List of protest songs
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[edit] Abortion
- A Tool to Scream by Zao
- Abortion is Murder by P.O.D.
- Bodies by The Sex Pistols
- Burden In Your Hands by Underøath
- Cause for Abortion by A Global Threat
- Concrete by Fear Factory
- Choir Girl by Cold Chisel
- Diamonds in the Mine by Leonard Cohen
- Fallopian Rhapsody by Lunachicks
- Fight to Live by Flatfoot 56
- For the Babies by Damian Marley
- Give Em' Hell Kid by My Chemical Romance
- Harvester of Sorrow by Metallica
- Happy Birthday by Flipsyde
- Hello Birmingham by Ani DiFranco
- In America by Creed
- La Femme Fétal by Digable Planets
- Lost Woman Song by Ani DiFranco
- Mandy Goes to Med School by The Dresden Dolls
- Nine Month Blues by Peggy Seeger
- No Apology by Anti-Flag
- Non-Zero Possibility by At the Drive-In
- Operation Rescue by Bad Religion
- Perfect World by Billy Talent
- Rapid City, South Dakota by Kinky Friedman
- Retrospect For Life by Common
- Sally's Pigeons by Cyndi Lauper
- Silent Scream by Slayer
- Silent Scream by Stutterfly
- Storaged by System of a Down
- The Future by Leonard Cohen
- Too Much Too Young by The Specials
- Unborn Child by Seals & Crofts
- We've Got a Right to Choose by Toshi Reagon
- What It's Like by Everlast
- Will the Fetus be Aborted? by Jello Biafra/Mojo Nixon
- You Can't Be Too Strong by Graham Parker & the Rumour
[edit] America
- "A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)" by System of a Down
- "Ænema" by Tool
- "America" by Bree Sharp
- "America" by Tracy Chapman
- "America" by Jewel
- "America" by Allen Ginsberg
- "Americana" by The Offspring
- "American Dream" by Bad Religion
- "American Dream" by Pennywise
- "American Dream" by Lucinda Williams
- "American Waste" by Black Flag
- "America, Fuck Yeah" by DVDA (Team America: World Police theme song)
- "America Got It Right" by Anti-Flag
- "America Is My Home" by James Brown
- "America Is Not The World" by Morrissey
- "American Idiot" by Green Day
- "American Life" by Madonna
- "American Life" by Primus
- "America Redux" by Hugh Blumenfeld
- "America Town" by Five for Fighting
- "The American Ruse" by MC5
- "America the Blues" by Alicia Bay Laurel
- "American Woman" by The Guess Who
- "Amerika" by Rammstein
- "Amerika v.6.0 (The Best We Can Do)" by Steve Earle
- "Antius" by Leæther Strip
- "Apathesia" by Sonny Flaharty
- "Black and Blue America" by Chip Taylor
- "Bring Em On" by John Hughes
- "Bullet The Blue Sky" by U2
- "Country at War" by X (US band)
- "Crime in the City" by Neil Young
- "The Decline" by NOFX
- "Dear Mr. President - P!nk
- "Death Of A Nation" by Anti-Flag
- "Deer Dance" by System of a Down
- "Democracy" by The Adolescents
- "Democracy" by Leonard Cohen
- "(Didn't Know I Was) UnAmerican" by Ian Rhett
- "Dogma" by KMFDM
- "Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives)" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Fightin' Side Of Me" by Merle Haggard
- "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
- "(Franco Unamerican)" by NOFX
- "Free Nation?" by Anti-Flag
- "Freedom" by Ellis
- "Fuck America" by Choking Victim
- "The GDMF Star Spangled Banner" by Pink Torpedoes
- "God And Country" by The Thermals
- "God Save The USA" by Pennywise
- "Goin' Nowhere Blues" by Robert Earl Keen
- "The Great Compromise" by John Prine
- "Hate Yer State" by Choking Victim
- "Holiday" by Green Day
- "Home of the Brave" by Mr. Lif
- "I Hate My Generation" by Cracker
- "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" by X (US band)
- "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." by The Clash
- "The Idiots Have Taken Over" by NOFX
- "Ifwhitemericatoldthetruthforonedayit'swordwouldfallapart" by Manic Street Preachers
- "The John Birch Society" by The Chad Mitchell Trio
- "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring
- "King & Queen Of America" by Eurythmics
- "Let's Impeach the President" by Neil Young
- "Livin' in America" by Black 47
- "'Merican" by Descendents
- "Mosh" by Eminem
- "Name And Address Withheld" by Propagandhi
- "New America" by Bad Religion
- "New York" (album) by Lou Reed
- "No Apologies" by Joni Mitchell
- "Okie From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard
- "Open the Door" by Magnapop
- "Patriotism" by Company Flow
- "Peaceful World" by John Mellencamp and India Arie
- "Pink Houses" by John Mellencamp
- "Protest Song" by Against Me!
- "Puttin' People on the Moon" by Drive-By Truckers
- "Rain on the Scarecrow" by John Cougar Mellencamp
- "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" Gil Scott-Heron
- "Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young
- "Scar Spangled Banner" by Exodus
- "See How We Are" by X (US band)
- "Shave The Planet" by Guttermouth
- "Sixteen Military Wives" by The Decemberists
- "Slash n Burn" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Square Dance" by Eminem
- "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" by Dead Kennedys
- "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" by Bob Dylan
- "These Colours Don't Run" by Protest The Hero
- "Things Goin' On" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "This Ain't no Rag it's a Flag" by Charlie Daniels
- "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie
- "Unknown Soldier" by The Casualties
- "USA" by The Exploited
- "USA-Holes" by NOFX
- "Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Washington Bullets" by The Clash
- "Wasteland of the Free" by Iris Dement
- "We Are One" by The Offspring
- "We Can't Make It Here" by James McMurtry
- "What Made America Famous" by Harry Chapin
- "When the President Talks to God" by Bright Eyes
- "Where Has My Country Gone?" by Justin Sane
- "White America" by Eminem
- "White, Discussion" by Live
- "With God On Our Side" by Bob Dylan
- "Worlds Apart" by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- "The Icicle Melts" by The Cranberries
[edit] Animal rights and meat consumption
- "Anarcho Pie" by Oi Polloi (a vegetarian recipe set to music)
- "Andrew" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Animal" by Prick
- "Animals" by The Vibrators
- "Animal Crimes" by Mad Are Sane
- "Animal Kingdom" by Prince
- "Animal Nation" by Peter Gabriel
- "The Animals Song" by Robb Johnson
- "Anti-Vivisection" by Battle of Disarm
- "Ark of Suffering" by Tourniquet
- "Assault and Battery" by Howard Jones
- "The Ballad Of Mary Ann Bones" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Ban Eat Meat!" by Godfrey Artreides
- "Beef" by Boogie Down Productions
- "Berkshire Cunt" by Conflict
- "Boxing Day" by Robb Johnson
- "Boycott Meat" by Battle of Disarm
- "Butchers" by Nausea
- "Consumption" by State of Fear
- "Corporate Deathburger" by MDC
- "Columbia Is Bleeding" by Nellie McKay
- "Cows With Guns" by Dana Lyons
- "Dapple Rose" by Slade
- "The Day Ted Nugent Killed All the Animals" Wally Pleasant
- "Disgustipated" by Tool
- "Don't Kill The Animals" by Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich
- "Don't Kill the Whale" by Yes
- "Eat Starch Mom" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Eat Steak" by The Reverend Horton Heat
- "Electrodes" by Nausea
- "Evolution" by Subhumans
- "Flesh and Blood" by Citizen Fish
- "Flesh Crucifix" by Rudimentary Peni
- "Fozzie Bear's Story" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Free Me" by Goldfinger
- "Fuck Ted Nugent" by Goldfinger
- "The Grenade In Mouth Tragedy" by Remembering Never
- "I Am The Owner Of This Coat" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "I Don't Eat Animals" by Melanie
- "I Don't Wanna Fight No More" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "I Wanna Run Free" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "If I Was a Wolf" by Alice di Micele
- "Insensibilidad" by Ska-P
- "In the Name of Convenience" by Contravene
- "It's Time To Beat the Meat" by Good Clean Fun
- "Kémalo" by Ska-P
- "Lazy Afternoon" by Bree Sharp
- "Looking for Changes" by Paul McCartney
- "Meat Is Murder" by The Smiths
- "Nailing Descartes to the Wall" by Propagandhi
- "Nanook Rubs It" by Frank Zappa (the story of an eskimo beating up a fur trapper for trying to club his pet baby seal)
- "The Offending Article" by The Poison Girls
- "Open Your Eyes" by Goldfinger
- "Peace Meal" by X-Ray Spex
- "Pigman" by Subhumans
- "Purina Hall of Fame" by Propagandhi
- "The Rainbow Bridge" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Ready to Fall" by Rise Against
- "Rise Up - Make This Moment Last" by Maria Daines Paul Killington
- "Sabotage the Hunt" by The Business
- "Sacred Cows" by Citizen Fish
- "Set Us Free" by Maria Daines Paul Killington
- "Slaughterhouse Blues" by Remembering Never
- "Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Southbound Pachyderm" by Primus (about elephant poaching)
- "Spawn Again" by Silverchair
- "Stand By" by Earth Crisis
- "Stop That It Hurts" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Stop the Slaughter" by Doom
- "Supermarket Nightmare" by Victim's Family
- "Tame Yourself" by Raw Youth
- "Tastes Like Chicken" by The Vandals
- "Testure" by Skinny Puppy
- "They Wanna Kill (Have Mercy On The Ice)by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "This Is A.L.F." by Conflict
- "Vache" by Venetian Snares
- "Waste" by Good Riddance
- "What Goes Around Comes Around" by State of Fear
- "Wild Life" by Paul McCartney & Wings
[edit] Anti-fascism
- "A-Bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
- "All You Fascists" by Woody Guthrie
- "Antifascist Skin" by Poblers United
- "Aryanisms" by Napalm Death
- "Ballad of JJ Decay" by Anti-Nowhere League
- "Bash The Fash" by Oi Polloi
- "Chant des Partisans" by Anna Marly
- "Die Gedanken sind frei"
- "Enough is Enough" by Chumbawamba
- "Fascist" by The Minutemen
- "Fascist Faces" by Elton John
- "Fear on the Streets" by The Members
- "Friendly Fascism" by Consolidated
- "Fuck Fascism" by The Oppressed
- "Fuck The KKK" by The Unseen
- "Hetzjagd Auf Nazis!" (Hunt Down the Nazis!) by Atari Teenage Riot
- "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Leon Czolgosz Song" by The Flowers of Romance
- "Nazis 1994" by Roger Meddows-Taylor
- "Nazi Die" by Doom
- "Nazi Go Home" by Crude S.S.
- "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" by Dead Kennedys
- "Nazis Shouldn't Drive" by MDC (an homage to the death of Ian Stuart of Nazi punk band Skrewdriver)
- "Nazi White Trash" by Leftöver Crack
- "Night Rally" by Elvis Costello
- "No Nazi's Friend" by No Respect
- "Rock the 40oz" by Leftover Crack
- "Redskins" by Inadaptats
- "Resiste" by KOP
- "Run Like Hell" by Pink Floyd
- "Sometimes Antisocial Always Antifascist" by Stage Bottles
- "Talkin' Merchant Marine" by Woody Guthrie
- "The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist" by Propagandhi
- "This Machine Kills Fascists" by Anti-Flag
- "Vengeance" by New Model Army
- "Waiting for the Worms" by Pink Floyd
- "War Movie" by Jefferson Airplane
- "We Don't Need This (Fascist Groove Thang)" by Heaven 17
- "Why?" by The Specials
- "Witch Hunt" by Rush
- "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who
- "Youth Against Fascism" by Sonic Youth
[edit] Capital punishment, death penalty
- "25 Minutes To Go" by Johnny Cash
- "Al Alba" by Luis Eduardo Aute
- "Another Bleeding Heart" by Alex Parker
- "Archives of Pain" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Billy Austin" by Steve Earle
- "Capital Punishment" by Aus Rotten
- "The Chair" by Marty Robbins
- "Crime for Crime" by Ani DiFranco
- "Dead Man Walkin'" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Death Row" by Woody Guthrie
- "Ellis Unit One" by Steve Earle
- "Everyone's Hand Is On The Switch" by Graham Parker
- "Faye Tucker" by Indigo Girls
- "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden
- "Hangknot, Slipknot" by Woody Guthrie
- "The Iron Lady" by Phil Ochs
- "The Man I Killed" by NOFX
- "The Mercy Seat" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, covered by Johnny Cash
- "The New American Way" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Number 13" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)" by Steve Earle
- "Penalty Box" by Bobot Adrenaline
- "Renegade" by Styx
- "Ride the Lightning by Metallica
- "Stop That Train" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
[edit] Censorship
- "Capital Radio" by The Clash
- "Can't Say Crap On The Radio" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Censor This" by Tribe 8
- "Censorshit" by The Ramones
- "Cosmonaut" by At the Drive-In
- "Eye of the Beholder" by Metallica
- "F the CC" by Steve Earle
- "Falling Down" by The Redwalls
- "FCC Song" by Eric Idle
- "Freedom of Speech" by Ice-T
- "Freedom of Speech" by Immortal Technique
- "Freedumb" by NOFX
- "Heavy Metal Poisoning" by Styx
- "Hook In Mouth" by Megadeth
- "Hush" by Tool
- "I'm Gonna Say It Now" Phil Ochs
- "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" by Peter, Paul and Mary
- "I Think You Think Too Much" by Against All Authority
- "In The End It’s All Nice" by Pilot
- "Ize of the World" by The Strokes
- "Joe's Garage" by Frank Zappa
- "LiveWire" by Seo Taiji
- "Lovely" by Suicidal Tendencies
- "Man in the Box" by Alice in Chains
- "Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Paul McCartney
- "Mrs. Frumpington's Song" by The Chipmunks
- "Not Ready to Make Nice" by Dixie Chicks
- "Ode to Tipper Gore" by Warrant
- "Paul Crump" by Phil Ochs
- "PCP" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" by Pink Floyd
- "Pirate Radio Song" by David Rovics
- "Porn Wars" by Frank Zappa
- "Psycho Joe" by Blues Traveler
- "Radio Radio" by Elvis Costello
- "Rock N' Roll" by Dio
- "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash
- "Sculpture Of Man" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Spiders" by System of a Down
- "The Box" by hed(pe)
- "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister
- "When A Kid Goes Bad" by Tom Petty
- "White America" by Eminem
- "You Can't Bring Me Down" by Suicidal Tendencies
[edit] Child Abuse
- "Amelia" by The Mission UK
- "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride
- "Daddy" by Korn
- "Daddy's Little Girl" by Against All Authority
- "Falling Away From Me" by Korn
- "A Gunshot to the Head" of Trepidation by Trivium
- "Hell Is For Children" by Pat Benatar
- "Luka" by Suzanne Vega
- "Missed Me" by The Dresden Dolls
- "What's The Matter Here?" by 10,000 Maniacs
[edit] Conformity
- "2112" by Rush
- "Admit It" by Say Anything
- "Almost Cut My Hair" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- "The Anthem" by Good Charlotte
- "Barrytown" by Steely Dan
- "Be What You Are" by The Staple Singers
- "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" by Frank Zappa
- "Chickenshit Conformist" by Dead Kennedys
- "Conformity" by A Global Threat
- "Fashion Zombies!" by The Aquabats
- "Fitter Happier" by Radiohead
- "Garden Party" by Rick Nelson
- "The Hand that Feeds" by Nine Inch Nails
- "If 6 Was 9" by Jimi Hendrix
- "I'm Different" by Randy Newman
- "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" by The Kinks
- "It Ain't 1918" by Sparks
- "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Bob Dylan
- "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds, made popular by Pete Seeger
- "Long Haired Country Boy" by The Charlie Daniels Band
- "Mankind" by Pearl Jam
- "Minority" by Green Day
- "My Generation" by The Who
- "Once You Understand" by Think
- "Oh, Afghanistan" by The Firesign Theatre
- "Plastic People" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Maggie's Farm" by Bob Dylan
- "Pretend We're Dead" bu L7
- "Prisoner of Society" by The Living End
- "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel
- "Semi-Detached Suburban Mister James" by Mannfred Mann
- "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band
- "Subdivisions" by Rush
- "Trendy" by Reel Big Fish
- "Trust Yourself" by Bob Dylan
- "We Do What We're Told" by Peter Gabriel
- "We Want A Rock" by They Might Be Giants
- "Where is the Line?" by Billy Talent
[edit] Disability
- "Dziwny jest ten świat" by Czesław Niemen
- "Mongoloid" by Devo
- "Spasticus Autisticus" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
[edit] Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture
- "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 3)" by Pink Floyd
- "Bad" by U2
- "Bikeage" by Descendents
- "Billy" by Bad Religion
- "Bucket Bong" by [Frenzal Rhomb]
- "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel
- "Charlie Freak" by Steely Dan
- "Cheap Wine" by Cold Chisel
- "Chinese Rock" by Iggy Pop, Sid Vicious, The Ramones
- "Cloud Nine" by the Temptations
- "Cocaine" by J.J. Cale (covered by Eric Clapton)
- "Cocaine Blues" by Johnny Cash
- "Cocaine Eyes" by Neil Young
- "Cold Turkey" by John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
- "Coma White" by Marilyn Manson
- "Come Away From It" by Ani DiFranco
- "Curse of a Fallen Soul" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Deliverance (Confessions of a junkie)" by Luke Tan
- "Desire" by Entropy
- "Disney Girls (1957) by The Beach Boys
- "Dirt" by Alice In Chains
- "Doctor Robert" by The Beatles
- "Doctor Rockter" by W.A.S.P.
- "Don't Step on the Grass Sam" by Steppenwolf
- "Dope Show" by Marilyn Manson
- "Drugs are Good" by NOFX
- "Drugs Or Me" by Jimmy Eat World
- "Expecting to Fly" by Buffalo Springfield
- "Feltham is Singing Out" by HARD-Fi
- "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor
- "Firestorm" by Earth Crisis
- "Frankie Machine The Suicide King" by Luke Tan
- "Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield
- "Flying High (In The Friendly Sky)" by Marvin Gaye
- "Gomorrah's Season Ends" by Earth Crisis
- "Good Clean Fun" by Descendents
- "Hand of Doom" by Black Sabbath
- "Hateful" by The Clash
- "Heroin" by Velvet Underground
- "How Low" by Against Me!
- "Hurt" by Trent Reznor
- "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" by Marilyn Manson
- "I'm Waiting For The Man" by Velvet Underground
- "I'm Your Pusher" by Ice-T
- "In My Eyes" by Minor Threat
- "It's the Music" by Meat Beat Manifesto
- "Junkhead" by Alice In Chains
- "Junkie" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Junkie's Lament" by James Taylor
- "The Junkie Song" by Be Good Tanyas
- "Kicks" by Paul Revere & the Raiders
- "King Heroin" by James Brown
- "Koka Kola" by The Clash
- "Lacquerhead" by Primus
- "Legalize It" by Peter Tosh
- "Lithium" by Nirvana
- "Love Kills" by The Ramones
- "Master Of Puppets" by Metallica
- "The Message Part 2" by Grandmaster Flash
- "Mexico" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Mota" by The Offspring
- "Mother's Little Helper" by The Rolling Stones
- "Mr. Brownstone" by Guns N' Roses
- "Mr. Brown" by Bob Marley
- "The Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young
- "Needles" by System of a Down
- "No More" by Neil Young
- "Out of Step (With the World)" by Minor Threat
- "Paranoid 6Teen" by Space
- "Peephole" by System of a Down
- "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed
- "Poolshark" by Sublime
- "Psycho" by System of a Down
- "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf
- "Pusherman" by Curtis Mayfield (as well as most of his Superfly album)
- "Running to Stand Still" by U2
- "Sam Stone" by John Prine
- "Sickman" by Alice In Chains
- "Sister Morphine" by The Rolling Stones
- "Slow Motion" by Third Eye Blind
- "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey
- "Snowblind" by Black Sabbath
- "Snowblind Friend" by Steppenwolf
- "Sober" by Tool
- "Straight Edge" by Minor Threat
- "Sunday Morning Coming Down" by Kris Kristofferson
- "Sweet Leaf" by Black Sabbath
- "T9X" by Tech N9ne
- "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Thunderhead" by W.A.S.P.
- "Tired Eyes" by Neil Young
- "Tonight's the Night" by Neil Young
- "Toy Soldiers" by Martika
- "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "We Be Burning" by Sean Paul
- "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Who Knew?" by P!nk
- "The Winner Loses" by Body Count
- "Womb of the Worm" by Skyclad
- "The Women Gather" by Sweet Honey in the Rock
[edit] Environmental
- "Acid Rain" by Reagan Youth
- "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young
- "All I Can Do" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "And God Said..." by World Party
- "Animal Farm" by The Kinks
- "Another Disaster" by the Samples
- "Apeman" by The Kinks
- "ATWA" by System of a Down
- "Barrel of Pain" by Crosby, Stills and Nash
- "Be the Rain" by Neil Young
- "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell (covered by Bob Dylan, Amy Grant, Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton, and by Pinhead Gunpowder)
- "Black Moon" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- "Blackened" by Metallica
- "Blue Sky Mine" by Midnight Oil
- "Break it down Again" by Tears for Fears
- "Broken Household Appliance National Forest" by Grandaddy
- "Carbon Monoxide" by Cake
- "Caribe Atómico" by Aterciopelados
- "Cesspools in Eden"" by Dead Kennedys
- "Close to the Fires" by the Samples
- "Contaminational Power" by Crass
- "The Cradle Will Fall" by Skyclad
- "Crazy Horses" by The Osmonds
- "Cuyahoga" by R.E.M.
- "Damn the Dam" by John Hanlon
- "Dawn Patrol" by Megadeth
- "A Day In The Life Of A Tree" by The Beach Boys
- "Destroy the Machines" by Earth Crisis
- "The Disenchanted Forest" by Skyclad
- "Don't Go Near The Water" by The Beach Boys
- "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home" by Joe South
- "Downwind" by Poster Children
- "Earth First" by Darryl Cherney
- "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson
- "Electricity" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- "Emergency on Planet Earth" by Jamiroquai
- "Escarpment Blues" by Sarah Harmer
- "Eskimo Blue Day" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Evolve" by Ani Difranco
- "Fall on Me" by R.E.M.
- "French Letter" by Herbs
- "Greenfields" by The Brothers Four
- "Greenpeace" by James
- "Hammer and Nail" by Indigo Girls
- "Heal the World" by Michael Jackson
- "Here We Are in the Years" by Neil Young
- "A Horse With No Name" by America
- "How Much is Enough?" by Bad Religion
- "Ice Cold Man" by Probot
- "If a Tree Falls" by Bruce Cockburn
- "If I Was a Wolf" by Alice di Micele
- "I Had a Dream I Was Falling Through a Hole in the Ozone Layer" by Deee-Lite
- "I Think That I Shall Never See" by The Broadways
- "Kumbin" by Habib Koite
- "Kyoto Now" by Bad Religion
- "Laredo Tornado" by Electric Light Orchestra
- "Last Resort" by The Eagles
- "Licence To Kill" by Bob Dylan
- "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" by Marvin Gaye
- "Mission (A World Record)" by Electric Light Orchestra
- "Modern Man" by Bad Religion
- "Monkey Gone to Heaven" by The Pixies
- "Monkey Man" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Moon Over Marin" by the Dead Kennedys
- "Mother Earth" by Dave Alvin
- "Mother Earth" by Neil Young
- "My Country" by Dana Lyons
- "Natural Beauty" by Neil Young
- "Nothing (but Flowers)" by Talking Heads
- "Of Wolf And Man" by Metallica
- "One Summer Dream" by Electric Light Orchestra
- "One Sweet World" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Only So Much Oil in the Ground" by Tower of Power
- "O Green World" by Gorillaz
- "The Other Side of Summer" by Elvis Costello
- "Paradise" by John Prine
- "Part IV (The Index Fossil)" by Bad Religion
- "Pass It On Down" by Alabama
- "Peace Wins The Election" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Perfect World" by the Indigo Girls
- "Poison in the Well" by 10,000 Maniacs
- "Progress" by Midnight Oil
- "Pudding Time" by Primus
- "Radioactivity" by Kraftwerk
- "The Rape of the World" by Tracy Chapman
- "Ready to Fall" by Rise Against
- "Red Tide" by Rush
- "Right Now" by Naked Aggression
- "River of Orchids" by XTC
- "River Runs Red" by Midnight Oil
- "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver
- "Run Straight Down" by Warren Zevon
- "Saltwater" by Julian Lennon
- "Save Me Now" by Jeff Lynne
- "Save This House" by Spirit of the West
- "Sell Out" by The Levellers
- "Seven Miles Upwind" by Chuck Brodsky
- "She Ain't Cryin'" by Miles Apart [1]
- "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" by Frank Zappa
- "Sierra" by Kyle Vincent
- "Silent Spring" by Probot
- "So Many People" by Simply Red
- "Someday All This Will Be Road" by Spin Doctors
- "Song for the ELF" by David Rovics
- "Southbound Pachyderm" by Primus
- "Space Junk" by DEVO
- "Stars of Warburton" by Midnight Oil
- "Stop the Dams" by Gorillaz
- "Sweet Alice Brook" by Kyle Vincent
- "T9X" by Tech N9ne
- "Take It Back" by Pink Floyd
- "Tall Oak Tree" by Dorsey Burnette
- "Terra-Ist" by Oi Polloi
- "The Last Hawk" by Kyle Vincent
- "Traffic Jam" by James Taylor
- "Unacceptable" by Bad Religion
- "Violent Juvenile Creeps" by The Firesign Theatre
- "We Work the Black Seam" by Sting
- "Whale Song" by Pearl Jam
- "When?" by Bad Religion
- "When The Music's Over" by The Doors
- "When the River Runs Dry" by Hunters and Collectors
- "When You Gonna Learn" by Jamiroquai
- "Where Do the Children Play?" by Cat Stevens
- "Wide Awake" by Audioslave
- "Wild Life" by Paul McCartney & Wings
- "World on Fire" by Sarah McLachlan
- "Your Life" by Kyle Vincent
[edit] Feminism
- "4st. 7lb." by Manic Street Preachers (specifically about anorexia and harmful standards of beauty)
- "A Woman's Worth" by Alicia Keys
- "As Cool As I Am" by Dar Williams
- "(The) Boiler" by The Specials
- "Church of Women" by XTC
- "Cunt Cuntry" by Alix Olson
- "Can't Hold Us Down" by Christina Aguilera
- "Chicks Dig Jerks" by Bill Hicks
- "Date Rape" by Sublime
- "Double Dare Ya" by Bikini Kill
- "Dress" by PJ Harvey
- "Eva" by Silvio Rodríguez
- "Feminism Is For Everybody (With A Beating Heart And A Functioning Brain)" Anti-Flag
- "Fine Girl" by Frank Zappa (about the treatment of women as workhorses)
- "Fuck Machine" by Propagandhi
- "Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed" by Kinky Friedman
- "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper
- "God" by Tori Amos
- "Harry, You're A Beast" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Hats" by Amy Grant
- "Hunter" by Dido
- "I Am No Mermaid" by Sinéad Lohan
- "I Am Woman" by Helen Reddy
- "I Will Never Marry" by Linda Ronstadt
- "I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman" by The White Stripes
- "I'm Gonna Be An Engineer" by Peggy Seeger
- "Independence Day" by Martina McBride
- "Independent Woman, Part I" by Destiny's Child
- "It Was Me" by Casse Culver
- "It's A Pose" by Nellie McKay
- "It's Not Right but It's Okay" by Whitney Houston
- "Jump Mama Jump" by The Poison Girls
- "Just a Girl" by No Doubt
- "Keep Yo Head Up" by Tupac Shakur
- "Ladies First" by Queen Latifah
- "Ladies Night in Loserville" by Propagandhi
- "Let it Ride" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive(about double standards)
- "Little Baby Nothing" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Lover's Rock" by The Clash
- "Me and a Gun" Tori Amos
- "Modern Day F Word" by Anti-Product
- "Mother's Little Helper" by The Rolling Stones
- "No Patriarchy Here" by Moorea Malatt
- "(No Such Thing As) Girls Like That" by Christine Kane
- "Not a Pretty Girl" by Ani DiFranco
- "The Offending Article" by Poison Girls
- "Oh Bondage Up Yours" by X-Ray Spex
- "Old Tart's Song" by Poison Girls
- "One Girl Army" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "One Girl Revolution" by Superchic[k]
- "Only Women Bleed" by Alice Cooper
- "Pandora's Box" by Aerosmith
- "The Pill" by Loretta Lynn
- "Poison in a Pretty Pill" by Crass
- "Private Joy" by Prince
- "Refusing To Be A Man" by Propagandhi
- "Respect" by Aretha Franklin
- "Riot Act" by Elvis Costello
- "Runaground" by James
- "Shaking The Tree" by Peter Gabriel
- "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
- "Silent All These Years" by Tori Amos
- "Spit" by Kittie
- "Stupid Girls" by P!nk
- "Suggestion" by Fugazi
- "Superfreak" by Rick James
- "Think" by Aretha Franklin
- "To Daddy" by Dolly Parton
- "Turn Soonest To The Sea" by Protest The Hero
- "Under the Doctor" by Poison Girls
- "Watch Out Where You Step" by Casse Culver
- "We Don't Need the Men" by Rude Girls
- "We Shall Go Forth" by Margie Adam
- "What About" by Janet Jackson
- "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" by Janet Jackson
- "What It Feels Like for a Girl/Lo Que Siente la Mujer" by Madonna
- "Woman" by Neneh Cherry
- "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" by John Lennon
- "Womb Envy" by Paint It Black
- "Women" by Crass
- "Women's Bodies" by Rebecca Riots
- "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore
[edit] Gay rights
- "AIDS Charade" by Fallout (Despite the ambiguous nature of the title, this song is pro-gay rights.)
- "America's So Straight" by MDC
- "American Triangle" by Elton John
- "Angry Atthis" by Maxine Feldman
- "Anita O.J." by Tom Paxton
- "Breaking the Rules" by Ludus
- "Cupcake" by Nellie McKay
- "The Christians and the Pagans" by Dar Williams
- "Danny Boy" by Black 47 (casting the title character as a gay Irish construction worker)
- "Dear Mr. President - P!nk
- "Deeper and Deeper" by Madonna
- "Everyman...Everywoman..." by Yoko Ono
- "Faget" by KoЯn
- "Fahrenheit" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "Fear and Loathing in Laramie" by Protest The Hero
- "For Tryna" by Linda Shear
- "Fuck Aneta Briant" (sic) by David Allen Coe (Presumably, the spelling of Anita Bryant's name was altered to avoid slander charges.)
- "Free Xone" by Janet Jackson
- "Gay Crisis" by Needle Sharing
- "Gay Rude Boys Unite" by Leftöver Crack
- "Glad to Be Gay" by Tom Robinson
- "The Goddamn Busy Signal" by Remembering Never
- "Hail" by Hamell on Trial
- "Half a Man" by Randy Newman
- "Halloween Parade" by Lou Reed
- "Homeboy" by James
- "Homophobes Are Just Mad 'Cuz They Can't Get Laid" by Propagandhi
- "Homophobia" by Chumbawamba
- "I Heart Fags" by MC Frontalot
- "'Is This My Fate?' He Asked Them" by Story of the Year
- "I Want It All" by Queen
- "I Want to Break Free" by Queen
- "The Iliad" by Ed Sanders
- "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross
- "I Wanna Be A Homosexual" by Screeching Weasel
- "Jesus is on the Wire" by Thea Hopkins, covered by Peter, Paul & Mary
- "The Killing of Georgie [Parts I & II]" by Rod Stewart
- "Laramie" by Amy Ray
- "Laramie" by Magdalen Hsu-Li
- "Lesbian Seagull" by David Van Driessen
- "Lesbo Song" by Faith Soloway
- "Let it Ring" by Amy Ray
- "Love Somebody" by Malvina Reynolds, covered by Ginni Clemmens
- "Luister Anita" by Zangeres Zonder Naam
- "Mann gegen Mann" by Rammstein
- "Matthew" by Janis Ian
- "M. Shepard" by Thursday
- "Murder in Hollywood" by D.O.A.
- "No Clause 28" by Boy George
- "No Patriarchy Here" by Moorea Malatt
- "Nobody's Hero" by Rush
- "Philadelphia" by Neil Young
- "Poison Oak" by Bright Eyes
- "Radical" by Catie Curtis
- "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill
- "Right To Choose" by Anti-Flag
- "Scarecrow" by Melissa Etheridge
- "Silent Legacy" by Melissa Etheridge
- "Sexuality" by Billy Bragg
- "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" by The Smiths
- "Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat
- "Standing in the Way of Control" by The Gossip
- "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Take it From the Source" by Spirit of the West
- "Taxi Ride" by Tori Amos
- "Together Again" by Janet Jackson
- "Tuesday Morning" by Melissa Etheridge
- "What Are We Going To Do About Anita?" by Casse Culver
- "When a Man is in Love with a Man" by of Montreal
- "When They Know Who We Are" by Jamie Anderson
- "When Two Men Kiss" by Oi Polloi
- "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" by My Chemical Romance
[edit] Globalization and corporate dominance
- "21st Century Living" by Matthew Good
- "Abolish Work" by The (International) Noise Conspiracy
- "America" by Bree Sharp
- "Amused to Death" by Roger Waters
- "The Big Three Killed My Baby" by The White Stripes
- "Bitter Fruit" by Little Steven
- "Boom!" by System of a Down
- "Businessmen" by Subhumans
- "Bullet in the Head" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Californication" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Call It Democracy" by Bruce Cockburn
- "Capitalism Stole My Virginity" by The (International) Noise Conspiracy
- "Corporate America" by Boston
- "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam
- "Dogs" by Pink Floyd
- "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home" by Joe South
- "Dreamworld" by Midnight Oil
- "Everything Counts" by Depeche Mode
- "Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz
- "15 Storey Halo" by ABC
- "Giants" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "Goodbye Desolate Railyard" by A Silver Mt. Zion
- "The Great Brain Robbery" by Skyclad
- "Greater Omaha" by Desaparecidos
- "Head Like a Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
- "High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Hip-Hop-Cracy)" by Styx
- "I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler" by Tom Paxton
- "Inner Logic" by Bad Religion
- "Instinct of Survival" by Napalm Death
- "Kiss Me, Son of God" by They Might Be Giants
- "Lazy Afternoon" by Bree Sharp
- "Liberation Frequency" by Refused
- "Lie Detector" by Dead Kennedys
- "Merchandise" by Fugazi
- "Mind The GATT" by Anti-Flag
- "Money" by Pink Floyd
- "Motor City" by Neil Young
- "Movement" by S.T.U.N.
- "Multinational Corporations" by Napalm Death
- "Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds" by Manic Street Preachers
- "New Feudalism" by No WTO Combo
- "North Sea Bubble" by Billy Bragg
- "No Shelter" by Rage Against the Machine
- "No Thunder, No Fire, No Rain" by Tim Finn
- "Not So Soft" by Ani DiFranco
- "NPWA" by Billy Bragg
- "Panic" by The Smiths
- "Pay For This" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Piggies" by The Beatles (interpretted as such by Charles Manson. George Harrison has denied writing the song about anything other than the animals, considering the circumstances.)
- "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" by Pink Floyd
- "The Politics of Starving" by Against Me!
- "Push the System" by Bitch and Animal
- "Radio, Radio" by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- "Rank Strangers" by the Stanley Brothers
- "The Rapeover" by Mos Def
- "Reino de Todavía" by Silvio Rodríguez
- "Right Now" by Naked Aggression
- "Scum of America" by the Kissers
- "Seattle Was a Riot" by Anti-Flag
- "Shopping" by the Pet Shop Boys
- "Smash the State" by Naked Aggression
- "Solamente por Pensar" by Ska-P
- "Speak English or Die" by Stormtroopers of Death
- "The State Lottery" by Propagandhi
- "Step Right Up" by Tom Waits
- "Stolen Treasure (Brittany's Lament)" by The Chipmunks
- "Sun Green" by Neil Young
- "Take This Job and Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck
- "Tearing Down The Borders" by Anti-Flag
- "Their System Doesn't Work for You" by Anti-Flag
- "This Note's For You" Neil Young
- "Throw Away Your Television" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Toxicity" by System of a Down
- "Union Sundown" by Bob Dylan
- "Vulture Culture" by The Alan Parsons Project
- "Vultures" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" by Billy Bragg
- "The W.A.N.D." by The Flaming Lips
- "We Love the Pirate Stations" (reportedly by The Rocking Berries, although credited to "The Roaring Sixties" so the band could distance itself from the campaign to save offshore radio around the UK)
- "What Will The Corporation Do?" by The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
- "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who
- "WTO" by Pennywise
- "The WTO Kills Farmers" by Anti-Flag
- "Zombies" by Space
[edit] Governments and imperialism
- "16 Military Wives" by The Decemberists
- "51st State" by New Model Army
- "99 Luftballons" by Nena
- "All Hawai'i Stand Together" by Dennis Pavao
- "America Latina ¡¡Libre!!" by Ska-P
- "Anarchy in the U.K." by The Sex Pistols
- "Arahja" by Kult (against the division of Berlin)
- "Black 47" by Black 47
- "Black and White" by Subhumans
- "Bleed for Me" by Dead Kennedys
- "Break the Walls" by Naked Aggression
- "Brighton Bomb" by Angelic Upstarts
- "B.Y.O.B" by System of a Down
- "Cambalache" by Enrique Santos Discépolo
- "Cause of Death" by Immortal Technique
- "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" by Bernice Johnson Reagon, (covered by Billy Bragg)
- "China" by Joan Baez
- "Clampdown" by The Clash
- "Clean Men" by The Members
- "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young
- "Cruise" by Conflict
- "Dear Mr. President - P!nk
- "Deify" by Disturbed (about George Bush)
- "A Design for Life" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Election" by David Rovics
- "Empire" by Dar Williams
- "España Va Bien" by Ska-P
- "Fanatic Heart" by Black 47
- "Federation" by General Strike
- "Flying Arrow" by Mason Proffit
- "Fuck The System" by System Of A Down
- "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert" by Pink Floyd
- "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon
- "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Paul McCartney
- "God and Country by The Thermals
- "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols
- "Government Walls" by James
- "Guerrilla Radio" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Happy Nation" by Ace of Base (an anti-fascist tune about rebelling against the fascist nation and a hope for life)
- "The Hand That Feeds" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Have You Seen The Saucers?" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida" by Holly Near
- "Hey Bobby" by Sage Francis
- "Home of the Brave" by Mr. Lif
- "Integral" by Pet Shop Boys
- "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" by X
- "I Want It All" by Queen
- "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" by Bruce Cockburn
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "Indian Reservation" by Paul Revere and the Raiders
- "James Connolly" by Black 47
- "Kurvini Sinovi" ("Sons of Bitches") by Azra
- "La Sesera No VA" by Ska-P
- "The Last Resort" by The Eagles
- "Leave the Driving" by Neil Young
- "Lock Us Away" by Naked Aggression
- "Makeshift Patriot" by Sage Francis
- "Mau Mau (Amerikon)" by Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
- "Monster" by Steppenwolf
- "Mury" by Jacek Kaczmarski
- "Natalia" by Joan Baez
- "The Nature of the Threat" by Emcee Lynx
- "The Nature of the Threat" by Ras Kass
- "New Noise" by Refused
- "Not Now John" by Pink Floyd
- "Old England" by The Waterboys
- "Old Mother Reagan Protest Song" by The Violent Femmes
- "One Law For Them" by the 4-skins
- "People of the Sun" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Push the System" by Bitch and Animal
- "Rambozo the Clown" by Dead Kennedys
- "RATS" by Subhumans
- "Red, White, Brainwashed" by Anti-Flag
- "Resist" by The Lifesavas
- "Revolution" by The Beatles
- "Revolution" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "Revolution 1993" by Jamiroquai
- "Ringing of Revolution" by Phil Ochs
- "Run To The Hills" by Iron Maiden
- "Santo Domingo" by Phil Ochs
- "Sargento Bolilla" by Ska-P
- "Serpentine" by Ani DiFranco
- "Sleep Now In The Fire" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Smash the State" by Naked Aggression
- "Something About England" by The Clash
- "Song Of Bangladesh" by Joan Baez
- "Stand On Your Own Head" by They Might Be Giants
- "Stand Up And Spit" by The Members
- "Stupid" by Icons of Filth
- "Subvert City" by Subhumans
- "Sweet Neo Con" by The Rolling Stones
- "The System Works For Them" by Aus-Rotten
- "Testify" by Rage Against the Machine
- "They Dance Alone" by Sting, covered by Mercedes Sosa
- "They Lie" by the Virus
- "The Trader" by The Beach Boys
- "Trees" by Rush
- "Timor" by Shakira
- "Tío Sam" by Ska-P
- "Todavía Cantamos" by Mercedes Sosa
- "Us Against Them" by Naked Aggression
- "U.S.A. by Reagan Youth
- "Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Wake Up" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Wake up the Voiceless" by Story of the Year
- "War Is Peace, Slavery Is Freedom, May All Your Intervention Be Humanitarian" by Propagandhi
- "War Movie" by Jefferson Airplane
- "We Can Be Together" by Jefferson Airplane
- "What About Me?" by Quicksilver Messenger Service
- "Where is the Love?" by Black Eyed Peas
- "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" by The Flaming Lips
- "Your Next Bold Move" by Ani DiFranco
- "You've Got to Die for the Government" by Anti-Flag
[edit] Guns and violence
- "A-bomb in Wardour Street" by The Jam
- "Abraham, Martin & John" by Dion
- "Bad Habit" by The Offspring
- "Big Man With A Gun" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Billy's Got a Gun" by Def Leppard
- "Black on Black Love" by Queen Latifah
- "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan
- "Both Sides of the Tweed" by Capercaillie
- "Child" by Holly Near
- "Child in Time" by Deep Purple
- "Click Click Boom" by Saliva
- "Come Out And Play" by The Offspring
- "Coppers" by Rancid (band)
- "The Devil's Right Hand" by Steve Earle
- "Davidian" by Machine Head
- "Dirty Harry" by Gorillaz
- "Don't Forget the Guns" by Cheryl Wheeler
- "Don't Take Your Guns To Town" by Johnny Cash
- "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" by The Jam
- "Emma" by Therese Edell
- "From My Cold Dead Hands" by Remembering Never
- "Girls with Guns" - Tommy Shaw (of Styx)
- "Glorified G" by Pearl Jam
- "Ghetto Gospel" by 2 Pac feat. Elton John
- "Guns at my School" by Hüsker Dü
- "Gun Control" by D.R.I.
- "Guns Are For Pussies" by 311
- "Guns, Guns, Guns" by The Guess Who
- "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash
- "Gunz Yo" by Sage Francis
- "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by The Beatles
- "Holler If You Hear Me" by Tupac Shakur
- "I Got a Gun" by Channel 3
- "I Predict A Riot" by Kaiser Chiefs
- "If It Were Up to Me" by Cheryl Wheeler
- "It's History" by Essra Mohawk
- "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam
- "Jeannie Needs A Shooter" by Warren Zevon
- "Johnny 99" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Johnny Was" by Bob Marley (covered by Stiff Little Fingers)
- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan
- "Kuiama" by Electric Light Orchestra
- "Lawyers, Guns & Money" - Warren Zevon
- "Living in a World (They Didn't Make)" by Janet Jackson
- "Lou Marsh" by Phil Ochs
- "Love is a Good Thing" by Sheryl Crow
- "Love Song" by Marilyn Manson
- "Luka" by Suzanne Vega
- "Lunchbox" by Marilyn Manson
- "Mama Come Quick" by Jamie Anderson
- "Me and a Gun" by Tori Amos
- "Melt the Guns" by XTC
- "M-16" by The Descendents
- "Michael Caine" by Madness
- "Names" by Cat Power
- "Nebraska" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Never Again" by Nickelback
- "New Day" by Wyclef Jean
- "Numbered Days" by Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- "One voice" by Billy Gilman
- "One Trillion Dollar$" by Anti-Flag
- "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" by Phil Ochs
- "Police and Thieves" by Junior Murvin (covered by The Clash)
- "Point Blank" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Powderfinger" by Neil Young
- "Put Out the Fire" by Queen
- "Right Wing Pigeons" by Dead Milkmen
- "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" by Warren Zevon
- "The Sadist Nation" by Darkest Hour
- "Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Six White Horses" by Tommy Cash (brother of Johnny Cash)
- "Slow Motion" by Third Eye Blind
- "Stop the Violence" by Wesley Willis
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2
- "Suspect Device" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Take Back the Guns" by Therese Edell
- "Throw Your Hatred Down" by Neil Young
- "Tommy Gun" by The Clash
- "Tool and Die" by Consolidated
- "Too Many Martyrs" by Phil Ochs
- "Victim of Reality" by Pennywise
- "Violence" by Pet Shop Boys
- "Walk All the Days" by Seanchai
- "Washington Bullets" by The Clash
- "We're All in the Same Game"
- "We've got his gun" by Anti-Flag
- "We've Had Enough" by Michael Jackson
- "What it's Like" by Everlast
- "What's the Matter Here?" by 10,000 Maniacs
- "Where Is the Love" by Black Eyed Peas
- "With a Gun" by Steely Dan
- "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D.
- "Zombie" by The Cranberries
[edit] Identity Cards
- "Integral" by the Pet Shop Boys
- "Kiss Ya Lips (No I.D.)" by Ian Brown
- "Politico" by Matthew Cotton
[edit] Land rights
- "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil
- "Blood Quantum" by the Indigo Girls
- "Bullet" by GGFH (Global Genocide Forget Heaven)
- "The Diggers Song" (traditional, recorded by Chumbawamba and Attila the Stockbroker among others)
- "Don't Drink the Water" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Dream Like Mine" Bruce Cockburn
- "Go On Home British Soldiers" by Éire Óg
- "Fuck the Border" by Propagandhi
- "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" by Paul McCartney
- "Holy Mountains" by System of a Down
- "Home on the Range: Cherokee Edition" by Tori Amos
- "It Is a Good Day to Die" by Robbie Robertson
- "The Manchester Rambler" by Ewan MacColl
- "Monster" by Steppenwolf
- "Mountain Song" by Holly Near
- "Neighbourhood" by Space
- "No Borders, No Nations" Anti-Flag
- "No More Roads" by Oi Polloi
- "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- "Paradise" by John Prine
- "Point Hope" by the Indigo Girls
- "The Promise of a New Day" by Paula Abdul
- "Scooter Boys" by the Indigo Girls
- "Share the Land" by The Guess Who
- "Solid Rock" by The Goanna Band
- "Stolen Land" by Bruce Cockburn
- "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie
- "Treaty" by Yothu Yindi
- "Where the Hell Are We Going to Live?" by Vin Garbutt, popularised by The Levellers
- "World Turned Upside Down" by Leon Rosselson
[edit] Materialism
- "15 Minutes" by The Broadways
- "Absolutely Free" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "All You Can Eat" by Ben Folds
- "America" by Bree Sharp
- "American Kryptonite" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "American Life" by Madonna
- "Angels" by Crass
- "Between Angels and Insects" by Papa Roach
- "Big Machine" by Velvet Revolver
- "Bought and Sold" by Dar Williams
- "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (about upper class hedonism)
- "Bullet in the Head" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Canción de Navidad" by Silvio Rodríguez
- "Cigaro" by System of a Down
- "Closer To The Heart" by Rush
- "Consumo Gusto" by Ska-P
- "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam
- "Drifting" by Pearl Jam
- "Eat Starch Mom" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Eminence Front" by The Who
- "Fashion Zombies" by The Aquabats
- "For The Love Of Money" by the O'Jays
- "Freedom Fighters" by Miyavi
- "Freedom of Choice" by DEVO
- "Great Expectations" by New Model Army
- "Half" by Soundgarden
- "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Hooker With a Penis" by Tool
- "Hotel California" by The Eagles
- "Gone" by Jack Johnson
- "The Grand Illusion" by Styx
- "I'm a Celt" by Emcee Lynx
- "It's Money That Matters" by Randy Newman
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "Jet Set Junta" by The Monochrome Set
- "Ka-Ching!" by Shania Twain
- "Lazy Afternoon" by Bree Sharp
- "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds
- "Living In The Material World" by George Harrison
- "McDolar" by Ska-P
- "Material Girl" by Madonna
- "Materialist" by Bad Religion
- "Money" by Pink Floyd
- "Money Talks" by Deep Purple
- "Money Talks" by Rubella Ballet
- "Most Exclusive Residence for Sale" by The Kinks
- "Motorcycle Emptiness" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Mountains O' Things" by Tracy Chapman
- "Mr. Businessman" by Ray Stevens
- "Mr. Clean" by The Jam
- "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" by Bonzo Dog Band
- "No Shelter" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Nowhere Man" by Anti-Nowhere League
- "The Obscenity Prayer" by Rodney Crowell
- "Overkill" by Jimmy Buffett
- "Patrick Bateman" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Piece of Crap" by Neil Young
- "Plastic People" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by The Monkees
- "Poptones" by Public Image Limited
- "Property Is Theft" by T.S.O.L.
- "Prou Propietat" by Inadaptats
- "Pudding Time" by Primus
- "Razor Boy" by Steely Dan
- "Revistas del Corazón" by Ska-P
- "Richard Cory" by Simon & Garfunkel
- "Rock 'n Roll Lifestyle" by Cake
- "Roger the Miller" traditional song, popularized by Karan Casey
- "Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young
- "She's Leaving Home" by The Beatles
- "A Song to Pass the Time" by Bright Eyes
- "Soon Forget" by Pearl Jam
- "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin
- "Stupid Girls" by P!nk
- "Time in Babylon" by Emmylou Harris
- "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie
- "Too Much" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Too Much Of Heaven" by Eiffel 65
- "Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls" by Sparks
- "The Union Forever" by The White Stripes
- "Upright Citizen" by Crass
- "Well Respected Man" by The Kinks
- "We're All Bourgeois Now" by McCarthy
- "What Are We Livin' For?" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "What Do You Want from Life" by The Tubes
- "What Shall We Do Now?" by Pink Floyd
- "Where Do the Children Play" by Cat Stevens
- "Where You Are" by Kyle Vincent
- "Who Are the Brain Police" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Who Killed Norma Jean?" by Pete Seeger
- "Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash" by The Clovers
- "Your Life" by Kyle Vincent
- "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
[edit] Music critics and the music industry
- "1977" by The Clash
- "All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)" by The Clash
- "Anything Right" by P.O.D.
- "Art is Hard" by Cursive
- "Artificial Life" by Operation Ivy (band)
- "Ballad of a Ladyman" by Sleater-Kinney
- "Ballad of a Thin Man" Bob Dylan
- "Beautyqueen" by Jenn Lindsay
- "Big Fun at the Gallows" by Nothingface
- "Black Mamba" by The Academy Is...
- "Blood from a Clone" by George Harrison
- "Blue Mixes" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "Business Ain't Music" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Buy my Snake Oil" by Jello Biafra/Mojo Nixon
- "Can't Stand Rock 'n' Roll by Anti-Nowhere League
- "Can't Stop the Sun" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "Capital Radio" by The Clash
- "Child's Play" by Lucky Boys Confusion
- "Cockamamie Business" by George Harrison
- "Complete Control" by The Clash
- "Comfort Eagle" by Cake
- "Crackpot History and the Right to Lie" by Adam Ant
- "The Critic" by Toby Keith
- "The Corporate Enthusiast" by Dead Poetic
- "The Deal" by Fifteen
- "Death on Two Legs" by Queen
- "Death or Glory" by The Clash
- "Defamation Innuendo" by The Circle Jerks
- "Destiny Calling" by James
- "Dinosaurs Will Die" by NOFX
- "Don't Be Denied" by Neil Young
- "Don't Start a Band" by Reel Big Fish
- "Don't Download This Song" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
- "Downloading" by Negativland
- "Dump Pop Song" by Lucky Boys Confusion
- "EMI - Unlimited Edition" by The Sex Pistols
- "False Advertising" by Bright Eyes
- "Freak On A Leash" by KoЯn
- "Friend Or Foe" by Adam Ant
- "Garageland" by The Clash
- "Get in the Ring" by Guns N' Roses
- "Good People" by Jack Johnson
- "Goody Two Shoes" by Adam Ant
- "Happiness In Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Has It Come to This?" by The Streets
- "Have a Cigar" by Pink Floyd
- "Hip Hop" by Dead Prez
- "Hip Today" by Extreme
- "Hitsville U.K" by The Clash
- "Hooker with a Penis" by Tool
- "Hurry Up Garry (The Parson's Farted)" by Crass
- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (1991 A Cappella Mix)" by Negativland
- "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Special Edit Radio Mix)" by Negativland
- "Into The Great Wide Open" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "It's Only Entertainment" by Josh Joplin Group
- "It's Still Rock 'n' Roll to Me" by Billy Joel
- "Jackin' Afroman" by Afroman
- "Jet Airliner" by Paul Pena, popularized by Steve Miller
- "Jimmy Buffett Doesn't Live in Key West Anymore" by David Allen Coe
- "Joe" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "Jules and Jim" by Pete Townshend
- "Jump Rope – Spray Water" by Bad Acid Trip
- "Kill the Music Industry" by Cold
- "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "Last Man Standing" by Bon Jovi
- "The Late Greats" Wilco
- "Let's Push Things Forward" by The Streets
- "London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines" by Panic! At the Disco
- "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" by Traffic
- "Lucy Stoners" by Amy Ray
- "Mercury Poisoning" by Graham Parker
- "The Message or the Money by Immortal Technique
- "Melody Makers, You're Just a Bunch of Wankers" by Pork Dukes
- "The Million You Never Made" by Ani DiFranco
- "Money Becomes King" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits
- "The Moneygoround" by Ray Davies and The Kinks
- "Motown Junk" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Mr. Writer" by Stereophonics
- "MTV Get Off The Air" by Dead Kennedys
- "MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack" by Beck
- "Muscle Museum" by Muse
- "My Hit Song" by Melissa Lefton
- "New Noise" by Refused
- "Newsworth" by Greenslade
- "The Nickel Song" by Melanie
- "No One Came" by Deep Purple
- "Nothing Is Good Enough" by Aimee Mann
- "One Down" by Ben Folds
- "One Hit Wonder" by Everclear
- "One Hit Wonderful" by Reel Big Fish
- "Only A Northern Song" by The Beatles
- "Overkill" by Jimmy Buffett
- "Packard Goose" by Frank Zappa
- "Paint A Vulgar Picture" by The Smiths
- "Panic" by The Smiths
- "Payola Blues" by Neil Young
- "Perhaps Vampires is a Bit Strong But.." by Arctic Monkeys
- "Plastic People" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Please, Please, Please" by Fiona Apple
- "Pop Singer" by John Mellencamp
- "Pop Stars" by Pork Dukes
- "Powerless (Say What You Want)" by Nelly Furtado
- "Prisoners of Rock and Roll" by Neil Young
- "Pull My Strings" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Punky's Whips" by Frank Zappa
- "Radio" by Smash Mouth
- "Radio #2" by The Ataris
- "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" by Nirvana
- "Radio, Radio" by Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- "Radio Song" by R.E.M.
- "Rockstar" by Nickelback
- "Reinventing Axl Rose" by Against Me!
- "Rhythm Section Want Ad" by They Might Be Giants
- "Rock the Kids" by The Vibrators
- "Rough Trade" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink" by Frank Zappa
- "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish
- "Show Business" by A Tribe Called Quest
- "So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star" by the Byrds
- "Spirit of Radio" by Rush
- "The Stroke" by Billy Squier
- "Suck a Dick Jockey" by Afroman
- "Swindler's Lust" by Public Enemy
- "Tabloid Junkie" by Michael Jackson
- "Take A Number" by Stone Sour
- "Take 'em All" by Cock Sparrer
- "Ten Year Plan" by Therapy?
- "The Ghost of Rock n' Roll" by Kyle Vincent
- "There's Nothing Wrong with Hating Rock Critics" by of Montreal
- "This Note's for You" by Neil Young
- "Those Dumb Punk Kids Will Buy Anything" by Jello Biafra/The Melvins
- "Through Glass" by Stone Sour
- "Ticks and Leeches" by Tool
- "Tupelo, Mississippi Flash" by Jerry Reed
- "Turn the Radio Off" by Reel Big Fish
- "Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" by The Rolling Stones
- "Undergoing Treatment" by Duran Duran
- "Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners" by Against Me
- "Welcome" by Slipknot
- "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd
- "We're Going to Miss You" by James
- "Whisper" by Alien Ant Farm
- "(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" by The Clash
- "Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?" by Arctic Monkeys
- "Wonder What's Next" by Chevelle
- "Workin' for MCA" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Y'all Want a Single" by KoЯn
- "You Can't Say Crap on the Radio" - Stiff Little Fingers
- "You Got Nothing I Want" by Cold Chisel
- "Your New Aesthetic" by Jimmy Eat World
- "Zanz Can't Dance" by John Fogerty
[edit] Nuclear weapons
- "1945" by Social Distortion
- "1983" by Jimi Hendrix
- "1999" by Prince & the Revolution
- "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden
- "2005" by Gene Cotton
- "99 Luftballons" by Nena
- "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" Bob Dylan
- "Ain't Nowhere You Can Run" by Holly Near
- "Apeman" by the Kinks
- "Blackened" by Metallica
- "Bomb Drop" by the Virus
- "Boom!" by System of a Down
- "Breathing" by Kate Bush
- "Christmas At Ground Zero" by Weird Al Yankovic
- "Cruise Missiles" by Fischer-Z
- "Damnation Alley" by Hawkwind
- "Depleted Uranium is a War Crime" by Anti-Flag
- "Domino" by Genesis
- "Doomsday Waltz" by Elmo & Patsy
- "Distant Early Warning" by Rush
- "Einstein a Go-Go" by Landscape
- "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath
- "Enola Gay" by OMD
- "Fallout Shelter" by Billy Chambers
- "Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica
- "Force Ten" by Rush
- "French Letter" by Herbs
- "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk 3
- "Gonna Put My Face on a Nuclear Bomb" by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper
- "Hammer to Fall" by Queen
- "The Headless Children" by W.A.S.P.
- "Hiroshima" by Todd Rundgren/Utopia
- "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette" by Jim Page
- "The House At Pooneil Corners" by Jefferson Airplane
- "I Don't Wanna Die" be the 4-Skins
- "I Come and Stand at Every Door" by The Byrds
- "It's a Mistake" by Men At Work
- "Killers" by Ice-T
- "Killer of Giants" by Ozzy Osbourne
- "Let Me Die In My Footsteps" by Bob Dylan
- "Let's All Make a Bomb" by Heaven 17
- "Like an Inca" by Neil Young
- "Made a Bomb" by Poison Girls
- "Manhattan Project" by Rush
- "Mausoleum" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Minutes to Midnight" by Midnight Oil
- "Mushroom Clouds" by Arthur Lee & Love
- "Nagasaki Nightmare" by Crass
- "No Nuclear War" by Peter Tosh
- "Nuclear Device" by The Stranglers
- "Nuclear War" by General Strike
- "Nuclear War" by Sun Ra
- "Nuclear Waste" by Oi Polloi
- "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atom Bomb on Me" by Charles Mingus
- "Plastic Bags" by Samantha Crain
- "Playing With Uranium" by Duran Duran
- "Political Science" by Randy Newman
- "Popn' Off At The F" by Desaparecidos
- "Power" by The Temptations
- "Pride of Man" by Quicksilver Messenger Service
- "Protect And Survive" by Jethro Tull
- "Put Down That Weapon" by Midnight Oil
- "Roulette" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Russians" by Sting
- "Seconds" by U2
- "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by Tom Lehrer
- "Soviet Jewellery" by BB Gabor
- "Soviet Snow" by Shona Laing
- "Stand or Fall" by The Fixx
- "Strong Enough To Break" by Hanson
- "Talking Cuban Crisis" by Phil Ochs
- "The Future's So Bright(I Gotta Wear Shades)" by Timbuk 3
- "The Great Unknown" by Dar Williams
- "The Merry Minuet" by The Kingston Trio
- "The Sun Is Burning" by Simon and Garfunkel
- "They've Got a Bomb" by Crass
- "This Is War" by Smile Empty Soul
- "Time After Time" by Electric Light Orchestra
- "Time Bomb" by Naked Aggression
- "Total Eclipse" by Klaus Nomi
- "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd
- "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" by Bonnie Dobson (covered by Jeff Beck, The Grateful Dead, and Lulu)
- "We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer
- "What Have They Done to the Rain?" by Malvina Reynolds
- "When The Bomb Drops" by Subhumans
- "Who's Next" by Tom Lehrer
- "Wooden Ships" by Crosby, Stills, and Nash (also recorded by Jefferson Airplane)
- "World War Three is a Giant Ice Cream Cone" by King Missile
[edit] Police or authority
- "5 to 1" by The Doors
- "61 Minutes of Pleading" by the Levellers
- "40-80" by Lucky Boys Confusion
- "911 Is a Joke" by Public Enemy
- "A.C.A.B." by The 4-Skins
- "American Skin (41 Shots)" by Bruce Springsteen
- "...And Justice for All" by Metallica
- "Anti-Klan" by The Dicks
- "April 29, 1992 [Miami]" by Sublime
- "The Arrest" by Conflict
- "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle
- "Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti" by Joan Baez
- "Battle of the Beanfield" by the Levellers
- "The Beast" by The Fugees
- "Black Cop" by KRS-One
- "Breathing Apparatus" by The Coup
- "Break the Walls" by Naked Aggression
- "A Bullet in the Chamber" by Emcee Lynx
- "Burn Them Prisons" by Leftöver Crack
- "Cherry Beach Express" by Pukka Orchestra
- "Concentration Moon" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Cop Killer" by Body Count
- "Cop Shot" by Dead Prez
- "Cops of the World" by Phil Ochs
- "Civic Hall" by The Vapors
- "Crime in The City (Sixty to Zero Part II)" by Neil Young
- "Dead Cops" by Millions of Dead Cops
- "Deer Dance" by System of a Down
- "Diallo" by Wyclef Jean
- "Dicks Hate The Police" by The Dicks
- "Drunk With Power" by Discharge
- "East Texas Red" by Woody Guthrie
- "Fight the Power, Pt. 1 & 2" by The Isley Brothers
- "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
- "For What It's Worth" by Stephen Stills
- "Force or Service" by Conflict
- "Friend of the Devil" by the The Grateful Dead
- "Fuck Authority" by Pennywise
- "Fuck Police Brutality" by Anti-Flag
- "Fuck tha Police" by N.W.A
- "Fuck the Police" by Sodom
- "Fucking Hostile" by Pantera
- "Gang Control" by Leftöver Crack
- "Get Your Riot Gear" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "Give It Revolution" by Suicidal Tendencies
- "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Bob Dylan
- "The Guns of Brixton" by The Clash
- "Hate the Police" by Mudhoney
- "Hip-Hop" by Dead Prez
- "His Majesty, the Policeman" by Lord Buckley
- "Holler If You Hear Me" by Tupac Shakur
- "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan
- "Hypnotize" by System of a Down
- "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" by Cypress Hill
- "I Fought the Law" by The Crickets (covered by many, including The Clash, the Dead Kennedys, Bobby Fuller, Waylon Jennings, Roy Orbison, Green Day)
- "I Got Stripes" by Johnny Cash
- "I Had No Right" by Dar Williams
- "I Have A Dream, Too" by Dead Prez
- "I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley & the Wailers (covered by Eric Clapton)
- "I Wanna Know What Love Is" by Julie Ruin
- "If They Come in the Morning" by Jack Warshaw
- "I'm Going to Say It Now" by Phil Ochs
- "In the City" by The Jam
- "Invisible Sun" by The Police
- "It's My Life" by The Animals
- "It's the Law" by Social Distortion
- "Jah War" by The Ruts
- "Jimmy Jazz" by The Clash
- "Juarez" by Tori Amos
- "K.E.I.N.E." by Absolute Beginner
- "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Know Your Enemy" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Know Your Rights" by The Clash
- "LAPD" by The Offspring
- "Liddle Towers" by Angelic Upstarts
- "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan
- "Loser Cop" by Therapy?
- "A Man in Uniform" by Randy
- "Mom and Dad" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Mr. Jack" by System Of A Down
- "New Homes for Idle Hands" by Propagandhi
- "New York City Cops" by The Strokes
- "No Power Without Accountability" by Billy Bragg
- "Nuclear War" by Sun Ra
- "O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E." by Lamb of God
- "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (written by Neil Young)
- "One Dead Cop" by Leftöver Crack
- "One in a Million" by Guns N' Roses
- "Operation: M.O.V.E." by Leftöver Crack
- "On The Front Line" by The Casualties
- "P.C.P." by Manic Street Preachers
- "Piggies" by The Beatles, Theo Bikel (written by George Harrison)
- "Percy's Song" by Bob Dylan
- "Police and Thieves" by The Clash
- "Police Bastard" by Doom
- "Police Brutality" by The Casualties
- "Pigs Will Pay" by Propagandhi
- "Police on My Back" by The Equals, covered by The Clash
- "Police Oppression" by Angelic Upstarts
- "Police Related Death" by MDC
- "Police State" by Dead Prez
- "Police State in the Usa" by Anti-Flag
- "Police Story" by Anti-Flag
- "Police Story" by Black Flag
- "Police Truck" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Prison Bound" by Social Distortion
- "Prison Song" by System of a Down
- "Prison Trilogy (Billy Rose)" by Joan Baez
- "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire
- "Riot In Cell Block #9" by the Robins (later renamed The Coasters)
- "Riot Squad" by Cock Sparrer
- "Romero el Madero" by Ska-P
- "San Quentin" by Johnny Cash
- "Seconds" by U2
- "Show Don't Tell" by Rush
- "Sin of the City" by Duran Duran
- "Smash the State" by Naked Aggression
- "Soho-A-GoGo" by The Members
- "Starkville City Jail" by Johnny Cash
- "State Trooper" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Stick It Out" by Rush
- "Student Demonstration Time" (re-write of "Riot In Cell Block #9") by The Beach Boys
- "S.U.S." by The Ruts
- "Swervin" by The Coup
- "They Don't Care About Us" by Michael Jackson
- "This Song" by George Harrison
- "'Tis of Thee" by Ani DiFranco
- "Trapped" by Tupac Shakur
- "Vigalante Man" by Woody Guthrie
- "We've Had Enough" by Michael Jackson
- "What the Po-Pos Hate" by The Coup
- "Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)" by Chumbawamba
- "W.M.A." by Pearl Jam
- "You Can Kill the Protester, But You Can't Kill the Protest" by Anti-Flag
- "You Can't Bring Me Down" by Suicidal Tendencies
[edit] Politicians or world leaders
- "Agency Man" by Frank Zappa about Ronald Reagan pre-presidential years.
- "Alexander The Medium" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Amnesia" by Chumbawamba
- "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" by Joan Baez
- "American Idiot" by Green Day
- "Assassin" by Muse
- "The Ballad of Ronald Reagan" by The Austin Lounge Lizards
- "Barrytown" by Steely Dan
- "Battalions of Fear" by Blind Guardian
- "Big Brother" by Stevie Wonder
- "Black Hearts Now Reign" by Unearth
- "Bulls On Parade" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Bullshit Politicians" by Propagandhi
- "Bu$hleaguer" by Pearl Jam
- "Bye Bye Ronnie" by MDC
- "B.Y.O.B." by System of a Down
- "California Über Alles" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Christmas in Washington" by Steve Earle
- "Common Man" by The Blasters
- "Corporate Deathburger" by MDC
- "Pet" by A Perfect Circle
- "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour
- "The Crucifixion" by Phil Ochs (about the JFK assassination)
- "D for Democracy (Scour the House)" by Spirit of the West
- "Danke Bush" by Blumentopf
- "The Day that Thatcher Dies" by Hefner
- "Dear Dan" by Christine Lavin
- "Dear Mr. President" by P!nk
- "Deify" by Disturbed
- "Dickie's Such an Asshole" by Frank Zappa
- "Drive" br R.E.M.
- "Election Day" by Paint It Black
- "The End of the Innocence" by Don Henley
- "Exhuming McCarthy" by R.E.M.
- "The Fletcher Memorial Home" by Pink Floyd
- "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" by David Bowie
- "Fallen on Hard Times" by Jethro Tull
- "Fight The Power" by Public Enemy
- "Fight the Power, Pt. 1 & 2" by The Isley Brothers
- "Final Straw" by R.E.M.
- "Franco Unamerican by NOFX
- "From Her Lips To God's Ears (The Energizer)" by Against Me!
- "Get Your Filthy Hands off My Desert" by Pink Floyd
- "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon
- "Glad I'm not a Kennedy" by Shona Laing
- "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols
- "Going Underground" by The Jam
- "The Great Dividers" by Unearth
- "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" by Phil Ochs (new lyrics for his original, "Here's to the State of Mississippi")
- "Helicopter" by Bloc Party
- "Hell No We Ain't All Right! by Public Enemy
- "Holiday In Cambodia" by Dead Kennedys
- "Idiot Son of an Asshole" by NOFX
- "I Don't Like It" by Pauline Pantsdown
- "Ignoreland" by R.E.M.
- "I Got Your Number" by Cock Sparrer
- "Irish Blood, English Heart" by Morrissey
- "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" by Bob Dylan
- "It's A Hit" by Rilo Kiley
- "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" by Frank Zappa
- "Kali-Fornia Uber Alles 21st Century" by Jello Biafra & The Melvins
- "Kill Roger Hedgecock" by The Locust
- "Kill the President" by The Offspring
- "Let's Have A War" by Joni Mitchell cover by A Perfect Circle
- "Let's Impeach the President" by Neil Young
- "The Love of Richard Nixon" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Maggie" by The Exploited
- "Mau Mau (Amerikon)" by Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
- "March of Death" by Zach de la Rocha and DJ Shadow
- "Margaret on the Guillotine" by Morrissey
- "Megalomaniac" by Incubus
- "Mistrra Know It All" by Stevie Wonder
- "Moron" by KMFDM
- "Mosh" by Eminem
- "Move On (Bloom Like the Sunlight in My Song)" by Mike Doughty
- "My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" by The Ramones
- "The New Brutality" by Paint It Black
- "Nuclear Device" by The Stranglers
- "Old Mother Reagan" by Violent Femmes
- "Panic" by Paint It Black
- "Pig Nixon" by Red Star Singers
- "Piss on Your Grave" by The Coup
- "P.L.U.C.K. (Political Lying Unholy Cowardly Killers)" by System of a Down
- "Politician" by MDC
- "Politics" by Korn
- "The President" by Wit
- "President's Day" by Loudon Wainwright III
- "Price Too High To Pay" by Cock Sparrer
- "Prison Song the" System of a Down
- "The Problem" by J.J. Cale
- "Promised Land" by James
- "Pulling Lame" by Spirit of the West
- "Puttin' People on the Moon" by Drive-By Truckers
- "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths
- "Las Ratas No Tienen Alas" by Jaguares
- "Reagan Youth" by Reagan Youth
- "Right Wing Pigeons" by Dead Milkmen
- "Rockin' in the Free World" by Neil Young
- "Run With The Blind" by Cock Sparrer
- "Sad State Of Affairs" by The Descendents
- "Set the House Ablaze" by The Jam
- "Shoot the Dog" by George Michael
- "Simpático Holgazán" by Ska-P
- "Son of a Bush" by Public Enemy
- "Stand Down Margaret" by The Beat (band)
- "Stars and Stripes" by KMFDM
- "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" by Dead Kennedys
- "Sweet Neo-Con" by The Rolling Stones
- "Take A Bow" by Muse
- "Taxman" by The Beatles
- "That's Progress" by Jello Biafra
- "Those Damned Blue Collar Tweakers" by Primus (according to some theories)
- "To Washington" by John Mellencamp
- "Tramp the Dirt Down" by Elvis Costello
- "Turncoat" by Anti-Flag
- "U-Fig" by System of a Down
- "Village Idiot" by Mental as Anything
- "Walls Come Tumbling Down" by The Style Council
- "The W.A.N.D" by The Flaming Lips
- "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath
- "Watch Your Back" by Cock Sparrer
- "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" by Dead Kennedys (to the tune of "California Über Alles," but about Ronald Reagan)
- "We Are the True Americans" by Christine Lavin
- "Welterusten, meneer de president" by Boudewijn de Groot (about the American president during the Vietnam War)
- "When The President Talks To God" by Bright Eyes (band)
- "Who's the Terrorist Now" by MDC
- "Wide Awake" by Audioslave
- "Woe to the World" by Jamie Anderson
- "Woman in Disguise" by Angelic Upstarts
- "World Leader Pretend" by R.E.M.
- "World That He Wants" by Jamiroquai
- "X" by System of a Down
- "Yes You In the Blue 2" by Bill Mumy (formerly Billy Mumy)
- "You Haven't Done Nothin'" by Stevie Wonder
- "You're The Man" by Marvin Gaye
- "revolution" by bob marley
[edit] Poverty
- "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack
- "Angels with Dirty Faces" by Los Lobos
- "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins
- "Another 100 Years of Solitude" by Concrete Blonde and Los Illegals
- "Ashes in the Fall" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Bad Time to Be Poor" by Rheostatics
- "Bangla Desh" by George Harrison
- "Ballad Of Hollis Brown" by Bob Dylan
- "The Big Issue" by Chumbawamba
- "Bourgeois Blues" by Leadbelly
- "The Boxer" by Simon & Garfunkel
- "Brother Don't You Walk Away" by The Hooters
- "Busted" by Ray Charles
- "Cars and Shoes" by The Coup
- "Cloud Nine" by The Temptations
- "Cold Cash and Colder Hearts" by Thrice
- "Cold Dreams" by Emcee Lynx
- "Dance With The Devil" by Immortal Technique
- "Danke Bush" by Blumentopf
- "Dead End Street" by The Kinks
- "Dear Abby" by Dead Kennedys
- "Dirty Boulevard" by Lou Reed
- "Distant Voices" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Do They Owe Us a Living?" by Crass
- "Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant
- "El Olvidado" by Ska-P
- "Even Flow" by Pearl Jam
- "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman
- "Flying Dutchman" by Jethro Tull (particularly about the treatment of the poor by the rich)
- "For The Love of Money" by The O'Jays
- "Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield
- "Free Money" by Patti Smith
- "Ghost Town" by The Specials
- "A Guided Tour Of Chicago" by The Lawrence Arms
- "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" by Crystal Waters
- "The Guilt And The Glory (How Many More Lies)" by Conflict
- "Harvest for the World" by The Isley Brothers
- "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Heartland" by The The
- "Hobo's Lullaby" by Goebel Reeves
- "Hungry Eyes" by Merle Haggard
- "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore" by Woody Guthrie
- "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard
- "Inequality Street" by Skyclad
- "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" by Marvin Gaye
- "Insecto Urbano" by Ska-P
- "In the Ghetto" by Elvis Presley (covered by many)
- "Is This The World We Created" by Queen
- "I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" by 2Pac
- "Jackie Brown" by John Mellencamp
- "The Junkie Song" by Be Good Tanyas
- "Kill the Poor" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Let's Lynch the Landlord" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan
- "Linoleum" by NOFX
- "Living Enough For the City" by Stevie Wonder
- "Love Child" by the Supremes
- "Love Of The Common People" by Waylon Jennings
- "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson
- "Marie" by Townes Van Zandt
- "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
- "Mr. Wendal" by Arrested Development
- "One" by U2
- "Pastures of Plenty" by Woody Guthrie
- "Piss on Your Grave" by The Coup
- "Poverty" by Bobby Bland
- "The Ghetto" by Too $hort
- "The Procession of Popular Capitalism" by McCarthy (band)
- "Punish the People" by Roy Zimmerman
- "Rambling Boy" by Tom Paxton
- "Rockin' In the Free World" Neil Young
- "Right Wing Pigeons" by Dead Milkmen
- "Rock Bottom" by Eminem
- "The Repo Man Sings for You" by The Coup
- "San Ber'dino" by Frank Zappa
- "Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Something to Believe In" by Poison
- "State of the World" by Janet Jackson
- "Street Kids" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" by Tracy Chapman (covered by Reel Big Fish)
- "Tell It All Brother" by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
- "The Big One" by Nellie McKay
- "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "There But for Fortune" by Phil Ochs
- "Things Going On" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "Timor" by Shakira
- "Tom Joad" by Woody Guthrie
- "Too Late" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Uncle Remus" by Frank Zappa
- "Underdogs" by The Coup
- "Underpass" by Garnet Rogers
- "Upton" by The Broadways
- "Used Cars" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Walking Down Madison" by Kirsty MacColl
- "We Are the World" by USA for Africa
- "We Gotta Get out of This Place" by The Animals
- "What it's Like" by Everlast
- "Who Cares Wins" by Anthrax
[edit] Prohibition and the war on drugs
- "Burn One Down" by Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
- "Changes" by Tupac Shakur
- "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
- "Coming Into Los Angeles" by Arlo Guthrie
- "Ganja" by Bitch and Animal
- "Get Higher" by Black Grape
- "Henry" by New Riders of the Purple Sage
- "Homegrown" by Neil Young
- "Illegal Smile" by John Prine
- "Julie's Been Working For the Drug Squad" by The Clash
- "Legalize It" by Peter Tosh
- "Mexico" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Peephole" by System of a Down
- "Police in Helicopter" by John Holt
- "Prison Song" by System Of A Down
- "The Knowledge" by Janet Jackson
- "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf
- "Smoke Two Joints" by Sublime
- "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey
- "Stoned" by Smashmouth
- "Swervin" by The Coup
- "War on Drugs" by Warsawpack
- "What's a Simple Man to Do?" by Steve Earle
[edit] Racism, apartheid, and civil rights
- "13 Steps to Nowhere" by Pantera
- "7 O'clock News/Silent Night" by Simon and Garfunkel
- "7 Words" by Deftones
- "77%" by The Herd
- "88 Seconds in Greensboro" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
- "Alabama" by Neil Young
- "A La Mierda" by Ska-P
- "Across the Lines" by Tracy Chapman
- "Ali El Magrebi" by Ska-P
- "All My Trials" by Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, et al.
- "Apartheid" by Peter Tosh
- "Anti-Racist" by The Trojans
- "Ballad of Harry T. Moore" by Sweet Honey in the Rock
- "Ballad of Ira Hayes" by Peter La Farge and Johnny Cash
- "Ballad of Donald White" by Bob Dylan
- "Ballad of William Worthy" by Phil Ochs
- "The Battle Of Maxton Field" by Pete Seeger
- "Big Brother" by Stevie Wonder
- "Biko" by Peter Gabriel
- "Birmingham Sunday" by Joan Baez
- "Blackbird" by The Beatles
- "Black and White" by Three Dog Night
- "Black and White World" by the Suicide Machines
- "Black Cross" by Lord Buckley and by Bob Dylan
- "Black or White" by Michael Jackson
- "Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys" by The Equals
- "Black Stations/White Stations" by M + M
- "Black White" by Ice Cube
- "Blackheart Man" by Bunny Wailer
- "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan
- "Brother Louie" by Hot Chocolate&Stories
- "Broken Homes" by Tricky and P.J. Harvey
- "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley
- "Buoy Bells From Trenton" by Woody Guthrie
- "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" by Bonzo Dog Band
- "Can You Feel It" by The Jacksons
- "Can't Be Stopped" by Janet Jackson
- "Changes" by Tupac Shakur
- "Chimes of Freedom" by Bob Dylan
- "Choice Of Colors" by The Impressions
- "Cry Freedom" by Dave Matthews Band
- "Dance Stance" by Dexy's Midnight Runners
- "Dark Night" by The Blasters
- "The Day We Killed" by Five Iron Frenzy
- "The Death of Emmett Till" by Bob Dylan
- "Doesn't Make it Alright" by The Specials
- "Don't Call Me , Whitey" by Sly & the Family Stone
- "Don't Call Me White" by NOFX
- "Down Rodeo" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Ein Sommer Nur Für Mich" by Die Ärzte
- "Electricity" by 311
- "Ella's Song (We Who Believe in Freedom)" by Sweet Honey in the Rock, covered by Holly Near
- "Embarrassment" by Madness
- "Emergency" by Sweet Honey in the Rock
- "England, Half English" by Billy Bragg and the Blokes
- "Equal Rights" by Peter Tosh
- "Everyday People" by Sly & the Family Stone
- "Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus
- "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy
- "Free Nelson Mandela" by The Specials
- "Free Your Mind" by En Vogue
- "Freedom Now" by Tracy Chapman
- " The KKK" by The Unseen
- "George Jackson" by Bob Dylan
- "Get Up, Stand Up" by Bob Marley
- "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by Eddy Grant
- "Gotta Go Now" by Melissa Ferrick
- "Happy Birthday" by Stevie Wonder
- "Hatred (A Duet)" by The Kinks
- "He Got Game" by Public Enemy
- "Here's to the State of Mississippi" by Phil Ochs
- "Home On the Range (Cherokee Edition)" by Tori Amos
- "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan
- "Ich bin ein Auslander" by Pop Will Ea elf
- "I Want To Go Back To Dixie" by Tom Lehrer
- "If I Had a Hammer" by Pete Seeger (covered by many)
- "If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus" by Pete Seeger
- "If You Own the Washington Redskins, You're a Cock" by Atom and His Package
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "In All Rwanda's Glory" by Rx Bandits
- "In My Country there is Problem" by Borat Sagdiyev
- "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" by Marvin Gaye
- "It Isn't Nice" by Malvina Reynolds
- ""Is This My Fate," He Asked Them"" by Story of the Year
- "It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go" by Nanci Griffith
- "I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)" by James Brown
- "I Want It All" by Queen
- "Jail Guitar Doors" by The Clash
- "Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk" by Frank Zappa(mentions the [[ ]] at one point)
- "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" by Midnight Oil
- "John Brown's Body" (traditional)
- "Julius and Ethel" by Bob Dylan
- "Kill all the white man" by NOFX
- "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine
- "The Klan" by Richie Havens
- "Let Robeson sing" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King" by Sweet Honey in the Rock
- "Life" by Sly & the Family Stone
- "Livin' on the Edge" by Aerosmith
- "Living For the City" by Stevie Wonder
- "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan
- "Lucrecia" by Ska-P
- "Marine" by Diam's
- "Message from a Black Man" by The Temptations
- "Mestizaje" by Ska-P
- "Mikey's" by Randy Newman
- "Mississippi Goddam" by Nina Simone
- "Mister Soul" by Buffalo Springfield
- "National Brotherhood Week" by Tom Lehrer
- "Nazi " by Leftöver Crack
- "Nazi Punks Off" by Dead Kennedys (covered also by Napalm Death)
- "New Agenda" by Janet Jackson & Chuck D
- "New Year's Day" by U2
- "No Good (Attack The Radical)" by Pantera
- "Nothing Yet" by Tracy Chapman
- "Ohio" by Neil Young
- "Old Jim Crow" by Nina Simone
- "Om Nia Merican" by Saul Williams
- "Only a Pawn in Their Game" by Bob Dylan
- "The Only Good t is A Very Dead t" by Propagandhi
- "Oxford Town" by Bob Dylan
- "P.L.U.C.K." by System of a Down
- "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" by U2
- "Proud to Be Black" by Run-DMC
- "People Are People" by Depeche Mode
- "Racist Friend" by The Specials
- "Reach Out & Touch (Somebody's Hand)" by Diana Ross
- "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley
- "Reuben James" by The First Edition
- "Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson
- "Ridin'" by Chamillionare
- "Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden
- "Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud)" by James Brown
- "Schrei Nach Liebe" by Die Ärzte also covered by The Scala Choir
- "Silver and Gold" by U2
- "Sing Our Own Song" by UB40
- "Siyahamba (We Are Marching)" (traditional)
- "Society's Child" by Janis Ian
- "Someday We'll All Be Free" by Donny Hathaway
- "(Something Inside) So Strong" by Labi Siffre
- "Southern Man" by Neil Young
- "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday
- "Suburban Homeboy" by Sparks
- "Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid
- "Take off Your Swastika" by Phranc
- "Talking KKK Blues" by Townes Van Zandt
- "Taneytown" by Steve Earle
- "They ain't making Jews like Jesus anymore" by Kinky Friedman
- "They Schools" by Dead Prez
- "They Don't Care About Us" by Michael Jackson
- "This Could Never Happen In My Dear Old Sunny South" by Woody Guthrie
- "The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan
- "The Trees" by Rush
- "Too Many Martyrs" by Phil Ochs
- "Trouble Every Day" by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- "Uncle Remus" by Frank Zappa
- "Underdog" by Sly & the Family Stone
- "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" by The Temptations
- "Violencia Machista" by Ska-P
- "Voto Latino" by Molotov
- "Wake Up" by Rage Against The Machine
- "We Shall Overcome" (traditional)
- "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
- "White, Discussion" by Live
- "White Noise" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Why?" by The Specials
- "You Are What You Is" by Frank Zappa(About co-opting black culture, while at the same time turning blacks into white people.)
- "Your Racist Friend" by They Might Be Giants
[edit] Religion
- ".03" by Jefferson Airplane
- "15 Storey Halo" by ABC
- "1000 More Fools" by Bad Religion
- "After Forever" by Black Sabbath
- "All There Is" by Bad Religion
- "American Jesus" by Bad Religion
- "The Answer" by Bad Religion
- "Antithesis" by Converge
- "Arsonist" by Between the Buried and Me (about Westboro Baptist Church)
- "Asylum" (aka "Reality Asylum") by Crass
- "Atheist Anthem" by Leftover Crack
- "Atheist Peace" by Bad Religion
- "Augustine" by The Static Age
- "Baba" by Alanis Morissette
- "Bad Religion" by Bad Religion
- "Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson
- "Beautiful World" by Emcee Lynx
- "Best For You" by Bad Religion
- "Born Again Bop" by Real West
- "Born of a Broken Man" by Rage Against the Machine
- "The Cannons of Christianity" by Phil Ochs
- "Cathedral" by Graham Nash
- "Change Of Ideas" by Bad Religion
- "The Christian Dance Song" by Dog Fashion Disco
- "Christian Militia" by New Model Army
- "The Christians and the Pagans" by Dar Williams
- "Communion" by Dog Fashion Disco
- "The Company, the Comfort, the Grave" by The Chariot (about overly condemning Christians, written by a Christian band)
- "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight White American Males" by Todd Snider
- "Cosmik Debris" by Frank Zappa
- "Crazy Miranda" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Crossbearer" by Cave In
- "Crucifix Kiss" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Crucify" by Tori Amos
- "Dear God" by XTC
- "Death Church" by Machine Head
- "Don't Know When But a Day is Gonna Come" by Bright Eyes
- "Dear God" by XTC
- "Disciple" by Slayer
- "Disgustipated" by Tool
- "Don't Need Religion" by Motörhead
- "Don't Pray On Me" by Bad Religion
- "Doubting Thomas" by Inquisition
- "Easter?" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Ego Fum Papa (I Am The Pope)" by Propagandhi
- "Empty Promises" by Hatebreed
- "Faith Alone" by Bad Religion
- "Faith In God" by Bad Religion
- "Faithfull" by Pearl Jam
- "For the Love of Fiction" by Remembering Never
- "Forgiven" by Alanis Morissette
- "Freewill" by Rush
- "Fuck Religion" by Propagandhi
- "Fuck Religion" by The Exploited
- "Fuck Your God" by Deicide
- "God" by Tori Amos
- "God and Country by The Thermals
- "God Is Love" by Marvin Gaye
- "God Only Knows" by James
- "God's Love" by Bad Religion
- "God Song" by Matching Mole
- "God Song" by Bad Religion
- "The God That Failed" by Metallica (about Christian Science)
- "Gotta Believe In Pumpkins" by Andrew Gold and The Chipmunks (equates religion to drug addiction)
- "Haille Sellasse, Up Your Ass" by Propagandhi
- "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Heresy" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Hell Yes" by Alkaline Trio
- "How Do You Do" by Shakira
- "How To Pray" by Strike Anywhere
- "Hymn 43" by Jethro Tull
- "Hypocrites" by KoЯn
- "I Ain't Afraid" by Holly Near
- "I Don't Wanna Be No Catholic Boy" by Dead Boys
- "I Know" by Barenaked Ladies
- "I Take My Chances" by Mary Chapin Carpenter
- "Il testamento di Tito" by Fabrizio De Andrè
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "Insanity" by Oingo Boingo
- "It's the Music" by Meat Beat Manifesto
- "Jesus Saves" by Slayer
- "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" by Frank Zappa
- "Jesus Was a Terrorist" by Jello Biafra& Nomeansno
- "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West
- "Joan of Arc" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- "Judith" by A Perfect Circle
- "Kasposos" by Ska-P
- "Killing for Jesus" by The Circle Jerks
- "La Mosca Cojonera" by Ska-P
- "Let it Ring" by Amy Ray
- "Leper Messiah" by Metallica
- "Live A Love Of Life" by James
- "Live Again (The Fall Of Man)" by Bad Religion
- "Losing Battle" by The Adolescents
- "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.
- "Love in Mind" by Neil Young
- "Lubbock or Leave It" by Dixie Chicks
- "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" by Frank Zappa
- "Millions of Damn Christians" by MDC
- "Muhammad My Friend" by Tori Amos
- "Moral Majority" by Dead Kennedys
- "Mushroom Cult" by Dog Fashion Disco (featuring Serj Tankian)
- "My God" by Jethro Tull
- "No Closer Than A Stranger" by Darkest Hour
- "No God" by The Germs
- "None of the Above" by Duran Duran
- "Old Book Misread" by Set Your Goals
- "Only the Good Die Young" by Billy Joel
- "The Only Way" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- "Opiate" by Tool
- "Oral Spunk" by Dog Fashion Disco
- "Our Saviour" by Paradise Lost
- "Philosophy of Loss" by Emily Saliers
- "Pity" by Bad Religion
- "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)" by Dying Fetus
- "The Prayer Position" by AFI
- "Preach To Our Empty Pockets" by Strike Anywhere
- "The Preacher and the Slave" by Joe Hill
- "Religion" by Public Image Ltd.
- "Religious Scam" by A Global Threat
- "Religious Vomit" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Religious Wars" by Subhumans
- "Ruiner" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Satellite" by The Hooters
- "Sectas" by Ska-P
- "Seguimos en Pie" by Ska-P
- "Send Me Your Money" by Suicidal Tendencies (particularly against televangelists)
- "Sexo y Religión" by Ska-P
- "Sexy and Christian" by MDC
- "Shallow Be Thy Game" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Slain Upon My Faithful Sword" by I Killed the Prom Queen
- "Soldier" by Neil Young
- "The Son Of Jesus" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Sunday Morning" by The Bolshoi
- "Sunday Suit" by Hot Water Music
- "Temporary Solution To A Permanent Problem" by Most Precious Blood
- "Terrible Lie" by Nine Inch Nails
- "Thank you for the Venom" by My Chemical Romance
- "Time for Temptation" by Duran Duran
- "This Blood's for You" by MDC
- "The Voice of God is Government" by Bad Religion
- "Together All The Way" by the Levellers
- "Voice Of God Is Government" by Bad Religion
- "The Voracious March Of Godliness" by Bad Religion
- "Walking Is Still Honest" by Against Me!
- "War?" by System of a Down
- "What God Wants" by Roger Waters (particularly against televangelists)
- "When Death Replaces Life" by Cannibal Corpse
- "With God on Our Side" by Bob Dylan
- "Wholly Buy Bull" by Jello Biafra & The Melvins
- "World Religion Zoo" by Gene Cotton
- "You Will Lose Faith" by NOFX
- "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" by John Prine
- "You're Wrong" by NOFX
[edit] Slavery
- "Browntown Burning Down" by Angry Aryans
- "Dinkas When I Close My Eyes" by Against All Authority
- "Final Solution" by Sister Souljah
- "Follow the Drinking Gourd" by Pete Seeger
- "Human Alchemy" by XTC
- "The Jungle Line" by Joni Mitchell
- "Kill All the White Man" By NOFX
- "Maggie's Farm" by Bob Dylan (covered by Rage Against the Machine)
- "Mister Charlie" by Robert Hunter and Grateful Dead
- "Oh Freedom" by Pete Seeger
- "No More Auction Block" by Traditional
- "Rape of a Slave" by Arghoslent
- "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley (Covered by No Use for a Name and Joe Strummer)
- "Sail Away" by Randy Newman
- "Swan Swan H" by R.E.M.
- "White Man" by Queen
[edit] Television and the media
- "180 Proof" by Burnt by the Sun
- "21st Century Digital Boy" by Bad Religion
- "500 Channels" by Choking Victim
- "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" by Bruce Springsteen
- "Along Came Jones" by The Coasters
- "Amused To Death" by Roger Waters
- "Anesthesia" by Paint It Black
- "Bad Day" by R.E.M.
- "Better than TV" by Kristina Olsen
- "Blank Screens" by The Static Age
- "Celebrity Skin" by Hole
- "Clear Channel(Fuck Off)" by Leftöver Crack
- "Closedown" by Cock Sparrer
- "Daily News" by Tom Paxton
- "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley
- "Found a Job" by Talking Heads
- "Fox TV" by Pennywise
- "Frank's 2000-Inch TV" by Weird Al Yankovic
- "I'm the Slime" by Frank Zappa
- "Idiot Box" by Incubus
- "I Love My Computer" by Bad Religion
- "Impact" by Against Me!
- "Kill Your Television" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
- "Less Deicide, More Minor Threat..." by Paint It Black
- "Lost A Friend" by James
- "Mike Teavee" by Danny Elfman
- "The Misinformation Age" by Darkest Hour
- "MTV" by Deep Purple
- "MTV Get off the Air" by The Dead Kennedys
- "MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack" by Beck
- "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits
- "Nineteen Eighty Bore" by Crass
- "No News is Good News" by New Found Glory
- "No Shelter" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Not Neccessarily The News" by The Broadways
- "Now That I Own the BBC" by Sparks
- "The Pirate Radio Song" by David Rovics
- "Plastic Fantastic Lover" by Jefferson Airplane
- "The Press Corpse" by Anti-Flag
- "Prime Time" by Don McLean
- "Propaganda" by Dead Prez
- "Radio Ga Ga" by Queen
- "Reality Show" by Ska-P
- "Reasons To Be Beautiful" by Hole
- "Red White and Brainwashed" by Anti-Flag
- "Right Wing Pigeons" by Dead Milkmen
- "Scandal" by Queen
- "She Watch Channel Zero ?!" by Public Enemy
- "Spanish Pipe Dream" by John Prine
- "The Sun Says" by Cock Sparrer
- "Television" by Bad Religion
- "Telecide" by The Tubes
- "This is the end (for you my friend)" by Anti-Flag
- "The Television" by Terri Allard
- "Television: The Drug of the Nation" by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
- "Test For Echo" by Rush
- "That's the way I like my Rock and Roll" by AC/DC
- "Throw Away Your Television" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Timor" by Shakira
- "Trapped In A Box" by No Doubt
- "TV Casualty" by The Misfits
- "TV Light" by Richard Shindell
- "TV Man" by The Bolshoi
- "TV Party" by Black Flag
- "TV Song" by The Broadways
- "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles
- "Vicarious" by Tool
- "Violent Pornography" by System of a Down
- "Watching TV" by Roger Waters
[edit] Terrorism
- "911 for Peace" by Anti-Flag
- "Alert Status Red" by Matthew Good
- "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" by Don Henley
- "(America's the) Terrorist" by Shamako Noble, Emcee Lynx, and Dub Cee
- "Bone Bomb" by Brian Eno
- "Cinammon Girl" Prince
- "Conspiracy Of One" by The Offspring
- "Cult" by Slayer
- "(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican" by Ian Rhett
- "Effervescing Elephant" by Syd Barrett(an allegory on leaders who rule with fear)
- "The Future" by Leonard Cohen
- "God and Country by The Thermals
- "The Gunner's Dream" by Pink Floyd
- "Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name")" by Chumbawamba
- "John Walker's Blues" by Steve Earle
- "Listening Wind" by Talking Heads
- "Love Is Blindness" U2
- "Makeshift Patriot" Sage Francis
- "Mass Destruction" by Faithless
- "Mideast Vacation" by Neil Young
- "No Shelter" by Rage Against The Machine
- "On That Day" by Leonard Cohen
- "Peace on Earth" by U2
- "Peaceable Kingdom" by Rush
- "Please" by U2
- "The Price of Oil" by Billy Bragg
- "Secret Army" by Cock Sparrer
- "Suicide Terrorist" by Kreator
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2
- "Swastika Eyes" by Primal Scream
- "Terrorism" by XTC
- "Violent Pornography" by System of a Down
- "When the President Talks to God" by Bright Eyes
- "Where is the Love?" by Black Eyed Peas
- "Zombie" by The Cranberries
[edit] Unions and labor
- "10 Years Of Service" by Dropkick Murphys
- "1913 Massacre" by Woody Guthrie
- "Allentown" by Billy Joel
- "Angel of Freedom"
- "A Song For Albert Parsons" by Luke Tan
- "Banks of Marble" by Pete Seeger
- "Bear the Burden in the Heat of the Day"
- "Bells of Rhymney" by Pete Seeger (covered by The Byrds and The Soft Boys)
- "Between the Wars" by Billy Bragg
- "Billy Hunt" by The Jam
- "The Blackleg Miners"
- "Black Lung" by Rancid
- "The Blind Ploughman"
- "Blue Monday" by Fats Domino
- "Blue Sky Mine" by Midnight Oil
- "The Bonehead Working Man"
- "Boston Asphault" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Boys On The Docks" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Brother Trucker" by James Taylor
- "Career Opportunities" by The Clash
- "Centralia"
- "Coal Miner's Blues"
- "Coal Miner's Grave"
- "The Coal Owner and the Pitman's Wife"
- "Come All You Coal Miners"
- "Come Join the One Big Union, Do" by Richard Brazier
- "Common Ground" by Chumbawamba
- "Company Man" by James Taylor
- "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" by Woody Guthrie
- "Do or Die" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Dump the Bosses off Your Back" by John Brill
- "Fitzwilliam" by Chumbawamba
- "Flakes" by Frank Zappa (Anti-Union)
- "For The Workforce, Drowning" by Thursday
- "From Little Things Big Things Grow" by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody
- "General Strike" by D.O.A.
- "Get A Job" by The Silhouettes
- "Got A Job" by The Miracles
- "Got a Letter" by Emcee Lynx
- "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" by Harry McClintock
- "Hard Times Come Again No More"
- "Henry Street Jail" by Woody Guthrie
- "The Internationale"
- "It Says Here" by Billy Bragg
- "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There"
- "Joe Hill" by Joan Baez and others
- "John Henry"
- "Labor's Dixie" Charles M. Robinson
- "Links on the Chain" by Phil Ochs
- "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
- "Little Man, You Had a Busy Day"
- "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man" by Travis Tritt
- "Ludlow Massacre" by Woody Guthrie
- "Maria" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Modern Day Labor Anthem" by Street Dogs
- "Naval Xixón" by Ska-P
- "One Big Industrial Union" by George G. Allen
- "One by One" by Chumbawamba
- "One More Day" by Angelic Upstarts
- "Out Of Work" by Gary U.S. Bonds
- "P9" by Soul Asylum
- "The Parasites" by John E. Nordquist
- "Part of the Union" by The Strawbs
- "Peg and Awl"
- "People Have the Power" by Patti Smith
- "Poljska u Mome Srcu" ("Poland In My Heart") by Azra
- "The Popular Wobbly"
- "The Preacher and the Slave" by Joe Hill
- "Rebel Girl" by Joe Hill
- "The Red Flag"
- "Right to Work" by Chelsea
- "Roll the Union On"
- "Shearing in the Bar"
- "Shores of Botany Bay"
- "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis
- "Smithers-Jones" by The Jam
- "Solidarity" by Angelic Upstarts
- "Solidarity Forever" by Ralph Chaplin
- "Song for the Migrant Worker" by The Tears
- "Southern Pacific" by Neil Young
- "Stand Up! Ye Workers" by Ethel Comer
- "Stick Together" by Frank Zappa (anti Union)
- "Strike!" by the Suicide Machines
- "Struggle in the West"
- "Soup is Good Food" by the Dead Kennedys
- "Take This Job And Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck (Covered by Dead Kennedys)
- "The Trees" by Rush
- "There Is Power in a Union" by Joe Hill (Covered by Billy Bragg and Street Dogs)
- "This Land Is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie
- "Traveling Down the Castlereagh"
- "The Two Bums"
- "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" by Primus
- "Too Much Monkey Business" by Chuck Berry
- "Union Burying Ground" by Woody Guthrie
- "The Union Forever" by The White Stripes
- "Union Maid" by Woody Guthrie
- "Union Man" by Neil Young
- "Union Sundown" by Bob Dylan
- "Unions And The Law" by Street Dogs
- "Uptown" by the Crystals
- "The Union Scab" by Joe Hill
- "The Union Train"
- "El Vals del Obrero" by Ska-P
- "Wage Workers, Come Join the Union"
- "Weary Mothers" by Joan Baez
- "Which Side Are you On?" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Which Side Are You On?" by Florence Reece (also covered by Billy Bragg)
- "Workers of the World" by James Connell
- "Workers of the World, Awaken" by Joe Hill
- "Worker's Song" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Working For A Living" by Huey Lewis
- "Working In A Coal Mine" by Lee Dorsey
- "Working Man Blues" by Merle Haggard
- "Workingmen, Unite!"
[edit] War
- "1 Trillion Dollar$" by Anti-Flag
- "16 Military Wives" by The Decemberists
- "19" by Paul Hardcastle
- "1916" by Motörhead
- "1917" by Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt
- "1968" by Dave Alvin
- "2 Minutes to Midnight" by Iron Maiden
- "2+2=?" by Bob Seger
- "2005" by Gene Cotton
- "99 Luftballons" by Nena
- "Abraham, Martin & John" by Dion
- "After the Parade" by Dan Bern & the IJBC
- "Albright Monument, Baghdad" by Propagandhi
- "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie
- "All Fall Down" by Ultravox
- "American Idiot" by Green Day
- "Amerika The Brutal" Six Feet Under
- "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle
- "Angel's Punishment" by Lacuna Coil
- "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" by Pink Floyd
- "Another Man's Cause" by The Levellers
- "Army Dreamers" by Kate Bush
- "Army Man in Vietnam" by Big Joe Williams
- "The Army's Tired Now" by They Might Be Giants
- "Atheists in Foxholes" by Paint It Black
- "Attack" by System of a Down
- "Bad Man" by Loudon Wainwright III
- "Baghdad" by The Offspring
- "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" by The Temptations
- "Ballad for the Fallen Soldier" by The Isley Brothers
- "Ballad of Penny Evans" by Steve Goodman
- "The Ballad of Robbie Jones" by The Levellers
- "The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda" by Eric Bogle
- "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" by Mark Twain
- "Beach Party at Vietnam" by Dead Milkmen
- "Belsen Was a Gas" by The Sex Pistols
- "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods
- "Bleed for Me" by Dead Kennedys
- "Bleed From Within" by The Music
- "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan
- "Bomb Drop" by the Virus
- "Boom!" by System of a Down
- "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
- "Bosnia" by Sham 69
- "Boundaries" by Jon Anderson
- "Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys" by They Might Be Giants
- "The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range" by Roger Waters
- "Bring the Boys Home" by Freda Payne
- "Broomstick Cowboy" by Bobby Goldsboro
- "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits
- "Buffalo Soldier" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2
- "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Butterflies And Hurricanes" by Muse
- "B.Y.O.B." by System of a Down
- "The Call Up" by The Clash
- "Camilo" by State Radio
- "C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones" by Gianni Morandi
- "Chemical Warfare" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Chicago" by Graham Nash
- "Children Of The Grave" by Black Sabbath
- "Children of the Revolution" by T-Rex (covered by Kirsty MacColl)
- "Child's Play" by TNT (band)
- "Civil War" by Guns N' Roses
- "Clusterbombs (of peace and love)" by James Casper [2]
- "Combat Baby" by Metric
- "Combat Rock" by Sleater-Kinney
- "Confrontation" by Damian Marley
- "Contras, Kings & Generals" by David Rovics
- "Cops of the World" by Phil Ochs
- "Count the Dead" by The Static Age
- "Crisis" by Fear Factory
- "The Crow on the Cradle" by Sydney Carter
- "Dachau Blues" by Captain Beefheart
- "Day After Tomorrow" by Tom Waits
- "Day Is Done" by Peter, Paul and Mary
- "Le Deserteur" by Boris Vian
- "Dialogue" by Chicago
- "Die for Your Government" by Anti-Flag
- "Die Hard the Hunter" by Def Leppard
- "Dirty Harry" by Gorillaz
- "Disposable Heroes" by Metallica
- "Don't Let the Bastards (Get You Down)" by Kris Kristofferson
- "Door Into Summer" by The Monkees
- "Dover Beach" by The Fugs
- "Down by the Riverside" (African-American spiritual)
- "Draft Dodger Rag" by Phil Ochs
- "A Drug Against War" by KMFDM
- "Dumb All Over" by Frank Zappa
- "Easy/ Lucky/ Free" by Bright Eyes
- "The Empire Strikes First" by Bad Religion
- "The End" by The Doors
- "Energizer" by Against Me!
- "Eve of Destruction" by P.F. Sloan (More notably covered by Barry McGuire and also covered by Will Hoppey)
- "Everybody's Gone To War" by Nerina Pallot
- "Eyes of the Insane" by Slayer
- "Far Away Coast" by Dropkick Murphys
- "Fields of Agony" by No Use For A Name
- "Fight" by James
- "Fight War, Not Wars" by Crass
- "Fighting for Strangers" by Steeleye Span
- "Find the Cost of Freedom" by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- "'Fish' Cheer/ I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag by Country Joe and the Fish
- "Follow The Leader" by Pete Kronowitt
- "Foolish Notion" by Holly Near
- "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
- "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica
- "Forgotten Years" by Midnight Oil
- "The Four Insurgent Generals"
- "The Four Rivers"
- "Free Four" by Pink Floyd
- "Freedom" by Richie Havens
- "Freeze Up" by Operation Ivy
- "Frontlines" by Soulfly
- "Fuck a War" by Geto Boys
- "Games Without Frontiers" by Peter Gabriel
- "The General" by Dispatch
- "Give Peace a Chance" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
- "Glad It's All Over" by Captain Sensible
- "Glass War" by NOFX
- "God and Country by The Thermals
- "Gods of War" by Def Leppard
- "Goodbye Blue Sky" by Pink Floyd
- "Goodnight Saigon" by Billy Joel
- "The Grave" by Don McLean
- "Grave Shift" by Kanye West
- "The Great American Eagle Tragedy" by Earth Opera
- "The Green Fields of France" by Eric Bogle
- "The Gringo's Tale" by Steve Earle
- "Gulf War Song" by Moxy Früvous
- "Gun in Your Hand" by Rx Bandits
- "The Gunner's Dream" by Pink Floyd
- "Handsome Johnny" by Richie Havens
- "Hammer to Fall" by Queen
- "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
- "Head, Chest, or Foot?" by Propagandhi
- "Heaven is Falling" by Bad Religion
- "Helicopters" by Barenaked Ladies
- "Henry's Mother" by Maria Daines and Paul Killington
- "Here Comes the War" by New Model Army
- "Heroes" by David Bowie
- "Hey There Mister President" by Dave King
- "Holiday" by Green Day
- "How Come" by Ray Lamontagne
- "How Does It Feel?" by Crass
- "The Human Being Lawnmower" by MC5
- "I Ain't Marching Anymore" by Phil Ochs
- "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey
- "I Don't Wanna Die" by the 4-skins
- "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" by John Lennon
- "I Don't Want to Get Drafted" by Frank Zappa
- "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish
- "I Fought in a War" Belle & Sebastian
- "I Had No Right" by Dar Williams
- "I Hope" by Dixie Chicks
- "I Want To Know Why?" by Woody Guthrie
- "I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)" by Redgum
- "I've Seen All Good People" by Yes
- "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" by Bruce Cockburn
- "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by Manic Street Preachers
- "Imagine" by John Lennon
- "In a World Gone Mad" by Beastie Boys
- "The Internationale"
- "Intifada" by Ska-P
- "Is There Anybody Here?" by Phil Ochs
- "Island of No Return" by Billy Bragg (about the Falklands War)
- "It's a Hit" by Rilo Kiley
- "Jennifer Lost the War" by The Offspring
- "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West
- "Jimmy Newman" by Tom Paxton
- "John Brown" Bob Dylan
- "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" by The Clancy Brothers Trad. Irish Song.
- "Kagaku no Yoru" by Do As Infinity (Japanese)
- "Khe Sanh" by Cold Chisel
- "Killing for Jesus" by The Circle Jerks
- "Killing Song"
- "Killing Time" by No Use for a Name
- "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Kiss Tomorrow Goddbye" by Deep Purple
- "Kuiama" by Electric Light Orchestra
- "La muralla" by Ana Belen and Victor Manuel (Spanish)
- "Last Night Another Soldier" by Angelic Upstarts
- "Last Train to Clarksville" by The Monkees
- "Let Them Eat War" by Bad Religion
- "Let the Sunshine In" (from Hair)
- "Let's Have A War" by A Perfect Circle
- "Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to be Loved)" by Bright Eyes
- "Lies in the House of Shame" by Silent Civilian
- "Little Boy Soldiers" by The Jam
- "Living With War" by Neil Young
- "Long Walk Home" by Neil Young
- "Lookin' Back" by Bob Seger
- "Love and Peace or Else" by U2
- "Love in War" by OutKast
- "Lucky Man" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix
- "Major General Despair" by Crass
- "Man in Black" by Johnny Cash
- "Mandatory Suicide" by Slayer
- "March Of Death" by Zack de la Rocha and DJ Shadow
- "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan
- "Medieval" by James
- "Middle Eastern Holiday" by HARD-Fi
- "Minutes to Midnight" by Midnight Oil
- "Monster Hospital" by Metric
- "Monster/Suicide/America" by Steppenwolf
- "Die Moorsoldaten" by Ernst Busch
- "Mosh" by Eminem
- "Mother" by James
- "Mothers, Daughters, Wives"
- "Mourrir pour des Idees" by Georges Brassens
- "Mr. Churchill Says" by Ray Davies and The Kinks
- "My Love is in New York" by Black 47
- "My War" by Black Flag
- "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" by Eric Bogle
- "Native Son" by James Taylor
- "Nehemiah" by Hope Of The States
- "A New Kind of Army" by Anti-Flag
- "No Bravey" by James Blunt
- "No More Genocide" by Holly Near
- "No More War (Upon The Green Earth)" by Nigel Potter [3]
- "No One Left" by The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello)
- "No Remorse" by Metallica
- "Non-stop Violence" by Apoptygma Berzerk
- "Now You've Got Something to Die for" by Lamb of God
- "N.W.O." by Ministry
- "N.W.O. (Update Mix)" by Ministry
- "The Offending Article" by The Poison Girls
- "Oh, Afghanistan" by The Firesign Theatre
- "Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
- "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello
- "One" by Metallica
- "One More Parade" by Phil Ochs, covered by They Might Be Giants
- "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)" by Coven
- "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)" by Anti-Flag
- "Operation Iraqi Liberation" by David Rovics
- "Out on an Island" by Cock Sparrer
- "Out on Patrol" by The Offspring
- "Pacifica Radio" by Moorea Malatt
- "Paddy's Lamentation"
- "Paid Vacation" by The Circle Jerks
- "Paramilitar" by Ska-P
- "The Partisan" by Leonard Cohen
- "Passive" by A Perfect Circle
- "Part III" by Bad Religion
- "Peace" by Los Lobos
- "Peace Call" by Woody Guthrie
- "Peace Frog" by The Doors
- "Peace, Salaam, Shalom" by Emma's Revolution
- "Peace Sells (But Who's Buying)" by Megadeath
- "Peace Train" by Cat Stevens
- "Peaceable Kingdom" by Rush
- "Peat Bog Soldiers" by The Dubliners or Pete Seeger original "Die Moorsoldaten" Esser/Langhoff/Goguel (1933 KZ Börgermoor)
- "Pencil Rain" by They Might Be Giants
- "People Gotta Be Free" by The Young Rascals
- "Pills and Soap" by The Imposter
- "Plattgefickt" by Ellen ten Damme
- "The Post War Dream" by Pink Floyd
- "Potshot Heard 'Round the World" by Dead Kennedys
- "Power To The Peaceful" by Anti-Flag
- "The Price of Oil" by Billy Bragg
- "Protest Song" by Against Me!
- "Radio Baghdad" by Patti Smith
- "Rambozo the Clown" by Dead Kennedys
- "Readjustment Blues" by John Denver
- "Rejoyce" by Jefferson Airplane
- "Religious Wars" by Subhumans
- "Requiem For The Masses" by The Association
- "Revolution or Suicide" by Luke Tan
- "Rich Man's War" by Steve Earle
- "Rockets" by Cat Power
- "Roll with It" by Ani DiFranco
- "Rooster" by Alice in Chains
- "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" by Kenny Rogers
- "Run Through the Jungle" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Running Gun Blues" by David Bowie
- "Saigon Bride" by Joan Baez
- "Sam Stone" by John Prine
- "Same Dream" by Catie Curtis
- "Santo Domingo" by Phil Ochs
- "Save the Day" by The Living End
- "Scared" by MisterH [4]
- "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica
- "Send in the Marines" by Tom Lehrer
- "Sgt. Baker" by Primus
- "Shapes of Things" by The Yardbirds
- "Sheep Farming in the Falklands" by Crass
- "Shipbuilding" by Elvis Costello
- "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band
- "Sky Pilot" by Eric Burdon & The Animals
- "Soldier" by The Cause
- "Soldier Side" by System of a Down
- "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes" by Rod McKuen
- "Some Mother's Son" by The Kinks
- "Sounds Like War" by P.O.D.
- "Southampton Dock" by Pink Floyd
- "Spanish Bombs" by The Clash
- "Spirit of the Falklands" by New Model Army
- "Stoned Love" by The Supremes
- "Stop the Killing" by The Varukers
- "Stop the War Now" by The Temptations
- "Stories of a Hero" by Frank Marino
- "Straight to Hell" by The Clash
- "Straw Dogs" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "Succexy" by Metric
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2
- "Sunshine" by Jonathan Edwards
- "Symptoms" by Alanis Morissette
- "Tape from California" by Phil Ochs
- "Tehran" by The Offspring
- "Tentative" by System of a Down
- "Territories" by Rush
- "Testify" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Tin Soldiers" by Stiff Little Fingers
- "They Mean Murder" by Cock Sparrer
- "This Bus Won't Go To War" by The Firesign Theatre
- "This Could Be Anywhere In The World" by Alexisonfire
- "This War" by Sting
- "This Is War" by Smile Empty Soul
- "This Year's War" by The Subhumans
- "Throw" by 1905
- "The Times They Are a-Changin'" by Bob Dylan
- "Thousand Years Of War" by Authority Zero
- "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" by Donovan
- "Today I Killed a Man" by P.J. Proby
- "Tommy Gun" by Justin Sane
- "Too Many Puppies" by Primus
- "Too Young To Die" by Jamiroquai
- "Train" by Uncle Tupelo
- "Travelin' Soldier" by Dixie Chicks
- "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden
- "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)" by The Byrds
- "U-Fig" by System of a Down
- "Unity" by Operation Ivy (band)
- "Universal Soldier" by Buffy Sainte-Marie
- "The Unelected President" by Crass
- "Unknown Soldier" by The Casualties
- "The Unknown Soldier" by The Doors
- "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd
- "Vietnam" by Jimmy Cliff
- "Vietnam Love Song" by Judy Collins
- "Vietnam Serenade" by Conflict
- "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" by Pete Seeger
- "War" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- "War" by Jonatha Brooke
- "War" by OutKast
- "The War" by Angels and Airwaves
- "War?" by System of a Down
- "War" by Edwin Starr
- "War Again" by Oingo Boingo
- "War All of the Time" by Thursday
- "War of Man" by Neil Young
- "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath, covered by The Dresden Dolls
- "War Pimp Renaissance" by Lard
- "War Song" by Neil Young and Graham Nash
- "The War Song" by Culture Club
- "War Story" by Choking Victim
- "War Within A Breath" by Rage Against The Machine
- "Washington Bullets" by The Clash
- "We Believe" by Good Charlotte
- "We Can't Make It Here" by James McMurtry
- "We Gotta Have Peace" by Curtis Mayfield
- "We Shall Overcome"
- "We Want It All" by Zack de la Rocha
- "Well Oiled" by Abdoujaparov
- "Western Front, 1914" by The Zombies
- "We've Got to Get Out of This Place" by The Animals (and covered by others)
- "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye
- "What Are We Fighting For?" by Live
- "What If There's A War In America?" by 7 Seconds
- "What's That I Hear" by Phil Ochs
- "When Ya Get Drafted" by The Dead Kennedys
- "When the President Talks to God" by Bright Eyes
- "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger (covered by many)
- "Where Are You Now, My Son?" by Joan Baez
- "Where is the Love?" by Black Eyed Peas (very popular in 2003 to many who opposed to current Iraq war).
- "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" by Phil Ochs
- "Wildest Dreams" by Asia
- "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face" by Our Lady Peace
- "Who's Gonna Save Us? by The Living End
- "With God on Our Side" by Bob Dylan
- "WWIII" by KMFDM
- "World War 3" by Bad Religion
- "Yelling for War" by Sue Jeffers
- "Yes Sir, I Will" by Crass
- "You Can Bomb the World to Pieces, but You Can't Bomb it Into Peace" by Michael Franti & Spearhead
- "Yotaka no Yume" by Do As Infinity (Japanese)
- "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" by John Prine
- "Zombie" by The Cranberries
- "Zor and Zam" by The Monkees
[edit] Youth rights
- "All The Young Dudes" by David Bowie (notably covered by Mott the Hoople)
- "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" by Pink Floyd
- "Anthem For the Year 2000" by Silverchair
- "Anthem Part 2" by blink-182
- "Bored Teenagers" by The Adverts
- "Borstal Boy" by The Faces
- "Borstal Breakout" by Sham 69
- "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" by Frank Zappa(A large part of the song is about ephebophilia)
- "Children of the '80s" by Joan Baez
- "Crack in the Mirror" by Betty Elders, Joan Baez
- "Daddy" by KoRn
- "Daddy Never Understood" by Deluxx Folk Implosion
- "Disposable Teens" by Marilyn Manson
- "Do They Owe Us A Living?" by Crass
- "Dyers Eve" by Metallica
- "Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by Beastie Boys
- "Fools" by Van Halen
- "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
- "For You" by Staind
- "Hell Is for Children" by Pat Benatar
- "I Am One Of Them" by Aly & AJ
- "If The Kids Are United" by Sham 69
- "I Want It All" by Queen (Includes the phrases "hear the cry of youth" and "for the dreams of youth")
- "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring
- "Kids of the World Unite" by Squad Five-O
- "Kids Will Revolt" by A Global Threat
- "Liberal Education" by New Model Army
- "Minor Disturbance Too Young to Rock" by The Teen Idles
- "Minor Threat" by Minor Threat
- "My Generation" by The Who
- "Nowhere Kids" by Smile Empty Soul
- "Piece of Clay" by Marvin Gaye
- "Prison Sex" by Tool
- "Prisoner of Society" by The Living End
- "Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson
- "Schools Out" by Alice Cooper
- "Second Class Citizen" by Area-7
- "Shut Up" by Simple Plan
- "Subdivisions" by Rush
- "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran/Blue Cheer/The Who
- "Teenage Riot" by The Ataris
- "Teenage Warning" by Angelic Upstarts
- "Teenagers, Kick Our Butts" by Dar Williams
- "Teenager's Mother" by Bill Haley
- "Tom Sawyer" by Rush
- "We Die Young" by Alice In Chains
- "Well All Right" by Buddy Holly
- "We're Not Gonna Take it" by Twisted Sister
- "What Is Truth" by Johnny Cash
- "Unite And Win" Sham 69
- "Until We Win" By the Virus
- "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters
- "The Young Folks" by Diana Ross & the Supremes (covered by The Jackson 5)
- "Youth Gone Wild" by Skid Row
- "The Youth Of The Modern World" by Justin Sane
- "Youth Of The Nation" by P.O.D.
- "Youth Youth Youth" by Generation X
[edit] Protest songs about protest songs
- "Always Hate Hippies" by NOFX
- "Ballad Of The Yellow Beret" by Bob Seger
- "Dawn of Correction" by The Spokesmen
- "The Folk Song Army" by Tom Lehrer
- "Grotesksong" by Die Ärzte
- "I Should Be Allowed To Think" by They Might Be Giants
- "I'm Against It" by The Ramones
- "The One On The Right Is On The Left" by Johnny Cash
- "Protest Song" by Anti-Flag
- "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
- "The Universal Coward" by Jan & Dean
- "Ticket To Quebec" by Guttermouth
- "We Care a Lot" by Faith No More
- "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister
[edit] External links
- [5] - Wobbly songs
- Protest song lyrics from 1932 to 2000 from OCAP
- Rockin' in the Free World - Analysis of the lyrics of Neil Young's song
- Songs from the '80s about nuclear war
- The greatest protest songs of the '80s
- Radio Rebelde - Leftist Internet radio, rebel music around the clock.
- Centre For Political Song