Dropkick Murphys’ new video “Who’ll Stand With Us?” shows working people being dragged off the streets, being hooded and disappeared. Released last month, the video was made in the spring.

“The whole element of people being snatched was supposed to be metaphorical,” Ken Casey told the Herald. “If a veteran loses his care and he’s older or ill, he just might fade out of existence. If somebody eventually loses their Social Security, they just might be gone. But not long after we made the video, people were being literally snatched off the street so it became eerily prophetic in a way we didn’t anticipate.”

To those just starting to pay attention to the Dropkicks, it might seem like they’ve been newly thrust into politics — the band’s anti-Trump sentiments have received a lot of press lately. But the Dropkicks have always been political: pro-union, pro-unity, pro-punk rock.

“We’ve never changed anything about what we believe or what we sing about,” Casey said. “I’m all for capitalism but at some point can we have the ultra wealthy pay their fair share… I just want to be on the side that has some empathy and wants to help people.”

“Who’ll Stand With Us?” is the first single from new album “For the People.” Coming off a pair of acoustic albums built from old Woody Guthrie lyrics and fresh Dropkicks music, 2022’s “This Machine Still Kills Fascists” and 2023’s “Okemah Rising,” “For the People” has an old school punk bite.

“It felt like a restart to our career,” Casey said. “We had an energy to go back and be louder and faster and have songs with more urgency. And also, as much as we have been about politics and social justice, there is still that side of us that’s about singing about life and the good times.”

There are songs that dig into nostalgia and youthful joy on “For the People.” But it’s a pointed record with a pointed title and plenty of pointed messages: the raging rock of anti-social media screed “Fiending for the Lies,” the Celtic stomp of working class unity anthem “Bury the Bones.” And it arrives tomorrow (a proper vinyl release with five more tracks is due in October).

“We thought July 4th was a fitting day to release an album called ‘For the People’ that’s trying to speak up and stand up for what’s right,” Casey said.

The Dropkicks remain as busy as ever. In the spring, the band concluded its epic annual St. Patrick’s Day run with five Boston gigs. In September, the group will anchor a Celtic festival at Suffolk Downs. But to celebrate the new album properly they wanted to cram in one extra show. On July 12, the Dropkicks will play a free concert in Quincy only a few blocks from where the band had its first rehearsal space in 1996.

“As part of Quincy’s 400th birthday, the town asked if we wanted to do a ticketed show at Veterans Memorial Stadium or a free show,” Casey said. “We said we’d love to do a free show.”

The decision isn’t much of a surprise. The band has always been for the people.

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