I was a Labour party activist back in the mid 80's, working hard to try to build up my local youth section. We weren't short of things to fight, with the Liverpool city council situation, the Poll tax and what have you.
We seemed to have to spend more time battling the labour party heirarchy than we did trying to campaign against the conservatives.
The Labour party silenced the left with purges and expulsions back in the late 1980s, and the LPYS (Labour Party Young Socialists) was closed down. The New Labour is just the latest step on a road that began twenty years or more ago.
The peoples flag is palest pink.
It's not as red as you may think.
White collar workers wave and cheer.
A labour government is here.
We'll change the country bit by bit.
So nobody will notice it.
And just to prove we're still sincere.
We'll sing the red flag once a year.
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