The Cranberries - Zombie (youtu.be)
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Bella Ciao delle mondine - unknown artist (www.youtube.com)
Bella Ciao has a long history with leftists, but this is likely the original! Rather than being about partisans fighting against fascists, this version is about the brutal working conditions laboring women faced in the Italian rice paddies.
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...
Cancer - Jesse Welles (youtu.be)
Why yes, I did discover a new artist, could you tell?
War Isn’t Murder - Jesse Welles (youtu.be)
Whistle Boeing - Jesse Welles (youtu.be)
MACKLEMORE - HIND'S HALL (youtu.be)
Dorsey Dixon- Babies In The Mill (www.youtube.com)
Tom Morello - Hold The Line (feat. grandson) (www.youtube.com)
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - 4 Dead in Ohio (www.youtube.com)
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...
Brother Ali - Mourning in America (youtu.be)
Killer Mike - Reagan (youtu.be)
Dropkick Murphys - Ten Times More (youtu.be)
Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised (youtu.be)
This is another legendary classic. Seeing the protest crackdowns on college students had me thinking about this song for the last few days.
Rage Against The Machine - Maggie's Farm (www.youtube.com)
CRASS - Do They Owe Us A Living (www.youtube.com)
Dorsey Dixon- Babies In The Mill (www.youtube.com)
Magpies - Workers of the World, Awaken! (www.youtube.com)
This one is a cover of a song written by Joe Hill. The IWW still publishes the little red songbook, which has this song in it!
Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose (youtu.be)
Pete Seeger -Which Side are You On? (youtu.be)
This is a legendary classic, covered by dozens of leftist artists. While I prefer studio recordings generally, hearing an entire crowd singing this song gives so much more weight to it. I also really like this (admittedly it's mostly a meme) edit with rifle fire to really drive home that we would not have our labor rights today...
The Death of Harry Simms - Pete Seeger (youtu.be)
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...
Have A Cigar - Pink Floyd (youtu.be)
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine (youtu.be)
I suppose I'm cheating a bit by posting Pink, but their leftist messages are popular for a reason!
