List of political punk songs
This is a list of notable punk rock songs that express political views.
On authoritarianism and/or the police
- "At The Movies", Rock For Light, Bad Brains
- "Authority", Void
- "Beat My Head Against The Wall", My War, Black Flag
- "Big Takeover", Bad Brains, Bad Brains
- "Bite The Hand That Feeds", White Male Dumbinance, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Bleed For Me", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Boss", The Crew, 7 Seconds
- "Clocked In", The First Four Years, Black Flag
- "Complete Control", The Clash, The Clash
- "Computer Control", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Cops for Fertilizer", The Crucifucks, The Crucifucks
- "Crime Pays", White Male Dumbinance, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Dead Cops", Millions of Dead Cops, MDC
- "Delusion & Anger", Bonecrusher, Broken Bones
- "Destroy Babylon", Rock For Light, Bad Brains
- "Does This System Work?", Why?, Discharge
- "Drunk With Power", Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, Discharge
- "Fascist Pig", "Suicidal Tendencies, Suicidal Tendencies
- "Fighting", Die Kreuzen, Die Kreuzen
- "Fuck Authority", Land of the Free?, Pennywise
- "Fuck Police Brutality", Die For The Government, Anti-Flag
- "Gang Control", "Fuck World Trade", Leftöver Crack
- "Golgotha", Before The Fall, Social Unrest
- "The Guns of Brixton", London Calling, The Clash
- "Hate The Police", Hate the Police single, The Dicks
- "Have A Coke ", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "I Against I", I Against I, Bad Brains
- "I And I Survive", Rock For Light, Bad Brains
- "Ignorance And Arrogance", SU-2000, Social Unrest
- "I Killed The Dove", Beware The Savage Jaw, Code Of Honor
- "It's Like…", Bonecrusher, Broken Bones
- "I Wanna Be Heard", SU-2000, Social Unrest
- "I Won't Subscribe", Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, Discharge
- "L.A.P.D.", Ignition, The Offspring
- "Living In The USA", Horse Bites Dog Cries, D.I.
- "London Calling", The Clash
- "The Murder of Liddle Towers", Angel Dust, Angelic Upstarts
- "March of The Dogs", Underclass Hero, Sum 41
- "No", The Day the Country Died, Subhumans
- "No Martyr", Avengers, Avengers
- "No Values", Jealous Again, Black Flag
- "Officer", Energy, Operation Ivy
- "One Dead Cop", Fuck World Trade, Leftöver Crack
- "...To Be a Ghost", WORRY, Jeff Rosenstock
- "Pay To Cum", Bad Brains, Bad Brains
- "People's Revolution", Fight Or Die, Code Of Honor
- "Police Bastard", Police Bastard, Doom
- "Police Beat", The Kids Will Have Their Say, SS Decontrol
- "Police Crimes", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Police Oppression", Angel Dust, Angelic Upstarts
- "Police Story", The Partisans, The Partisans
- "Police Story", Damaged, Black Flag
- "Police Truck", Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death, Dead Kennedys
- "Police Violence", The American Dream Died, Agnostic Front
- "Question Authority", Wild In The Streets, Circle Jerks
- "The Regulator", Bad Brains, Bad Brains
- "Say Goodbye" "Revolution Radio", Green Day
- "So You Wanna be a cop", Baby Jesus, Sliced Up in the Manger, Leftöver Crack
- "Stand Up", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "Stars And Stripes", Wild In The Streets, Circle Jerks
- "State Violence State Control", Never Again, Discharge
- "Supertouch", Bad Brains, Bad Brains
- "S.P.G.", Punks Not Dead, The Exploited
- "S.U.S.", The Crack, The Ruts
- "Take Back The Power", The Interrupters, The Interrupters
- "This Hope", Die Kreuzen, Die Kreuzen
- "Too Much For One Man", Beware The Savage Jaw, Code Of Honor
- "Under Your Authority", Destroy What Destroys You, Against All Authority
- "Up To You", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Warning", Warning, Green Day
- "Warning", , Discharge
- "Wealth Rules", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "We Don't Need Freedom", Paganicons, Saccharine Trust
- "What Price Would You Pay?", What Are We Gonna Do? single, Code Of Honor
- "Who's To Blame", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "World Up My Ass", Group Sex, Circle Jerks
- "INGLEWOOD/3",Strength in Numb333rs, Fever 333
On consumerism
- "21st Century Digital Boy" Against the Grain, Stranger than Fiction, Bad Religion
- "Adversity", The Subhumans, Subhumans
- "Americana", Americana, The Offspring
- "...And Now Back to Our Programming", ...And Now Back to Our Programming, Aus-Rotten
- "...And we thought nation-states were a bad idea", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Artificial Life", Energy, Operation Ivy
- "Artificial Town", Where You Put Your Trust, Pridebowl
- "Cashing In", Out of Step, Minor Threat
- "The Consumer's Song", A New Kind of Army, Anti-Flag
- "Consumo Gusto", Que Corra La Voz, Ska-P
- "Corruption", Rancid, Rancid
- "Customer", Up The Workers, Thee Faction
- "Don't Need It", Bad Brains, Bad Brains
- "Entertainment", Appeal To Reason, Rise Against
- "Grandma's Footsteps", No Rest For The Wicked, New Model Army
- "Greater Omaha", Read Music/Speak Spanish, Desaparecidos
- "Kids For Ca$h", White Male Dumbinance, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Know Your Product", Eternally Yours, The Saints
- "Land Of Endless Greed", True North , Bad Religion
- "Lost in the Supermarket", London Calling, The Clash
- "Mad At The Company", Paganicons, Saccharine Trust
- "Merchandise", Repeater , Fugazi
- "Panic In the Supermarket", Millennia Madness, Citizen Fish
- "Prayer of the Refugee", The Sufferer and the Witness, Rise Against
- "Rip Van Disney", Midget Gems, Bus Station Loonies
- "Saturday Night Holocaust", Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death, Dead Kennedys
- "Sell You Beautiful", The Resignation, RX Bandits
- "Steal This Record", Steal This Record, The Suicide Machines
- "Strength Thru Shopping", Audacity of Hype, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
- "The Product", "Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat", Minutemen
- "This Business Is Killing Me", Pleasant Dreams, Ramones
- "This Is the End ", For Blood and Empire, Anti-Flag
- "Ugly Desires", 24 Hour Roadside Resistance, Against All Authority
- "Unknown", Hardcore '81, D.O.A.
- "How Much Is Enough?", Suffer, Bad Religion
On drug legalisation
- "Cannabis", El Vals del Obrero, Ska-p
- "'E' is Still Evil", A Challenge to the Cowards of Christendom, Knights of The New Crusade
- "Herojuana", Pump Up the Valuum, NOFX
- "Jimmy Jazz", London Calling, The Clash
- "Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad"", Give 'Em Enough Rope, The Clash
- "My Congressman", Lucky, Fifteen
- "Oxy Moronic", First Ditch Effort, NOFX
- Howling at the Moon, Too Tough to Die - Ramones, rare venture into protest music from a mostly apolitical band criticizing the legal status of Marjuana at the time.
On environmentalism and animal rights
- "Acid Rain", Volume 2 , Reagan Youth
- "Anarcho - Pie", In Defence of Our Earth, Oi Polloi
- "Belly Full of Lies", For Your Ego's Sake, Dead Silence
- "Blinded By Science", Not So Brave, Flux of Pink Indians
- "Cesspool In Eden", Bedtime for Democracy, Dead Kennedys
- "Chicken Squawk", Millions of Dead Cops, MDC
- "Clams Have Feelings Too", Pump Up the Valuum, NOFX
- "Collapse ", Appeal to Reason, Rise Against
- "DDT", Battle Hymns, Suicide Machines
- "The Debate Is Over ", American Spring, Anti-Flag
- "Don't Kill the Animals", Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich
- "The Eco-Terrorist In Me", The Black Market, Rise Against
- "Evolution", EP-LP, Subhumans
- "Flesh and Blood", Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Citizen Fish
- "Flesh of Another", Antischism, Antischism
- "Gaia Bleeds ", This Will Be the Death of Us, Set Your Goals
- "Greedy Bastards", Antischism, Antischism
- "Here Today", The Punk Terrorist Anthology, Nausea
- "Human Meat ", Supporting Caste, Propagandhi
- "Ignorance Is Bliss", Brain Drain, Ramones
- "Kyoto Now!", The Process of Belief, Bad Religion
- "The Last Tree", Where You Put Your Trust, Pridebowl
- "Leave it Behind", Leche Con Carne, No Use for a Name
- "Love Canal", "Public Flipper Limited Live 1980-1985", Flipper
- "Mad Scientist's Ball", For Your Ego's Sake, Dead Silence
- "Meat Means Murder", It's Time To See Who's Who, Conflict
- "Midnight Hands", Endgame, Rise Against
- "Moon over Marin", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Monster from the Bog", Have Beans Will Travel, Psycho Reptiles
- "Nailing Descartes To the Wall", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Nuclear Generators", War Profiteering Is Killing Us All, Suicide Machines
- "Pathetic Humanity", ...And Now Back to Our Programming, Aus-Rotten
- "Pigman", Worlds Apart, Subhumans
- "Pig in a Blanket", Death Church, Rudimentary Peni
- "Poison Planet", Eye For An Eye, Corrosion of Conformity
- "Purina Hall of Fame", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "Ready to Fall", The Sufferer & the Witness, Rise Against
- "Safety Last", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "This is the ALF", The Ungovernable Force, Conflict
- "Tough Shit Mickey", Increase the Pressure. Conflict
- "Until It's Gone, The Daily Grind, No Use for a Name
- "Use Your Voice", Use Your Voice, H2O
- "Vivisection", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Wait For Me", Endgame, Rise Against
- "Waste", Ballads from the Revolution, Good Riddance
- "Whale Song", In Defence of Our Earth, Oi Polloi
- "You Are Not Collateral Damage", Dead FM, Strike Anywhere
On government/s
- "All Fall Down", For God and Country, Good Riddance
- "America", Yours Truly, Sick of It All
- "American Idiot", American Idiot, Green Day
- "Apathy", Worlds Apart, Subhumans
- "Assholes", "Plays For Lovers", Beefeater
- "Audience of One", Appeal to Reason, Rise Against
- "Babylon", Say It Out Loud, The Interrupters
- "Below The Belt", "The Politics Of Time", Minutemen
- "Big A Little A", Nagasaki Nightmare single, Crass
- "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg", Animal Boy, Ramones
- "Bullet", Static Age, Misfits
- "Bullshit Politicians", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "California Über Alles", Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Dead Kennedys
- "Condemnation", Good Politics, Thee Faction
- "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", For Blood and Empire, Anti-Flag
- "Conservative Friend", Singing Down The Government, Thee Faction
- "Cool Britannia Über Alles", Midget Gems, Bus Station Loonies
- "Democracy", The Adolescents, The Adolescents
- "Die for the Government", Die for the Government, Anti-Flag
- "District", Yours Truly, Sick of It All
- "Do They Owe Us a Living?", The Feeding of the 5000, Crass
- "Endgame", Endgame, Rise Against
- "Fabled World", American Spring, Anti-Flag
- "Fading American Dream", Fading American Dream, Street Dogs
- "Fanatics", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "Flies First Class", For God and Country, Good Riddance
- "Fuck The U.S.A.", Troops of Tomorrow, The Exploited
- "Fumin", Fumin', Pardon Us
- "God Save the USA", From The Ashes, Pennywise
- "God Save the Queen", Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols
- "Going Underground", Snap!, The Jam
- "Government Flu", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Heads of State", Worlds Apart, Subhumans
- "How Many Walls", Wolves, Rise Against
- "The Idiots are Taking Over", The War on Errorism, NOFX
- "I'm So Bored with the USA", The Clash, The Clash
- "I'm Going to Kill the President of the United States of America", XO, Leathermouth
- "If Reagan Played Disco", "Bean-Spill", Minutemen
- "Kill the President", The Offspring, The Offspring
- "Make America Great Again", xxx, Pussy Riot
- "Mother of God, Drive Putin Away", Pussy Riot
- "Murder the Government", Fuck the Kids 7"/So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, NOFX
- "'Merican", "Cool To Be You", Descendents
- " No Security Chaos U.K.
- "Perfect Government", Punk in Drublic, NOFX
- "Politics", Breaking_Things, All_
- "Porno, Sex, Drugs, Lies, Money, and Your Local Government", Day of the Death, Death by Stereo
- "Remote Control", The Clash, The Clash
- "Resisting Tyrannical Government", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Sam Is Your Leader", "Midnight Madness and Beyond, GBH
- "Sing Along With the Patriotic Punks", If Looks Could Kill, I'd Watch You Die, Death by Stereo
- "Stars and Stripes of Corruption", Frankenchrist, Dead Kennedys
- "Stuff Is Messed Up", Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, The Offspring
- "Thatcher Fucked The Kids", "Love Ire & Song + the First Three Years", Frank Turner
- "This is the Breakdown", Wolves, Rise Against
- "There's No 'I' In Team", Bound by Ties of Blood and Affection, Good Riddance
- "Turncoat", The Terror State, Anti-Flag
- "USAHoles", Wolves in Wolves' Clothing, NOFX
- "We Called it America", Coaster, NOFX
- "When You Don't Control Your Government, People Want to Kill You", The Terror State, Anti-Flag
- "Woman in Disguise", Reason Why?, Angelic Upstarts
On work, class and class struggle
- "A People's History of the World", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Bourgeois Fascist Pig", "Kill from the Heart", Dicks
- "Career Opportunities", The Clash, The Clash
- "Class War", The Dils; D.O.A.
- "Clampdown", London's Calling, The Clash
- "Creosote Ideas", New Sense, The Ethical Debating Society
- "Disparity By Design", Endgame, Rise Against
- "Employers' Blacklist", Suburban Rebels, The Business
- "Employment", Good Politics, Thee Faction
- "Eton Rifles", Setting Sons, The Jam
- "Fake Contest", "What Makes a Man Start Fires?", Minutemen
- "Fuck You", Oi! This Is Streetpunk, Volume Two, Rancid
- "God Save the Queen", Never Mind The Bollocks, Sex Pistols
- "Golden Parachutes", Payola, Desaparecidos
- "Good Morning America", "SU-2000", Social Unrest
- "Greater Omaha", Read Music/Speak Spanish, Desaparecidos
- "Misguided Memories", "Rabid Reaction", The Freeze
- "Minority, "Warning", Green Day
- "Plight", "What Makes a Man Start Fires?", Minutemen
- "Sell Or Be Sold", "What Makes a Man Start Fires?", Minutemen
- "Spoken Word Piece", "3-Way Tie ", Minutemen
- "The Only Minority", "What Makes a Man Start Fires?", Minutemen
- "The Process", "The Politics Of Time", Minutemen
- "The Struggle", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "To Have and to Have Not", Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Billy Bragg
- "Two Million Voices", 2,000,000 Voices, Angelic Upstarts
- "Working Class Heroes", Working Class Anthems, Evil Conduct
- "Working Men Are Pissed", "The Politics Of Time", Minutemen
- "Y.O.P.", The Exploited
On war and militarism
- "1 Trillion Dollar$", For Blood and Empire, Anti-Flag
- "20 Dollar Nosebleed", Folie à Deux, Fall Out Boy
- "21 Guns", 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day
- "911 for Peace", Mobilize, Anti-Flag
- "Allegiance To No-One", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "All Good Soldiers", Recipe For Hate, Bad Religion
- "America", Agent Orange single, Agent Orange
- "The American In Me", Avengers, Avengers
- "A New Kind Of Army", A New Kind Of Army, Anti-Flag
- "And We Fight", Fight Or Die Code Of Honor
- "Annihilation No.3", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "Armalite Rifle", Damaged Goods single, Gang Of Four
- "Arms Race", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Army Life", Punks Not Dead, The Exploited
- "Attempted Control", Fight Or Die, Code Of Honor
- "Atomic Garden", Generator, Bad Religion
- "Back Against The Wall", Group Sex, Circle Jerks
- "Back to the World", Back to the World, Street Dogs
- "Banana Split Republic", International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation, False Prophets
- "Blackeye", Blackeye single, Tin Pot Operation
- "Blank Stare ", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Bleed For Me", Plastic Surgery Disasters, Dead Kennedys
- "Blood-Red, White and Blue", Revolutions per Minute, Rise Against
- "The Blood Runs Red", Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, Discharge
- "Charity", Free Souls in a Trapped Environment, Citizen Fish
- "City Fodder", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "Civil War", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "Colors", "What Makes a Man Start Fires?", Minutemen
- "Contro la pace, contro la guerra ", "International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation, RAF Punk
- "Courage", "3-Way Tie ", Minutemen
- "Cries Of Help", Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, Discharge
- "Death Is Imminent", Bonecrusher, Broken Bones
- "Depleted Uranium Is A Warcrime, For Blood And Empire, Anti-Flag
- "Four Minute Warning, Chaos U.K.
- "Fight Or Die", Fight Or Die, Code Of Honor
- "Fight War, Not Wars", Stations of the Crass, Crass
- "Final Transmission", Fading American Dream, Street Dogs
- "Firecracker", Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues, Strung Out
- "Generals", Strawberries, The Damned
- "Get Killed", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Guns Of Revolution", Condition Red, Red Rockers
- "Hero of War", Appeal To Reason, Rise Against
- "Holiday", American Idiot, Green Day
- "Honor & Justice", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "I Have…", Paganicons, Saccharine Trust
- "Imminent War", Horse Bites Dog Cries, D.I.
- "Just Another Soldier", "3-Way Tie ", Minutemen
- "Killing Machine", The Partisans, The Partisans
- "King Of The Hill", "Project Mersh", Minutemen
- "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go Around", Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death, Dead Kennedys
- "Last Goodbye", Living In Darkness, Agent Orange
- "Last Night Another Soldier", 2,000,000 Voices, Angelic Upstarts
- "Let them Eat War", The Empire Strikes First, Bad Religion
- "Let's Go", End Of The Century, The Ramones
- "Let's Have A War", The Record, Fear
- "Letter From Uncle Sam", The '90s Suck and So Do You, Angry Samoans
- "M-16", Milo Goes To College, Descendents
- "Major General Despair", Christ – The Album, Crass
- "Making The Bombs", Wonderful, Circle Jerks
- "Mania For Conquest", Why?, Discharge
- "March of the Crabs", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "Mission Of Mercy", "SU-2000", Social Unrest
- "Massacre Of Innocence ", Why?, Discharge
- "Modest Proposal", Sound & Fury, Youth Brigade
- "Mother Superior", For God and Country, Good Riddance
- "No! Mai! ", International P.E.A.C.E. Benefit Compilation, Peggio Punx
- "Not Me", Evolution, Subhumans
- "No Limbs", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "No More Of That", Inflammable Material, Stiff Little Fingers
- "No Parade", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "Nuclear Funeral", Horse Bites Dog Cries, D.I.
- "Operation Iraqi Liberation ", The Terror State, Anti-Flag
- "Out on Patrol", The Offspring, The Offspring
- "Part III", How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Bad Religion
- "The Point Of Agony", Bonecrusher, Broken Bones
- "Potshot Heard 'Round The World", Bedtime for Democracy, Dead Kennedys
- "Price Of Paradise", "3-Way Tie ", Minutemen
- "Rambozo the Clown", Bedtime for Democracy, Dead Kennedys
- "Rat In A Maze", "SU-2000", Social Unrest
- "Realities Of War", Realities of War, Discharge
- "Rock For Light", Rock For Light, Bad Brains
- "Ronnie & Mags", Self Entitled, NOFX
- "Sacrifice", "Gone Fishin'", Flipper
- "San Patricios", State of Grace, Street Dogs
- "Split Red", "What Makes a Man Start Fires?", Minutemen
- "State of Emergency", Inflammable Material, Stiff Little Fingers
- "State of the Union", Siren Song of the Counter Culture, Rise Against
- "Stick To Your Guns", Horse Bites Dog Cries, D.I.
- "Straw Dogs", All the Best, Stiff Little Fingers
- "Straight Hell", The Clash
- "Sweet Televised Destruction", The Restoration of Chaos & Order, Against All Authority
- "Suppose They Gave A War", Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Volume 1, T.S.O.L.
- "Survivor Guilt", Endgame, Rise Against
- "Tale of Mass Deception', Back to the World, Street Dogs
- "Tehran", The Offspring
- "The Big Stick", "3-Way Tie ", Minutemen
- "The Cheerleaders", "Project Mersh", Minutemen
- "The Punch Line", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "Their Living Is My Death", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "They Declare It", Realities of War, Discharge
- "Time Ends", Master Killer, Merauder
- "Tomahawk Cruise", The Last Words of the Great Explorer, TV Smith's Explorers
- Tommy Gun, Give 'Em Enough Rope, The Clash
- "Too Young To Die", Living In Darkness, Agent Orange
- "Treading Underfoot", Bonecrusher, Broken Bones
- "Vietnamese Blues", "City Babys Revenge", GBH
- "Visions Of War", Why?, Discharge
- "Wardogs", City Baby Attacked By Rats, GBH
- "War Hero", Independence, Toxic Reasons
- "War In The East", War on 45, D.O.A.
- "War In The Head", Blasts From The Past, 7 Seconds
- "War Machine Breakdown", The Restoration of Chaos & Order, Against All Authority
- "Wars In Space", Plays For Lovers, Beefeater
- "War's No Fairytale", Fight Back, Discharge
- "Warfare", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "Washington Bullets", Sandinistas!, The Clash
- "Wasted Life", Inflammable Material, Stiff Little Fingers
- "Waves", Evil Friends, Portugal. The Man
- "What Are You Fighting For?", Sound & Fury, Youth Brigade
- "What If There's War In America", The Crew, 7 Seconds
- "What's It Gonna Be?", Complete Studio Recordings 1982-1984, Code Of Honor
- "When Ya Get Drafted", Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Dead Kennedys
- "White People for Peace", New Wave, Against Me!
- "Who's Gonna Fight in the Third World War?", Demolition War, Subhumans
- "Why?", Why?, Discharge
- "World At War", Senseless Offerings, Black Market Baby
- "World War", Another Kind of Blues, U.K. Subs
- "World War III", Bad Religion, Bad Religion
- "World War III", Something Better Change, D.O.A.
- "You've Gotta Die for the Government", Die for the Government'', Anti-Flag
On racism and white supremacy
- "Absent Minded", The Rotten Agenda, Aus-Rotten
- "Anti-Klan", "Kill from the Heart", Dicks
- "Avenues And Alleyways", ...And Out Come The Wolves, Rancid
- "Big Hard Man", Dem Bones, Broken Bones
- "Black and White World", Battle Hymns, Suicide Machines
- "Boiling", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "Born Without A Mind", The Music, The Message, 7 Seconds
- "Civil Terror", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Community Lie", Paganicons, Saccharine Trust
- "The Competition Song", The Fuse, Pennywise
- "Disguises", "The Punch Line", Minutemen
- "Don't Call Me White", Punk in Drublic, NOFX
- "Ein Sommer nur für mich", Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!, Die Ärzte
- "Fascists", "Paranoid Time", Minutemen
- "Fear of a Brown Planet", Death Is My Only Friend, Death By Stereo
- "Fly the Flag", Nobody's Heroes, Stiff Little Fingers
- "Fuck Machine", How to Clean Everything, Propagandhi
- "Fuck Nazi Sympathy", Fuck Nazi Sympathy, Aus-Rotten
- "Fuck the Border", Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes, Propagandhi
- "Funeral Pyre", Snap!, The Jam
- "Give It Back", The Incredible Shrinking Dickies, The Dickies
- "Guilty of Being White", In My Eyes , Minor Threat
- "Hating Hate", Battle Hymns, Suicide Machines
- "Hunchback", Stukas Over Disneyland, The Dickies
- "I'm Tired", Die Kreuzen, Die Kreuzen
- "Kill That Nazi ", Mad Frank's Zonal Disco, Bus Station Loonies
- "Last Believer", A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Rebellion, Good Riddance
- "Manzanar", CH 3 EP, Channel 3
- "Mumia's Song", Mobilize, Anti-Flag
- "My World", I Don't Want To Grow Up, Descendents
- "Nazi Fun", "Land Of The Lost", The Freeze
- "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", In God We Trust, Inc., Dead Kennedys
- "Nazi Scum, In Defence of Our Earth, Oi Polloi
- "Nazi White Trash", Mediocre Generica, Leftöver Crack
- "No Nazi's Friend", "Kill from the Heart", Dicks
- "No Reason", Destroy What Destroys You, Against All Authority
- "One Law For Them", One Law For Them single, The 4-Skins
- "Only Us", Thrice
- "Police Story", A New Kind of Army, Anti-Flag
- "Race Riot", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Race Riot", Let's Wreck The Party, D.O.A.
- "Right Wing/White Ring", "Kill from the Heart", Dicks
- "The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist", Less Talk, More Rock, Propagandhi
- "Safe", Wig Out at Denko's, Dag Nasty
- "Sascha", Kauf mich!, Die Toten Hosen
- "Schrei nach Liebe", Die Bestie in Menschengestalt, Die Ärzte
- "Staring at the Rude Boys", Grin & Bear It, The Ruts
- "Sticks and Stones", Midget Gems, Bus Station Loonies
- "Sunset on 32nd", Change is a Sound, Strike Anywhere
- "Take Our Test", "Project Mersh", Minutemen
- "Them and us", The Gray Race, Bad Religion
- "This Machine Kills Fascists", "Underground Network", Anti-Flag
- "Trash Breeds Trash", The Greatest Invention, Doom
- "Unity", Demonstrating My Style, Madball
- "Unity", Energy, Operation Ivy
- "White Law", Condition Red, Red Rockers
- "White Male Dumbinance", White Male Dumbinance, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "White Minority", Jealous Again, Black Flag
- "White Noise", Inflammable Material, Stiff Little Fingers
- "Who We Are", "Who We Are", Descendents
- "White Riot", The Clash, The Clash
- "Willkommen in Deutschland". Kauf Mich!, Die Toten Hosen''
On religion
- "51 Days", ¡Leche con Carne!, No Use for a Name
- "Anti-Pope", Machine Gun Etiquette, The Damned
- "The Answer", Generator, Bad Religion
- "Atheist Anthem, Mediocre Generica, Leftöver Crack
- "Atheist Peace", The Empire Strikes First, Bad Religion
- "America the Beautiful", War on 45, D.O.A.
- "The Best God in Show", Coaster, NOFX
- "Blasphemy ", Coaster, NOFX
- "Christianised Cannibals", "City Babys Revenge ", GBH
- "Come Join Us", The Gray Race, Bad Religion
- "Dear God, From Me", Ten Million Strong and Growing, Backside
- "Dept. Of False Hope", True North , Bad Religion
- "Despair and Disbelief", Disconnected Misdirected, Backside
- "Do What You Want", Suffer, Bad Religion
- "Dogsnotgods", "Crossover Ministry", Iron Reagan
- "East Jesus Nowhere", 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day
- "Faith Alone", Against the Grain, Bad Religion
- "Filler", Minor Threat, Minor Threat
- "Flat Earth Society", Against the Grain, Bad Religion
- "Fuck Armageddon... This is Hell", How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Bad Religion
- "Fuck the Pope", Anti-Flag
- "Gay Muslims For Christ", Corporate Avenger
- "God Song", Against the Grain, Bad Religion
- "Haile Selassie, Up Your Ass", How to Clean Everything, Propagandhi
- "Heaven Is Falling", Generator, Bad Religion
- "I'm Going to Hell for This One", "Never Trust a Hippy", NOFX
- "Jesus Was a Terrorist", The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy, Jello Biafra & Nomeansno
- "Jihad Schmihad", Corporate Avenger
- "Killing for Jesus", Wonderful, Circle Jerks
- "Leaving Jesusland", Wolves in Wolves' Clothing, NOFX
- "Live Again ", The Empire Strikes First, Bad Religion
- "Mission from God", Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10, The Offspring
- "Moral Majority", In God We Trust, Inc., Dead Kennedys
- "My God", Land of the Free?, Pennywise
- "No", The Day the Country Died, Subhumans
- "No Religion", Fuck Peaceville, Doom
- "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Salvation", Day of the Death, Death by Stereo
- "Please Go to Heaven Now, Black Sheep of the American Dream, Death by Stereo
- "On My Teeth", Erase Me, Underoath
- "On the Cross", Art Work", The Used
- "Pods and Gods", Pods and Gods, NOFX
- "Pray for Peace and Kill for Christ", Jonestown Aloha!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "Prayer Of A Realist", "City Baby Attacked by Rats", GBH
- "Reality Asylum", Best Before 1984, Crass
- "Religion", , Public Image Ltd
- "Religion Instigates", Fight Back, Discharge
- "Religion Is the Opium of the Masses", This Is Boston, Not L.A., The Proletariat
- "Religious Vomit", In God We Trust, Inc., Dead Kennedys
- "Religious Wars", Religious Wars, Subhumans
- "Shh, It Will Be Our Little Secret", Into the Valley of Death, Death by Stereo
- "Sinister Rouge", The Empire Strikes First, Bad Religion
- "Skyscraper", Recipe for Hate, Bad Religion
- "Sacrilege", Crash Love , AFI
- "So Beneath You", The Blood Album, AFI
- "So What", The Feeding of the 5000, Crass
- "Sodom, Gomorrah, Washington D.C", The People or the Gun, Anti-Flag
- "Sorrow", The Process of Belief, Bad Religion
- "Sucks", The Feeding of the 5000, Crass
- "You Will Lose Faith", Wolves in Wolves' Clothing, NOFX
- "Walking Is Still Honest", Crime as Forgiven By, Against Me!
- "Warped Confessional", "Rabid Reaction", The Freeze
- "Won't Somebody", The Dissent of Man, Bad Religion
- "Youth for Crime", Nothing Can Go Wrogn!, Balthasar Gerards Kommando
- "You're Wrong", "Never Trust a Hippy", NOFX
On feminism, gender equality and LGBT rights
- "Bata Motel", Penis Envy, Crass
- "Bodies" Nevermind the Bollocks.., Sex Pistols
- "Coming Clean", Dookie, Green Day
- "Chalkline", Change is a Sound, Strike Anywhere
- "Desert", Science Fiction, Brand New
- "Face Down", Don't You Fake It, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- "Fuck Machine", How To Clean Everything, Propagandhi
- "G.L.O.S.S. ",DEMO, G.L.O.S.S.
- "Gay Rude Boys Unite", "Mediocre Generica", Leftöver Crack
- "Homophobes Are Just Pissed 'Cause They Can't Get Laid", Where Quantity Is Job #1, Propagandhi
- "Hunt The She Beast", Sex Mad, NoMeansNo
- "I'm a Transvest-lite", First Ditch Effort, NOFX
- "King for a Day", Nimrod, Green Day
- "Make It Stop ", Endgame, Rise Against
- "Masculine Artifice", DEMO, G.L.O.S.S.
- "Lined Lips and Spiked Bats", DEMO, G.L.O.S.S.
- "Live in freedom, governed by love", Fuck Peaceville, Doom
- "Operation Rescue", Against The Grain, Bad Religion
- "Pro-Life Control", Pro-Life Control, Doom
- "Targets of Men", DEMO, G.L.O.S.S.
- "That's So Gay", That's So Gay, Pansy Division
- "Transgender Dysphoria Blues", Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me!
- "True Trans Soul Rebel", Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me!
- "Womanarchist", Warriors, Bad Cop/Bad Cop
- "Jesus Was A Trans Girl", '', Kitty Prozac
Books
- Mark Peddelty and Kristine Weglarz, eds. Political Rock Ashgate Publishing, 2013.
- Tony Bennett, Simon Frith, Lawrence Grossberg, John Shepherd, Graeme Turner. Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies, Institutions N.Y. :Routledge, 1993
Articles
- Lawrence Grossberg, "The Politics of Youth Culture: Some Observations on Rock and Roll in American Culture." Social Text 3:2 p. 104-126
- Deena Weinstein, "Rock Protest Songs: So Many and So Few" in The Resisting Muse: Popular Music and Social Protest, ed. Ian Peddiw London: Ashgate, 2006. p. 3-16.