List of socialist songs

This list consists of two groups: songs of countries that proclaimed themselves to be socialist (such as USSR, PRC, DPRK, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and songs of the socialist movement.

Socialist movement songs

• The Internationale - International socialist anthem (Also the anthem of USSR until 1944, and the anthem of many left-wing organisations)
• Solidarity Forever - Anti-capitalist union song written by Ralph Chaplin, 1915
• The Red Flag - by Jim Connell, 1889.^[1]
• Bella ciao - Italian partisan song
• Hold the Fort - English Transport Workers
• Sar Oomad Zemestoon - Song of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas, written by Saeed Soltanpour
• The Solidarity Song - leftist pro-revolution song by Hanns Eisler
• El pueblo unido jamás será vencido - by Quilapayun (Chile)
• Bandiera Rossa - Written by Carlo Tuzzi, 1908
• Di Shvue - The anthem of the General Jewish Labour Bund. Written by S. Ansky in 1902.
• Mshag Panvor - The anthem of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
• "Dublin City 1913" - the workers' struggle from 1913 to 1916, written by Donagh MacDonagh^[2]

Songs of socialist countries

•  Soviet Union - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Wide Is My Motherland
  • Katyusha - A song about a girl called Katyusha
  • Anthem of the USSR - Soviet national anthem
•  China - People's Republic of China
  • March of the Volunteers - Chinese national anthem
  • Socialism is good - A song from the Cultural Revolution
  • The East Is Red - de facto national anthem of China during the Cultural Revolution
  • Ode to the Motherland - The song dedicated to the Chinese Revolution
•  Cuba - Republic of Cuba
  • Guantanamera - patriotic song to words by Jose Marti
•  France - France
  • Le temps des cerises
•  Yugoslavia - Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  • Padaj silo i nepravdo - Revolutionary song inspired by the Hvar Rebellion.
  • Budi se istok i zapad
  • Zastava Partije
•  Korea, North - Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • No Motherland Without You
  • Song of General Kim Jong-il
  • Onwards Toward the Final Victory - composed in 2012
•  Czechoslovakia
  • Kupředu, levá (The Leftist March) - a superb immortal song

See also

• Music and politics
• Music of the Soviet Union
• People's Songs
• Political hip hop § Anti-poverty, class struggle and socialism
• Protest song
• Punk ideologies § Socialism
• Trade union songs

References

1. Joyce L. Kornbluh, Rebel Voices, pp. 15-16.
2. Harte, Frank, Songs of Dublin, (ed.), 1978, Gilbert Dalton, Dublin and 1993, Ossian Publications, Cork. ISBN 0-946005-51-6