The war is on! The internet, being the catalyst for change, has revolted against the establishment again. This time it’s target is Simon Cowell and the X-Factor Christmas song.

Each year since 2005 the winner of the British number one Christmas single has been an X-Factor song of boundless mediocrity. Bookies have even stopped taking bets on who will win because the expectation is that the X-Factor choice of song will beat all other rivals. This year, however, might be different.

A Facebook group, led by Jon and Tracy Morter and aptly named ‘RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FOR CHRISTMAS NO.1‘ has sprung up, ready to battle for the U.K.’s Christmas number one single spot. Surprisingly, the 1993 hit Killing in the Name by Rage against the Machine now has a real chance of becoming the Christmas number one for 2009.

HeatWorld mentions:

… bookies have been forced to admit that Rage Against The Machine have overtaken artists such as Leona Lewis, Robbie Williams and Susan Boyle to become the second most likely to be Number One this Christmas.

The Facebook group already has well over 400,000 members and is growing by the second. Mainstream media such as Channel 5 and BBC Radio 1 have already broadcast reports on the group and twitter is .. uh .. a-twitter about it as well. People from all across the U.K. are being urged to buy the single on the 13th of December to coincide with the release of the Cowell-sanctioned X-Factor single.

So, if you live in the U.K. I urge you to join the Facebook group (by visiting http://bit.ly/inthename) and get the Rage against the Machine single (for less than the price of a pint of ale) on the 13th to confound Cowell and the mediocrity that is the braindrain on talent in Britain.

Here’s a video made by one of the contributors…