Jacobin = 🇨🇵 French = _Invented_ the Red Flag 🚩 = 🚩🟥🔴 Left-wing (albeit eventually Terrorist 🚩⬛️🏴‍☠️🩸🩸💀☠️ Left-wing 🚩🟥 & Tyrannical 🟦⬛️🟫 🟪🟣👑🩸🩸🩸💀☠️☠️ "Left-Wing" "🚩🇫🇷" Jacobite = 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish = 🟦⬛️🟫 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🟣👑 ➕️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🟣👑 ➕️ 🟩🟦 🟣👑 Reactionary 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🟦✝️ 🟦 Tartan Tories = 🟦⬛️🟫 Right-Wing

[@fuser312]

We will fly red flag everywhere and keep it flying. Greetings from an Indian comrade to all comrades world over.

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

You can try bitch

[@NedTesco]

Solidarity to you in these trying times under Modi and the fascist BJP, comrade.

[@ucom0574]

@@NapoleonBonaparde we about to make it 3-0

[@samuraimaster6584]

Red 🔴🏳✊✊

[@philipcamp1370]

Four legs good , two legs better meeeh

[@seedfamily1404]

I always get chills listening to this song. Beautiful. Solidarity, comrades.✊

[@nomanhasan6711]

Socialists ❤️ Solidarity from Bangladesh 🇧🇩.

[@jmaienoakes3743]

The Noman It’s probably been a bit too long So probably won’t see this but solidarity form a Socialist from the uk 🇬🇧

[@suvodipadhikari9815]

me too 🇧🇩

[@stevetaylor8698]

@@suvodipadhikari9815 Fatten your pets up, socialist always end up eating them

[@leaderofthebunch-deadbeat7716]

If Bangladesh was communist it would be even more of a shithole than it already is

[@dookudicku2968]

@@leaderofthebunch-deadbeat7716 Bangladesh is a shithole because corporate greed. It shall be the first to go red in the global revolution

[@jackmcgregor1983]

By far my favourite version of this song.

[@saykoloci73]

We are all one nation... Our flag is red.. Long live the socialist revolutionarists. Greetings from a Turkish socialist to all bros and sisters..

[@martinputt6421]

+saykoloci73 Greetings comrade, one day we shall prevail and create one nation

[@BrianJones1888]

+Martin Putt greetings from Dublin a working family man with the Turkish origins

[@martinputt6421]

+BrianJones1888 Greetings to you too

[@eattherichbastards]

+saykoloci73 Greetings from former USSR.

[@edwardnigma3775]

+saykoloci73 You've got a long, hard struggle ahead of you, comrade. Best of luck.

[@hornetobiker]

Raise your fuckin fists!!!!

[@hornetobiker]

Cheers, corrected.

[@egalitarianwithemptyhands9448]

The people's flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their hearts' blood dyed in every fold Then raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It waved above our infant might When all ahead seemed dark as night It witnessed many a deed and vow We mustn't change it's color now Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It well recalls the triumphs past It gives the hope of peace at last The banner bright, the symbol plain Of human right and human gain Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here It suits today the meek and base Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place To cringe beneath the rich man's frown And haul that sacred emblem down Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here With heads uncovered swear we all To bare it onward 'til we fall Come dungeons dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn Raise the scarlet standard high Beneath its folds we'll live and die Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer We'll keep the red flag flying here

[@2005peasah]

Salute to our Red Flag it makes so proud to be socialist

[@alexroselle]

"Though cowards flinch, and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flying here!" Hats off to Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, may tonight be just the beginning!

[@necktiefox2917]

Unfortunately, due to an unhealthy spike in weirdos trying to add the word 'National' in front of the word 'Socialism' in the party manifesto at the moment and Brexit about to chop our economy off at the knees, you may be a bit disappointed. Okay, rant over... (Hum's to self) "Oh, cowards flinch and traitors sneer, we'll keep the red flag flyin' here..."

[@stevensimoneschi9029]

Vote labor, vote left, end all of the capitalists!

[@jamesbhollingsworth5452]

If Labour really cared about the worker they wouldn’t be flooding your country with cheap workers and driving down wages.

[@ecc9827]

Alex Roselle > jeremy corbyn > being a true internationalist anti capitalist choose one or the other.

[@seankelly378]

@@jamesbhollingsworth5452 you do realise that communism is meant to be borderless , we aren't against immigration

[@suhailshah1690]

Red salute and revolutionary greetings from India

[@manuelasartori6121]

From Italy too 🇻🇳

[@BigJimsHanginHog]

Solidarity to comrades in the UK.

[@saggilee8607]

Lal Salaam (Red Salute) from Kerala (the state in India which had world's first democratically elected communist govt in 1957.) to comrades of World. Let borders never divide us. Communists unite.

[@user-vr2vf9ty2j]

The first democratically elected communist government was in San Marino, 1945.

[@NedTesco]

Solidarity to you in these trying times under Modi and the fascist BJP, comrade.

[@tibbygaycat]

@@user-vr2vf9ty2j :p runner up is still nice but I didn't know that!

[@McHobotheBobo]

​@user-vr2vf9ty2j I mean, every Communist government is arguably democratically elected on some level or other - if the people were not with the Communists, then the Communists could not win, simple as. We don't have vast hordes of wealth and a history of world domination like the capitalists so we are built on people power

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

Socialists have all the best music. I don't know if I could be called a socialist, but I'm definitely a music lover

[@gavinbalter9464]

All extreme ideologies have great music it's a propaganda technique

[@watapizza1225]

@@gavinbalter9464 The liberalism is an extremist ideology, that's the reason why USA music is so good

[@TheJollyReiver]

The tune not Socialist, I believe it’s a Jacobite tune ‘the White Cockade’

[@dexterdedalo7577]

@WeeWeeJumbo nice profile pic

[@Kolyats]

@@TheJollyReiver Robert Burns was a socialist. (well a proto socialist)

[@fite-4-ever876]

'Ol crimson

[@upthegills27]

I have a flag pole in my garden (mad eh!) but I have just raised the red flag in honour of the Tory Party conference starting this week!!

[@jessicawaye4459]

Good on you! I have a red Chienese lamp cover that my Carer hung for me❤

[@DaEraMonke]

Red flag for the Tory’s?

[@jjtt8312]

Raise the scarlet standard high.

[@morganfarr5886]

And on this day the United Kingdom took one massive step back to the left. The one the Tories belittled and mocked, whom the leaders past of his own party slandered and harangued him, has taken charge of her majesty's opposition!! The Labour party may very well wave the red flag again. I am full of hope.

[@pendulumx]

+Morgan Farr You're going to get fucking obliterated come the next election! You thought getting wiped out in Scotland was bad...

[@jamesclark8163]

+pendulumx We won't get obliterated. We'll get a right kicking at the worst. Even then it's better die on our terms than live on someone elses.

[@olafpeka]

+pendulumx , you obviously don't get the lyrics of 'The Red Flag'. And didn't everyone predict Corbyn wouldn't get this far? But there he is.

[@richielomas9564]

+pendulumx On the contrary, Corbyn's exactly what the party needed. Whatever he costs Labour in the center, he'll more than make up by re-energizing the left which hasn't even bothered to vote because Labour just became the party of Austerity-Lite. That's why Labour lost voters to the SNP. It's even why they lost voters to UKIP, who simply wanted to join ANY party that was willing to stand up to the entrenched elite. Rather than driving people from Labour, Corbyn's campaign saw new members flocking to the party in droves. Labour will win because unlike New Labour, it's finally returned to representing the people rather than hugging the coat tails of the Conservatives.

[@jamesclark8163]

Richie Lomas To be honest I'm not too sure about him winning in 2020. However, I'm confident he's going to be damn effective leader of the opposition.

[@LarzGustafsson]

Bragg is a great artist. He used to be in a punk band called Riff Raff. Check them out. "Romford Girls" is a great tune. All the tunes on the EP are terrific.

[@devils1]

Theres alot of wealth out there it just needs to be distributed.

[@rembrandttip4861]

means of production

[@AA-hg5fk]

It is distributed, just not very fairly! I think you meant redistributed!

[@gillmacgillechiaran5651]

In the “Workers’ Song” by Scottish singer Dick Gaughan, he sings, “When the skies darken, and the prospect is war, who’s given a gun and pushed tae the fore? We’re expected to die for the land of our birth and we’ve never owned one handful of earth.” Raise the scarlet standard high!

[@parallel4]

Solidarity with our comrades across the globe-of all races, nationalities, abilities, sexualities, genders. Solidarity with our comrades from the past, our comrades today, and our comrades of tomorrow.

[@alasdairmacfearnua630]

Crveni pozdrav or red salute from ex Yugoslavia, Belgrade

[@lorrainevale9748]

Solidarity is needed across the world together we stand as our voices are becoming whispers!

[@tainahollo]

I love this version, too!

[@josephmarchioni8065]

Greetings from Corsica comrades!

[@LetsGoWrongboarding]

Who else bumps this at max volume with the windows down through busy streets

[@chanegun]

🙋‍♂️

[@LetsGoWrongboarding]

Love and solidarity from Canada!

[@alexroselle]

Who else is re-watching this on “Flag Day” (June 14th in the USA)?

[@meghaslam2857]

Watching this while waiting for the 2019 results. Now we must keep the red flag flying.

[@parhamtribe791]

Every day is a good day to be a Socialist! Raise the Red Flag high!

[@Kapil70]

Come Comrade please join my Socialist circle. Many Many Thanks Comrade

[@espada9]

Right because you don't work you live off the labor and effort of others.

[@prottimus2396]

Cuba is actually far more successful than it's neighboring Nations in the Caribbean and Central America which is pretty impressive when you take the American Trade blockade into account.

[@davidheseltine85]

Thats not what socialism is though Read a book.

[@Kapil70]

TV-94 Why, Baby crying so much. Will you not like to be transported to past and Commit massacre.

[@joeysmith5250]

Yes!!!! A good song, A Great song. Good on ya Billy Bragg! Joey

[@devils1]

Left! Left! Left! Left!

[@user-cq5yj8ty3j]

The time will come, and I myself will raise back the red flag over the Kremlin.

[@fredhampton623]

Сергей Строганов that will truly be a great day.

[@charliefrown6206]

Reinhard Heydrich How do you know he's a jew comrade? Also are you a Nazi?

[@scottishcommie1912]

Reinhard Heydrich well yeah in socialism every one is equal but Don't be racest or anti-gay thank you

[@miguelalmeida9771]

Liberty equality solidarity

[@miguelalmeida9771]

Red flag

[@23seana73]

Inspired version of a fine song.thank you

[@andrewmaccallum2367]

Solidarity ✊️

[@erwinkuijpers]

best version! off tho a world with one red flag!

[@agiordano17]

Solidarity now, solidarity forever

[@socialistish]

Solidarity from the UK

[@kellywatts248]

Superb. Martin, how are you doing?

[@stevenweasel2678]

SUPERB

[@evandixon2798]

Great song.

[@CultofRust]

Devastated for the uk after the GE... I'm still red

[@CultofRust]

@Alex Jones big man

[@micmacmoc]

Superb!

[@Taliesin-xd7ke]

Without us there's nothing, yet when we can't we're nothing. Fair? Thoughts.

[@jamesbond7151]

Keep her Flying!

[@alexandrawalling4115]

I've loved Billy Bragg for a while now, but didn't know his version of this song until some commie friends played it in the closing scene of a play they put on in NYC. Now I listen to it every time I need a pick-me-up!

[@neilbendon844]

Why Commie, bud? My Dad used to sing it. He was the best!! God rest him.

[@fredfairley7724]

@@neilbendon844​the red flag is the universal symbol for socialism, which itself is the path toward the final stage of human development - communism.

[@neilbendon844]

@@fredfairley7724 A lot better than RWNJS. eg. Hitler.

[@onlyforts2970]

Do not lose heart comrades, FOR THE MANY NOT THE FEW

[@onlyforts2970]

@Alex Jones why are gender neutral toilets a problem for someone like you, also the real answer for this problem is genuine systemic change that will help working class people who vote torries to understand that they are only voting for the 1% and instead of fighting your fellow man you should work to benefit the collective something most of the people in my country understand

[@bobbydylanio]

@Alex Jones They might help some people, yeah. Because we care about people other than ourselves.

[@JamesTQuack]

@AJ K. Lawson was that honestly necessary?

[@Rocky183]

THE ABSOLUTE BOY

[@jxnglxst6874]

I don’t know if you’ll ever see this but I’m looking for a documentary or an article (really anything) on the conception of the cpusa and the roll folk and country music had. I saw a documentary about 2 years ago on blues music and jazz; i remember it having a segment about how the cpusa was a primary factor for country music being so popular. It’s of my own opinion since seeing this video that cpusa used folk/country music to lure in burgious and thus plays a role in establishing rock and roll/ honky tonk. Obviously all these music genres take from the Blues and its scale. My point is Jazz music while it was big, it had subconsciously always been over shadowed by decadence. We live in a time of great immaturity and I think the music everyone listens and goes out of their way to find has had great affect on that.

[@pingleresearch]

Good to hear it sung to the right tune! Down with Tannenbaum! Hold the scarlet standard high!

[@scott562]

JEZZA BOUT TO DO IT, THE ABSOLUTE BOY

[@solarflare1206]

I like this version better than the Labour Party's version. This song sounds happier.

[@tufanyasar40]

greetings from turkey long live socialist revolution...

[@edwardnigma3775]

+tufan yasar Long fight ahead of you, comrade. Let us hope the forces of fascism and imperialism do not heed you as they did in decades past.

[@ChaingunCassidy]

Peace be with you comrade.

[@adamsmith8992]

Yoldasssshhhhh!

[@briganti4072]

yes laaads

[@turtle1701d]

We will keep the red flag flying here

[@darian8802]

Love & unity! 🤝POWER TO THE PEOPLE✊✊

[@johnthehumanist2333]

as long as the peeps are cultural marxists,eh!🤢🤮🤑

[@TartanArmyDcfc]

Tomorrow, we can bring Britain back to the folds of the red flag. I'm scared, excited, nervous. Raise that scarlet standard high, beneath it's folds we will indeed live or die. ✊

[@2005peasah]

Big up to you BB

[@jackthomas3449]

Solidarity Comrades

[@ledzep331]

I stand beneath the scarlet standard.

[@StephenAllcroft]

The great Dick Gaughan sharing vocal duties.

[@LoveableArsehole]

Christmas tree... oh christmas tree...

[@stroberry4660]

Thank god I'm not the only one who heard that

[@BenWillock]

Yeah, its sung to the tune of "Oh, Tennenbaum" traditionally.

[@michaelslator64]

A German hymn with English lyrics written by an Irishman.

[@geraintjones9274]

Let's do this United workers will never fail one worker nothing collective power there is nothing like it solidarity comrades brothers and sisters

[@QosmicVoid]

Can't help but think this is an apt song in the face of Coronavirus

[@TheMimifur]

And they sang the other week at Conference. Let's raise the red flag.

[@MrCOUNTYCORK]

👍🍀Ireland 💪 🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@tedde666]

wish u all a good 1 may. workers of the world, UNITE

[@solidaritet2010]

TAK THX

[@A10warthoglol]

WELL WELL WELL

[@jtizzard9857]

Imagine Playing this as the revolution starts in london, pitchforks in hand, out with the current regime out with the monarchy, our voices no-longer heard.

[@theozmiester7405]

It will never happen because people are not that stupid to vote for communism

[@milky_memes829]

Republicanism is dead in Britain because we have a Constitutional Monarchy with Fair Representation for the people.

[@JamesTQuack]

@@Jockster109 boss and business is capitalism, not socialism or communism, though you do make some good points.

[@Jockster109]

@@JamesTQuack I changed my mind on the monarchy lmao

[@seanhartnett79]

For republicanism. No more kings and queens. Free Ireland, free Scotland and Wales.

[@shadowpresident4203]

Raise the scarlet standard high, comrades!

[@runawayprincess5541]

*plants red flag* its freedom time kidos

[@crossbones5428]

Common Pleb Radio 2017 This sounds like a communist American soldier...

[@c-5921]

This one loosely follows the tune of "The White Cockade," which is what the song was originally written for. The tune to "O Tannenbaum" was adopted later because it was more widely-known.

[@JamesEis]

No mention of the great Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan? He takes at least an equal part in this performance, and is easily the better singer.

[@slavestongue6536]

Anarchist here. Hi to all my socialist brothers and friends!!! Unite against borders, governments and fascists

[@nunyabisness7055]

@@slavestongue6536 Probably both, comrade.

[@Helmetcleaver]

Hey there. Question, do you have the picture of the video (the people running forward with flags) Or do you know where I can find it. I had it on a t-shirt in the 80:s and lost that shirt, would love to see the pic in full again. This goes for anyone else out there. Anyone that can offer a link to a copy of that picture? Cheers comrades.

[@user-kd4jv4ts1o]

does anyone have the picture of the crowd with nothing behind it?

[@captainclarky5352]

The volume gets lower in some parts, and the lyrics are a bit muddled sometimes. Other than that, great song!

[@JoLisaDux]

Long live the Red Scare

[@adventurethroughtime]

*Red Flag

[@waluigiswaluweenie8194]

Eagerly awaiting for the election results to roll in and see the UK with a government that really stands up for the workers.

[@kristianlavey3925]

so, who'se going to the March Sat 1st July 2017? We, the people will win

[@gwynwilliamssr.9725]

First raised by Dick Penderyn and Lewis yr Heliwr at the Merthr riots against the iron masters, Crawshay et. al, in 1831 when the British State sent troops from Brecon to confront the insurrection. Dick Penderyn was hanged at Cardiff Jail

[@joshuasquire1879]

Today's the left and the right and down with the Enemy

[@arfole71]

he he he...follow your dear leader...where? one can only guess.

[@davidgray804]

what side are you on boys corbynn forever

[@alexgreenia7794]

So you're a fascist.

[@Kapil70]

Of Corbynn.

[@newg4515]

since when was ukip a fascist party

[@nt4382]

@@newg4515 This comment hasn't aged well, has it

[@newg4515]

N T British politics has been tipped on its head since I made that comment lmao

[@Komotau4691]

How German Christmas caroll became red :D But good song especially Billy version.

[@henryglarsson2635]

Loud tonight in the heart of Maryhill!! ✊ ☭

[@socialistguerrilla773]

comrade any chance you could make "In Defense of Enver Hoxha " videos available? or if you prefer give me access privately

[@JustJimWillDo]

✊

[@user-df5fl7uq9c]

Comrade!

[@justinsanford997]

ohhhh Jeremy Corbyn! #forthemanynotthefew.

[@StephenAllcroft]

Dick Gaughan on harmony vocal. This was the tune The Red Flag was originally written for, rather than O Tannenbaum...

[@scottishcommie1912]

Shake of your chains to earth like dew wit with sleep as enslaved apon you YE ARE MANY THEY ARE FEW

[@tjtrapstar]

gooooo corbynnnnn

[@CatvsCops]

Jezza for PM!!!

[@dronacharyamitra1754]

Red salute to Comrade ❤️🔥🔥

[@comradejeramy7017]

Happy May Day comrades!