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Catalan Workers' Left (in
Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
: ''Esquerra Catalana dels Treballadors'') was a political party in
Northern Catalonia Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia, ; french: Catalogne (du) Nord ; oc, Catalonha (del) Nòrd; es, Cataluña (del) Norte) French Catalonia or Roussillon refers to the Catalan-speaking and Catalan-culture territory ceded to France by Spain ...
, France. ECT was formed in 1972, with its main base in
Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...
. ECT was linked to the
Socialist Party of National Liberation The Socialist Party of National Liberation ( Catalan: ''Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional'', PSAN) is an independentist and communist party active in Catalonia. The PSAN was created in 1968 following a split in the more leftist sector of ...
(PSAN). In 1977 a group, linked to the Socialist Party of National Liberation - Provisional (PSAN-p), broke away from ECT and formed the Socialist Organisation of National Liberation (OSAN). The newspaper of the organization was ''La Nova Falç''. ECT was dissolved in 1981, but many of its cadres continued to work in other political outfits, like
Catalan Unity Catalan Unity ( ca, Unitat Catalana, ) is a regionalist party based in southern France. It represents the Catalan minority in Northern Catalonia. The party supports Northern Catalonia getting its own autonomous region An autonomous administr ...
(UC).


References

*Sastre, Carles. ''Terra lliure, punt de partida: 1979-1995, una biografía autoritzada.'' Edicions del 1979, 2012, p. 34. .


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ECT documents
1972 establishments in France 1981 disestablishments in France Catalan nationalist parties Defunct Maoist parties Defunct political parties in France Defunct socialist parties in Europe Left-wing nationalist parties Maoist organizations in France Nationalist parties in France Political parties disestablished in 1981 Political parties established in 1972 Political parties in Northern Catalonia Socialist parties in France {{France-party-stub