Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.616
Object Name
Poster
Title
OSPAAAL Day of Solidarity with the struggle of Japanese people
Events
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Date
1968
Description
Poster, depicting Japanese student protesters, one sign in English voicing opposition to the Vietnam war; outline of a leaf is superimposed. Bottom of the poster has orange text saying "Day of solidarity with the struggle of the Japanese people. August 6th" and has the word "OSPAAAL" and an orange OSPAAAL logo. This Issued for the Day of Solidarity held on August Sixth (Hiroshima Day) by the Cuban Organization in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Hiroshima Day commemorates August 6 1945, the day when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed a few days later by another dropped on the city of Nagasaki.
The bombings effectively ended World War II by bringing about the surrender of Japan, but the two cities were destroyed and casualties, mostly civilians, were estimated at around 200,000, with many more people dying later from injuries and illness.
Hiroshima Day is now a focus for anti-war and anti-nuclear discussions and demonstrations. This poster was issued by OSPAAAL - OSPAAAL is the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America. abbreviated as OSPAAAL, 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. 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."
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