Catalogue Number
NMLH.2023.88
Object Name
Poster
Title
Chile: the new face of imperialism
Place
Chile
People
Pinochet
Events
Chilean coup d'etat
Date
1972-1982
Description
The Poster Collective was a collective formed in 1971 at the Slade School of Art,  a group formed to initially produce posters in response to the miners strike and on the wars in both Vietnam and Ireland. It was formed on the basis of developing a coherent visual style, which addressed the political issues of the time. This included the armed struggles against colonialism in Africa, the struggle of women for equal rights and the continuing struggle against racism. The collective was active in the 70's and 80's, producing posters on a wide range of issues, including for educational purposes. The group was not-for-profit and used a variety of hand-printing techniques to create their posters. Poster has a red background with several black and white photographs and white text. The photographs show various scenes of people and military. This poster reads, "Chile: The New Face of Imperialism/ In Argentina Uruguay and Chile (Latin America's Southern Cone) Military juntas are following a particularly repressive political policy, in order to institute an economic policy, associated with name of Milton Friedman./ A new mode of Accumulation which operates to the benefit of the transnational companies and involves the super exploitation of the mass of the people. There is increasingly incompatibility between this model and any form of democracy, Pedro Vuskovic, Allende's Minister of Economics, 1977." Each photograph has a long caption.
