The black and red bisected flag is widely recognized as the modern symbol of anarchism. The solid red flag was adopted as one of the first symbols of anarchy in europe in the late 1800s by revolutionaries; the solid black flag was adopted around the same time, and the two were often flown in tandem, thus the bisected red/black of today. Louise Michel wrote, "Those red and black banners wave over us mourning our dead and wave over our hopes for the dawn that is breaking." The solid red flag's popularity waned amongst anarchists after the October Revolution when it became more associated with Bolshevism, authoritarian socialism, and later the Communist party. Solid black remained popular; its symbol was of strength, anger, outrage, and the negation of statehood, but also of beauty, humanity, and hope. The addition of the black cat is a common union symbol by IWW members and french anarchists. Black cat and black rose symbolism are common amongst anarchists, though their meaning can vary from group to group.

The Industrial Workers of the World union is America's longest standing general union. Founded by anarchists and socialists, it promotes the "one big union" idea, wherein workers of all trades should unite on a class basis to supplant wage labor and capitalism. They also stood as an alternative to the American Federation of Labor, which divided laborers by trade and did not accept unskilled workers. Today, they're amongst the largest and most comprehensive unions around. Visit the link above if you're interested in joining!

The fist is a symbol of black power, black liberation, solidarity, and a refusal to back down to violent institutions of power. Its origins are murky, but its popularity rose with the Black Panther Party movement in 1966 onward. You'll often see the black power fist at protests for a variety of causes, but most commonly for Black Lives Matter.

The Black Panther Party for Self Defence was a militant revolutionary group founded in Oakland, CA, on the basis that the civil rights movement fell short of liberating many black Americans, and that nonviolence could never bring true liberation for the working class. Throughout its massively influential history, it provided free food for families, free transportation, employment services, library and education services, healthcare, legal aid, and promoted general black welfare on a scale not seen before or since. Because of their practice of armed resistence to militant police, they were often the targets of the FBI's COINTELPRO program, and many of its key speakers and revolutionaries were assassinated.

Antifascist Action is a collection of ideals with deep roots in european anarchism. In modern media, you'll often hear the shortened name "Antifa". Being an anarchist collective, it has no membership, constitution, or leaders; it's not an organization or group at all. Instead, it's an ideology violently opposed to facism in all its forms, which saw its peak of resistance during World War II. In recent years, individual activists performing industrial sabatoge under the banner of Antifacism have made news all over the western world. Their direct action has led capitalist news outlets to brand them domestic terrorists. Online trolls will often dub themselves "leaders of antifa", leading to further confusion and chaos for organizations attempting to point fingers at "leaders" or individual "members".

The banner of the Hong Kong protests are a play on the flag of Hong Kong, a hypercapitalist colony of China in all but name. The protests reached their peak in the early days of the COVID pandemic with the introduction of an extradition bill that would've subjected Hong Kong's citizens to the vastly different legal system of China. Protesters, clad in anonymous black clothing and employing revolutionary resistence strategies to a militarized police force, made national news for their direct action and peaceful protest alike.