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James Connolly, who co-founded the Irish Citizen Army with Jack White, said the significance of the banner was that a free Ireland would control its own destiny from the plough to the stars. The Starry Plough banner was originally used by the Irish Citizen Army, a socialist republican workers' militia.

In Ireland, the symbol of the plough remains in use. The Plough flag from 1914 and flown during the Easter RisingĪn alternative example is the combination of a hammer and a plough, with the same meaning (unity of peasants and workers). The hammer and sickle is also commonplace in later self-declared socialist states such as Cuba, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos. In some other former communist countries, as well as in countries where communism is banned by law, its display is prohibited as part of decommunization policies. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, the hammer and sickle remains commonplace in Russia and other former Soviet republics. It was taken up by many communist movements around the world, some with local variations. Īfter World War I (from which the Russian Empire withdrew in 1917) and the Russian Civil War, the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for labor within the Soviet Union and for international proletarian unity. It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing the peasants. The hammer and sickle ( Unicode: ☭) is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity, a union between agricultural and industrial workers.

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