THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN (CPGB) -- 6 posters promoting Russia as Britain's ally in the fight against Nazi Germany.

Six Anti-Fascist comic propaganda posters encouraging the British to unite and fight against Germany.

This is the tale of the Munich men / Who cheated the people again and again. London: Perry Colourprint for CPGB, 1942. Offset-lithographic poster (345 x 217 mm.), 6 panel cartoon poster with rhyming couplets. (Minor marginal creases to two corners, otherwise in very good condition.)

Let’s sock the fascist on the jaw / And finish him for evermore. London: F.D. Hull for CPGB, 1943. Offset-lithographic poster (343 x 215 mm., 6 panel cartoon poster with rhyming couplets. (Tiny creases in the lower left and right corners.)

This is a tale that’s perfectly true / It shows what getting together can do. London: F.D. Hull for CPGB, 1943. Offset-lithographic poster (345 x 217 mm., 6 panel cartoon poster with rhyming couplets. (Tiny creases in four corners.)

It’s more important now than ever / For workers all to stand together. London: Farleigh Press for CPGB, 1943. Offset-lithographic poster on glossy paper (345 x 221 mm.), 6 panel cartoon poster with rhyming couplets. (Trivial creasing, 10mm minor scratch at the upper right.)

Increase Agricultural Production for Victory in 1943. London: The London Caledonian Press for CPGB, 1943. Offset-lithographic poster (379 x 253 mm.), 6 panel cartoon poster with rhyming couplets. (Light creasing and dogearing, tiny nick to lower left margin.)

8th Army + 2nd Front = Total Victory. [No place, no publisher, but presumably London:], 1942. Screenprint poster (326 x 220 mm.); Signed ‘davy’ (upper left on the plate), of a school blackboard with slogan written arithmetically. (Light dogear to upper left corner, a few tiny insignificant nicks to edges.)
Provenance
: Communist Party Executive Committee Library (stamp dated 1951 on verso).

The Communist Party of Great Britain was established in 1920 by the merger of several smaller Marxist parties. During 1942-1943, Harry Pollitt was the general secretary who led the party to launch a campaign for a Second Front in order to support the Soviet Union and defeat the Axis.

The CPGB developed the Joint Production Committees to increase productivity to support the National Government led by Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee at that time. The committees encouraged people to unite together and discuss on increasing output and improving production. Meanwhile, the party continued to argue for workers' rights, such as higher wages for the working class, equal pay for women and general arrangements for workers’ comfort. As a result, the CPGB saw a rise in party numbers during the Second World War.

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