Veteran protest musician, Billy Bragg, wrote on his Instagram page that he wrote ‘Hundred Year Hunger’ in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a group of vessels heading for Gaza with aid. The aid project consists of activists, organizers, humanitarians, doctors, artists, clergy, lawyers, and seafarers – everyday people who have one common goal: to deliver aid and a message of unity, peace, and an end to the genocide in Gaza.
Bragg writes that the song views the current famine in Gaza “through the lens of a century of enforced food insecurity and malnutrition imposed on the Palestinian people, firstly by British imperialism, then as a weapon of mass displacement by the state of Israel.”
Watch the lyric video for the song below, or better yet, catch the song live at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on 20 September 2025. Bragg will be accompanied by many artist friends for a night called Days Like These, a Gaza fundraiser evening for Amos Trust. Get tickets at Bragg’s website.
