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title: The New Left is revolting
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/yaf-new-left-is-revolting-1969/
description: A poster headed "The New Left is revolting" fills the page with one photograph of a bearded, shirtless man with a bandolier and a rifle.
section: Collection
---

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[![The New Left is revolting](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/yaf-new-left-is-revolting-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/yaf-new-left-is-revolting-1969.jpg)

# The New Left is revolting

A poster headed "The New Left is revolting" fills the page with one photograph of a bearded, shirtless man with a bandolier and a rifle. The headline works as both a pun and a label, and the single image is offered as a portrait of the whole movement. The poster does not say who the man is or where the picture was taken.

- **Date:** 1969
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Young Americans for Freedom (Washington, D.C.)
- **Region:** [North America](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=north-america)
- **Country:** [United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=united-states)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Nixon Administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nixon-administration)
- **Leader:** [Richard Nixon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=richard-nixon)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Home front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=home-front), [Security and surveillance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=security-surveillance)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2015648413/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THE NEW LEFT IS REVOLTING

Young Americans for Freedom, 1221 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005
```

The credit line at the foot is very small; the street number and ZIP were read at 1024 px and may be off by a digit. A partly visible shop sign in the photograph ('...N STORES') is not part of the poster's text.

[← You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ...](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/black-panther-party-fred-hampton-1969/) [He needs a mind of his own ... he needs Radio Free Europe →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rfe-mind-of-his-own-1970/)

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