Archive by Song Title
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La Plegaria a un Labrador (Victor Jara)
Ros Brown, UK
Las Madres Cansadas (Joan Baez)
Douglas Williamson, UK
The Last Chance (Leon Rosselson)
Peter Ostrowski, UK
(This a story based on Leon's experience of visiting Israel in the late 1950s).
Le Deserteur
Margaret McIntosh, France
The Lebanon (Human League)
Rob Windle, UK Lest We Forget (Blitzkrieg)
M, UK
Let Me Die in My Footsteps (Bob Dylan)
Patrick K. USA
Letter from America (The Proclaimers)
Anne Harvey, UK
License to Kill
(Bob Dylan also sung by Richie Havens)
Mike, USA
Patrick K. USA
Lift Every Voice and Sings
(Written by James Weldon Johnson).
It was such a success that soon African Americans throughout the US were singing it).
Claire Scott, Denmark
Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Rajesh Kumar, Malaysia
Lili Marleen (Marlene Dietrich)
Uli, Germany
Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds)
(A merciless portrait of middle-class emptiness).
Hans Westin, The Netherlands
Lives in the Balance (Jackson Brown)
(Written around the time when the USA was becoming increasingly involved in supporting the Contras and other groups in Latin America).
Dr Ian Campbell, Cambodia
Living In The Heart Of The Beast
(Henry Cow/Slapp Happy)
Jeff Lyons, USA
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol
(Bob Dylan)
(Dylan doesn't seem to protest but rather delivers prophecy).
Patrick Saunders, USA
Chris Gabb, UK
Lousy Boy (Jian Ghomeshi)
Tina Siegel, Canada
Love Me, I'm a Liberal (Phil Ochs)
(Don't judge the song on it's title...
Matt Heaney, Germany)
Mary, USA
Machine Gun (Jimi Hendrix)
Daniel, London Make them Apologize (Ani DiFranco)
Kathryn, USA
Magadan Song
(Russian prison camp song).
Bernard Meares, Switzerland
Man in Black (Johnny Cash)
Christi, USA
Manifesto (Victor Jara)
Dipankar De Sarkar, UK
Ros Brown, UK
March of the Women (Ethel Smyth)
Zach Cox, London
(Their fight yesterday is the world's today).
The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions (Billy Bragg)
John Taylor, USA
Margaret On The Guillotine (Morrissey)
Christopher J. Currie, Canada
Masters Of War (Bob Dylan)
Catina, Ireland
Erik Haatvedt, Norway
Eddie Janssens, Belgium
Uli, Germany
John Franklin, USA
Deborah Romeril, Australia
Dakota Hawkins, USA
Jim, USA
Andy Cranfield, Thailand
Marty Megliorino, USA
Laurence Cussen, London
Patrick K. USA
Ken Lyons, USA
Julia Bentley, Cyprus
(Dylan: The finest writer of any song, political or otherwise and of his or any previous and probably consequent generations. A true poet in anger, love, sadness or joy. He can convey with virtual perfection the full spectrum of human emotion in a five minute montage of music and words. James Whitworth, UK)
(Masters of War: Probably the 'clearest' political protest song ever. Eder Richard, Austria)
(Masters of War: The decision to make war on an ongoing basis by the large powers is a political one and an economic one. I've never seen that fact addressed as forcefully and directly anywhere else.
Randy Farr, USA)
Mayday (Gene)
Sarah Dumoulin, Canada
Meneer de President (Boudewijn de Groot)
Translated it means: Mr. President, sleep tight'
Benni Leemhuis, Netherlands
Mercenaries (Harry Chapin)
Anne Harvey, UK
Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(Marvin Gaye)
Kirstie Forbes
Millions Of Dead Cops (Dead Cops)
C, Australia
Mississippi (Phil Ochs)
Dr Ian Campbell, Cambodia
Monk Time(The Monks)
Karl, UK
Monster (Steppenwolf)
Alpaugh, USA
Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo (Eric Wainana)
(This is an anti-corruption song, and has quite a strong message on corruption. What really impresses me about the song is that it not only focuses on corrupt individuals, leaders, institutions, but also on the citizens role in stopping corruption).
Stella Maranga, Kenya
Nelson Mandella (The Special AKA)
Keith Treviss, USA
New America (Bad Religion)
Marcia, USA
Nkosi Sikele'i Afrika
Michael, UK
(A freedom song and hymn that still makes me cry eight years after my country's liberation. Charles Leonard , South Africa).
No Power Without Accountability
(Billy Bragg)
Iain Dalgleish, UK
Nkosi Africa
(My favourite political song is the ANC song that later turned out to be the country national anthem. South African National Anthem).
Anderson Emmy Snr, Ivory Coast
99 Red Balloons (Nena)
(It shows us just how easily we could all be wiped out by a simple misunderstanding).
Phil, UK
No More Mr Nice Guy (Alice Cooper)
Andy Burgess, USA
No Nuclear War (Peter Tosh)
(The song is urging our leaders to get the priorities right!)
Bailo, London
Not My Scene (Phantom 5)
Johnny Rahmer, USA
Nutopia, (Meg Lee Chin)
Joe Cheavens, USA
Oh Dear Me
(Jean Redpath, The Corries and others)
Anne Harvey, UK
Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
Paul Higham, UK
Mikael Persson, Sweden
James Doherty, USA
Okie from Muskogee (Merle Haggard)
David Frazer, USA
Oliver's Army (Elvis Costello)
Gareth Parry, UK
Ayako, Japan
On the Turning Away (Pink Floyd)
Monty, USA
One (Metallica)
(A great anti-war song).
Kim Coates, Ireland
One Big Union (Joe Hill)
(American labour union organiser framed and executed in Utah in 1914)
Steven Weeks, UK
One Country (Midnight Oil)
William Nedblake, UK
1 in 10 (UB 40)
Mario McMillan, New Zealand
One Love (Bob Marley)
Ouma Samuel, Uganda
One Man, One Vote (Johnny Clegg)
(An anti-apartheid song from South Africa).
Alexa Dvorson, Germany
One More Parade (Phil Ochs)
Dik Coates, Canada
Only a Pawn in Their Game (Bob Dylan)
Patrick K. USA
Ordinary Man (Christie Moore)
John D. Powers, USA
Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
(Phil Ochs)
George Pappas, USA
Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)
(Steve Earle)
Paul, USA
Oxford Town (Bob Dylan)
Hugh H., UK
Patriot's Dream(Gordon Lightfoot)
Julia Bentley, Cyprus
Peace In Our Time (The Sun And The Moon)
Mick, UK
Peace Train (Cat Stevens)
Sufyan Al-Jeadah, Qatar
Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (Chumbawamba)
Neil McLennan, Scotland
Pie in the Sky (Joe Hill)
(American labour union organiser framed and executed in Utah in 1914)
Steven Weeks, UK
Pieces of a Man
(Gil Scott Heron)
Samson Tadesse, Canada
Pills and Soap (Elvis Costello)
John Foyle, Ireland
Torben Sorensen, Denmark
Mads Ravn, Denmark
Matte, Sweden
Lynne, UK
Ping Pong (Stereolab)
John B, UK
Pink Houses (John Mellencamp)
Monty, USA
The Playboy Mansion (U2)
Derek Harte, Glasgow
Plegaria a un Labrador (Prayer to a worker) (Victor Jara)
Marion Marshrons, London
Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin/The Clash)
Mark Martin, UK
Politician (Cream)
Paul, UK
Andy Burgess, USA
Power and the Glory (Phil Ochs)
(This song should be the US national anthem. John Huie, Athens).
Dik Coates, Canada
Steve Erickson, USA
Power In The Union (Billy Bragg)
Tony Burke, UK
(The need to stand together to protect people from exploitation is as relevant today as it ever was. Alistair Cox, UK)
Power to the People
(John Lennon and Yoko Ono)
Simon Geraghty, Ireland
President Gas (The Psychedelic Furs)
Chris Niemitz, USA
Pretty Girl, The Million Your Never Made
(Ani DiFranco)
Tina Siegel, Canada
Prisoners' Chorus (from Verdi's Nabucco)
Inga Eubanks, USA Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Zahid Ahsanullah, USA
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