Insubordinate movement in Spain

The Insubordinate movement (Spanish: Movimiento insumiso or Insumisión, Catalan: Moviment d'insubmissió, Galician: Movemento insubmiso, Basque: Matxinada) was a mass antimilitarist movement of civil disobedience to the compulsory military service, which existed in Spain since the early 80s until the abolition of the military service on December 31, 2001.

The immediate predecessor of insubordination was the movement of the conscientious objectors initiated in the last years of the Francoist regime, a movement seeking legal recognition of the right of not to perform the, then, compulsory military service on grounds of conscience and moral. Objectors, therefore, refused to join the army and were processed by it, and in many cases ended up in military prisons. In 1984, the Congreso de los Diputados passed a law on conscientious objection, which recognized the rights of objectors, establishing a civilian service of 18 months, called "Prestación Social Sustitutoria" (Substitutionary Social Service, PSS) as an alternative to compulsory military service. The previous objectors were then amnestied and were free from military obligations. A handful of them, however, considering that the longer duration of the PSS penalized objectors, that was forced labor and that eliminated paid works defended that the goal should be the complete disappearance of the military service, thererfore those objectors renounced to the amnesty and returned to be ready to be called up.

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