Migraine in children

"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" was the lead single from the Manic Street Preachers' fifth studio album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. It was released on August 24, 1998. All three members of the band shared writing credits.

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 fascist insurrection against the Spanish Republic.

The song takes its name from a Republican (i. Ten percent of
children get migraines, and an even higher percentage of teenagers have. e. left-wing) poster at the time. A young child killed by the Nationalists was portrayed on the poster and a stark warning written at the bottom: "If you tolerate this, your children will be next. ” (View poster) A variant poster came with the similar message, "What Europe tolerates or protects. What your children can expect. Children suffer from headaches, too. ”

Various works on the Spanish Civil War were the inspiration for this song, most notably George Orwell's first-hand account, "Homage to Catalonia. " Nicky has acknowledged that he was also inspired by a song by The Clash, "Spanish Bombs", which has a similar subject.

Certain lyrics seem to pertain to these works. For example, the line "If I can shoot rabbits/then I can shoot fascists” is attributed to a Welsh farmer who signed up with the Republican fighters.