its aim was to achieve Catalan statehood and oppose the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.

Throughout the 1920s, the organization took part in efforts to oppose General Primo de Rivera's regime and the monarchy. Their actions included a failed assassination attempt against King Alfonso XIII (and reportedly the royal party) in the Garraf Plot in an operation of its secret paramilitary unit named Santa Germandat Catalana (Bandera Negra) that was known as