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The Spanish people are fighting for you (Melbourne, Victorian Council Against War and Fascism [1937?]) 1 leaf. [from the collection of N. W. Saffin

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The Victorian Council Against War and Fascism, which published and circulated this single-leaf flier, was a Communist front organization. The Labor Party threatened any of their members who were also in the VCAWF with expulsion.

The flier has a graphic featuring the Spanish republican war-cry, "They shall not pass". Nettie Palmer is quoted on the virtues of the Spanish government, "It showed, in the words of Nettie Palmer, the Australian writer who was in Barcelona before and during the rebellion, 'complete toleration as regards the church.' "

Awareness of the denominational divide over the Spanish War is evident in the plea printed on the flier, "Australians! Protestants and Catholics! Men and women of all parties! You have a great tradition of liberty!"