The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Spanish: Organización de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina), abbreviated as OSPAAAL, is a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights.It publishes the magazine Tricontinental. The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of leftist delegates from Guinea, the Congo, South Africa, Angola, Vietnam, Syria, North Korea, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile and the Dominican Republic.
One of the main purposes of the organisation is to promote the causes of socialism and communism in the Third World; for example, OSPAAAL strongly supported Hugo Chávez. Social development, which the organization says is a human right, is a recurring theme in OSPAAAL publications.
From its foundation until the mid-1980s, OSPAAAL produced brightly coloured propaganda posters promoting their cause, however, financial difficulty and ink shortages forced the organization to stop producing these posters. However, in 2000, these posters began to be printed again.
These posters, as they intended to be internationalist, usually had their message written in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. As opposed to being put up on walls around Cuba, these posters were instead folded up and stapled into copies of Tricontinental, so that they could be distributed internationally. This allowed OSPAAAL to send its message to its subscribers around the world.
christina bothwell
Adam Burke
Capri Noctis, 2018
Acrylic on woood
Agnes Pelton
Star Gazer. 1929, oil on canvas. 76 x 41 cm. Susan and Whitney Ganz Collection
Junji Ito // Hayao Miyazaki
Soviet poster of 1978, criticizing the aggressions of Israel against the Palestinian people. Drawing of Evgeny Abramovich Kazhdan. In the text in highlight at the top of the work, it reads: "Those who fight against oppression are maintained in imprisoned in the Palestinians occupied by Israel. For the sacred law of the Palestinian people of having their own independent state."
Tyler the Creator, 2021
Ol' Dirty Bastard, 1995
Hilma af Klint, 1915-1917
more
Arent u
Looking In
by Leonora Carrington
Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood, Group IV (oil on canvas, 1907)