TheSindicato Español Universitario ("Spanish University Syndicate"; SEU) was acorporatiststudents' union in Spain, created in the 1930s during theSecond Spanish Republic, by theFalange Española (later theFalange Española de las JONS) under the leadership ofJosé Antonio Primo de Rivera. The SEU was inspired by students' unions linked to contemporaryfascist parties ofItaly andRomania.

It was founded with the aim of crushing the then prevalentFederación Universitaria Escolar [es] ("Academic University Federation"; FUE) and to introduce Falangist propaganda in the university circles.

At the end of theSpanish Civil War in 1939, the SEU was proclaimed the sole legal student organization by theFrancoist regime, now as part of theFET y de las JONS (following the1937 Unification Decree). Although all students were formally required to be members, it never succeeded in gaining a foothold inuniversities across the country, and by the mid-1960s democratically oriented students began to autonomously organize themselves in clandestine organizations, particularly inCatalonia.^[1] In 1965, it was practically dismantled by the regime following its infiltration by an underground anti-Francoist group, theFederación Universitaria Democrática Española [es] ("Spanish Democratic University Federation"; FUDE), which had succeeded in obtaining representatives on mostuniversity councils.^[2]

After 1965, the SEU disappeared from university life and was reorganized in 1977 within the Falangist party. The later splits gave rise to various regroupings which still claimed the historical union.

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• Falangism
• 20th century in Spain
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• Francoist Spain
• Student political organizations
• Student organisations in Spain
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• Organisations of the Spanish Civil War
• FET y de las JONS

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