it's an old IWW image, as many of you will recognize, only with some new text and red red lips... funny thing is, the person is assumed by most to be male in the original, but some people have been referring to this version as "she" - a draft version included the words "fuck your assumptions" across their chest - the background "abuse of power comes as no surprise" i saw graffitied on a wall, and is one of the most basic of political realizations...
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This was an early Soviet poster promoting literacy (in the original, the person was shouting "books"), early enough in the daze for most folks to have felt that what was happening in the USSR was an example of permanent radical social change... it was subsequently used by anti-fascist women in Spain and then by radical dykes in the united states - of course all those days are either going or gone, as are many of the realities of the 20th century, but at the same time capitalism remains and remains just as deadly and able to summon up nightmares that seem dead and buried - thus the word on the side "against the new racist capitalist patriarchy just as bad as the old racist capitalist patriarchy"
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No i did not get Marcos to pose for me - some of you will know who did, others won't... the full original quote goes "The right to rebellion, to defy those who oppress us with different alibis (always the gods of Power and Money with different masks), is universal" (April 2003, quoted in The Quotable Rebel)... the burning police car is from an old flier made after the White Night riots in San Francisco...
As you know, you can see all my t-shirts on the Kersplebedeb T-Shirt page here...
As you know, you can see all my t-shirts on the Kersplebedeb T-Shirt page here...
I really like the 1st one. No medium, so sad.
ReplyDeleteActually that was my error - now fixed - medium grey shirts are in stock for these designs!
ReplyDeleteGreat t-shirts! And great agitprop. Good work, comrade.
ReplyDeleteNice!
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