Working Class Hero by John Lennon – protest playlist No 5

Every week we will bring you a Resistance Now track chosen by a current artist. Lanre Bakare talks to Carlos Arévalo of Chicano Batman, who picks John Lennon’s Working Class Hero

I feel like that song is a commentary song on not letting the forces that be hold you down or be complacent and not letting the machine hold you down.

For Lennon it was about him being working class and trying to move up into the middle class – but it resonates in the US at the moment because the middle class is disappearing.