List of socialist songs
This list consists of two groups: songs of countries that proclaimed themselves to be socialist (such as USSR, PRC, DPRK, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and songs of the socialist movement.
Socialist movement songs
- The Internationale - International socialist anthem (Also the anthem of USSR until 1944, and the anthem of many left-wing organisations)
- Solidarity Forever - Anti-capitalist union song written by Ralph Chaplin, 1915
- The Red Flag - by Jim Connell, 1889.[1]
- Bella ciao - Italian partisan song
- Hold the Fort - English Transport Workers
- Sar Oomad Zemestoon - Song of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, written by Saeed Soltanpour
- The Solidarity Song - leftist pro-revolution song by Hanns Eisler
- El pueblo unido jamás será vencido - by Quilapayun (Chile)
- Bandiera Rossa - Written by Carlo Tuzzi, 1908
- Di Shvue - The anthem of the General Jewish Labour Bund. Written by S. Ansky in 1902.
- Mshag Panvor - The anthem of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
- "Dublin City 1913" - the workers' struggle from 1913 to 1916, written by Donagh MacDonagh[2]
Songs of socialist countries
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Soviet Union - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Wide Is My Motherland
- Katyusha - A song about a girl called Katyusha
- Anthem of the USSR - Soviet national anthem
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China - People's Republic of China
- March of the Volunteers - Chinese national anthem
- Socialism is good - A song from the Cultural Revolution
- The East Is Red - de facto national anthem of China during the Cultural Revolution
- Ode to the Motherland - The song dedicated to the Chinese Revolution
Cuba - Republic of Cuba
- Guantanamera - patriotic song to words by Jose Marti
Yugoslavia - Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Padaj silo i nepravdo - Revolutionary song inspired by the Hvar Rebellion.
- Budi se istok i zapad
- Zastava Partije
Korea, North - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- No Motherland Without You
- Song of General Kim Jong-il
- Onwards Toward the Final Victory - composed in 2012
Czechoslovakia
- Kupředu, levá (The Leftist March) - a superb immortal song
See also
- Music and politics
- Music of the Soviet Union
- People's Songs
- Political hip hop § Anti-poverty, class struggle and socialism
- Protest song
- Punk ideologies § Socialism
- Trade union songs
References
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