Lets Kick Out The Tories? Lets Kick Them In!

Lets Kick Out The Tories? Lets Kick Them In!, possibly by Class War, around 1987.

The original poster included the hand written words: 'A Serious Injury Production' in the bottom right corner.

Produced in response to what they saw as tame demonstrations and Socialist Worker Party type slogans, some people in the 1980s and 90s promoted a more aggressive form of activism in the face of an acceleration in inequality, class division and oppressive policing.

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The 1980s and 90s in the UK were the time of Thatcher, mass unemployment, the Printers and Miners Strikes, and Poll Tax Rebellion.

Culturally, supported by a benefits system that allowed creative talent to bloom (and cheap transport), there was an explosion of music, alternative comedy, cooperatives and community theatre.

Campaigns around the Miners Strike and the opposition to the Poll Tax in particular drove a spirit of solidarity and class consciousness throughout communities across the country.

Concurrently, new technologies, for example the launch of the first AppleMac, with its 6 inch screen and Pagemaker software, enabled a new method of design in posters and campaigning posters burgeoned.

We have reproduced some of those posters - posters we saw on many peoples' walls at the time.