Solidarity's Anthem: Voices of the Members of the All NEHU Workers' Union (ANWU)

Dear Members,
Of All NEHU Workers' Union (ANWU)
This poem below ; is for each and everyone of you-


Out of the night that envelops us all
Black as the pit from end to end
We thank whatever gods may still exist
For our unconquerable members  

In the fell clutch of circumstance
We have not winced nor cried aloud.  
Under the bludgeoning of chance  
Our heads remain unbowed   

Beyond the cruel tyrant's might
Lies but the future of our fight
Yet that future though out of sight  
Shall be ours if we unite

It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments our scroll
We are the masters of our fate
The captains of our soul  

Let us gather, comrades, one and all
In solidarity, our voices raised  
The time has come for us to call
For justice overdue, too long delayed

Chains of oppression shall not bind
Spirits yearning to be free
The rights all workers seek to find   
Shall be secured collectively  

Trust not in idols carved of stone
In empty promises of the elite
Our faith lies in ourselves alone  
In workers banded strong and fleet

The mills of the gods grind late  
But grind they slow yet sure
We will hasten that hopeful fate
If we steadfastly endure

Winter departs and gentle spring  
With fairer seasons shall appear
Take heart that which we now do bring
The harvest we shall later reap  

Can towers stand without foundation?
Can trees grow minus roots below?
Our toil is base of every station  
On work all fortunes grow

Why should we sow yet never taste
The fruits produced by honest hands?
Too long have we been kept in chains
The time for justice now at hand  

In unity there lies great strength
When workers stand as comrades true
No barrier can withstand the length  
Of arms linked tight in view  

Of all that can be won or lost
Of goods or gold or office held  
Justice for us must be the cost  
Or naught has meaning in this field

Too long have we in silence stood
Enduring wrongs we should not bear
But workers now in brotherhood
For righteous dues will not forbear

The law of nature will not bend
Nor human nature be denied
All chains of greed shall snap and end   
When righteous claims are not defied

Why do we toil from sun to sun  
Yet dwell in poverty and fear?
The wealth we create can be our own
If we but persevere

Let us speak with united breath  
March onward with a common tread
For labor strong conquers time and death   
When marching as one instead  

Of scattered grains we are a sheaf  
Of solitary drops, a stream  
Let us flow together and not drift  
To waters of our dream

Hope lies not in human law  
In constitutions inked and sealed  
But in ourselves, if we withdraw
Consent to be mistreated, peeled

We need no key to open doors  
No torch to light our way  
We hold the power, nothing more  
To bring in a brighter day

Let us be clever as the snake  
Yet gentle as the dove  
Wise enough to stay awake   
Bound together in love  

But not for masters over us
Do we exert our force
Tis for each other we must trust  
To chart our proper course

Why should so few hoard all the spoil  
As we create yet lack and ache?
The time has come for us to toil   
For our own interest's sake

Let us speak out now, loud and clear    
Make our just demands be heard
In one strong voice without fear  
Until the deaf ears are stirred

By the winds of discontent  
Blowing wild throughout the land   
No longer shall we bow or bend
To unjust rules men command

The tree of freedom takes deep roots  
It grows from seeds in workers' hearts  
Each little act of love fruits
Into branches liberty imparts.

In drops the rock is slowly wearied  
By atoms mighty mountains fall   
Thus shall our rights be secured
If we unite and heed the call

To organize, stand firm as one  
Hand joined with hand, our circle wide
The work ahead has just begun
But we shall turn the future's tide

Why should the bees that make the honey  
Live void of sweetness in their hive?
We shall reclaim what we make sunny  
When joined, we gather our drive

Do not believe that guns will end it   
Nor rulers' words set us all free
We hold the means if we befriend it  
Our solidarity the key

There is no freedom given as alms  
Like beggars eager for relief  
'Tis seized through solidarity's arms  
Through discipline, belief  

In wings that lift the working flock  
The wings of justice, brotherhood  
Of patient hearts that will not lock  
Until all workers' claims are stood

Take comfort friends though skies seem gray  
The sun still shines behind the clouds  
This somber night precedes the day  
All shadows lift, light liberates.

Despair not, for hope shakes oppression  
Truth melts deception's icy chains  
Courage conquers cruel suppression  
Unity the tyrant's wall disdains.  

Stoke the fires of conviction bright   
Let bold ambition be unfurled
We hold tomorrow in our sight  
Labor is the tiller of the world!

With calloused hands yet open hearts  
We build the towers to the skies
Chart the roads, frame metal arts   
Progress is the worker's prize

But not for masters shall we strain  
Nor let our surplus be controlled   
The wealth we generate and gain  
Will by our hands be grasped and hold

We need no leave to claim what's ours  
To speak, assemble or protest   
Chains forged by greed have not the powers
To suppress our cause justly blessed.

Stand shoulder to shoulder, valiant friends  
Close ranks against injustice done
To secure the rights courage defends   
And triumphs over battles won.

Our hearts and hopes cannot be bound  
While we draw breath they beat and burn
Chains crumble upon barren ground
But thriving gardens justice earn.

With tools of education and zeal
We shall cultivate in all fertile minds,
Ideals that to fruition shall reveal
The fruits of freedom for all our kind.

Have courage friends and do not yield   
Though foes seem mighty, numerous
Stay true, stand strong upon the field  
For time flows fast and change is thus

No night so long but morning follows  
No winter that spring does not chase   
Hold to faith when darkness swallows  
Dawn shall come, night's gloom erase.

What barriers stand against the sea?  
What limits can the horizon bind?
Where workers go, linked loyally,   
No walls or boundaries confine.

Rise like the swell of ocean waves  
Surging with purpose, power not fear   
March on till the full justice craves
Break down the walls of greed severe

As saplings grow to trees majestic  
Seeds of justice grow grand and bold  
Stand firm, united and consistent    
Till all wrongs of the past we fold

Have patience, friends, but rest not idle   
With folded hands make no peace  
Demand your rights but without libel    
Stand together and find release

From ancient bonds seeking to smother  
The righteous claims you now unfold  
You hold the key, sister and brother
In solidarity, bravely hold!  

Let reason be our guiding polestar    
As steadfastly we tread uphill  
Not force or fear take us afar
But ethics, empathy and will

To build the world that we envision   
Where labor claims its rightful due  
By moral means gain that mission   
The way of justice, good and true

Why should so vast a wealth we wrought
Bring poverty to those create?
We must unite in common thought   
To share the harvest sown by fate  

The seeds of growth and good we till
Shall bear the fruits we truly earn
If we unite and by hope instill    
The better world for which we yearn

So let us plow with purpose ready    
Water wisdom's sprouting shoots
Then shall we taste prosperity   
The tree of justice bears such fruits

Stand firm, be brave, let good hearts nourish    
Hold to truth though storms may batter  
Justice we'll reap if we shall cherish
Ideals no tyrant can shatter!

Thus hand in hand and shoulder set    
We face the future without fear
The rising sun we do not fret    
For hope untold lies bright and near

Let songs of freedom be our anthem  
Ring out justice, right and truth  
Fear no shadows that may haunt them    
If we stand united in our youth

Of spirit bound by common feeling   
Of righteous claims beyond repeal  
This unjust world we'll be unsealing   
If hearts in harmony we kneel

Rise then comrades, stout and ready    
Greet the dawn, the night is gone  
Wrest progress from powers unsteady   
The day is ours if we press on!

No longer shall we work as strangers
To enrich those who exploit and take  
But united now, the fruit and dangers
Of labor we as comrades partake

Too long we've toiled yet wanted more    
Equality we now demand  
Open wide the door of store  
That workers may enjoy their hand    

The time has come, the time is present   
To organize and unify  
Let bonds of solidarity cement    
For our sake now we sanctify

This union of mind, heart and soul  
Of hands that toil and eyes that see  
The road ahead, the common goal  
Where all workers may walk free

Where worth and dignity of labor    
Is by society ensured  
Where collective power of our ardor  
Protects the rights we have immured

No longer shall we work divided    
Create wealth for masters to hoard  
But united now, fate provided   
The key to freedom in one accord!






Khublei shi hajar nguh





Napoleon s Mawphniang