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Just stumbled across this new song and new artist (new to me at least).
Good tune and excellent lyrics . . . which I’m sure will remind you of a very famous poem from the 1930s:
Edited to add. Here’s the lyrics:
Someone’s always first to go
That’s what they do
They start out with the media and the news
They target all the people with different views
And if you’re not the next in line
You will be soonCause everybody pays the price
And you will too
Whether you’re the radical
Or the fool
You might laugh when they come for me
But when they do
No one will be left to care
When it’s youAnd you might not be next
But your day is gonna come
You don’t have to guess
It’s as good as doneWhether it’s the immigrants or the Jews
There’s always an enemy for them to choose
It starts off with the socialists
And the schools
Until one day the enemy starts to look like youAnd then you cry for help
But no one’s there
Cause there’s nobody with a spine left
For you to scare
And when they come for you
You better pray
That when you go to lick the boot, they don’t put it in your faceYou might not be next
But your day is gonna come
You don’t have to guess
It’s as good as done
Now everybody else is gone
There’s no one else for you to blame
When there’s nobody left
You’re next
You’re next
You’re nextNo spine
No soul
No shame
No reason
Didn’t need em
Didn’t know it
Didn’t see it
Don’t believe it
Didn’t matter when it happened cause it wasn’t to me
I’ll live dumb and die as a casualtyYou might not be next
But your day is coming soon
You don’t have to guess
It’s as good as doneNow everybody else is gone
There’s no one else for you to blame
There’s nobody left
You’re NextYou’re Next
You’re Next
You’re NextIf anyone wants to see what films have been reviewed in the Standard down the years, they should click on the following link:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/film-reviews.html
A short post to mention that the pages for the regular, longstanding Socialist Standard columns have been updated on the blog. The pages provide easy access to all the individual columns in chronological order:
Cooking the Books column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/cooking-books.htmlMaterial World column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/material-world-column.htmlPathfinders column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/pathfinders-column.htmlMoo,
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll make a note of it.
In other news, a bit later than usual, the list of the 21 most popular articles on the blog in 2025:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2026/01/january-february-i-dont-understand.html
Please click away.
‘It’s Clichéd to Be Cynical at Christmas* . . .’
I posted this last year but why not post it again one year on? Think of it as a re-gifting.
A selection of Christmas-related articles that have appeared in the Socialist Standard (and elsewhere) down the years.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-cliched-to-be-cynical-at-christmas.html
Sad to read about the death of the radical filmmaker Peter Watkins at the age of 90.
Best known for the banned BBC documentary The War Game, some of his work has reviewed in the pages of the Socialist Standard.
Click on the links for the reviews:
Peter Watkins: A Revolutionary Film-Maker (2015)
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/peter-watkins-revolutionary-film-maker.htmlPeter Watkins: A Revolutionary Film-Maker (2015) – part 2
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/peter-watkins-revolutionary-film-maker.htmlReview of The War Game – 1966
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-war-game-1966.htmlAnother review of The War Game – 1980
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-war-game-1980.htmlThis novel was published a couple of years ago:
Can anyone top that? I’ll doff my cap if someone provides proof of a concept album centred around Nadezhda Krupskaya’s three weeks in Kettering in 1911.
A bit of fun with regards to Lenin in London.
From the 1974 British TV series, Fall of Eagles, Trevor Griffiths episode, Absolute Beginners, about the Russian revolutionaries in London at the turn of the 20th century. Patrick Stewart as Lenin, Michael Kitchen as Trotsky and Paul Eddington as Plekhanov.
For those of you who don’t know him, Trevor Griffiths is best known for co-writing the Hollywood film, Reds, with Warren Beatty.
Matthew Syed using the same line as Cleverly about Farage word for word at the recent Tory Party conference. Obviously, the Tories are running scared of Reform UK, and believe this is the best line of attack:
