http:\/\/www.word-power.co.uk\/viewPlatform.php?id=589<\/a><\/p>\nBrian Garvey from the Independent Workers Union also sang at the Edinburgh book launch. The words of his song are printed below.<\/p>\n
WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS<\/h2>\n
Come my dear, come hold me now
\nThe night is cold I\u2019m not sleeping
\nLet the thundering sky, pass us on by
\nAnd leave us in peace one more time<\/p>\n
If this is new to you
\nLet me walk you through
\nThe streets and fields of my rising
\nBy Derry\u2019s walls, Short Strand and the Falls
\nWhere the red paint of war is still drying<\/p>\n
Chorus<\/p>\n
I send this letter out to the world
\nOn the back of a cigarette paper
\nIt\u2019s a call to your humanity
\nWhile in here we struggle for ours<\/p>\n
The night was dark, the moon was down
\nBy a window he feared for his mother
\nHe saw a flame in the sky, saw his neighbours run by
\nAs the shadows descended on childhood<\/p>\n
That boy I knew, in second hand shoes
\nBy the barricades knew the risk he was taking
\nFor they cut him down
\nLeft him there on the ground
\nAfraid of the new world he was making<\/p>\n
Chorus<\/p>\n
For a moment you know, the smoke did clear
\nThe helicopters ceased of their buzzing
\nWe stood on the shore of a brave new world
\nAnd I held you there close to my heart<\/p>\n
Are we on the dawn of a brave new world
\nIt\u2019s hard to know what a young mind is learning
\nBut streets are on fire, burning with desire
\nFor a world that\u2019s been too long in turning<\/p>\n
Chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tommy McKearney, former Provisional IRA member and hunger striker, now an organiser for the Independent Workers Union in Ireland,\u00a0has spoken at the first Republican Socialist Convention organised the the SSP’s International Committee, and at the third Global Commune event – Trade Unions – Are They Fit For Purpose (organised jointly the the RCN and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,1858,1861,1867,1873,1846,1876],"tags":[8955],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-capitalists-organise","category-oppression-liberation","category-alienation-self-determination","category-emancipation-liberation-and-self-determination","category-against-unionism","category-british-imperialism","category-ireland-against-unionism","tag-author-brian-garvey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":8019,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19647,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/19647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}