The desire to achieve social and economic justice lies at the heart of the music of the Noise. Andrew Hammer, the band's founder and songwriter, is a political activist and journalist, and has been involved officially in the international democratic socialist movement since 1988. The politics of the band are clearly on the left, advocating a democratically managed and publicly accountable economy which ensures the basic needs of modern humanity to all people.
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