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Long live the great January Revolution!

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Long live the great January Revolution! (1967)

21.75" x 30.5"
Linenbacked.
G2453

Vintage original Chinese Propaganda poster. Printed in 1967. Linenbacked.

The title refers to the ‘January Storm’, which Mao instructed the rebel factions in Shanghai to seize power from party and government organizations in January 1967. Red Guard factions had seized power and formed the Shanghai People’s Commune, a model based on the Paris commune of 1871.

 

Quotation of Mao on poster:

“All revolutionary struggles in the world are aimed at seizing political power and consolidating it.”