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Markey Leads Protesters in Singing ‘Communist’ AnthemAt a protest Monday evening to urge puppet President Joe Biden to extend the eviction moratorium, Sen. Ed Markey praised songwriter Woody Guthrie as a “communist” before leading other Democrat congresspeople, including lifelong communist Sen. Bernie Sanders and radical “Squad” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush, in singing Guthrie’s collectivist anthem, “This Land Is Your Land.”“A great socialist, who wrote a great song, which a lot of people think is an anthem for our country, but it was written by a socialist, okay?” Markey proclaimed. “Back in the 1930s. A communist. He was a communist. He was a socialist. He was a radical. And you know what that song is? ‘This Land Is Your Land. Can we sing that? Who can start that?”A Capitol policeman then interrupted, instructing protesters to gather their belongings and not leave them unattended.Guthrie’s 1940 song “This Land Is Your Land” was actually an angry retort to Irving Berlin’s popular “God Bless America,” sung by Kate Smith. Unrecorded lyrics show that the song is an ode to abolishing public property:There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.The sign was painted, said ‘Private Property.’But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing.This land was made for you and me.https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/ed-markey