Red and black flag

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The red and black flag or rojinegro, also called the anarcho-syndicalist flag, is one of the central symbols of the anarchist movement. It is a variation of the anarchist black flag and the red flag of syndicalism, resulting from the union between the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), the main anarcho-syndicalist organization in Spain, some of whose groups used the red flag, and the FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation), the anarchist federation in Spain, whose groups used the traditional black anarchist flag. The CNT-FAI first publicly displayed it on the 1st May 1931, about two weeks after the success of the Spanish Revolution. The influence of the CNT-FAI in the fight against fascism, particularly during the Spanish Civil War, gave this symbol a broader significance, to the point that it came to be adopted by Antifa movements in general. This flag is the first of the bisected anarchist flags, composed of the black flag and an additional color—several other tendencies within the...

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