‘The face of colonialism’ — Soviet Ukrainian cartoon (February 1956) contrasting ‘old’ and ‘new’ colonialists, the latter offering ‘Aid for Underdeveloped Countries’ with manacles concealed inside. Artist: Oleksandr Kozyrenko.
”Burning issue” – Dutch cartoon (”De Groene Amsterdammer” magazine, artist: Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan) commenting on the 1947-1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, March 1948
”Blessings of neutrality (loosely based on »Popeye the Sailor«)” – Dutch cartoon (”De Groene Amsterdammer” magazine, artist: Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan) depicting Neville Chamberlain as Popeye, Adolf Hitler as Bluto and the Netherlands as Olive Oyl, November 1939
”[FRANCISCO FRANCO:] I’M BRINGING PEACE TO THE POOR SUFFERING BASQUES” – British cartoon (”The London Evening Standard”?, artist: David Low) mocking Franco’s explanation for the bombing of Guernica, June 1937
”THE SPRING OFFENSIVE – [Goering to Hitler:] »Nearly ready, mein Fuehrer!«” – anti-Nazi cartoon published in ”Punch” magazine (artist: Ernest Howard Shepard), United Kingdom, February 1942
Propaganda for Nazi Germany’s T-4 Euthanasia Program: “This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 RM during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too.” 1938.
«Who lost Vietnam?»A satirical view of where responsibility for the Vietnam lost should be laid, 1975.
”ABE LINCOLN’S LAST CARD; OR ROUGE-ET-NOIR” – British cartoon (”Punch” magazine, artist: John Tenniel) showing Abraham Lincoln using the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation as his last card against the Confederate States of America, October 1862
”Sinterklaas of 1948 – We shall share everything honestly” – Dutch cartoon (”De Groene Amsterdammer” magazine, artist: Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan) depicting Stalin as Sinterklaas and Vyacheslav Molotov as Zwarte Piet, December 1948
”Crucifixion on the Cracow Suburb Street” – Polish painting (made by Zbigniew Maciej Dowgiałło, supporter of the Law and Justice party) showing policemen and city guards attacking ”the defenders of the Smolensk cross” in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, 2012
‘It will be a great day…’ (American poster for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Philadelphia. Quote attributed to Robert Fulghum. United States of America, 1979).
On May 16, 1940, the Daily Mirror published a cartoon by illustrator Philip Zeck as a response to those calling for negotiations with the aggressor. The cartoon shows a British soldier showing dozens of German bombers. Signature: “Try to negotiate with THIS!” Relevant in our time.
”APOLLO XIV [Apollo 14 moon mission] – LAOS [bombing campaign in Laos]” – anti-Nixon cartoon made by Dutch cartoonist Robert Wout [Opland], circa 1971
”Unmasking” – Dutch cartoon (”De Groene Amsterdammer” magazine, artist: Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan) commenting on the Soviet invasion of Hungary and depicting the Soviet Bear holding a flag with the inscription ”SAVE THE ARAB PEOPLES!”, November 1956
”Smolensk” – Polish painting (made by Zbigniew Maciej Dowgiałło, supporter of the Law and Justice party) showing the alleged explosion of a Tupolev Tu-154 during the Smolensk air disaster, 2010
‘Victory for the Palestinian people! A victory for the people of the world!’ (American Palestine solidarity poster by Single Spark Films. Used to advertise the film ‘Revolution Until Victory’. United States of America, 1973).
“So sorry we won” israely propaganda poster showing a character names “Shrolik” which is supposed to depict the normal israeli young adult. The poster itself makes fun of Americans who Blame israel for what they call oppression and terrorism and what the Israelis call “winning wars”. 1968
«I just wanted to spend time with my kids. Me,too.» A caricature of murder trial of O. J. Simpson, 2017.
“Lenin died, but his cause lives on. Trotsky is alive, but his “cause” is dead.” Anti-Trotsky propaganda, USSR 1927.
“Turkey at the Crossroads” – 1943 pictorial map showing Turkey joined by the Allies in an invasion of Axis Bulgaria.
Turkish Propaganda poster during WW2. Translation: Among the blind and the cross-eyed are those who see the truth
”How Japan’s Mongol Hordes Can Be Defeated (Allied Two-Pronged Spear Would Be Largest Pincers Movement in Warfare’s History)” – illustrated article published in ”New York Journal-American” (also reprinted in ”The Detroit Times” and ”The Chicago Herald American”), United States, December 1943
“What the king conquered, the prince founded, the Field Marshall defended, the Soldier saved and united”- Nazi postcard showing Hitler alongside Frederick the Great, Bismarck and Hindenburg. (1933)
“We oppose the division of the electric service” Japan Electrical Power Workers’ Industrial Labor Union. (1948)
Booklet cover: The albanian woman in the anti-fascist national liberation war(1950s, Proples republic of Albania)
“No to South Africa Outspan Oranges” Poster from a French boycott of Apartheid South African goods, 1975.
“Here is the News (He Refuses to Believe He’s in Denial!)”, Malcolm Evans, cartoon with Uncle Sam eagerly watching a newsreader he controls, 2002.
Billboard displayed outside a factory in Havana, Cuba, showing Fidel Castro with the words ‘Socialism or Death’. Photographed around 2008 by Enrique de la Osa for Reuters.
The time of the Party, poster for the Documentary about the PPSH, albanian party of labour(1981, peoples republic of Albania)
‘Why – if not now?’ (German poster by unknown artist, promoting a demonstration in Frankfurt by contemporary Antifa (‘Antifaschistische Aktion’) movement. Germany, 1992).
A 1914 German postcard titled “Sleepless Nights” depicts German soldiers peering into Marianne’s bedroom at night.
‘United for Action’ — American Catholic cartoon (23 January 1948) showing a Catholic knight calling on all ‘Believers in Christ’ to battle the communists, ‘The Common Enemy’. Drawn by ‘Maloney’ and published in The Catholic Advance.
“United Defense” – West German poster created around 1952 depicting West Germany as the last brick in the dam against the ‘red flood’ of communism.
”EMISSION TARGETS…” – British cartoon (”The Independent”, artist: Dave Brown) mocking Donald Trump’s opposition to the Paris Climate Agreement during the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit, July 2017
Zionist crocodile, protected by a British officer, promising to “peacefully swallow” Palestinian Arabs – From the Palestinian Christian newspaper “Filastin”, 18th of June 1936
‘The fascist gun in the West’ (American poster by ‘Vic D. Prod’, Los Angeles. With Reagan dressed as movie cowboy (Law and order, 1953). United States of America, 1980).
‘We may be the only lawyers on earth whose clients are all innocent’ (American animal rights poster issued by The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Cotati. United States of America, 2008).
Poster for the March Month of Boycott, 1960, when supporters in Britain picketed shops and distributed leaflets asking shoppers not to buy South African goods.
“The face at the window” — Illustration from World War I (circa November 1914) depicting a towering German soldier at John Bull’s window. By artist Franz Jüttner.
“Peruvian People, Do Not Vote! Long Live the People’s War!”, Peruvian Communist Party (Shining Path), date unknown
Italian Social Republic propaganda poster dated 1944 “For Great Britain all races and peoples are equal”
“In the occupied territories, Israel pursues a policy against Arabs that is extremely similar to the Apartheid policy enforced by South African authorities” USSR 1977
‘The people of Viet Nam have been victorious on the battlefield’ (American poster by Carol Fisher for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. United States of America, ca. 1972).