- La Conquista del Estado
"La Conquista del Estado" ("Conquest of the State") was a publication in
Spain . It was launched in 1931 byRamiro Ledesma Ramos .The first issue, issued on
March 14 ,1931 , contained amanifesto in whichNational Syndicalism was elaborated. Ledesma's idea was to win over theConfederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), the then dominanttrade union movement in the country, to a form of nationalcorporatism . The ideas in theessay were discussed during the CNT congress in the summer of 1931, without being approved.Members of the Organizing Committee of "La Conquista del Estado" were Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (president),
Juan Aparicio López (secretary), Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Ricardo de Jaspe Santoma, Manuel Souto Vilas, Antonio Bermúdez Cañete, Francisco Mateos González, Alejandro M. Raimúndez, Ramón Iglesias Parga, Antonio Riaño Lanzarote and Roberto Escribano Ortega.The small group around "La Conquista del Estado" was based in the universities of
Madrid . On October 10 the group around "La Conquista del Estado" merged with theValladolid -basedJunta Castellana de Actuación Hispánica to form theJuntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista .In total 23 issues of "La Conquista del Estado" were published during 1931. Generally the publication was weekly, but was suspended during August and September. The last issue was published on October 24.
External links
* [http://www.filosofia.org/hem/193/lce/index.htm "La Conquista del Estado" archive]
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