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If you know this song at all you probably think that “The Internationale” was the “Soviet National Anthem” (if you even remember the “Soviet Union”). Well, this episode will detail the real history of the song and how it's still alive and even more relevant today. In spite of what the USAmerican propaganda machine would have you believe, The Internationale is NOT the National Anthem of the Soviet Union … Eugene Potter wrote the original lyrics of The Internationale in June of 1871 to commemorate the Paris Commune, which the French Army had just crushed with great bloodshed. After French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war and the fall of the French Empire, the workers of Paris had taken over the city and ran it themselves. The Commune declared its aim as "ending the anarchic and ruinous competition between workers for the profit of the capitalists”, and the "dissemination of socialist ideals"... Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale Music Credits: Alistair Hulett (from CD “Dance of the Underclass”, 1991) Maxx Klaxon “Internationale 2000”; by Maxx Klaxon (from CD “Paranoid Style”, 2005) Billy Bragg - http://www.billybragg.co.uk/ Maxx Klaxon - http://klaxon.tv/ Alistair Hulett – 1951 – 2010 – RIP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtAfIjRKUak http://www.alistairhulett.co.uk/ listen to other episodes as they are released at Protest Songs In Left Wing Politics - http://septicradio.com/protestsongsleftwing.php A production of Septic Radio.