Communist symbolism represents a variety of themes, including revolution, the proletariat, the peasantry, agriculture, or international solidarity. The red flag, the hammer and sickle and the red star or variations thereof are some of the symbols adopted by communist movements, governments, and parties worldwide.
A tableau in a communist rally in Kerala, India showing two farmers forming the hammer and sickle, the most famous communist symbol
Soviet Order of Victory Award (1945)
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (aka the "Little Red Book"), associated with Maoism.
A revolutionary worker in socialist realist style.
In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of left-wing politics, including socialism, communism, Marxism, labour movement, and anarchism. The originally empty or plain red flag has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution (1789–1799).
"Lamartine, before the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, rejects the Red Flag," February 25, 1848. By Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (1815–1884). Lamartine said that the red flag represented revolutionary violence, and "has to be put down immediately after the fighting."
Plain red banners for the Sultan's retinue. From the Turkish Costume Book by Lambert de Vos, 1574
Commemoration March of the 1831 Merthyr Rising in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, 2012
Red flags in Tian'anmen Square in the front of Great Hall of the People.
