favourite protest songs?

[MitchyInge]

want the ultimate playlist

one way, levellers

Define "protest song" though please?

Personally, I wouldn't call "Imagine" a protest song in a gazillion years, more a self-indulgent hippy dirge. (I like the line in Elvis Costello's "The Other Side of Summer" - "Was it a millionaire/Who said Imagine no Possessions?")

Might add to the list:

Between the Wars - Billy Bragg
The World Turned Upside Down - lots of people have done this
Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down

add to that.... liberty song-levellers

Woman of the Ghetto by Marlena Shaw

Whats the matter here-10,000 maniacs (sort of)

Glad to be Gay....Tom Robinson....is that a protest song..?

Hmm, I would say Imagine is an anti-everything type song.

Hurricane - Bob Dylan
Hard Rain - Bob Dylan
Masters of war - Bob Dylan

Meat is murder-the smiths

Although I'm going with "anti" songs so not sure if "true" picket line protest iyswim!

Gill Scottheron - The Revoloution Will not be Televised

possibly stretching it here but shitlist-L7

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television

public enemy - black steel

Does anyone know the one that goes:

One man's hands can't break a prison down
Two man's hands can't break a prison down down
But if two and two and fifty make a million
We'll see that day come round

Don't know where it comes from or where I heard it

we shall not we shall not be moved.........

Inez by Beverly Grant and The Human Condition

CallSignCharlie I think it was Pete Seeger.

Free Nelson Mandela - The Special AKA

Homophobia - Chumbawumba

Sexualitiy - Billy Bragg

One - Metallica

Is "Shipbuilding" by Robert Wyatt/Elvis Costello a protest song?

protest song by Hugh Laurie

Free Nelson Mandela
Where is the love? Black Eyed Peas
Tramp the Dirt Down
Ghost Town The Specials

oh and Fuck You by the otherwise ludicrous Lily Allen