{{Short description|British socialist garage punk band from Surrey, England}} {{confused|The Faction|Faction (disambiguation){{!}}Faction}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Thee Faction | image = Thee Faction Live Putney | caption = Red Scare (left), Babyface (right) | origin = Surrey, England | genre = Garage punk, punk, garage rock | years_active = 2010–present | label = Soviet Beret<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sovietberet.wordpress.com/ |title=Soviet Beret Records | Home of Socialist R&B and official record company for proletarian struggle |website=Sovietberet.wordpress.com |date=8 July 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> | website = {{url|theefaction.org/}} | current_members = Billy Brentford Nylons<br />Babyface<br />Dai Nasty<br />Kassandra Krossing<br />Thee Citizen<br />Red Scare<br />Nineteen Nineteen<br />The Ol' One Hand | past_members = The G.A.<br />Horace Hardman<br />Christine Campbell }}
'''Thee Faction''' are a British garage rock/garage punk band from Surrey, England, noted for their explicit socialist agenda.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/neil-scott/not-a-review-reviews-are-_b_939271.html |title=Neil Scott: Not a Review. Reviews are Bourgeois |website=Huffingtonpost.co.uk |date=30 August 2011 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> They refer to their music, which incorporates elements of garage rock, pop and rhythm and blues<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tastyfanzine.org.uk/albums114sep11.htm#TheeFaction |title=Album Reviews – 2010 |website=Tastyfanzine.org.uk |date= |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> as "Socialist RnB".<ref>{{cite web|author=Simon Andrew |url=http://www.beat-surrender.com/2012/11/15/thee-faction-singing-down-the-government/ |title=Thee Faction – Singing Down the Government |website=Beat-surrender.com |date=15 November 2012 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Keen |first=Ross |url=http://louderthanwar.com/thee-faction-an-interview/ |title=Thee Faction: An Interview. |website=Louderthanwar.com|date=15 May 2012 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> Their album ''Up The Workers!'' was rated one of the ''Daily Mirror'''s top twenty albums of 2011.<ref name="Mirror">{{cite web|url=http://theefaction.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/thee-factions-up-the-workers-the-daily-mirrors-17th-best-album-of-2011/ |title=Thee Faction's Up The Workers: the Daily Mirror's 17th best album of 2011 | Thee Faction |website=Theefaction.wordpress.com |date= 23 December 2011|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref>
== Biography == Thee Faction's debut album ''At Ebbw Vale'' was released in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Thee-Faction-At-Ebbw-Vale/release/4068105 |title=Thee Faction – At Ebbw Vale (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |date= October 2010|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> Dubbed 'rhythm and booze' and 'timely'<ref>{{cite news|author=Simon Price |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-thee-faction-at-ebbw-vale-soviet-beret-2140096.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-thee-faction-at-ebbw-vale-soviet-beret-2140096.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Album: Thee Faction, At Ebbw Vale (Soviet Beret) – Reviews – Music |newspaper=The Independent |date=21 November 2010 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> by Simon Price in The Independent it was rated 8/10 in Vive Le Rock.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vivelerock.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2419&Itemid=13 |title=Vive Le Rock! |publisher=Vive Le Rock! |date=12 March 2014 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> Is This Music? praised the record, comparing the band to Dr. Feelgood.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isthismusic.com/thee-faction |title=is this music?" long players Thee Faction " is this music? |website=Isthismusic.com |date=2 December 2010 |accessdate=4 July 2014 |last1=Moller |first1=Roy }}</ref>
Their second album ''Up The Workers! or, Capitalism is Good For Corporations That's Why You've Been Told Socialism is Bad All Your Life''<ref name="Discogs UTW">{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Thee-Faction-Up-The-Workers/release/4062591 |title=Thee Faction – Up The Workers! (CD) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |date= 15 August 2011|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> was described by the Daily Mirror as "Power-packed garage rock 'n' soul underlined by a defiantly political edge."<ref name="Mirror" /> The title track featured Ivan Chandler (The Echoes) on piano.<ref name="Discogs UTW" /> The album was rated 7/10 by Drowned in Sound who praised it as "a lot of fun, undeniably stirring. Thee Faction write showstoppers" but also criticised the music as "entertaining in a very conventional way".<ref>{{cite web |last=August |first=Els |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16413/reviews/4143314 |title=Album Review: Thee Faction – Up The Workers! / Releases / Releases // Drowned In Sound |website=Drownedinsound.com |date=11 August 2011 |accessdate=4 July 2014 |archive-date=17 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817124828/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16413/reviews/4143314 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The band's third album ''Singing Down The Government, or, The War of Position and How We're Winning It'',<ref name="discogs.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Thee-Faction-Singing-Down-The-Government/release/4062619 |title=Thee Faction – Singing Down The Government (CD, Album) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |date= October 2012|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> was released in 2012, and introduced all-female horn section Brass Kapital.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vivelerock.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1718&Itemid=13 |title=Vive Le Rock! |publisher=Vive Le Rock! |date=12 March 2014 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> The album was promoted by headlining appearances at the Marxism Festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marxismfestival.org.uk |title=Home | Marxism 2014 |website=Marxismfestival.org.uk |date= |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> and Tolpuddle Martyrs festival and included contributions by Richard Archer from Hard-Fi and rapper Clencha.<ref name="discogs.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/clencha |title=clencha | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos |website=Myspace.com |date=6 April 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> Free download-only singles for tracks 'Soapbox'<ref>{{cite web|author=Bill Cummings |url=http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/09/12/thee-faction-get-on-their-soapbox-for-free-release/ |title=Thee Faction get on their 'Soapbox' for FREE release |website=Godisinthetvzine.co.uk |date=12 September 2012 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> and 'Sausage Machine'<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louderthanwar.com/comrades-thee-faction-needs-you/ |title=Comrades, Thee Faction Needs You! |website=Louderthanwar.com |date=6 February 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> were accompanied by promotional videos.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/theefaction |title=theefaction |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> Q Magazine praised the album as "a critique of societal hegemony on the back of a grimy blues'n’b twang, rife with the contagious energy of people who know they're right",<ref name="Projekta">{{cite web|url=http://projekta.is/thee-faction |title=Thee Faction. – Projekta |website=Projekta.is |date= |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> and it was rated 7/10 by Mick Farren in Classic Rock Blues magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/TheeFaction/posts/282586058539608 |title=Thee Faction – Did we share this with you? Your actual... |website=Facebook.com |date=6 March 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref>
Thee Faction released fourth album ''Good Politics: Your Role As An Active Citizen Within Civil Society''<ref name="Projekta" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Shepherd |first=Sam |url=http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/thee-faction-good-politics-your-role-as-an-active-citizen-within-a-civil-society |title=Thee Faction – Good Politics: Your Role As An Active Citizen Within A Civil Society | Album Reviews |website=Musicomh.com|date=8 July 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> in 2013, preceded by single 'Better Than Wages',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theefaction.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/thatcher-dies-thee-faction-launch-new-video/ |title=Thatcher dies. Thee Faction launch new video. | Thee Faction |website=Theefaction.wordpress.com |date= 8 April 2013|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> remixed from the album by Andy Lewis. The album featured (on one track each) guest vocals from writer Francis Wheen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Thee-Faction-Good-Politics/release/4666912 |title=Thee Faction – Good Politics (CD) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |date= 8 July 2013|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> and saxophone from Crayola Lectern, and was rated 8/10 in Classic Rock<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theefaction.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/this-machine-kills-capitalism-buy-good-politics-the-new-album-from-thee-faction/ |title=This Machine Kills Capitalism – Buy Thee Faction's 'Good Politics' – the new album | Thee Faction |website=Theefaction.wordpress.com |date= 7 July 2013|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> and 4/5 in The Independent<ref>{{cite news|author=Simon Price |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-review-thee-faction-good-politics-soviet-beret-8707567.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-review-thee-faction-good-politics-soviet-beret-8707567.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Album review: Thee Faction, Good Politics (Soviet Beret) – Reviews – Music |newspaper=The Independent |date=13 July 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and Mojo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theefaction.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/thee-faction-land-four-star-review-in-mojo/ |title=Thee Faction land four star review in Mojo | Thee Faction |website=Theefaction.wordpress.com |date= 4 July 2013|accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref> who called it "wildly galvanising, blisteringly angry, insanely entertaining blue-collar rock'n'roll".
[[File:OTJC_180614.jpg|thumb|Flyer for a Thee Faction-curated gig in aid of the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign.]]
Thee Faction released fifth album ''Reading Writing Revolution: The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall'' in June 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rhythm-and-booze.co.uk/?p=12037|title=Default Parallels Plesk Page|website=Rhythm-and-booze.co.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> preceded by a track on double-CD fundraising album ''Orgreave Justice''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louderthanwar.com/orgreave-truth-and-justice-cd-out-now/|title=Orgreave Truth and Justice CD Out Now feat. Paul Heaton, Sleaford Mods, TV Smith, Billy Bragg and more|date=20 February 2015|website=Louderthanwar.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://otjc.org.uk/otjc-cd-out-now/|title=OTJC CD out now! – Orgeave Truth and Justice Campaign|website=Otjc.org.uk|date=20 February 2015 |accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> and free download single "Choose Your Enemy", released on 29 March with accompanying video.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahlsxIry67E|title=Thee Faction - Choose Your Enemy (Official Video)|last=Thee Faction|date=29 March 2015|publisher=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theefaction.wordpress.com/download-choose-your-enemy/ |title=DOWNLOAD 'CHOOSE YOUR ENEMY' | Thee Faction |access-date=30 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090630/https://theefaction.wordpress.com/download-choose-your-enemy/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> A second free download single "(You've Got The) Numbers (Why Don't You Use It)" accompanied the release. The album received 5/5 in the Morning Star,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7735-Factional-activity-a-revolutionary-gem|title=Factional activity a revolutionary gem|website=Morningstaronline.co.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> 9/10 at MaximumVolumeMusic,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maximumvolumemusic.com/review-thee-faction-reading-writing-revolution/|title=REVIEW: THEE FACTION - Reading, Writing, Revolution|website=MaximumVolumeMusic.com|date=28 April 2015|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> and a positive review in Socialist Standard,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2015/no-1335-november-2015|title=No. 1335 November 2015 - The Socialist Party of Great Britain|website=Worldsocialism.org|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> while R*E*P*E*A*T zine called it "highly enjoyable, dangerously tuneful, subversively catchy and dialectically danceable, as well as being (as the title implies) properly educational - thought provoking and agitational."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/Reviews/Reading%20Writing%20Revolution%20thee%20faction.htm|title=Reading Writing Revolution : Thee Faction|website=Repeatfanzine.co.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> The band announced a number of summer festival dates, including Glastonbury,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vivelerock.net/thee-faction-get-their-rs-in-gear/|title=THEE FACTION GET THEIR RS IN GEAR! - Vive Le Rock Magazine|website=Vivelerock.net|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> and a return to Tolpuddle<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tuc.org.uk/about-tuc/regions/billy-bragg-returns-tolpuddle-festival-2015 |title=Trades Union Congress - Billy Bragg returns to Tolpuddle Festival in 2015 |access-date=10 June 2015 |archive-date=10 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610174020/https://www.tuc.org.uk/about-tuc/regions/billy-bragg-returns-tolpuddle-festival-2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Matchwomens Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.matchfest.co.uk/matchfest-line-up.html|title=Matchfest Line up|website=Matchfest.co.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref>
Thee Faction guitarist Babyface, under cadre name "Chris Fox", won the Beard Liberation Front's 'St David's Day Beard of Wales' title in 2015, 2017 and 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kmflett.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/st-davids-day-beard-of-wales-poll-sees-triumphs-for-mp-paul-flynn-musician-chris-fox/|title=St David's Day Beard of Wales poll sees triumphs for MP Paul Flynn & musician Chris Fox|website=Kmflett.wordpress.com|date=1 March 2017|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kmflett.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/musician-chris-fox-shaves-times-journalist-senior-labour-am-to-win-st-davids-day-beard-of-wales/|title=Musician Chris Fox shaves Times journalist & senior Labour AM to win St David's Day Beard of Wales|date=28 February 2018}}</ref> He was runner-up in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/st-davids-day-beard-of-wales-winners-announced/beard0/|title=St David's Day 'Beard of Wales' winners announced|date=1 March 2016|website=Telegraph.co.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref>
Thee Faction keyboard player and vocalist Kassandra Krossing, aka Cassie Fox, started the Loud Women organisation and festival in 2015. She also now plays bass in "mummycore" band I, Doris, along with Thee Faction trombonist Nineteen Nineteen. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://louderthanwar.com/girl-clapham/|title=I, Doris: 'The Girl From Clapham' – the Squeeze classic from her point of view|date=8 March 2019|website=louderthanwar.com|accessdate=2021-10-20}}</ref>
Thee Faction's most recent gig to date was a 2017 benefit show for the anti-Haringey Development Vehicle campaign. The band has not officially confirmed a hiatus, although a slogan on one of their web-pages, "R&B sui generis",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/TheeFaction/about/|title=Thee Faction|website=En-gb.facebook.com|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> may indicate that, like other left-wing groups, they have gone into the Labour Party.
==Politics== The band have performed with, and for, various artists and organisations of the broad Left including Attila the Stockbroker, Robb Johnson, Chris T-T, Grace Petrie, Colour Me Wednesday, The Tuts, Billy Bragg, TV Smith, The Hurriers, Mark Steel, Josie Long, the SWP, the Welsh Communist Party and the Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/podcasts/|title=Marxism and the left|first1=Alex|last1=Callinicos|first2=Eli|last2=Zaretsky|first3=Amy|last3=Mollett|first4=Cheryl|last4=Brumley|date=19 July 2012|website=Blogs.lse.ac.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://welshcommunists.org/ |title=Grym Go Iawn i Bobl Cymru – Real Power for the People of Wales – Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru – Welsh Communist Party |access-date=11 June 2020 |archive-date=11 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611143902/http://welshcommunists.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-71f1-A-celebration-of-a-class-resurgent#.VfG5x03JDcs|title='A celebration of a class resurgent'|website=Morningstaronline.co.uk|accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref>
The band appear to be unaligned with any particular organisation or tradition but are noted for promoting ideas associated with guild socialism, democratic socialism, classical Marxism and left communism, while supporting a range of left-wing and trade union causes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theefaction.wordpress.com/ |title=Thee Faction | "Taking down the Tory government, one song at a time" (The Guardian) |website=Theefaction.wordpress.com |date= |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bennett |first=Peter |url=http://louderthanwar.com/thee-faction-capitalism-is-good-for-corporations-album-review/ |title=Thee Faction 'Capitalism Is Good For Corporations' – album review |website=Louderthanwar.com |date=11 November 2011 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://otjc.org.uk/music-news-orgreave-truth-and-justice-gig-date-set/|title=MUSIC NEWS: ORGREAVE TRUTH AND JUSTICE GIG DATE SET – Orgeave Truth and Justice Campaign|website=Otjc.org.uk|date=20 August 2013 |accessdate=2020-06-11}}</ref> Notwithstanding the band's use of Ostalgic tropes and apparent (possibly parodic) anti-revisionism, in a 2013 interview they declared themselves "libertarian socialists of one kind or another".<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/171-love-music-hate-capitalism-an-interview-with-thee-faction |title=IS Network – 'Love music, hate capitalism': an interview with Thee Faction |website=Internationalsocialistnetwork.org |date=10 July 2013 |accessdate=4 July 2014}}</ref>
== Discography == ===Albums=== *''At Ebbw Vale'' LP/CD (Soviet Beret, 2010) *''Up the Workers! or, Capitalism Is Good for Corporations That's Why You've Been Told Socialism Is Bad All Your Life'' CD (Soviet Beret, 2011) *''Singing Down the Government, or, The War of Position and How We're Winning It'' CD (Soviet Beret, 2012) *''Good Politics: Your Role as an Active Citizen in Civil Society'' CD (Soviet Beret, 2013) *''Reading Writing Revolution: The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall'' CD (Soviet Beret, 2015)
===Singles/EPs=== *''Better Than Wages'' (remix) CD [promo single] *''Songs to Remind the Class of the Glorious Victory to Come and the Work That Must Be Done to Get There'' CD EP (Soviet Beret, 2013) [ft. Attila The Stockbroker and Judy Dyble]
===Compilation appearances=== *"Deft Left" on ''Now Hear This 103'' (The Word) (CD) 2011 *"Relentless" (Judy Dyble with Thee Faction) on Judy Dyble - ''Gathering The Threads'' (3CD) 2015 *"Police State" on ''Orgreave Justice'' (2CD) 2015 *"Rent Strike" on ''Don't Be Left Without Us'' (2CD) 2016
==Members== ;Current members *Billy Brentford – vocals <small>(2010–present)</small> *Dai Nasty – drums <small>(2010–present)</small> *Nylons – face-melting guitar <small>(2010–present)</small> *Babyface – guitar, polemic <small>(2010–present)</small> *Kassandra Krossing – vocals, organ of truth <small>(2010–present)</small> *Thee Citizen – bass and superstructure <small>(2012–present)</small><ref name=bass>{{cite web|url=https://theefaction.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/introducing-thee-factions-new-line-up/|title=Introducing: Thee Faction's New Line-up|date=2012-01-13|accessdate=2017-02-11}}</ref> *Red Scare – trumpet <small>(2011–present)</small><ref name=brass>{{cite web|url=https://theefaction.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/you-want-to-see-thee-faction-with-brass-kapital-here-they-are/|title=You Want To See Thee Faction With Brass Kapital? Here They Are|author=Thee Faction|date=2011-10-31|accessdate=2017-02-11}}</ref> *Nineteen Nineteen – the 'bone of contention <small>(2011–present)</small><ref name=brass /> *The Ol' One Hand – saxophone <small>(2015–present)</small><ref name=sax>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/TheeFaction/posts/962716220435786|date=2015-04-15|author=Thee Faction|title=Tomorrow night Brass Kapital...|website=Facebook |accessdate=2017-02-11}}</ref>
;Former members *Horace Hardman – bass <small>(2010–2011)</small><ref name=bass /> *The G.A. – saxophone <small>(2011–2015)</small><ref name=brass /><ref name=sax />
;Live members *Bert 'iggins – Welsh harp *Charley Marx – auxiliary guitar *Jenny Marx – auxiliary drums
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.theefaction.org/ Thee Faction website] *[https://theefaction.bandcamp.com/ Thee Faction bandcamp]
===Reviews=== *[http://www.isthismusic.com/thee-faction At Ebbw Vale review] *[http://louderthanwar.com/thee-faction-capitalism-is-good-for-corporations-album-review/ Louder Than War review] *[http://www.tastyfanzine.org.uk/albums114sep11.htm#TheeFaction Up The Workers review] *[http://www.beat-surrender.com/2012/11/15/thee-faction-singing-down-the-government/ Singing Down The Government review] *[http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/129751 Review] in Morning Star *[http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/125263 Morning Star live review] *[http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2013/10/22/thee-faction-le-pub-18th-of-october-2013/ God Is In The TV live review] *[http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2015/no-1335-november-2015/music-review-thee-faction-reading-writing-revolu Reading Writing Revolution], Socialist Standard
===Interviews=== *[http://agirlcalledjack.com/2013/02/02/exclusive-music-should-be-a-hammer-not-a-mirror-a-night-with-thee-faction-at-the-railway-hotel/ Interview] by Jack Monroe *[http://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/171-love-music-hate-capitalism-an-interview-with-thee-faction ISN interview] *[http://theefaction.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/which-class-which-class-war/ Thee Faction on class] *[http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-71f1-A-celebration-of-a-class-resurgent#.VfG5x03JDcs 2015 interview] *[http://theefaction.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/interview-with-baby-face-in-r2-rocknreel-magazine/ Interview] by Rock n Reel *[http://louderthanwar.com/thee-faction-an-interview/ Louder Than War interview]
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