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title: Las armas deben estar en el frente (Republican poster)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/las-armas-deben-estar-en-el-frente-poster-1937/
description: Colour poster of a bare-chested, red-toned smith raising a hammer over rifle barrels slanted across the top, with tongs and a blade on an anvil below.
section: Collection
---

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# Las armas deben estar en el frente (Republican poster)

Colour poster of a bare-chested, red-toned smith raising a hammer over rifle barrels slanted across the top, with tongs and a blade on an anvil below, under the slogan 'Las armas deben estar en el frente' and the credit 'Comité Ejecutivo Popular, Delegación Propaganda y Prensa'. The tell: the heroic, faceless body of a worker turns a factory demand (send weapons to the front, do not keep them at the rear) into a picture of strength, so the order is felt as pride in labour.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

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

## Text on the object

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

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

```
LAS ARMAS DEBEN ESTAR EN EL FRENTE
COMITE EJECUTIVO POPULAR
DELEGACION PROPAGANDA Y PRENSA
LIT. V. MIRABET - VALA.
```

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

```
Weapons must be at the front; Popular Executive Committee, Propaganda and Press Delegation; V. Mirabet lithograph, Valencia
```

The imprint at lower left is read as 'Lit. V. Mirabet - Vala.' (Valencia); a handwritten note at lower right is not legible and is not transcribed. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

[← Franco portraits carried through Salamanca's Plaza Mayor to celebrate the fall of Gijón, 1937](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/francoist-parade-franco-portraits-salamanca-1937/) [Los Nacionales, Ministerio de Propaganda poster (Republican Spain, 1937) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/los-nacionales-ministerio-de-propaganda-poster-1937/)

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