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England's Flag of Democracy
A History in Colours
From the Levellers to the Suffragettes
England’s Flag of Democracy – Red, Sea Green and Violet
Flags convey our collective history through colour, rallying us to reclaim what is important from this past for the present and the future. We symbolise three major movements for democracy in England with the colours of Red, Sea Green and Violet – the Chartists, the Levellers, the Suffragettes. While it is an emblem that speaks to a specifically English experience of democratic struggle, its colour symbols are nevertheless universal and are what links the struggle for English democracy to the broader international struggle for human rights and justice. Putting these colours as a tricolour flag symbolises the republican ideas of the French revolution for liberty, equality and solidarity.
⚑ Working people and social justice
The first mass democratic working class party, the Chartists, took up the struggle for the right of working people to vote. The Chartists flew a tricolour flag that contained red, green and white.
Red stands for the people – especially working people and demands for social justice, social welfare and social ownership.
⚑ Action for the environment
Sea Green is the colour of the Leveller party in the 1640s that played a major role in the democratic revolution and the struggle to establish England’s first Republic – the Commonwealth. Two hundred years later the first mass democratic working class party, the Chartists, took up the struggle for the right of working people to vote. The Chartists flew a tricolour flag that contained red, green and white.
Green is now universally recognised as action for the global environment – dealing with issues of waste, pollution and global warming.
⚑ Women’s Equality and liberation
Before and after the First World War the Suffragette movement fought for the right for women to vote and flew a Green, White and Violet tricolour.
Violet stands for women, women’s equality and liberation.
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