We need more Luke Kelly appreciation on this site
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This song for me shows the importance of our human right to freedom of speech.
Especially at this moment it is important to speak out
The 2020 lockdown song
Yeah that's definitely what he's talking about, the right to spread Nazi shit on twitter and die from Covid.
YES!! Luke Kelly was literally a communist, in fact he originally was going to go to school in Prague and got offered a scholarship by the Communist Party but decided that he could serve the working class by being an activist and folk singer at home in Ireland. He did an election rally for Communist legend Mick O'Riordan of the Connolly Column.
“I would like to see… the abolition of every moldy, seedy, and uninhabitable dwelling and to do this you have to give priority to the extirpation of private — and of capitalist necessity, vicious — landlords.”
He was a committed and explicit comrade till the day he died :starry-plough: