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title: Cachin, jeté en prison ... contre la guerre criminelle du Maroc (Cachin, Thrown into Prison ... for Opposing the Criminal War in Morocco)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cachin-jete-en-prison-guerre-du-maroc-1927/
description: A narrow strip poster pairs a halftone portrait of the communist deputy Marcel Cachin with red and black type saying he was 'thrown into prison by the…
section: Collection
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[![Cachin, jeté en prison ... contre la guerre criminelle du Maroc (Cachin, Thrown into Prison ... for Opposing the Criminal War in Morocco)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cachin-jete-en-prison-guerre-du-maroc-1927.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cachin-jete-en-prison-guerre-du-maroc-1927.jpg)

# Cachin, jeté en prison ... contre la guerre criminelle du Maroc (Cachin, Thrown into Prison ... for Opposing the Criminal War in Morocco)

A narrow strip poster pairs a halftone portrait of the communist deputy Marcel Cachin with red and black type saying he was 'thrown into prison by the bourgeoisie' for standing against 'the criminal war of Morocco', and that working masses must demand 'his immediate release'. The name-calling tell is the loaded labels 'bourgeoisie' for the jailers and 'criminal war' for the colonial campaign, stated as fact.

- **Date:** 1927
- **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar)
- **Made by:** Parti communiste français (SFIC)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [France](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=france)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Party](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=party)
- **Regime:** [Poincare Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=poincare-government)
- **Leader:** [Raymond Poincare](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=raymond-poincare)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor)
- **Event:** [Rif War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=rif-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Archives nationales, France, F/7/13108)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Affiche_anti-militariste_(guerre_du_Rif).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (French poster, 1927; scan CC BY-SA 4.0 per Archives nationales via Commons) Parti communiste français, affiche, 1927; Archives nationales F/7/13108; digitised by ANR PAPRIK@2F; via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Cachin
Jeté en prison par la bourgeoisie, pour s'être dressé contre la guerre criminelle du Maroc
Les masses travailleuses qui luttent contre la guerre menaçante doivent exiger
SA LIBÉRATION IMMÉDIATE
et celle de tous les emprisonnés

[caption under portrait:] Cachin
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Cachin. Thrown into prison by the bourgeoisie for having stood up against the criminal war of Morocco. The working masses who are fighting against the threatening war must demand his immediate release and that of all the imprisoned. [Caption under portrait:] Cachin
```

No printer's imprint or date is visible on the strip.

[← "Jungles Today, Gold Mines Tomorrow" (Empire Marketing Board, 1926)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jungles-today-gold-mines-tomorrow-1926/) [不澈底的重建 (An Incomplete Reconstruction), Beiyang Huabao no. 116 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/beiyang-huabao-incomplete-reconstruction-1927/)

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