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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1969
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Young Americans for Freedom (Washington, D.C.)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Home front, Security and surveillance
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, 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.
