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Defend your oganization: hands off COSATU

Theme: Attacks on the UDF


Call Number: 0510
Identifier: AL2446_0510
Title: Defend your oganization: hands off COSATU
Date: 1987
Subject: Images of Defiance- IOD;
Congress of South African Trade Unions -COSATU;
Labour;
Repression
Description: This poster is an offset litho in black and red, produced by COSATU, Johannesburg. This poster refers to the 'Hands-off COSATU' campaign, which followed the bombing of the federation's headquarters and the killing of striking railway workers. The text reads: "DEFEND YOUR ORGANIZATION: HANDS OFF COSATU".Digitised by Specialised Archival Solutions in 2009. Reproduced in "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance posters in the 1980s" on page 59 (number 98) of the 1991 SAHA / Ravan Press edition and the 2004 SAHA / STE Publishers edition. It also appears on page 172 of “Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement”, SAHA / STE Publishers, 2007.
Contributor: Marlene Powell
Creator: Produced by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Type: Poster
Format: Access image - jpeg
Preservation image – tiff
Source: SAHA collection AL2446
Language: English
Coverage: South Africa
Rights: User restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement.
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