Guillermo Menéndez, DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE (AUGUST 6), 1968

Poster depicting a Japanese god, possibly Raijin, the god of thunder and lightning. The poster is advertising a day of Solidarity with the Japanese People (August 6th). Title text in five languages (Spanish, English, French, Arabic and Japanese).

DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE (AUGUST 6)

Creator: Guillermo Menéndez
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1968

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL (the Organisation of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America). Based in Cuba, they made magazines and posters that were sent around the world. Their aim was to promote radical political ideas. Many of their posters celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South.

OSPAAAL marked the date of the atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima by the U.S.A. as a day of solidarity with Japanese citizens. The design appears to incorporate a photograph of Raijin, a Japanese god of thunder, lightning and storms.