Thread by @propagandopolis

Mexican synarchist illustration showing a hand with a cross smashing the hammer and sickle. The illustration appeared in 'Pedro Sinarquista', a novel published anonymously in 1959.

The synarchist movement emerged in Mexico in the 1930s in opposition to the secularising and anti-clerical policies of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. The National Synarchist Union (UNS) was formed in 1937, becoming the movement's main vehicle for the next decade.

Pedro Sinarquista imagined a synarchist Mexico:

'In the new Mexico that we desire, there will be peace, harmony, work, cooperation, bread and shelter for all Mexicans; there will be a quiet and happy home, and a fervent love for the homeland.'

(pics via @leobrowng08)

The synarchist movement declined in the postwar years, with increasing opposition from the left and the government, which banned the UNS in 1949.

'El sinarquismo' by Arturo García Bustos, 1947.