What are the 26 points in the Spanish Falange program from the 1930s?
1. We believe in the supreme reality of Spain. To strengthen it,
elevate it, and improve it, is the urgent collective task of all
Spaniards. In order to achieve this end, the interest of
individuals, groups and classes will have to be remorselessly
waived.
2. Spain is a destined unity in the universe. Any conspiracy
against that unity is abhorrent. Any form of seperatism is an
unpardonable crime. The existing constitution, in so far as it
encourages any disunity, commits a crime against the destinty of
Spain. For this reason we demand its immediate abrogation.
3. We have a will to empire. We affirm that the full history of
Spain implies an empire. We demand for Spain a pre-eminent place in
Europe. We will not put up with international isolation or with
foreign interference. With regard to the Hispano American
countries, we will aim at unification of culture, of economic
interests and of power. Spain claims a pre-eminent place in all
common tasks, because of her position as the spiritual cradle of
the Spanish world.
4. Our armed forces, on land, on sea and in the air, must be as
efficient and numerous as may be necessary to assure Spain's
complete independence at all times and that world leadership which
is her due. We shall restore to the armies on land and sea and in
the air, all the dignity they deserve and, following their ideal,
we shall see to it that a military view of life shall shape Spanish
existence.
5. Spain will seek again her glory and her riches by means of
the sea. Spain must aspire to become a great maritime power, for
her defense and for her commerce. We demand for our Motherland an
equally high standing for our Navy and our Air Force.
6. Our state will be a totalitarian instrument in the service of
National integrity. All Spaniards will take part in it through
their family, municipal and syndical functions. No one shall take
part in it through any political party. The system of political
parties will be implacably abolished, with all that flows from them
- inorganic suffrage, representation by conflicting parties, and
parliament of the familiar type.
7. Human dignity, the inegrity of man, and his liberty, are
eternal and untouchable values. But only he is really free who
forms part of a strong and free nation. No one will be allowed to
use his liberty against the unity, strength and liberty of the
country. A rigorous discipline will prevent any attempt to poison,
disunite or influence Spaniards aganst the destiny of the
Motherland.
8. The National-Syndicalist state will permit every private
initiative which is copmpatible withe the collective interest of
all, and will even protect and encourage beneficial
enterprizes.
9. In the econimic sphere we imagine Spain as one gigantic
syndicate of producers. We shall organize Spanish society in a
corporative manner by means of a system of vertical syndicates with
branches of production in the service of national economic
integrity.
10. We repudiate any capitalist system which ignores popular
necessities, dehumanizes private property and huddles workers into
shapeless masses ripe for misery and despair. Our spiritual and
national sense also repudiates Marxism. We shall organize the
impulses of the working-classes, led astray today by Marxism, by
exacting their direct participation in the great task of the
national state.
11. The National-Syndicalist state will not cruelly ignore
economic conflicts, and therefore will not stand unmoved in face of
a domination of the weakest class by the strongest. Our regime will
make class war radically impossible, inasmuch as all those who
coopperate in production will be part of an organic whole. We
abhore, and will prevent at all costs, the abuse of one partial
interest by another and anarchy in the field of work.
12. The first object of wealth - and our state will affirm this-
is to better the people's conditions of life. It is intolerable
that great masses of people should live miserably whilst the few
enjoy every luxury.
13. The state will recognize private property as a lawful means
of fulfilling individual, family and social ends, and will protect
it against the abuses of the great financiers, speculators and
money lenders.
14. We uphold the tendency towards nationalization of the
banking services and also, through the medium of Corporations, that
of the big public services.
15. Every Spaniard has a right to work. Public bodies will, as a
matter of course, assist those who are unable to find work. Until
we have built up the new structure, we will maintain and intensify
all the advantages which have been afforded to the worker by the
existing social laws.
16. Every Spaniard who is physically fit has the duty of
working. The National-Syndicalist state will not extend the
slightest consideration to those who do not engage in any definite
employment and aspire to live like invited guests at the cost of
the effort of others.
17. At all costs the standard of life in the country must be
raised. It is the permanent spring of the life of Spain. To this
end, we bind ourselves to carry out without hesitation the economic
and social reform of Agriculture.
18. We shall enrich agriculture production ( economic reform )
by the following means:
(a) By assuring for all products of the soil a remunerative
minum price.
(b) We shall insist that a great part of what is to-day absorbed
by the towns in payment of their intellectual and commercial
services shall be returned to the land so that it may be
sufficently endowed.
(c) By organizing a real National Agriculture credit scheme
which, by advancing money at low interest to the laborer on the
security of his goods and harvests, will save him from usary and
the domination of the political bosses.
(d) By spreading the teaching of agriculture and
cattle-breeding.
(e) By arranging the allotment of land according to its
conditions and with regard to the possible disposal of its
products.
(f) By arranging tariffs so that they shall protect agriculture
and the cattle industry.
(g) By the acceleration of irrigation works.
(h) By rationalizing the units of agriculture in order to
suppress both the large neglected estates as well as small
properties which are non-economic because of their poor return.
19. We shall organize Agriculture socially by the following
means:
(a) By redistributing cultivable land in order to set up family
properties and energetically stimulate the syndication of
laborers.
(b) By ending the misery of the human masses who to-day wear
themselves out ploughing sterile land, and who will be transferred
to new cultivable land.
20. We shall embark on an untiring campaign to increase the
importance of raising cattle and reforestation, taking severe
measures against any persons who may place obstacles in the way,
going so far as temporary compulsory mobilization of the whole
Spanish youth for this historic task of reconstruction of the
National wealth.
21. The state will be empowered to expropriate without
compensation any property which has been illegitimately acquired or
enjoyed.
22. The reconstruction of the communal land of the villages will
be one of the first objects of the National-Syndicalist state.
23. It is the essential task of the State, by means of a
rigorous discipline in education, to build up a strong and united
National spirit and to instil into the souls of the future
generations happiness and pride in country. Every man will receive
a pre-military education in order to prepare him for the honor of
being in the National and Popular Army of Spain.
24. Culture will be organized in such a form that no talent
shall run to seed for want of economic means. All those who deserve
it will have easy access to the university.
25. Our movement will incorporate the Catholic spirit - of
glorious tradition and predominant in Spain- in the national
reconstruction. The Church and the State will arrange a Concordat
defining their respective spheres. But the State will not permit
any interference or activity which might lower its dignity or
National integrity.
26. The Spanish Traditional Phalanx of the J.O.N.S. desires a
new order of things, which has been set out in the principles
announced above. Its methods are preferably direct, ardent and
combative. Life is a battle, and must be lived with a spirit alight
with service and sacrifice.
