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Kicking Hitler's bum

Here is something to listen to while poring over that list of BNP members. Kickin’ Hitler’s Butt is a collection of vintage anti-fascist songs recorded between 1940-44 and reissued by Buzzola records. You can see from the tracklisting that it has some pretty big names and maybe one or two dodgy sentiments. Robert Wyatt recorded…

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Kicking

Here is something to listen to while poring over that list of BNP members. Kickin’ Hitler’s Butt is a collection of vintage anti-fascist songs recorded between 1940-44 and reissued by Buzzola records. You can see from the tracklisting that it has some pretty big names and maybe one or two dodgy sentiments. Robert Wyatt recorded a version of Stalin wasn’t stallin’ but let’s not hold that against him.

At just £8 it could also be just the stocking filler you want for the musical anti-fascist in your life as we get set for what the marketing people call “the primary gifting period”.

 

1. Round And Round Hitler’s Grave – Almanac Singers

2. Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’ – Golden Gate Quartet

3. Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition – Southern Sons Quartet

4. War Time Blues – Gillum, Bill ‘Jazz’

5. Hitler Blues – Florida Kid

6. Move Into Germany – Terry, Sonny & Brownie McGhee

7. Hitler Song – Leadbelly & Josh White

8. When The Yanks Go Marching In – Guthrie, Woody

9. Fuehrer – White, Josh

10. Roosevelt And Hitler – Ezell, Buster ‘Buzz’

11. Roosevelt And Hitler – Ezell, Buster ‘Buzz’

12. American Defense – House, Son

13. Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer – Four Vagabonds

14. Der Fuehrer’s Face – Jones, Spike & His City Slickers

15. Berlin Or Bust – Browne, Sam & The Six Swingers

16. Up And At ‘Em Yanks – Baron, Paul Orchestra

17. Mr Hitler – Leadbelly

18. Hitler And Hell – Rev. Gates

7 responses to “Kicking Hitler's bum”

  1. Adamski Avatar
    Adamski

    Robert Wyatt’s “Stalin wasn’t stallin’” is a great cut, and the rest of the album he made that it features on has some great stuff – Iranian trade union songs, strange fruit, the red flag, and of course, Shipbuilding.

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  2. Derek Wall Avatar
    Derek Wall

    Hey Adamski…bit disappointed to find you showing less solidarity with Hugo Blanco that I would expect on the SU blog

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  3. entdinglichung Avatar
    entdinglichung

    great … only Little Jack Little’s “I’ve Always Wanted To Waltz In Berlin” is missing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkxY1qC9Bek

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  4. rob Avatar
    rob

    What’s the score with tracks 10 and 11 being the same song?
    Is one the dance remix?

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  5. Adamski Avatar
    Adamski

    I assume that the Rev. Gates is the same guy who features on the infamous Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, he was the best selling artist among black americans in the 1920s specialising in long sung sermons – “Oh, Death where is thy Sting” etc.

    Re. Hugo Blanco, you are correct, I got sidetracked into teasing Andy. It would be interesting for someone with more expertise than I to write an article on the trotskyism/marxism of Blanco, his activism is informed by quite a creative application of socialist ideas and some thinking akin to Paulo Freire, about empowering people rather than paternalistically representing them.

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  6. Derek Wall Avatar
    Derek Wall

    don’t examine his theory Admaski, support his work

    Liam for example provides a link to Lucha Indigena, I blog his stuff and we are setting up a Hugo Blanco blogspot…the indigenous in Peru are kicking serious arse in the Amazon.

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  7. Adamski Avatar
    Adamski

    I was reading this article by John Riddell (who has an article also in this weeks Socialist Worker) on “indigenous socialism and the latin americanisation of marxism” you might find interesting, it also highlights the little known fact that Marx wrote on the struggles of indigenous people
    http://bermudaradical.blogspot.com/2008/08/from-marx-to-morales-indigenous.html

    If Blanco was just a theorist and academic I wouldn’t be that much interested in his work, of course the praxis is pre-eminent, but I think that Blanco has created a unity of theory and practice that other socialists could learn a lot from, he is using the ideas of trotskyism in a creative way to address concrete problems that people face.

    We live in a different society, but we could learn lessons from Blanco’s theory and practice for our own struggles (as well as supporting his work).

    Quite often we see phenomena around us which are difficult to describe clearly unless we have developed necessary language and concepts, for example, through the idea of the “commons” we can help people see the common thread that links several processes and things that are going on around us.

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