A quick sprint around our shelves. I was going to confine this to political songbooks and pamphlets, but decided it might be of interest to make it a historical list of collections and works on political and social themes as a response to those who argue that political songs have no place in our clubs.
I have probably overlooked many (didn't venture into the loft) – would be grateful for fillers-inners
Jim Carroll

AMERICAN
Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hitting People Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
Songs of Work and Protest                 Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer
Ballads of Sacco and Vanzetti                   Woody Guthrie Oak Publications
IWW Songbook (numerous editions)
The People's Songbook                    Alan Lomax etc.
Various Guthrie collections

ENGLAND
Songs For Peace (CND),
Strike Songs (Rego and Polikof Strikers)   United Clothing Workers T U
Big Red Songbook                           Mal Collins, Dave Harker, Geoff White
Songs For The Sixties                           MacColl and Seeger
Topic Songbook   W.M.A
If I Had a Song   W.M.A.
All Together Now                           Eric Winter
Hold The Line Again                           Hackney & Islington Music Workshop (at least 3 vols)
10th World Festival of Youth and Students Songbook Berlin 1973
Coaldust Ballads                        A L Lloyd
Come All You Bold Miners (2 editions)        A L Lloyd
Shuttle and Cage                
New City Songster   (20 odd editions.)    Peggy Seeger
Political Songs of England From the Reign of John to that of Edward II         Thomas Wright
Radical and Red Poets                           Edmund and Ruth Frow
Songs of the Durham Coalfield                Jock Purdon
Easington Explosion & other Pit Songs        Jock Purdon
Anon handwritten miners Poems from Picton Library, Liverpool
Victoria's Inferno                        Jon Raven
Songs of a Changing World                Jon Raven
Black Country Colliers                        Jon Raven
A Touch On The Times                        Roy Palmer
Ballad History of England                Roy Palmer
Sounds of History                        Roy Palmer
Poverty Knock                                Roy Palmer
The Painful Plough                        Roy Palmer
My Song Is My Own – 100 Women's Songs    Kathie Henderson, Frankie Armstrong and Sandra Kerr
Songs of The People                        Brian Hollingsworth
Broadsides of the Industial North        Martha Vicinus
Songs of the Rump 1639-1661
Radical Squibs and Loyal Riposts                Edgell Rickwood
Songs of Toil                                Karl Dallas
Casvalier Songs and Ballads of England        Charles Mackay
Jacobite Songs                                G S McQuoid


SCOTLAND
Scottish Rebel Songs   Jim McLean
Rebel Ceilidh Song Book   William Kellock
Scotish Pasquils                                Probably William Maidment
Jacobite Relics                                James Hogg


IRELAND
Easter Rising in Ballad and Song           C Desmond Greaves
Songs and Recitations of Ireland (numerous editions)
Irish Songs of Resistance                    Patrick Galvin
The Age of Revolution                        Terry Moylan
Songs Composed During The Rebellion of 1798   William Ball esq.
Voice of the People                        Michael Mulcahy, Marie Fitzgibbon   
Songs of Irish Rebellion                         Denis Georges Zimmermann
The Hungry Voice, Poetry of the Irish Famine Christopher Morash
An Duanaire – Poems of The Dispossessed    Seán Ó'Tuama, Thomas Kinsella
Songs of Struggle and Protest                   John McDonnell

ANALYSIS
Song and Democratic Culture                Ian Watson
Music & Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire 1780-1840 Roger Elbourne
The Industrial Muse                        Martha Vicinus
The People's Past                            Edward Cowan    (Chap. Folk and Protest by Norman Buchan)
The Jacobite Song                        William Donaldson
Society and The Lyriac                        Thomas Crawford
The Collier's Rant                        Robert Colls
Freedom of The Air -                          Josh Dunson
Lonesome Traveller (Life of Lee Hayes)   Doris Willens
The Ballad Mongers                           Oscar Brand
Land Where The Blues Began                    Alan Lomax
American Folksongs of Protest            John Greenway
Pastures of Plenty                        Woody Guthrie
Bound For Glory                               Woody Guthrie
Born To Win                                Woody Guthrie
Only a Miner                                Archie Green