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Arise, the damned of the earth, Arise, prisoners of hunger, Reason thunders in its crater, It is the eruption of the end! Let's make a blank slate of the past, Crowds, slaves, arise, arise! The world is going to change from its base, We are nothing, let's be everything! |: This is the final struggle Let us gather, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be mankind! :|
There are no supreme saviours, Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune. Producers, let's save ourselves! Let's decree a common defense So that the thief returns his plunder, To pull the mind from the prison cell Let us blow upon our furnace ourselves, Strike the iron while it is hot! |: It is the final struggle Let us gather, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be mankind! :|
The state represses and the law cheats, The taxes bleed the unfortunate No responsibility is imposed on the rich The rights of the poor is a hollow phrase Enough of languishing in custody, Equality needs other laws! No rights without duty, it says, Equally, no duties without rights. |: It is the final struggle Let us gather, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be mankind! :|
Hideous, in their glory, The kings of the mines and rail. Never have they done anything else, But steal from others' work. In the safes of this group What we created is melted together! In decreeing that they give it back The people want nothing but their due. |: It is the final struggle Let us gather, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be mankind! :|
The kings intoxicate us with their fumes, Peace among ourselves, war to the tyrants! Let us declare strikes in the armies, Guns in the air, break their ranks! If they insist, those cannibals, On making heroes of us, They will soon know that our bullets, Are for our own generals. |: It is the final struggle Let us gather, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be mankind! :|
Labourers, peasants, we are The great party of workers The earth belongs only to humans The idle are going to live elsewhere How much they feast on our flesh But if the ravens and vultures Disappear one of these days The sun will shine forever |: It is the final struggle Let us gather, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be mankind! :|
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