Andrés Hernández, 12 october - day of world solidarity with laos, 1972

Offset lithograph poster on a white ground, with a black bow and arrow motif in a yellow circle with the title text in Spanish, French, English and Arabic

12 october - day of world solidarity with laos

Creator: Andrés Hernández
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1972

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL. 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.

This design encouraged solidarity with Laotian people on the same date as the founding of the nationalist movement Lao Issara (‘Free Laos’) on 12 October 1945.