Five Protest Songs About Margaret Thatcher

You Thatcherites by name, lend an ear, lend an ear

You Thatcherites by name, lend an ear

You Thatcherites by name, your faults, I will proclaim

Your doctrines, I must blame, you will hear, you will hear

Your doctrines, I must blame, you will hear

The alternative rocker and activist Billy Bragg was part of Red Wedge, a coterie of anti-Thatcher musicians who advocated Labour policies in the 1980s. Bragg penned other songs that bashed the Thatcher administration, such as “Between the Wars” (anothertrack inspired by the miners’ strike, with proceeds donated to protesters’ efforts) and “Waiting For The Great Leap Forward.”