Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.79.2
Object Name
Poster
Title
Reds plan massive student festival
Date
1979
Description
This is the poster in the style of a newspaper front page. The newspaper is named the "Daily Excess", a play on the 'Daily Express' which often expressed anti-communist sentiment. The headline reads "Reds plan massive student festival" and following is a highly satirical article giving details of the festival whilst mocking the way that right-wing newspapers talk about communism: "[A] 98 year old RAF pilot claimed that the comrades' hush-hush plan to organise an innocent sounding 'student festival'... was the 'biggest threat to our democracy since the Labour Party's Trotskyo-Maoist inspired plans to force so-called comprehensive education down the throats of British parents.", "There also exists a plan to lure the unsuspecting to the festival with goodies like: Discos, a theatre group, a poster and graphic arts exhibition, political stalls and a number of films.", "We discovered that communist societies from up and down the country are planning to arrange free transport to and from the festival." This poster was produced by the National Student Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain to advertise the festival planned for November 1979. It was printed by War on Want in London on the 4th September 1979. Condition: good
