1977
| Tune: | Original |
| Lyrics: | Desperate Bicycles |
| Composer: | Desperate Bicycles |
One of several punk songs that responded to the rise of the National Front (NF) and its racist politics. The Desperate Bicycles combined musical experimentation (two minutes of insistent organ riff) with punk’s DIY practices (‘cut it, press it, distribute it’, as this song says). Its main focus may be on the NF, but its argument is that it is ‘capital [not immigration, that] takes your jobs’.
| Cause: | Anti-racist | Anti-capitalist |
| Theme: | Political Process | Identity |
| Addressed to: | General Public |
| Target of Protest: | Bigots |
| Proposal/Solution: | Common Sense |