Angelic Upstarts - Solidarity

[Astibaer72]

what are all those brainless right wing bastards doing here? the upstarts are, were and always will be an anti-fascist band! get back to ian stuart´s driving school and drive your car like he did! the world will be better place!

sometimes antisocial - always antifascist!

[KiffnixOi]

I love this Song.......

[DualGnosis]

SOLIDARITY!

[pel1967]

never a better song im a geordie and i love the words even though mensi is a mackem its class

[micknufc]

@pel1967 same here mate,this is more than football though. we need to re group as these cunts are back and doing it again...ive never been out of work since i left school in 88,i lost my job last march through a company going under. yes davy babes we are all in it together, tell me how my wifes £102 is to keep my family of 4...thats the rules,mortgage everything? tell me..i can keep on applying to agencies who hoodwink you into thinking there s a job...

thanks mr c,sorry mrs T.....

[tomaskamil]

Such an awesome tune... And such stupid comments below. Well at least most of them. This song is about solidarity and all you do is fight...

[stophatemakelove]

what are names of this two boys who sing seconds vocals?

[OJC1994]

some banks in london are recruiting poles to help with the language barrier... i thought 'when in rome?'....

[1690holly]

FREE EMMA WEST free speech is a right not a privilidge

[rudolfjaki]

beautiful song

[1690holly]

leon degrelle, the last great belgian. SS

[1690holly]

rights for whites!

[1690holly]

what has 2 wings and a halo? A chinese telephone

[D3V1ANT1]

And whites arent superior? Then why,when the white leaders from africa left it to the blaxks,did the countries explode? Have you seen rawanda?or burundi? We are conquorers,they are conquorees... 88

[D3V1ANT1]

You keep believing that they werent Nationalist. That way you can listen without feeling guilty..... 88

[OJC1994]

is this a music channel or a debate about race.wars,education,sexuality?

[1690holly]

@OJC1994 fuck the music. race war, you know the score. stop hiding behind your computer and get on the streets. SMASH THE REDS!!!!!

[D3V1ANT1]

@SuperDelta456 We lost the battle,the war isnt over till either they,or we,are gone. 88

[D3V1ANT1]

@1690holly you fukking tell em. Seig Heil!

[SuperDelta456]

@D3V1ANT1 First of all it's Sieg Heil! Learn to write. Secondly: People like you aren't welcome here. Third: You lost the war so shut the fuck up.

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 your not welcome either you paedophile. FUCKING SCUM WEIRDO.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly Yeah whatever a true skinhead isn't a racist so go fuck yourself or better go back to your daddy who used to rape you to what you are now sucker

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 what on earth does that mean, you illiterate half-wit. all belgiums are obsessed with kiddy- fiddling. WHY?

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly Well Neo's aren't? Let's fuck our family because they're white and blond yeah that's really a good way of being an example

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 those darkies you must have gone to school with have really held you back. what a shame.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly If you mean coloured people you pothead you would've know that the white race isn't the superior race, in fact the white race is just as good as any other. Hitler was just a weak little man that could only love that what had died, if you want to be like him good luck being miserable

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 i'm not miserable, quite content really. you are the angry little poison dwarf. again, probably from mixing with sub humans. its having a detrimental effect on your ability to communicate rationally. best thing for you would be to end it all. NOW! you are only angry because you know we are right.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly I'm not really angry more laughing my ass of because you're actually saying so much bullshit, secondly this is a socialist song so get the fuck out of here.

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 wow, you own a donkey. you must have quite a high status in your mudhut. upstarts started out a right wing band, listen to the song 'england'. menzi's brother is still a far right supporter.

[LorrunP]

@1690holly They have and never will be a right wing band. Whatever Mensi's brother's supposed political viewpoints are, are not relevant in the slightest. What IS relevant is that Mensi is strongly anti-fascist.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly You're the most stubborn conformist I've ever met, a true skin is a s.h.a.r.p., trojan, a rudeboy or a redskin. You're just a bonehead who wants to hear he's from a better race. Yet I wonder, if Hitler was so strong, if Hitler had a superior race watching over him tell me why did he lose his war? Oh guess what the USSR and the USA just happend to be a little better, to be a little better.

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 'to be a little better, to be a little better'!!!!!!!! are you a 'close friend' of fred elliot.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly Not really, but it's better to be a friend of him then following a smurf with a bit of duck tape on his lips

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 smurfs????? duck tape?????? you belgian nonce! are you gargamel in disguise?

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly What about: If I'm Gargamel your ego is as massisve as the seize of Görings tummy

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 'seize of gorings tummy'. surely you meant SIZE, you half wit. then again, grabbing fat mens tummy's about sums you up, you sub-human sex case. WHAT ABOUT THAT shit for brains. C18.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly I just made a mistake in size, but eh it's Göring you dumbfuck secondly, you do realize the white race is slowely being mixed with all other races it will result in one race and you'll be proven wrong once more

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 no e in slowly you mong

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly fuck it I'm tired, just answet the goddamn statement

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 what does answet mean, you belgian waffler

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly Waffler? That's the best you've got, wow the Arians really got shit for brains, Waffler: Hey I'm Belgian Waffler BWAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAH, go fuck your frozen grandpa, I'll even be kind with you, I'll dig 'em up for you in Stalingrad

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 its spelt AYRAN. you really need to get a grip of the english language. its no wonder belgium has been invaded so easily by superior people when neanderthals like you are lumbering around. can you wipe your own arse, or does your mummy still do it for you. FREE EMMA WEST. the truth shall set you free.

[SuperDelta456]

@1690holly Yeah, that's why in WOI the germans fell by thousands at Flanders Field and the Belgian Front, Hitler was just a puppet of his own madness

[1690holly]

@SuperDelta456 rhubarb

[skwank]

@D3V1ANT1 Can't you spell? What happened to your education!?

[1690holly]

@D3V1ANT1 think we have managed to upset one or two scumbags. made my afternoon worthwhile. NO SURRENDER!!!!!

[OJC1994]

dont know what churchills tipple was but must be better than that fucking 'polish vodka' i bought,3 days off work with the shits,went back + 2 eastern europeans in my place for the same money i was on!

[53prime]

What's that song at the very end? It's like a little clip, at 4:46 I can't understand it, so I can't google it, and I'd like to hear it in its entirety lol

[BloodyNora07]

@53prime

It's called 'progress' from the 'Last Tango in Moscow' album .. written by Brian Hayes

[53prime]

@BloodyNora07 Thanks!

[1690holly]

i was on strike with royal mail last year, and the management brought in polish casuals. SOLIDARITY? fuck the poles

[szarywilk1944]

@1690holly In 1940 Polish pilots protect your English sucks hitler what would you have not kicked. four years later, fucking alcoholic Churchill betrayed the Poles because they afraid of wrath of Stalin. stupid fucking scared of the English as their pride podkulajac his ass before musslim

[1690holly]

@szarywilk1944 hitler had the right idea with you inbred halfwit slovak scum. i bet u yids and poles shit yourselves when you got your gas bills. can't wait to smash you at the euros next year, then again you will probably be over here picking carrots for £3 hour. why are your women so spotty and pale. AIDS

[szarywilk1944]

@1690holly you are plain junk. barking on the other. Your England is now worth a bunch of shit politically correct fags. colorful pile of scum and nothing more. 're ordinary son of a bitch who thinks with an Englishman and it really is a slave in his country.what can one speak of it himself before the laptop fuck fuck. and the head of the same beans and bacon. Mensiego stinker likes. mothers sons fucking by dogs.

[giuseppeUT]

strugglin'

[blutganggungnir]

SPECTACULAR

[Ukdk1234]

One of the best songs heard live! Get off YouTube and go see this band when you next get the chance!

[Max92178]

I`m not idiot.The fact it is influenced CIA yhe did not hide

[777stach]

@Max92178 Bullshit.

[Max92178]

Lech Valensa agent of C.I.A. Bastard!

[777stach]

@Max92178 You is idiot ? Yes ?

[deprawator828]

@Max92178 no his a Polish comunist secret police agent

[sirgaryhoi]

This song and Walls Come Tumbling Down by Style Council always reminds me of when I use to play a game called Theatre Europe on Spectrum ZX128 as a kid in the 80s. When I played as Nato the Warsaw Pact would out number me in manpower and I would lose. When I played as Warsaw Pact I would do the same and Nato would just use nukes ands its end of the world.

[jiijee1976]

I really can not understand those fuckers, who think, that keeping a family of 4 together and all peaceloving punks happy with this music, is some what do not dig!! Go get yourselves a life.

[punkisdead36]

aupa la lucha de clases!!!!

salud y anarquia!!!

[pepeher]

that's a pity for this beautiful song that valesa and solidarity union had finally betrayed the working class. but is a nice song...

poles find your way....

[solano1292]

@pepeher ....he was working class who rose to great things only to find polish societies left him hi n dry...also workers in poland didnt back him when he needed it most....a true legend....upstarts best band in shields .....they said it how it was in the 80s.....much like today...when bands are manufacturers dreams.....cant write a song...let alone believe it...mensi legend

[Dezpin234]

What song starts at the end?

[1000fantomas]

All of us have equal rights as people as human.We don't need to be left right or whatever.We don't need to follow any ideology.Just be friendly to each other.

[DeeDeeRuhmone]

this the TRUTH my little droogies hope for an eternal breath of the working man!

[melendrengue]

no sabia yo ke el cantante de estos era el COTO MATAMOROS.

[TheKleineKartoffel]

Mensi is the sexiest man alive!

[DAMIEN676]

this song is brilliant, i remember it somehow but only after hearin it

[riotsdetinta]

Are Lech Walesa left sided? I didn't know it...

[aghowie]

goiing to see them in 45 mins.

Cant wait

[unmae1986Reloaded]

this song fits perfectly nowadays for Lybia and Syria!!!!

[aluigilegustaelpunk]

left sided?..guns for the afgan rebels??

[guss112]

@aluigilegustaelpunk URSS was not left. URSS was fucking shit. You can be socialist and hate URSS.

(sorry for my english)

[dionisius79]

@guss112 Hola amigo, AU eran socialistas de verdad, no estalinistas, la cancion es en solidaridad con un sindicato de trabajadores disidente de polonia, sindicato perseguido por el regimen! Ellos apoyan a los trabajadores, no al gobierno que los explota... eso si es de izquierda, así que, quedate tranquilo....

[guss112]

@dionisius79 Salut l'ami, Hola Amigo, Hey friend! I'm not sure about what you say (I'm french and I don't speak spanish) but if you think I hate the band, you're wrong, I like them and I know they have nothing to do with URSS and Staline. I was just angry at this time because an idiot said some idiot things. I hope you can understand me (I can do this in french if you prefer :) )!

By the way I didn't know my comment was on the top, hahaha.

[badramones]

come once again to the Polish, we are waiting for you, you're red coward

[Nachoidess]

@badramones lol u mad

[andreground23]

@badramones

Is your life in poland better under a christian dictatorship? Enjoy it all!

[markasol]

I am amazed how some people can listen to this song and still mouth the same pro-communist/anarchist platitudes as before. Whatever the Upstarts' political views back in the UK, here they are singing in support of Solidarity, the anti-Communist Trade Union led by Lech Walesa, the future President of a free Poland. Fascism, Socialism, National Socialism, Communism, Libertarian Communism - they are all the same, the government tells you what to do and if you disagree you end up in a death camp.

[villafan666]

@markasol LOL, "the government tells you what to do and if you disagree you end up in a death camp"

Not sure how that works when anarchism and libertarian communism don't have governments

[ilhuicamina290480]

pobrecitos obreros ta humillados, se ven muy mal desde mi yate privado

[wozelbeak]

rings a tune for those fighting in Libya.

[14Amalek88]

Ian war besser wenn ihr euch mal das Lied Voice briten oder Blood and honer ohne vorurteil anhört wist ihr was mein Mensi hatte nur Glück und den Puck verkauft

Rest in Peace ISD

[suhy1]

@jwpseba You are stupid...forever!!!

[jwpseba]

@suhy1 sie pisze przez suchy forevwer

[THECLASHSUMMERS]

ANGELIC UPSTARTS -ENGLAND- LIVE. . . Sure takes of back to those days. Thanks guys x x x

[filipposg7]

solidarity the weapon of the people

[punkgabe]

i lov these christian punks omg good men good men

[electra1969666]

una pasadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaa

[Redveg993]

Created 30 years ago, this song is still very relevant to today. The people all across North Africa and the Middle East have risen up against tyrants bankrolled by the USA.  They are facing all the brutalities described in the song....broken bones, bloody heads, prison and exile, but the despots are gone or in retreat. Even Gadaffi knows that his days are numbered and so does US capital, despite its 'democratic' rhetoric.

We in Britain also face our greatest challenge in 80 years this year

[Sentenzia666]

@Redveg993 Sorry? Nothern África and arabian countries are USA enemies. Gadafi are socialist. The enemy, today like yesterday, are the nazis, socialists, communists, anarchists... totalitarianism, EEUU are the first and only true democracy in the world. They fought against Hitler, who was not his enemy, to defend democracy. Europe is a vile hypocrite. I am ashamed to be European and USA admire.

[syzyfzomo]

@Sentenzia666 tell that to people in latin america, and ask them how us supported and still is supporting democracy there

[MrSwingerzgz]

@Sentenzia666 You don't know a shit, the things you say can only be said by a mind retarded. The USA are as nazis as Hitler

[Sentenzia666]

@MrSwingerzgz Yes, yes... i can to see that you know very much and are more intelligent. The things i say not... The things YOU SAY can only be said by a mind retarded. Very, very retarded. If USA had not fought the Communist and Nazi dictatorship, the world today would be communist or Nazi.

[Sentenzia666]

@MrSwingerzgz Y adenás, ahora que lo pienso... si eres español, ¿para qué coño me escribes en inglés? ¿Te molas más así?

[brianlowdown1]

i am 42 this week ,,i was thirteen when i bought this record ..these lyrics ...and most punk crass rudimentry subhumans ect ...has almost fortold the future ..im older and listen to all kind of sht  but whats going on now ....punk has been saying for yeARS

[22912129113]

@brianlowdown1 congratulations bro

[indioenfadao]

@brianlowdown1 peazo cancion................

[82GROZERIAX]

para mi este es una verdadero grupo de oi!!!

[MujoAndFata]

what is the song after solidarity that is still played in the video?

[Wrapped4]

Communism in Poland was not brought down by capitalism but a Trade Union.

Pity Solidarity activists were betrayed (arm-twisting and backdoor forced decisions) by the IMF afterwards.

They are still heroes and exemplary people who spent years in prison for their cause.

[Arax1966]

@WinterHammerRASH

Of course Polish United Workers' Party was't left sided...LOL

[Fleurdelix]

Great song. Fuck communism.

[krbot93]

punk & skins against fascism

[HaldoSteen]

Great song, but a dodgy video.

[theGoldFusion]

I don't know what the fuck they are singing about.. But the song is so damn catchy, can't stop listening it.. **Give them hope! Give them strength! Give them life!! Like a candle burning in the black of night!**

[WarMachineNI]

@theGoldFusion its about working class pride 

[MujoAndFata]

@theGoldFusion theyre singing about the polish worker's revolution solidarnosc (solidarity)

[MoToRHeAVy]

Hasta la victoria siempre compañeros!

[MadnotMad79]

eNGLAND IS CRUMBLING.... :(

[werouki]

dobra nutka !!!

[Gouhllit]

great song, sadly the solidarnosc and lech walesa were pretty much enemies of the working class when they took power in poland.

[ThePRIMATERIAtube]

IT DOESN´T MATTER... SOLIDARITY IS A WORKIN´ CLASS HYMN... AND IT FLOWS FROM EVERY HONEST´S WORKIN´ MAN´S (AND WOMAN´S) SOUL...

FUCK WALESA AND FUCK CAPITALISM... ONE DAY WE´LL SEE THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM ALL OVER THE WORLD...

SOCIALISM AND ANARCHY ALL OVER, PLEASE, WORLD NEEDS IT

[jodernoencuentronick]

@astinumoc Yes, the song is about the polish union, which fought against an authoritarian governement, with more resemblance to fascism than socialism, using propaganda to brain wash the people, killing people for thinking freely, ...

[xynonreal]

one of the best song in the wild 80′S. thx uploader!!

[xynonreal]

one of the best song in the wild 80′S. thx uploader

[xynonreal]

one of the best songs in the wild 80′S. thanks uploader

[MujoAndFata]

there was a good communism,in the old yugoslavia..really it was very good. every1 got the payment they deserved, no1 was really poor except for the gipsies because they ruined a whole town that was made for them and it looked better then the capital of yugoslavia. it was the closest we will eveer get to anarchy.

[toavama1]

Like a Candle burning in the black of light!!!!!!!!!!

[eltruskaw]

@toavama1 black of night should be not light...

[brainchild28]

vive le marxisme!!!!!!!!!

[MrPeinilla]

fuck off political corretneSS... but this song its big

[kdx75]

souvenirs souvenirs des années skinhead sur Paris, nos si belles années 80

[pauric30]

i like this song very much

[karmen262]

me encanta que recuerdos en la disco. lamusica de los 80 la mejoooor!!!!!!

[karmen262]

Me encanta esta cancion, que recuerdos en la disco. la musica de los 80 la mejor

[astinumoc]

I always thought there was something wrong with this song, and now I know. They are supporting Solidarnosc, an anticomunist union.

Or am I wrong?

[astinumoc]

@astinumoc

No I don't think I'm wrong

[kfcholic]

@astinumoc How is that wrong you fucker?

[astinumoc]

@kfcholic If you pay atention to the images you can clearly see Lech Wałęsa, and he was president of an anticomunist union, and that is a fact. He was very close to the Pope, another anticomunist . So I'm not wrong, this group is supporting Solidarnosc, the anticomunist union that I was speaking before.

Angelic Upstart may call themselves what ever they want but they are supporting anticomunists. Whatch and listen to the lyrics carefully and you'll realise what they are speaking of.

[eltruskaw]

@astinumoc true. that song is about Polish anticomunistic group Solidarność (Solidarity). They fight for free better Poland.

[JEDIRODIJE]

Esto es lo mejorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr



[visigotik88]

the comunism is the red fascism but this song is is in really good

[jamielealoveswicked]

thats my daddy:D:D

[krullis55]

"...and we'll pray for our nation through its darkest times"

We've got 4 years of praying ahead of us :(

[qwq45]

i remember,when naive white power skins would listen to them back in the 80s.they would wear au shirts while disparaging communism and socialis

[Gottespunk]

"...and we'll pray for our nation through its darkest times"

[sparklord66]

MENSI! MENSI! YES!

[TwardyHuj]

Twierdza Gdansk!!!

Fortress Gdansk!!!

Alcázar Gdansk!!!

Viva la freedom!!!!!!!!!!!

[axitaka23]

Esta cancion sin duda es hermosa.

Esta cancion la escuche por primera vez en un cober de businnes a angelic upstarts.

Pero por mas que busco no he encontrado el disco.

[DarylJCheetham]

@Sentenzia555  bit harsh about killing political opponents. If you do that you become the very person you despise. Though agreed about the anti red/nazi.

[Sentenzia555]

Uno de los mejores temas de los 80. La peña hpy no se sitúa en el contexto de esta canción, pero surgió en la última etapa de la Guerra Fría, antes de caer el Muro de Berlín, a raíz de la invasión soviética de Polonia y cuando el mundo temía el comienzo de III Guerra Mundial, con EEUU inic iando su programa de Guerra de las Galaxias y la URSS contra las cuerdas y más agresiva que nunca al sentirse amenazada por ésta. Esta canción fue algo histórico.

[sideburnbasher]

@Venedasus

cos you are a git.

easy as that

[porcis]

es una cancion muy buena siempre me gusto solo que aveces ideologias como el punk se han tragado la idea de pelearnos entre hermanos por ideas que no le corresponden al punk!!com oel comunismo y el fascismo que mal que no podamos ser libres y nos matemos a raudales en la calle mientras los de arriba se rien de nosotros!!!buena cancion

[IberKikon]

Joder k bonita, no sabía k era suya.

[brumymag]

Such an under rated song - great melody and lyrics

A punk classic - in my top 10 favourite songs of all time

[Pampalini77]

fuck Commie fuck nacional-SOCIALISM (ye ye reds scum this is reds not right|)

Better dead than a red!!!

[HeadHunteR1988]

Working Class Pride! United We Stand! Let's unite brothers for Libertarian Communism! For a better life...

[MrIKILLFASCISTS]

NO AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISM!

NO NATIONAL SOCIALISM!

NO FASCISM!