Song not slogan
My short article on the Kinder Mass Trespass in Solidarity 633, thanks to some bizarre editing, claims that the words “I may be a wage slave on a Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday” were a slogan adopted by the trespassers. In fact they are a line from the song The Manchester Rambler , written by folk singer Ewan McColl shortly after the Trespass. I originally intended the words to form a sub-title to the article, but the editor shifted them to the main text and attributed them to a slogan. I’m too old to go clambering up Kinder Scout any more, but I hope the fine tradition of rambling. and...