---
title: 'La Vanguardia, front page (Barcelona, 6 March 1937): "Ayudemos a Madrid"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vanguardia-ayudemos-a-madrid-1937/
description: Photo front page showing two militiamen in a trench, under the headline "Ayudemos a Madrid" (Let us help Madrid).
section: Collection
---

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# La Vanguardia, front page (Barcelona, 6 March 1937): "Ayudemos a Madrid"

Photo front page showing two militiamen in a trench, under the headline "Ayudemos a Madrid" (Let us help Madrid). The caption says Madrid can defend itself alone against "los ataques del fascismo" but needs the material aid of "todo el pueblo antifascista", and that no sacrifice should be spared for the "heroicos luchadores madrileños". The tell: virtue words (heroic, solidarity, the antifascist people) carry the appeal; the page names no amount, fund or address.

## Text on the object

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

```
BARCELONA — Sábado 6 Marzo 1937
LA VANGUARDIA

AYUDEMOS A MADRID

[photo caption] Madrid se basta por sí sólo para defenderse de los ataques del fascismo. Pero necesita de la ayuda material de todo el pueblo antifascista. Ningún sacrificio debe escatimarse, porque no es sacrificio el hacer sentir, a los heroicos luchadores madrileños, nuestra solidaridad.—Milicianos montando la guardia en el Sector de la Florida. (Foto-Reportaje)
```

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

```
BARCELONA — Saturday 6 March 1937
LA VANGUARDIA

LET US HELP MADRID

[photo caption] Madrid is enough by itself to defend itself against the attacks of fascism. But it needs the material help of the whole antifascist people. No sacrifice should be spared, because it is no sacrifice to make the heroic fighters of Madrid feel our solidarity.—Militiamen mounting guard in the Florida Sector. (Photo-Report)
```

Dateline, headline and photo caption read from the downsampled image. Translation is literal and not checked by a fluent reader.

[← Mussolini on horseback with the 'Sword of Islam', flanked by two Libyan fasces-bearers, Tripoli, March 1937](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mussolini-sword-of-islam-tripoli-1937/) [La Vanguardia, front page (Barcelona, 12 March 1937): "La lucha en los frentes del Centro" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vanguardia-frentes-del-centro-1937/)

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