The Red Flag and the White Cockade
Who wrote The Red Flag – and are you singing it all wrong? This brief history of a labour movement classic has some answers. Jim Connell was travelling the short distance home with friends by train from Charing Cross to New Cross after a meeting one evening shortly after the London Dock Strike of 1889 when he wrote the first two stanzas and chorus of … Continue reading The Red Flag and the White Cockade