The 50 posters on show at the North Wall are part of the world’s third largest collection of its kind. It has been gathered by Mike Stanfield with help from Milly Diaz. He has collecting OSPAAAL posters (the Organisation of Support for the People of Africa, Asia and America Latina) since he first visited Cuba in the 1990s, and now has a more than 250 originals.

He stressed that the show was not intended as a political critique, but as an opportunity to honour the creative and talented artists who have designed works that need very few words to get their message across.

His favourite is Victoria o Murata! by Rafael Morante Boyerizo, as Victory or Death were the bywords of the Cuban Revolution.

The figure shown crucified on a giant US dollar sign, painted by Rafael Enriquez Vega, is also a particularly powerful poster. It certainly lives up to its title Foreign Debt.

Because early OSPAAAL posters were folded so that they could be inserted into tricontinental magazines, they open out in four stages.

In the case of Nixon 1969 by Alfredo G. Rostgaard we can view three faces of Nixon before the poster opens up completely to reveal him as a vampire with sharp teeth ready to suck the life-blood from Third World Countries.

This is a great poster that needs to be seen close up to appreciate the ingenuity of the artist who created it.

Long Live Free Zimbabwe by Lazaro Abreu Padron celebrates Robert Mugabe’s overwhelming victory in 1980. Now this country is in crisis and everything expressed in this simple depiction of joy has been destroyed.

This is the first time that these posters have been exhibited together. They offer us all a rare glimpse into the struggles of oppressed Third World countries.

Victory or Death continues until February 19.