Ernesto Jesús Padrón Blanco, Day of Soldarity With The People Of Laos - October 12, 1970

Offset lithograph poster with the word Laos, depicting an explosion bursting forth from the letter O, to advertise a day of solidarity with Laos (12th October).

Day of Soldarity With The People Of Laos - October 12

Creator: Ernesto Jesús Padrón Blanco
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1970

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.