Hilma Af Klint — The Ten Largest, No. 2, Childhood, Group IV   (oil On Canvas, 1907)

Yuan Jay - La Déesse de la Rivière Luo, 2018. Part I, Jeu. Encre et pigments sur soie, 178,4 × 98 cm. Collection privée.

The Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Spanish: Organización de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, África y América Latina), abbreviated as OSPAAAL, is a Cuban political movement with the stated purpose of fighting globalisation, imperialism, neoliberalism and defending human rights.It publishes the magazine Tricontinental. The OSPAAAL was founded in Havana in January 1966, after the Tricontinental Conference, a meeting of leftist delegates from Guinea, the Congo, South Africa, Angola, Vietnam, Syria, North Korea, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile and the Dominican Republic.

One of the main purposes of the organisation is to promote the causes of socialism and communism in the Third World; for example, OSPAAAL strongly supported Hugo Chávez. Social development, which the organization says is a human right, is a recurring theme in OSPAAAL publications.

From its foundation until the mid-1980s, OSPAAAL produced brightly coloured propaganda posters promoting their cause, however, financial difficulty and ink shortages forced the organization to stop producing these posters. However, in 2000, these posters began to be printed again.

These posters, as they intended to be internationalist, usually had their message written in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic. As opposed to being put up on walls around Cuba, these posters were instead folded up and stapled into copies of Tricontinental, so that they could be distributed internationally. This allowed OSPAAAL to send its message to its subscribers around the world.

Saigon, Vietnam. Credit to laphanblog (Instagram).

Looking In

by Leonora Carrington

Kati Horna. Untitled, Carnaval de Huejotzingo, Puebla, 1941.

Tooting, South London - 2007

© Niall McDiarmid

in your next life, you’re gonna be an ugly girl

beds for a quiet little exhibition

some of my favorite paintings by joanna karpowicz featuring anubis

anubis the ferryman, anubis in hakone, maddux air lines, anubis dancing (autumn), anubis on a weird bike, never smile for the camera, die liebe ist ein wildes tier, reflection in a fish pond