Jos�� Antonio Primo de Rivera Anthology of Speeches and Quotes

<p>Jos�� Antonio Primo de Rivera y S��enz de Heredia 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera 3rd Marquess of Estella was a Spanish lawyer parliamentarian and martyr. Son of the General Miguel Primo de Rivera the dictator of Spain from 1923-1930 Rivera founded the <em>Falange Espa��ola</em> - the Spanish Phalanx - in 1933. The Falange grew slowly at first winning just .7% of the vote in the 1936 February elections but swelled in numbers as the tyranny and violence in the Second Spanish Republic grew.</p><p> </p><p>Supporters of the Popular Front the governing party at the time waged an open campaign of violence against Spanish nationalists highlighted by the imprisonment show-trial and execution of Jos�� Antonio in November 1936. Subsequently the Falange joined the insurrection against the Republic and ascended to prominence among the Nationalist ranks. Jos�� Antonio's Falange would later merge with other right-wing parties to form the <em>Falange Espa��ola Tradicionalista y de las JONS</em> Spain's pan-nationalist party which would go on to hold power under Francisco Franco for nearly four decades. Jos�� Antonio himself was posthumously known as El Ausente (The Absent One) and became a revered figure among the Spanish right.</p><p> </p><p>First published by <em>Ediciones Prensa Del Movimiento Madrid</em> in 1950 a publishing house owned by the Falange this English-language anthology of Jos�� Antonio's speeches and quotations has been out of print since the publishing house was dissolved by the Spanish state in 1984. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to preserve this monumental work in print form.</p>