Poster - Anti-Fascist Action Cartoon (Hammer Smashed Swastika)

Anti-Fascist Action Cartoon from the Anti-Fascist Action magazine, Fighting Talk, January 1995.

Fascism is fundamentally an alliance of big business corporations and the government with the primary objective of reducing the power and influence of the organised working class through violent oppression. It emerges from crises of capitalism, and in its early stages, draws key support from the lower middle class—those economically threatened by both big business and the organized working class—while also appealing to reactionary elites, militarists and careerist grifters.

Fascist governments are characterised by extreme nationalism and centralised power around a dictatorship and use propaganda, mass mobilization, and violence to enforce ultranationalism, often scapegoating identifiable sections of society and promoting supremacist ideologies. Meanwhile, opposition, intellectuals, artists, scientists and independent judiciary are all suppressed.

Our view is that fascism should be opposed by all means necessary and working-class organisations should take the lead.

Most posters from the Radical Poster Collective are inherently anti-fascist but some, such as this, are specifically anti-fascist posters. RPC have deliberately made this poster lighter and cheaper than our other poster

This poster is recreated from a cartoon that appeared in the January 1995 edition of Fighting Talk, the journal of Anti-Fascist Action. Printed on good quality 115gm poster paper - lighter than other RPC posters, and consequently cheaper. The size is A3 (approximately 297mm by 420mm).

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.