Songs about communism

[Auntie Beryl]

Russians - OTF main man Sting
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
Leningrad - Billy Joel
Back in The USSR - The Beatles

Anything by Bloc Party

[Jah Womble]

Holidays in the Sun - Sex Pistols
Washington Bullets - The Clash
Der Kommissar - Falco
The Wall - Steppenwolf

One that wasn't:

Imagine - John Lennon

[adams house cat]

"Commune-A My House" - Rosemary Clooney
"Let's Turkey Trotsky" - Little Eva

[linus]

Was too, Jah, "Imagine no possessions".

Holiday in Cambodia - DKs
I'm Against It, and Commando by the Ramones.

[Satchmo Distel]

"Stalin Wasn't Stalling" - Robert Wyatt
"Keep On Keepin' On" and "Lev Bronstein" - The Redskins. Infact all their output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Redskins#Albums

[San Bernardhinault]

Engels - Robbie Williams
Sleeps with Engels - Neil Young
Engels of Harlem - U2

etc... etc..

[Gerontophile]

[Satchmo Distel]

‘Auf, auf zum Kampf, zum Kampf’ (‘Up, up, let’s fight’) by Brecht is a reaction to the murders of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht https://rosaluxemburgblog.wordpress....mpf-zum-kampf/

The title, 'Shoplifters of the World' by The Smiths is an allusion to The Communist Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker...e_world,_unite!

[Pérou Flaquettes]

The excellent "Les Brutes" by Trust.

[from wiki: "Les Brutes" (1980) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact military forces at the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, "H & D" (1979), with "H & D" standing for "Hôpital & Débiles" ("Asylum & Psychos"), accuses the Soviet Union and its secret services (KGB) of suppressing dissent by sending political opponents to psychiatric hospitals under fake diagnoses.]

[Southport Zeb]

Marx and Engels - Belle and Sebastian

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

Red Sleeping Beauty - McCarthy

[Satchmo Distel]

"Nikita" - Elton John
"Two Tribes" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

[Janik]

Oh, all sorts of songs by bands and artists who had to suffer the reality of communism with all it's evil and horrors. Strangely those with direct experience tend towards being, shall we say, very uncomplimentary about this form of politics. cf. Karel Kryl. And here is one for you to listen to, with a page that gives a reasonable translation (you might need to click to switch to English from Polish) to give a fair idea of the allusive nature of this take:-

[Felicity, I guess so]

The Internationale, obviously.

Billy Bragg's done a version, but my favourite is in French on a post-68 Chansons révolutionnaires LP