Comités Abertos de Faculdade (CAF, ''Open Faculty Committees'' in English) was a student organization of

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. Formed from the union of different faculty assemblies. The main goals of the CAF were defending quality and the Galician language public education. It was an assembly-based organization. The CAF were considered the heirs of the ERGA.

Composition

The CAF traditionally incorporated almost all of the

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organizations operating at the university (

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, Communist Party of the Galician People...), but with the integration of most of these groups in the

the organization ended being formed mainly by militants of Galiza Nova and people without party affiliation.

History

During the effervescence of the student struggles at the

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, in the early eighties of the twentieth century, a number of Assemblies of Center emerged and united around the year of 1986 in the ''Comités Abertos'' (''Open Committees'', although some, such as the CAMAE, will remain semi-autonomous ). Although theoretically the CA covered the whole university, in practice it was an organization with a very strong presence in

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and marginal in the other campus. It was only from the segregation of the universities of

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and

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when the organization began to have presence in all the (seven) campus. The origins worked at the Faculty Assembly and a coordinating body (Campus Council) made up of two people from each school. Since its establishment, with the dissolution of ERGA, in 1988, the CAF grew and became the most important

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, present in almost all of the academic institutions with student representation. In the 90's the CAF suffered the split of the Movemento Estudantil Universitario (MEU), in reaction to what they denounced as the

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control of the organization. The CAF managed to recover its presence slightly, specially after the disappearance of the

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. In 2008 the internal crises of CAE and the CAF lead to their unification in a new project, the Comités.

References

* Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais,

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