Framtiden är vår

Annotation

"Framtiden är vår" ("The Future Is Yours") "När avtalstexten torkat" ("When the Agreement Text Dried") - Nixon reference, about peace agreement "Vi hjälptes åt" ("We Helped Each Other") - reference to France and Diem Bien Phu "Visan om terroristlagen" ("The Song of Terrorism Act") "Basarbetaren" "Det ligger dollar bakom" ("There Are Dollars Behind") "Kambodja ska bli vårt" ("Cambodia Will Be Ours") "En vanlig kvinna i Vietnam" ("An Ordinary Woman in Vietnam") "Erkänn PRR" ("Recognise PRR") - PRR a reference to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam - those opposed to the government of the US backed South Vietnam.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

LP sleeve "Framtiden är vår — sånger till Vietnam" (yellow, drawing of terraced paddy fields; back cover drawing of an "Erkänn PRR" demonstration), Befria Södern BS 6. Recorded January–February 1974 by song groups from the Lund, Göteborg, Borås, Norrköping, Östra Stockholm and Farsta FNL groups together with "Folksjungarna" (Hälsingborg), "Lyngholms minne" (Hälsingborg), "Folkets musik" (Göteborg) and "Nixons beska droppar" (Uppsala), at Studio Decibel, Stockholm; engineer Anders Oredson; recording leader Gunnar Idering; cover Konstfacks FNL-grupp, Stockholm; printed by General Printing AB, Sundbyberg; issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Fack, 104 32 Stockholm 19. The sleeve text recalls the photograph of a small girl leading a captured American pilot out of the jungle, hails the Paris agreement of 27 January 1973 ("Fredens gryning och segerns ära lyser upp våra berg och våra floder")…

About the artist

Song groups of De Förenade FNL-grupperna (DFFG / United NLF Groups), the Swedish solidarity movement with the Vietnamese NLF; active late 1960s to mid 1970s, releasing albums on the movement's own Befria Södern label. Based in Sweden (groups in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]

Themes

Anti-War · NLF

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]