Poster - No War But The Class War (two-sided)

This poster is based on an original design for a banner Radical Poster Collective created during the First Gulf War, and took on demonstrations in Sheffield.

Produced in response to what they saw as tame demonstrations and slogans, some people in the 1980s and 90s promoted a more aggressive form of activism in the face of an acceleration in inequality, class division and oppressive policing. The 1980's and 1990's in the UK were a time of Thatcher, mass unemployment, the Printers and Miners Strikes, and Poll Tax Rebellion.

Culturally, supported by a benefits system that allowed creative talent to bloom (and cheap transport), there was an explosion of music, alternative comedy, cooperatives and community theatre. Campaigns around the Miners Strike and the opposition to the Poll Tax in particular drove a spirit of solidarity and class consciousness throughout communities across the country. Concurrently, new technologies, for example the launch of the first AppleMac, with its 6 inch screen and Pagemaker software, enabled a new method of design in posters, and thereafter campaigning posters burgeoned.

This design is based on a banner RPC created in 1990, and is printed on both sides, with a landscape version on the back. The size is A3 (approx. 11.7" x 16.5"). Printed on good quality 170gm poster paper.

Printed by the Radical Poster Collective, UK

The Radical Poster Collective is dedicated to making good quality classic radical posters available at an affordable price. Posters are either digitally cleaned up to remove tears, stains, etc., or completely recreated to be as close as possible to the original.