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kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

I'm reporting all of you to Senator McCarthy.

Janet Greene - Fascist Threat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GabfmvQ8s0A

Billy Carr - What's Come Over This World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv1Z0SVeOWo

Jan Berry - The Universal Coward:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0y9CN_ta-A

Also, the funkiest drat American election song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k34-VmETA4

If anyone's looking for any more Vietnam War era political songs check out this massive list of recordings or, if you can find a copy, grab this

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kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

None of these songs do enough to educate the worker in Marxist-Leninist thought and are therefore bourgeois indulgences hindering the development of the international proletariat.

Red Shadow- Understanding Marx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6c6kaFG5E

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kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

I'm a pretty rabid record collector and have a big collection of political folk LP's so I'm gonna dump a bunch of stuff I haven't seen in this thread yet.

Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock was a drifter and musician probably most famous for writing "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and recording "Hallelujah I'm a Bum". The guy lead an absolutely fascinating life; He was in the Philippines during the Spanish-American war, was in China during the Boxer rebellion and was a life-long Wobblie and one of the first musicians to perform the songs of Joe Hill. Back in 1951 Sam Eskin recorded an interview with him that was released as an LP on Folkways. It's a treasure trove for anyone interested in American folk.

Here he is being interviewed about Joe Hill and performing "The Preacher and The Slave":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19JlRFdQifk

And "Casey Jones (Union Scab)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4MxlQ098Q

For the historical side of things the LP also has an unusual version of "The Unreconstructed Rebel/Good Old Rebel", one of the more infamous post-Civil War political songs. It doesn't have some of the more controversial verses so instead here's a version that includes some of the more bitter verses (there are loads of different versions of this tune, some of them try to sanitize it a bit).

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

The Unreconstructed Rebel posted:

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel,
Now that's just what I am;
For this "fair land of Freedom"
I do not care a drat.
I'm glad I fought against it-
I only wish we'd won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I've done.

I hates the Constitution,
This great Republic too;
I hates the Freedmen's Bureau,
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle,
With all his brag and fuss;
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em even worse

I hates the Yankee nation
And everything they do;
I hates the Declaration
Of Independence too;
I hates the glorious union
Tis dripping with our blood;
I hates the strip-ed banner
I fought it all I could

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Lie stiff in southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot;
And I wished it was three million
Instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no more,
But I ain't a-goin'to love' em,
Now that is sartin sure;
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am;
And I won't be reconstructed,
And I do not give a drat.

To counter that here's a campaign tune for Rutherford B Hayes from the 1876 presidential election called "Republicans Remember" that pulls no punches in it's stance on ex-Confederates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt7e-D1ltLw

Republicans Remember/The Bloody Hand of Treason posted:

Republicans remember, how in eighteen sixty-one,
The fight for human liberty at Sumpter was begun,
And rebels thought, the Union then its race of life had run,
When stricken by the bloody hand of treason.

Refrain --
Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains--
Hurrah! hurrah! the black man wears no chains--
The will of Loyal millions now the Government sustains
Against the foul and bloody hand of treason.

"The war is all a failure," Slippery Tilden loudly cried,
But the valor of our Soldiers gave the answer that he lied,
When Hayes and all the Boys in Blue were fighting side by side
Against the foul and bloody hand of treason.

Refrain.--Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains, &c.

We can, and will, forgive the wrong, when rebels do repent;
When they will act like honest men, and show a pure intent;
But Uncle Sam their necks will break, when they will not be bent,
But show the foul and bloody hand of treason.

Refrain.--Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains, &c.

We see the men who drew the sword against their native land
In Congress, as a unit, still the foes of freedom stand;
To rout the ex-confederates, honest Hayes must take command,
And paralize the bloody hand of treason.

Refrain--Hurrah! hurrah! the Union still remains, &c.

Exclamation Marx posted:

Pete Seeger - I'm Gonna be an Engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgzl1Sai4Y0

Keep an eye on the women in the audience

This is a Peggy Seeger song, its on her 1979 LP "Different Therefore Equal". Here's a clip of her singing her protest song "Reclaim the Night" at the Greenham Common Peace Camp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JedwFmwM0-c

Speaking of Peggy Seeger I'm really surprised no-one has posted anything by her husband Ewan MacColl, the man was a god-damned titan of the British radical folk scene. Here's my favorite song they recorded together "Legal, Illegal", this may be one of my favorite political folk songs ever recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeG2BK_J40I

Legal Illegal posted:

Every time you pick up a newspaper
Every time you turn on the TV
You can bet your old boots that at some point you'll see
A high ranking copper or else an MP
Calling on all who are British and free
To stand up and defend law and order

It's illegal to rip off a payroll
It's illegal to hold up a train
But it's legal to rip off a million or two
That comes from the labour that other folks do
To plunder the many on behalf of the few
Is a thing that is perfectly legal

It's illegal to kill off a landlord
Or to trespass upon his estate
But to charge a high rent for a slum is OK
To condemn 2 adults and 3 children to stay
In a hovel that's rotten with damp and decay
Is a thing that is perfectly legal

If your job turns you into a zombie
Then it's legal to feel some despair
But don't be aggressive that is if you're smart
And for Christ's sake don't upset the old apple cart
Remember the boss has your interests at heart
And it grieves him to see you unhappy

If you fashion a bomb in your kitchen
You're guilty of breaking the law
But a bloody great nuclear plant is OK
Though plutonium processing hastens the day
When this tiny little isle may be blasted away
Nonetheless it is perfectly legal

It's illegal if you are a Gypsy
To camp by the side of the road
But it's proper and right for the rich and the great
To live in a mansion or own an estate
That was got from the people by pillage and rape
That's what they call a tradition

It's illegal to carve up your missus
Or put poison in your old man's tea
But poison the rivers, the seas and the skies
And poison the mind of a nation with lies
If it's done in the interest of free enterprise
Then it's proper and perfectly legal

It's legal to join a trade union
And to picket is one of your rights
But don't be offensive when scabs cross the line
Be nice to the coppers and keep this in mind
To picket effectively that is a crime
Worse than if you had murdered your mother

It's legal to sing on the telly
But they make bloody sure that you don't
If you sing about racists and fascists and creeps
And thieves in high places that live off the weak
And those who are selling us right up the creek
The twisters, the takers, the conmen, the fakers
The whole bloody gang of exploiters

I've got plenty more I might post later on when I have time.

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kustomkarkommando: Oct 22, 2012

Spinning some radical folk music while reading the new Latin America thread; specifically this:

Karaxu - Trabajadores al Poder

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

�ngel Parra - Miguel Enr�quez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6MmP3xSG54

It was put out by Paredon records back in the 70's. If you're at all interested in folk music from the 60's-70's and haven't checked out Paredon your missing a treat, it was founded by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber and released some pretty provocative stuff. They donated their whole back catalogue to Smithsonian Folkways so you can browse at your leisure. Most of it's on Spotify as well

Bonus: Barbara Dane - I Hate The Capitalist Sytem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F5lxVko_EQ

Which is based on Sarah Ogan Gunning's "I Hate the Company Bosses"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqX9sHtn4kQ

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