Auzolan (''neighborhood labor'' in

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) was a political coalition in the

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, created on 26 March 1983. It was a coalition between the

Liga Komunista Iraultzailea Revolutionary Communist League (in Spanish: ''Liga Comunista Revolucionaria'' (LCR), in Basque: ''Liga Komunista Iraultzailea'', in Catalan: ''Lliga Comunista Revolucionària'', in Galician: ''Liga Comunista Revolucionaria'') was a political party ...

(LKI),

Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia ( en, Party of the Revolutionary Patriotic Workers, LAIA), was a Communist political party of the Southern Basque Country and Basque nationalist ideology that was born during the last years of the Francoist ...

(LAIA, one of the parties that founded

Herri Batasuna Herri Batasuna (; en, Popular Unity; HB) was a far-left Basque nationalist coalition in Spain. It was founded in 1978 and defined itself as abertzale, left-wing, socialist, and supported the independence of the Greater Basque Country. It was r ...

) and Nueva Izquierda (a split

Euskadiko Ezkerra Euskadiko Ezkerra (EE; en, Basque Country Left) was a Basque socialist political organisation. It was founded as a coalition of Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia (EIA, ''Basque Party for Revolution'' or ''Party for Basque Revolution'') and other Ba ...

«Auzolán, grupúsculo "abertzale" escindido de Euskadiko Ezkerra». ABC: 20. 18 de febrero de 1984.
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Communist Movement of Euskadi Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a so ...

(EMK). The spokesperson of Auzolan was Bixente Serrano Izko.

History

In March 1983 Auzolan was presented, with the intention of presenting candidates in the municipal elections of that year in some municipalities of

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, as well as in the elections to the Parliament of Navarre. In these elections Auzolan obtained 8,356 votes (3.46% of the total), but no seats, although the coalition exceeded by two thousand votes their rivals of

. In the elections to the Basque Parliament the following year Auzolan presented a list headed by Iñaki Pérez Beotegi, ''Wilson''. Auzolan obtained 10,462 votes (0.98%) and no seats. On May 30, 1986 Auzolan self-dissolved, but the

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branch continued to exist, as

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References

*Egaña, Iñaki (1996). Diccionario histórico-político de Euskal Herria. Tafalla: Txalaparta. pp. 91–92. {{ISBN, 8481360392. Political parties established in 1983 Political parties disestablished in 1986 Basque nationalism Defunct communist parties in the Basque Country (autonomous community)