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- From: walker@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Graham Walker, 227 West Old Main,268-3847,)
- Subject: Re: British Flags and Chritmas Wishes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.214959.2303@news.clarkson.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:49:59 GMT
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- From article <BzrzLK.8xG@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, by patk@sr.hp.com (Patrick Kearney):
- >
- > It wasn't the Spanish fascists who had a red & black flag, but the
- > Spanish Anarchists of the FAI/CNT. The flag was red and black diagonally.
- > The original Anarchist flag was black, but assumed a red bit after
- > after anarchism began to find influence among European industrial
- > workers. I believe the black flag was adopted again by the anarchists
- > of Nestor Makhno's peasant army in the Ukraine after the Russian
- > Revolution.
- >
- An anarchist (FAI) flag has always been black, the red/black flag is that of
- the anarcho-syndacalist movement (CNT).
-
- GW
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