Political Parties of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)

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• Comunión Tradicionalista (Carlists)
• Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (CEDA)
• Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores / Federación Anarquista Ibérica (CNT/FAI)
• Falange Española de las JONS
• Partido Comunista de España
• Partido Socialista

See also:

• Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)
• Political parties and movements in Spain
• Spain
• Anarchism Flags

Anarchists

by Jaume Ollé

Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Parties

by Jaume Ollé

Flag of the Acción Popular Española [Spanish Popular Action], right wing party which was the main component of the Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas who won the 1934 elections. The party was led by José María Gil-Robles.

Jaume Ollé, 1 February 1999

by Jaume Ollé

The Juntas de Ofensiva Nacionalsindicalista (Nationalsindicalist Offensive Groups) or simply JONS were a quasi-Nationalsocialist party which merged with Falange Española in the early thirties, becoming Falange Española de las JONS.

During the 1936-39 war, Franco forcibly joined this movement with the Carlists in order to avoid separate (and opposed) political groups on his side of the war. The resulting entity was called Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS and became the single state party in the 1938-1977 regime. Many Falangists and Carlists opposed this, and those who openly disagreed were severely repressed (namely José Antonio's successor as National Chief of Falange, Manuel Hedilla) and even shot on charges of high treason.

With the end of General Franco's regime, Falange recovered its independence and several other Falangist parties appeared as well.

Santiago Dotor, 1 February 1999

by Jaume Ollé

This is a flag of the communist party during the Spanish Civil War, currently under custody by the Spanish communist party.

Jaume Ollé, 1 February 1999

by Jaume Ollé

The image of the socialist party's flag is taken from a picture. The identification of the flag is unsure because I don't know any party called only Socialist Party, rather Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. I believe that the PS can be one of the parties that merged to originate the PSUC (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia), but I don't know well the history of this party.

Jaume Ollé, 1 February 1999