lefty songs wot you like (Bragg free zone)

[BCBlues]

above post was supposed to be this video, sorry folks

 

[Thimble Queen]

Such uni nostalgia for this one

 

[DotCommunist]

Spoiler: song

 

[cozmikbrew]

 

[cozmikbrew]

 

[J Ed]

Spoiler: Rebel Diaz - Which side are you on?

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[74drew]

 

[rekil]

It'd be nice if people used spoiler tags and artist/title description for these kinds of threads. Loads of vids cause lower spec machines to freeze and vids get removed from YT all the time.

 

[J Ed]

Done

 

[bamalama]

 

[bamalama]

 

[Blagsta]

 

[Knotted]

The obligatory Cornelius Cardew/Smash the Social Contract

Spoiler

 

[Lorca]

Spoiler: Class Conscious Hip-Hop

 

[billy_bob]

It's not bad, but you can't beat Dick Gaughan's version for me.

 

[billy_bob]

Dead Kennedys - spoilt for choice....

Spoiler

 

[Roadkill]

The World Turned Upside Down



That version sung by the Oysterband, who've made a career out of lefty folk-rock stuff, among my favourites of which is:



Last time I saw them, at Beverley Folk Festival the other year, John Jones said over the closing bit, 'All that way for this?! Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Nigel Farage, the whole fucking lot of them. Sorry for swearing, like, but these bastards make me angry!'

 

[Roadkill]

I wish there was a way to like this many times over.

Also, pretty much everything by Phil Ochs, including this:

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Spoiler: America for Beginners, Latin Quarter

 

[eatmorecheese]

 

[eatmorecheese]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Spoiler: Miss Maggie, Renaud

Spoiler: or in English

I vaguely remember that the daily fail wanted to send a gunboat across the channel when this was released...

 

[bamalama]

 

[bamalama]

 

[seventh bullet]

above post was supposed to be this video, sorry folks

It's taken from the Channel 4 Dispatches programme People of the Shining Path, made back in 1992. It was filmed shortly before the army attacked the Canto Grande prison.

According to Comrade Mao 'the masses make history, the Party leads.'

The masses can end up growing sick of the Party...

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Spoiler: Barbara Dane: I Hate The Capitalist System

 

[peterkro]

Bit of a weird one this I knew Alistair Hulett when he was sixteen years old (still at school) and fell in love with his sister (as did most of the folk scene males in NZ) after a couple of years our ways parted and it was only someone on Urban that pointed me to the fact he went on to have a successful career as a protest singer (RIP).The odd thing is I went to work in Bougainville at the Panguna mine ( I'm still ashamed by that although in my defence I worked against the company CRA and established friendships with the locals).A top bloke, he taught me many Glasgow street songs and I still value his friendship.He went to OZ and did his thing I went to Ireland and our ways didn't cross again:

 

[The39thStep]

 

[Patteran]

above post was supposed to be this video, sorry folks

Ha! A mangled version of the chorus was a late night favourite among elements of North London AFA.

 

[Idris2002]

Peter, Paul and Mary - "If you love your country, vote for Gene McCarthy".

Spoiler

Be the first on your block to be "clean for Gene".