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SACTU 30th ANNIVERSARY RALLY

Theme: The call for a non-racial union

Call Number:	93
Identifier:	AL2446_0093
Title:	SACTU 30th ANNIVERSARY RALLY
Date:	1985
Subject:	Images of Defiance- IOD; South African Congress of Trade Unions- COSATU; 30th anniversary; rally;
Description:	This poster is an offset litho in black, produced by the Inter-union Co-ordinating Committee through the Screen Training Project (STP), Johannesburg. This poster refers to progressive unions who were celebrating SACTU's 30th anniversary.The text reads: "SACTU 30th ANNIVERSARY RALLY". This poster was digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 48 (number 74) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears in the SAHA virtual exhibition - 'Hlanganani Basebenzi: Commemorating South Africa's Labour Movement'.
Creator:	Produced by the Inter-union Co-ordinating Committee through the Screen Training Project (STP)
Type:	Poster
Format:	Access image - jpeg Preservation image - tiff
Source:	SAHA collection AL2446
Language:	English
Coverage:	South Africa
Rights:	South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) Inter-Union Co-ordinating Committee

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