MAY 1st



SzDSz (Alliance of Free Democrats)

May 1st was the highest holiday of the Communist Party, with tens of thousands of soldiers and workers parading past the party elite on the reviewing stand. This poster is a radical attack on the meaning of that holiday. The writing instrument that has just scrawled the word "May" is a broken fork -- inadequate for writing and for eating, just as the Communist Party was inadequate for governing and for provisioning the society.