Falange Española de las JONS (Spanish for "Spanish Phalanx of the Committees for the National-Syndicalist Offensive"; FE de las JONS for short), known simply as the Falange , is the name assigned to several Spanish political movements and parties originating in the late 1930s, a rough contemporary of the Estado Novo, Nazism and Italian Fascism. The word is Spanish for phalanx. Members of the party were called Falangists .