Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera y Senz 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 19231930 Rivera founded theampnbspFalange Espaolaampnbsp 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.ampnbspSupporters of the Popular Front the governing party at the time waged an open campaign of violence against Spanish nationalists highlighted by the imprisonment showtrial 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 Antonios Falange would later merge with other rightwing parties to form theampnbspFalange Espaola Tradicionalista y de las JONS Spains pannationalist 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.ampnbspFirst published byampnbspEdiciones Prensa Del Movimiento Madridampnbspin 1950 a publishing house owned by the Falange this Englishlanguage anthology of Jos Antonios 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.