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Pop and Politics - Where's Billy??


How can Mark Hebblewhite do a review of ideologically sound pop music without including the Bard from Barking Billy Bragg? Billy was a founder of Red Wedge in Great Britain in the 1980's which was an alliance of entertainment industry types (including Paul Weller from the Jam)formed to fight Thatcherism. Billy was a huge supporter of the Miners strikes in the UK and continues to write songs with a political message today.

Billy has launched a tactical voting web site to encourage Labour and Liberal Democrat voters in his two nearest parliamentary constituencies, South Dorset and West Dorset, to agree to vote for each other's candidates in order to unseat the two Conservative MPs in the current general election.

In 1990 Billy released an EP called The Internationale. The EP contained songs such as The Internationale , The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions and The Red Flag.

Billy released an album in 1986 "Talking to the Taxman about Poetry" which contained the song 'Power in a Union'.

There can be no discussion of ideology in music without Billy Bragg.

Peter Rawsthorne


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Features
*  Interview: Balancing the Books
Opposition Finance spokesman Lindsay Tanner on bringing a Labor agenda to managing the nation�s finances.
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*  Compo: Undampened Spirits
Despite atrocious weather, building workers took to the streets this work over the carnage in their workplace. Mark Hebblewhite was there.
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*  Unions: Giving Blood
Local government workers are mounting a campaign to have leave to give blood donations recognised in their award.
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*  Women: A Checklist for Women Voters
With a mountain of demands on Australian working women, the biggest question could well be which is the biggest?
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*  History: May Day Meditation
May Day has been and gone, but we thought Peter Linebaugh�s take on its meaning was worth reading on all the other days too.
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*  International: The Weeks of Living Dangerously
The now almost inevitable fall of Indonesia�s President Abdurrahman Wahid could have drastic consequences for the increasingly militant working class movement in that country.
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*  Economics: No More Mr Nice Guy
In his new book, Steven Keen outlines why the public needs to know that economics is intellectually unsound.
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*  Satire: NZ to be Disbanded
Following the successful disbanding of the armed forces the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, has unveiled a new bold plan to total disband the entire nation.
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*  Review: Action in the House
Workers Online�s Big Brother Addict argues the time has come for the contestant�s to take some industrial action.
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»  Council Workers Brace for Border Skirmish
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»  Meatworkers Win in Federal Court
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»  Hotel Bosses Linked to Tobacco Industry
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»  Workers Demand Treaty With Indigenous Australia
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»  Activists Notebook
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Columns
»  The Soapbox
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»  The Locker Room
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Tool Shed
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Letters to the editor
»  Pop and Politics - Where's Billy??
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»  Satire is not Serious
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»  Toasting May Day
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»  WorkCover - Questions for NRMA
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