Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.633
Object Name
Poster
Title
OSPAAAL International week of tricontinental solidarity poster
Date
1968
Description
Long rectangular poster with the OSPAAAL logo in yellow, red, orange and brown. Shows a gun and a globe. OSPAAAL is the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Abbreviated as OSPAAAL, it was a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights. The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of over 500 delegates and 200 observers from over 82 countries.
Acting as the "key bridge" to unite liberation struggles and movements in the three continents, OSPAAAL's main objective is the promotion of anti-imperialism and socialism.[1] The Organization of American States (OAS) called OSPAAAL "the most dangerous threat that international communism has yet made against the inter-American system". OSPAAAL's motto was "This great humanity has said: enough! And has started to move forward".
Until 2019, it published the magazine Tricontinental as their main transnational communication tool. After the closing of OSPAAAL by the Cuban Government,the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research seeks to continue the heritage of the Tricontinental conference and the organization. They "stand, in the words of Franz Fanon, with the wretched of the earth to create a world of human beings. Underneath this logo there is writing in Arabic, Spanish, English, and French.
This says "This great humanity has said "enough"!." This text and its translations are in orange text. Underneath this there is black text, in Spanish, English and French. This states "International week of tricontinental solidarity January 3rd to 10th/1968."
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