Where is CCR? "Fortunate Son!" So powerful and radical...a bunch of Berkeley kids with a southern rock sound protesting the Vietnam War!

Dylan - The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
Deeply moving anti-racist song based on a true story, although nowhere does it say she's black (she was).

The Election Song Contest is where political songwriting is at during these elections....

http://www.soundcloud.com/electionsongcontest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQ1fsERGzk

Fabrizio De André's "La Guerra di Piero" (Peter's war) would make my list. Poetic, powerful, beautiful. Had it been sung in English or French (instead of Italian), it would probably be *the* antiwar song of the previous century. Translations can be found here: http://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=en&id=5

Also, so many songs written by Mikis Theodorakis would qualify (more than I can list here).

Two that stick out for me are "To Yelasto Pedi" (the laughing boy, also sung in English with the original Berndan Behan lyrics) and "Ena to Helidoni".

IMHO he deserves a mention for his incredible body of work (Z, Canto General, Axion Esti, etc.) which has become synonymous with the struggle against oppresion.

Where are Pulp? "Misshapes" ( or more obviously "Common People") are both fantastic songs, but also political through and through.
Where are the women as well? Big Yellow taxi is a pretty poor Joni offering, how about ani difranco? "Talk to me now" or "Little plastic castle" (sample lyric: "I was blessed with the birth and the death and I just want some say in between"). Or Kimya Dawson's "Viva la persitence"("globalisation's killing me")
Or brenda kahn ( who i believe has a politics degree.)From "Goldfish don't talk back":
"There's a great big hole
where the sky used to be
and there's an asshole
on my TV who says
"Act now you get nine issues free
Plus an issue of women with an eating disease""

Sorry all, but if you are talking politics rather than posing – or worse still – shifting ‘product’, then you need to acknowledge the Gods of Protest, the Triumvirate of Transition, viz:

Middle of the Road: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. For it was 1971 and the world was in turmoil – and although we all asked “where’s your mother gone?” perhaps we did not want to know the answer... for as recently as last night, we heard our mother singing this song...

Mouldy Old Dough: Lieutenant Pigeon 1972. As the opening bars set the tone for the east-west, ying-yang, neo-classic, neo-fascist, neopolitan ice-cream conflict of youth which the bass line underscores, or ‘muffles’ as the court papers indicated, so the fires of protest were well and truly lit – the rest, as they say, is a hysterectomy

Chicory Tip : Son Of My Father 1972, As Sven Goren Postlethwaite expounded in his seminal work, ‘The Indecipherable Lightness of Lyrics’, communism’s core shook before the power of rock once the people had a rallying cry – then it was ciao Brezhnev... angst for the memory.
(this list appears in my pamphlet “June 1971 – April 1972: 10 months That Shook the World.” Me, et al (although, if I’m honest, all Al did was make coffee)
From Phill Doran at the Institute of Walnut-lined Studies, and Padded Cells, Johannesburg-a-go-go

and what about FUGAZI!, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Black Flag!
"Waiting Room" by Fugazi should definitely make that list.

Any political song list must have Chumbawamba- Never give up, Jacobs Ladder,Enough is Enough, Homophobia

-italian: Bandiera rossa
-Hymn of Bertolucci´s movie 1900
-"per me giunto" /Rodrigo + "liberta" Rodrigo´s and Don Carlos aria in Verdis Don Carlo
-National song of the Soviet Union
-Gracias a la vita V. Jara
-el pueblo unido Quilapaya

What about this current song and music video about the current UK elections:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPyDwcaiPfc

Drive-By Truckers!

Nothing from Tom Lehrer? Surely one from 'Werner Von Braun,' 'Vatican Rag' or 'I Wanna Go Back to Dixie' should be in there?

A few other contenders:
Country Joe & The Fish - 'Fixin' To Die Rag'

Joan Baez - plenty to choose from but 'Joe Hill' and 'I Pity The Poor Immigrant' will do for a start.

Eric Bogle - 'And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'No Man's Land'

Either Woody Guthrie or Dominic Behan's version but 'Jarama Valley' must be worth a shout.

Kris Kristofferson - 'The Law Is For The Protection Of The People'

John Prine - 'Sam Stone' or 'Unwed Fathers'

Asylum Street Spankers - 'Lee Harvey'

Tommy Makem & The Clancys - 'D-Day Dodgers'

Hamish Imlach - 'If It Wasn't For The Unions'

Buffy Sainte-Marie - 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee'

Steve Earle - 'John Walker's Blues'

Alex Glasgow - 'The Socialist ABC'

And what about the song from the only geuine working class revolution of the 20th century - Spain in 1936: A las barricadas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32mMk9kQOmM

'He ain't heavy, he's my brother' - not politically specific, but a hymn to solidarity.

"Mersey Paradise" and "Elizabeth My Dear" by the Stone Roses

The Workers' Song (Ed Pickford)Sung By Dick Gaughan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=nrdl4ijru8o&gl=GB

The Freedom Come All Ye (Hamish Henderson) Sung by Luke Kelly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl7MYTTHUFg

A Man's a Man For a' That (Robert Burns)Sung by Ian Benzie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMRbOupoUfM&feature=related

Gerrard Winstanley's The Diggers Song has been stirring left-wing hearts for 350 years. A major omission!

Here's a new one!

http://jeffersonfox.bandcamp.com/track/bait-and-switch

Bob Marley's Redemption Song and No Woman No Cry, Burning Spear's Columbus, Slavery Days, Cry Blood Africa and First Continent. Awuleth'Umshini Wam sung frequently by names too numerous to mention (but the ANC Comrades version is most harmonious and ... very civilized).
Stevie Wonder's Living In The City, Chocolate City by Parliament and Christ Moore's version of Viva La Quinta Brigada.....

great list but the redskins have to be there!