Commie/Socialist/Red Artists?

[Pretty Flaco]

Can anybody suggest me some red-leaning musicians? The type of music doesn't really matter much, I'd just like some nice lyrics that are leftist.

[Stephen Colbert]

Rage Against the Machine

[Invincible Summer]

Dead Prez
Anti-Flag
Propagandhi
Aus-Rotten

[Joseph_McCarthy]

The Coup
Street Sweeper Social Club
Immortal Technique?

[Die Rote Fahne]

The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Sweatshop Union
System of a Down
La Coka Nostra
The Clash

[theblackmask]

Refused.

[Chimurenga.]

The Coup
Sun Rise Above
Dick Gaughan
Nation Of Ulysses
The Make-Up
Manliftingbanner
Seein Red

off the top of my head.

Also:
The Housemartins
McCarthy

[dannie]

david rovics

[scarletghoul]

In adition to the above-

Randy*
Manic Street Preachers
Rancid
Billy Bragg
King Blues (more anarchist than commie but yeah)
Attila the Stockbroker

*the greatest band name ever

[Magón]

The Last Internationale is a Socialist Indy band. You can find them on MySpace since they're pretty Indy, and I don't know if they have any music posted on YouTube? They're good, and I bought their CD for like $10 on MySpace since I thought supporting such a band would do good. :thumbup1:

[CJCM]

Flobots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qLlVfUB_Q0)
And well I'd suppose Gogol Bordello (http://youtu.be/PFL2SXGdrVA) too.

[ulises]

Gang of Four
The Pop Group
The Specials
The Clash

just a couple o artists who managed to make political music without becoming shit

[palotin]

If you want to talk about older types, Dean Reed was an early Rock 'n Roll artist who was radicalized in South America during the 60s and ended up moving to East Germany where he may or may not have worked for the secret police. Harry Bellafonte is a total socialist. Paul Robeson. If you want lyrics, check out some kinds of folk music. Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives and similar people were all very pro-labor and anti-capital. A really cool art punk band I like is called Art Bears. Their third album has some great song titles like "The Song of Investment Capital Overseas" and "The Song of the Dignity of Labor Under Capital". Weird stuff.

[Widerstand]

Well, some groups with broadly leftist lyrics:

Kurhaus
Chumbawamba
United Nations
The Death Of Anna Karina
early Against Me!
Wingnut Dishwasher Union
pg 99
Mediengruppe Telekomander
Frittenbude
Tapete
Makss Damage (personally, I think he's a retard, but he raps about Marx and stuff so I guess I'd include him)
Egotronic (Anti-Germans, but they keep the pro-Israel/pro-America bullshit out of their lyrics, which actually makes their music rather enjoyable)
Dead Kennedies
Fugazi
Million Dead
Black Flag
Früchte Des Zorns
Ryan Harvey
Tin Tree Factory & Brenna Sahatijan
+ a lot of other stuff from Riot Folk

[professorchaos]

Brother Ali
Neil Young, kinda

[Sir Comradical]

Glorious Red Army choir of glorious USSR!

[AK]

Glorious Red Army choir of glorious USSR!
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[Sir Comradical]

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Sacred War is an awesome song, it's my ringtone.

[The Vegan Marxist]

Tom Morello

[NoOneIsIllegal]

The Dream is Dead
His Hero is Gone
Phoenix Bodies
Yaphet Kotto
Majority Rule
Moss Icon
1905
Four Hundred Years
Dropdead
To What End?
Cease Upon the Capitol
Palatka
Guyana Punch Line
Nasum

[Rusty Shackleford]

some of these are left leaning and some are full blown red.

Commandantes
44 Leningrad
Rotftont
Pete Seeger
Ewan MacColl
Hannes Wader
Inti Illimani
Quilapayun
Huun-Huur-Tu
Oktoberklub
KYPCK
Mikis Theodorakis
IFA Wartburg
Gogol bordello
almost any post-rock band has a feeling of leftism

[fa2991]

The Kinks are socialists, though they only addressed political issues on a handful of songs. Their sort of mediocre two-part rock opera "Preservation" is about the rise and fall of a socialist leader who trumps a capitalistic tyrant, "Dear Margaret" is an attack on Margaret Thatcher, Ray's solo song "Working Man's Cafe" is about globalization, etc.

[WhiteFlagWarrior]

I have to second the Flobots. They are amazing. I've seen them live twice and met them. They rock.
Also, Prayers for Athiests is awesome.

[The Red Next Door]

Luis Cilia

bruce corburn ( don't if i spell his name correctly)

[Chimurenga.]

Flobots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qLlVfUB_Q0)

Uhh.. sure about that?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Jonny_5.jpg

[Aesop]

Keny Arkana. French female hip-hop artist.

http://www.myspace.com/kenyarkana

[human strike]

Levellers.

[Os Cangaceiros]

GG Allin.

He was a true anti-establishment revolutionary. He suffered greatly at the hand of the repressive state apparatus, supposedly being jailed over 50 times in his lifetime by the anti-freedom forces of reaction who hated his love of life.

[Widerstand]

almost any post-rock band has a feeling of leftism

On behalf of this: GY!BE has various members which have been called Anarchist, and they have some leftist message in their songs, album art, liner notes, etc. They have a side project called Bakunin's Bum.

Another leftist post-rock band is From Monument To Masses. Name refers to decentralized movements (read on Wiki, I'm too lazy to explain), and they use a bunch of political vocal samples, amongst others from Chomsky.

Also, for all Black Metal fans, check out the Red&Anarchist Black Metal blog: http://r-a-b-m.blogspot.com/

[human strike]

Modena City Ramblers

[Buitraker]

Kortatu

[durhamleft]

Jarvis Cocker
Billy Bragg