Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista

The Juntas de ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista ( JONS, German associations of Nationalsyndikalistischen offensive ) were a right-wing political movement in Spain nationalsyndikalistische the Second Republic. They were created on October 10, 1931 by the merger of the listed Ramiro Ledesma group oriented to the Italian fascism magazine " La Conquista del Estado " with the Junta de Castellana Actuación Hispanica (German Association for Hispanic Castilian action ) of Onésimo Redondo. The JONS were a small, radical organization, which was driven primarily by students in Madrid and workers and peasants from the province of Valladolid. The JONS were led by a central triumvirate of Ledesma, Redondo and Francisco Jiménez.

In 1933, the JONS gained followers. They began to issue its own theoretical nature journal entitled JONS. The JONS were also involved in the Castilian trade union movement. Your Member Gutiérrez Palma in 1933 founded a transport workers' union in Valladolid. In the same year founded the JONS a covenant of farm workers unions, the union founded 175 groups with a total of 3,000 members in six months. In 1933 Ledesma also from political exile in Portugal back and resumed his journalistic career again.

The action space of the JONS spread to the whole country, and in particular the cities of Valencia, Granada, Valladolid and Santiago de Compostela. In Zaragoza ( " Revolución " ), Galicia ( " Unidad " ) and Valencia ( " Patria Sindicalista " ) issued the movement magazines.

In the National Assembly of the JONS, held a secret meeting on 12 and 13 February 1934 in Madrid, there was a strong desire to unite with the Falange Española by José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Soon after the party meeting, on 4 March, the association was officially completed in Valladolid. The new party was named Falange Española de las Juntas de ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE de las JONS ).

After his falling out with Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Ledesma was excluded in 1935 from the FE de las JONS and took the unsuccessful attempt, without the Falange to reincorporate the JONS. However, the vast majority of supporters remained in the Phalange.