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Rare Political Propaganda Poster

Rare broadside promoting the Day of International Solidarity With the African-American People, published by the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL). 

 Anonymous artwork depicts an outline map of the United States, with a rifle-wielding Black man within its borders.

OSPAAAL

The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America is a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalization, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights.

The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of leftist delegates from Guinea, the Congo, South Africa, Angola, Vietnam, Syria, North Korea, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile and the Dominican Republic.

One of the main purposes of the organization is to promote the causes of socialism and communism in the Third World; for example, OSPAAAL strongly supported Hugo Chávez. Social development, which the organization says is a human right, is a recurring theme in OSPAAAL publications.

OSPAAAL Artwork

From its foundation until the mid-1980s, OSPAAAL produced brightly colored propaganda posters promoting their cause, however, financial difficulty and ink shortages forced the organization to stop producing these posters. However, in 2000, these posters began to be printed again.

These posters, as they intended to be internationalist, usually had their message written in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. As opposed to being put up on walls around Cuba, these posters were instead folded up and stapled into copies of Tricontinental, so that they could be distributed internationally. This allowed OSPAAAL to send its message to its subscribers around the world. 

References:

The only reference we find to this phrase is in the work "Black Ink / Interference Archive, which attributes the quote as "Courtyard, Sorbonne."  The first text page of the work notes:

Translated and designed by JC for the fiftieth anniversary of the Paris rebellions, and in honor of the fiftieth birthday of CH, with help from VT, MEC, and DC.
French texts drawn from Les Murs Ont la Parole (Tchou, 1968), L’Imagination au Pouvoir (Losfeld, 1968), and Paris ‘68 (Impact, 1988). Most photos by Jo Schnapp Photo on p. 206 from Solidarity 30 Printed by Thomson-Shore, a worker-owned company.  Published May 1, 2018 by Black Ink and Interference Archive  -- interferencearchive.org - black-ink.info

Rarity

We find no other surviving examples and no records of the poster in OCLC or elsewhere.

Provenance. Bolerium Books:  October 2019.