Eladio Rivadulla Pérez, GIRON - 30th ANNIVERSARY - SOCIALISM OR DEATH, 1969

Screenprinted poster on a white ground depicting a tank with a figure in silhouette jumping out. Lettered in black, 'Giron 30th Anniversary, Socialism or Death' in Spanish, English and French.

GIRON - 30th ANNIVERSARY - SOCIALISM OR DEATH

Creator: Eladio Rivadulla Pérez
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1969

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.

In 1961, a military group sponsored by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency invaded Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. Eladio Rivadulla Pérez used a press photograph of Castro jumping from a tank for his commemorative poster design.