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DEREK WALL is mesmerised by a band that that makes radical politics its sole raison d'etre

Music divides the left but, to misquote Lenin, "without revolutionary music, there can be no revolutionary movement."

Many of my friends like folk music, but it isn't my thing. I have a colleague whose political views I respect but not his affection for the Irish boy band Westlife.

Many of the left take inspiration from Paul Robeson, who was both a wonderful singer and a socialist.

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