From the current popular uprisings in North Africa to the recent student marches against tuition fees to this weekend's national day of action, we seem to be in the throes of a new age of protest – one fuelled by the irrepressible power of social networking. But before the era of Twitter, Facebook, blogging and even photocopying, getting your message out was not such a straightforward business. In the golden but low-tech age of 1960s protest, with options for independent broadcasting or publishing limited, silkscreen printing was the street campaigner's weapon of choice. It was cheap, easy, fast and capable of delivering a powerful, graphic message – albeit one that came with associated risks of arrest or injury in its distribution.
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