 It also called for a social revolution that would have seen Spanish society transformed by National Syndicalism.Following the execution of its leader, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, by the Republicans, the party swelled in size to several hundred thousand members.The leadership of the Falange suffered 60 percent casualties in the early days of the civil war, and the party was transformed by new members and rising new leaders, called "camisas nuevas" ("new shirts"), who were less interested in the revolutionary aspects of National Syndicalism.