For the next 36 years, it seemed that was a ghost. Franco’s dictatorship buried the slogan under state terror, censorship, and the graves of 500,000 dead. The anti-fascists had lost the war. Yet, the slogan did not die. It went underground, into the memory of exiles in Mexico, France, and the Soviet Union.
: Later that same year, British anti-fascists adopted the cry to successfully block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists through a Jewish neighborhood in East London. Modern Significance and Pop Culture No Pasaran
Despite the Republican defeat in 1939, the slogan survived the war and the subsequent decades of Franco’s dictatorship. It has become a symbol of "the good fight" that transcends its original context. For the next 36 years, it seemed that was a ghost