--- title: Partido Socialista posters on a Lisbon building front, early 1975 url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/partido-socialista-posters-lisbon-1975/ description: A Lisbon building front pasted with red 'Partido Socialista' posters, several copies of a raised-fist emblem under 'Pela liberdade e unidade dos… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Partido Socialista posters on a Lisbon building front, early 1975](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/partido-socialista-posters-lisbon-1975.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/partido-socialista-posters-lisbon-1975.jpg) # Partido Socialista posters on a Lisbon building front, early 1975 A Lisbon building front pasted with red 'Partido Socialista' posters, several copies of a raised-fist emblem under 'Pela liberdade e unidade dos trabalhadores' and a small 'construir o socialismo em liberdade' sheet, with red graffiti reading 'Partido Socialista' and '[...]mo = liberdade'. The tell is repetition of virtue words (liberty, unity, socialism in liberty) as the message itself (glittering generalities). - **Date:** 1975 - **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war) - **Made by:** Partido Socialista (Portugal), party posters; photograph by Rob Mieremet for Anefo - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Portugal](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=portugal) - **Medium:** [Photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=photograph) - **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party) - **Regime:** [Vasco Goncalves Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=vasco-goncalves-government) - **Leader:** [Vasco Goncalves](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=vasco-goncalves) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor) - **Event:** [Portuguese Constituent Assembly Election 1975](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=portuguese-constituent-assembly-election-1975) - **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Nationaal Archief (Dutch National Archives), Fotocollectie Anefo, NL-HaNA 2.24.01.06 inv. 254-9573](https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/fotocollectie/ad9345c6-d0b4-102d-bcf8-003048976d84), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** CC0 (Nationaal Archief rights statement on the record; Public Domain Mark on Europeana) Rob Mieremet / Anefo, Nationaal Archief, CC0 ## Text on the object Original (Portuguese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` PARTIDO SOCIALISTA [white-on-red posters, several copies] Pela LIBERDADE e UNIDADE dos Trabalhadores [white poster with red circle and raised fist, several copies; lower edge of one reads '[G]RANDE COMÍ[CIO]' / 'PARTIDO SOCIALISTA'] construir o socialismo em liberdade [small headline on a poster at left] SOCIALISTA [poster with raised fist, lower right] PARTIDO SOCIALISTA [red graffiti below the window] [...]MO=LIBERDADE [red graffiti at street level, first letters hidden by parked newspapers; other graffiti and small notices illegible] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Socialist Party. / For liberty and unity of the workers. / [Great rally]. / Build socialism in liberty. / Socialist. / Socialist Party. / [...]ism = liberty. ``` Read from the 839 x 1280 px file with enlargements. Small print on the yellow notices and the mid-facade posters is illegible. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader. [← "为革命实行计划生育" (Practise family planning for the revolution), Shanghai poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/family-planning-for-the-revolution-china-1975/) [Barre Cult of Personality Mural →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/siad-barre-mural-1976/) ## Using the same techniques - [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (0313 · Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Trois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trois-tetes-sous-le-meme-bonnet-1789/) (1789 · Plain folks, Glittering generalities) - [Proclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/queens-proclamation-to-the-people-of-india-1858/) (Nov 1, 1858 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating) - [The Great Battle of Ansong Ford: The Valor of Captain Matsuzaki](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ansong-ford-toshikata-1894/) (1894 · Glittering generalities) - ['The Congress Cross or "Swastik"' (Pickings from the Hindi Punch, Bombay, February 1896)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hindi-punch-congress-swastik-1896/) (Feb 1896 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Un combate en el río Zapote (A Fight on the Zapote River), Blanco y Negro](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-combate-en-el-rio-zapote-1898/) (Jul 9, 1898 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)