Today’s post is Christmas themed. Below is a poster titled “Will You Be Free To Celebrate Christmas In The Future?” from 1957 distributed by The Allen-Bradley Company of Milwuakee, Wisconsin, which still exists today and manufactures automation equipment for factories. The poster contains the testimony of a Dr. Frederick Schwarz before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives which mostly covers his views on the dangers of Communism. I have also included some close ups from the poster which is rather large.

Happy Holidays! This will be the last post for a couple weeks.

Allen Bradley Christmas Poster (1957)

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The Marxist-Lenninst Party, USA was an anti-revisionist communist group founded in 1967 out of the Cleveland Draft Resistance Union.[1] Anti-revisionist groups were created as a counter to many existing groups as a return to “orthodox Marxism-Leninism.”[2] The MPL would probably most closely be representative of a Maoist group in the US. The group dissolved in 1993 without ever having a huge following. Typical of many left wing groups the MPL was affiliated with many groups and also had many splinter groups including, Communist Voice Organization, U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization, and the American Communist Workers’ Movement (Marxist-Leninist). The group dissolved in 1993.

May Day Poster (Unknown Date)