Modern Phalangist parties (Spain)

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• Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacionalsindicalista, FE de la JONS, FE-JONS (Spanish Phalanx of the National Syndicalist Offensive Groups)
  • Patria Libre
• La Falange, FE (The Phalanx)
• Frente Nacional, FrN (National Front)

See also:

• Spain
• Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (1937-1975)

Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacionalsindicalista

Flags of the FE-JONS - Images by Santiago Dotor, 1 February 1999, after a flag purchased at the Valle de los Caídos memorial, and by Ivan Sache, 6 August 1999, as shown by Smith [smi75c]]

FE-JONS was founded in 1976 by reorganization of the Frente Nacional Español (Spanish National Front), a civic association founded by a faction of the Falange Española de las JONS, whose name it had taken, declaring itself its only legitimate successor.
This attitude was certainly helpful in attracting other neo-Phalangist groups which have been merging into it, such as Círculos Doctrinales José Antonio (José Antonio Doctrinal Circles) (1979), Falange Española Independiente (Independent Spanish Phalanx) (2004), and Mesa Nacional Falangista (National Phalangist Gathering) (2012). However, the claim has no legal basis, so when some of its members left in 1999 to found La Falange (The Phalanx), the FE-JONS was unable to prevent them from using the name by a lawsuit, which it lost, since the said name was only used unofficially by the FE-JONS. Apart from that particular episode, the party has been maintaining good relations with other ultra-rightist groups in Spain, often joining them in coalitions for the purpose of elections (never achieving significant results); since 2018, this has included the former comrades turned rivals from La Falange as well (whether it would lead to a subsequent re-unification, is still too early to tell).
[Wikipedia (English); Wikipedia (Spanish)]

Along with the name, FE-JONS also adopted the flag of its pre-1937 predecessor: vertically divided red-black-red, with a red yoke and arrows in the center of the black field. The flag's proportions may vary somewhat, as well as the length of black field (may be either equal with or greater than that of red fields) and the shape of yoke and arrows (photos). In the 2000s and early 2010s, the party has used a modernized logo in which a white yoke and arrows were superimposed on three trapezoids, the black one placed between two red ones; this resembles a flag which is known to have been used by Phalangist Blue Division in the German Army on the Eastern Front of World War II; still the said flag seems not to have been used, the color of emblem being invariably red when used on the flags. Later in 2010ss, a simplified logo was adopted, in shape of a red square with rounded top left and bottom right corners, charged with five white arrows emerging from a point close to the bottom left corner; this had no impact on the flag design either. This logo was recently simplified further, with white arrows placed on a simple red square, but the flag has remained unchanged.

Patria Libre

Flag of Patria Libre - Image by Jaume Ollé, 18 November 1999

Patria Libre is the youth group tof the FE-JONS.