L'Internationale

The Internationale (in French L'Internationale)is a French socialist long written in 1870 by Eugène Pottier (1816-1887), French poet and veteran of Paris Commune, and set in music by Pierre Degeyter (1848-1932), Belgian songwriter and woodcarver.

Becoming quickly the rallying song of international socialism, syndicalism and other leftist ideologies, she was chosen as one of the rallying songs of the short-lived Soviet Russia; now, it's the national anthem of several syndicalist countries throughout the world: Commune of France, Union of Britain, Georgia and Republic of the Sicilies. It's also the rallying song of the Combined Syndicates of America, the National Confederation of Workers (Spain) and the Russian Neo-Bolchevik party. Some of the leftist elements of German SPD are also singing it to protest against the "soft" policies of their leaders.

Most of the rightist authoritarian states are forbidding any performance of this revolutionary song.