Political Parties and Movements (Spain)

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• Nationwide Political Parties:
  • Partido Popular (Popular Party)
  • Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party)
  • Izquierda Unida (United Left)
  • Falange Española [de las JONS] (Spanish Phalanx)
    • Patria Libre (Free Fatherland)
  • Fuerza Nueva (New Force)
  • CNT-FAI (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo - Federación Anarquista Ibérica)
• Nationalist Parties:
  • Andalusian Nationalist Movements
  • Asturian Nationalist Parties
  • Basque Nationalist Movements
  • Cantabrian Nationalist Movements
  • Castilian Nationalist Parties
  • Catalan Nationalist Flags
  • Galician Nationalist Parties
  • Independentists of the Canary Islands
  • Leonese Nationalist Parties
• Neonazi and Nationalsocialist Flags in Spain

See also:

• Political Parties of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)
• Spain
• Anarchism Flags

The flags of the Partido Popular (right-wing / centre / christian-democrat, currently in government), Partido Socialista Obrero Español (socialdemocrat, in government up to May 1996) and Izquierda Unida (a coalition of communist, socialist and republican parties) seem LOBs rather than flags.

Santiago Dotor, 6 October 1998

Popular Party

by Santiago Dotor

I am not very sure of the dimensions of the logo. I believe there is another version of the PP flag with the full name instead of just the initials.

Santiago Dotor, 6 October 1998

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

by Santiago Dotor

I am not very sure of the dimensions of the logo, nor whether the flag has the party's initials below the logo.

Santiago Dotor, 6 October 1998

The Spanish socialist party has changed its logo. In the future a red stylized rose on white will substitute the current logo (the fist and the rose), though for some time both badges will be used. The new logo will be used in flags.

Jaume Ollé, 30 December 1998

United Left

by Santiago Dotor

I am not very sure of the dimensions of the logo.

Santiago Dotor, 6 October 1998

by Santiago Dotor

I purchased a 3"x5" flag of the Falange Party when I visited the Valley of the Fallen monument outside Madrid. The flag is equally divided into 3 vertical stripes red-black-red with a yoke of 5 red arrows [and yoke] in the black center panel.

stormer8@aol.com, 30 January 1999

This is the current flag of Falange Española (de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacionalsindicalista) (in short, FE de las JONS, or more usually Falange). This is the legitimate Falange party (whatever that means...), though many exist: Falange Auténtica, Falange Independiente etc.

Santiago Dotor, 1 February 1999

Incorrect variation shown in Smith 1975

by Ivan Sache

Smith 1975, pp. 340-341 ("Symbols in politics"), shows among others the flag of Spain's National Phalanx party. Vertical red-black-red (1:2:1) with red emblem in the middle of black stripe. The description above is of a flag purchased in the Franco memorial, so Smith may be wrong.

Ivan Sache, 6 August 1999

Free Fatherland

by Jaume Ollé

Patria Libre is a youth group that depends directly from F.E.-J.O.N.S. (Falange Espaņola de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista).

Javier Lorenzo Huerta, 18 November 1999

New Force

by António Martins

Jorge Candeias wrote about PPB as the most right-wing Brazilian party and described its flag as "blue over red horizontal bicolour with white initials centered in an italic font". This is weird, because the colours are the same as those of the most known Spanish right wing party in the late 70s and early 80s, Fuerza Nueva (New Force). Its flag was square, per bend sinister blue over red, with "F" on the top hoist and "N" on the bottom fly (white letters in a sans serif font). The colours were those of the uniforms (not the flag) of FET de las JONS, the single party during General Franco's regime — the blue shirt of the Falange and the red beret of the Carlists. The red and blue combination still tends to be seen -in politics- as denoting right wing orientations. Where do the Brazilian "right-wing red and blue" come from?

Santiago Dotor, 11 May 1999

by Marcus Wendel

I found some kind of a black flag with the letter A in circle on it. Since it is from Madrid, mayby our Spanish members could tell us more about it.

Dov Gutterman, 28 December 1998

The capital A within a circle is the symbol of the anarchist movement (at least in Spain, but I believe it is semi-universal). Very typical in graffitti on walls, stickers (white on black, as in that website) and the like. It belongs to no particular party or organisation.

Santiago Dotor, 28 December 1998

This [red and black] flag was used by the CNT-AIT, an anarcho-syndicalist union that fought against General Franco in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939.

Jamal Hannah, 5 October 1995