Treballadors U.G.T.: ha estat creat l'exèrcit del poble! (Catalan UGT poster, 1936)
Colour poster of a soldier in a brown tunic with a red star on the chest and a rifle across his body, looking up to a field of marching troops in grey behind him and tanks along the lower edge, with the headline 'Treballadors U.G.T.' and the lines 'ha estat creat l'exèrcit del poble! Tot per l'exèrcit regular que serà l'exèrcit de la victòria'. The tell: a single idealised soldier stands for a mass of marchers while the slogan names the army both 'of the people' and 'of victory', so loyalty to the new regular army is presented as the same thing as the cause.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), Comissió d'Agitació i Propaganda (Catalonia); printed by I.G. Seix i Barral, E.C., Barcelona
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
- Movement
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Francisco Largo Caballero
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, 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:U.G.T. Treballadors. Ha estat creat l'exèrcit del poble ! Tot per l'exèrcit regular que serà l'exèrcit de la victoria.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
TREBALLADORS U.G.T. ha estat creat l'exèrcit del poble! tot per l'exèrcit regular que serà l'exèrcit de la victòria COMISSIÓ D'AGITACIÓ I PROPAGANDA U.G.T. I.G. SEIX I BARRAL, E.C. BARCELONA
UGT workers: the people's army has been created! Everything for the regular army, which will be the army of victory.
Credit lines at lower left and along the right edge. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
