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
- Date
- 1937
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Comité Ejecutivo Popular, Delegación de Propaganda y Prensa (Republican Spain, Valencia); printed by Lit. V. Mirabet, Valencia; author not named
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Francisco Largo Caballero
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- 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:Museo Reina Sofía cartel 2.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
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.
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.
