#title Strike!
#subtitle In the spirit of Eugene V. Debs
#author Fifth Estate Collective
#SORTauthors Fifth Estate Collective;
#date 2008
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/378-summer-2008/strike]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2014-08-13
#notes Fifth Estate #378, Summer 2008



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Eugene V. Debs,
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an American Beowulf, who was like both a
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sacred covenant rainbow
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for all the blue proletariat
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and a
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powerful electromagnetic storm
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and struck fiercely against the
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industrial money monsters who
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were mute,
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blind, stark and cold
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to all colors of tears and as
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brutal, bloodthirsty and beastly
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as the Anglo-Saxon monster Grendel!
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Strike like a prairie grass fire by the light of the Morning Star at dawn, or
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Strike like a heat wave by the light of the scorching sun at noon, or
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Strike like a hurricane by the reflective light of the full moon at midnight,
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But strike, as passionately as you love to make love.
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Strike
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Strike
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Photo caption: Labor leader Eugene V. Debs giving his famous 1918 anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, for which he spent two and a half years in federal prison.

--photo: courtesy Debs Museum. P.O. Box 843, Terre Haute IN 47808 www.eugenevdebs.com