Poster - Ambiciones Militarismo Guerra - Esto es el Fascismo

Ambitions, Militarism, War - This is Fascism. Destroy It by Joining Your Efforts With That of Others by Xavier Badia Vilato, 1937.

Produced by the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), the Spanish anarchist trade union - National Confederation of Labour. 

Xavier Badia Vilato was born in 1916 and produced many posters for the CNT including ‘Ayudad a los Hospitales’ – an appeal for financial contributions for hospitals during the war. He produced futurist and surrealist posters and after the war worked as a commercial artist. In 1947 he published “Images of Francoist Spain” – violently anti-Franco and anti-fascist lithographs. He moved to South America in the 1950s. 

The CNT was founded in November 1910, with a membership of 26,000 at a conference of workers societies in Barcelona and had its first national congress the following year. A general strike was immediately called in Barcelona and the CNT was declared illegal. By 1919 there were 700,000 members. As the CNT grew, employers became more worried and hired armed thugs (pistoleros) to intimidate or assassinate union members. The CNT took part in revolutionary strikes and uprisings throughout the period leading up to the 1936 Revolution and Civil War, including uprisings in Catalonia, Asturias and Andalusia. By 1937 the CNT had 1.5 million members.

From the start of the attempted coup in 1936, the CNT had a decisive role in events, but by May 1937 the Republican Government, under the influence of the PCE, was reversing its achievements, suppressing the collectives, forcing militias to join the regular army or be disbanded and arresting militants.

This is a digitally cleaned up print. The size is A3 (approx. 11.7" x 16.5") and is printed on good quality 170gm poster paper.

Printed by the Radical Poster Collective, UK

The Radical Poster Collective is dedicated to making good quality classic radical posters available at an affordable price. Posters are either digitally cleaned up to remove tears, stains, etc., or completely recreated to be as close as possible to the original.