Musical interlude: Post-911 Blues
Hear and watch Riz MC's classic ``Post-911 Blues'', click here www.myspace.com/rizmcwww.youtube.com/rizmc
View ArticleMusical interlude: Abdullah Ibrahim's Mannenberg (Is Where It's Happening)
Mannenberg Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) is seen here visiting Mandela's cell on Robben Island, and wandering in and around Cape Town -- including the famed District Six and Mannenberg -- to the...
View ArticleFree West Papua! A video introduction to a struggle for self-determination
Act of Free Choice (directed by Mark Worth)The so-called ``Act of Free Choice'' was a sham referendum held in 1969 to decide whether Indonesia should govern West Papua. The small sample of indigenous...
View ArticleHamba kahle Mama Africa (Miriam Makeba)
Mama Afrika (Miriam Makeba) passes, November 10, 2008Miriam Makeba addresses the UN, 1964read more
View ArticlePoster: Makeba presente
By Ricardo Levins MoralesMiriam Makeba passed away on November 10 at a concert in Italy. The link below is to a poster I made in tribute to Makeba as soon as I heard the news.When I was a child, my...
View ArticleCivil rights campaigner, musician Odetta remembered
Keystone / Hulton ArchiveOdetta was often called "The voice of the civil rights movement."read more
View ArticleIqbal Bano: The subcontinent's voice of defiance against tyranny
By the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation April 22, 2009 -- Iqbal Bano, the subcontinent’s beloved ghazal singer, born in India and trained in the Dilli Gharana by the legendary...
View ArticleWoodstock 40 years ago: Country Joe McDonald's and Jimi Hendrix's antiwar...
40 years ago -- from August 15 to August 18, 1969 -- hundreds of thousands of young people gathered for three days of ``peace, love and music''. In the midst of the mass movement against the Vietnam...
View ArticlePaul Robeson: `The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery'
Peekskill outrage, September 4, 1949. [See below for a four-part documentary on Paul Robeson's life.] By Harry TargOn September 4, 1949, an angry crowd surrounded the 20,000 friends of Paul Robeson who...
View ArticleAlistair Hulett: `A truly great singer, songwriter, activist and socialist'
January 29, 2010 -- Alistair Hulett died at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow on Thursday evening, January 28, 2010. Alistair's partner Fatima thanks all those who wrote in with messages of...
View ArticleMemories of a participant: Kent & Jackson State, 1970 -- A firestorm they...
By Mike ElyMay 4, 2010 -- Kasama Project -- May 4, 1970. Forty years have passed. It is history now in the eyes of the world. But for me, and many others, it is raw and alive. It always will be.I won’t...
View ArticlePakistan: Doob Gaya Hai -- a song for flood victims, by Laal (Red)
[Readers can donate to help flood victims via the Australian trade unions' aid agency APHEDA at http://www.apheda.org.au/news/1281331224_14992.html.] By Taimur RahmanSeptember 5, 2010 -- I am the main...
View ArticleDid consumers cause the BP oil disaster? Debunking the `consumer...
“So said Tony Hayward” is a music video featuring imagery dredged from the internet, based on a song written by William Carroll of the Department of Sociology at University of Victoria, Canada. It's a...
View Article`A force which is truly for good' -- John Coltrane and the jazz revolution
The John Coltrane Quartet (John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones) on the 1963 TV program, Jazz Casual, playing "Alabama", written by Coltrane after reading a speech by Martin Luther...
View ArticleRoma punks rise at the right time
“To hell with your double standards — we’re coming rougher every time!”— Gogol Bordello’s film clip for their defiant immigrant rights song “Immigraniada".By Stuart Munckton October 26, 2010— “My next...
View ArticleIreland: 100,000 march in Dublin against austerity measures
David Begg, general secretary Irish Congress of Trade Unions, and folk singer Christy Moore at the Dublin Post Office, November 27, 2010.November 29, 2010 -- Irish Republican News and other sources --...
View ArticleWanderings of a Zen Marxist: 30th anniversary of John Lennon's murder -- `The...
On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was murdered in New York. To mark the 30th anniversary of Lennon's murder Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal makes available the fascinating documentary...
View ArticleCancun climate talks: `Hollow and false' -- Bolivia, activists condemn deadly...
Red Road Cancun, by Allan Lissner. Highlighting Indigenous voices excluded from the COP16 UN Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico.Statement by the Plurinational State of BoliviaDecember 11, 2010 --...
View ArticleMusical interlude: `MaStreets', by Comrade Fatso (Zimbabwe) & Chabvondoka,...
Comrade Fatso (Zimbabwe) & Chabvondoka ft. Outspoken: "MaStreets" from Nomadic Wax on Vimeo.Official video for "MaStreets" from Comrade Fatso's album House of Hunger (banned in Zimbabwe). Visit...
View ArticleSoundtrack to a revolution: interview with Asian Dub Foundation's Chandrasonic
February 23, 2011 -- British-born South Asian punk-dance band Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) released their latest album A History of Now just as the revolution in Egypt was starting to build. Someone...
View ArticleGreece: A meeting with SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a European crisis, a...
May 14, 2012 -- Coalition of Resistance -- Britain's Greece Solidarity Campaign's recent delegation to Athens met with Alexis Tsipras, leader of SYRIZA, the Coalition of the Radical Left and president...
View ArticleMichael Lebowitz: Overture -- the conductor and the conducted (new book excerpt)
The Simón BolÍvar Symphony Orchestra, which is part of Venezuela’s Sistema, a world-famous program that connects young people from underprivileged backgrounds with classical music. The following is an...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Thomas Mapfumo's liberation music
Part 1: The liberation war years.Part 2: The Mugabe years.Produced by Afropop Worldwide and Banning EyreAired January 24 and February 7, 2013 --There above radio documentaries, produced by the US world...
View Article'Rocking the Foundations' -- the story of Australia's pioneering red-green...
August 14, 2013 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- An outstanding historical account of the "Green Bans" first introduced by the communist-led New South Wales Builders Labourers...
View Article'We shall overcome': Democracy Now! remembers folk icon, activist Pete Seeger
January 28, 2014 -- Democracy Now! -- Legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died January 27, 2014, at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger was a musical and political icon who...
View ArticleSka: the pulse that doesn't die; Reggae: evolution of a rebel music
Foundation SkaThe SkatalitesHeartbeat/Rounder through Festival Review by Norm DixonMarch 25, 1998 -- Green Left Weekly -- Viewers of late night music television will have noticed a revival of the...
View Article"Music can and should belong to all' - An interview with Dave Randall, author...
Dave Randall playing at Glastonbury September 27, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Barry Healy speaks to Dave Randall, author of Sound System: The Political Power of Music...
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