Building Working Class Internationalism through Culture

STUDY BLOCK: HISTORY, ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY, PHILOSOPHY

Study Materials. 

The Art of the Revolution will be Internationalist, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research

This dossier traces the history of graphic production in post-Revolutionary Cuba, particularly through OSPAAAL. Cuba, once a darling of U.S. imperialism, would carve its own path towards socialism. Among the Revolution’s inheritances was a well-developed means of mass communication and a U.S.-trained labour force. Overnight these advertising experts and art school kids would turn into the graphic artists of the Cuban Revolution. Like the artists of the Cuban Revolution, it is the imperative of cultural workers of today to seize what we know in order to dream and to construct a world that is not only possible, but necessary.

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