1 Title Page Visual Index 1. Columna de Hierro. The revolution will give you the land. At this juncture, many anarchist groups began to collectivize industry and agriculture, believing that the long-awaited revolution was upon them.
Anarchist propaganda emphasizes the revolutionary nature of the struggle.
The desire for revolution was not, however, shared by the Anarchists' partners in the Republican government, the Socialists and Communists, who wanted to present a moderate face to the Western democracies in a bid to gain their support. For this reason, communist and socialist propaganda stresses the need to defeat fascism, the importance of uniting together to fight the war, not to stage a revolution. These two bodies took over Valencian industry in the first days of the Civil War and continued to control it until some time after the Republican government transferred from Madrid to Valencia in October 1936. We can thus date this poster to the first months of the conflict. Of the artist Bauset little is known, other than the fact that he studied under the celebrated Valencian photomontage artist, Josep Renau, before the war.