If you have ever wondered what the Left once was in America—the Old Left that organized American labor and gave rise to the Black revolt that would grow into Black Power, and fought fascists in Spain in 1936 and in Peekskill in 1949, and was killed by committee just a few years later—listen to “Darling Corey,” as the Weavers sang it in 1955. It’s a ghost, a memory even then, but still it’s more thrilling than anything that played on the radio that year—or last year, for that matter—a punk battle hymn for four voices.
