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I think "What's Goin' On" is still relevant, no?
I presume two parts to the thread here - why are there no protest songs getting played, and why are there no protest songs getting made. I agree with Tynan, most likely they were seen as a catalyst for real change, or at least a soundtrack for it. When "it" didn't really happen, there were a lot of disillusioned, spaced out hippies. Eighties attempts were a response to Thatcherism and she outlasted the most ferocious of them.
In a sense any of the notorious Sex Pistols songs were as much successful protest songs as Dylan or Baez - but they were born out of sociological, rather than overtly political, disenchantment.