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If you look at the non-English speaking world you have whole artistic movements built on explicit anticapitalism and anti imperialism
Modena City Ramblers - Fischia il vento (rock version of the partisan song that inspired katyusha)
Silvio Rodriguez - Canción urgente para Nicaragua (a song about the coup that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz)
Pablo Milanés - Amo Esta Isla (a love song to revolutionary Cuba)
Piero - Para el pueblo lo que es del pueblo (a song recounting the junta years in Argentina, with the refrain "render to the people what is the people's, as the people have earned it")
Victor Jara - Ni chicha ni limoná (a song criticizing comfortable urban centrists who were ambivalent about the possibility of Allende/a socialist in power. Victor Jara would later be captured during the 9/11 coup, taken to the Santiago stadium, have his hands broken before being handed a guitar to play as a sick joke for his captors, and later killed and buried in a unmarked mass grave during the massacres of the following days)
Mercedes Sosa - Todo cambia (she wrote this heartbreaking song while she was in exile after escaping Argentina because the junta was going to kill her for being a prominent leftist artist)
Calle 13 ft. Totó la Momposina - Latinoamérica (make sure to read the lyrics to this one, it's a Latinoamérican anti imperialist and extracrivist anthem)
Fela Kuti - Expensive shit (listen to the whole album it's a banger)
Is this backwards? Katyusha was written in 1938 while it seems Fischia il vento was written in 1943.
Thanks for the recs I will listen
I must've gotten it mixed up, I remember one of the red army songs was an Italian folk song that got picked up by the Partigiani and the PCI maybe it was Bella Ciao
Get off the fence! Viva la vida!
Fela Kuti fuckin rules. I got the opportunity to see his son Cean Kuti come through town