anti-communist hysteria

The Reds are under the beds again!
They鈥檝e hidden there since god knows when,
Our world is torn asunder
It鈥檚 kids鈥 beds they鈥檙e under
Along with Muslims and refugee men.

Labor鈥檚 dared to turn the focus
To the low-paid worker locus.
Don't they know it鈥檚 millionaires
Who need more cash and more shares,
Labor鈥檚 done it to provoke us.

It鈥檚 such an esoteric case,
Why care about the working base?
We know the best way to go
With wages now nicely low,
Don鈥檛 these workers know their place?

One hundred years after the Red flag Riots, Jim McIlroy looks at the polarisation after World War I, in which far-right aggression was incited by governments and 鈥渞espectable鈥 political forces.