Front de la Joventut. Volem! L'exèrcit popular..., 1936 Spain poster: Lettering-only poster in navy on pale blue-grey

Front de la Joventut. Volem! L'exèrcit popular... (Catalan youth poster, 1936)

Lettering-only poster in navy on pale blue-grey, with a large circle-and-triangle emblem behind the text: 'Volem! L'exèrcit popular, servei militar obligatori, comandament únic. Per què? Per guanyar aviat la guerra i aixecar una nova societat.' The tell: a list of four military demands is answered by one question, and the answer joins winning the war to building 'a new society', so a command structure is made inseparable from a social goal.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Bandwagon Glittering generalities

Date: 1936
Period: Interwar
Made by: Front de la Joventut (Catalan youth front, Republican side); printed by Atlàntida A.G., Barcelona

Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

Region: Western and Central Europe
Country: Spain
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: Movement
Regime: Second Spanish Republic
Leader: Francisco Largo Caballero
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Theme: War and the military
Event: Spanish Civil War
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
Rights: Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:Front de la Joventut. Volem ! L'exèrcit popular servei militar obligatori comandament unic. Per que ? Per guanyar aviat la guerra i aixecar una nova societat.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).

Text on the object

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

FRONT DE LA JOVENTUT
VOLEM!
L'exèrcit Popular
Servei Militar
Obligatori
Comandament Únic
PER QUE?
PER GUANYAR AVIAT LA GUERRA
i
AIXECAR UNA NOVA SOCIETAT
ATLANTIDA A.G. - ROGER DE FLOR 5 - T. 52636 BARNA

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

Youth Front. We want! The People's Army, compulsory military service, single command. Why? To win the war quickly and to raise a new society. (Atlàntida A.G., Roger de Flor 5, tel. 52636, Barcelona)

Printer's line read along the left edge. 'Per que' is printed without an accent. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.