Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture
Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Signal digs deep through our common history to unearth this often-overlooked but essential role art and culture have played in struggles the world over. Published by PM Press.
Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing political graphics, creative projects, and cultural production of international resistance and liberation struggles. Signal digs deep through our common history to unearth this often-overlooked but essential role art and culture have played in struggles the world over. We are always looking for compelling writing about the intersection of culture and social movements. You can contact us at editors@s1gnal.org. Signal is published by PM Press.
Signal:01
- Red Rat // Dutch Squatter Comics
- The Future of Xicana Poster Making // An Interview with Taller Tupac Amaru
- Adventure Playgrounds // A Photo Essay
- Propaganda Brigades in Mexico 1968 // The Graphic Production of a Movement
- Early 20th Century Anarchist Publisher Imprints
- Designing Anarchy // the Graphic Covers of Rufus Segar
- Impeach // Political Freight Train Graffiti
Signal:02
- Revolutionary Mozambican painter Malangatana Valente Nguenha // Judy Seidman
- Murals from the Carnation Revolution in Portugal // Phil Mailer
- Freedom // A collection of early 20th century broadsides from the UK anarchist newspaper
- The Gestetner Press and its influence on movements // Lincoln Cushing
- Oaxacan Street Art // Deborah Caplow
- The Yamaga Manga // an illustrated history of early Japanese anarchism
- A history of Danish art collective Røde Mor // Kaper Ostrup Frederiksen
Signal:03
- Jeu de Massacre // Deltor’s 1930 Anarcho-Communist Print Portfolio by Stephen Goddard
- Making Revolutionary Music // Alec Dunn and Erin Yanke Interview Paredon Records’ Founder Barbara Dane
- Quebec Spring // The Visual Culture of the 2012 Student Strike by David Widgington
- Época Clandestina // The Mastheads of Spanish Exile Newspapers by Alec Dunn
- Memories of Revolution // Yugoslav Partisan Memorials by Robert Burghardt and Gal Kirn
- Confronting Neoliberalism // Reflecting on the Medu Arts Ensemble by Josh MacPhee
Signal:04
- The Legacy of Berlin’s Kommune 1 // Michael McCanne
- Book Designs of Three Continents Press // Max Karl Winkler interviewed by Josh MacPhee
- New Zealand’s Political Poster History // Jared Davidson
- A History of Toronto’s Punchclock Printing Collective // Ryan Hayes
- The Bay Area’s Peace Navy // Lincoln Cushing
- Imaging Palestine // The Cover Art of Palestinian Affairs Magazine by Rochelle Davis and Emma Murphy
Signal:05
- The Club de Grabado de Montevideo // Georgia Phillips-Amos unearths printmaking under dictatorship
- Three Print Collectives // Alec Dunn interviews Friends of Ibn Firnas, A3BC, and the Pangrok Sulap collective
- Come!Unity Press // An interview with Paul Werner about the history of New York City’s queer anarchist print shop
- The Pyramid’s Reign // Analyzing an enduring symbol of capitalism with Eric Triantifillou
- Empty Forms—Occupied Homes // Marc Herbst looks at the intersection between movement design and the struggle for housing in Barcelona
- Discs of the Gun // Josh MacPhee’s trip through music and militancy in postwar Italy
Signal:06
- Graphics That Resist // Yobani Mendoza and the ECPM68 discuss political cultural work in Mexico
- Basement Workshop // Ryan Lee Wong digs out the history of one of the first Asian American arts organizations
- Jamaa Al-Yad // Josh MacPhee interviews Daniel Drennan Elawar about this Beirut-born but internationalist graphics collective
- Adhesive Uprisings // The IWW’s Silent Agitators by Catherine Tedford
- Adhesive Uprisings // Portugal’s Auto-Colantes by Josh MacPhee
- Adhesive Uprisings // German Antifascist Stickers by Joel Morton
- INCITE! // The secret history of these ’80s California Bay Area communist collage guerrillas
- So Much To Be Angry About // Shaun Slifer tracks down the legacy of West Virginia’s political printshop, Appalachian Movement Press
Signal:07
- Philadelphia Printworks // Co-founder Maryam Pugh interviewed by John Morrison
- The Vinyl of Victor Jara // Josh MacPhee explores the international output of the Chilean singer
- Estación Darío y Maxi // Natalia Revale chronicles the political transformation of an Argentinian metro station
- We Will Break Open the Doors That Obscure the Sun // A biography of printmaker Albert Daenens by Erik Buelinckx
- Spectacular Commodities // Mehdi el Hajoui explores the objects of the Situationist International
- One Red Star and Four Red Stripes // A fifty year retrospective of the left Catalan independence movement by Jordi Padró
- Giving Voice to the Voiceless // An interview with poster maker Malaquías Montoya by Bill Berkowitz