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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
This page on wikipedia might be helpful a little - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifascist_Circle
It's the symbol of the social-democratic swindle of the Iron Front which also fought the communists of the Red Front.
What's the matter Lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?
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.
You seem neat, but...
They divide us by our color, they divide us by our tongue,
They divide us men and women, they divide us old and young,
But they'll tremble at our voices when they hear these verses sung,
For the Union makes us strong!
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.
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"How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Why did you join us? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and Bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kids gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows. I've plunged them in the filth and blood. But what do you hope? Do you think you'll govern innocently?"-Jean-Paul Sartre
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 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.
