What does the three arrow symbol mean?

[Chicano Shamrock]

Does anyone know what the origin and meaning of the 3 arrow anti fascist symbol is?

This is the symbol if you don't know what I am talking about.
http://www.thoughtcrimeink.com/img/merch/b...fa_icon_med.gif (http://www.thoughtcrimeink.com/img/merch/buttons/antifa_icon_med.gif)

[RedAnarchist]

This page on wikipedia might be helpful a little - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifascist_Circle

[Wanted Man]

It's the symbol of the social-democratic swindle of the Iron Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_front) which also fought the communists of the Red Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotfrontk%C3%A4mpferbund).

[Fawkes]

The symbol originated in the French Revolution. Each line represents something. Though I can't quite remember, I believe the three things were Brotherhood, Unity, and Power or something along the lines of that.

[manic expression]

It's a symbol that has a lot of different stories behind it. This is the one I know:

The symbol represents Liberty, Equality and Solidarity. From the story I heard, it was first used as a symbol during the occupation of France, which saw a Nazi symbol turned upside-down to defy the invaders.

Anyway, there are plenty of stories, none of them definitive, that's just what I was told by a comrade awhile ago.

By the way, Fawkes, I never realized the similarity to the French Revolution's motto: Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. That's interesting.

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by manic [email protected] 04, 2007 10:04 pm
It's a symbol that has a lot of different stories behind it. This is the one I know:

The symbol represents Liberty, Equality and Solidarity. From the story I heard, it was first used as a symbol during the occupation of France, which saw a Nazi symbol turned upside-down to defy the invaders.

Anyway, there are plenty of stories, none of them definitive, that's just what I was told by a comrade awhile ago.

By the way, Fawkes, I never realized the similarity to the French Revolution's motto: Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. That's interesting.
Well thats certainly not true because it was used in spain in the civil war.

I think it was an arty Rupublican remix of a CNT poster which had three bayonets going into a fascist snake.

...I can't find the poster I mean, but three bayonets seems to be a symbol they used a lot. I wouldn't be surprrised if it evolved into the three arrows.

[img]http://www.orwell.ru/a_life/Spanish_War/slogans/pts/s23.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' class='attach' />

[Red October]

It's real origins are probably impossible to figure out. But it's also used (but pointing to the left) by the Young People's Socialist League (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_People%27s_Socialist_League) in America, which is the youth branch of the horribly reformist Socialist Party. According to them the 3 arrows mean education, elections, and direct action (pacifist action of course). Many of the YPSL leaders from the 60's and 70's are now prominent figures in the American far-right and work for a variety of neoconservative groups.