URBAN VIETCONG – I DONNATTI DELLA TERRA
from: Storie Tra Bottiglie E Ciminiere / 2018 / Out of Control, Fire and Flames, Rumagna Sgroza, Dure Realite, Rebel Time Record
footage: August 26th 1968 rally by the Black Panther Party outside the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, in support of Huey P. Newton. Includes scenes of Black Panthers marching and singing: “Revolution has come / off the pigs / time to pick up the gun” and “Free Huey / Black is beautiful!”
footage: Urban Vietcong / Hamilton / October 10, 2019 / Stronger Than Ever Video
Bruciano ancora quegli occhi insanguinati
Come i fratelli dei ghetti americani
A soledad il cuore mio non smette di battere
Pulsa piu forte e continua a combattere
Catene stringono polsi neri
Black power e sempre fieri
Siamo i dannati della terra
Affronteremo questa sporca guerra
La polizia continua a sparare
Pulizia etnica e razziale
Ricorda le pantere nere
Dai quartieri contro il capitale
La disperazione diventi rivoluzione
Lotta di classe senza alcun colore
Come un incendio boschivo
Brucia tutto sul suo cammino
Gettatemi pure all’inferno
Vi prometto odio eterno
Che questa terra sia maledetta
la nostra rabbia tempesta perfetta
BRIGADA ROJA – ELLOS TE ASESINAN
from: 2007 – 2011Discografia Incompleta / Incendiario
footage: International Women’s Day protests / Mexico
footage: Brigada Roja / New Direction Fest
El tiempo sigue pasando
Los problemos se van acumulando
La produccion de pobres aumenta
La burguesia sube sus rentas
Y el gobierno sigue mintiendo
Que la democracia esta fiuncionando
Ellos Te Asesinan ellso te secuestran
Ni un voto mas, solo gritos de protesta
Time keeps on ticking
Problems keep piling up
As the production of the poor increases
The income of the bourgeoisie increases
And the government keeps lying
Saying democracy is working
They kill you, they kidnap you
No more votes. Only shouts of protest
THE FALLOUT – WAR WITHOUT END
footage: “Pig Power (Newsreel #23)” / students take to the streets in New York and Berkeley to protest the Vietnam War
from: “What Is Past Is (Still) Prologue” / 202 / Rebel Time Records / Red Menace Records
Headline in the paper today
About fighting for democracy
Bombs tear human flesh apart
Watch the world turn away
What can I do? What can I say?
I don’t know
What you gonna do? What you gonna say?
You don’t know
Another imperialist action
War without end
Nationalist destruction
War without end
No international reaction
War without end
When it’s all for one
And none for all
Headache in the paper today
About fighting for liberty
Guns shoot civilians to death
Watch the world turn away
Protest seem to fall on dear ears
No one cares?
Apathy fulfilling my fears
No one cares?
Are they going to have the final word?
Am I ever going to be heard?
AFTERBOLTXEBIKE – GENTRIFICACIÓN
from: Amenaza Mexicana Volume 2
footage: residents of the Independencia neighborhood, one of the oldest and most popular neighborhoods in the city, as well as the Tanques, América and other neighborhoods surrounding Loma Larga, have united against the gentrification mega-projects proposed by the State government, the municipalities of Monterrey and San Pedro, businessmen and the Catholic Church.
The creation of these works not only threatens the heritage historical, cultural and family history of their community, but also, the legacy of the entire city.
Today they march in defense of the neighborhood, memory and its people.
Monterrey, N.L., 2018
Te vienen vendiendo, contando un cuento te obsequian la luna y el cielo
Te ofrecen las joyas de la reina y no se que mas una mentira de nunca acabar
Proceso de migración de la población dentro de la misma nación
Le llaman progreso una bonita canción mentira mentiras gentrificación
Oi oi oi! I won’t take it no !
Oi oi oi! Freiheit und punk rock
Te quieren quitar tu identidad a la Indepe del mapa la quieren borrar, barrio si, distrito no!
Y no la interconexión
Quieren convertir en una plaza comercial el centro de mi ciudad, la cultura del barrio resiste en los muros, en tu voz y en esta canción
Oi oi oi! I won’t take it no !
Oi oi oi ! Freiheit und punk rock
Proceso de borrado, dentro de tu mismo estado,
Una idea de que te beneficiara, pero solo al burgués le encantara
Mar de corrupción! ,gentrificación ,
Sin información, es la misma estrategia la misma canción
Oi oi oi! I won’t take it no !
Oi oi oi ! Freiheit und punk rock
Sin información, gentrificación , Gentrificación !
ACTION SEDITION- NOUS NE RECULERONS PAS
from the Streets of Rage / Action Sédition split 10″ / 2014
released on Casual Records (France), Mad Butcher Records (Germany), Rebel Time Records (North America) and Street Influence Records (Russia)
footage: various antifascist demonstrations / Montreal
NOUS NE RECULERONS PAS
(Français)
Le fascisme est la dernière mode
L’Italie célèbre son Duce
Rien n’effacera cette triste période
Le régime nazi est bien ancré
En Espagne l’armée se révolte
Suivant l’exemple des Italiens
Les cathos sont à sa solde
Les forces de la réaction sont en lien
Non, ils ne passeront pas, nous ne les laisserons pas
Non, nous ne reculerons pas, nous ne reculerons pas
À son tour le peuple se lève
Pour faire face au péril fasciste
Il met en œuvre ses rêves
Libertaires et socialistes
En Catalogne on groupe les terres
Les usines sont autogérées
On repousse les frontières
De la théorie appliquée
Non, ils ne passeront pas, nous ne les laisserons pas
Non, nous ne reculerons pas, nous ne reculerons pas (BIS)
Les fachos sont solidaires
Les avions allemands sillonnent les airs
Ils veulent mater la révolte populaire
L’exil au nord est nécessaire
La lutte est internationale
La France est envahie par Hitler
Notre expérience devient cruciale
Les premiers résistants se terrent
(English)
Fascism is back in style
Italy celebrates its Duce
Nothing will erase this sad period.
The Nazi regime is settled in
The army is revolting in Spain.
Following the Italian example
Catholics have sold out
Reactionary forces are united.
No, they will not pass, we will not let them pass
No, we will not back down, we will not back down
The people rise up
To face the fascist threat
They make their dreams reality
Anarchists and socialists
In Catalonia the lands are collectivized
Factories are self-organized
Borders are pushed back
Theory is put into practice
No, they will not pass, we will not let them pass
No, we will not back down, we will not back down (x2)
The fascists are united
German planes mark the skies
They want to put down the popular uprising
Exile in the north becomes necessary
The struggle is international
France is invaded by Hitler
Our experience becomes crucial
The first resistors take root.
AFTERBOLTXEBIKE – DE QUE LADO ESTAS
from: “No Pasaran” cassette / 2019 / Rebel Time Records
footage: ” Empire / Ruling Class” an agit-prop film-within-a-film from ICE / 1970
“ICE centers on a revolutionary group plotting to attack a fascistic political regime. Using a fictitious war with Mexico as an allegory for the conflict in Vietnam, it uses a documentary style to dramatize the inner workings, disputes and tensions within the group itself as they plan guerrilla attacks against the American government.”
“The National Committee of Independent Revolutionary Organizations, an underground decentralized guerrilla movement allied with the Black People’s Army and the Mexican Revolutionary Front, works to convince white urbans that they can and must free themselves from the oppressive state, and that armed struggle is their only means of liberation. So long as the ruling class propagates its ideology and sustains its empire, people do not comprehend their un-freedom and their actual role in society, and instead rationalize their exploitation and oppression on the basis of false consciousness. The revolutionary task is to transform this consciousness into true understanding and emancipatory action. For example, throughout the movie, the guerrillas make and screen propaganda films.”
No tengo duda estoy convencido
Que mis patrones son mis enemigos
No aspiro a ser como uno de ellos
Mi fuerza esta con los obreros
Las cadenas que te tienen atado
Están en tu cabeza, están en tus manos
Nuestra trinchera te está esperando
Nuestro camino está muy claro
Revolución del proletariado
Nuestro sendero está iluminado
Por los comunistas que han luchado
¿De qué lado estas?
¿Del patrón o del proletariado?
BRIGADA ROJA – BRIGADA ROJA
from: “2007 – 2011 Discografía Incompleta” / Incendiario
footage: Brigada Roja at New Direction Fest, Olympia, Washington, 2011
footage: “La Prima Linea” … depicts the events of January 3, 1982, when a member of Italian armed clandestine organization Prima Linea, staged an explosive commando attack on the Rovigo jail to free his companion and three other female political prisoners.
BRIGADA ROJA
Brigada Rosa
Va sin trequa puno en alto listo a atacar
Sobre un camino dificil de avanzar
Nuestro manifiesto siempre a sido el mismo
Una revolucion basada en el marxismo
Brigada Roja
THE FALLOUT – ONE LAST STRUGGLE
from: “The Times Have Never Changed” / 2020 / Discos Machete / Rebel Time Records
footage: G20 demonstrations / Toronto / 2010
footage: The Fallout / This Ain’t Hollywood / Hamilton / Stronger Than Ever Videos
written by Patty O’Lantern
It’s happening again
Our bleeding hearts are overflowing
Spilling out into the streets
You tell me one more time
No one can change the world
That’s exactly what they say
Every time we come close to overthrowing
All our despair they hope to shatter our dream of global unity
No one is free until everyone is free
To liberate a world oppressed all we really need is
One more movement by the people
One last struggle for the world
Let this be a movement without borders – without nationality
A revolution without gender – without sexuality
A struggle for all people all races all ethnicities
No segregation – liberation without triumph in defeat
URBAN VIETCONG – CANTICLE DEI CONDANNATI
from: Storie Tra Bottiglie E Ciminiere / 2018 / Out of Control, Fire and Flames, Rumagna Sgroza, Dure Realite, Rebel Time Records
footage: Urban Vietcong / Hamilton / October 10, 2019 / Stronger Than Ever Video
footage: La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso (Lulù The Tool) / Italy, 1972 / A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. Although the physical handicap is not serious, the accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Quanti anni quella fabbrica ha divorato
Gioventù vola presto via
A lavoro sottopagato
Ogni giorno pura agonia
Gelida questa notte d’inverno
I demoni ti invitano all’inferno
Prendimi e portami via da qua
Finche il sole ci riabbraccerà
Han rubato il tuo futuro
Vorresti andar dritto contro il muro
Non farti ingabbiare resta ribelle
Esci dal fango punta alle stelle
È un cantico dei condannati
Sogni svaniti e cassa integrati
Ti ritrovi da solo in questa città
Bevi un altro whisky al pub
Domande rivolte alla stella polare, nessuna risposta giunge nel quartiere popolare
Dio di noi si è dimenticato, urla e bestemmia in catena l’operaio
Tra questi palazzi che cadono a pezzi
fucina di tossici e di reietti
È un giocar sempre con la sorte
Tra cicatrici e ossa rotte