Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista

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Symbol of J.O.N.S.

Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista was a far-right National Syndicalist movement in Spain. It was founded on October 10, 1931, as the fusion of the groups La Conquista del Estado of Ramiro Ledesma and the Junta Castellana de Actuación Hispánica of Onésimo Redondo. J.O.N.S. was a small organization, primarily based amongst students in Madrid and workers and peasants in and around Valladolid. It followers were called jonsistas.

The leadership of J.O.N.S. was the Central Executive Triumvirate.

In 1933 J.O.N.S. experienced a period of expansion. It started publishing a theoretical journal, JONS. Amongst other things, it engaged in trade union work in Castile. In January 1933 Gutiérrez Palma set up a transport workers union in Valladolid. Later the same year it founded the Agrarian Trade Union Federation. In six month it had set up 175 trade unions, whom together claimed around 3,000 members. During the year Ledesma returned from exile in Portugal, and restarted the publication Libertad.

J.O.N.S. also expanded throughout the country. The party had its main strongholds in Valencia, Granada, Valladolid and Santiago de Compostela. It also formed nuclei in Zaragoza, Bilbao, Salamanca and Barcelona. The party also started publishing Revolución in Zaragoza, Unidad in Galicia and Patria Sindicalista in Valencia.

At the national council of J.O.N.S., held clandestinely in Madrid February 12-13 1934 the organization formulates its intention to merge with the Falange Española of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Soon after the congress the merger was finalized, forming Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (F.E.-J.O.N.S.).