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“If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, with lyrics written by Nicky Wire (credited as Nick Jones), and music written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore. It was released on August 24, 1998 and became the first of the band’s two number one singles in the United Kingdom to date. The song is in the Guinness World Records as the number one single with the longest title without brackets. It is the only Manic Street Preachers track ever to be released as a single in the United States, where it was a minor hit on Modern Rock radio.

The song was about the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of volunteers from around the world who joined the International Brigade fighting Franco’s military rebels against the Spanish Republic.

The song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time. A photograph of a young child killed by Nationalist bombs is shown under a sky of bombers with the stark warning “If you tolerate this, your children will be next” written at the bottom.
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  • nick_honest

    excellent

    10 days ago

  • mzampieri

    The Manics are great. They are one of my favourites. Brilliant....

    last month

  • elliedimmesdale

    how damn relevant they have always been, before and now as well,and how insanely underrated. Who else can write such sharp, political songs with such vulnerability and humanity.

    last month

  • skank_pit

    If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists.

    last month

  • xXPyrophorusXx

    Great song, with awesome lyrics

    March 2012

  • illusionvalley

    Wow, what an amazing song. Just beautiful.

    February 2012

  • davidbowiegirl

    Great song <3

    February 2012

  • dabnotu

    like U2's "Walk On" or vice versa?

    January 2012

  • elliedimmesdale

    i love that band so much.

    January 2012

  • KeithJones

    Brilliant! [2]

    January 2012

  • r0cksteady1

    *****

    December 2011

  • gutlesswonder

    Still my fave song EVER!!! Live version of it from the O2 gig (which sadly I was unable to attend! :( ) sounded fab on the youtube vid of it!

    December 2011

  • ladycaroledowns

    Brilliant!

    December 2011

  • ilo-anglomanic

    one of my fave song(((((((

    December 2011

  • tru_dude

    one of the most beautiful songs ever sang

    December 2011

  • Leskaaraujo

    Demais

    December 2011

  • jobbyfingers

    pass the cheesy wotsits please

    December 2011

  • MrPaddy

    Amazing song.

    November 2011

  • innerspeaker

    Fuck yes this is awesome.

    November 2011

  • sneggyuser

    Great keyboards on this track!

    November 2011
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