Monday, 17 August 2009

Peterloo; A Poem by Joseph Healy 16/8/2009

At Peterloo they fell and died


Those for whom Liberty's price was paid


Now Tomlinson and SOCPA are the theme


Where Freedom's corpse lies in the grave


Lord Liverpool and Captain Burleigh


Who called the Yeomanry to arms


Your heirs - Brown and Ainsworth


call for youthful blood in Afghanistan


And Orator Hunt would blanch with shame


Where blood stained the stones of Peter's Fields


There lie the bones of Socialism's hopes


Trod beneath the hooves of New Labour's cavalry




Read out the names of Peterloo and New Labour's dead -


Freedom, Liberty, Suffrage and the Price of Oil!

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