apulseintheeternalmind

By AnthonyBailey

Clapham Fringe Festival

...The Bread & Roses,  88 Clapham Manor Street, SW4 6DZ  

...The festival

...The pub is owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council (BWTUC) and run by the Workers Beer Company, part of BWTUC Trading. It prides itself as a pub with a social consciousness.

... The song
As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day;
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts grey, are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses; 
For the people hear us singing; Bread and roses! Bread and Roses! 
As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men for they are women's children and we mother them again; 
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; 
Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread but give us roses! As we come marching, marching unnumbered women dead; 
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread; 
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew;
Yes, it is bread we fight for but we fight for roses too! 

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