My political views are drastically left of center. I think it comes from being born into poverty and seeing how moneyed interests rule the nation and the world, with little regard or concern for those without.
But, anyway, it's May Day around the world, a day set aside to celebrate all things leftist.
In honor of that, I present a playlist full of good old union songs, leftist anthems and some spoken word by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Utah Phillips and Huey Long.
Enjoy!
1. The Internationale - Schalmei-Kapelle Des Roten Frontkämpferbundes
2. Marsch der Roten Armee (March of the Red Army) - The Balaleika Orchester
3. Join the C. I. O. - Aunt Molly Jackson
4. The Preacher & the Slave - "Haywire" Mac McClintock
5. Joe Hill - Paul Robeson
6. "Narrative about Joe Hill" - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
7. The Rebel Girl - Hazel Dickens
8. "The Charge on Mother Jones" - Utah Phillips
9. Jarama Valley - Woody Guthrie
10. Strike Blues - L. C. Williams
11. Revolution - Nina Simone
12. Casey Jones (the Union Scab) - Pete Seeger & the Song Swappers
13. There is Power in a Union - Entertainment Workers IU 630 (I. W. W.)
14. Union Maid - Old Crow Medicine Show
15. Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara - The Buena Vista Social Club
16. The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions - Billy Bragg
17. I Am a Union Woman - Rosalie Sorrels with Utah Phillips
18. Direct Action - Utah Phillips with Ani DiFranco
19. The Revolution Starts Now - Steve Earle & the Dukes
20. All You Fascists - Billy Bragg & Wilco
21. "Share the Wealth - Barbecue" - Huey Long
The playlist is out-freakin-standing. Well done! I don't understand how people raised in the conditions that we were, in the era that we were, can be conservatives. I suppose part of it comes from never leaving the safety of the nest. I'll stop there, for fear of heading into a rant.
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