<P> During this period a new practice began, and continues to the present day; whenever a prominent Catalan nationalist dies, as a sign of mourning, his comrades will cover the red bars of the estelada with a black cloth, leaving the star visible to signify that they will continue pursuing the same ideals . </P> <P> Later, during the period from 1931 to 1936, the estelada still appears numerous times . Some of these flags only have two colours due to the shortage of money, but the traditional estelada with the blue triangle and white star was kept . </P> <P> After the Francoist dictatorship came to power, the Front Nacional de Catalunya (National Front of Catalonia), or FNC, which used the Catalan flag and the estelada, was formed in response to the new Spanish nationalist regime . </P> <P> During the sixties, in the university section of the FNC, there was a faction called the Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional dels Països Catalans, (Socialist Party for the National Liberation of the Catalan Countries), or PSAN . Because this party wanted to make its own socialist and Marxist ideas clear, it decided to change the colour of the star to red; in 1969, this new version of the estelada started to appear at PSAN meetings . </P>

Flag with red white and blue and yellow star