A quick thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.
First, František Kopenec's May Day poster, Czechoslovakia, 1973
A poster for a May Day rally in New York, early 1950s.
May Day marked by the Confederación de Trabajadores de México in 1947.
“Towards the unification of workers and peace.”
May Day poster from Maki, 1950.
May Day poster advertising Fidel Castro's speech in Revolution Plaza, Havana, Cuba, 1965.
Here's a Polish May Day poster from Roman Cieślewicz, 1957.
A constructivist design by Soviet artist Yakov Guminer in 1923.
May Day poster from South Africa's ANC, ten days before Nelson Mandela was inaugurated president in 1994.
Yugoslav May Day poster, 1969.
Another Yugoslav May Day poster, this one designed by Vladimir Todorovic for 1965.
Dutch May Day poster from Johan van Hell, 1927.
"Now more than ever, workers' unity!"
Popular Front May Day poster from the first year of the Spanish Civil War.
May Day 1969, "Free Huey Day," San Francisco, California.
"Peace and Work."
May Day poster from the General Federation of Greek Workers, 1985.
"Only the workers and peasants will fight to the end!"
May Day poster from Nicaragua, 1981.
FDGB May Day poster from the DDR, 1980.
May Day poster from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1974.
2010 May Day poster from the Turkish trade unions commemorating the 1977 Taksim Square massacre.
May Day poster from the Tudeh party of Iran, 1977.
Another revolutionary May Day poster from Iran, 1970s.
Australian poster from the Sydney May Day Committee, 1966.
"A Garland for May Day," Walter Crane, Britain, 1895.
May Day poster from the Italian Socialist Party, 1902.
Manchester and Salford Council of Labour May Day poster, 1945.
1989 poster celebrating May Day and COSATU’s Living Wage Campaign in South Africa.
Poster for a 1980s May Day demonstration on the Lower East Side, from the Taxi Rank and File Coalition.
Poster from the 1971 May Day antiwar protests in Washington, DC.
A May Day poster from Palestine, 1982.
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