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John Pilger Quoting Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy" Calls for Direct Action

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Thursday November 04, 2010 08:04

by Ciaron

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The "Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight" by John Pilger

Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number.
Shake your chains to earth like dew.
Which in sleep has fallen on you.
Ye are many – they are few.

November 03, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- These days, the stirring lines of Percy Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy may seem unattainable. I don’t think so. Shelley was both a Romantic and political truth-teller. His words resonate now because only one political course is left to those who are disenfranchised and whose ruin is announced on a government spread sheet.

Born of the “never again” spirit of 1945, social democracy in Britain has surrendered to an extreme political cult of money worship. This reached its apogee when £1 trillion of public money was handed unconditionally to corrupt banks by a Labour government whose leader, Gordon Brown, had previously described “financiers” as the nation’s “great example” and his personal “inspiration”.

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#	Title	Author	Date
1	AUDIO - John Pilger's Talk at London Anarchist Bookfair 2010	@ Bookfair 2010	Fri Nov 05, 2010 06:09
2	Percy Bysshe Shelley and The United Irishmen	W. Finnerty	Fri Nov 05, 2010 08:30
3	Shelley and Lord Castlereagh	Unity	Fri Nov 05, 2010 16:24
4	Byron	pat c	Fri Nov 05, 2010 20:48

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