My favourite example of a song that people think is patriotic but isn't even close.

Too often this song is seen as an unwavering patriotic song, which to me indicates that people aren't paying attention to all the lyrics. This song is about the country forcing the poor and downtrodden to go to war on behalf of people they will never meet and then expected to, somehow, return to normal. When understood in it's appropriate context, this song is better than anything uncritical listeners hear.

This is another legendary classic. Seeing the protest crackdowns on college students had me thinking about this song for the last few days.

I humbly submit some dance by elder statesmen of the genre.

Aside from a cracking beat, it's a complete piss-take of modern, forward-thinking, community-first terminology.

Take your anger out on the dancefloor, and solidarity.

(And, in case I failed to embed the link in the title, here it is .)

Watching this video (probably 15 years ago) was the moment I realised I was left wing.

Another Chinese punk band that's explicitly leftist (and black flag).

Pretty much anything by the Dummy Toys qualifies as left-messaging.

Edit: didn't put the URL in the URL spot. Wasn't thinking, sorry.

I'm pretty sure every song on this album would fit here. Also probably like 85 % of the folk-punk genre.

Hope you enjoy.