The Luck of the Irish | IMGpapers 1980

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TROOPS OUT OF IRELAND NOW! November 1971 If you had the luck of the Irish, You'd be sorry and wish you were dead.

You should have the luck of the Irish And you'd wish you was English instead!

A thousand years of torture and hunger Drove the people away from their land, A land full of beauty and wonder Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn!

Goddamn!

In the 'Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land, IN THE deluge of coverage of the murder of John Lennon, we can be sure that the media will want to bury his radical past.

Socialist Challenge has no intention of.

doing so..

On pages 8 and 9 we pay tribute to him and recall his stand against oppression - the side of John Lennon that led to some of his best music. Of the pain, the death and the glory And the poets of auld Eireland.

Why the hell are the English there anyway?

As they kill with God on their. side!

Blame it all on the kids and the IRA!

As the bastards commit genocide Aye! Aye!

Genocide!

If you had the luck of the Irish You should have the luck of the Irish You'd be sorry and wish you were dead.

And you'd wish you was English instead!

Yes you'd wish you was English instead!

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Socialist Challenge Revolutionary socialist weekly PO Box 50, London N1 2XP Phone 01-359 8189/8180 (editorial and distribution) democr

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DEATH OF A WORKING CLASS HERO