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And just like every other communist, they were scions of the privileged elite. IIRC Strummer's dad was a top=tier civil serpent and Labour party commisar.Agree the Clash were lefties, don't agree they suck and still find the lyrics highly apropos. They were lefties in the old mold of up the working class, big chunks of their stuff is about the mistreatment of blue collar industrial communities.
The Strummers of the world were (and ALWAYS ARE) only a half-step removed from the Kim Philby's of the world. In fact I'd be extremely surprised if Philby wasn't a beloved "uncle" of young Joey Strummer.
ETA: whoever said about Crass was dead-on. We should have killed them all back in the 80s and left them to bleed out behind the Ukranian Prosvitas and Polish Combattants' Halls we used to rent for punkshows, rather than letting them live to become the union bosses and leftist Uni profs they lived to become..