{"id":19406,"date":"2020-03-18T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=19406"},"modified":"2020-03-18T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:49:00","slug":"london-and-the-coronavirus-crisis-clampdown-by-the-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-and-the-coronavirus-crisis-clampdown-by-the-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"London and the coronavirus crisis: Clampdown by The Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-and-the-coronavirus-crisis-clampdown-by-the-clash\/clash\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clash.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"clash\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clash.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clash.jpg\" alt=\"As London approaches lockdown, it's time to play Clampdown by The Clash\" width=\"620\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clash.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clash-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As London heads into an anticipated total lockdown with reports of the army being drafted in by the weekend, there&#8217;s only one song to play:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lt4O-EHNnw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clampdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a> says that the lyrics &#8220;are seen to refer to how one gets caught by the capital economic system and its ethos of work, debt, power, position and conformist lifestyle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the capitalist system falling apart in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, let&#8217;s hope we get some Strummer-style socialism in its wake!<\/p>\n<h2>Join in with the online discussion<\/h2>\n<p>Although social media can be very effective in times of crisis, it can also spread\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/collections\/new-coronavirus-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dangerous and confusing misinformation<\/a>. There\u2019s some particularly well informed discussion taking place on the dedicated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/forums\/coronavirus-covid-19.120\/\">Coronavirus (COVID-19<\/a> forum on the urban75 forum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a id=\"js-XFUniqueId113\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/brixton-coronavirus-help-news-discussion.369843\/\" data-tp-primary=\"on\" data-xf-init=\"preview-tooltip\" data-preview-url=\"\/forums\/threads\/brixton-coronavirus-help-news-discussion.369843\/preview\">Brixton and coronavirus: help, news, discussion<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"js-XFUniqueId16\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/sensible-information-and-advice-about-coronavirus-covid-19.369751\/unread\" data-tp-primary=\"on\" data-xf-init=\"preview-tooltip\" data-preview-url=\"\/forums\/threads\/sensible-information-and-advice-about-coronavirus-covid-19.369751\/preview\">Sensible information and advice about Coronavirus (COVID-19)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"js-XFUniqueId24\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/coronavirus-breaking-news-discussion-stats-updates-and-more.369129\/unread\" data-tp-primary=\"on\" data-xf-init=\"preview-tooltip\" data-preview-url=\"\/forums\/threads\/coronavirus-breaking-news-discussion-stats-updates-and-more.369129\/preview\">Coronavirus \u2013 breaking news, discussion, stats, updates and more<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"structItem-cell structItem-cell--icon\"><a id=\"js-XFUniqueId8\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/general-coronavirus-covid-19-chat.369797\/unread\" data-tp-primary=\"on\" data-xf-init=\"preview-tooltip\" data-preview-url=\"\/forums\/threads\/general-coronavirus-covid-19-chat.369797\/preview\">General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a id=\"js-XFUniqueId112\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-the-uk.369270\/unread\" data-tp-primary=\"on\" data-xf-init=\"preview-tooltip\" data-preview-url=\"\/forums\/threads\/coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-the-uk.369270\/preview\">Coronavirus cases confirmed in the UK<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As London heads into an anticipated total lockdown with reports of the army being drafted in by the weekend, there&#8217;s only one song to play:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,456],"tags":[2257,2258,2260,10,2259,1197,114,495],"class_list":["post-19406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-clampdown","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-london","tag-london-calling","tag-music","tag-punk","tag-the-clash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/clash.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-530","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19408,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions\/19408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}