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of Asia, Africa and Latin America’ in Cuba producing posters which they saw as a crucial tool in the people’s revolutionary struggles, to inform and educate,[№ 003 - 004]but would ridicule the campaigns of the bourgeois parties as a decadent capitalist ploy to 9 9 Galina Demosfenova, ‘sell’. Is a political poster a tool to educate, or Sovetski Politicheski Plakat, ed. by F. is it a tool of selling? These ideas framed an Kaloshina (Moscow: Iskustva Moskva ideological conflict within the Labour party. Izdatestva, 1968), p. 14.
Deciding what makes a political poster successful is difficult and is more often than not ruled by someone’s political persuasion, there are countless guides and advisory manuals produced to guide parties with their designs, Michael Middleton produced ‘Soldiers of Lead: An introduction to layout and typography for use in the Labour Party’ in 1948 and Arno Scholz ‘Das Einmaleins Der Politische Werbung’ (‘The Multiplication Table Of Political Advertising’) in 1959, 003 004
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1972 1983
Alfrédo Rostgaard Rafael Enriquezs
Day of Solidarity with the Congo, 1972 Foreign Debt
The Poster as a Political Tool