Lads, Rise Up!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xcGahZXiw

Lads, rise up!
Let's get on the streets.
Women and men
with rifles on our shoulders.
Always faithful
to the red banner
to the trumpet, next to us
that's calling us.

Raze the foundations
of palaces and thrones
of heavy chains, scarlet robes and laws
shame to the worker, shame to the slave
who doesn't drown such a life in blood.

Forward, let us crush tyrants and fascists
become builders of the New Greece
shame to the youth who doesn't join the battle
for popular power, for honest life.

Paris and Moscow, deeply honored
Athens, Barcelona, bathed in blood
they are sending us messages, they are sending us screams
Forward, revolutionaries, for glorious victories
they are sending us messages, they are sending us screams
Forward, revolutionaries, forward, communists!

Musical version: Mikis Theodorakis
Vocals: Maria Dimitriadi
Lyrics: Unknown (different versions of rebel song)

http://indefenseofgreekworkers.blogspot.com/2015/02/lads-rise-up.html?spref=tw

join the battle
for popular power, for honest life.

The battle for honest life. Man, that is it in a nutshell. When these yahoos like Jehu and Murray talk about working class people and look down their noses at us, they can't understand this desire for an honest life. We don't want more than the next guy, we don't want power over others, we don't want recognition for anything beyond our due. We want to live our lives honestly, freely, and in the condition of equality with all others. Its okay if we have to work. Working is just what humans have to do, if we want things to be better than they currently are - it has always been so. But we want to decide what "better" means and what is worth working for. That's all. It isn't much, but it is everything.


bathed in blood
they are sending us messages, they are sending us screams
Forward, revolutionaries, for glorious victories
they are sending us messages, they are sending us screams
Forward, revolutionaries, forward, communists!

I hear that call. I want to answer that call.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msMd6hMhvuA

Will mark the Bells (Ritsos, Theodorakis) -Mpithikotsis

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Published on Nov 15, 2012
I think that my identification with the poet, who exceeded the limits of poetry and spread across the living room, the hard work, creativity, ideology, attitudes life, the common belief in a common scale of values, the identical treatment debt, finally, our common commitment to the camp of the Left, the National Resistance, Freedom and devotion to the ideal of the National Revival, all this created an identity, I would say, in the two sensitivities mas.Giname communicating vessels, where poetry and music passed each other until they get a third dimension: the song. [..] The Romiosyni me had brought home women prisoners many years prin.Eichan first pass from Ritsos, who picked himself quotes from wakefulness to my empistefthei.Omos manuscripts were covered by alla.Chathikan.Xechastikan..Ospou at that very moment a hand [..] the pulled and touched the piano.Eichan preceded conflicts in Piraeus with Astynomia.O savage beating and abusing me, events that influenced vathia.Toso that, I just read the first verse, these trees do not compromise on less ourano..kathisa as I was dirty with mud and blood and I composed gulp the Romiosyni.Otan other day heard Ritsos, was afonos.Pote sometimes did not see him so happy, so shocked, as the day in downtown, which was filled with partisan, the Bithikotsis sang the Romiosyni.Thymamai Hadjidakis backstage saying to him: "You the greatest singer of the century ".Itan great time accepted the voice and Ritsos, who from the time of Epitaph tormented him the idea that he had to sing the woman folk voice.
M.Theodorakis (1995, "heli- Wheels ")
Of Mikis Theodorakis, that made ​​it difficult with too much and I consider of the biggest is the Hellenism of John Ritsou.S this work was lost. Rehearsed half months to go on the meaning of the melody and stichou.Tote I found my true eafto.Itan what gemise.Itan with the greatest moment of my career and my life [..] The 9 songs of Greekness had a melody not caught the mou.Melodia mind terrible, asyllipti.O Theodorakis the first rehearsal was telling me: "Just watch out if the rehearsals will succeed, Gregory" .The project is aimed at all Ellines.Milaei what has captured the Ellada.Tote who'd cut his knee in the barley loaves, which enters and irons in the fire, which filled the cannons only with the heart ".And on this terrible poetry by Yannis Ritsos, Mikis has written music for 100-200 years brosta.Sou say responsibly me, Gregory, who sang the Romiosyni.
Gr. Bithikotsis

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