Labor Unions and Class Struggle

[Louis Proyect]

Ken Lawrence:
>I wrote the analysis after having
>spent every month for the previous three years traveling from picket line to
>union hall in every Deep South state, from the five-state strike centered at
>Laurel, Mississippi, and Mobile, Alabama, against all the pulp and paper
>trusts; to citrus pickers and sugar cane cutters in Belle Glade, Florida; to
>the Farah plant at El Paso, Texas; to U.S. Steel workers in Fairfield,
>Alabama, and Louisville, Mississippi; to semi-trailer builders at Dothan,
>Alabama, to dock hands at Burnside, Louisiana; to the Mead plant in Atlanta;
>to poultry packers at Forest, Mississippi; to furniture workers in Panama
City
>and General Electric workers in Tallahassee, Florida; to Del Monte workers in
>Crystal City, Texas, and dozens of others. 

HIP PRIEST

He's not appreciated.
He's not appreciated.
He's not appreciated.

Drink the long draught, Dan,
for the Hip Priest.

I said drink the long draught, Dan,
for the Hip Priest!

He's not appreciated
He's not appreciated

White collar hits motorway services
It's the Hip Priest
>From the eyes he can see, they know
It's the Hip Priest

He's not appreciated.

It's purple psychology.
Not just an old lady's.

That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest

That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest

And he's gonna make an appearance.
He's gonna make an appearance.

Was shown in a freakshow early on.
And drunk from small brown bottles since I was so long.

Cause I'm a Hip Priest
Cause I'm a Hip Priest
People only need me when they're down and gone to seed.
Cause I'm a Hip Priest.
Cause I'm a Hip Priest.

It's appreciation half won.
And they hate their allegiance to hip preacher one.
Hip Priest

I got my last clean dirty shirt outta the wardrobe
I got my last clean dirty shirt outta the wardrobe
And all the good people know

That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest

All the young groups know
All the young groups know
They can't ever take advantage because I'm a Hip Priest.
I was as clean as a packet of chocolate chips.

That's hip hip hip hip hit hit hit Hip Priest

And if the good people knew they would say
He's not appreciated
He's not appreciated

So drink the long draught, Dan,
for the Hip Priest

(written by Mark E. Smith, lead singer of The Fall)

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)