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Brahma's best song. I bought it on tape when I went to India. The mix is better on the album but you tell how good it is live if you have an ear for these things. This recording feels a bit more prog than the album version. Not that that's a bad thing.

Lisa Knapp's rendition of The Bitter Withy is one of the most startlingly beautiful tracks I've heard in years. Every line she renders is an emotional jolt, discreet from every other. Thanks for sharing this masterful rendition of a fascinating folk song.

(p.s. for those that don't know, the who...

A great big wall there,

Said private property,

But on the other side,

It didn't say nothing;

That side was made for you and me.

@MrRedFredSaid

I very much agree with you that 'the left' has been seriously negligent in responding to the needs of gay/queer people. I'm just saying it's been better than the centre and right (to use the silly schematic of our time). I absolutely think that the left has been horribly shit alm...

A great high wall there

Tried to stop me,

A great big sign there

Said private property,

But on the other side

It didn't say nothing:

That side was made for you and me!

@thisperfectworld

The Catholic Worker Movement was started by Dorothy Day and friends.. But I agree that Hennacy was great! And the Catholic Worker houses of hospitality are amazing as well.

@fearlessfred14

I agree with you. Even though the work of the cops includes making sure that we don't directly change social relations, there will be many individual cops who will try to avoid this part of their job, or even undermine it. Additionally, there are going to be some people who own ...

@Thepast2012

I totally agree with you. People who advocate political correctness are just like the Nazis. They frequently kill people from ethnic minorities, advocate war, promote racism, beat up trade unionists on the streets, and so on. Well done for drawing such an accurate and historically ...

@Chairmaneoin

Yeah, I hate chavs too. People who are poor and wear cheap clothes and have accents that I don't have are scum. Also, people who aren't as educated as me are scum as well. Some people think this is harsh given that I am a student at Cambridge University. But they are just stupid c...

I love this poem and was intrigued by this rendering. Can I ask, why did you chose to put the words in the mouth of American presidents before they (in accordance with the poems' thrust) were shot, rather than a revolutionary court or something? Thanks for posting.

@Corporatism

If we are lucky then what they meant is that whilst they thought everyone should not be stopped from expressing themselves in principle, they and the organisations they were involved with should give no material assistance to fascists to help them publicise their views. This is the...

@tigercubkitten

When I say democracy when we organise it for ourselves I mean participatory class formations. I think the opposite to the fetishism of organisation that you criticise should be noted, i.e. the fetish of the program. After all, if the proletariat are the revolutionary subject, th...

I understood this song as using the image/language of retaliation against Nazi collaborators as an metaphor for the feminist critique of women who shave themselves. If the intention was just to talk about the backlash against women who collaberated with Nazis, it doesn't seem very Crass like to m...

This is staggeringly factually inaccurate. Marx describes the tendency for wages to equal the value of commodities needed to reproduce the conditions of existence (everything from sleep, to education to entertainment) of the workforce. This is absolutely not the same as just staying alive and ha...

All nationalisms are against the working class. Our slogan must be 'the class of every nation against the boss of any nation'. The old RA knew that their struggle was against all the bosses, not to get bosses and rulers from closer to home. This track parodies the idiot sectarianism that betray...

@sidsings000

No, but it is a non sequitur. In other words, one may be utterly unconcerned with or sceptical about others and their being (a solipsist) whilst not valuing one's own self, but it does not follow from disregard for self that one is a solipsist (making the statement a non sequitur)....

Whoever made this video is fucking legendary.

@Slapbass13

What you are effectively saying is 'the world is a bit shit, get used to it'. I don't accept that we need to have a 'bad' system. This, to me, seems absurd. The paraphrase comes from the depressed Winston Churchill (he was talking about parliamentary democracy), who may have been ir...

Dworkin was not much of a Democrat. She was pretty politically radical, and more of an anarcho-socialist that a card carrying democrat, so you may want to remove her from this video. Also, I don't understand the point of this video. It doesn't seem to establish anything at all in any sort of syst...

Accademia is hardly an ivory tower. It never has been really, only a tiny miority of accademics have made a good living out of it. Most accademics are fairly poorly paid, massively overworked, have poor job security, etc., etc.

Plus the myth of manual labour as the sine qua non of proletarianisa...

Great video. I don't know how the game your kids figured out works, but it looks totally sweet. Plus doing it in silly dresses to refused makes it all the more awesome. You kick ass at parenting. Also reminds me of the time my boss at the kindergarden I was working at gave me a dressing down for ...

It always confuses me that Refused are said to draw heavily on Nation of Ulyses. i love both bands, but don't see any particular similarity. Can anyone help me out on this one?

@ATOMICCHOCOLETEBAR

Maybe Communism wasn't so stupid. Not being a Communist myslef I don't even particularly sypathise with the ideology that, for example, Stalin corrupted. None the less, you can surely see that the Communist Party in the US was far more anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc, and base...

I hate that my family and friends in service are being used by the BNP and love that Simon Weston is standing up to that. When my childhood friends and relatives are out in Afghanistan and Iraq, I makes me sick to see the BNP trying to claim that sacrifice for themselves. Nick Griffin seeks to un...

I love this video because the woman who made this inspiring speech was right about almost everything. She was right that working class people made the wealth of this country. She was right that our forebears would never accept the political norms of today. She was right that we are all being scr...

Whislt I'm not a big fan of Paxman (nor a big critic of him) well done here. This was a more creative dubunking of Nick Griffin's bigotry than one generally gets.

I don't know whether I like the song or the video more. Both are a brilliant take on a sort of fairground house of horrors theme. Shame about the direction Muse went in subsequently.

@TheGrumpybugger

Oh dear. Every vote that people in NI cast is a vote on the grounds chosen by people in Westminster and described by media institutions based mainly in London. So how does the ballot box translate into self-determination?

Presumably this represents the industry's output of ww2 shooters per year.

@btswanfury

I think you have to look within every civil conflict for the voice of organised labour from the English civil war to the Paris Commune to the Krondstat rebellion and so many more, the organised workers influence outcomes, but are so often crushed for the most part by statist authorit...

@ColonelVile

Get yourself a copy of the little red songbook from a local IWW branch or off the web. Best £1.20 I ever spent.

It may be useful for some of us to remember the distinction between a business union and a democratic union, or to put it in the terminology of the early 20th century, a trade union and an industrial union. Its also useful to remember the distinction between a business government and a democratic...