Music with a leftist message

Is this how you want to live your lives?...

Harry Simms was an organizer for the NMU, a communist union that had been organizing in Harlan county, Kentucky during the events of Bloody Harlan. In fact his death, as described in this song, reignited militant labor into more violent action against the capitalists. Eventually the UMW won the hearts and minds of the workers...

We don't mind...

Piped / Invidious...

A musical response to rich man north of Richmond.

This is another great ballad about the true story of the Battle of Blair Mountain. It's mentioned in the song, but this battle between workers and capitalists saw the first bombs ever dropped from planes on US soil.

This is one of my favorites. Utah was a huge fan of this idea he called "the long memory". The long memory is the idea that as long as we know where our movement comes from, we'll have the knowledge to combat both new and old tactics meant to divide us. This song describes the true story of labor conditions and direct action in...

I can't think of a better song to be the first post in this community, so enjoy!

Joe Glazer has done a cover of this song that will definitely get posted down the line, but that cover has a fantastic intro quoting a union organizer: "you don't dig Italian coal, you don't dig Slavic coal, and you don't dig Irish coal, you just dig coal! Let's all get together and make a union."

Piped / Invidious