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Revolution by Ahmed Sekou Toure
Global REVOLUTION! You find the solution For each of our pains Darting forth lighthouse and compass You guide together
Men and women, young and old On the uneasy road of progress Doing away with all hindrances Step by step Methodically and tirelessly Organizing persons, things And means of struggle In order to rebuild the nation And better reconstruct the state The family the village and the region.
National REVOLUTION! Your accelerated and assured move Justifies your decisions In their morality, Always in compliance with human objectives Controlling the vehicle of history You unerringly orientate All activities Of the People, Nation and State In perfect harmony and order In the strengthening of their rational grounds And in the certainty to forge victory.
Multiform but one REVOLUTION! Reaction is under your feet Mercilessly crushed down. Forward, go forward Without fear; without hesitation. You are conscience, You are action! Men and women Young and old Have all in view Exaltant plans And have chosen Means to achieve them For the triumph Of the People's cause In order to meet The just necessities Namely: Justice, equality, democracy and peace
Democratic REVOLUTION! In front of you Was standing the injustice stronghold But henceforth Woman is equal to man And are born The groundworks of the new community In the family and the village In the region and the Nation. Beyond any privileges Of age and sex Of color and faith Will everywhere triumph Equality, brotherhood and solidarity For every one To normally evolve Within the communitarian frame That is henceforth established Both collective and individual.
Transtemporal REVOLUTION! Heritage of past Reality of present Seed of our future; It transforms both Subject and object of history Assigning to itself Ever-growing objectives To lead society Towards its own surpassing. For feudalism Colonialism, Imperialism It has contempt and disdain Its struggle against exploiting capitalism Takes no end. It wants to free society From indignity And makes it master of its own fate A magnificent fate That will be constructed By the conscious efforts of all.
Economic REVOLUTION! Source of prosperity It exhorts the working classes To produce more To increase The riches of the Nation. It liberates the productive forces. As well as their initiatives Organizes co-operatives and trade unions Whose dynamic activities And progressive impulse Will harmonize the interests Through struggle, A merciless struggle Against selfishness and exploitation; It suppresses under-development Together with its share of insufficiency, Misery and suffering.
Socialist REVOLUTION! Starting from the People For the well-being of the People It socializes men And their means of production It nationalizes the riches Of soil and subsoil In order to make inalienable To domainal patrimony. To any development Assigning social objectives, It states the primacy Of the People’s right and interests, To the People, it confers sovereignty and power To the individual, freedom, participation and security In order to assure interdependence Between ‘part’ and ‘whole’ Which belong to each other And originate in each other.
Human REVOLUTION! For which man is superior To all material riches Which by his work He creates and censures. It facilitates the bloom Of intellectual faculties Giving to the instruction And the education of man Their most human sense. It guarantees for everyone Liberty and dignity' In everyday life Within society Brotherly united In solidarity. It makes society human And Being, universal. And to the realms of love Where angels dwell It directs man.
Cultural REVOLUTION! Free and enlightened thought A sense of analysis, sense of synthesis! From the earth Man conquers space. And the moon and the stars Unveil the unknown. Men in olden time By their mystic creed With its immutable horizons Threw a gloom over universe. Let us unite planets Into a bunch of knowledge. Let my faults grow into virtues Past, present and future Melt in the pot of action In perpetual rebirth Of ever new quality. Born from time And from my will My intelligence is made sensible And from the instinct proceeds my conscience Which penetrates the infinite. Man must steal from the sky its secrets To see, hear and understand The rhythm of the Cosmos. Dead are reconciled with the living We too, like you, wish To live an eternal life The life which is perpetuated From generation To generation.
Popular REVOLUTION! Inexhaustible source Of legitimacy and legality Continue your onward move! Necessary and useful Serve the People and do not make use of it, Your theory cast in action Is exclusively based On the capacities of the People, The People, Invincible and incorruptible The true engine of progress; Triumph over all forces of evil And use conscientiously for your aims Nature and science. You are in my conscience and existence The determining force That enlightens and guides My being Towards a more beautiful future
Historic REVOLUTION! Condition of the environment Will of progress, You make history. You are even history Which leads the slave From colonial gloom To the sunshine Of freedom. You enable the People To perform the blissful transition From irresponsibility To full sovereignty Which stops oppression And degradation Prosperous changes Are thus brought about For the progress of the People On the road of time And beyond continents, Always onward to happiness On the endless horizon.
African REVOLUTION! You have conquered me for yourself For my People and for myself. I understand your meaning Just and irreversible. I have committed myself to your line Body and soul. You have rendered confidence To those who were about to fall in despair Promoting without calculation Everybody's condition. For this very reason You are in my consciousness The reality Which I belong to In flesh and soul. In my lifetime as in my grave I entirely and for ever Belong to you Who are henceforth myself, My People, Their great ideas Their courageous struggle That must open To unity.
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