The Manic Street Preachers have been forced to act after the far-right British National Party used their song ‘If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next’ without permission. The BNP had used the 1998 Number One track to soundtrack a film entitled ‘The Cesspit Called London’. The Welsh band’s label Sony BMG have issued a cease and desist order and the material has been removed from YouTube and the party’s website.
Ironically, the song itself deals with the Spanish Civil War in the Thirties, when left-leaning volunteers from many parts of the world – including Wales – went to Spain to fight Franco’s Fascists. The line “If we can shoot rabbits, then we can shoot Fascists” must have escaped the notice of the BNP.
Posted on: 27th January 2010
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