May Day: 'Workers of the World Unite!'

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Tom Morello tweeted this link. Exquisite!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/the-last-internationale-demand-that-workers-of-the-world-unite-20130501


on edit: messing with the link

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1. Her voice is so pure and unaltered...it's lovely

New York's counterculture spirit lives on in the Last Internationale, a group of impassioned folk-rockers, and the new video for their fiery protest song "Workers of the World Unite!" In it, the band plays through the stripped-down track in an isolated shack, and images of hard-working farmers filter throughout the video (which you can watch here exclusively).

"[The song] is about poverty, oppression, injustice, the myth of the American dream and the need for workers' revolution against capitalism," the Last Internationale tell Rolling Stone. "We wanted to write a song with an anthemic chorus to perform at protests and for social movements in general, but we also wanted it to be very personal." To get their pure, no-frills sound, the band recorded the track at Estudio Sa Da Bandeira in Porto, Portugal while on tour. "We performed and mixed it live to quarter-inch tape with the engineer controlling the faders behind the board," the band says. "No overdubs, no punch-ins and no soul-sucking computers."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/the-last-internationale-demand-that-workers-of-the-world-unite-20130501#ixzz2S5FqsWg2