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Hi Kent,
I've never seen any of this stuff for sale on eBay, so if you see something please post it!
Below is a nice find, dating from 1937. "Telephone Companies! Politics and Capitalism, watching over your business. To fight, to win, CNT." The CNT was the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, Spain's oldest anarchist union. In 1936, the CNT, based in Barcelona, helped to lead a popular revolution that resulted in the collectivization of a majority of Catalonian industry, and led successful operations against Franco's fascist military. By 1937, the CNT had grudgingly allied itself with the Republican government in Madrid and was facing counter-revolutionary pressures from Stalinst elements of the Spanish Communist party, who wanted to collectivize society according to the Soviet model. On May the 3rd, 1937, military police and Communist fighters laid siege to Barcelona's old telephone exchange building, which the CNT had occupied. After a bloody siege, the CNT was ejected from the exchange. This poster commemorates that action (not the numerous shot-out windows in the old exchange's facade). The discs at the ends of the octopus's arms are odd. I can only guess that they're meant to resemble ears, or the terminals of switchboard wires.
Clem
I've never seen any of this stuff for sale on eBay, so if you see something please post it!
Below is a nice find, dating from 1937. "Telephone Companies! Politics and Capitalism, watching over your business. To fight, to win, CNT." The CNT was the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, Spain's oldest anarchist union. In 1936, the CNT, based in Barcelona, helped to lead a popular revolution that resulted in the collectivization of a majority of Catalonian industry, and led successful operations against Franco's fascist military. By 1937, the CNT had grudgingly allied itself with the Republican government in Madrid and was facing counter-revolutionary pressures from Stalinst elements of the Spanish Communist party, who wanted to collectivize society according to the Soviet model. On May the 3rd, 1937, military police and Communist fighters laid siege to Barcelona's old telephone exchange building, which the CNT had occupied. After a bloody siege, the CNT was ejected from the exchange. This poster commemorates that action (not the numerous shot-out windows in the old exchange's facade). The discs at the ends of the octopus's arms are odd. I can only guess that they're meant to resemble ears, or the terminals of switchboard wires.
Clem