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Title: Solidarité : CCC
Date: 1984/1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a brawny man shouting with his right arm raised above his head, fist clenched. Above him is a large black star with the letters CCC below it denoting Communist Combatant Cells, a Belgian terrorist organization active in the mid-1980s and linked to several bombings. Ink is black.

Title: 14 jaar isolatie-folter in de BRD : sinds 4.12.84 zijn de gevangenen uit de RAF en het verzet in Hongerstaking! : zij eisen samenvoeging van alle revolutionaire gevangenen in grote groepen, afschaffing van de isolatie-folter, opheffing van het verbod o...
Date: 1984/198x
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows two side-by-side images in the center. The one to the left shows a group of masked, helmeted protestors dressed in black and carrying a banner that reads "Kampf der NATO-Kriegspolitik." Two other banners are in the back of that picture and the text is not clear except "Anti-NATO ..." The image to the right is the organizational logo for the "Red Army Faction" (popularly known as the "Baader Meinhoff gang"). The logo is a five-point red star with a black sub-machine gun across it...
Show morePoster shows two side-by-side images in the center. The one to the left shows a group of masked, helmeted protestors dressed in black and carrying a banner that reads "Kampf der NATO-Kriegspolitik." Two other banners are in the back of that picture and the text is not clear except "Anti-NATO ..." The image to the right is the organizational logo for the "Red Army Faction" (popularly known as the "Baader Meinhoff gang"). The logo is a five-point red star with a black sub-machine gun across it and the upper case letters RAF on top of the gun. The poster is an expression of sympathy for the Germans on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of isolation and torture they endured while incarcerated in West Germany. There is a list of demands that include: housing the prisoners together, the end of isolation and torture, and lifting the prohibition on communication. Ink is black and red.
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Title: Per la revolució i la independència : un No a l'OTAN
Date: 1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows large trasparent red star beneath which are scenes of protest with anti-American and anti-NATO sentiments on banners. Bottom left has red star, bottom right has the unofficial flag of Catalonia, the Estelada. Images appear within the shapes of Catalan speaking areas. Ink is black and red.

Title: Vermoord door politie, gedekt door politiek : Hans Kok
Date: 1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows the arrest of Hans Kok only fifteen hours before his death of a drug overdose while in police custody in Amsterdam. He is surrounded by a group of people on Schaepman Street where squatters were protesting widespread evictions from affordable housing to make way for demolitions to free up land for urban renewal projects. This poster is in support of Johannes (Hans) Kok, a Dutch punk musician and squatter who died November 11,1985. Ink is black and red.

Title: Oproep tot anti-papenoproer, Utrecht 12 Mei, 11 uur, Mariaplaats : breek door het kordon! : laat het duidelijk zijn : neem helm, stok en molotovs mee!
Date: 1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: At top left of poster there is an image of Pope John Paul II waving in what looks like a Nazi salute. The photo is altered to show him wearing an red and black armband with a swastika on it. His head is in the crosshairs of an unseen weapon. A second picture at the bottom of the poster shows protesters in helmets pushing against police wearing helmets with face shields and holding up shields between themselves and the protesters. A gas mask dangles from the belt of one of the protesters. The...
Show moreAt top left of poster there is an image of Pope John Paul II waving in what looks like a Nazi salute. The photo is altered to show him wearing an red and black armband with a swastika on it. His head is in the crosshairs of an unseen weapon. A second picture at the bottom of the poster shows protesters in helmets pushing against police wearing helmets with face shields and holding up shields between themselves and the protesters. A gas mask dangles from the belt of one of the protesters. The poster is a call for an anti-papist revolt during the pope's 1985 visit to the Netherlands. Red and black ink.
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Title: F15.000 beloning voor het liquideren van Karol Wojtyla alias Paus Johannes Paulus II : tegebeuren tussen 12-15 mei
Date: 1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows black and white image of Pope John Paul II in profile, seated with his right arm outstretched and raised as if in greeting (obscures his face below the chin). The image is altered to make it appear as though he is wearing an armband with a swastika on it. Superimposed on his head are the concentric circles and cross-hairs of a weapon's scope. This is made to look like a wanted poster offering fifteen thousand Dutch guilders to the assassination who kills the pope between May 12...
Show morePoster shows black and white image of Pope John Paul II in profile, seated with his right arm outstretched and raised as if in greeting (obscures his face below the chin). The image is altered to make it appear as though he is wearing an armband with a swastika on it. Superimposed on his head are the concentric circles and cross-hairs of a weapon's scope. This is made to look like a wanted poster offering fifteen thousand Dutch guilders to the assassination who kills the pope between May 12 and 15, [1985?]. Partial profile of an unidentified man appears on left side of poster. The pope is seated with a microphone in front of him and holding a sheet of paper in his left hand.
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Title: Widerstand heisst Leben! : Solidaritat mit Ingrid und Mareile!!
Date: 1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a large red star in the center. Over the star is text about Ingrid Barabass and Mareile Schmegner. Around the star are images of protests and prominent members of the Red Army Faction. Ink is black and red.

Title: Wir grüssen das Kommando Pierre Overney : Für die Einheit der Revolutionär in Westeuropa!
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a brown and white image of the November 1986 assassination of George Besse, president of Renault. French terrorist organization Action directe claimed responsibility for the killing. Pierre Overney, named in title, was a French worker (fired from Renault) and maoist political activist who was fatally shot to death by a security guard in 1972 as he distributed pamphlets outside Renault. Shows solidarity with Western European revolutionaries.

Title: La reposta del poble Català : OTAN no
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Left side of poster shows a crowd in silhouette with arms raised. Above the crowd is a black star. At the bottom of the image is the Estelada, the unofficial flag of Catalan indepence supporters. There is a black star in the bottom left corner of poster. At the bottom right is the image of a tank with a soldier standing beside it at an urban street corner. At the bottom is the stylized flag of Catalonia. This resistance to NATO stems from its assertion that Spain has the right to decide the...
Show moreLeft side of poster shows a crowd in silhouette with arms raised. Above the crowd is a black star. At the bottom of the image is the Estelada, the unofficial flag of Catalan indepence supporters. There is a black star in the bottom left corner of poster. At the bottom right is the image of a tank with a soldier standing beside it at an urban street corner. At the bottom is the stylized flag of Catalonia. This resistance to NATO stems from its assertion that Spain has the right to decide the fate of Catalonia in its bid for independence.
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Title: Soutenons la lutte des 4 combattants communistes prisonniers
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster text overlays an image of two men with fists raised above their heads. The text calls for support of four imprisoned communist fighters on a hunger strike. The four are members of the Fighting Communist Cells in Belgium. Ink is black and red.

Title: Steun het spaans verzet!
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a center illustration of two opposing groups. The group to the left is advancing with clenched fists and weapons (a gun and a sickle). They march below a large flagged marked "Volksrepubliek." The group to the right shows two fearful men in suits and hats with their hands in the air as they stare at the advancing group. Beside them is a wide-eyed soldier with his back turned away from the advancing crowd. The second group is in front of large, uppercase letters spelling "FASCISME...
Show morePoster shows a center illustration of two opposing groups. The group to the left is advancing with clenched fists and weapons (a gun and a sickle). They march below a large flagged marked "Volksrepubliek." The group to the right shows two fearful men in suits and hats with their hands in the air as they stare at the advancing group. Beside them is a wide-eyed soldier with his back turned away from the advancing crowd. The second group is in front of large, uppercase letters spelling "FASCISME" upon which sits a crown with a cross on top of it. Poster gives details about a rally and demonstrations to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the second Spanish Republic (founded April 14, 1931). Slated speakers were from the Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota and some Dutch resistance and solidarity organizations. A choir and an Ethiopian student dance group are listed performers. A film was also listed on the poster: !S' avonds spaans feest! Ink is black on pale yellow paper.
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Title: Krieg dem imperialistischen Krieg : wir Chaoten haben eine lange Tradition
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows multiple images of armed fighting in unidentified places. Top left has a man with a flag marked [Freedom?]. Top right has "Imperialismus" surrounded by images of the Nazi swastika, the American flag, the German eagle, and a snarling German shepherd dog. Large central figure dressed in red is pointing at the viewer. Bottom has emblem of Antifaschistische Aktion (circle with outer black right and white center with two flags--one red, one black). Some smaller print is illegible. Ink...
Show morePoster shows multiple images of armed fighting in unidentified places. Top left has a man with a flag marked [Freedom?]. Top right has "Imperialismus" surrounded by images of the Nazi swastika, the American flag, the German eagle, and a snarling German shepherd dog. Large central figure dressed in red is pointing at the viewer. Bottom has emblem of Antifaschistische Aktion (circle with outer black right and white center with two flags--one red, one black). Some smaller print is illegible. Ink is red and black.
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Title: Solidaritat Al-Yamahiria libia
Date: 1987
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows an area that appears to have been bombed. A toddler with a bandaged arm sits crying in the rubble. The poster is made to look as though it is torn into 4 pieces representing "war torn" Libya. This Catalan poster is in support of Libya and to commemorate the one year anniversary of "Yankee aggression" in response to Libyan terror attacks. Ink is red and black.

Title: Kämpft mit uns : proletarische Aktion
Date: 1987
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a large red star (the symbol of the RAF) in the center with the image of co-founder Ulrike Meinhof superimposed. The star is surrounded by eight black and white images of destruction and political unrest. Appears to be a call to protest a meeting of the Federation of German Industries and a visit to Berlin by then President Ronald Reagan.

Title: Fossarroc '88 : amb Skatalà, Brighton 64 i els Diables del Barri Gòtic
Date: 1988
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows abstract disembodied face of a wincing person with mouth wide-open and spanned by four vertical bars and one crossbar to which a lock with keyhole is affixed. Two hands tightly grasp vertical cell bars in the foreground. Bottom right of poster has stylized flag of Catalonia.

Title: Gemeinsam kämpfen, gemeinsam siegen : Klasse gegen Klasse - für den Kommunismus
Date: 1988/1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a clenched fist held up between two cell bars. To the left of that image is a star. In the center of the star is a smaller black star with CCC across it and "Cellules Communistes Combattantes" encircling it. Text on the lower half of the poster gives the approximate dates the prisoners began their hunger strikes. Strike demands are also listed: housing all four in the same prison, an 8 hour work day, access to correspondence, allowance of two unrelated visitors per prisoner,...
Show morePoster shows a clenched fist held up between two cell bars. To the left of that image is a star. In the center of the star is a smaller black star with CCC across it and "Cellules Communistes Combattantes" encircling it. Text on the lower half of the poster gives the approximate dates the prisoners began their hunger strikes. Strike demands are also listed: housing all four in the same prison, an 8 hour work day, access to correspondence, allowance of two unrelated visitors per prisoner, permission to read and possess political materials, and permission to wear civilian clothing. Includes the prisoners' addresses (in two separate prisons) in Brussels, Belgium and the prisoners' names: Pascale Vandegeerde, Bertrand Sassoye, Pierre Carette, and Didier Chevolt. The poster shows solidarity for imprisoned communist comrades. Poster printed in black and yellow ink.
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Title: ¡Solidaridad! Solidariteit! Solidarite! : avec les prisonniers politiques d'Espagne en greve de la faim depuis le 30 Novembre 1989 pour leur regroupement
Date: 1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white image of two clenched fists with handcuffs on the wrists below them. The image is made to appear as thought it is torn in half vertically--one hand on either side of the tear. Intended to show solidarity with political prisoners in Spain. Ink is black on white paper.

Title: Die Lügen der Baw werden immer offensichtlicher : wir wollen den Veruteilungswillen der Staats Schutzsenate brechen!
Date: 1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a fence with two hands prying it apart. On either side are two newspaper articles. Title is above image with remaining text below. A partial red star is at the top of the image and another partial red star is at the bottom. Ink is black and red.

Title: Maitag des Proletariats : Stammbaum des modernen Sozialismus
Date: 1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Black and white poster shows a large tree with three trunks representing 1) Utopian socialism, 2) Communism of the workers and class struggle, and 3) Humanitarian criticism of the political economy. The trunks converge at the 1848 Marx/Engels Communist manifesto then continue upward past Ferd. Lassalle and the 1863 workers' unions, "Die Internationale" (1864), the Paris Commune" (1871) and finally the international congresses of Paris (1889), Brussels (1891), Zurish (1893, and London (1896)....
Show moreBlack and white poster shows a large tree with three trunks representing 1) Utopian socialism, 2) Communism of the workers and class struggle, and 3) Humanitarian criticism of the political economy. The trunks converge at the 1848 Marx/Engels Communist manifesto then continue upward past Ferd. Lassalle and the 1863 workers' unions, "Die Internationale" (1864), the Paris Commune" (1871) and finally the international congresses of Paris (1889), Brussels (1891), Zurish (1893, and London (1896). The phrase at the top of this family tree of socialism is "Maitag des proletariats." The tree is marked with dozens of personal names, dates, and concepts related to socialism.
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Title: Veranstaltung gegen section 129a : Samstag, 18. August '90 17:00h Uni Frankfurt : über seine aktuelle Anwendung in der BRD und Einführung in der DDR, informieren und diskutieren, Rechtsanwältinnen aus laufenden verfahren, ehemalige Gefangene wegen s...
Date: 1990
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster advertises events organized against Section 129a of the German Criminal Code that deals with the formation of, membership in, or financial support of a terrorist organization. A detailed list of event sponsors is found at foot of poster. Top of poster shows a black and white image of several men and women walking in different directions across an outdoor square. Ink is yellow, green, and black.

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