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 socialist and social democratic parties around the world.
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.
A 1974 municipal elections campaign poster featuring an early appearance of the fist and rose imagery.
A 1978 provincial elections poster.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meaning to the rose, though these are seldom understood in-depth. Examples of deeper meanings lie within the language of flowers, and how a rose may have a different meaning in arrangements. Examples of common meanings of different coloured roses are: true love (red), mystery (blue), innocence or purity (white), death (black), friendship (yellow), and passion (orange).
Hans Simon Holtzbecker: Rosa gallica, gouache, c. 1650 (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen). The vivid red, semi-double Rosa gallica was "the ancestor of all the roses of medieval Europe".
Venus Verticordia (1868) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, showing the goddess Aphrodite surrounded by red roses
Selling roses on St George's Day in Catalonia, Spain
Emblem for "The World Order of Socialists" with a red rose, substituting the shield of arms, containing a handshake stretching a rationally devised globe under a rising sun, designed by Walter Crane, c. 1915
