Never Give an Inch
*by HK & les Saltimbanks*

*From the bottom of my urban project
Deep into your countryside
The reality has changed
And the revolt is brewing everywhere*

*In this world there was no place for us
We didn't look the part
We were not to the manor born
Not on daddy's plastic*

*The homeless, the unemployed, workers
Farmers, immigrants, the undocumented
They wanted to divide us
And to say they succeeded*

*As long as it was every man for himself
Their system could prosper
But one day we had to wake up
The heads had to roll*

*We'll never give an inch*

*They told us about equality
And like fools we believed them
"Democracy" makes me laugh
If we had had it we would have known it*

*What's the worth of our votes
Up against the law of the market?
They say "my dear fellow countrymen"
But we're fucked all the same*

*And what's the worth of human rights
Up against the airbus sale?
The bottom line, there's only one law, in sum:
"Sell yourself more to sell more."*

*The republic is a whore
Walking the street of dictators
We no longer believe
Their beautiful words
Our leaders are liars*

*We'll never give an inch*

*So stupid, so trite,
To speak of peace and brotherhood
When the homeless are dying in the streets
And the undocumented are being driven out*

*Crumbs are thrown to proles
That's just in the history of the silent
They don't attack millionaire bosses
"Too important for our society"*

*It's crazy the way they are protected
All our rich and powerful
Not to mention the help they get
For being the friends of the president*

*Dear comrades, dear "voters"
Dear "citizen-consumers"
The alarm is ringing
It's time
To reset to zero*

*As long as there's struggle and hope
As long as there's life and battle
As long as we're fighting, we're standing
Here's the key
We're standing, we won't give an inch*

*The passion for victory runs in our blood
Now you know why we are fighting
Our ideal, more than a dream
Another world, we have no choice*

*We'll never give an inch*
 ------------------------------
 "On lâche rien," <http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=272816240781> a
song by HK & les Saltimbanks <http://www.saltimbanques.fr/> (Kadour
Haddadi<http://hk-le-saltimbank.over-blog.com/>and his band), has been
adopted by French workers on strike against the
Sarkozy-Woerth plan to raise the retirement age.

Source: MRZine, 16.10.2010




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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a
nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the
foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole.
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