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Popular Action Poster for the 1936 Spanish General Elections
Electoral propaganda poster issued by Acción Popular for the 1936 Spanish General Election.
Acción Popular was a Catholic and conservative political party founded in 1931 and led by José María Gil-Robles. It defended the Catholic faith, the traditional social order, and the protection of private property against the reforms promoted by the left during the Second Spanish Republic. It became the leading force of the Spanish right and formed the core of the Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, emerging as one of the country’s strongest electoral movements before the Spanish Civil War.
Political poster bearing the slogans “VOTAD A ESPAÑA” (“Vote for Spain”) and “MARXISMO ESCLAVOS DEL ESTADO” (“Marxism, slaves of the State”), promoting Popular Action and defending “PEQUEÑOS PROPIETARIOS” (“small property owners”).
It is signed “por el Comité” and dated 25 January 1936.
The poster was printed by Gráficas Valencia S.L., a company later taken over by the UGT and CNT during the Civil War and used by the Ministry of Propaganda.
It bears the stamp of the Civil Government of the Province of Burgos.
Original poster from the months immediately preceding the Spanish Civil War.
Size: 88.5 × 60 cm.
