THATCHER, Margaret Hilda (1925-2013) -- 5 Labour Party and socialist anti-Thatcher posters from the 1980s.

Very rare group of socialist anti-Thatcher propaganda posters

Not Wanted: Kick Out the Tories – fight back with the Labour Party Young Socialists. London: The College Hill Press, [1980]. Offset-lithographic poster (590 x 424 mm.), printed on four sheets, neatly assembled with tape to verso, using image of Thatcher with vampire teeth. (Very faint marginal creasing, horizontal creasefold along horizontal join, otherwise in very good condition.)

BRYCE, Nikki (artist). If you think I’m green you must be. [London: People’s Press Printing Society for] The Morning Star, [c. 1989]. Offset-lithographic poster (420 x 295 mm.), using image of Thatcher with photomontaged leaves over her eyes. (Lightly creased in upper left and lower right corners, faint scratch at lower left, otherwise in near fine condition.)

An anti-Thatcher poster published by the Morning Star, a left-wing British newspaper, criticising Margaret Thatcher’s short lived 'green period' in the late 1980s. The present poster highlights Thatcher’s apparent hypocrisy towards the issue of climate change while Prime Minister. Thatcher initiated the first 'green' national debate at the Royal Society on 27 September 1988, attracting membership of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. The Prime Minister most notably acted as the first international political leader to advocate the prospect of international environmental legalisation. However, she had left office by the time of the first major international conference on environmental issues, leaving her successor, John Major, to attend the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 to take on the responsibility, and formally sign Britain up to forest, climate and other agreements.

Wanted: for murder and torture of Irish prisoners [No place, no date, but c. 1981.] Offset-lithographic poster (418 x 295mm), with Thatcher's image within central panel. (Soft creases and dogear at lower left corner, a few tiny marginal nicks.)

An anti-Thatcher protest poster reacting to the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike led by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland’s Maze Prison after five years of protest for their rights to be treated as ‘special category’ political prisoners rather than criminals. The British government made no public concessions to the strikers, with the consequence that the first to die was the IRA leader in Maze, Bobby Sands.

STEADMAN, Ralph (b.1936, artist). Upset her for as little as £3 - Join the Labour Party. London: CS Products for the Labour Party, 1980. Offset-lithographic poster (760 x 510 mm.), portrait caricature of Thatcher by Steadman. (A few tiny marginal nicks, some light creasing, two minor tears at top edge, one of which repaired with 30mm tape on verso.)

Labour Party recruitment poster by British illustrator Ralph Steadman, renowned for his political caricatures, cartoons and picture books. Labour's annual subscription fee at that time was £3 - at the time of writing standard membership of the Labour Party costs £4 per month.

Workers: the Tories do not need you! London: Victoria House Printing Company for the Labour Party, 1980. Offset- lithographic poster (765 x 512 mm.), depicting Thatcher styled as Lord Kitchener. (Slight fading to extreme right-hand margin, several soft horizontal creasefolds and other general creasing, one insignificant 10 mm. tear at lower margin.)

Riffing on Alfred Leete's famous WWI recruitment poster, Lord Kitchener Wants You, this Labour poster highlights the party's 1980s opposition to Thatcher’s spread of privatisation and curbs on the powers of trade unions.

LEFT-WING POSTERS USING NEGATIVE APPROPRIATION OF THATCHER'S IMAGE.

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