Red Rat was a Dutch text comic drawn by the artist Johannes van de Weert, which was published in the far left punk magazine Raket in the early 1980s.

Van de Weert began the Red Rat comic as a response to his experience of the police violence against protestors during the riots that occurred on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Beatrix in April 1980.

The comic was published in Raket, a wall newspaper that developed into a popular magazine of the Dutch left.

Having abandoned his initial membership of a local Marxist-Leninist group, viewing them as humourless, van de Weert became inspired by the more militant tactics of the Red Army Faction.

The comic chronicled the adventures of Red Rat as he confronted the police, and the far-right, or as he came into disagreement with fellow punks, squatters and adherents of various left-wing tendencies.