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Title: Job Pruijser : Emilie Luckhardt
Date: 2000/2010
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows names of two probable political party candidates printed in uppercase dark blue letters on a white background. Possibly candidates of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands. Ink is dark blue.

Title: René Dammen : Tinneke Veltman
Date: 2000/2010
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows two names printed in dark blue on white background. Possibly candidates of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands. Ink is dark blue.

Title: Hans Helffer : Marianne De Ridder
Date: 2000/2010
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows names of two people (Hans Helffer and Marianne De Ridder) printed in dark blue on a white background. Possibly candidates of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands. Ink is dark blue.

Title: Nieuwe Communistische Partij - NCPN
Date: 1992/2020
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows the name of a Dutch political party (the New Communist Party of the Netherlands) and its acronym in red letters on a white background. Ink is red.

Title: Je bent dom en je wilt wat!!
Date: 1992/2020
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows title in black letters on white background. Possibly a campaign poster from the Nieuwe Communistische Partij Nederland.

Title: Diskussie Vrouwenhuis : relatie vrouwen-klassenstrijd psychologiese oorlogvoering inkapselig en inkonsekwenties
Date: 1990/1999
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows large black and white star with the female gender symbol in the center. Within the circular area of the symbol is a clenched fist.

Title: Boycot toerisme naar Turkije : financier niet de vuile oorlog in Turkije en Koerdistan : politieke oplossung van de koerdische kwestie, nu!
Date: 1990/1999
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a modern hotel complete with large pool and gazebo surrounded by a green lawn and decorative plantings of trees and flowering shrubs. Just steps away is a sandy shore with beach umbrellas and other amenities awaiting guests. Below that illustration, and against a black background, are five scenes that illustrate what life is like by comparison for those caught up in the Turkish conflict with the Kurds. Shown are a bombed-out apartment or storefront, three armored tanks rolling...
Show morePoster shows a modern hotel complete with large pool and gazebo surrounded by a green lawn and decorative plantings of trees and flowering shrubs. Just steps away is a sandy shore with beach umbrellas and other amenities awaiting guests. Below that illustration, and against a black background, are five scenes that illustrate what life is like by comparison for those caught up in the Turkish conflict with the Kurds. Shown are a bombed-out apartment or storefront, three armored tanks rolling down a city street, a group of people waiting to evacuate from a conflict zone with their belongings piled beside a truck, a woman squatting by the road with three young children, and a small child lying bloodied and lifeless in rubble.
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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: 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: 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: Turkije 83 : demokratie van fascistische junta
Date: 1983
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster is divided into three main colors horizontally: red, black, and white. Printed at head of poster on a red background is "Devrimci Yol" and "Turkije Informatie" with a white star between them. A fist forms the top point of that star. The largest section is black with a white circle in the middle. The main title is in the center of that circle with the subtitle printed around the outer edge. Below the subtitle is a mass of blood red color dripping down behind the text to form the word ...
Show morePoster is divided into three main colors horizontally: red, black, and white. Printed at head of poster on a red background is "Devrimci Yol" and "Turkije Informatie" with a white star between them. A fist forms the top point of that star. The largest section is black with a white circle in the middle. The main title is in the center of that circle with the subtitle printed around the outer edge. Below the subtitle is a mass of blood red color dripping down behind the text to form the word 'no' in upper case letters: NEEN. The blood red color continues down and around a black military tank at the bottom of the poster. Ink is red and black.
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Title: Gronings Politiet Muziekteater : Mania
Date: 1982
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster recto a shows black and white photographic image of a young child painting on a brick wall. The child has painted a capital A with a circle around it and a plus sign. Verso shows a black and while photographic image of several young men and women walking down a railroad track with two dogs against a backdrop of raised highways. These young people are presumably members of Mania, a political musical theater group based in Groningen, Netherlands, who are performing the piece whose title...
Show morePoster recto a shows black and white photographic image of a young child painting on a brick wall. The child has painted a capital A with a circle around it and a plus sign. Verso shows a black and while photographic image of several young men and women walking down a railroad track with two dogs against a backdrop of raised highways. These young people are presumably members of Mania, a political musical theater group based in Groningen, Netherlands, who are performing the piece whose title appears at the head of the poster verso: Wie ben ik nog over. This is a work of short vignettes and musical pieces about radical youth, resistence, and powerlessness. Includes the lyrics of four songs: Snelweg; Robot; Vrouenland; Wie ben ik nog over. Target audience is you 15-25. Ink is black.
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Title: Stemmen helpt niet meer
Date: 1981
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a graffiti-covered brick wall with a large hole smashed through it. Ink is yellow, pink, blue, green and black.

Title: Amsterdam helpt Berlijn : TUWAT
Date: 1981
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a black and white nighttime image of a man and a woman in conversation on the sidewalk flanking a cobblestone street. They stand before a row of multi-storied stone buildings. This poster advertises a meeting of TUWAT ("do something") in support of the sqatters movement in Berlin, Germany. TUWAT hopes to prevent the demolition of older, occupied residential buildings. The poster appeals to Dutch sympathizers to rally in support of the Berlin protesters. Ink is black and red....
Show morePoster shows a black and white nighttime image of a man and a woman in conversation on the sidewalk flanking a cobblestone street. They stand before a row of multi-storied stone buildings. This poster advertises a meeting of TUWAT ("do something") in support of the sqatters movement in Berlin, Germany. TUWAT hopes to prevent the demolition of older, occupied residential buildings. The poster appeals to Dutch sympathizers to rally in support of the Berlin protesters. Ink is black and red. Text is in red.
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Title: Dwangarbeid en isolatie
Date: 1980
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: This poster points out the problems suffered by political prisoners including forced labor, torture, and solitary confinement.

Title: Prys--schieten
Date: 1980
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: At top center, poster shows the head of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a tiara and drop-earrings. Her smiling face is centered in the crosshairs of a weapon's scope. In the center is a small image of the face of an unidentified man. Bottom right shows five uniformed men, three armed with rifles. That image is captioned: "Org: Bernhard Kommando." The date of the alleged competition is the same date that Princess Beatrix, who had married a German, would be crowned Queen after the...
Show moreAt top center, poster shows the head of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a tiara and drop-earrings. Her smiling face is centered in the crosshairs of a weapon's scope. In the center is a small image of the face of an unidentified man. Bottom right shows five uniformed men, three armed with rifles. That image is captioned: "Org: Bernhard Kommando." The date of the alleged competition is the same date that Princess Beatrix, who had married a German, would be crowned Queen after the abdication of her mother, Queen Juliana. The announcement of a fake shooting competition appears to be black humor aimed at the Dutch monarchy and Beatrix in particular.
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Title: Big tricks
Date: 1980
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows caricature of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a helmet with face shield and topped with a townscape of five multi-storied buildings. She is shown with vampire fangs biting a 1980 Dutch guilder coin that is marked with a value of millions. The coin image is also stamped with a Dutch phrase meaning police state. In the center of the coin is a shield topped with a royal crown below which stands a lion also wearing a helmet and face shield. The lion is holding two...
Show morePoster shows caricature of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands wearing a helmet with face shield and topped with a townscape of five multi-storied buildings. She is shown with vampire fangs biting a 1980 Dutch guilder coin that is marked with a value of millions. The coin image is also stamped with a Dutch phrase meaning police state. In the center of the coin is a shield topped with a royal crown below which stands a lion also wearing a helmet and face shield. The lion is holding two unidentified objects in its front paws. At the time of the queen's 1980 investiture, there were riots due to poor housing conditions and an atmosphere of anti-monarchism because Beatrix had married a German noble who had been in the Hitler Youth.
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Title: Anti Kraakwet : indien je illegaale woont laat je dan hier informeren en geef je op, dan sta je niet aleen als hij komt
Date: 1978
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a menacing man (from the chest up) staring directly at the viewer. He is wearing a black coat and black military-style hat with a starburst design badge on the front showing two crossed hatchets in the center circle with sprigs of laurel on either side. Below the center circle is: "[unidentified word] revell." The main title and the lips and inner left eye of the man are bright red. The poster seems intended to frighten squatters at a time when squatting was being criminalized in...
Show morePoster shows a menacing man (from the chest up) staring directly at the viewer. He is wearing a black coat and black military-style hat with a starburst design badge on the front showing two crossed hatchets in the center circle with sprigs of laurel on either side. Below the center circle is: "[unidentified word] revell." The main title and the lips and inner left eye of the man are bright red. The poster seems intended to frighten squatters at a time when squatting was being criminalized in the Netherlands. Ink is red and black.
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Title: Argentina '78 : libertad
Date: 1978
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows black and white image of three rifles standing in a tripod with a soccer ball resting in the area just above where the barrels cross. That is a reference to the suspected involvement of Argentina's military junta in World Cup victory of the Argentine team in a year when that country hosted the games. Ink is black.

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