The hammer and sickle (☭) or sickle and hammer (Russian: серп и мо́лот, translit. syerp i molot) is a communist symbol that was adopted during the Russian Revolution. At the time of creation, the hammer stood for industrial laborers and the sickle for the peasantry—combined they stood for the worker-peasant alliance for socialism. read more
Hammer and sickle - Wikipedia. Communist parties. Three out of the four currently ruling Communist parties use a hammer and sickle as the party symbol: the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of Vietnam, and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. All of these use the yellow-on-red colour scheme. read more
The Hammer is a metaphor for industrial laborers, the sickle for the farming peasantry. Both of these symbols, when used together in a public display, represent the worker-peasant alliance for socialism and its unified resistance to internal insurrection and foreign intervention in the affairs of the communist state. read more