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Offset lithograph poster depicting Che Guevara's face repeated in decreasing blue squares over the shape of South America coloured in pink and red. Lettered top right in white, 'Day of the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter, October 8', in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic.

DAY OF THE HEROIC GUERRILLA - OCTOBER 8Helena SerranoCommissioned by OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)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.

From 1968, 9 October was designated as the ‘Day of the Heroic Guerilla’ to mark the anniversary of Che Guevara’s death. Helena Serrano was working at the Cuban government’s propaganda commission when she was asked to produce this poster, her only design for OSPAAAL.