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Forces Of Oppression
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Training for us, it's good training for us
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against the forces of oppression.
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Riots in the Grove, road blocks in Brixton,
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vigilantes in St. Paul's, Handsworth and all.
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And they come with lead in their batons, pretending,
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defending the National Front.
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With their symbol of hate right in our face.
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Paramilitary exercises in the ghetto....
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the rich get richer, and the poor will die.
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TAPE: "...and I do know of people from the underground who constantly carried weapons, and I could not avoid the impression that to them, they were a boost to their masculinity. The weapons multiplied their virility...."
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The armed wing is Column 88, Column 88, the return of the Panthers, Column 88...
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It's good training for us against the forces of oppression.
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Self-defence is no offence.
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(Co-written with Archie Poole of RAPP - Radical Alliance of Black Poets and Players)
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