Why Joe Strummer Was a Socialist

My thanks to the esteemed and indispensable Laura Forde for flagging this video, profane profundity from Rude Boy Joe and oddly pertinent to our times. It’s all of us, or none, mate.

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  4. Linda Bee says:

    Like most artists he was totally coherced into posing as a “Socialist”, in the early days the band was accused of being racist and were hounded to state what its political bias was, most notably by the new musical express.

  5. Nice Story for you Tony.

  6. Some people born to be socialist, He looks among one of them.

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