It’s hard to sum up a band with such an impressive canon as Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin urges you to always be on the lookout for the true agenda concealed behind the establishment’s strict rules because, as he wrote when he was just a teenager: “they hide behind their lies that they’re helping everyone”.
Speak My Mind is the protest song equivalent to one of those internet “unboxing” videos, except that instead of a first look at the new iPhone, it’s an unexpurgated reaction to the news that your fellow citizens have elected a leader who not only fails to represent your values but is in fact a very real threat to your way of life and the people you care about.
Experience the uncomfortable feeling that you’re celebrating the worst excesses of the Eighties, offset by the vague idea that war is basically bad
The opportunity to do a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay is a basic right in a modern democracy and yet successive governments around the world fail their electorate by allowing corporations to make it impossible for workers to earn a living. Moreover, as pressure from the boardroom forces cutbacks on equipment maintenance and training, workers can be putting their lives at risk on the shop floor. And that’s one of the inspirations for War on the Workers.