Not 100% convinced, but could this to be do with the infighting and repression the Republicans suffered with around said time? Barcelona May Days et al. Stalinists vs Anarchists etc, with this song lamenting both being destined to defeat by such actions, that no one strand holds the definitive belief, that they swore to the same army and they're both equally whores in the current system, so for god's sake unite!
Not 100% convinced, but could this to be do with the infighting and repression the Republicans suffered with around said time? Barcelona May Days et al. Stalinists vs Anarchists etc, with this song lamenting both being destined to defeat by such actions, that no one strand holds the definitive belief, that they swore to the same army and they're both equally whores in the current system, so for god's sake unite!