List of political punk songs

This is a list of notable punk rock songs that express ideological views.

On authoritarianism

*"Portrait of Authority", "Recipe for Hate", Bad Religion
*"No", "The Day the Country Died", Subhumans
*"Fuck Authority", "Land of the Free?", Pennywise
*"Get Off the Phone", "Free Souls in a Trapped Environment", Citizen Fish
*"Commies and Nazis", "Unite and Win", Oi Polloi
*"Bleed for Me", "Plastic Surgery Disasters", Dead Kennedys
*"Police Shit", "The Massacre", The Exploited
*"I Am the Owl", "Plastic Surgery Disasters", Dead Kennedys
*"Re-Gaining Unconsciousness", "The War on Errorism", NOFX
*"Social Control", Spare Change?
*"No RNC in NYC", "Deathcycle", Deathcycle
*"Infiltrate the system", "Infiltrate the System", Madball

On conformity

*"Against the Grain", "Against the Grain", Bad Religion
*"Individual", "Stranger Than Fiction", Bad Religion
*"Inner Logic", "Stranger Than Fiction", Bad Religion
*"Chickenshit Conformist", "Bedtime for Democracy", Dead Kennedys
*"Terminal Preppie", "Plastic Surgery Disasters", Dead Kennedys
*"Come Join Us", "The Gray Race", Bad Religion
*"Conformity", "What the Fuck Will Change", A Global Threat
*"Blenderhead", "Against the Grain", Bad Religion
*"Henchman", "No Control", Bad Religion
*"Ugly Desires", "24 Hour Roadside Resistance", Against All Authority
*"Banned From the Roxy", "The Feeding of the 5000", Crass
*"Rejected", "Rancid", Rancid
*"Longview", "Minority","Fashion Victim" ,Green Day
*"Perfect People", "About Time (Pennywise album)",Pennywise
*"Rock N Roll Nigger", "Easter", Patti Smith
*"Jock-O-Rama (Invasion of the Beef Patrol), Dead Kennedys (also an attack on competitive sports)

On consumerism

*"...And Now, Back to Our Programming", "...And Now, Back to Our Programming", Aus-Rotten
*"Panic In the Supermarket", "Millennia Madness", Citizen Fish
*"Adversity", "The Subhumans", Subhumans
*"Steal This Record", "Steal this Record", Suicide Machines
*"Sell You Beautiful", "The Resignation", RX Bandits
*"21st Century Digital Boy" "Stranger Than Fiction(album)", Bad Religion
*"Corruption" "Rancid", Rancid
*"Artificial Life" "Energy", Operation Ivy

On drug legalization

*"Herojuana", "Pump Up the Valuum", NOFX
*"My Congressman", "Lucky", Fifteen
*"Cannabis", El Vals del Obrero, Ska-p

On environmentalism and animal rights

*"This is the ALF", "The Ungovernable Force", Conflict
*"Tough Shit Mickey", "Increase the Pressure". Conflict
*"Pathetic Humanity", "And Now Back To Our Program", Aus Rotten
*"Pigman", "Worlds Apart", Subhumans
*"Nailing Descartes To the Wall", "Less Talk, More Rock", Propagandhi
*"Meat Means Murder", "It's Time To See Who's Who", Conflict
*"Flesh and Blood", "Free Souls in a Trapped Environment", Citizen Fish
*"Purina Hall of Fame", "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes", Propagandhi
*"Flesh of Another", "Antischism", Antischism
*"Blinded By Science", "Not So Brave", Flux of Pink Indians
*"Anarcho - Pie", "In Defence of Our Earth", Oi Polloi
*"Whale Song", "In Defence of Our Earth", Oi Polloi
*"DDT", "Battle Hymns", Suicide Machines
*"Nuclear Generators", "War Profiteering is Killing Us All", Suicide Machines
*"Chicken Squawk", "Millions of Dead Children", MDC
*"Don't kill the animals", Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich
*"Kyoto Now!", "The Process of Belief", Bad Religion
*"Evolution", "EP-LP", Subhumans

On government

*"California Über Alles", "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables", Dead Kennedys
*"Government Flu", "Plastic Surgery Disasters", Dead Kennedys
*"Murder the Government", "Fuck the Kids" 7"/"So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes", NOFX
*"Stars and Stripes of Corruption", "Frankenchrist", Dead Kennedys
*"Heads of State", "Worlds Apart", Subhumans
*"Perfect Government", "Punk in Drublic", NOFX
*"Resisting Tyrannical Government", "Less Talk, More Rock", Propagandhi
*"Bullshit Politicians", "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes", Propagandhi
*"God Save the USA" "From The Ashes", Pennywise
*"Democracy", "The Adolescents", The Adolescents
*"Holiday", "American Idiot", "Green Day"
*"God Save the Queen", "Never Mind The Bollocks", The Sex Pistols
*"Anarchy In The UK", "Never Mind The Bollocks", The Sex Pistols
*"Claims have feelings too", Pump up the valuum", NOFX
*"My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)", "Animal Boy", The Ramones

On militarism

*"Part III", "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?", Bad Religion
*"Atomic Garden", "Generator", Bad Religion
*"Let them Eat War", "The Empire Strikes First", Bad Religion
*"Rambozo the Clown", "Bedtime for Democracy", Dead Kennedys
*"All Good Soldiers", "Recipe for Hate", Bad Religion
*"Jarhead Fertilizer", "The Aftermath", Dystopia (band)
*"Firecracker", "Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues", Strung Out
*"Charity", "Free Souls in a Trapped Environment", Citizen Fish
*"March of the Crabs", "Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes", Propagandhi
*"State of the Union", "Siren Song of the Counter Culture", Rise Against
*"Unity", "Energy, Operation Ivy

On prejudice and discrimination

*"Fuck Nazi Sympathy", "Fuck Nazi Sympathy", Aus-Rotten
*"Absent Minded", "The Rotten Agenda", Aus-Rotten
*"Don't Call Me White", "Punk in Drublic", NOFX
*"Nazi Punks Fuck Off", "In God We Trust, Inc.", Dead Kennedys
*"The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist", "Less Talk, More Rock", Propagandhi
*"Gay Rude Boys Unite", "Mediocre Generica", Leftöver Crack
*"Hating Hate", "Battle Hymns", Suicide Machines
*"Black and White World", "Battle Hymns", Suicide Machines
*"The Competition Song", "The Fuse", Pennywise
*"Avenues And Alleyways", "...And Out Come The Wolves", Rancid
*"Guilty of Being White", in which lyricist Ian MacKaye claims to be blamed by black Americans for slavery in America, something he dismisses as having happened "a hundred years before [he] was born" "In My Eyes EP", Minor Threat

On straight edge

*"Straight Edge", "Complete Discography", Minor Threat
*"Out Of Step", "Complete Discography", Minor Threat
*"Straight Edge"."White Trash,Two Heebs,and a Bean", NOFX

On the flaws of the punk subculture and wider youth culture

*"Anarchy For Sale", Dead Kennedys
*"Punk is dead", The Feeding of the 5000", Crass
*"Tribal Rival Rebel Revel", Crass
*"White punks on hope", Crass
*"Punks are a Joke", "Deathcycle", Deathcycle
*"Separation of Church and Skate", NOFX
*"Its my Job to keep punk rock elite", NOFX
*"Chickenshit Conformist", "Bedtime for Democracy", Dead Kennedys
*"Nazi Punks Fuck Off", "In God We Trust, Inc.", Dead Kennedys
*"Indie Sux, Hardline Sux, Emo Sux, You Suck!", Anti-flag