Hellraisers Journal: “The men that fight and the men that fall are the sons of the working class."

Hands 'round the world!
Let the system fall
That covers the earth with dead!
-C. A. Miller
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Sunday May 7, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: "Hands 'Round the World"

Robert Minor, Hands Round World, ISR, May 1916.png
Poem by CA Miller, Hands Round World, ISR, May 1916.png

International Socialist Review, May 1916:

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SOURCE
The International Socialist Review, Volume 16
-ed by Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr
Charles H. Kerr & Company,
July 1915-June 1916
https://books.google.com/books?id=9VJIAAAAYAAJ

IMAGES
Robert Minor, Hands Round World, ISR, May 1916
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=9VJIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...
Poem by CA Miller, Hands Round World, ISR, May 1916
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=9VJIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...
ISR Cover, Internationalism, May 1916
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=9VJIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...

See also:

Robert Minor
http://spartacus-educational.com/ARTminor.htm

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Should I Ever Be A Soldier - Mats Paulson
Lyrics by Joe Hill
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/docs/027.html#SHOULD

SHOULD I EVER BE A SOLDIER

We're spending billions every year
For guns and ammunition,
"Our Army" and "Our Navy" dear,
To keep in good condition;
While millions live in misery
And millions died before us,
Don't sing "My Country, 'tis of thee,"
But sing this little chorus.

CHORUS
Should I ever be a soldier,
'Neath the Red Flag I would fight;
Should the gun I ever shoulder,
It's to crush the tyrant's might.
Join the army of the toilers,
Men and women fall in line,
Wage slaves of the world! Arouse!
Do your duty for the cause,
For Land and Liberty.

And many a maiden, pure and fair,
Her love and pride must offer
On Mammon's altar in despair,
To fill the master's coffer,
The gold that pays the mighty fleet,
From tender youth he squeezes,
While brawny.men must walk the street
And face the wintry breezes.

Why do they mount their gatling gun
A thousand miles from ocean,
Where hostile fleet could never run--
Ain't that a funny notion?
If you don't know the reason why
Just strike for better wages,
And then, my friends--if you don't die--
You'll sing this song for ages.

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thanatokephaloides's picture

This is as it was in 1916; and how soon we forget!

Now, exactly a century later, we're headed towards election of a corporatistic warmonger again! Grrrr! Diablo Dash 1

The good news: Socialism and its symbols are no longer automatically excluded from the conversation, as they were for more than half the time between the events described in this Essay and today.

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

JayRaye's picture

even if he is a Socialist. It's amazing the good that Bernie has done for Socialism in the US by running openly a Democratic Socialist.

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