The Aussie techno variation:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IcSBmsSgdnU


Tip o the hat to the Guardian for the idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TBsPCe-92X0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=96wETPDviVk

This is great, anybody got the lyrics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pd-qI1VVgE&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atCwKBeq76w&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJPVRw3hmk&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6OV2qCzxhw&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-wZ0Hga2Y&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU&feature=player_detailpage

Haha, do you actually like The Coup, BP?

Haha, do you actually like The Coup, BP?

In truth not particularly, but I'm trying to rise above my pettiness. The sing-song rhyming of most rap is off-putting to me, but I am not the arbitrator of people's taste.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZbWRfBZY-ng

Live acoustic version, superior to the 'produced' version with it's partisan video references, despite the screw-up.

Fuck The Middle Classhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emJc_31MkdY

Fuck The Middle Classhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emJc_31MkdY

Pretty damned good. He says, "You'd probably eat your children so you could survive" (I may have screwed that up, but it is close). They do eat their children and they try like hell to eat ours...

Fuck The Middle Classhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emJc_31MkdY

Well said, but what the fuck is up with the Chipmunks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=q9rfVcHXh30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6MzU8xM99Uo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

for Gary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hil7OHGplKE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_P0gr_Y1SOM

http://media.nbcchicago.com/images/Lupe_Fiasco_HOB_blurb.jpg

We know of at least one Chicago rapper who won't be getting an invite to the White House anytime soon.


Lupe Fiasco called out President Barack Obama this week, calling his fellow Chicagoan "the biggest terrorist."


The comments came in an interview with CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20069803-10391715.html) Tuesday while discussing the political content of his music.


Lupe Fiasco, Rapper, Thrown Off Stage At Inaugural Concert (VIDEO) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/21/lupe-fiasco-inauguration-concern_n_2518319.html)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77zUWqawag


First off say peace to Pine Ridge
Shame at all the damage that the white man wine did
Ghost Dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year
And all that other crime did
More peace to the teachers of blind kids
To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
Say everything's hostile
Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models
With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
Straight hair, high heels and a handbag
Crucifixes, racism and a land grab
Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags
A peace sign and a pants sag
A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
A friend request following the hash tag
Now everybody want it like the last laugh
A Michael Jackson jacket or a Daft mask
Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad
But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac

[Hook]
Live from the other side what you see
A bunch of nonsense on my TV
Heaven on Earth is what I need
But I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe
Reporting live from the other side what you hear
A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way

[Verse 2]
And we marvel at the state of Ottoman
Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
America's a big motherfuckin' garbageman
If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem
You say no you ain't, and I say yes you is
Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
You say no they didn't, and I say yes they did
The definition of unnecessary-ness
Manifested
Say that we should protest just to get arrested
That goes against all my hustling ethics
A bunch of jail niggas say it's highly ineffective
Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip
Insert Baldwin to similar the separate
To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with
It's all one song short of a set list
Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
So absurd, word to Chief Bone Necklace
Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino
A whole culture boiled down to giving you pokeno
I go as left as a heart in the chest
Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler
Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar
South Central an example of God's gifts
So shout to all the mothers raising babies in SPA 6
The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns
Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound
It’s parts of Manila like the video for "Thriller"
But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
Then what’s the flavor of the Sunday preacher’s pedophilia
Cash rules everything around these niggas
As classrooms everywhere around me wither
Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers
The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
Of the extremes of America’s dream
Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, now…

[Hook]

[Outro]
Great American rap resurrect...
Lupe on the check
Westside till I die!

Indeed, those sentiments would be unwanted. What was wanted was James Taylor singing 'America the Beautiful', which will score Obama more cred in the burbs than withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan.

Well, fuck that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Xh0j_Mf24&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZMoxRnKAF18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=46mO7jx3JEw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=c6kv_eGSGZ4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=s_oWyC3JARo

For Brother George Jackson...


http://youtu.be/b95E8gOd6YA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBeGK96pVQ&feature=player_detailpage

I like this song and video a lot. At the very end of the video the caption reads, "Run you little bastards!" Oh hell yeah...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leyfT4sS5n4&feature=player_detailpage

RIP Slim

Forty three years and still the best thing goin'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aclyKfPvQMM&list=ALBTKoXRg38BDZk_qXLCO9u-R7FzyCM3bk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhg4TXA2Ak&feature=player_detailpage

a little tonic


http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLCD19EE70380240BB&v=8CK-KwMcG9A&feature=player_detailpage

Now, harness the anger.

Drop Kick Murphys kick ass....literally,good gawd!

http://www.tmz.com/2013/03/20/dropkick-murphys-bassist-nazi-skinhead-salute-st-patricks-day/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=A1NZcH2haIM

We're gonna be singin' this song

Sumthin' to get the juices flowing



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7ri91oVcM&feature=player_detailpage


Avanti o popolo, alla riscossa
Bandiera rossa, bandiera rossa
Avanti o popolo, alla riscossa
Bandiera rossa trionferà.

Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Evviva il socialismo e la libertà!

Degli sfruttati l'immensa schiera
La pura innalzi, rossa bandiera
O proletari, alla riscossa
Bandiera rossa trionferà.

Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Il frutto del lavoro a chi lavora andrà.

Dai campi al mare, alla miniera
All'officina, chi soffre e spera
Sia pronto è l'ora della riscossa
Bandiera rossa trionferà.

Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Soltanto il socialismo è vera libertà.

Non più nemici, non più frontiere
Sono i confini rosse bandiere
O socialisti, alla riscossa
Bandiera rossa trionferà.

Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Nel solo socialismo è pace e libertà.

Falange audace cosciente e fiera
Dispiega al sole rossa bandiera
Lavoratori alla riscossa
Bandiera rossa trionferà.

Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Bandiera rossa la trionferà
Evviva il comunismo e la libertà!

Forward people, to the rescue
Red flag, red flag
Forward people, to the rescue
Red flag will triumph.

Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Long live socialism and freedom!

The exploited's immense formation
Raises the pure, red flag
Oh proletarians, to the rescue
Red flag will triumph.

Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
The fruits of labor will be for he who works!

From the country to the sea, to the mine
To the workshop, those who suffer and hope
Be ready, it's the hour of vengeance
Red flag will triumph.

Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Only socialism is true freedom.

No more enemies, no more frontiers
The borders are red flags
Oh socialists, to the rescue
Red flag will triumph.

Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Only in socialism is there peace and freedom.

Bold, conscious and proud ranks
Unfurl the red flag in the sun
Workers to the rescue
Red flag will triumph.

Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Red flag will be triumphant
Long live communism and freedom!







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Revolutionary Italian song.

Translated for marxists.org by Clara Statello and Mitchell Abidor


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Marxism and Music Archive

Yo BP, I admit I've been sleeping on this thread but I just looked at it now and you've got some great stuff here. Dropkicks are kind of douchey though.

Yo BP, I admit I've been sleeping on this thread but I just looked at it now and you've got some great stuff here. Dropkicks are kind of douchey though.

Yeah, I'm not at all big on the Irish fetish but they do project that working class toughness which is sure as hell needed. And you must admit they know what to do with nazis. A real douche bag like James Taylor wouldn't do that.

I dig the shit out of the latest offering though, could wear my arm flat out raising the clenched fist on that one, as funny as that might look for an old fart. Punk at least was revolutionary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3YBFZ18F4&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPDzNO6GQk&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3oxFc_CnVw&feature=player_detailpage

1 of 2 versions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfhMSgvsTCY&feature=player_detailpage

Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece la palma
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmi*n encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

Cultivo una rosa blanca
En julio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

Con los pobres de la tierra
Quiero yo mi suerte echar
El arroyo de la sierra
Me complace mas que el mar
Guantanamera, guajira Guantanamera

I am a truthful man
From where the palm tree grows
And before dying I want
To let out the verses of my soul

My verse is light green
And it is flaming red
My verse is a wounded stag
Who seeks refuge on the mountain

I grow a white rose
In July just as in January
For the honest friend
Who gives me his open hand

With the poor people of the earth
I want to cast my lot
The brook of the mountains
Gives me more pleasure than the sea
**********************************************************

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeW7-tmVU4&feature=player_detailpage

well, this ain't what I had in mind but it is weirdly compelling


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk&feature=player_detailpage

plenty other versions...

Guess that goes to show ya can't fuck up some things, even my father's music couldn't do it.

http://youtu.be/X33qbaN2Heg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnE5zvosplc#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EpN40V0s4_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo&feature=player_detailpage

Una mattina mi son svegliato
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
Una mattina mi son svegliato
Eo ho trovato l'invasor
One morning I woke up
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
One morning I woke up
And I found the invader




O partigiano porta mi via
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
O partigiano porta mi via
Che mi sento di morir
Oh partisan, carry me away,
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
Oh partisan, carry me away,
For I feel I'm dying




E se io muoio da partigiano
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
E se io muoio da partigiano
Tu mi devi seppellir
And if I die as a partisan
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
And if I die as a partisan
You have to bury me




Mi seppellire lassù in montagna
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
Mi seppellire lassù in montagna
Sotto l'ombra di un bel fiore
But bury me up in the mountain
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao,
But bury me up in the mountain
Under the shadow of a beautiful flower




E le genti che passeranno
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
E le genti che passeranno
Mi diranno: "Che bel fior"
And the people who will pass by
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao,
And the people who will pass by
Will say to me: "what a beautiful flower"




È questo il fiore del partigiano
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
È questo il fiore del partigiano
Morto per la libertà
This is the flower of the partisan
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao
This is the flower of the partisan
Who died for freedom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTnVMulDTYA&feature=player_detailpage

I AIN'T GOT NO HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE
(Woody Guthrie)
I ain't got no home, I'm just a-ramblin' round
I'm just a wandrin' worker, I roam from town to town.
The police make it hard wherever I may go
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
My brothers and my sisters are stranded on this road
A hot and dusty road that a million feet done trod;
Rich man took my home and drove me from my door
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
Was a-farmin' on the share, and always I was poor
My crops I laid into the banker's store;
My wife took down and died upon the cabin floor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
Now as I look round, it's mighty plain to see
The world is such a great and a funny place to be;
The gamblin' man is rich and the workin' man is poor
And I ain't got no home in this world anymore.
Note: words by Guthrie; tune from Carter Family "Can't Feel at
Home In this World Anymore" See also CANTHOME

http://youtu.be/zXgiEuoQIP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXeE0yBd-Bg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CrH2nUkXf3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lUSJA-vtg_s

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWsigel.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NETSIzFr8&feature=share&list=PL36116EDED756A6E3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrBfPLUm5so&feature=share&list=PL36116EDED756A6E3

http://youtu.be/etph0aruKag

http://youtu.be/A-7uwshsfFI

words _

Monster/Suicide/America by Steppenwolf

Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches

But from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
But she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

Then once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem "friendly" and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they were paying no mind
'Cause the people "got" fat and "grew" lazy
now their vote "is like a" meaningless joke.
"You know they talk about law "about" order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin'

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster

Might have been written yesterday...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sjtXfkHCEkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ec0XKhAHR5I

As loud as you can get it



Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, they're red, white and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief",
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,

It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no senator's son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me;
I ain't no fortunate one, no,
Yeah!
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me;
I ain't no fortunate one, no.

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more! yoh,

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no military son, son.
It ain't me, it ain't me;
I ain't no fortunate one, one.

It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,
It ain't me, it ain't me,
I ain't no fortunate son, no no no,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=q_AJifsE2eQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-3DdNYga6A4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC03K4nVof0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SB0fc9CobQ&feature=player_detailpage

This brings tears every time I hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LiLkcHUuo2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SgLP7GdlIHI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=s8GvLKTsTuI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZ1JaILitM&feature=player_detailpage

Motor City 5 Future/now


http://youtu.be/aIUdOu-Ga78

He was a decadent 'elective lumpen', but he sure played a nasty, dirty guitar. And sometimes he was a poet.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIOl8i9Kdg&feature=player_detailpage

•••Pedro lives out of Wilshire Hotel
Looks out a window without glass
Walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
The old man beats him 'cause he too tired to beg

He's got nine brothers and sisters
They're brought up on their knees
Hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
Pedro dreams of being older killing the old man
Slim chance he's going to the boulevard

He gonna get in, to the dirty boulevard
I'm gonna get out, to the dirty boulevard
Going down, to the dirty boulevard, get it on

This room cost two thousand dollars a month
You believe it baby, it's true
Somewhere there is a landlord living that wets his pants, wets his pants
No one dreams of being a doctor or lawyer or anything
They just dream of dealing on the boulevard

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor piss on 'em
That's what the statue of bigotry says
All you poor huddled masses
Why don't you just go club 'em to death? Get it over with
Dump 'em on the boulevard, and get it out now

I'm going down
Get it, get it, get it out
Going down

You ever had rage in your heart?
You ever had some rage in your heart?
You ever had rage in your heart?
Have you ever had rage in your heart?

Outside it's a bright night
There's an opera, Lincoln Center
The klieg lights shoot out over the Manhattan skyline
But the lights are out on the mean [Incomprehensible]

Small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
Selling plastic roses for a buck
Traffic's backed up to Thirty-Ninth Street
The TV whores are calling the cops out to get sucked

Back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
Found a book on magic in a garbage can
Looks at the pictures, looks up at the cracked ceiling
By the count of three I'll get outta here and fly away

I wanna fly, fly away
I wanna fly from this dirty boulevard
Fly, fly, I wanna get outta, get outta, get outta here

Fly fly, fly away
Fly fly, fly away
Fly fly, fly away

I wanna fly, fly, fly
I wanna fly, fly, fly
Fly away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Sjh0JuyovP4

http://youtu.be/d2jYkt-eT1E

Ticking Bomb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYMppMiSmc&feature=player_detailpage

Man, I love a little Thanksgiving Clash...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bSSn3NddwFQ

John Brown is a true American hero.

Your milage might vary......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyqJ9wxZ9L0&feature=player_embedded

http://manchester-communists.blogspot.com/2012/06/i-read-some-marx-and-i-liked-it.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XBCXDLBlcME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKCq-osMQT8&feature=player_detailpage

For Christmas, I can believe in the Ramones...


http://youtu.be/vexjWIvwsVg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cnRmHszDaa0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejkHGnXeB5Q&feature=player_detailpage


I hate the capitalist system
and I´ll tell you the reason why
it has caused me so much suffering
and my dearest friends to die
well I know you all are wondering
what it has done to me
well I am going to tell you
that my husband has tb
brought on by hardworking lowwages
and never enough to eat
from going cold and hungry
with no shoes upon his feet
my husband was a coalminer who worked hard and risked his life
just tryin to support three children
himself, his mother and wife

well I had a blueyedbaby
was a darling of my heart
but from my little darling the mother had to part
why the rich and mighty capitalists
goes to rest in jewels and silk
my darling blueeyed baby has died for the wondermill

well they call this the land of plenty
and for them I guess its true
for the rich and mighty capitalists
not for workers like me and you
well now what can we do about it
to these men of power and might
well I'll tell you mister capitalist
we are going to fight, fight, fight!

http://youtu.be/oC_PHoKydPo

I Only Say: Comrades, by Daniel Viglietti

Listen, I am going to sing
For those who have fallen.
Not saying name or sign,
I only say: comrades.

And I sing for the others,
For those who are alive
And who take aim
Against the enemy.

There is no secret:
My song is that of the wind.
I want it to be
Nothing but movement.

Without saying name or sign
I only say: comrades.
Nothing is left to us and
There is only one thing to lose:

To lose patience
And only find it again
When aiming our shots
Comrade.

Words against bullets
Are of no use,
And an unarmed song
Can’t face a rifle.

Look at the fatherland that is being born
Shared among all;
Free blood approaches
Bringing us a new life.

The blood of Tupac
The blood of Amaru
The blood that cries out:
Free yourself, brother!

Something for the people of West Virginia and many, many others.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=w8prPV6NR0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QMe6v3ePk88

Track from new Sun Rise Above album "Every Day I Wake Up On The Wrong Side of Capitalism." http://www.sunriseabove.net

Lyrics:

I'm anti capitalism, bashing the system
Smashing the prison walls, pound till it all falls down
I'm anti capitalism, bashing the system
Smashing the prison walls, pound till it all falls down

Take a walk on the wild side, billions of criminals piled high
My mouth dry from bitching of prison systems from outside
But I'm behind bars still, blinded by my mind scars
The rhyme star waiting on the way to the pine box
I might start kicking at cops stop the ticketing
Plot thickening, taking digs at pigs that are slicker than
Nipples dripping in liquor, hip hop I'm dickering
Dip dive, check it as we socialize the means of production
'Cause I'm anti capitalism and it's enforcers
Who force us to work and in the course they jerk us
In a never ending roundabout, circle but we found them out
Read between the lines, if you're new at this I'll sound it out
X Marx the spot, whether factory or parking lot
Study all you can but then do the things that Karl cannot
Overthrow, from the Himalayas to the Poconos
Local goes world wide through channels when we open those


I'm anti capitalism, bashing the system
Smashing the prison walls, pound till it all falls down
I'm anti capitalism, bashing the system
Smashing the prison walls, pound till it all falls down

It's asinine, rivers ruined by gas and mines
Passing by waters you can't drink, and cash is why
Acid flies out of smoke stacks, and broke backs
For workers with no cash, you hope that they're pacified
Classified info, the media is passing lies
Class supplies the same, schools never say to ask them why
Abuses of the pipeline, that's a sewage crap supply
Keep making waves until the change into a massive tide
'Cause I'm anti capitalism and ideology
Iconoclast rap for the class that will demolish these
Policies to feed all, give us what we need y'all
Beat back the tsunami with a giant sea wall
Malecón, I'm underground like the catacombs
Until then, I'm killing with words within the battle poems
But of course it's not enough, no me without an us
Salt of the earth, rebirth, we've gotta plow it up

I'm anti capitalism, bashing the system
Smashing the prison walls, pound till it all falls down
I'm anti capitalism, bashing the system
Smashing the prison walls, pound till it all falls down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Av4-Apauw&feature=player_embedded

Obligatory Pete Seeger post



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tqtvxG8O4&feature=player_detailpage

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/slc987/seeger_zps1d0a6976.jpg
On his way to HUAC hearing

I think Pete deserves a nod - it is especially nice to read the transcript from that HUAC meeting. He basically told them to go to hell over and over. A thing of beauty.

Time for a little surrealism.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcW9w3pzV5M&feature=player_detailpage

CM Punk joins a communist faction of the WWE .

from the comments:


the collaborators of the capitalism and the capitalist's and the slavers of the capital "rightism" should die along with the rightists in this world.... long live the dictatorship of the proletariat long live socialism long live communism long live leftism long live revolution !!!

Good grief, that's more astute than a bucket full of left/liberal sites. This is how the American working class gets to hear the Internationale?

What is to be done?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzOm8Mv5Fg&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2iqllP8ASgU


Swastikas and Klan robes.
Sexist, racist homophobes.
Aryan-Nations and Hammerskins,
You can wear my nuts on your Nazi chins.
I love a man in uniform.

Just what exactly are the great historical accomplishments
Of your race that make you proud to be white?
Capitalism? Slavery? Genocide? Sitcoms?
This is your fucking white history, my friend.
So why don't we start making a history worth being proud of
And start fighting the real fucking enemy?

Swastikas and Klan robes.
Sexist, racist homophobes.
This one's for the Master Race.
My brown-power ass in your white-power face.

Kill them all and let a Norse god sort 'em out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg8h526sB7w&feature=player_embedded

Over twenty some years now
We've been waiting for the good life
For the average citizen
Instead of wealth we have poverty
Unrestrained exploitation
So this is the big system change
So this is what you waited for

No housing, no food, no work
But that's what was assured wouldn't happen
Those on top prey upon us
The poor suffer everyday
So this is the big system change
So this is what you waited for

When will real change occur?
When will there be a livable world?
The ultimate solution will arise
When this economic system is forever abandoned
So this is the big system change
So this is what you waited for

There is no solution but revolution[/quote]

Mouksa, the former singer/songwriter/guitarist of the Psychedelic Cowboys teamed up with lyricist (and president of ATTAC Hungary) Matyas Benyik in August of 2013 to write this song about the widespread feelings of disappointment with the results of the system change -- from socialism to capitalism -- in Hungary since 1990. "Rendszerváltás (A Nagy Csalódás)" -- or "Disappointment with the System Change" -- is meant to go beyond partisan politics and instead to the very conditions and realities of exploding inequality, poverty, and homelessness in Hungary during the last 25 years. This video was made with Mouksa's new band The Mouksa Underground in February 2014.
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http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/mu060314.html

Pig, your last two posts here have been killers! "There is no solution but revolution"...

Pig, your last two posts here have been killers! "There is no solution but revolution"...

I'm trying to mix it up but my ignorance prevents the kind of spread I'd like. This piece was a gift from MR, surprisingly. Nice to see somebody doing someting cool with Old Fart Rock.

Hey! It's St Paddy's Day, time for some IRA music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT0yoo9B2Bc&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Mow4w1OF8&feature=player_detailpage

You piece of shit racist, you're a disgrace to the scene
Your ignorance amazes the fuck outta me
I can't believe your audacity
You never were wanted you might as well leave
Get the fuck out before I stomp on your face
I'm gonna fuck up you and your friends
Never show your face here again
GET OUT

Yeah you piece of sh#t racist motherfuckers
You got another thing coming
You think you can come into our scene and start running shit
Well here's a little part we call the nazi headstomp
NAZI HEADSTOMP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAjRLLa5YFE&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kmdhTzBUES4


Verse 1
Let me put forth a vision, represent a school of thought
Grind it out with the others for that number one spot
Cause I ain't scared of reality, I'd rather just embrace it
No religious views, but that don't mean that I'm faithless
Hope based on rational grounds is in the people
Socialism's dead? well, here's the startin' of the sequel
As far as I'm concerned, it should be common sense
That our current way of life ain't really life to begin with
Start of human history will be the very onslaught
Of the revolution, when this class shit'll stop
Or maybe I should say, rather kicked into high gear
Capitalist fools will be runnin' off in fear
Ideas don't change the world alone, people have to do it
And with the people's enemies, our struggle must be ruthless
Beaten down, lied to, often feelin' tired
But a single spark can start the entire uprisin'
I won't ever be subservient, trust in their process
Truly it's played out, it's passed being monstrous
First U.S. revolution was indeed progressive
But quickly the star spangled banner would prove reckless

Chorushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kmdhTzBUES4
I'm a socialist, more than just a theorist
That means I keep it militant, the boss man's nemesis
Rep the organizers, 9 to 5 grinders
Homeless and the downtrodden, true freedom fighters

Verse 2
Some think rebelling is itself just enough
Like ideology and theory isn't relevent and such
To be real though, that is paramount to our death
A reactionary, suicidal ending to our steps
In direction of full-on freedom's attainment
We need it to be present for the system's arraignment
The system's arrangement is not the end of the time
But we need to badly figure out a way to organize
Productive and effective, not just individual
If we can't get it right, then life will remain critical
Art is not the revolution, art can play a part
As in spreading ideology, but that is just a start
Cause theory without practice on par with inaction
On par with some bullshit, on par with just slackin'
And we don't need no saviors, what we need are soldiers
The disciplined and selfless gonna turn this system over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_b_jyRVRc&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=InXyPwhYtDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfShwf5WQ4&feature=player_detailpage

From the distance I can hear the troops marching in again, a slightly different look, but the
goal's the same. The evil ghosts from our not so distant past are back, but no one ever
stopped them and no one sent them back. It's like we never ever learned anything at all, we
saw them rise again at all, if we don't wanna see them rise again at all and we don't wanna
see them rise again at all...

Fascism sucks!!!

I know that all of this has been said before, you might not wanna listen, to you it's just a bore,
the houses burning are not mine and they're not your's, but soon they might be knocking on
our very doors. They'll always find a reason to bring somebody down, not just the skin-colour,
yellow, black, red or brown, just like rotten fruit you're beeing sorted out, you're either in r
otherwise you're out. You've gotta act now, you've gotta stand tall, if you don't wanna see
them rise again at all, if you don't wanna see them rise again at all, if you don't wanna see
them rise again at all and if you don't wanna see them rise again at all...

Fascism sucks!!! ...and so do you...if you believe in it too! Wise up!

Fascism sucks...no matter what they say!
Fascism sucks...no matter what they do!
Fascism sucks...no matter what you think!...it's all up to you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AaiZKuRacYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ix__x0gZM&feature=player_detailpage

I simply remember all these kinds of things
And then I don’t fear so bad…

Black rage is founded who fed us self hatred
Lies and abuse while we waited and waited
Spiritual treason
This grid and it's cages
Black rage was founded on these kinds of things

Black rage is founded on dreaming and draining
Threatening your freedom
To stop your complaining
Poisoning your water
While they say it's raining
Then call you mad
For complaining, complaining
Old time bureaucracy
Drugging the youth
Black rage is founded on blocking the truth
Murder and crime
Compromise and distortion
Sacrifice, sacrifice
Who makes this fortune?
Greed, falsely called progress
Such human contortion
Black rage is founded on these kinds of things

So when the dog bites
And the ceilings
And I’m feeling mad
I simply remember all these kinds of things
And then I don’t fear so bad

Free enterprise
Is it myth or illusion
Forcing you back into purposed confusion
Black human trafficking
Or blood transfusion
Black rage is founded on these kinds of things
Victims of violence
Both psyche and body
Life out of context IS living ungodly
Politics, politics
Greed falsely called wealth
Black rage is founded on denying of self
Black human packages
Tied and subsistence
Having to justify your very existence
Try if you must
But you can’t have my soul
Black rage is founded on ungodly control
So when the dog bites
And the beatings
And I’m feeling so sad
I simply remember all these kinds of things
And then I don’t feel so bad

http://youtu.be/r2JTbXWCTRU

St. Louis band from '69 called "Touch" the end part is called "Get a Gun"...apropos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFfxfUXmSG4

http://youtu.be/gaLWqy4e7ls

Zeca Afonso - Grândola, Vila Morena

http://youtu.be/hRyZbGHBuHg

One of the first Theodorakis concerts after the dictatorship in october 1974 was also filmed by german television. Here are the songs of that broadcast.

Enato Chelidoni from Axion Esti (Elytis) with Antonis Kaloyannis

Ena to Helidoni - Engish Lyrics

Lone is the swallow and costly (precious) the spring,
For the sun to turn it takes a lot of work,
It takes a thousand dead sweating at the wheels,
It takes the living also shedding their blood.

God my Master Builder, You built me into the mountains,
God my Master Builder, You enclosed me in the sea!

Magicians carried off the body of May,
They buried the body in a tomb of the sea,
They sealed it up in a deep well,
Its scent fills the darkness and all the Abyss.

God my Master Builder, You too among the Easter lilacs,
God my Master Builder, You felt the scent of Resurrection

Take Them Down- Early Rising People
David Tollisen

Published on Feb 4, 2014
If you really support the message of this video, then it's a good idea to help get the song out into the world by spreading it and by downloading the song or entire album at http://earlyrisingpeople.com/. There you can also hear the other 13 songs. Thanks.


http://youtu.be/FeRwwXD8OeQ

Thunderclap Newman "Something in the air" 1969


http://youtu.be/VK_6TU1T7V8

Despite it all a good tune & the lyrics work

Call out the instigators
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right

We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Lock up the streets and houses
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right

We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now

Hand out the arms and ammo
We're going to blast our way through here
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right

We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together
Now

'Instigators', that's us folks.

RIP Andy Neuman

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QELD - Oligarch Hit Squad


http://youtu.be/dpjHhgj3LVM

"I'm taking a shit on your golf course." Okey dokey, good enough for me.

Welcome to the united snakes....


http://youtu.be/OO18F4aKGzQ

http://youtu.be/o60RW2a2m5w

http://youtu.be/Dk6Y9uIwiMI

Lord, in a bourgeois town
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

Home of the brave, land of the free
I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie
Lord, in a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

Well, me and my wife we were standing upstairs
We heard the white man say "I don't want no niggers up there"
Lord, in a bourgeois town
Uhm, bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

Well, them white folks in Washington they know how
To call a colored man a nigger just to see him bow
Lord, it's a bourgeois town
Uhm, the bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around

The Coup - "The Guillotine"



http://youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ

Intro]
Hey you!
We got your war
We're at the gates
We're at your door

[Hook]
We got the guillotine
We got the guillotine, you better run

[Verse 1]
We want to thank you for flying with us
We know you coulda stayed home, just cried and cussed
May all your guns go off if it's time to bust
May all they tanks have time to rust
They got the armies turning bullets into gold
They got the hookers turning tricks in the cold
And every time the police kicks in a door
An angel gas breaks sticks in the O
And even if a d-boy flips him a O
It ain't enough to buy shit anymore
Sleep in the doorway, piss on the floor
Look in the sky, wait for missiles to show
It's finna blow cause
They got the TV, we got the truth
They own the judges and we got the proof
We got hella people, they got helicopters
They got the bombs and we got the, we got the

[Hook]

[Bridge: Silk-E]
Don't talk about it
It won't show
Be about it
It's 'bout to blow
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[Verse 2]
I just spit the dope lines, I don't snort 'em
Tell the boss to call police to escort him
You don't write all them lines, you just quote 'em
Get offline, plug in to this modem
No, you can't out-vote 'em
The rules is still golden
Only jewels we holding is if we guarding our scrotum
If you press your ear to the turf that is stolen
You can hear the sound of limitations exploding
Please sir, may we have another portion?
We're children of the beast that dodged the abortion
Neck placed firm 'tween the floor and the Florsheim
We'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortion
Caution -- we're coming for your head
So call the Feds and get files to shred
Every textbook read said bring you the bread
But guess what we got you instead?

[Hook]

[Outro: Silk-E]
Let's keep it banging like a shotgun
We in a war before we fought one
Now if you're tired of working from day to day
A common enemy, we got one
Now keep it banging like a shotgun
We in a war before we fought one
Now if you're tired of working from day to day

http://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

Goddamn straight.

A song for these times.....


http://youtu.be/M9xwB6TPj7M

Greg Lake died, but ya can't find the original on the net, Mr Fripp has been assidious. Bass and Guitar here by John Wetton.

Cat's foot, iron claw
Neuro surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
21st century schizoid man

Blood rack, barbed wire
Politician's funeral pyre
Innocence raped with napalm fire
21st century schizoid man

Dead sea, blind man's greed
Poet's starving children bleed
Nothing he's got, he really needs
21st century schizoid man

Written by Greg Lake, Ian Mcdonald, Michael Rex Giles, Peter John Sinfield, Robert Fripp • Copyright © Universal Music Publishing Group

http://youtu.be/AVf7m_YZ2zY

http://youtu.be/3sh4kz_zhyo