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For information about protest songs in general, see [[Protest song]].
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==Abortion==
* "A Tool To Scream" by [[Zao (band)|Zao]]
* "Abortion is Murder" by [[P.O.D.]]
* "Bodies" by the [[Sex Pistols]]
* "Brick" by [[Ben Folds Five]]
* "Burden In Your Hands" By [[Underoath]]
* "Choir Girl" By [[Cold Chisel]]
* "Diamonds in the Mine" by [[Leonard Cohen]]
* "Give Em' Hell Kid" by [[My Chemical Romance]]
* "[[Harvester of Sorrow]]" by [[Metallica]]
* "Hello Birmingham" by [[Ani DiFranco]]
* "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]]
* "Operation Rescue" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Pennyroyal Tea" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]
* "Porch" by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "Rapid City, South Dakota" by [[Kinky Friedman]]
* "Retrospect For Life" by [[Common (rapper)|Common]]
* "Sally's Pigeons" by [[Cyndi Lauper]]
* "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 (singer)|Everlast]]
* "Will the Fetus be Aborted?" by [[Jello Biafra]]/[[Mojo Nixon]]
==America==
* "A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)" by [[System of a Down]]
* "[[Ænema]]" by [[Tool (band)|Tool]]
* "America" by [[Bree Sharp]]
* "America" by [[Tracy Chapman]]
* "America" by [[Jewel]]
* "[[America, Fuck Yeah]]" by [[DVDA (band)|DVDA]] ([[Team America: World Police]] [[theme song]])
* "America Is My Home" by [[James Brown]]
* "America Is Not The World" by [[Morrissey]]
* "[[American Life]]" by [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
* "American Life" by [[Primus]]
* "America Redux" by [[Hugh Blumenfeld]]
* "[[America Town]]" by [[Five for Fighting]]
* "American Ruse" by [[MC5]]
* "American Woman" [[Guess Who]]
* "[[Amerika (single)|Amerika]]" by [[Rammstein]]
* "Amerika v.6.0 (The Best We Can Do)" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "Antius" by [[Leaether Strip]]
* "Black and Blue America" by [[Chip Taylor]]
* "Country at War" by [[X (US band)]]
* "Crime in the City" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Deer Dance" by [[System of a Down]]
* "(Didn't Know I Was) UnAmerican" by [[Ian Rhett]] [http://www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/index.html]
* "Democracy" by [[Leonard Cohen]]
* "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]]
* "Freedom" by [[Ellis]]
* "God And Country" by [[The Thermals]]
* "Goin' Nowhere Blues" by [[Robert Earl Keen]]
* "The Great Compromise" by [[John Prine]]
* "[[Holiday (Green Day song)|Holiday]]" by [[Green Day]]
* "Home of the Brave" by [[Mr. Lif]]
* "I Hate My Generation" by [[Cracker]]
* "Brick" by [[Ben Folds Five]]
* "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" by [[X (US band)]]
* "Ifwhitemericatoldthetruthforonedayitswordwouldfallapart" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." by [[The Clash]]
* "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]]
* "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]]
* "Prayer for America" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "Puttin' People on the Moon" by [[Drive-By Truckers]]
* "Rain on the Scarecrow" by [[John Cougar Mellencamp]]
* "Rockin' in the Free World" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Scar Spangled Banner" by [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]]
* "See How We Are" by [[X (US band)]]
* "Sixteen Military Wives" by [[The Decemberists]]
* "Slash n Burn" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "Square Dance" by [[Eminem]]
* "[[The Revolution Will Not Be Televised]]" [[Gil Scott-Heron]]
* "Stars and Stripes of Corruption" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" by [[Tracy Chapman]]
* "The American Ruse" by [[MC5]]
* "The Decline" by [[NOFX]]
* "The GDMF Star Spangled Banner" by [[Pink Torpedoes]] [http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=91691]
* "The Idiots Have Taken Over" by [[NOFX]]
* "The Kids Aren't Alright" by [[The Offspring]]
* "These Colours Don't Run" by [[Protest The Hero]]
* [[Things Goin' On|"Things Goin' On"]] by [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
* "[[USA (song)|USA]]" by [[The Exploited]]
* "Volunteers" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Washington Bullets" by [[The Clash]]
* "Wasteland of the Free" by [[Iris Dement]]
* "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]]
* "White America" by [[Eminem]]
* "White, Discussion" by [[Live (band)|Live]]
* "With God On Our Side" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "[[Worlds Apart]]" by [[…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead]]
* "Apathesia" by Sonny Flaharty
==Animal rights and meat consumption==
* "Anarcho Pie" by [[Oi Polloi]] (a [[vegetarian cuisine|vegetarian recipe]] set to music)
* "Animal" by [[Prick (band)|Prick]]
* "Animal Crimes" by [[Mad Are Sane]]
* "Animal Kingdom" by [[Prince]]
* "The Animals Song" by [[Robb Johnson]]
* "Anti-Vivisection" by [[Battle of Disarm]]
* "Assault and Battery" by [[Howard Jones (musician)|Howard Jones]]
* "Ban Eat Meat!" by [[Godfrey Artreides]]
* "Berkshire Cunt" by [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]]
* "Boxing Day" by [[Robb Johnson]]
* "Boycott Meat" by [[Battle of Disarm]]
* "Butchers" by [[Nausea]]
* "Consumption" by [[State of Fear]]
* "Corporate Deathburger" by [[MDC (band)|MDC]]
* "Dapple Rose" by [[Slade]]
* "The Day Ted Nugent Killed All the Animals" [[Wally Pleasant]]
* "Disgustipated" by [[Tool (band)|Tool]]
* "Don't Kill The Animals" by [[Nina Hagen]] and [[Lene Lovich]]
* "Don't Kill the Whale" by [[Yes (band)|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]]
* "Free Me" by [[Goldfinger (band)|Goldfinger]]
* "Fuck Ted Nugent" by [[Goldfinger (band)|Goldfinger]]
* "I Don't Eat Animals" by [[Melanie Safka|Melanie]]
* "If I Was a Wolf" by [[Alice di Micele]]
* "Insensibilidad" by [[Ska-P]]
* "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]]
* "The Offending Article" by [[The Poison Girls]]
* "Open Your Eyes" by [[Goldfinger (band)|Goldfinger]]
* "Pigman" by [[Subhumans]]
* "Purina Hall of Fame" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "Sacred Cows" by [[Citizen Fish]]
* "Shock the Monkey" by [[Peter Gabriel]]
* "Slaughterhouse Blues" by [[Remembering Never]]
* "Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "Spawn Again" by [[Silverchair]]
* "Stand By" by [[Earth Crisis]]
* "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]]
* "This Is A.L.F." by [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]]
* "What Goes Around Comes Around" by [[State of Fear]]
* "Wild Life" by [[Paul McCartney]] & [[Wings (band)|Wings]]
==Anti-fascism==
''[[Anti-fascism]]''
* "A-Bomb in Wardour Street" by [[The Jam]]
* "Angel of Death" by [[Slayer]]
* "All You Fascists" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Antifascist Skin" by [[Poblers United]]
* "Aryanisms" by [[Napalm Death]]
* "Ballad of JJ Decay" by [[The Anti-Nowhere League]]
* "Bash The Fash" by [[Oi Polloi]]
* "[[Chant des Partisans]]" by [[Anna Marly]]
* "[[Die Gedanken sind frei]]"
* "Fear on the Streets' by [[The Members]]
* "Fuck Fascism" by [[The Oppressed]]
* "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]]
* "Nazi Die" by [[Doom]]
* "Nazi Go Home" by [[Crude S.S.]]
* "[[Nazi Punks Fuck Off!]]" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Nazis Shouldn't Drive" by [[MDC (band)|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]]
* "Redskins" by [[Inadaptats]]
* "Resiste" by [[KOP]]
* "Ska contra il racismo" by [[Banda Bassotti]]
* "Sometimes Antisocial Always Antifascist" by Stage Bottles
* "The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "This Machine Kills Fascists" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "Vengeance" by [[New Model Army (band)|New Model Army]]
* "War Movie" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "We Don't Need This (Fascist Groove Thang)" by [[Heaven 17]]
* "Why?" by [[The Specials]]
* "Wont Get Fooled Again" by [[The Who]]
* "Youth Against Fascism" by [[Sonic Youth]]
* "Talkin' Merchant Marine" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "This Machine Kills Fascists" by [[Anti Flag]]
==Capital punishment, death penalty==
* "25 Minutes To Go" by [[Johnny Cash]]
* "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]]
* "Death Row" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Ellis Unit One" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "Faye Tucker" by [[Indigo Girls]]
* "Hangknot, Slipknot" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Penalty Box" by [[Bobot Adrenaline]]
* "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]]
* "Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "Ride the Lightning" by [[Metallica]] (The song doesn't actually criticize death penalty, rather than depict the feelings and thoughts of a death penalty victim. Metallica's frontman James Hetfield is actually pro-death penalty.)
==Censorship==
* "Capital Radio" by [[The Clash]]
* "Can't Say Crap On The Radio" by [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
* "Censorshit" by [[The Ramones]]
* "Eye of the Beholder" by [[Metallica]]
* "F the CC" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "Freedom of Speech" by [[Ice-T]]
* "Heavy Metal Poisoning" by [[Styx (band)|Styx]]
* "Hook In Mouth" by [[Megadeth]]
* "In The End It’s All Nice" by [[Pilot (artist)|Pilot]]
* "Jerk-Off" by [[Tool (band)|Tool]]
* "[[Joe's Garage]]" by [[Frank Zappa]]
* "Lovely" by [[Suicidal Tendencies]]
* "Mrs. Frumpington's Song" by [[The Chipmunks]]
* "Ode to Tipper Gore" by [[Warrant (band)|Warrant]]
* "Paul Crump" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "PCP" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Porn Wars" by [[Frank Zappa]]
* "Psycho Joe" by [[Blues Traveler]]
* "[[Radio Radio]]" by [[Elvis Costello]]
* "Reality Asylum" by [[Crass]]
* "Rock N' Roll" by [[Dio]]
* "[[Rock the Casbah]]" by [[The Clash]]
* "Sculpture Of Man" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "[[Spiders (song)|Spiders]]" by [[System of a Down]]
* "The Box" by [[hed(pe)]]
* "[[We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)|We're Not Gonna Take It]]" by [[Twisted Sister]]
* "When A Kid Goes Bad" by [[Tom Petty]]
* "[[You Can't Bring Me Down]]" by [[Suicidal Tendencies]]
* "[[LiveWire]]" by [[Seo Taiji]]
* "White America" by Eminem
==Disabilty==
* "Mongoloid" by [[Sepultura]]
* "Spasticus Autisticus" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads
==Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture==
* "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3)" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Billy" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Captain Jack" by [[Billy Joel]]
* "Cheap Wine" by [[Cold Chisel]]
* "[[Chinese Rocks]]" by [[Iggy Pop]], [[Sid Vicious]], [[The Ramones]]
* "Cloud Nine" by the [[Temptations]]
* "[[Cocaine (song)|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 (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
* "Desire" by [[Entropy (US band)|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.]]
* "Dope Show" by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
* "Drugs are Good" by [[NOFX]]
* "Expecting to Fly" by [[Buffalo Springfield]]
* "Feltham is Singing Out" by [[Hard-Fi]]
* "Freddie's Dead" by [[Curtis Mayfield]]
* "Flying High (In The Friendly Sky)" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
* "Hand of Doom" by [[Black Sabbath]]
* "Hateful" by [[The Clash]]
* "[[Heroin (song)|Heroin]]" by [[Velvet Underground]]
* "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|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]]
* "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 (band)|Primus]]
* "Lithium" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]
* "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]]
* "[[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]]
* "Poolshark" by [[Sublime]]
* "Psycho" by [[System of a Down]]
* "The Pusher" by [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]]
* "Pusherman" by [[Curtis Mayfield]] (as well as most of his ''[[Superfly (soundtrack)|Superfly]]'' album)
* "Running to Stand Still" by [[U2]]
* "Sam Stone" by [[John Prine]]
* "Sickman" by [[Alice In Chains]]
* "Slow Motion" by [[Third Eye Blind]]
* "Smuggler's Blues" by [[Glen Frey]]
* "Snowblind" by [[Black Sabbath]]
* "Sober" by [[Tool (band)|Tool]]
* "[[Straight edge|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]]
* "Under The Bridge" by [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]
* "[[White Rabbit (song)|White Rabbit]]" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "The Winner Loses" by [[Body Count]]
* "Womb of the Worm" by [[Skyclad (band)|Skyclad]]
* "The Women Gather" by [[Sweet Honey in the Rock]]
==Election fraud==
* "[[Guerrilla Radio]]" by [[Rage Against The Machine]]
* "Election" by [[David Rovics]]
* "[[Razom Nas Bahato, Nas Ne Podolaty]]" by [[Greenjolly]]
==Environmental==
* "A Day In The Life Of A Tree" by [[The Beach Boys]]
* "Acid Rain" by [[Reagan Youth]]
* "[[A Horse With No Name]]" by [[America (band)|America]]
* "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]]) (covered by [[Amy Grant]], also later by [[Counting Crows]] featuring [[Vanessa Carlton]]. Song has also been covered 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 (band)|Cake]]
* "Caribe Atómico" by [[Aterciopelados]]
* "Cesspools in Eden"" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Close to the Fires" by [[the Samples]]
* "The Cradle Will Fall" by [[Skyclad (band)|Skyclad]]
* "Crazy Horses" by [[The Osmonds]]
* "Cuyahoga" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "Damn the Dam" by [[John Hanlon]]
* "Dawn Patrol" by [[Megadeth]]
* "The Disenchanted Forest" by [[Skyclad (band)|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 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]]
* "Fall on Me" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "French Letter" by [[Herbs (band)|Herbs]]
* "Greenfields" by The [[Brothers Four]]
* "Greenpeace" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "Hammer and Nail" by [[Indigo Girls]]
* "Heal the World" by [[Michael Jackson]]
* "Here We Are in the Years" by [[Neil Young]]
* "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]]
* "Kumbin" by [[Habib Koite]]
* "Kyoto Now" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Last Resort" by [[The Eagles]]
* "Licence To Kill" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "[[Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)]]" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
* "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]]
* "One Sweet World" by [[Dave Matthews Band]]
* "Only So Much Oil in the Ground" by [[Tower of Power]]
* "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 (band)|Alabama]]
* "Perfect World" by the [[Indigo Girls]]
* "Poison in the Well" by [[10,000 Maniacs]]
* "Progress" by [[Midnight Oil]]
* "Pudding Time" by [[Primus (band)|Primus]]
* "Radioactivity" by [[Kraftwerk]]
* "The Rape of the World" by [[Tracy Chapman]]
* "Red Tide" by [[Rush (band)|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 This House" by [[Spirit of the West]]
* "Sell Out" by [[The Levellers (band)|The Levellers]]
* "Seven Miles Upwind" by [[Chuck Brodsky]]
* "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" by [[Frank Zappa]]
* "Silent Spring" by [[PROBOT]]
* "Stars of Warburton" by [[Midnight Oil]]
* "Stop the Dams" by [[Gorillaz]]
* "Someday All This Will Be Road" by [[Spin Doctors]]
* "Southbound Pachyderm" by [[Primus (band)|Primus]]
* "Take It Back" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Tall Oak Tree" by [[Dorsey Burnette]]
* "Terra-Ist" by [[Oi Polloi]]
* "T9X" by [Tech N9ne]
* "Tomorrow's Not Always Like Today" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "Traffic Jam" by [[James Taylor]]
* "Unacceptable" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Water is Blood" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "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]]
* "Wild Life" by [[Paul McCartney]] & [[Wings (band)|Wings]]
* "World on Fire" by [[Sarah McLachlan]]
==Feminism==
* "[[4st. 7lb.]]" by [[Manic Street Preachers]] (wonderful, its not exactly about feminism but against the negative influences of image, models a beauty on TV)
* "[[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]]
* "Date Rape" by [[Sublime]]
* "Double Dare Ya" by [[Bikini Kill]]
* "Dress" by [[PJ Harvey]]
* "Eva" by [[Silvio Rodríguez]]
* "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]]
* "Hunter" by [[Dido (singer)|Dido]]
* "I Am No Mermaid" by [[Sinéad Lohan]]
* "I Am Woman" by [[Helen Reddy]]
* "I Will Never Marry" by [[Linda Ronstadt]]
* "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]]
* "[[Little Baby Nothing]]" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "Lover's Rock" by [[The Clash]]
* "Modern Day F Word" by [[Antiproduct]]
* "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]]
* "One Girl Army" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]]
* "Only Women Bleed" by [[Alice Cooper]]
* "Pandora's Box" by [[Aerosmith]]
* "The Pill" by [[Loretta Lynn]]
* "[[Rape Me]]" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]
* "Refusing To Be A Man" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "[[Respect (song)|Respect]]" by [[Aretha Franklin]]
* "Runaground" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "[[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]]
* "[[Think (song)|Think]]" by Aretha Franklin
* "To Daddy" by [[Dolly Parton]]
* "Turn Soonest To The Sea" by [[Protest The Hero]]
* "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|What Have You Done For Me Lately?]]" by [[Janet Jackson]]
* "[[What It Feels Like for a Girl]]/Lo Que Siente la Mujer" by [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
* "Woman" by [[Neneh Cherry]]
* "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" by [[John Lennon]]
* "Womb Envy" by [[Paint It Black (band)|Paint It Black]]
* "Women" by [[Crass]]
* "Women's Bodies" by [[Rebecca Riots (band)|Rebecca Riots]]
* "You Don't Own Me" by [[Lesley Gore]]
==Gay rights==
* "AIDS Charade" by [[Fallout (band)|Fallout]] (Despite the ambiguous nature of the title, this song is pro-gay rights.)
* "[[American Idiot (song)|American Idiot]]" by [[Green Day]]
* "America's So Straight" by [[MDC]]
* "Angry Atthis" by [[Maxine Feldman]]
* "Anita O.J." by [[Tom Paxton]]
* "The Christians and the Pagans" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "Danny Boy" by [[Black 47]] (casting the title character as a gay Irish construction worker)
* "[[Deeper and Deeper]]" by [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
* "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 (band)|Needle Sharing]]
* "Gay Rude Boys Unite" by [[Leftover 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]]
* "Homeboy" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "Homophobes Are Just Mad 'Cuz They Can't Get Laid" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "Homophobia" by [[Chumbawamba]]
* "I Heart Fags" by [[MC Frontalot]]
* [["I Want It All"]] by [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
* [["I Want to Break Free"]] by [[Queen (band)|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]]
* "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]]
* "[[Matthew Shepard|M. Shepard]]" by [[Thursday (band)]]
* "Murder in Hollywood" by [[D.O.A. (band)|D.O.A.]]
* "No Clause 28" by [[Boy George]]
* "No Patriarchy Here" by [[Moorea Malatt]]
* "Philadelphia" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Poison Oak" by [[Bright Eyes (band)|Bright Eyes]]
* "Radical" by [[Catie Curtis]]
* "Rebel Girl" by [[Bikini Kill]]
* "Sexuality" by [[Billy Bragg]]
* "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" by [[The Smiths]]
* "Smalltown Boy" by [[Bronski Beat]]
* "Streets of Philadelphia" by [[Bruce Springsteen]]
* "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 (singer)|Jamie Anderson]]
* "When Two Men Kiss" by [[Oi Polloi]]
==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]]
* "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 (band)|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 (band)|ABC]]
* "Giants" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]]
* "Goodbye Desolate Railyard" by [[A Silver Mt. Zion]]
* "The Great Brain Robbery" by [[Skyclad (band)|Skyclad]]
* "Greater Omaha" by [[Desaparecidos (band)|Desaparecidos]]
* "Head Like A Hole" by [[Nine Inch Nails]]
* "High Crimes and Misdemeanors (Hip-Hop-Cracy)" by [[Styx (band)|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 (song)|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]]
* "NPWA" by [[Billy Bragg]]
* "Panic" by [[The Smiths]]
* "[[Piggies]]" by [[The Beatles]]
* "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Radio, Radio" by [[Elvis Costello & the Attractions]]
* "Rank Strangers" by the [[Stanley Brothers]]
* "Reino de Todavía" by Silvio Rodríguez
* "Right Now" by [[Naked Aggression]]
* "The Rapeover" by [[Mos Def]]
* "Scum of America" by [[the Kissers]]
* "Seattle Was a Riot" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "Solamente por Pensar" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Smash the State" by [[Naked Aggression]]
* "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]]
* "The WTO Kills Farmers" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "This Notes 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]]
* "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)
* "Won't Get Fooled Again" by [[The Who]]
* "[[WTO]]" by [[Pennywise]]
==Governments and imperialism==
* "16 Military Wives" by [[The Decemberists]]
* "[[99 Luftballons]]" by [[Nena]]
* "[[51st State]]" by [[New Model Army (band)|New Model Army]]
* "[[Anarchy in the U.K.]]" by [[The Sex Pistols]]
* "All Hawai'i Stand Together" by [[Dennis Pavao]]
* "America Latina ¡¡Libre!!" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Arahja" by [[Kult (band)|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]]
* "B.Y.O.B" by [[System of a Down]]
* "Cause of Death" by [[Immortal Technique]]
* "Cambalache" by [[Enrique Santos Discépolo]]
* "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]], (covered by [[Built to Spill]])
* "Cruise" by [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]]
* "[[A Design for Life]]" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido (The People United Will Never Be Defeated)" by Quilapayun
* "Empire" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "España Va Bien" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Fanatic Heart" by [[Black 47]]
* "Fuck The System" by [[System Of A Down]]
* "Flying Arrow" by [[Mason Proffit]]
* "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Dessert" and "Not now John" 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 (band)|James]]
* "[[Happy Nation]]" by [[Ace of Base]], an anti-fascist tune (about rebelling against the fascist nation and a hope for life)
* "Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida" by [[Holly Near]]
* "Have You Seen The Saucers?" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Hey Bobby" by [[Sage Francis]]
* "Home of the Brave" by [[Mr. Lif]]
* "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" by [[X (US band)]]
* "If I Had A Rocket Launcher" by [[Bruce Cockburn]]
* "[[Imagine (song)|Imagine]]" by [[John Lennon]]
* "[[Indian Reservation]]" by [[Paul Revere and the Raiders]]
* "I Want It All" by [[Queen (band)|Queen]] (Especially obvious in the verse "Listen all you people/Come gather round/I gotta get me a game plan/Gotta shake you to the ground/Just give me/What I know is mine/People, do you hear me ?/Just give me the sign !")
* "James Connolly" by [[Black 47]]
* "Kurvini Sinovi" ("Sons of Bitches") by [[Azra]]
* "La Sesera No VA" by [[Ska-P]]
* "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 (band)|Steppenwolf]]
* "Mury" by [[Jacek Kaczmarski]]
* "Natalia" by [[Joan Baez]]
* "New Noise" by [[Refused]]
* "The Nature of the Threat" by [[Emcee Lynx]]
* "Old England" by [[The Waterboys]]
* "Old Mother Reagan Protest Song" by [[The Violent Femmes]]
* "People of the Sun" by [[Rage Against the Machine]]
* "Rambozo the Clown" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "RATS" by [[Subhumans]]
* "Red, White, Brainwashed" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "[[Revolution (The Beatles)|Revolution]]" by [[The Beatles]]
* "Resist" by [[The Lifesavas]]
* "Revolution" by [[Bob Marley & the Wailers]]
* "Revolution 1993" by [[Jamiroquai]]
* "Ringing of Revolution" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "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]]
* "Testify" by [[Rage Against the Machine]]
* "The Hand That Feeds" by [[Nine Inch Nails]]
* "The Last Resort" by [[The Eagles]]
* "The Nature of the Threat" by [[Ras Kass]]
* "The Trader" by [[The Beach Boys]]
* "The System Works For Them" by [[Aus-Rotten]]
* "They Dance Alone" by [[Sting]], covered by [[Mercedes Sosa]]
* "[[Timor (song)|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]]
* "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]]
* "Your Next Bold Move" by [[Ani DiFranco]]
==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]]
* "Both Sides of the Tweed" by [[Capercaillie (band)|Capercaillie]]
* "Child" by [[Holly Near]]
* "Click Click Boom" by [[Saliva]]
* "Come Out And Play" by [[The Offspring]]
* "The Devil's Right Hand" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "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]]
* "Glorified G" by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "Gun Control" by [[D.R.I.]]
* "Guns Are For Pussies" by [[311 (band)|311]]
* "Guns, Guns, Guns" by [[The Guess Who]]
* "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by [[The Beatles]]
* "Holler If You Hear Me" by [[Tupac Shakur]]
* "How I Want to Die" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "I Got a Gun" by Channel 3
* "If It Were Up to Me" by [[Cheryl Wheeler]]
* "It's History" by [[Essra Mohawk]]
* "Jeremy" by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "Johnny Was" by [[Bob Marley]] (covered by [[Stiff Little Fingers]])
* "Living in a World (They Didn't Make)" by [[Janet Jackson]]
* "Lou Marsh" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "Love Song" by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
* "Luka" by [[Suzanne Vega]]
* "Lunchbox" by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
* "Mama Come Quick" by [[Jamie Anderson (singer)|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]]
* "Never Again" by [[Nickelback]]
* "New Day" by [[Wyclef Jean]]
* "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 (band)|Queen]]
* "Right Wing Pigeons" by [[Dead Milkmen]]
* "Saturday Night Special" by [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
* "Self-Destruction"
* "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]]
* "The Guns of Brixton" by [[The Clash]]
* "The Love Song" by [[Marilyn Manson]]
* "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 (Song)|Washington Bullets]]" by [[The Clash]]
* "We're All in the Same Game"
* "We've Had Enough" by [[Michael Jackson]]
* "What it's Like" by [[Everlast (singer)|Everlast]]
* "What's the Matter Here?" by [[10,000 Maniacs]]
* "Where Is the Love" by [[Black Eyed Peas]]
* "Youth of the Nation" by [[P.O.D.]]
* "[[Zombie (song)|Zombie]]" by [[The Cranberries]]
==Land rights==
* "Beds Are Burning" by [[Midnight Oil]]
* "Blood Quantum" by the [[Indigo Girls]]
* "Bullet" by [[GGFH]] (Global Genocide Forget Heaven)
* "The [[Diggers (True Levellers)|Diggers]] Song" (traditional, recorded by [[Chumbawamba]] and [[Attila the Stockbroker]] among others)
* "Don't Drink the Water" by [[Dave Matthews Band]]
* "Go On Home British Soldiers" by [[Éire Óg]]
* "Fuck the Border" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "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]]
* "Monster" by [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]]
* "Mountain Song" by [[Holly Near]]
* "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]]
* "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 [[The Levellers (band)|The Levellers]]
* "World Turned Upside Down" by [[Leon Rosselson]]
==Materialism==
* "All You Can Eat" by [[Ben Folds]]
* "America" by [[Bree Sharp]]
* "American Kryptonite" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]]
* "[[American Life]]" by [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]]
* "Angels" by [[Crass]]
* "Between Angels and Insects" by [[Papa Roach]]
* "Big Machine" by [[Velvet Revolver]]
* "Bought and Sold" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "Bullet in the Head" by [[Rage Against the Machine]]
* "Canción de Navidad" by [[Silvio Rodríguez]]
* "Captain of Industry" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "Cigaro" by [[System of a Down]]
* "Closer To The Heart" by [[Rush (band)|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]]
* "For The Love Of Money" by the [[O'Jays]]
* "Freedom Fighters" by [[Miyavi]]
* "Freedom of Choice" by [[DEVO]]
* "Half" by [[Soundgarden]]
* "Head Like A Hole" by [[Nine Inch Nails]]
* "Hooker With a Penis" by [[Tool]]
* "Gone" by [[Jack Johnson (musician)|Jack Johnson]]
* "The Grand Illusion" by [[Styx]]
* "I'm a Celt" by [[Emcee Lynx]]
* "[[Imagine (song)|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 (entertainer)|Madonna]]
* "Materialist" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "[[Money (song)|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 [[The 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]]
* "Prou Propietat" by [[Inadaptats]]
* "Pudding Time" by [[Primus (band)|Primus]]
* "Revistas del Corazón" by [[Ska-P]]
* "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 (band)|Bright Eyes]]
* "Soon Forget" by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "[[Stupid Girls]]" by [[P!nk]]
* "Time in Babylon" by [[Emmylou Harris]]
* "[[This Land Is Your Land]]" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls" by [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]]
* "Upright Citizen" by [[Crass]]
* "Well Respected Man" by [[The Kinks]]
* "We're All Bourgeois Now" by [[McCarthy (band)|McCarthy]]
* "What Do You Want from Life" by [[The Tubes]]
* "What Really Matters" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "What Shall We Do Now?" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Where Do the Children Play" by [[Cat Stevens]]
* "Who Are the Brain Police" by [[Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention]]
* "Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash" by [[The Clovers]]
* "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" by [[Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention]]
==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 (band)|Cursive]]
* "Artificial Life" by [[Operation Ivy (band)]]
* "Beautyqueen" by [[Jenn Lindsay]]
* "Big Fun at the Gallows" by [[Nothingface]]
* "Blood from a Clone" by [[George Harrison]]
* "Blue Mixes" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]]
* "Buy my Snake Oil" by [[Jello Biafra]]/[[Mojo Nixon]]
* "Can't Stand Rock 'n' Roll by [[The Anti-Nowhere League]]
* "Can't Stop the Sun" by [[Tom Petty|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 (band)|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 (band)|Fifteen]]
* "Death on two Legs" by [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
* "Death or Glory" by [[The Clash]]
* "Defamation Innuendo" by [[The Circle Jerks]]
* "Destiny Calling" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "Dinosaurs Will Die" by [[NOFX]]
* "Don't Be Denied" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Don't Start a Band" by [[Reel Big Fish]]
* "Downloading" by [[Negativland]]
* "Dump Pop Song" by [[Lucky Boys Confusion]]
* "EMI - Unlimited Edition" by [[The Sex Pistols]]
* "False Advertising" by [[Bright Eyes (band)|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]]
* "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]]
* "Hitsville U.K" by [[The Clash]]
* "Hooker with a Penis" by [[Tool (band)|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]]
* "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|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 (band)|Cold]]
* "The Last DJ" by [[Tom Petty|Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]]
* "Last Man Standing" by [[Bon Jovi]]
* "The Late Greats" [[Wilco]]
* "Let's Push Things Forward" by [[The Streets]]
* "[[The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (song)|The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys]]" by [[Traffic (band)|Traffic]]
* "Lucy Stoners" by [[Amy Ray]]
* "[[Melody Maker]]s, You're Just a Bunch of Wankers" by [[Pork Dukes]]
* "Mercury Poisoning" by [[Graham Parker]]
* "The Million You Never Made" by [[Ani DiFranco]]
* "Money Becomes King" by [[Tom Petty|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 Want to Smoke Crack" by [[Beck]]
* "My Hit Song" by [[Melissa Lefton]]
* "New Noise" by [[Refused]]
* "Newsworth" by [[Greenslade]]
* "The Nickel Song" by [[Melanie Safka|Melanie]]
* "Nothing Is Good Enough" by [[Aimee Mann]]
* "One Down" by [[Ben Folds]]
* "One Hit Wonder" by [[Everclear (band)|Everclear]]
* "One Hit Wonderful" by [[Reel Big Fish]]
* "[[Only a Northern Song]]" by [[The Beatles]]
* "Overkill" by Jimmy Buffett
* "Panic" by [[The Smiths]]
* "Payola Blues" by [[Neil Young]]
* "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]]
* "Radio" by [[Smash Mouth]]
* "Radio #2" by [[The Ataris]]
* "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]
* "Radio, Radio" by [[Elvis Costello & the Attractions]]
* "Radio Song" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "Rockstar" by [[Nickelback]]
* "Reinventing Axl Rose" by [[Against Me!]]
* "Rock the Kids" by [[The Vibrators]]
* "Rough Trade" by [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
* "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]]
* "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?]]
* "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]]
* "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 (band)|Slipknot]]
* "Welcome to the Machine" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "We're Going to Miss You" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "Whisper" by [[Alien Ant Farm]]
* "(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" by [[The Clash]]
* "Wonder What's Next" by [[Chevelle]]
* "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]]
==Nuclear weapons==
* "1983" by [[Jimi Hendrix]]
* "1945" by [[Social Distortion]]
* "1999" by [[Prince]] & the Revolution
* "2005" by [[Gene Cotton]]
* "[[99 Luftballons]]" by [[Nena]]
* "Ain't Nowhere You Can Run" by [[Holly Near]]
* "Apeman" by the [[Kinks]]
* "[[Blackened]]" by [[Metallica]]"
* "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]]
* "Domino" by [[Genesis]]
* "Doomsday Waltz" by [[Elmo & Patsy]]
* "Einstein a Go-Go" by [[Landscape (band)|Landscape]]
* "Electric Funeral" by [[Black Sabbath]]
* "Enola Gay" by [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark|OMD]]
* "Fallout Shelter" by [[Billy Chambers]]
* "Fight Fire With Fire" by [[Metallica]]
* "Force Ten" by [[Rush (band)]]
* "French Letter" by [[Herbs (band)|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 (band)|Queen]]
* "Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "[[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 Come and Stand at Every Door" by [[The Byrds]]
* "It's a Mistake" by [[Men At Work]]
* "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]]
* "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 [[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 (band)|Desaparecidos]]
* "Power" by [[The Temptations]]
* "Pride of Man" by [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]]
* "Protect And Survive" by [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]
* "Put Down That Weapon" by [[Midnight Oil]]
* "[[Redemption Song]]" by [[Bob Marley & the Wailers]]
* "Roulette" by [[Bruce Springsteen]]
* "Russians" by [[Gordon Sumner|Sting]]
* "So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)" by [[Tom Lehrer]]
* "Soviet Jewellery" by [[BB Gabor]]
* "Stand or Fall" by [[The Fixx]]
* "Strong Enough To Break" by [[Hanson]]
* "Talking Cuban Crisis" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "The Sun Is Burning" by [[Simon and Garfunkel]]
* "They've Got a Bomb" by [[Crass]]
* "This Is War" by [[Smile Empty Soul]]
* "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 (singer)|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]]
==Police or authority==
* "5 to 1" by [[The Doors]]
* "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]]
* "The Arrest" by [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]]
* "Bad Boys" by [[Inner Circle]]
* "Ballad of Sacco & Vanzetti" by [[Joan Baez]]
* "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 [[Leftover Crack]]
* "Cherry Beach Express" by [[Pukka Orchestra]]
* "Concentration Moon" by [[Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention]]
* "[[Cop Killer (song)|Cop Killer]]" by [[Body Count]]
* "Cop Shot" by [[Dead Prez]]
* "Cops of the World" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "Civic Hall" by [[The Vapors]]
* "Dead Cops" by [[Millions of Dead Cops]]
* "Deer Dance" by [[System of a Down]]
* "Diallo" by [[Wyclef Jean]]
* "Drunk With Power" by [[Discharge (band)|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 (band)|Conflict]]
* "Fuck Authority" by [[Pennywise]]
* "Fuck Police Brutality" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "[[Fuck tha Police]]" by [[N.W.A]]
* "Fuck the Police" by [[Sodom (band)|Sodom]]
* "Fucking Hostile" by [[Pantera]]
* "Gang Control" by [[Leftover Crack]]
* "Give It Revolution" by [[Suicidal Tendencies]]
* "Get Your Riot Gear" by [[Five Iron Frenzy]]
* "Gotta Serve Somebody" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "The Guns of Brixton" by [[The Clash]]
* "Hate the Police" by [[Mudhoney]]
* "His Majesty, the Policeman" by [[Lord Buckley]]
* "Holler If You Hear Me" by [[Tupac Shakur]]
* "[[Hurricane (song)|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]])
* "I Got Stripes" by [[Johnny Cash]]
* "I Had No Right" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "[[I Shot the Sheriff]]" by [[Bob Marley & the Wailers]] (covered by [[Eric Clapton]])
* "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 the Law" by [[Social Distortion]]
* "It's My Life" by [[The Animals]]
* "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]]
* "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 (band)|Lamb of God]]
* "[[Ohio (song)|Ohio]]" by [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]] (written by [[Neil Young]])
* "One Dead Cop" by [[Leftover Crack]]
* "One in a Million" by [[Guns N' Roses]]
* "Operation: M.O.V.E." by [[Leftover Crack]]
* "P.C.P" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "Police and Thieves" by [[The Clash]]
* "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 (band)|MDC]]
* "Police State" by [[Dead Prez]]
* "Police Story" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "Police Story" by [[Black Flag (band)|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]]
* "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]]
* "Sin of the City" by [[Duran Duran]]
* "Smash the State" by [[Naked Aggression]]
* "Starkville City Jail" by [[Johnny Cash]]
* "Soho-A-GoGo" by [[The Members]]
* "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]]
* "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "They Don't Care About Us" by [[Michael Jackson]]
* "'Tis of Thee" by [[Ani DiFranco]]
* "Trapped" by [[Tupac Shakur]]
* "Vigalante Man by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "We've Had Enough" by [[Michael Jackson]]
* "Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)" by [[Chumbawamba]]
* "What the Po-Pos Hate" by [[The Coup]]
* "W.M.A." by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "You Can't Bring Me Down" by [[Suicidal Tendencies]]
* "You Can Kill the Protester, But You Can't Kill the Protest" by [[Anti-Flag]]
==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 (song)|American Idiot]]" by [[Green Day]]
* "The Ballad of Ronald Reagan" by The [[Austin Lounge Lizards]]
* "Battalions of Fear" by [[Blind Guardian]]
* "Big Brother" by [[Stevie Wonder]]
* "Bulls On Parade" by [[Rage Against the Machine]]
* "Bullshit Politicians" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "Bu$hleaguer" by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "Bye Bye Ronnie" by [[MDC (band)|MDC]]
* "[[B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs)|B.Y.O.B.]]" by [[System of a Down]]
* "[[California Über Alles]]" by [[Dead Kennedys|The Dead Kennedys]]
* "Christmas in Washington" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "Common Man" by [[The Blasters]]
* "Corporate Deathburger" by [[MDC (band)|MDC]]
* "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" 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]]
* "Dear Dan" by [[Christine Lavin]]
* "Dear Mr. President" by [[Pink]]
* "Deify" by [[Disturbed]]
* "Dickie's Such an Asshole" by [[Frank Zappa]]
* "Election Day" by [[Paint It Black (band)|Paint It Black]]
* "The End of the Innocence" by [[Don Henley]]
* "Exhuming McCarthy" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "The Fletcher Memorial Home" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" by [[David Bowie]]
* "Fight The Power" by [[Public Enemy]]
* "[[Fight the Power, Pt. 1 & 2]]" by [[The Isley Brothers]]
* "Final Straw" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "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 [[Sex Pistols|The Sex Pistols]]
* "Going Underground" by [[The Jam]]
* "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" by [[Phil Ochs]] (new lyrics for his original, "Here's to the State of Mississippi")
* "[[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. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "I Got Your Number" by [[Cock Sparrer]]
* "Irish Blood, English Heart" by [[Morrissey]]
* "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 [[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 (band)|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 [[Ramones|The Ramones]]
* "The New Brutality" by [[Paint It Black (band)|Paint It Black]]
* "Nuclear Device" by [[The Stranglers]]
* "Old Mother Reagan" by [[Violent Femmes]]
* "Panic" by [[Paint It Black (band)|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 (band)|MDC]]
* "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 (band)|James]]
* "Pulling Lame" by [[Spirit of the West]]
* "Puttin' People on the Moon" by Drive-By Truckers
* "Las Ratas No Tienen Alas" by [[Jaguares (rock band)|Jaguares]]
* "Reagan Youth" by [[Reagan Youth]]
* "Right Wing Pigeons" by [[Dead Milkmen]]
* "Run With The Blind" by [[Cock Sparrer]]
* "Sad State Of Affairs" by [[Descendents|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 (band)|Muse]]
* "[[Taxman]]" by [[The Beatles]]
* "That's Progress" by [[Jello Biafra]]
* "The Day that Thatcher Dies" by [[Hefner]]
* "The W.A.N.D" by [[The Flaming Lips]]
* "Those Damned Blue Collar Tweakers" by [[Primus (band)|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]]
* "Walls Come Tumbling Down" by [[The Style Council]]
* "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]]
* "When The President Talks To God" by [[Bright Eyes (band)]]
* "Who's the Terrorist Now" by [[MDC (band)|MDC]]
* "Woe to the World" by [[Jamie Anderson (singer)|Jamie Anderson]]
* "World Leader Pretend" by [[R.E.M. (band)|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 [[Bill Mumy|Billy Mumy]])
* "You Haven't Done Nothin'" by [[Stevie Wonder]]
* "You're The Man" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
==Poverty==
* "Across 110th Street" by [[Bobby Womack]]
* "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]]
* "Brother Don't You Walk Away" by [[The Hooters]]
* "Busted" by [[Ray Charles]]
* "Cars and Shoes" by [[The Coup]]
* "[[Cloud Nine (song)|Cloud Nine]]" by [[The Temptations]]
* "Cold Cash and Colder Hearts" by [[Thrice]]
* "Cold Dreams" by [[Emcee Lynx]]
* "Danke Bush" by [[Blumentopf]]
* "Dead End Street" by [[The Kinks]]
* "Dear Abby" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Dirty Boulevard" by [[Lou Reed]]
* "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]]
* "For The Love of Money" by [[The O'Jays]]
* "Freddie's Dead" by [[Curtis Mayfield]]
* "Ghost Town" by [[The Specials]]
* "Harvest for the World" by [[The Isley Brothers]]
* "Head Like A Hole" by [[Nine Inch Nails]]
* "Hobo's Lullaby" by [[Goebel Reeves]]
* "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "If I Could Divide the Smell of Flowers" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "If We Make It Through December" by [[Merle Haggard]]
* "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
* "Insecto Urbano" by [[Ska-P]]
* "In the Ghetto" by [[Elvis Presley]]
* "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]]
* "One" by [[U2]]
* "Pastures of Plenty" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Piss on Your Grave" by [[The Coup]]
* "Poverty" by [[Bobby Bland]]
* "The Procession of Popular Capitalism" by [[McCarthy (band)]]
* "Punish the People" by [[Roy Zimmerman]]
* "Rambling Boy" by [[Tom Paxton]]
* "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]]
* "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" by [[Tracy Chapman]] (covered by [[Reel Big Fish]])
* "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 (song)|Timor]]" by [[Shakira]]
* "Tom Joad" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Underdogs" by [[The Coup]]
* "Underpass" by [[Garnet Rogers]]
* "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 (singer)|Everlast]]
* "Who Cares Wins" by [[Anthrax (band)|Anthrax]]
==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]]
* "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]]
* "Police in Helicopter" by [[John Holt (singer)|John Holt]]
* "Prison Song" by [[System Of A Down]]
* "The Knowledge" by [[Janet Jackson]]
* "The Pusher" by [[Steppenwolf (band)|Steppenwolf]]
* "Smoke Two Joints" by [[Sublime (band)|Sublime]]
* "Smuggler's Blues" by [[Glen Frey]]
* "Stoned" by [[Smashmouth]]
* "Swervin" by [[The Coup]]
* "War on Drugs" by [[Warsawpack]]
* "What's a Simple Man to Do?" by [[Steve Earle]]
== 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]]
* "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.''
* "Anti-Racist" by [[The Trojans (band)|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 (song)|Blackbird]]" by [[The Beatles]]
* "Black and White" by [[Three Dog Night]]
* "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 [[Martha & the Muffins|M + M]]
* "Blackheart Man" by [[Bunny Wailer]]
* "Blowin' in the Wind" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "[[Brother Louie]]" by [[Hot Chocolate (band)|Hot Chocolate]]
* "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]]
* "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 Nigger, 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]]
* "[[Everyday People]]" by [[Sly & the Family Stone]]
* "Fables of Faubus" by [[Charles Mingus]]
* "Family of One" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "Fight the Power" by [[Public Enemy]]
* "Free Nelson Mandela" by [[The Specials]]
* "[[Free Your Mind]]" by [[En Vogue]]
* "Freedom Now" by [[Tracy Chapman]]
* "[[George Jackson (Black Panther)|George Jackson]]" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "Get Up, Stand Up" by [[Bob Marley]]
* "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" by [[Eddy Grant]]
* "[[Happy Birthday (1980 song)|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 (song)|Hurricane]]" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "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 (song)|Imagine]]" by [[John Lennon]]
* "In All Rwanda's Glory" by [[Rx Bandits]]
* "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
* "It Isn't Nice" by [[Malvina Reynolds]]
* "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 (band)|Queen]]
* "Jail Guitar Doors" by [[The Clash]]
* "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" by [[Midnight Oil]]
* "[[John Brown's Body]]" (traditional)
* "Julius and Ethel" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "Killing in the Name" by [[Rage Against the Machine]]
* "The KKK Took My Baby Away" by [[The Ramones]]
* "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]]
* "Mississippi Goddam" by [[Nina Simone]]
* "Mister Soul" by [[Buffalo Springfield]]
* "National Brotherhood Week" by [[Tom Lehrer]]
* "Nazi White Trash" by [[Leftover Crack]]
* "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" by [[Dead Kennedys]] (covered also by [[Napalm Death]])
* "New Agenda" by [[Janet Jackson]] & [[Chuck D]]
* "No Good (Attack The Radical)" by [[Pantera]]
* "Nothing Yet" by [[Tracy Chapman]]
* "[[Ohio (song)|Ohio]]" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Om Nia Merican" by [[Saul Williams]]
* "Only a Pawn in Their Game" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "The Only Good Fascist is A Very Dead Fascist" 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]]
* "Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae" by [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
* "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]]
* "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 Holliday]]
* "Suburban Homeboy" by [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]]
* "Sun City" by [[Artists United Against Apartheid]]
* "Take off Your Swastika" by [[Phranc]]
* "Taneytown" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "Talking KKK Blues" by [[Townes Van Zandt]]
* "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' (song)|The Times They Are A-Changin']]"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3618291.stm]" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "Too Many Martyrs" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "Trouble Every Day" by [[Frank Zappa]] and the [[Mothers of Invention]]
* "Underdog" by [[Sly & the Family Stone]]
* "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" by [[The Temptations]]
* "Violencia Machista" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Voto Latino" by [[Molotov (band)|Molotov]]
* "Wake Up" by [[Rage Against The Machine]]
* "[[We Shall Overcome]]" (traditional)
* "[[What's Going On (song)|What's Going On]]" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
* "White, Discussion" by [[Live (band)|Live]]
* "White Noise" by [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
* "Why?" by [[The Specials]]
* "Your Racist Friend" by [[They Might Be Giants]]
==Religion==
* "After Forever" by [[Black Sabbath]]
* "All There Is" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "American Jesus" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Asylum" by [[Crass]]
* "Atheist Peace" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Baba" by [[Alanis Morissette]]
* "Bad Religion" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Beautiful People" by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
* "Beautiful World" by [[Emcee Lynx]]
* "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]]
* "Christian Militia" by [[New Model Army (band)|New Model Army]]
* "Crazy Miranda" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Crucifix Kiss" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "The Christians and the Pagans" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "Conservative Christian, Right-Wing Republican, Straight White American Males" by [[Todd Snider]]
* "Don't Know When But a Day is Gonna Come" by [[Bright Eyes (band)|Bright Eyes]]
* "Dear God" by [[XTC]]
* ".03" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Disgustipated" by [[Tool (band)|Tool]]
* "Don't Need Religion" by [[Motörhead]]
* "Don't Pray On Me" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Easter?" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Faith Alone" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Faith in God" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Faithfull" by [[Pearl Jam]]
* "15 Storey Halo" by [[ABC (band)|ABC]]
* "Forgiven" by [[Alanis Morissette]]
* "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 (band)|James]]
* "God's Love" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "God Song" by [[Matching Mole]]
* "God Song" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "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]]
* "Hymn 43" by [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]
* "Hypocrites" by [[Korn]]
* "I Ain't Afraid" by [[Holly Near]]
* "I Don't Wanna Be No Catholic Boy" by [[Dead Boys]]
* "I Take My Chances" by [[Mary Chapin Carpenter]]
* "[[Imagine (song)|Imagine]]" by [[John Lennon]]
* "Insanity" by [[Oingo Boingo]]
* "It's the Music" by [[Meat Beat Manifesto]]
* "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" by [[Frank Zappa]]
* "Jesus Was a Terrorist" by [[Jello Biafra]]& [[Nomeansno]]
* "Kasposos" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Killing for Jesus" by [[The Circle Jerks]]
* "La Mosca Cojonera" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Ladies' Night in Loserville" by [[Propagandhi]]
* "Let it Ring" by [[Amy Ray]]
* "Leper Messiah" by [[Metallica]]
* "Live A Love Of Life" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "Losing My Religion" by [[R.E.M.]]
* "Love in Mind" by [[Neil Young]]
* "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" by [[Frank Zappa]]
* "Millions of Damn Christians" by [[MDC (band)|MDC]]
* "Muhammad My Friend" by [[Tori Amos]]
* "Moral Majority" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "My God" by [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]]
* "No God" by [[The Germs]]
* "None of the Above" by [[Duran Duran]]
* "Our Saviour" by [[Paradise Lost (band)|Paradise Lost]]
* "Philosophy of Loss" by [[Emily Saliers]]
* "Pity" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Praise the Lord (Opium of the Masses)" by [[Dying Fetus]]
* "The Preacher and the Slave" by [[Joe Hill]]
* "Religion" by [[Public Image Ltd.]]
* "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 (band)|MDC]]
* "Soldier" by [[Neil Young]]
* "The Son Of Jesus" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Sunday Morning" by [[The Bolshoi]]
* "Terrible Lie" by [[Nine Inch Nails]]
* "Time for Temptation" by [[Duran Duran]]
* "[[The God That Failed (song)|The God That Failed]]" by [[Metallica]]
* "The Only Way" by [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]]
* "The Voice of God is Government" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "This Blood's for You" by [[MDC (band)|MDC]]
* "War?" by [[System of a Down]]
* "We Spoke of God" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "[[What God Wants]]" by [[Roger Waters]] (particularly against televangelists)
* "When Death Replaces Life" by [[Cannibal Corpse]]
* "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]]
==Slavery==
* "Final Solution" by [[Sister Souljah]]
* "Follow The Drinking Gourd" by [[Pete Seeger]]
* "Mister Charlie" by [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]] and [[The Grateful Dead]]
* "Oh Freedom" by [[Pete Seeger]]
* "No More Auction Block" by Traditional
* "Rape of a Slave" by [[Arghoslent]]
* "[[Redemption Song]]" by [[Bob Marley]]
* "Swan Swan H" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "White Man" by [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
==Television and the media==
* "21st Century Digital Boy" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" by [[Bruce Springsteen]]
* "500 Channels" by [[Leftover Crack]]
* "Along Came Jones" by [[The Coasters]]
* "Amused To Death" by [[Roger Waters]]
* "Anesthesia" by [[Paint It Black (band)|Paint It Black]]
* "Bad Day" by [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]
* "Better than TV" by [[Kristina Olsen]]
* "Closedown" by [[Cock Sparrer]]
* "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 (band)|Incubus]]
* "Kill Your Television" by [[Ned's Atomic Dustbin]]
* "Less Deicide, More Minor Threat..." by [[Paint It Black (band)|Paint It Black]]
* "Lost A Friend" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "[[Mike Teavee#Mike Teavee Song|Mike Teavee]]" by [[Danny Elfman]]
* "MTV Get off the Air" by [[The Dead Kennedys]]
* "MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack" by [[Beck]]
* "Money for Nothing" by [[Dire Straits]]
* "No News is Good News" by [[New Found Glory]]
* "Now That I Own the BBC" by [[Sparks (band)|Sparks]]
* "Plastic Fantastic Lover" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Prime Time" by [[Don McLean]]
* "Propaganda" by [[Dead Prez]]
* "Radio GaGa" by [[Queen (band)|Queen]]
* "Red White and Brainwashed" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "Reality Show" by [[Ska-P]]
* "Right Wing Pigeons" by [[Dead Milkmen]]
* "She Watch Channel Zero ?!" by [[Public Enemy]]
* "Spanish Pipe Dream" by [[John Prine]]
* "Television" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "Telecide" by [[The Tubes]]
* "The Television" by [[Terri Allard]]
* "Television: The Drug of the Nation" by [[The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy]]
* "Test For Echo" by [[Rush (band)|Rush]]
* "That's the way I like my Rock and Roll" by [[AC/DC]]
* "The Sun Says" by [[Cock Sparrer]]
* "Throw Away Your Television" by [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]
* "[[Timor (song)|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]]
* "[[Video Killed the Radio Star]]" by [[The Buggles]]
* "Vicarious" by [[Tool]]
* "Violent Pornography" by [[System of a Down]]
* "Watching TV" by [[Roger Waters]]
==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]]
* "Cult" by [[Slayer]]
* "(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican" by [[Ian Rhett]]
* "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]]
* "Mass Destruction" by [[Faithless]]
* "Mideast Vacation" by [[Neil Young]]
* "On That Day" by [[Leonard Cohen]]
* "Peace on Earth" by [[U2]]
* "Please" by [[U2]]
* "The Price of Oil" by [[Billy Bragg]]
* "Secret Army" by [[Cock Sparrer]]
* "Suicide Terrorist" by [[Kreator]]
* "[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (song)|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 (song)|Zombie]]" by [[The Cranberries]]
==Unions and labor==
* "1913 Massacre" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Allentown" by [[Billy Joel]]
* "Angel of Freedom"
* "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"
* "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 (band)|Thursday]]
* "From Little Things Big Things Grow" by [[Paul Kelly (musician)|Paul Kelly]] and [[Kev Carmody]]
* "General Strike" by [[D.O.A. (band)|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"
* "[[Ludlow Massacre]]" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Maria" by [[Rage Against The Machine]]
* "Naval Xixón" by [[Ska-P]]
* "One Big Industrial Union" by [[George G. Allen]]
* "One by One" by [[Chumbawamba]]
* "Out Of Work" by [[Gary U.S. Bonds]]
* "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"
* "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]]
* "Southern Pacific" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Stand Up! Ye Workers" by [[Ethel Comer]]
* "Stick Together" by [[Frank Zappa]] (anti Union)
* "Struggle in the West"
* "Soup is Good Food" by the [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Take This Job And Shove It" by [[Johnny Paycheck]]
* "The Trees" by [[Rush (band)|Rush]]
* "There Is Power in a Union" by [[Joe Hill]] (Covered by [[Billy Bragg]]
* "[[This Land Is Your Land]]" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Traveling Down the Castlereagh"
* "The Two Bums"
* "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers" by [[Primus (band)|Primus]]
* "Too Much Monkey Business" by [[Chuck Berry]]
* "Union Burying Ground" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Union Maid" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "Union Man" by [[Neil Young]]
* "Union Sundown" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "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]]
* "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!"
==War==
* "1 Trillion Dollar$" by [[Anti-Flag]]
* "2 Minutes to Midnight" by [[Iron Maiden]]
* "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+2=?" by [[Bob Seger]]
* "2005" by [[Gene Cotton]]
* "[[99 Luftballons]]" by [[Nena]]
* "[[Abraham, Martin & John]]" by [[Dion DiMucci|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 (song)|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 (band)|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 (band)|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]]
* "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Barry Sadler
* "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]]
* "Bleed for Me" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Bleed From Within" by [[The Music]]
* "[[Blowin' In The Wind]]" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "[[Boom!]]" by [[System of a Down]]
* "[[Born in the U.S.A. (song)|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]]
* "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 (band)|Muse]]
* "[[B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs)|B.Y.O.B.]]" by [[System of a Down]]
* "The Call Up" by [[The Clash]]
* "Camilo" by [[State Radio]]
* "Chemical Warfare" by [[The Dead Kennedys]]
* "[[Chicago (song)|Chicago]]" by [[Graham Nash]]
* "Children Of The Grave" by [[Black Sabbath]]
* "Children of the Revolution" by [[T-Rex]] (covered by [[Kirsty MacColl]])
* "[[Civil War (song)|Civil War]]" by [[Guns N' Roses]]
* "Combat Baby" by [[Metric (band)|Metric]]
* "Combat Rock" by [[Sleater-Kinney]]
* "Contras, Kings & Generals" by [[David Rovics]]
* "Cops of the World" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "The Crow on the Cradle" by [[Sydney Carter]]
* "Dachau Blues" by [[Captain Beefheart]]
* "Day After Tomorrow" by [[Tom Waits]]
* "Le Deserteur" by [[Boris Vian]]
* "Dialogue" by [[Chicago (band)|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]]
* "Draft Dodger Rag" by [[Phil Ochs]]
* "A Drug Against War" by [[KMFDM]]
* "Easy/ Lucky/ Free" by [[Bright Eyes (band)|Bright Eyes]]
* "[[Eve of Destruction (song)|Eve of Destruction]]" by [[P.F. Sloan]] (More notably covered by [[Barry McGuire]] and also covered by [[Will Hoppey]])
* "Far Away Coast" by [[Dropkick Murphys]]
* "Fight" by [[James (band)|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]]
* "The Four Insurgent Generals"
* "The Four Rivers"
* "Freedom" by [[Richie Havens]]
* "Free Four" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Freeze Up" by [[Operation Ivy (punk band)|Operation Ivy]]
* "Frontlines" by [[Soulfly]]
* "Games Without Frontiers" by [[Peter Gabriel]]
* "Give Peace a Chance" by [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]
* "Glad It's All Over" by [[Captain Sensible]]
* "Glass War" by [[NOFX]]
* "Gods of War" by [[Def Leppard]]
* "God and Country by [[The Thermals]]
* "Goodbye Blue Sky" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Goodnight Saigon" by [[Billy Joel]]
* "The Grave" by [[Don McLean]]
* "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 (band)|Queen]]
* "Happy Christmas (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]]
* "Here Comes the War" by [[New Model Army (band)|New Model Army]]
* "Heroes" by [[David Bowie]]
* "[[Holiday (Green Day song)|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 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 Had No Right" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "I Want To Know Why?" by [[Woody Guthrie]]
* "I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)" by [[Redgum]]
* "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" by [[Bruce Cockburn]]
* "[[If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next]]" by [[Manic Street Preachers]]
* "[[Imagine (song)|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]]
* "It's a Hit" by [[Rilo Kiley]]
* "Jennifer Lost the War" by [[The Offspring]]
* "Jesus Walks" by Kanye West
* "Jimmy Newman" by [[Tom Paxton]]
* "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" by [[The Clancy Brothers]] Trad. Irish Song.
* "Kagaku no Yoru" by [[Do As Infinity]] (Japanese)
* "[[Khe Sahn]]" 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]]
* "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 (musical)|''Hair'']])
* "Let's Have A War" by [[A Perfect Circle]]
* "Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to be Loved)" by [[Bright Eyes (band)|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]]
* "Lucky Man" by [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]]
* "Machine Gun" by [[Jimi Hendrix]]
* "Major General Despair" by [[Crass]]
* "Man in Black" by Johnny Cash
* "March Of Death" by [[Zack de la Rocha]] and [[DJ Shadow]]
* "Masters of War" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "Medieval" by [[James (band)|James]]
* "Middle Eastern Holiday" by [[Hard-Fi]]
* "Monster Hospital" by [[Metric (band)|Metric]]
* "Die Moorsoldaten" by [[Ernst Busch]]
* "Mosh" by [[Eminem]]
* "Mother" by [[James (band)|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]]
* "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]]
* "Non-stop Violence" by [[Apoptygma Berzerk]]
* "No Remorse" by [[Metallica]]
* "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]]
* "[[Ohio (song)|Ohio]]" by [[Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young]]
* "Oliver's Army" by [[Elvis Costello]]
* "[[One (Metallica song)|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 Train" by [[Cat Stevens]]
* "Peat Bog Soldiers" by [[The Dubliners]] or [[Pete Seeger]] original "Die Moorsoldaten" Esser/Langhoff/Goguel (1933 KZ Börgermoor)
* "People Gotta Be Free" by [[The Young Rascals]]
* "Pills and Soap" by [[Elvis Costello|The Imposter]]
* "Plattgefickt" by [[Ellen ten Damme]]
* "The Post War Dream" by [[Pink Floyd]]
* "Potshot Heard 'Round the World" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "The Price of Oil" by [[Billy Bragg]]
* "Radio Bagdad" by Patti Smith
* "Rambozo the Clown" by [[Dead Kennedys]]
* "Readjustment Blues" by [[John Denver]]
* "Rejoice" by [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* "Religious Wars" by [[Subhumans]]
* "Rich Man's War" by [[Steve Earle]]
* "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]]
* "Seek and Destroy" by [[Metallica]]
* "Send in the Marines" by [[Tom Lehrer]]
* "Sgt. Baker" by [[Primus (band)|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 (song)|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 (band)|New Model Army]]
* "[[Stoned Love]]" by [[The Supremes]]
* "Stop the Killing" by [[The Varukers]]
* "Stop the War Now" by [[The Temptations]]
* "Straight to Hell" by [[The Clash]]
* "Straw Dogs" by [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
* "Succexy" by [[Metric (band)|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]]
* "Testify" by [[Rage Against The Machine]]
* "Tin Soldiers" by [[Stiff Little Fingers]]
* "This Year's War" by [[The Subhumans]]
* "The End" by [[The Doors]]
* "The Empire Strikes First" by [[Bad Religion]]
* "The Times They Are a-Changin'" by [[Bob Dylan]]
* "The War" by [[Angels and Airwaves]]
* "They Mean Murder" by [[Cock Sparrer]]
* "This Is War" by Smile Empty Soul
* "Today I Killed a Man" by [[P.J. Proby]]
* "Too Many Puppies" by [[Primus (band)|Primus]]
* "Too Young To Die" by [[Jamiroquai]]
* "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" by ([[Donovan]])
* "The Train for Auschwitz"
* "Train" by [[Uncle Tupelo]]
* "[[Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)]]" by [[The Byrds]]
* "The Trooper" by [[Iron Maiden]]
* "The Unelected President" by [[Crass]]
* "The Unknown Soldier" by [[The Doors]]
* "This War" by [[Sting]]
* "U-Fig" by [[System of a Down]]
* "Unity" by [[Operation Ivy (band)]]
* "[[Universal Soldier (song)|Universal Soldier]]" by [[Buffy Sainte-Marie]]
* "Unknown Soldier" by [[The Casualties]]
* "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]]
* "War?" by [[System of a Down]]
* "[[War (song)|War]]" by [[Edwin Starr]]
* "War Again" by [[Oingo Boingo]]
* "War All of the Time" by [[Thursday (band)|Thursday]]
* "War of Man" by [[Neil Young]]
* "[[War Pigs]]" by [[Black Sabbath]], covered by [[The Dresden Dolls]]
* "War Pimp Renaissance" by [[Lard (band)|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]]"
* "Well Oiled" by [[Abdoujaparov]]
* "Western Front, 1914" by [[The Zombies]]
* "We Want It All" by [[Zack de la Rocha]]
* "We've Got to Get Out of This Place" by [[The Animals]] (and covered by others)
* "[[What's Going On (song)|What's Going On]]" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
* "What Are We Fighting For?" by [[Live]]
* "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 My Soldiers?" by [[Catman Cohen]]
* "Where Are You Now, My Son?" by [[Joan Baez]]
* "[[Where is the Love?]]" by [[Black Eyed Peas]]
* "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 (song)|Zombie]]" by [[The Cranberries]]
* "Zor and Zam" by [[The Monkees]]
==Youth rights==
* "All The Young Dudes" by [[David Bowie]] (notably covered by [[Mott the Hoople]])
* "Another Brick in the Wall" 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]]
* "Children of the '80s" by [[Joan Baez]]
* "Crack in the Mirror" by [[Betty Elders]], [[Joan Baez]]
* "Daddy Never Understood" by [[Deluxx Folk Implosion]]
* "Disposable Teens" by [[Marilyn Manson (band)|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]]
* "If the Kids Are United" by [[Sham 69]]
* "I Want It All" by [[Queen (band)|Queen]] (Includes the phrases "hear the cry of youth" and "for the dreams of youth")
* "The Kids Aren't Alright" by [[The Offspring]]
* "Kids In America" by [[Kim Wilde]]
* "Kids of the World Unite" by [[Squad Five-O]]
* "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]]
* "Prisoner of Society" by [[The Living End]]
* "[[Rhythm Nation]]" by [[Janet Jackson]]
* "Schools Out" by Alice Cooper
* "Second Class Citizen" by [[Area-7 (band)|Area-7]]
* "Shut Up" by [[Simple Plan]]
* "Subdivisions" by [[Rush (band)]]
* "Summertime Blues" by [[Eddie Cochran]]/[[Blue Cheer]]/[[The Who]]
* "Teenage Warning" by [[The Angelic Upstarts]]
* "Teenagers, Kick Our Butts" by [[Dar Williams]]
* "Teenager's Mother" by [[Bill Haley]]
* "Tom Sawyer" by [[Rush (band)|Rush]]
* "Well All Right" by [[Buddy Holly]]
* "We're Not Gonna Take it" by [[Twisted Sister]]
* "What Is Truth" by [[Johnny Cash]]
* "Yakety Yak" by [[The Coasters]]
* "The Young Folks" by [[Diana Ross & the Supremes]] (covered by [[The Jackson 5]])
* "Youth Gone Wild" by [[Skid Row]]
* "Youth Of The Nation" by [[P.O.D.]]
==Protest songs about protest songs==
* "Always Hate Hippies" by [[NOFX]]
* "Ballad Of The Yellow Beret" by [[Bob Seger]]
* "Dawn of Correction" by [[The Spokesmen]]
* "Fuck Emo" by [[Cheap Sex]]
* "The Folk Song Army" by [[Tom Lehrer]]
* "Grotesksong" by [[Die Ärzte]]
* "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 (song)|Sweet Home Alabama]]" by [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]
* "The Universal Coward" by [[Jan & Dean]]
* "[[We Care a Lot (song)|We Care a Lot]]" by [[Faith No More]]
* "[[We're Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)|We're Not Gonna Take It]]" by [[Twisted Sister]]
== See also ==
*[[List of lists of songs]]
==External links==
* [http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/iww.html#] - [[Wobbly]] songs
*[http://www.ocap.ca/lyrics.html Protest song lyrics from 1932 to 2000] from OCAP
*[http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ritfw.htm Rockin' in the Free World] - Analysis of the lyrics of Neil Young's song
*[http://www.inthe80s.com/nuclearwar/index.shtml Songs from the '80s about nuclear war]
*[http://www.inthe80s.com/protest.shtml The greatest protest songs of the '80s]
*[http://www.che-lives.com/home/modules.php?name=radio Radio Rebelde] - Leftist Internet radio, rebel music around the clock.
*[http://polsong.gcal.ac.uk/ Centre For Political Song]
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