Lal Salam (transl."Red salute") is a salute, greeting, or code word used by communists in South Asia. The phrase is a compound of lāl, meaning "red" in Hindi–Urdu, and Salām, meaning "salute".

Further reading

  • Ali, Kamran Asdar (2015). Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-940308-0.