Today in Labor History May 3, 1919: Pete Seeger was born, Patterson, New York. He started his folk singing career in the 1940s, with the Almanac singers. This group included Woodie Guthrie, Cisco Houston and Bess Lomax Hawes. They sang about industrial unionism and racial inclusiveness. In the 1950s, they reconstituted as the Weavers. However, they were blacklisted by the McCarthyites. As a result, radio stations stopped playing their records and their bookings were cancelled. Seeger was a member of the Communist Party USA, but left it in 1949. He was also an early backer of Bob Dylan until he went electric and Seeger threatened to unplug him at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. https://youtu.be/0fhL1E2cvvI

#workingclass #LaborHisotry #peteseeger #communism #folkmusic #woodyguthrie #newyork #mccarthy #bobdylan #FreeSpeech

YOUR DAILY REMINDER:
All you fascist bound to lose

https://www.https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRADsg_vQZ0&list=RDSRADsg_vQZ0&start_radio=1

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YOUR DAILY REMINDER:
All you fascist bound to lose

https://www.https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRADsg_vQZ0&list=RDSRADsg_vQZ0&start_radio=1

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YOUR DAILY REMINDER:
All you fascist bound to lose

https://www.https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRADsg_vQZ0&list=RDSRADsg_vQZ0&start_radio=1

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https://youtu.be/uBj57ivPsxQ

In 1944 Saint Woody Guthrie wrote All You Fascists Bound to Lose, and yesterday Bette Midler and friends gave it new life.

Let’s all sing along, and remember kids, punch a Nazi and eat the rich.

#protestSongs #woodyguthrie #fascists

It's worth remembering just how far #US #politicians will go to protect the #profits of #capitalists and insulate those capitalists from repercussions even when that means letting them murder #workers for going on #strike as in the #Ludlowmassacre.

#USpol #unions #striking #Colorado #CO #Ludlow #music #folkmusic #WoodyGuthrie

https://woodyguthrie.bandcamp.com/track/ludlow-massacre-2

Ted Tocks Covers

Song for Woody

Originally posted on January 29, 2021

On this day 65 years ago Bob Dylan played his first show in New York City.

“Hey, hey Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song
Bout a funny ol’ world that’s a-comin’ along
Seems sick an’ it’s hungry, it’s tired an’ it’s torn
It looks like it’s a-dyin’ an’ it’s hardly been born”

#woodyguthrie #bobdylan #arloguthrie #davidbowie  #frankturner

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World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]

And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940

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