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Stalin criminaal war

I got to meet Steven Van Zandt and talk to him about his impact and time spent making this video

Joey Ramone 👍

I was a graduate student at Princeton (on scholarship) in the 1970's. The racism of that community where Paul Robeson was born was still alive and well. I applaud him for his commitment, even if socialism under Stalin did not turn out as many hoped.

Needs to be a "I Ain't Gonna Play Tel Aviv" song.

Unfortunately misguided. The “diverse” government has ruined what was once a prosperous and safe country.

South Africa was better for most people under apartheid.

STALIN ZHUKOV ROKOSOFFSKY <3

Zandt - you never did anything like this or before or after. Sublime idea brilliantly excuted. Sublime and agree with all the other positive comments already posted.

Thanks to the USSR Europe never became under Nazi rule!

You see Scorpio from the Furious a ton in this video

I loved these guys so much that I visited Sarah Island on my honeymoon. p.s anyone else who used to save their 10c coins to piff at Marcus during Ticket in Tatts? 😂

Just watched the Steven Van Zandt documentary on Max - phenomenal man

Everybody talks about Band Aid and USA for Africa. But they forget about this.

I ain't gonna play trumps city!

Oh yees

5:12 Fat Boys in their Gold Jackets.

Lili Marlene, written by Hans Leip (not German-Jewish as she claims in another vid of this song). The English translation by Tommie Connor came in 1944. It was hardly 'rushed out' to stop the troops listening to it in German on Radio Belgrade and 'getting ideas' also as claimed elsewhere. My pa learned it in North Africa, in German, and nobody tried to stop them singing it. He was taken prisoner at Gazala in 1942, before the English and French version were around. Towards the end of the war, when pa was in a work camp near Dresden guarded mainly by pitiful elderly German civilians, they swapped RedX ciggies and chocolate for fresh veg grown locally, sat round a pot and shared a meal with the guards and sang it together in German. He hummed the tune to me when I was sick with measles, and he used to sing it, in German, round the house. I'm not sure he even knew the English words.

Hang in there folks. I'm sure there is a group of artists that are working on a project like that for the current atrocities of these times.

Where are all these same people getting together for the genocide in Gaza?

Where are #ArtistsAgainstGenocide? On Bono's 64th, where is his voice for Palestine?

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

I still get goosebumps when I hear this song!! Absolute dynamite!!

Thank you Cousin for defeating humanity worse enemy, and leading our nation to victory against the Nazis, challenging the West for 50 years and for the rest of time, thank you Joesph Stalin

Damn, this was mentioned in the comments of a We Are The World reaction video, I remember this but had forgotten about it all these years! Remember when recording artists would get together to bring light to the problems of the world? They knew how powerful their voices were and how many people they could reach . Today’s artists do only for themselves…

Somebody Knows where can I find the video version of Ronnie Gilbert singing When Johnny comes Marching Home? I have been looking for it without any result. I know that many years ago, there was the a clip of Ronnie singing this song, taken from the same VSH tape, but it disappeared.

On April 13th, 2024, Steven Van Zandt and Springsteen played the Mohegan Sun casino in Conn, the casino/resort was built by Sol Kerzner who was the person who owned Sun City.

Apartheid was wrong for South Africans and it's wrong for Palestinians.

They also are never going to play in any African city on their WORLD TOURS either. Thieving hypocritical bastards.

Hypocrites!! Everyone of them! They cozy up to the American Democrat Party, the biggest oppressor of minorities in history. They keep brown people on the American plantation and use them for votes. These frauds would play Hitlers Bah Mitzvah if the check was big enough.

Russia 🚫🇷🇺🚫 out of Ukraine 💛🇺🇦💙… NNNOOOWWWWWW…🤯‼️‼️ And while NATO’s crying 😭 tears of pity for my adopted daughter and son’s birthplace-just as the world turned it’s back on the Jews, only to cry 😢 tears of apology after that SAME world SAW what the Nazis did regarding the Holocaust-maybe they should get outta their ivory towers and vote NATO membership FOR Ukraine💛🇺🇦💙… Peace ☮️ out…✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️

A whole bunch of virtue signaling on display here. Almost all of the artists featured here were solidly and supposedly against apartheid (no problem with that) but almost all of them still permitted their music to be played and sold in South Africa!

Still the greatest live band ever.

A magnificent anthem, even if it pays tribute to the worst political ideology and the worst leader of the 20th Century.

SA is a totally ruined place.

I never forgot about this song...I still remember the words from hearing it so many times when I was a little kid. I forgot Joey Ramone was in it! Interesting song even as a relic.

America was initially an ally of apartheid South Africa in the early 70's & 80's - anti-apartheid groups like the ANC and the SA Communist Party were declared terrorist org's and incarcerated Nelson Mandela labelled a terrorist operative. What changed American foreign policy to dismantle white supremacy? Successful worldwide divestment and sanctions kicked in isolating SA and a visible artist campaign to boycott performing in SA. A song boycotting Sun City demanded an end to SA apartheid & implementation of a democratic right of one person/one vote went viral on MTV - US corporate radio refused to play it. US actor and musical collaborator Steven Van Zandt helped produce "Ain't Gonna Play Sun City" with Artists United Against Apartheid (including Springsteen, Bono & of course, punk legend, Joey Ramone) adding their voices. Van Zandt felt it necessary to "raise the consciousness" of artists and Americans to censure racism in SA by putting pressure on then President Ronald Reagan to not veto a US sanctions bill against SA (the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986) - but Reagan did anyway. But the US House and the Senate overrode President's Reagan's veto - which had not been done in the 20th Century - led by anti-apartheid Republicans. Reagan was humbled by the loss stating, "Today's Senate vote should not be viewed as the final chapter in America's efforts, along with our allies, to address the plight of the people of South Africa. Instead, it underscores that America-and that means all of us-opposes apartheid, a malevolent and archaic system totally alien to our ideals. The debate, which culminated in today's vote, was not whether or not to oppose apartheid but, instead, how best to oppose it and how best to bring freedom to that troubled country." Now change the "plight of the people of SA" to "the plight of the people of Palestine" and get now President Joe Biden to declare his foreign policy reversal, ending US support for apartheid in Israel - which took just 5 years of US sanctions to cripple SA to change . Are we there yet & how can we get there? Biden may lose his presidency on this foreign policy issue because uncommitted Democrats and young Jewish & Arab anti-apartheid activists are showing up in the streets and polls protesting in an election year. We've gone from wishing for a cease-fire to a cease-fire is "imperative" in Gaza. When will BIden demand an immediate cease fire? When he knows he can beat Trump by stopping the war in Gaza and demanding self determination for Palestine. The domino effect of military embargoes against Israel has already started, just like the global arms embargo against apartheid SA in the 1980's. Just this week, Canada sanctioned Israel declaring to “cease the further authorisation and transfer of arms exports to Israel." The writing is on the wall America - Biden either blunders to a humiliating November 2024 defeat by funding genocide and apartheid in Palestine or joins the anti-apartheid/anti-war resistance led by South Africa @ the ICJ, who want the genocide to end and to dismantle Israeli apartheid. If US Democrat House Leader Chuck Schumer says the Israeli PM is an "obstacle" to peace in the Middle East then the sword need not be sharpened for Biden to fall on. It is up to all nations and citizens to hold America accountable to international morality as we held Ronald Reagan accountable when it came to dismantling SA apartheid in 1986. Keep up the pressure - a FREE PALESTINE within our lifetimes. SAVE GAZA!

There was a big high wall there, that tried to stop me, there was a big sign that said private property, but on the back side it ain’t say nothing, this side was made for you and me! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!! 🚩

Ya look how many white Farmers have been killed since then. Morons

You're not going to play Sun City? I don't blame you at all,not to one single solitary degree.Racism and Racial hatred are cruel and awful they have no place in the world;Moreover especially in Nations with An extremely strong democratic tradition;Nations so extreme strong believing in Justice and Freedom for everyone Although The United States,The Confederate States and even Namibia were once notoriously racist Nations, Number one was probably Nazi Germany. - However they were ALL just as evil and terrible societies - Racism has no place in our world - It's more than just wrong it's hurtful and most of all pathetically stupid.Unamerican and needless to say entirely Undemocratic.

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Now we need to make one to boycott ISRAEL 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Compared to benefit/protest songs "Do They Know It's Christmas", "We Are the World", and "Tears are Not Enough" that were all written and produced within months of each other, this to me was such a bаdаss song. As an 11 year-old kid, I didn't know what Sun City was obviously, but it left me never forgetting it, even nearly 40 years later. It was until the internet came out that I learned which artists *did* play Sun City, and yes, I thought differently of their selfishness to do so, especially when they defended their decisions to do it. Only Queen has expressed remorse, but did so many years later. Also, aside from a few familiars like Bruce, Bono, Dylan, it seems like the rest are the artists who weren't invited to the other benefit song recordings. The "kids from the other side of the tracks", so to speak. And for that, there's a lot more passion and ferocity about this. Especially the black artists. It wasn't so long before this that they had segregation in the US to know how inhumane this was, and to feel it personally. You can hear that in their voices. They mean what they say. After all these years, I still love it.

Ma quale è il meccanismo strano in Inghilterra Antipodi?

Bob Geldof Nel film The Wall

Bob Geldof If Pink Floyd

#freepalestine

Paul Robeson is someone to be known