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Spanish Phalanx Falange Española
Leader	José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Founded	29 October 1933
Dissolved	15 February 1934
Preceded by	Movimiento Español Sindicalista
Merged into	Falange Española de las JONS
Student wing	Sindicato Español Universitario
Ideology	Fascism[1] Falangism
Political position	Far-right[2]
Politics of Spain Political parties Elections

Falange Española (FE; English: Spanish Phalanx) was a Spanish fascist political organization active from 1933 to 1934.^[3]

The Falange Española was created on 29 October 1933 as the successor of the Movimiento Español Sindicalista (MES), a similar organization founded earlier in 1933. (Falange translates as Phalanx in English.) The foundational meeting took place in La Comedia Theatre [es] of Madrid and was conducted by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Julio Ruiz de Alda and Alfonso García Valdecasas.^[4] In February 1934, after poor results at the ballots in the 1933 election, José Antonio Primo de Rivera suggested a fusion of Falange Española with the Ramiro Ledesma's Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista, which was approved on 15 February.^[5] The Falange Española de las JONS (FE de las JONS) was subsequently formed.

The Falange's first clash with Marxist groups took place on 5 November 1933, when its militants had a rift with socialist sympathizers at a football game in Almoradí (Province of Alicante).^[6]

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