Forces Of Oppression - The Pop Group

Training for us, it’s good training for us

Against the forces of oppression

Riots in the Grove, road blocks in Brixton

Vigilantes in St. Paul’s, Handsworth and all

And they come with lead in their batons, pretending

Defending the National Front

With their symbol of hate right in our face

Paramilitary exercises in the ghetto…

The rich get richer, and the poor will die

TAPE: «…and I do know of people from the underground who constantly carried

weapons, and I could not avoid the impression that to them, they were a boost

to their masculinity.

The weapons multiplied their virility…»

The armed wing is Column 88, Column 88, the return of the Panthers, Column 88…

It’s good training for us against the forces of oppression

Self-defence is no offence