Protest songs in the United States Tom Paxton ("Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" - about the escalation of the war in Vietnam, "Jimmy Newman" – the story of a dying soldier, and "My Son John" – about a soldier who returns from war unable to describe what he's been through), among others. The first protest song to reach number one in the United States was P.F. Sloan's "Eve Of Destruction", performed by Barry McGuire in 1965. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s often used Negro spirituals as a source of protest, changing the religious lyrics to suit the political mood of the time.
Protest song spe is explicitly in favour of an Estonian identity. Finland has a long tradition of socialist and communist protest songs beginning in years before Finnish Civil War, most of which were imported and translated from Soviet Russia. Notably, right-wing protest songs are completely absent in contrast to Estonian tradition and widely considered socially unacceptable. In the 21st century the socialist protest song tradition is continued by rap artists and to lesser degree in more traditional Taistoist form by KOM-theatre choir. "The Internationale" (""L'Internationale"" in French) is a socialist, anarchist, communist, and social-democratic anthem. "The Internationale" became the anthem of international