Olivio Martínez Viera, week of world solidarity with the peoples of asia - september 30/october 6, 1967

Poster depicting a large lower case letter 'a' filling the sheet, with a red spiral in the upper hook of the letterform. The poster advertises a Week of World Solidarity with the peoples of Asia. Lettered in three languages (Spanish, French, English).

week of world solidarity with the peoples of asia - september 30/october 6

Creator: Olivio Martínez Viera
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1967

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.