Greatest Left-Winged Songs?
Pink Floyd - Us and Them (and a ton more)
The Doors - Five to One
John Lennon - Imagine
Supertramp - The Logical Song
Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
Bob Dylan - Gates Of Eden
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Not necessarily left-wing I suppose but here is a moving ecological song:-
Don't Let It Die - Hurricane Smith
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
You're Un American - Pro Pain
share Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Pete Seeger.
Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan
The Trees - Rush
i don't believe the trees was meant as a leftist song at all, no? i'd say it's more in line with anti-state libertarian ideals, maybe?
There is unrest in the Forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the Maples want more sunlight
And the Oaks ignore their pleas.
The trouble with the Maples
(And they’re quite convinced they’re right)
They say the Oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light
But the Oaks can’t help their feelings
If they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the Maples
Can’t be happy in their shade?
There is trouble in the Forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the Maples scream ‘Oppression!’
And the Oaks, just shake their heads
So the Maples formed a Union
And demanded equal rights
‘The Oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light’
Now there’s no more Oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet,
Axe,
And saw…
reads more like a warning against imposing equality by law & the unintended disorder that might bring to me.
Indeed. Imposed equality often means pulling everyone down to the lowest common denominator. See also Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron short story. These are not Left wing by a mile.
shareit was all a metaphor.
sharethe beatnigs - burritos, television
gang of four - 5:45
The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag - Country Joe and the Fish
shareThe Internationale is the best of the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eea98iaO1fk
A few others off the top of my head:
The Red Flag (song of the British workers' movement):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeBsfMlTm4Y
Bandiera Rossa (song of the Italian workers' movement):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s2lMSX65vs
Varshavianka (song from the Russian revolution):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDp4k0Oo9w
Hasta Siempre (Cuban song about Che Guevara):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtwzU0-wPM
Bella Ciao (song of the Italian anti-fascist partisans in WWII):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo
The Sacred War (Soviet anti-fascist song from WWII):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOQiDK3twRs
Listen, Workers of the World (song of the Japanese workers' movement):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0d8G35La-I
The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh (British leftist tribute to the leader of the Vietnamese revolution):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjzMWumVhV8
National anthem of the Soviet Union:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnIKu0FLaO4
There are a gazillion more but I just picked out a few.