Strikes

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Artist/Maker	The Poster Collective (designer) Grunwick Strike Committee (designer) Unknown
Place of origin	London (made)

Portrait poster lobbying for support for the Grunwick Strike. The poster shows a black and white photograph of people picketing and clashing with the police, with a banner highlighted in red. Text at the top of the poster explains what a strike is, and at the bottom of the poster is a quote from Lenin, again, highlighted in red.

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Categories	Posters Printmaking Techniques Politics Prints
Object type	Poster
Title	Strikes (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Screen printing, paper, plastic laminate Paper Plastic Laminate Screen Printing
Brief description	Poster designed in collaboration with the Grunwick Strike Committee, made by the Poster Film Collective, 1977.
Physical description	Portrait poster lobbying for support for the Grunwick Strike. The poster shows a black and white photograph of people picketing and clashing with the police, with a banner highlighted in red. Text at the top of the poster explains what a strike is, and at the bottom of the poster is a quote from Lenin, again, highlighted in red.
Dimensions	Height: 79.1cm Width: 54cm Dimensions include plastic laminate.
Marks and inscriptions	STRIKES / A SCHOOL OF WAR / BUT NOT THE WAR ITSELF (Poster headline ) A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consists in; it teaches them not to think of their own employer alone and not of their own immediate workmates alone but of all the employers, the whole class of capitalists and the whole class of workers. (text in red) A strike moreover, opens the eyes of the workers to the nature, not only of the capitalists, but of the government and the laws as well. LENIN. (In red, at bottom of poster.)
Credit line	Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop
Object history	Poster featured in the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is easy...?'
Subject depicted	Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Association	Grunwick Strike
Bibliographic reference	From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition, 'Printing is Easy...?'
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.567-2013

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Record created	November 20, 2013
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1274989/strikes-poster-unknown/

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