En Palestina, Palestine/El Salvador, 1986

MARC RUDIN/JIHAD MANSOUR (1945-2023)

Translated: “In Palestine and in El Salvador the struggle continues and the revolution will be victorious”

Rudin is a Swiss born artist and radical political activist who escaped into exile in 1979. Living in Turkey, Rudin was the cover artist for the PFLP between 1979 and 1991, creating posters that were distributed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His illustrations have minimal text and make use of sparse blocks of color for easy printing and distribution. Before his imprisonment in Denmark, Rudin’s iconic style came to define an era in Palestinian poster-making.

En Palestina was designed by Rudin for the PFLP as a celebration of solidarity between the Palestinian Resistance and the FLMN of El Salvador. On the left, Rudin incorporates Hani Jawharieh’s iconic photograph of a feda'i (freedom fighter). On the right, a guerrilla from the El Salvadorian Marxist-Leninist group stands back-to-back with the Palestinian fighter, indicating a united struggle in arms. From 1980 until 1992 the FLMN engaged in continuous armed struggle against the US backed coup in El Salvador—a revolutionary cause that inspired reciprocal collaboration across the anti-imperialist struggles of Palestine, Cuba, and Nicaragua.  

poster: https://www.palestineposterproject.org/posters/en-palestina

citation: https://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/rev_linke/sanat/jihad/jihad.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabundo_Mart%C3%AD_National_Liberation_Front