Falange

The Falange (or Phalange) is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original movement in Spain. This article is primarily about the Spanish Falange. For information about the Lebanese Phalange, see the Kataeb Party article.

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1930s - Spain - Kataeb Party

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In Spain, the Falange was a authoritarian royalist political organization founded by José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1933 in opposition to the Second Spanish Republic. Among its goals was the strengthening of the Spanish nation through a program of national-syndicalist social organization. During the Spanish Civil War the Falange became a leading force on the Nationalist side, eventually favouring Generalissimo Francisco Franco. After the war, the Falange was combined with the Carlist parties by Generalissimo Franco's Decreto de Unificación (Unification Decree), forming the core of the sole official political organization in Spain, the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista, or "Spanish Traditionalist Phalanx of the Assemblies of National-Syndicalist Offensive" (FET y de las JONS). This organization, also known as the National Movement (Movimiento Nacional), continued until Franco's death in 1975.

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Authoritarian - Royalist - Political organization - José Antonio Primo de Rivera - 1933 - Second Spanish Republic - Spanish Civil War - Nationalist - Francisco Franco - Carlist - Decreto de Unificación - Sole official political organization - Spain - Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista - Phalanx - Syndicalist - 1975

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Members of the party were called Falangists (Spanish: Falangistas).

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