Estado Aragonés ('Aragonese State' in English) was a small

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political party, and the first in the Region regarded as fully

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. It was founded in

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in the winter of 1933, during the

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. Many of their members came from Unión Aragonesista and were primarily emigrant Aragonese workers from the north-east county of Ribagorza. The president was

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. The youth wing of the party, ''Los Almogávares'' ('The

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'), headed by Luis Porté, supported the declaration of the

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in 1934, which led to their headquarters being closed down. The organization was relatively inactive until 1936, when they opened a new head office and Miguel Alcubierre was elected as the president of the youth wing. He started a campaign for self-government in Aragon which aroused the interest of other left-wing Republican parties. Those actions led to a Congress taking place in

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(

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) at the beginning of May in 1936, with Torrente as the chairman. The result was the draft of a Statute of Autonomy for Aragon, which due to the onset of the

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would not come to light. By 1939 the party had ceased to exist. ''Renacimiento Aragonés'' ('Aragonese Revival') was the party's official publication. The party was in good relations with the

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party

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Estau Aragonés

In 2006, in a resurgence of Aragonese nationalist sentiment, Estau Aragonés (''Estado Aragonés'' in

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, ''Estat Aragonès'' in

) was founded as a new political party, inspired by the one of 1933. It aims for the

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and the liberation of the Aragonese working class. The youth wing organization of the party, created in 2007, is known as ' Astral-Mozardalla d'Estau Aragonés'. In 2007, both Estau Aragonés and Astral, along with other Aragonese pro-independence organizations (Chobenalla, Puyalón, A Enrestida and the Aragonese Workers' Union, STA) formed a political bloc, called '' Bloque Independentista de Cuchas'', ( Aragonese for 'Leftist Independent Block').

External links

Article on Estado Aragonés in the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa

Estau Aragonés
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