Sindicato Español Universitario

The Sindicato Español Universitario ("Spanish University Union"; SEU) was a corporatist students' union in Spain, created in the 1930s during the Second Spanish Republic, by the Falange Española (later the Falange Española de las JONS) under the leadership of José Antonio Primo de Rivera.

The SEU was inspired by students' unions linked to contemporary fascist parties of Italy and Romania.

At the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the SEU was proclaimed the sole legal student organization by the Francoist regime, now as part of the FET y de las JONS (following the 1937 Unification Decree).

Although all students were formally required to be members, it never succeeded in gaining a foothold in universities across the country, and by the mid-1960s democratically oriented students began to autonomously organize themselves in clandestine organizations, particularly in Catalonia.

[1] In 1965, it was practically dismantled by the regime following its infiltration by an underground anti-Francoist group, the Federación Universitaria Democrática Española [es] ("Spanish Democratic University Federation"; FUDE), which had succeeded in obtaining representatives on most university councils.