José Lucio Martínez Pedro (Lucio), February 4 - Day of Solidarity with ANGOLA, 1972

Colour lithograph poster depicting a face merging with a silhouette of a gun radiating blue lines. With title inscription in four languages (Spanish, French, English, Arabic).

February 4 - Day of Solidarity with ANGOLA

Creator: José Lucio Martínez Pedro (Lucio)
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1972

Between the 1960s and 1990s, more than fifty designers worked at OSPAAAL. 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 celebrated socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South.

This poster commemorates the beginning of the Angolan War of Independence on 4 February 1961.