The ''Twenty-Six Point Program of the Falange'' (

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: ), originally the ''Twenty-Seven Point Program of the Falange'' (Spanish: ), is a

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that was written by

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in September 1934. It served as a guiding document for the

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political organization founded by Rivera in October 1933, as well as for its successor, the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE de las JONS). The manifesto is divided into six sections: "Nation, Unity, and Empire"; "State, Individual, Liberty"; "Economy, Labor, Class Struggle"; "Land"; "National Education and Religion"; and "National Revolution." Its content focuses on expanding the

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, rejecting

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, rejecting

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, nationalization of banking services, providing a right to work, expanding economic unity, agricultural reclamation of the countryside, and maintaining

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. During the 1937 merger of FE de las JONS with the Traditionalist Communion movement,

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and dictator who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces i ...

purged the original document's twenty-seventh point mandating that the Falange maintain dominance in any partnership. The new organization, abbreviated as

FET y de las JONS The Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (; FET y de las JONS), frequently shortened to just "FET", was the sole legal party of the Francoist regime in Spain. It was created by General Francisco ...

, maintained the ''Twenty-Six Point Program of the Falange'' until its 1958 rebranding as the

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with a guiding "Doctrine of the Movement" written the same year.

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