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WORKERS UNITE : ONE COUNTRY - ONE FEDERATION : 30 NOVEMBER 1985

Theme: Labour: An injury to one is an injury to all!


Call Number: 1724
Identifier: AL2446_1724
Title: WORKERS UNITE : ONE COUNTRY - ONE FEDERATION : 30 NOVEMBER 1985
Date: 1985
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Congress of South African Trade Unions - COSATU;
Hlanganani Basebenzi;
Sacks Shelley;
Cape Trade Union Library;
Labour;
Unions;
Unity
Description: This poster is an offset litho in full colour, produced for COSATU, Cape Town. This poster celebrates the launch of COSATU and its call for 'One country, one federation'. The caption reads: "WORKERS UNITE : ONE COUNTRY - ONE FEDERATION : 30 NOVEMBER 1985".Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 52 (number 83) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 164 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007 and in the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Hlanganani Basebenzi: Commemorating South Africa's Labour Movement'.
Creator: Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU); Sacks Shelley; Cape Trade Union Library
Type: poster
Format: Access image – jpeg
Preservation image – tiff

Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: Copyright of some materials are held by individual postermakers/organisations. Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for more information.
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