What are your favourite protest songs?

[Gillthepill]

Interested to hear what your favourite protest songs are. Mine are:

Banquet - Joni Mitchell
Harvest for the World (the original version) by the Isley Brothers
Whats happening Brother - Marvin Gaye

Came here to say this and lovely to see Chris get a mention on here!

Literally the whole of 9 Red Songs and most of 9 Green Songs.

Style Council,They’ve all gone away.

You're the Voice - John Farnham

Man in the Corner Shop - The Jam

Eton Rifles - The Jam

I was only 19- Australian band Redgum

Another vote for: Labour, by Paris Paloma.

Edwin Starr ..War
Gil Scott Heron ..the Gun
Gill Scott Heron ..the Klan.
" " " Inner city blues.

So many already mentioned but Oliver's Army Elvis Costello, also London's Burning.

Many of the above
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Lots of the SA Freedom songs:
Somlandela
Senzeni Na
Bring him back home: High Masekela
Many Miriam Makeba songs

Laibach's cover of Edwin Starr's "War".

Lots of these.

Biko by Peter Gabriel is haunting.

Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Cranberries - Zombie

Tracy Chapman - Talkin’ Bout a Revolution

Take Back The Power by The Interrupters

Talkin bout a Revolution - Tracy Chapman
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Crazy Horses - Ozmands

Prince "Money don't matter 2nite" 😔

Prince "Sign O the times"

Lots of the above , but also Profit in Peace , Ocean Colour Scene

Boris Vian - Le Deserteur. My French teacher at school did this with us many years ago and I still love it.

We Don't Need This Fascist Grove Thang - Heaven 17
The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Sign O the Times - Prince
Merchandise - Fugazi
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Zombie - Fela Kuti
Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Fight the Power - Public Enemy.

I do love a protest song!

Green Fields of France sung by The Fureys and various others. Brings a tear to my eye.

War pigs black sabbath
Colonised mind prince

Really interesting reading this thread. Some of them I didn't even know they were protest songs - like Zombies (cranberries), I was only 7 when the song came out and just remember the catchy chorus, had no idea of the meaning of the rest of words.
Another one like that is 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons) by Nena.

A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Treaty - Yothu Yindi
Pretty much anything and everything by Moana and the Tribe, but especially Rua Kenana
Free Mandela - The Specials
War - Edwin Starr
Working Class Hero - Marianne Faithful remake
The Russians - Sting
21 Guns - Green Day
When September Ends

Bella ciao

Grace Petrie. God Save The Hungry.

The Levellers. Liberty Song.