Leftist songs

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"(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" by Heaven 17.

Socialist Serenade - Manic Street Preachers
Masses against the classes - Manic Street Preachers

Quite a lot of their songs have a political bent. I like the love of richard nixon even though the lifeblood album was mostly shunned.

Manics are one of my favourite bands. Incredibly gifted musicians and Nicky Wire is a lyrical genius. Check out www.manics.nl to read how genius and well thought off their lyrics really are.

Masses Against The Classes is one of their best songs for sure, a communist anthem a bit

By the way, although probably not understandable for most, Turkish band Mor Ve Ötesi is quite leftist as well. Maybe not very direct but still. They are anti-war, against the current application of capitalism, criticising the political state of their native Turkey but also criticising capitalism globally. So definitely quite a leftist band, but with their lyrics in Turkish it will maybe be hard for you all to realise what they sing about.

(I have lived in Turkey and have several friends there, who have translated some of the lyrics for me... They have some really excellent songs with very in-depth lyrics which is quite rare for a Turkish language band as politics is a sensitive issue there)

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

Opening lines: 'I've got a bone to pick with capitalism/and a few to break.'

CRASS - Best Before '84 (retrospective comp, that was originally released as a double album set)

CRASS were essentially the band that started the whole English Anarcho-Punk scene, and were much more original than the bands that followed.

wooohoooo I read someone here knows(which is already complicated) and even like CRASS, they have the best lyrics according to my political ideas. One of the greatest so9ngs in my opinion would be "bloody revolutions", where they explain why left wing can be as horrible as right wing(no offense please):

Government is government and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now

Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game



(I could put the whole lyrics lol, but just look for them in google is u feel interested)

oh and another question, did anyone go or even had news from this second "The feeding of the 5000" where Steve Ignorant(from CRASS) sang crass songs and invited more punk/anarcho bands? I'd like to know opinions of those who went or knew about it, cos I went and for me it was really great, but not everyone thought the same saying he just "sold out" and blah blah...
if this topic shouldnt be in this conversation I can make a new one for it if necessary...

Can't believe I forgot Ministry. Their last three albums (four if you count "Rio Grande Dub," the remix album of "Rio Grande Blood") have all been anti-Bush songs.

Another great somewhat leftwinged band is The Levellers from England. Folk-rock (rock with Irish/English folk influences such as the fiddle violin). Their albums have a strong anarchist and socialist undertone. Listen to songs such as "One way", "What a beautiful day", "Liberty song", "Another man's cause", ...