Olivio Martínez Viera, July 26 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, 1969

Offset lithograph poster with lines of hand drawn lettering saying 'day of solidarity with the Cuban revolution' (26th July) in Spanish, English, French and Arabic. A Cuban flag runs horizontally across the centre.

July 26 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution

Creator: Olivio Martínez Viera
Commissioned by: OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America)
Date: 1969

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 celebrate socialist revolutions and liberation movements from the Global South.

This design promotes 26 July as a day of solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. The revolutionary 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959.