The Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas (FES) (English: Front of Syndicalist Students) was a Spanish student group belonging to the

Falangist Falangism ( es, falangismo) was the political ideology of two political parties in Spain that were known as the Falange, namely first the Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FE de las JONS) and afterwards the Fal ...

minority opposition to the

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. Founded in 1963 in

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, the FES was led by Jorge Perales, and José Real. Initially operating as the student arm of the Frente Nacional de Trabajadores (FNT; "National Front of Workers"), its mottos were ''Falange sí, Movimiento no'' ("Yes to Falange, No to Movement"); ''Falange sí, dictadura no'' ("Yes to Falange, no to dictatorship") and ''Por la reconstrucción de Falange'' ("For the re-building of Falange"). It eventually developed intense conflict with its matrix organization, the FNT, led by Narciso Perales, that transformed into the Revolutionary Syndicalist Front. The FES was the seed of

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(FEI). Prime Minister of Spain

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judge Nicolás Poveda Peñas, Juan Fernández Krohn and

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were members of the organization.

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