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Strikes

Poster
1977 (made)
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.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Printmaking Techniques
Politics
Prints
Object type
Poster
TitleStrikes (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 createdNovember 20, 2013
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1274989/strikes-poster-unknown/
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