Released during the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike, this song presents a history of ‘industrial relations’ and social democracy. The EP included two pro-union songs; profits went into the strike-fund. Lyrically it is subtle, the titular wars evoking both World Wars, perhaps a Third still to come, or the class war. There is ambivalence about war-work (see also ‘Shipbuilding’). The musical style references a canon of labour/political songs, resonating with the theme of commemoration. The first-person pronoun constructs a shifting relationship between singer, song, subject, and audience.