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

Neil Young.. living with war album

Zebda, Motivés!

Yes, I believe it's about the forced displacement of Aboriginal people from the Western Desert and other areas of the outback in order to create huge sheep farms. The disruption of their ancestral lifestyles, cultures and communities has created long shadows that still affect aboriginal people today in terms of their health, education and welfare.

Know Your Enemy - Green Day
Uprising - Muse

Black Steel - Tricky

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy

Both original and cover brilliant.

Bloody love this thread 😊

Waiting for the great leap forward - Billy Bragg

Wide Awake by Audioslave
Masters of War when sung by Eddie Vedder

Yma o Hyd
Bread and Roses
Zombie

and an honourable mention to Bella ciao which turns my head whenever I hear it.

Take back the Power by the Interrupters
Some Other Rainbow - Van Morrison

American Idiot, Greenday
Zombie, The Cranberries
Born in the USA, Springsteen
Something Inside So Strong (always makes me tear up).

Free Nelson Mandela by The Special AKA

Another vote for This land is our land.

Lots of the ones mentioned, but I’d have to say my all time favourite is Ohio-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Also Zombie, which is one of my go to karaoke songs

Wonderful Remark is the true title of Some Other Rainbow. It became something of an anthem in the late 80s when John McCarthy was a hostage in Beirut. Jill Morrell used it as the title of her account of the five years.
it was a very significant story during my late teens, I sobbed when I watched him get off the plane at Brize Norton on TV. Of course, Terry Waite was a much more prominent name at the time (and indeed they spent some periods captive together) but it was John McCarthy who really struck a chord with me.

Lve this thread !, about to set up a playlist wirh lots of the above songs and will discover the rest. CARSIE Blayton , "ugly nasty Commie bitch" and little flame are contemporary songs that fill my heart with joy.
The town i loved so well reminds me of beloved father,

Labi Siffre

The line "and you dare to call me a terrorist while you look down your gun" fills my heart.

Power to the people solidarity Sisters.

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose

The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine

The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back

Palestine will never die - LOWKEY
Long live Palestine - LOWKEY
House of the fascist scum - Blaggers ITA

What's happening brother Marvin Gaye

Saigon Bride - Joan Baez

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free - Nina Simone

Each Small Candle - Roger Waters

In fact, lots of Roger Waters songs...

Perfect Sense (Parts I & II)
The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range
Watching TV
What God Wants (Parts I, II & III)
It's A Miracle
Amused To Death
Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
The Fletcher Memorial Home

etc etc

Redemption Song

Free Nelson Mandela- The Special AKA

Sinead O'Connor singing the times are a changing, Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution will not be televised and Winter in America. Could all be released today and be topical.

It shows how little has changed in America when a lot of Gils material is still pertinent now.
The Gun
The Klan
Whitey on the moon
Just a few of my personal faves.