The Black Front was composed of radical former Nazis who intended to cause a split in the party, and adopted the crossed hammer and sword symbol that is still used by several Strasserite groups. The group published a newspaper entitled The German Revolution .

Communist symbolism represents a variety of themes, including revolution, the proletariat, the peasantry, agriculture, or international solidarity. The red flag, the hammer and sickle and the red star or variations thereof are some of the symbols adopted by communist movements, governments, and parties worldwide.

Meaning of the Communism hammer and sickle (☭) 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.

But what exactly does the hammer symbolize and how can it be interpreted? The hammer is a creative-destructive symbol that represents masculine strength, craftsmanship, wealth, divine power manifested as thunderbolts and storms as well as law and order.

The hammer, sickle, and sword symbolized the troika of the workers and other class groups that brought the Bolsheviks to power: the urban proletariat (hammer), the peasantry (sickle), and the Red Army (sword). Lenin balked at the inclusion of the sword and after much debate with Lunacharsky, the sword was removed from the winning design.