Founding of the Falange

The Founding of the Falange is recorded as a political landmark in the account’s brief survey of Spanish history: in 1933, José Antonio established the Spanish Falange, explicitly described as a Fascist party. The note places this act against the preceding collapse of Miguel Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic.

Political Background

Miguel Primo de Rivera had seized power in a 1923 military coup, presenting his dictatorship as a means to restore order and eventually return the country to democratic rule. He resigned in 1930 after losing the support of the king and the army. The king abdicated in April 1931, and the Second Spanish Republic followed. The founding of the Spanish Falange came two years later, within this unsettled political sequence.

Founding and Historical Aftermath

The account gives 1933 as the year José Antonio founded the Spanish Falange and identifies the party as Fascist, but offers no further details of the founding or its early organization. Its retrospective frame instead moves forward to the Spanish Civil War: both of Miguel Primo de Rivera’s sons were imprisoned and executed after the war began in July 1936. The Nationalists, led by Franco, ultimately won the conflict and established a Fascist regime.