Josep Alsina

José Alsina Calvés (born in Ripoll, 1954), is an activist for Spanish Nationalism.^[1] Former president of far-right organisation Somatemps^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} and director of the magazine Nihil Obstat.^[4] He also was one of the founders of Catalan Civil Society (SCC, Societat Civil Catalana).^[9][7][8]

He has graduated in Biology at University of Barcelona,^[4] did a Master's degree in History of Sciences^[4] and obtained a PhD in Philosophy at Autonomous University of Barcelona.^[4][10] He has worked as a secondary school teacher of Natural Sciences.^[5] Other intellectual work involves publications related to Natural History, biotechnology, philosophy and politics.^[4]

In 2015 José Alsina participated in a debate at Catalunya Ràdio with Jordi Borràs.^[8] In the debate Josep Alsina's ideology and activism are discussed as well as Borràs investigation tasks.

In 2016 he received the award Ramiro de Maeztu.^[11]

In May 2018 he received the award Pascual Tamburri Bariain to the best short essay, given by the publication Revista Razón Española and Asociación Cultural Ruta Norte.^[1][4]

Politics

At the age of 17 he entered the neo-Nazi NSSP,^[8][12] the National Socialist Spanish Party (Partido Español Nacional Socialista in Spanish, PENS). Later on he left for New Force (Fuerza Nueva in Spanish).^[8][12] After New Force he entered the MSR^[8] and SyL.^[8][12] Around 2011 - 2013 he joined Somatemps.^[7] At the same time he contributed to the foundation Catalan Civil Society but left it shortly after.^[9][7][8] As part of his focus on nationalism he directs the far-right publication Nihil Obstat.^[8][12]

His political claims revolve around the hispanity of Catalonia. He considers himself as hispanist, not constitutionalist.^[13] He describes the concept of hispanist as the person who believes in a Spain formed by a single political entity, which opposes the multiple nationalities and political entities of Spain developed through the centuries in the Iberian Peninsula:

In the hispanist version, which is the one we (Somatemps) defend, Spain is a single political nation, heir of a previous structure, the Hispanic Empire

— Josep Alsina

He also defends the theory of indoctrination into Catalan nationalism through the Catalan education system ("adoctrinamiento" in Castilian Spanish),^[13] theory supported by right-wing parties and associations of Spain.^[14][15][16] However, social studies do not find causality between children national identification and educational system.^{[17][18][19][20][21]}