[1] It was born in 1931, in a rented space property of the political party Unió Catalanista (Catalan Unity) and created a weekly journal with the exact same name as well .

Its founder and main leader was Daniel Cardona i Civit known as Vibrant and L'irlandès (the Irishman) and elected Mayor of his hometown Sant Just Desvern.

can be understood as a continuation or political realisation of Bandera Negra i Santa Germandat Catalana (Black Flag and Holly Catalan Brotherhood) founded in 1925, an armed branch of the independentist political party Estat Català whose members carried out a terrorist bomb attack against king Alfonso XIII of Spain and dictator Primo de Rivera in the town of Garraf and among other action, another bomb attack against the earl of Maldá, a unionist noble in favour of the Spanish monarchy.

[6] Many militants came from Estat Català who criticized the decision of Francesc Macià of giving birth to a new political party called Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia), other militants came from Palestra, a Catalan youth nationalist hiking organization influenced by the Czech Sokol, the Irish Fianna Éirann, and Robert Baden-Powell scouting.

And after the Spanish Civil War was over, most of the militants, still very young founded the Front Nacional de Catalunya (National Front of Catalonia) and the Organització de Resistència nacional (organization of the national resistance), which fought the Wehrmacht in France and afterwards kept on fighting against Francoist Spain, mainly through Guerrilla warfare in the Pyrenees alongside other partisans.