Build the People Who insulted, Build People Who Hunger!

Before the coming of the World Labor Day on May 1 that will come, which will be celebrated in many parts of the world as one of the victorious struggles warning workers against oppression, exploitation or exploitation of the capitalist reactionary, it is presented under the following text or lyrics of the song « International »in the Indonesian language.

Rise of the humiliation,

Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all

So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on
The Internationale
Unites the world in song
So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place
The international ideal
Unites the human race

Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We'll live together or we'll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We've but one Earth on which to live

And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by life and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above

Independence was declared by the pioneers

The songs are framed by a variety of labor and leftist movements in the world as a symbol of this struggle is also already known d Indonesia since the days of Dutch colonial rule, and sung by the pioneering nationalist movements for independence, trade unions and members and sympathizers of the PKI, either openly or clandestinely.

However, as experienced, or known by many people in Indonesia, the song «International» This has not voiced openly or overtly in the long term, because forbidden by the military regime of New Order as a taboo and considered dangerous goods for «smelling communists ». Therefore, the song «International» This little known in Indonesia, unlike in the days of Sukarno's reign when the song was often heard everywhere.

Meanwhile, when the «International» was banned in Indonesia by the Suharto military regime at that time, in many countries around the world this song loudly voiced by different people in a variety of languages, whose numbers exceed 300 languages and dialects, and translated with little change-change from the original text. Around the world, only in Indonesia under Suharto banned the International song openly and become an official political stance of the New Order regime.

Created during the Paris Commune

In fact, since this song was created on June 30, 1871 by a poet and a carpenter in France, Eugene Edine Pottier, has become internationally famous among the workers and revolutionary movements. Eugene Edine Pottier was a leading member of the Paris Commune, which is a working class government for the first time in the world, who reigned for 72 days in France

Government of the working class Paris Commune was defeated by bourgeois reactionaries, and thousands of supporters of the Commune were killed and around 50 000 people on trial. Eugène Edine Pottier himself sentenced to death in absensia, and forced to flee temporarily to the United States, and then come back to France. Poem of his composition, which carry a spirit of revolt against oppression, exploitation and poverty by the bourgeoisie class, and then filled in as the music by Pierre Degeyter in the year 1888.

Since then, the text of the International songs evoke the spirit of struggle of the workers and revolutionary or leftist movements in many countries in the world, a song voiced by various groups who are members of various communist movements, socialist democrats, Trotskyites, anarchis, or progressive groups other.

Voiced by the revolutionary movement in the world

Throughout the history of the struggle of various peoples in various countries around the world in the fight against fascism and the capitalist and reactionary bourgeois class, the International song is a source of great spirit and it is important for many people. This song was sung in Jewish circles in the ghettos of Warsaw when fighting fascism, Hitler's Germany. Also by rebel forces against the rule of General Franco's Spain, or in the various revolutionary movements against the reactionary dictatorship in Latin America.

So, for more than 100 years of the International song already has great power to evoke the courage and resolve to encourage those who want to have to fight all kinds of oppression, exploitation and injustice throughout the world.

As of today, the International song still often heard in important meetings in the movement against neo-liberalism and globalization, made by a variety of broad movements, and not limited only by the left, progressive, communist, or socialist only. It can be seen in the activities among the Third World Forum, World Forum for Alternatives, at meetings in Porto Allegre (Brazil), Caracas (Venezuela), Bogota (Bolivia), in South Africa, Mali, Kenya, or in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Scandinavian countries.

Given all that, then presumably the next to any song in Indonesia International also need to be used as a power struggle of the spirit of the labor movement, and promote unity and foster comradeship in the fight against all kinds of injustice and exploitation by the reactionary circles of national and international capitalists, who conspired with the SBY government authorities.

No need to be afraid anymore to sing International

Among the Indonesian labor movement, and also among the progressive left or groups in society, it does not need to be afraid anymore to carry a song Internasioale in important activities. Today, the government of SBY, or other governments also could no longer listens to prohibit or prevent the International song. Because, stupid actions will only make worse the face SBY government, which so far has been too bad so many big issues and the widespread damage or depravity. In addition, it will get resistance from the public and most people do not comply with such restrictions.

Because, as an example, although the prohibition against the circulation of official Marxism in our country still has not been revoked, but in practice has been a lot of people or a publisher who dared to distribute the books containing the teachings of Marxism (or smelly communist / PKI).

Marxism via Google on the Internet

Moreover, with the Internet, then the prohibition against the circulation of Indonesia Marxism became a matter of who can be held only by the many people fart. Today, through the Internet, any person interested in Marxism, communism, or socialism, can obtain readings of hundreds of thousands of pages every time and freely, with the opening of Google.

What he said Bung Karno

Thus, it seems increasingly obvious truth of what is said in the Bung Karno 1966 (a year after the events G30S) that Marxism can not be prohibited and also when he said the following: «What is the song that was sung by the International Communist tock? All of the workers! Niet Communists or Communist, right wing or left wing, they sing the song of the International. Do people not know then said, who sang the International, er, PKI! God Dorie (Dutch language, about meaning: God or Masha'Allah) International songs sung in London, the Netherlands, in Paris, in Brussels, in Bonn, in Moscow, in Peking, in Tokyo. Short, everywhere there are the workers entered the union, the International sang »(quoted from the book« unfinished Revolution, vol II, page 313).

Today, for us in Indonesia, proclaiming the International song a tribute to the sacrifices of the Digulists that many died in exile Tanah Merah and other pioneers of independence. International singing "can also mean to show anger and hatred attitude to the military regime of Suharto and his loyal supporters. In addition, proclaiming the International track also meant to help preserve the revolutionary struggle for the soul of Soekarno.

Paris, 26 April 2010
A. Umar Said

Source: http://umarsaid.free.fr/index.htm