Socialist Christmas

Here at CAGG HQ, we'd like to take Christmas as a leftfield celebration, i.e. that we like to steer clear from the mainstream and look for the flowers blooming on the side of the road. Not necessarily on the left side, but you catch our drift. But, what if we DID look only left; what if Christmas IS a socialist, leftist feast? I mean, all that red decoration, Santa's clothing, come on!

So, how'bout we make our first theme post of the season about songs, celebrating Christmas in the spirit of Marx, Engels and party like it's a worker's party?
We dove deep into the red-themed songs about Xmas. Here are the highlights. Of course, tips are more than welcome in the comments:
Christmas Underground sent us this supercatchy trigger for the theme-post: Because what makes more sense than singing along around Christmas time with this nugget: 'Shine ‘em bright/shine those guillotines/It’s your night/Storm the walls by moonlight'.

And there is of course this ultrashort, yet catchy ditty:
This punkrock band proves my point, Santa's dressed in red so he MUST be a communist:
The way Paul Kramer sings his theory about Santa being a socialist, one guesses that it's not meant as a compliment. And neither is the remark about the Easter Bunny:
This one's fun (sickle rhyming to pickle), about sheltering on Christmas Eve in a communist bookstore:
Also meant as a bit of fun (I think), sidelining Santa and letting the left take over at Christmas:
A genuine protest song from the 1960s, by socialist singer Phil Ochs. He spent the festive period of 1962 in Hazard, Kentucky, where he performed a number of gigs for the families of miners striking over the ‘modernisation’ of their industry. Ochs was greatly moved by the experience, and would write a protest song, ‘No Christmas in Kentucky’, that described the desperation and poverty he had witnessed at first hand:
Did you know that the classic 'Mistletoe & Wine' is a socialist Christmas song? Read about the background HERE.