The RugaNegra street folklore staff has published a small booklet wtih its fist collection. At the same time the group started to run a blog collecting the fists. Check out the blog at fist.freeblog.hu
The fist, the red one, the rising one or the one which is bearing down always means the worker’s power. Visually its based on the German worker salutation. It became dominant in the fine arts after 1917 – specially where the international revolutionary movement caused sharp political situations. Around 1920 the fist has connection with class war situations; after 1930 under the influence of the international fascist breaking trough its meaning gets widened: it gets the signification of the most connected antifascist groups.
After WWII the rising fist, the threatening person or the person who is threatened has always antifascist meaning.
Its connection with solidarity gets tightened in the second half of the century – the original meaning expanded so as it could be used in more and more aspects of the workers movement.
The fist, the red one, the rising one or the one which is bearing down always means the worker’s power. Visually its based on the German worker salutation. It became dominant in the fine arts after 1917 – specially where the international revolutionary movement caused sharp political situations. Around 1920 the fist has connection with class war situations; after 1930 under the influence of the international fascist breaking trough its meaning gets widened: it gets the signification of the most connected antifascist groups.
After WWII the rising fist, the threatening person or the person who is threatened has always antifascist meaning.
Its connection with solidarity gets tightened in the second half of the century – the original meaning expanded so as it could be used in more and more aspects of the workers movement.
