National Front of Catalonia
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The National Front of Catalonia (
In 1946, the FNC became an officially independent party by breaking its relationship with the Estat Català.Origin
The FNC was born in April 1940 in
Its members proposed to carry out a resistance for the freedom of Catalonia, human dignity and an advanced society model. We also thought that the allied troops would help the Catalan resistance to end the Spanish government regime. It wanted to be the anti-Franco independentist unifier both inside and outside
They lacked funding, but since 1945 they formed an Assistance Committee for FNC Combatants with money from the Catalans of America. In London, his delegate, Pere Mitjà, founded the Catalan Nationalist Grouping in Great Britain. His organ was "Opinions" and the front was made up of workers, small owners and shopkeepers.
Armed struggle
In August 1940, Andreu, Cornudella, Cruells, Xammar and others entered Catalonia clandestinely and engage in espionage work for Britain. Josep Benet was the mail with the outside. In 1944, six members of the group were sentenced to six years in prison.
The military branch of the National Front of Catalonia, led by Jaume Martínez Vendrell, was considered to be the Catalan army of opposition to the occupying army. He suffered a tough blow with the so-called "Fall of the 50s" towards the end of 1943. Joan Cornudella and Antoni Andreu referred to it at the end of 1944.
Outside, in 1943 they contacted the
Until 1943 Manuel Cruells and Joan Cornudella were in charge of the management. Since 1944 the FNC scheme was:
- Executive Council
- Consell de Barcelona Ciutat
- Council of Barcelona Circumscription
- Council of other Catalan regions
- Delegation to France, with headquarters in Perpignan (Jaume Cornudella)
- Delegation to London
On
), in which the organization was restructured. It is estimated that it had about 3,000 militants:- Executive council, consisting of a president (Antoni Andreu i Abelló), a general secretary ( Jaume Martínez i Vendrell) and five advisers (press, propaganda, social action, organization, services and youth) among them Manuel Viusà i Camps and Antoni Malaret i Amigó.
- National Council, with a section for Barcelona city and another for regions.
- Catalan aid, for retaliators.
They also advocated social solidarity, freedom of conscience, a social policy of collective welfare, the right to independence and conformity with the Atlantic Charter.
At the same time, the number of actions in the interior was multiplied, in particular by the hanging and the painted ones, since until the end of 1946 they did not have enough weapons to carry out organized resistance actions. The
In January 1946, weapons and explosives passed through the border, which strengthened the military section, while in April Jaume Cornudella and Manuel Valls de Gomis began to emit with a short-wave radio. The March 24 of 1946 put an explosive on the Victoria Monument, and on June 6 they displayed a flag at the Montjuic stadium, but on June 8, 1946 They suffered a tough blow with the fall of the military section of the FNC, with 14 detainees and four more in contumacy, and most of them were confiscated. Jaume Martínez Vendrell was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and Josep Serra i Estruch to six years. This was the loss of the printing press and much of the weapons.