He was part of the Red Wedge comedy tour in 1986, which aimed to raise awareness of the social problems of the time, in support of the Labour Party.

Wedge appears towards the end of A New Hope as " Red Two ," an X-Wing pilot and a member of Red Squadron along with Luke Skywalker.

Wedge appears towards the end of Return of the Jedi as the leader of Red Squadron in the Battle of Endor.

Wedge ( almost always alongside another Red Squadron wingman, Biggs Darklighter ) is a recurring character and a running gag in the Final Fantasy video game series ( for example, Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and even games outside of the Final Fantasy Universe ( but made by the same company, Squaresoft ) such as Chrono Trigger and Kingdom Hearts II ).

This appearance features many notable pilots, including Biggs Darklighter (" Red Three "), Jek Porkins (" Red Six "), Wedge Antilles (" Red Two "), and Luke Skywalker (" Red Five ").

The NME responded to the Thatcher era by espousing socialism through movements such as Red Wedge.

Fronted by Billy Bragg ( whose 1985 Jobs for Youth tour had been a prototype of sorts for Red Wedge ), Paul Weller and The Communards lead singer Jimmy Somerville, they put on concert tours and appeared in the media, adding their support to the Labour Party campaign.

" Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge ", a 1919 lithograph by Lissitzky

The collective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivist artist El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge.

Despite this echo of the Russian Civil War, Red Wedge was not a communist organisation ; neither was it officially part of the Labour Party, but it did initially have office space at Labour's headquarters.

Red Wedge organised a number of major tours.

When the general election was called in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical participants along with The The, Captain Sensible and the Blow Monkeys.

A few further gigs were arranged and the group's magazine Well Red continued, but funding eventually ran out and Red Wedge was formally disbanded in 1990.

Weller was also instrumental in the formation of Red Wedge with Billy Bragg.

Examples include: " You Could Have It So Much Better ", which references a 1924 portrait of Lilya Brik by Alexander Rodchenko ; " Take Me Out ", which references One-Sixth Part of the World, also by Alexander Rodchenko ; " This Fire " which references Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by El Lissitzky ; and " Michael ", with single art based on A Proun by Lissitzky.

He had earlier given his support to the left-wing Red Wedge British youth political movement.

Red Wedge closely allied itself with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock in his unsuccessful attempt to defeat the Conservative Party.

The Soviet Union began with very Modernist posters such as Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge by Lazar Markovich Lissitzky but soon turned to socialist realism, used for most World War II posters from the Soviet Union, which sometimes are similar to their Nazi equivalents.

In the 1980s, several notable British socialist punk musicians were involved with Red Wedge.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

( opposite page, top left ): Red clay was used, rolled 1/2'' '' thick.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

With the development of the Red Bridge Subdivision south of Kansas City, Missouri, the developer was faced with the problem of providing adequate sewage disposal.

The sewage system from Kansas City was not expected to serve the Red Bridge area for several years.

Having achieved this end, he was able to buy 116,000 square miles in the valleys of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

It was from the American outposts that Red River shortages of livestock were to be made good.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

Red was small and fine-boned, like ivory-inlay.

During a collective hunger strike in 1974, Sartre visited Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in Stammheim Prison and criticized the harsh conditions of imprisonment.

" In the event of an entire unit wanting to join the Red Army, a " collective guarantee and the affirmative vote of all its members " would be necessary.

When they returned to San Francisco, Red Dog participants Luria Castell, Ellen Harman and Alton Kelley created a collective called " The Family Dog.

It includes Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, Beck, R. E. M., all-round session drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist Mauro Refosco of the musical collective Forro in the Dark and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on keyboards and treatments.

The Kingsmen began their collective career playing at fashion shows, Red Cross events, and supermaket promotions, generally avoiding rock songs on their setlist.

A loose collective of film makers was established under the banner of Independent Producers Ltd. employed some of Britain's greatest directors, such as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ( Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, I Know Where I'm Going!

The M3 was unpopular in the Red Army, where its faults showed up in engagements with enemy armor and anti-tank weapons, with the Soviets bestowing it the nickname of " БМ-6 — братская могила на шестерых " that could be translated as " collective grave for six people ", although the official designation was " М3с " (" М3 средний ", M3 medium ) to distinguish them from " М3л " (" М3 лёгкий ", M3 light ) Stuart tanks.

The eight players most frequently referenced as members of the Big Red Machine include baseball's all-time hit leader in Rose ; three Hall of Fame players in Bench, Peréz and Morgan ; six National League MVP selections ; four National League home run leading seasons ; three NL Batting Champions ; 25 Gold Glove winning seasons, and 63 collective All-Star Game appearances.

In Red Son, Superman's rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas, an implied reason being a small time difference ( a handful of hours ) from the original timeline, meaning Earth's rotation placed the Ukraine in the ship's path instead of Kansas.

On 18 May 1944 the Crimean Tatar population of the city along with the whole Crimean Tatar nation of Crimea ( except the families of the Red Army soldiers ) was forcibly deported to Central Asia in a form of collective punishment.

The Three Colors Trilogy () is the collective title of three films – a trilogy – directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Trois couleurs: Bleu ( Three Colors: Blue ) ( 1993 ), Trzy kolory: Biały ( Three Colors: White ) ( in French: Blanc ) ( 1994 ), and Trois couleurs: Rouge ( Three Colors: Red ) ( 1994 ).

The RSL recruited a minority tendency of the Red Flag Union, a gay socialist collective, to its state capitalist characterization, and they merged into the League in 1977.

However, as the Red Army was perceived as not strong enough, and the USSR sought to avoid becoming embroiled in a general European war, he began pursuing a policy of collective security, trying to contain Nazi Germany via cooperation with the League of Nations and the Western Powers.

During his years in Boston, Carnes was a member of the " Composers in Red Sneakers " collective.

Since 1991, Frazin has taught Composition at the Longy School of Music and is currently president of Composers in Red Sneakers, a Cambridge-based composer's collective.

Red Herring is an artist's collective based in Brighton England.

Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse is a radical infoshop located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and run by a worker-owner collective.

He worked on a collective farm until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, when he joined the Red Army.

Grant Naylor was the collective name used by writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for their collaborative work, particularly the television series Red Dwarf.

Better Than Life is a science fiction comedy novel by Grant Naylor, the collective name for Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, co-creators and writers of the Red Dwarf television series, on which the novel is based.

In Los Angeles, in between tour dates with The Syndicate, Bronx Style Bob became a founding member of Los Angeles funk collective Trulio Disgracias featuring members of Fishbone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Brand New Heavies, Parliament, Funkadelic, Thelonious Monster, Suicidal Tendencies, and The Untouchables.

It was later discovered that a collective of rogue nanobots which formed the mechanoid Kryten's auto-repair system dismantled Red Dwarf and created their own nano-version of the ship.

" At the origin of every fortune lies a crime ": this precept from the " Red Inn " recurs constantly in the Comédie humaine, both as a biographical truth ( Taillefer's murderous fortune, Goriot's deals with the Revolutionary army ), and as a sign of French collective guilt at the horrors of the Revolution ( and most notably by the death of Louis XVI of France ).