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SONGS OF STRUGGLE

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Billy Bragg -There Is Power In A Union There Is Power in a Union Billy Bragg There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a union Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud War has always been the bosses' way, sir The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands There is power in a union Now I long for the morning that they realise Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

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Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child There is power in a union The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands There is power in a union

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx No 2 Billy Bragg – Internationale "The Internationale" (French: L'Internationale) is a left-wing anthem. It has been a standard of the socialist movement since the late 19th century, when the Second International (now the Socialist International) adopted it as its official anthem. The title arises from the "First International", an alliance of workers which held a congress in 1864. The author of the anthem's lyrics, Eugène Pottier, attended this congress.

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No 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CGJggppqcw

Master Sir (Mage Himi Thena) (Original) -

Neville Fernando Theme song from the 70s film 'Kalu Diya Dahara' The Film is about colonial Sri Lanka, and the song is about the dignity of labour, and not just about wages but social justice too.. Lyrics written in English by meastro Nimal Mendis, Sinhala translation was by late Karunaratne Abeysekera. It was sung originally by the golden voice of Neville Fernando(R.I.P) of Los Caberelos,. Nimal's other popular hits include 'Nim Him Sewwa'sung by Amaradeva, 'Ganga Addara' sung by late Vijaya Kumaratunga, 'Upul Nuwan Vidaha' by late Milton Mallawarachchi, and in the late 50s 'Butterfly In The Rain' and 'Way Back When' by Cliff Foenander.

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No 4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUjuBV_1SIY Dharmadasa Walpola (Singer) Satanaki Jeevithehi Dan (Song)

Karunaratne Abeysekera – (Lyrics) P.L.A.Somapala (Music)

Movie: Asoka 1955

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Zindagi dene waale sun (Dil e nadaan) (1953) Singer-Talat Mehmood, Lyrics- Shakeel Badayuni, MD- Ghulam Mohammad

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Singer TOPOL

From the musical: Fiddler on the Roof

No.5 (A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8 Les Miserable "Do You Hear The People Sing" Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see?

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Then join in the fight That will give you the right to be free! Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! Will you give all you can give So that our banner may advance Some will fall and some will live Will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs Will water the meadows of France! Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes

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Tomorrow belongs to me der morgige Tag ist mein

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No 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o

Bob Marley - Buffalo soldier

Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Black Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars.

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. Scholars of religion and related fields have classified it as both a new religious movement and a social movement. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners, who are known as Rastafari, Rastafarians, or Rastas.

Rastas refer to their beliefs, which are based on a specific interpretation of the Bible, as "Rastalogy". Central is a monotheistic belief in a single God—referred to as Jah—who partially resides within each individual. Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974, is given central importance. Many Rastas regard him as an incarnation of Jah on Earth and as the Second Coming of Christ. Others regard him as a human

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prophet who fully recognized the inner divinity in every individual. Rastafari is Afrocentric and focuses its attention on the African diaspora, which it believes is oppressed within Western society, or "Babylon". Many Rastas call for the resettlement of the African diaspora in either Ethiopia or Africa

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more widely, referring to this continent as the Promised Land of "Zion". Rastas refer to their practices as "livity". Communal meetings are known as "groundations", and are typified by music, chanting, discussions, and the smoking of cannabis, the latter being regarded as a sacrament with beneficial properties. Rastas place emphasis on what they regard as living "naturally", adhering to ital dietary requirements, twisting their hair into dreadlocks, and following patriarchal gender roles.

Rastafari originated among impoverished and socially disenfranchised Afro-Jamaican communities in 1930s Jamaica. Its Afrocentric ideology was largely a reaction against Jamaica's then-dominant British colonial culture. It was influenced by both Ethiopianism and the Back-to-Africa movement promoted by black nationalist figures like Marcus Garvey. The movement developed after several Christian clergymen, most notably Leonard Howell, proclaimed that Haile Selassie's crowning as emperor in 1930 fulfilled a Biblical prophecy. By the 1950s, Rastafari's counter-cultural stance had brought the movement into conflict with wider Jamaican society, including violent clashes with law enforcement. In the 1960s and 1970s it gained increased respectability within Jamaica and greater visibility abroad through the popularity of Rasta-inspired reggae musicians like Bob Marley. Enthusiasm for Rastafari declined in the 1980s, following the deaths of Haile Selassie and Marley,

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but the movement survived and has a presence in many parts of the world.

The Rasta movement is decentralised and organised on a largely cellular basis. There are several denominations, or "Mansions of Rastafari", the most prominent of which are the Nyahbinghi, Bobo Ashanti, and the Twelve Tribes of Israel, each offering a different interpretation of Rasta belief. There are an estimated 700,000 to 1 million Rastas across the world; the largest population is in Jamaica although communities can be found in most of the world's major population centres. The majority of practitioners are of black African descent, although a minority come from other racial groups.

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No 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s

Ole Man River -Paul Robeson Ol' man river That ol' man river He don't say nothing But he must know something Cause he just keeps rolling He keeps rolling along Rollin' along

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He don't plant tators He don't plant cotton Them that plants 'em is soon forgotten But ol' man river He keeps rolling along You and me We sweat and strain Body all aching And wracked with pain Tote that barge Lift that bale Get a little drunk And you land in jail I gets weary Sick of trying I'm tired of living Feared of dying But ol' man river He's rolling along

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No 8 (A) Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Jo'Anna (With Lyrics) (1988) (HD)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFcmNu4KdGI No.8 (B)

Eddie Grant - Gimme hope Joanna - Live on French TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuaVS

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• Grant wrote this in honor of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela fought against apartheid, a policy that separated people by race, and was very oppressive to

blacks. Mandela was a political prisoner for over 20 years before apartheid was abandoned. After he was released, Mandela

became president of South Africa. According to Grant, this became the anthem of the apartheid movement. >>

• "Jo'anna" is a reference to Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa.

• "The Archbishop who's a peaceful man" is a reference to Desmond Tutu, the first black

South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against apartheid.

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No 8 (A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor6-DkzBJ0

Morehouse College - We Shall Overcome

Morehouse College is a private, all-male, liberal arts, historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia. The college is one of the few remaining traditional men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.[a]

Morehouse is one of two historically black colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African American community and civil leaders, including Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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No 8 (B) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMYbd2ZhhjE Louis Armstrong - We shall overcome with lyrics We Shall Overcome

It was the most powerful song of the 20th century. It started out in church pews and picket lines, inspired one of the greatest freedom movements in U.S. history, and went on to topple governments and bring about reform all over the world. Word for word, the short, simple lyrics of "We Shall Overcome" might be some of the most influential words in the English language.

"We Shall Overcome" has it roots in African American hymns from the early 20th century, and was first used as a protest song in 1945, when striking tobacco workers in Charleston, S.C., sang it on their picket line. By the 1950s, the song had been discovered by the young activists of the African American civil rights movement, and it quickly became the movement’s unofficial anthem. Its verses were sung on protest marches and in sit-ins, through clouds of tear gas and under rows of

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police batons, and it brought courage and comfort to bruised, frightened activists as they waited in jail cells, wondering if they would survive the night. When the long years of struggle ended and President Lyndon Johnson vowed to fight for voting rights for all Americans, he included a final promise: "We shall overcome."

In the decades since, the song has circled the globe and has been embraced by civil rights and pro-democracy movements in dozens of nations worldwide. From Northern Ireland to Eastern Europe, from Berlin to Beijing, and from South Africa to South America, its message of solidarity and hope has been sung in dozens of languages, in presidential palaces and in dark prisons, and it continues to lend its strength to all people struggling to be free.

As you listen to "We Shall Overcome," think about the reasons it has brought strength and support to so many people for so many years. And remember that someone, somewhere, is singing it right now.

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No 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI Peter, Paul and Mary - Blowing in the Wind "Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released on his album The

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Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described[by whom?] as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind". In 1999, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, it was ranked #14 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". XXXXXXXXXXXXX

No 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaOQ5YIhlYs

I Was Only 19 Book- John Schumann

Song I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green) Artist John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew Album Behind the Lines (Expanded Edition) Writers John Schumann XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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No 11 Give Peace a Chance John Lennon Two, one-two-three-four! Ev'rybody's talking 'bout Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance Hit it C'mon, ev'rybody's talking about Ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Popeyes and bye-bye, bye-byes All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance Let me tell you now Ev'rybody's talking 'bout Revolution, evolution, masturbation, flagellation, regulation, integrations Meditations, United Nations, congratulations All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6TCau_H5Jo

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No 12

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Archie Roach 'Took the children away'

with lyrics -protest song Roach is an icon of the Australian music

industry and his honest storytelling tells the

sad truth of indigenous Australia. He wrote the

landmark song 'Took the Children Away' in

1990, about his own childhood and being

taken by authorities from his parents to a

mission. "You took the children away,

Breaking their mothers heart, Tearing us all

apart" the lyrics ring. This heartbreaking

account of the Stolen Generation became the

anthem of indigenous activism in Australia-- It

was awarded two ARIA Awards as well as an

international Human Rights Achievement

Award, cementing Roach as a powerful

activist and storyteller. Through the

proceeding 20 years, Roach has sung with

measured reason and heartfelt sorrow of his

own deep experiences, as well of those of his

ancestors.

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No 13 He who would valiant be (John Bunyan-Pilgrims Progress)

John Bunyan . In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.

Bunyan was arrested and spent the next twelve years in jail as he refused to give up preaching (outside the Church). During this time he wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and began work on his most famous book, The Pilgrim's Progress, which was not published until some years after his release.

The Pilgrim's Progress became one of the most published books in the English language; 1,300 editions having been printed by 1938, 250 years after the author's death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0otP1BWlU (The Funeral of Baroness Thatcher -To Be a Pilgrim John Bunyan )

He who would valiant be ’gainst all disaster,

Let him in constancy follow the Master.

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There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent

His first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

Who so beset him round with dismal stories

Do but themselves confound—his strength the more

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No foes shall stay his might; though he with giants

fight,

He will make good his right to be a pilgrim.

Since, Lord, Thou dost defend us with Thy Spirit,

We know we at the end, shall life inherit.

Then fancies flee away!

I’ll fear not what men say, I’ll labor night and day to be a pilgrim.

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