Daddy, What Did You Do In The Strike?

Album: Daddy, What did you do in the strike? (1984)
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  • A photograph of British miners' leader Arthur Scargill.

    Courtesy: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

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  • London Celtic Punks from London, EnglandGod bless Ewan MacColl an inspiration to many and still inspiring people now. The only good scab is a dead one if you ask me...
    The Scab
    A Poem by: Jack London (1876-1916)
    After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab.

    A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

    When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.

    No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab has not.

    Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army. The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.

    Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class.
  • Maggiethatcher from Sheffield, United KingdomBrilliant! I've compiled a list of songs featuring margaret Thatcher or the strike at http://www.maggiethatcher.com/buymusic.html and particularly like 'The Maggie Thatcher Experience' with 'The Lady's not for Burning (Piss anthem) - I've recreated the list here:
    Bernstein (f.k.a. Dan Bern) - Children of the Cold War
    Bérurier Noir - Et Hop
    Billy Bragg - Thatcherites
    Braintax - Decade on Panorama
    Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - Evil
    Conflict - These Colours Don't Run
    Conflict - Neither Is This
    Conflict - To Whom It May Concern
    Corries - Who'll Take The Ball from Maggie Thatcher?
    Crass - Nineteen Eighty Bore
    Crass - Sucks
    David Diamond - Some Talk Of Ronald Reagan
    Deborah Holland - Pinochet and Margaret Thatcher
    Thomas Dolby - May The Cube Be With You
    Doug Anthony All Stars - If You're Happy 2
    Doug Anthony All Stars - The Sun
    Martin Carthy - Company Policy
    Elvis Costello - Tramp The Dirt Down
    Exploited - Don't Pay The Poll Tax
    Dick Gaughan - Ballad of '84 and others, indirectly
    Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death
    Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies
    Human League - The World Before Last
    Ewan MacColl - Daddy, What Did You Do In The Strike?
    Ewan MacColl - The Media and others, indirectly.
    The Maggie Thatcher Experience - Thatcher's death anthem
    The Maggie Thatcher Experience - The Lady's not for Burning (Piss anthem)
    Manic Street Preachers - If White America Told The Truth For One Day Its World Would Fall Apart
    Morrissey - Margaret On The Guillotine
    Aimee Mann - You're With Stupid Now
    Not Sensibles - I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher
    Pink Floyd - The Post War Dream
    Pink Floyd - Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
    Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home
    Pink Floyd - Not Now John
    Renaud - Madame Thatcher
    Roger Waters - Four Minutes
    Roger Waters - The Story
    Roy Harper - Winds Of Change
    Sinéad O'Connor - Black Boys On Mopeds
    Space - No-One Understands
    Spailpin - The Maggie Thatcher Song
    Trust - Misere

    Games featuring Thatcher;
    Whack-a-miner (Ironic parody) from http://www.milksnatcher.com
    The lady's not for Burning from http://www.maggiethatcher.com/burning.html
    Milk Snatcher game from http://www.maggiethatcher.com/milk.html

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