Movimento Studentesco Milanese
Palestina!
1973 · Edizioni Movimento Studentesco MS 003 · Milan, Italy
- Artist
- Movimento Studentesco Milanese
- Title
- Palestina!
- Release
- Movimento Studentesco Milanese
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Edizioni Movimento Studentesco # MS 003
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Milan, Italy
- Songwriter
- Umberto Fiori
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Lyrics
English: Down there in the Middle East, like a wounded buffalo, / The American pirate rages; / But in the camps, on the dunes, even the children are armed / And every woman grips her rifle. / No, Israel's tanks do not frighten you: / You must liberate your land... // We have raised the red, the green, the white and the black, / Gripped the flag in our fist: the colours of Al Fatah. / We have raised the partisan flag of red / [Palestine / Beside the flag of Vietnam! // The bosses' newspapers call them "bandits", / The papers that called the partisans "murderers"; / We will not believe the Israeli bulletins, / Nor the traitorous Jordanian tyrant. / How many times have they told us, "It's over in Palestine"? / And still we sang the song... // We have raised the red... // Beyond this sea there is a brother people: / Every struggle helps another struggle, / Every shot fired at the Zionist enemy / Strikes those who rule in Italy. / Today History moves with the peoples in revolt: / Revolution, until victory! // We have raised the red... __________ Italian: Laggiù nel Medioriente, come un bufalo ferito / infuria il pirata americano / ma nei campi, sulle dune, sono armati anche i bambini / e ogni donna impugna il suo fucile / no, non fan paura i carri armati d'Israele: / la tua terra tu la devi liberare... // Abbiamo alzato il rosso, il verde, il bianco e il nero, / stretto in pugno la bandiera: i colori di Al Fatah. / Abbiamo alzato la bandiera partigiana della rossa / [Palestina /…
Notes
Gatefold 7" 33 rpm EP: A1 I padroni possono perdere la testa, A2 Dimitrov, B1 Palestina!, B2 Come Yu Kung rimosse le montagne. Written by Umberto Fiori in 1973; also known as "La rossa Palestina".
About the artist
The music groups of the Commissione cultura of the Movimento Studentesco in Milan, among them Franco Fabbri, Umberto Fiori and Tommaso Leddi, later of Stormy Six. [Source: Discogs; ildeposito.org]
Themes
Palestine · Anti-Imperialism · Anti-American · Solidarity · Guerrilla Warfare · Vietnam Analogy