Black rose symbolism

Black roses do not naturally exist but have various symbolic meanings in different contexts.

Black roses symbolize ideas such as hatred, despair, death or rebirths.

One of the two anarchist bookshops in Sydney is Black Rose Books which has existed in various guises since 1982.

[4] The Black Rose was the title of a respected journal of anarchist ideas published in the Boston area during the 1970s,[5] as well as the name of an anarchist lecture series addressed by notable anarchist and libertarian socialists (including Murray Bookchin and Noam Chomsky) into the 1990s.

Black Rose Anarchist Federation is a political organization that was founded in 2014, with a few local and regional groups in the United States.