Is this how you want to live your lives?

inside the vultures circle

can you feel the talons in your neck?

Only the strong survive you say?

Just pray that prey you don't become

You've got no time for safety nets

There are no alpha wolves

Only those struggling to survive the state of nature

Domestic animals lost without the trappings of their civilization

You like to play armchair eugenicist, militant pessimist

An ivory tower that's built upon

the product of a million labors

Regression to the mean, repression of the weak

fraudulent pyramid scheme of human hierarchy

Do you ever wonder why you've been deprived

the wealth of nations?

do you feel the trickle down your leg?

Preoccupied with war against your own and your own home

How is it you're not already dead?

Another failed experiment

Evidence suggests you will not pass the last great filter

The soldiers won't defend the hive

when the Queen neglects to satisfy the builders

You like to play the devil's advocate, passive and impotent

brood over fallen empires

That were built upon the bones of millions

Narrow minded sanctimonious

self-serving sophistry

Greed governing holiness?

Not in the version I have seen.

You will not see the stars

doomed to the tides

access denied, fated to die

This one is a cover of a song written by Joe Hill. The IWW still publishes the little red songbook, which has this song in it!

We don't mind
See we've been doin' it all the time
But if you want us to you sacrifice
You will not get it without a price
We don't mind
See we've been doin' it all the time
But if you want us to you sacrifice
You gotta give something back to life

You think I'm vulnerable to your pressure tactics
Because I shed a tear, 'cause I shed a tear
You think I'm vulnerable to your violence
Just 'cause I'm sittin' here
But my babies came into this world
Without a single fear, say they has no fear
'cause the seven generations before me
They all fought to get us here

You can't just come in here like that no more
And snatch up our childhood
You just can't walk on up
And replace it yo, with your Hollywood
But I see now
How all of the words I say you'll take and misconstrue
And I'm prepared now
To suffer the penalties for speakin' the truth
And I speak the truth when I say

People if you hear me now I wantcha to say
Naa, na-naa, na-naa, nah
People if you hear me now I wantcha to say
Naa, na-naa, na-naa, nah

Haven't seen any RATM in this community yet. But i feel like basicly all their songs would fit here.

This is a legendary classic, covered by dozens of leftist artists. While I prefer studio recordings generally, hearing an entire crowd singing this song gives so much more weight to it. I also really like this (admittedly it's mostly a meme) edit with rifle fire to really drive home that we would not have our labor rights today without these brave workers literally fighting with guns for better working conditions.

Harry Simms was an organizer for the NMU, a communist union that had been organizing in Harlan county, Kentucky during the events of Bloody Harlan. In fact his death, as described in this song, reignited militant labor into more violent action against the capitalists. Eventually the UMW won the hearts and minds of the workers while beating back the capitalist union busters, but the NMU was a crucial part of the story in supporting workers and their families after getting kicked out of company towns.

Piped / Invidious

Wikipedia: Bella ciao

Astronautalis - Bella Ciao - Youtube / Piped / Invidious

Chia Madani - Bella Ciao - Youtube / Piped / Invidious

(and yes, I have an irrational dislike of the La Casa de Papel version)

I suppose I'm cheating a bit by posting Pink, but their leftist messages are popular for a reason!

A musical response to rich man north of Richmond.