The Antifascist Circle (German: Antifaschistischer Freundeskreis) is a logo designed by Sergei Chakhotin - former assistant to the physiologist Ivan Pavlov - in 1931 for the 1930s German anti-fascist organization Iron Front. The logo was designed to be able to easily cover up Nazi swastikas. The symbol was later adopted in the United States by the Young People's Socialist League (formed in 1989), and was kept as their logo until their disbandment in 2010.
The meaning of the three arrows has been interpreted differently. One position is that they stood for the opponents of social democracy: state communism, Nazism and reactionary forces. Another claim is that they stand for the three columns of the German workers' movement: a party, a trade union and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold.