Walter, your avatar always makes me smile, I keep forgetting to say that, too ... the old "rose-in-the-fist", I hadnt seen it for a lo-ong time!
Thats childhood memories for me, from when my parents were very active in the Dutch Labour party, which back then had that exact symbol.
In the late 80s, early 90s they changed it into something less "strident" ... its pretty, but not the same thing <sighs>:
But, ah, the good old days ...
(sorry for the digression