Forty Years On
Forty years
on from the colliers’ last stand,
When the
Blues were so determined to break
Workers’
solidarity: what to make
Of it now? Was
it no more than a grand
Gesture,
final knockings of working class
Militancy,
an end of defiance
Before a
general, grudging compliance
With
capitals’ world order coming to pass?
The Greens,
who supported the miners then,
Would now
surely campaign to close the mines,
While Red
influence continues to decline
And reform
proves a busted flush again.
Hope
refracted through politics’ prism
Needs
refocusing on socialism.
D. A.
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