Daniel Cardona i Civit (1890-1943) can be considered, together with Francesc Macià, the most outstanding historial leader in the early stage of the Catalan independentist movement: the separatist stage which, from its origin at the begining of the 20th century, goes on until well into the Franco's period. Founder of organizations such as Estat Català, Bandera Negra, Nosaltres Sols! or the Front Nacional de Catalunya, and linked through Vibrant pseudonym to radical nationalism's more outstanding journalistic enterprises (most of them, created and directed by himself) Cardona provided the separatism with an Irish model-based strategy. Thanks to this strategy, it got past the culturalist stage and became a political and ideological, although reduced, espace from a clear secessionism which turned Cardona into the first Catalan independentist. Defender of a firm and intransigent nationalism, he was mayor of Sant Just Desvern between 1931 and 1936 and has become a necessary point of reference for Catalan insurrectional nationalism. Consistent with the idea that this was the only unavoidable way to achieve the break of the Spanish domination chains, he tried, during all his life, to use the armed fight not only against Primo de Rivera's and Franco's dictatorships, but also against the Restoration, the Republic and the Revolution.