The 26 Points of the Falange Committed Franco to National Syndicalist Revolution

In April 1937, Franco suddenly merged the Falangists, now grown very numerous, with the traditionalist Carlists and other rightist groups to form his new state party, Falange Española Tradicionalista (FET). The Twenty-six Points of the Falange, based to some extent on Italian Fascism, were adopted as the official program of the state party, and by extension of the new state itself. Among other things, they theoretically committed Franco’s nascent regime to carry out a ‘‘national syndicalist revolution,’’ the Falangist term for approximating something like Italian Fascist corporatism in a more radical form.

--Stanley G. Payne, Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 12.