Founding Of The Party Guitar Chords Cornelius Cardew

[Verse 1]
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We’re the class of proletarians
(E) (A)
We have unbounded strength and fire
(E) (Bm)
But today we’re enslaved
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(A)nd our very lives are up for hire
(Bm) (E)
To end this degradation, the party
(A) (E) (A)
To conscious revolutionary action does aspire

(E) (A)
‘Round the teachings of Lenin
(E) (A)
We must constantly unite
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He taught that the working class
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Needs a party of new type
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(A) party professional and disciplined
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That can organize the revolution, and for this unfailingly we fight

[Chorus]
(E) (A) (D) (A)
The founding of the party is a great historic landmark
(D) (E)
Grasping Marxism-Leninism the party leads the British working class
(A) (D) (A)
On the path of the Great October Revolution
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This path is the only path for the proletarians of the world

[Interlude]
C#m (D) (A)

[Verse 2]
(A)
Our class in each country
(E) (A)
Produces diamonds so bright
(E) (Bm)
Its best sons and daughters
(E)
Who are prepared to give their life
(Bm) (E)
To building the party of the working class
(A) (E) (A)
To lead the broad masses in the revolutionary fight

(E) (A) (E) (A)
The Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
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Is the head to direct the blows of the working class’ clenched fist
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It points out the enemy and unites the mass
(A) (E) (A)
(A)gainst the class of exploiters, the British monopoly capitalist class

[Chorus]
(E) (A) (D) (A)
The founding of the party is a great historic landmark
(D) (E)
Grasping Marxism-Leninism the party leads the British working class
(A) (D) (A)
On the path of the Great October Revolution
(D) (A) (E)7 (A)
This path is the only path for the proletarians of the world