José Freire
1st May, Day of the Worker
Three-colour offset lithograph, DNPP, Maputo
This design for 1st May also features two figures holding aloft the hammer and enxada (African hoe). The iconography of crossed tools, red flag and five-pointed star all articulate Frelimo’s affiliation with the rest of the socialist world, but with an important modification - the enxada was chosen to give a closer reflection of as nossas realidades (our realities) than the sickle used in Soviet emblems.
