The fist and rose, sometimes called the rose in the fist or fist with a rose, is an emblem used or formerly used by a number of left-wing and centre-left parties and political organizations around the
François Mitterrand, then the PS first secretary, at a 1974 presidential election campaign meeting, with a red rose in front of him
The 2010–2016 logo of the PS, displayed during a 2012 demonstration, Paris
A 1974 municipal elections campaign poster featuring an early appearance of the fist and rose imagery
A 1978 provincial elections poster.
The Socialist International is a political international consisting mostly of social democratic political parties and labour organisations. The SI was founded in support of democratic socialism, albei
Fist and rose
…Europe as well as in Africa, America, and Asia, although some have retired it since the end of the 20th century. In 1979, it was also taken up by the Socialist International (SI). It has often been chosen to provide an attractive visual alternative to the communist hammer and sickle, and to signal a party's affiliation to…
Willy Brandt with outgoing secretary general Bernt Carlsson (left) and new secretary general Pentti Väänänen (right) at the Socialist International Congress in 1983
Albert Carthy, secretary general from the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1969.
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