Il Cile É Già Un Altro Vietnam
1973 · Lotta Continua · Italy
- Artist
- Alfredo Bandelli
- Title
- Il Cile É Già Un Altro Vietnam
- Release
- Il Cile è già un altro Vietnam / In tutto il mondo uniamoci
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Lotta Continua
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Songwriter
- Alfredo Bandelli
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
- Italy, peace / protest - A-side: protest against Allende, comparing Chile to Vietnam - "Chile is already another Vietnam" - B-side: Socialists will conquer, stop American imperialism - People war, from America to Vietnam
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Allende is dead—the socialist— / Allende is dead, murdered / By a fascist army / Trained and prepared / To defend the homeland, / To defend the State. // And the streets of Santiago / Are soaked in red blood. / And the streets of Valparaíso / Are soaked in red blood— / The blood of thousands of proletarians, / Of thousands of communists... // Fight the bosses / Wherever and however you can— / That is the only law / For us, the exploited. // With Allende dead, the ideal / Remains the 'national path'; / With Allende dead, the mission / Is socialization— / No, there can be no bargaining / Over popular power. // And the occupied factories / Were bombed, / The workers massacred, / The comrades executed by firing squad / By the state army— / That 'constitutional' army, indeed... // Fight the bosses... // Allende is dead at La Moneda, / Symbol of the nation; / No, reason is of no use / Against a cannon blast: / Power must emerge / From the barrel of a gun. // The lesson was paid for / With proletarian blood: / Reformism always loses, / Revolution wins— / And Chile is another Vietnam, / And Chile is another Vietnam... // Fight the bosses... __________ Italian: Morto Allende, socialista, / morto Allende, assassinato / dall'esercito fascista / preparato ed addestrato / a difendere la patria, / a difendere lo Stato. // E le strade di Santiago / son bagnate rosse sangue. / E le strade a Valparaiso / son bagnate rosso sangue / di migliaia di proletari, / di migliaia di…
Notes
"2 — due canzoni internazionaliste di Alfredo Bandelli": a 45 issued as a supplement to no. 237 of the daily Lotta Continua (registered Rome tribunal no. 14442, responsible editor Fulvio Grimaldi), October 1973, the proceeds to the subscription "Armi al MIR cileno" (arms for the Chilean MIR) after the 11 September coup. Side A "Il Cile è già un altro Vietnam", side B "In tutto il mondo uniamoci". No label name or catalogue number. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Italian protest singer.
Themes
Vietnam Analogy · Chile (Cold War) · Anti-Imperialism · Anti-American · Protest · Benefit Record
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Vietnam as Comparison