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The Standard of Revolt
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"The Standard of Revolt", known by its original title "The Red Flag" (French: Le drapeau rouge, pronounced [ dʁapo ʁuʒ]), is a French socialist and anarchist revolutionary song written in 1877 by Paul Brousse to the melody of the Swiss patriotic song "The Shores of Free Sarine" (French: Les bords de la libre Sarine) by Jacques Vogt.[1]

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The English translation by M. L. Korr, published in 1932 is not based directly on the original French lyrics, but on the substantially modified Polish 1882 version by Bolesław Czerwieński, titled „Czerwony sztandar“ ("The Red Standard"), which became the anthem of the Polish Socialist Party. Czerwieński's lyrics were also the basis for Czech, German, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish and other translations.[2]

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Lyrics and variants

French versions

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Translations

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The Standard of Revolt (English version)[3]

The cruel tyrants of the nation
Have always shed the workers' blood
The people's wrath and indignation
Arises in a mighty flood,
Arises in a mighty flood.

Far and wide spreads the tide of our wrath
We hoist the flag of revolution
It proclaims workers' aims, rebels' path
Tyrants' defeat, retribution
We raise our standard, freedom's banner
Its color is the deepest red
For it the workers' blood was shed

The en'my's brutal rage and fury
Our day of reckoning won't stay
The people will be judge and jury
To try the tyrants of today,
To try the tyrants of today.

Far and wide spreads the tide...

March onward, comrades, into battle
The dawn of liberty is near
No more shall we, like voiceless cattle
Be driven by the goad of fear,
Be driven by the goad of fear.

Far and wide spreads the tide...

Let now the tyrants fret and shudder
The hour approaches of their fall;
The working class will turn the rudder,
Give life and freedom to us all,
Give life and freedom to us all.

Far and wide spreads the tide...
 

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