Rage Against The Machine Could Have U.K. Xmas #1

If we're to believe 1984's corniest holiday song, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" the yuletide season is political.

Bono, Duran Duran and Kool And The Gang — who were all participants on the single — know this. As it turns out, so do Rage Against The Machine fans.

U.K. fans of the rap-metal group have set up a Facebook group petitioning to make Rage's anti-authoritarian anthem "Killing In The Name" Britain's #1 tune on the charts over Christmas.

The results are promising — the group has amassed nearly 60,000 supporters.

Rage will directly compete with the winner of The X Factor, Britain's version of American Idol. The annual X Factor winner usually produces the U.K.'s top holiday single. The Facebook group instructs people to purchase "Killing In The Name" after Dec. 13, the same day X Factor's Christmas single is released.

According to NME.com, the X Factor Christmas single is expected to be a cover of Miley Cyrus' "The Climb."

Rage aren't X Factor's first challengers. Last year, a petition was launched supporting Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" to combat the show's holiday airwave dominance.

This is the second time in the last several months that Rage songs have been used for a political purpose of sorts. Documents surfaced earlier this year saying that their songs were being used (against their consent, of course) at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The practice consisted of playing the songs at top volume to force terrorism suspects to cooperate with investigators, which some say is pretty much torture.

Unlike Guantanamo, however, it looks like this Christmastime protest is a cause Rage can support.