transport in Great Britain and Ireland by railway guards as a signal to engine drivers that they must not proceed. Red Flag (automobile), or FAW Hongqi, a luxury limousine made by First Automobile Works in China from the late 1950s Red Flag Linux, the Chinese Linux distribution Red Flag Publishing House, a book publisher based in China See also Bandera Roja (La Paz), a socialist newspaper in Bolivia of the 1920s Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), a German communist newspaper created on 9 November 1918 by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg Hongqi (disambiguation), Hongqi means Red Flag in Chinese Jolly Roger, which is sometimes incorrectly thought to stem from the French term Joli rouge (for Pretty Red flag)