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CNT, AIT and FAI were disparate groups fighting the Fascists.

As Spain teeters on the brink of another civil war over the Catalonian independence crisis, a rare collection of posters from the Spanish Civil War of the 1930's have emerged for sale 80 years after the country was last in turmoil.

The seven posters, which are expected to fetch more than £10,000 at auction, were all made by anti-fascist artists supporting the democratic Republican cause after a group of army generals led by Franco staged a military coup and tried to take control in 1936.

In a country with a high rate of illiteracy, much of the propaganda produced in the first few years of the war used rousing images to deliver their message to the masses.

Hitler and Mussolini both sent thousands of troops and weapons to help the right-wing Nationalists and many of the Republican posters slammed the "foreign fascist hordes" and the pictures showed swastika-covered enemies.

The posters will be sold by Onslows Auctioneers in Stourpaine, Dorset on December 15.