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

Beds Are Burning Midnight Oil

Lots of the above
Masters of War - Bob Dylan

More from Bob:
Subterranean Homesick Blues
A Hard Rain’s a gonna Fall
Talking World War III Blues…

This one for me too. The footage of this song at Woodstock is amazing.

I’ve always considered Tears For Fears’ ‘Shout’ to be a good protest song.

I hadn’t come across this one before - it’s wonderful.

Labour - Paris Paloma
Who'll stand with us? - Drop Kick Murphys

yep

and
Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones

anti war
(and one of the best slow guitar intro's ever!)

Army Dreamers - Kate Bush.

Forgot all about Dylan! Some great suggestions, thanks.

Frankee - Fuck you right back (I was going through a break up when this came out!)
Icons Pop - I love it

Agree. Also

Big yellow taxi. Joni Mitchell

Zombie. The Cranberries

ETA - Common People sung by William Shatner is worth listening to!

Long Walk To DC, The Staple Singers

Country Joe And the Fish - Feel LIke I'm Fixin' To Die Rag

ETA: oops, beaten to that one

"and it's one two three..."

so so so many Midnight Oil. Practically their entire back catalogue.

But also their last album is literally called Resist. And is chock full of absolute bangers of protest songs. (er... could be a bit of a fan)

but also Blue Sky Mining.

What about 51st State by New Model Army?

Bella Ciao
Which Side Are You On - love Natalie Merchant’s beautiful understated version and the Dropkick Murphy’s angrier version.

Mariem Hassan, - Haiyu - a very happy sounding song but all about revolution

Omou Sangaré - Mogoya a moving song about humanity

Capital G, Nine Inch Nails. And the rest of the Year Zero album.

Heartland - The The

As brilliant and unfortunately relevant today as it was in 1986 when it came out.

"Here comes another winter of long shadows and high hopes
Here comes another winter, waitin' for utopia
Waitin' for hell to freeze over"

A las barricadas and Bella Ciao (remembered from my short-lived anarchist days). Both bring a tear to my eye.

Ohio By CSNY. Brilliant song, written very quickly after the shooting dead of 4 students at Kent state university by the US army. Full of rage and sadness but also a beautiful song

Beds Are Burning, by Midnight Oil. I loved it as a teen, without any understanding of what lay behind the words, and I love it even more now.

Give me brief outline what it is about please.
Is it abuse of Aboriginal people?

Bella ciao!