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Dave Randall playing at Glastonbury

Music can and should belong to all – An interview with Dave Randall, author of Sound System: The Political Power of Music

Barry Healy speaks to Dave Randall, author of Sound System: The Political Power of Music

'We shall overcome': Democracy Now! remembers folk icon, activist Pete Seeger

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 helped create the modern North American folk music movement.

'Rocking the Foundations' – The story of Australia's pioneering red-green trade union

An outstanding historical account of the "Green Bans" first introduced by the communist-led New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) in the 1970s in response to community demand to preserve inner-city parkland and historic buildings.

Zimbabwe: Thomas Mapfumo's liberation music

Ska: the pulse that doesn't die; Reggae: evolution of a rebel music

Foundation Ska

Michael Lebowitz: Overture -- the conductor and the conducted (new book excerpt)

The

Greece: A meeting with SYRIZA's Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a European crisis, a capitalist crisis, not a Greek crisis ...'

May 14, 2012 – Coalition o

Soundtrack 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 unknown to the band edited news footage of the revolt to the album’s title track and stuck it on YouTube (above). 

Musical interlude: `MaStreets', by Comrade Fatso (Zimbabwe) & Chabvondoka, featuring Outspoken

Comrade Fatso (Zimbabwe) & Chabvondoka ft.

Cancun climate talks: `Hollow and false' -- Bolivia, activists condemn deadly `betrayal'


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 Bolivia

December 11, 2010 -- Cancun, Mexico -- The Plurinational State of Bolivia believes that the Cancun text is a hollow and false victory that was imposed without consensus, and its cost will be measured in human lives. History will judge harshly.

Wanderings of a Zen Marxist: 30th anniversary of John Lennon's murder -- `The US vs John Lennon'

On December

Ireland: 100,000 march in Dublin against austerity measures

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