Hammer and sickle

The hammer and sickle is a symbol used to represent communism and communist political parties. It features a sickle superimposed on a hammer. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry respectively; placing them together symbolises the unity between agricultural and industrial workers.

Other similar symbols

A number of symbols show some stylistical similarity to the hammer and sickle without necessarily featuring an actual hammer or a sickle. For example, such symbols appear on the flag of Angola, logo of the Communist Party of Portugal, Communist Party of the USA, and on some renditions of Britain's Transport and General Workers Union logo.

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Flag of Angola - Communist Party of Portugal - Communist Party of the USA - Britain's - Transport and General Workers Union

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Further variations on the theme of crossed tools include the symbol of the Korean Workers' Party (hammer, pen and sickle), the old symbol of the British Labour Party (spade, torch and hoe), and the pickaxe and rifle symbol of communist Albania.

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Korean Workers' Party - Labour Party - Pickaxe - Rifle - Albania

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In 1990, after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he made a speech to the South African people from a balcony decked out with the hammer and sickle flag in Cape Town.

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Nelson Mandela - Cape Town

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The Communist Party of Guadeloupe uses a letter "G" in the style of a hammer and sickle on its flag http://flagspot.net/flags/gp-pcg.html#1998.

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The Austrian coat of arms depicts an eagle holding an (uncrossed) hammer and sickle in each claw. Though unrelated to communism, the design was meant to represent the two main classes in Austrian society at the time of its conception, the workers and peasants.

Related Topics:
Austrian - Coat of arms

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In Unicode, the "hammer and sickle" symbol is U+262D (☭).

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