The Madame Binh Graphics Collective (MBGC) was the propaganda arm affiliated with the May 19th Communist Organization. They were active from 1977 until the MBGC faded away in 1983.
Within a structure of collaborative authorship, the all-women collective made a stylistic range of posters, prints, and street art on anti-racist subjects and in support of national liberation movements. They also taught classes in drawing, design, and silk-screening.
Much of the collective’s archive was bought in 1981, before the collective was raided by the FBI. Many of the purchased posters were donated to the Hampshire College Archive in 1991, as part of the Karen DiGia Collection. One of their most well-known posters is a photograph of Assata Shakur with the text “Assata Shakur is welcome here” below. It is signed with the pseudonym “The Republic of New Afrika.”
They were named after Madame Nguyễn Thị Bình, a signer of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 on behalf of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam.
Members included: Mary Patten, Laura Whitehorn, Margo Pelletier, Wendy Grossman, Lisa Roth, Eve Rosahn, and Donna Borup.