October 04, 2004

200,000 Dutch trade unionists sang this on Saturday

And now you can hear it on Radio LabourStart. The song is called "Wij zijn woedend!", and translates as "We are, we are angry!" The tune belongs to "Queen!".)

LabourStart senior correspondent Oskar van Rijswijk passed it on to us, and explained that the song is "about the social cuts of the Dutch government, and why we struggle against them". By listening, you can get a feel for what it must have been like to be in the streets of the Netherlands this week, marching with hundreds of thousands of others against those cuts.

Posted by ericlee at October 4, 2004 06:46 AM