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Politics in European music always struck me as being mixed with the effects that descriminatory policies have on the personal, if we're talking songs with lyrics. Then you have bands like like Plastic People of The Universe, where lyrics are absent altogether, yet they are a highly politicised band. I think in Europe in general there is way more a tradition of non-musical protest, therefore the graphic sloganeering present in, say, your Bob Dylans etc, tends to be more filtered through the results of injustice. On the other hand you have the right wing bands, though, and they spout the sort of hatred, in a clear lyrical manner, that is expected of them.
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