Music with a leftist message

The Cranberries - Zombie (youtu.be)

We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years - Utah Phillips (www.youtube.com)

This song is about how workers have been injured, maimed, and died on the job for capitalists. This song highlights how there's already violence inherent to the system of capitalism, though I feel it's impossible to see that message without also realizing that we should not be afraid of violence when opposing the capitalist...

Huelga en General - Los Lobos (www.youtube.com)

This song is by the band Los Lobos, and actually comes from the album used as our community art! The band wanted to commemorate the 1965 Delano Grape Strike by the UFW. The phrase "viva la huelga en general!" means "long live the general strike!" Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta were the leaders of this strike, with Dolores also...

Apes of State - Bill Collectors Theme Song (youtu.be)

Whistle Boeing - Jesse Welles (youtu.be)

Wingnut Dishwashers Union - Proudhon in Manhattan (youtu.be)

I could honestly post any WDU song on this page (or Pat the Bunny song, for that matter), but I found this community and instantly thought of this track.

Cancer - Jesse Welles (youtu.be)

Why yes, I did discover a new artist, could you tell?

War Isn’t Murder - Jesse Welles (youtu.be)

MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL (youtu.be)

"War" — Sinéad O'Connor (www.dailymotion.com)

Terror Australia (www.youtube.com)

Johnny Cash - Man in Black (The Best Of The Johnny Cash TV Show) (www.youtube.com)

Adjusted for age this is very much a leftist message.

Bloodywood - Machi Bhasad (Expect a Riot) (www.youtube.com)

If I were in my youth this song would have me in the streets fighting riot cops while dancing.

Tom Morello - Hold The Line (feat. grandson) (www.youtube.com)

Dorsey Dixon- Babies In The Mill (www.youtube.com)

Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (www.youtube.com)

My favourite example of a song that people think is patriotic but isn't even close.

Serj Tankian - Borders Are (youtu.be)

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - 4 Dead in Ohio (www.youtube.com)

Killer Mike - Reagan (youtu.be)

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (youtu.be)

Too often this song is seen as an unwavering patriotic song, which to me indicates that people aren't paying attention to all the lyrics. This song is about the country forcing the poor and downtrodden to go to war on behalf of people they will never meet and then expected to, somehow, return to normal. When understood in it's...