The estreleira is the flag used by Galician nationalists{{Cite web , url=http://www.xabierpita.es/2008/06/chumbo_para_resucitar_aos_fusi.php , title=''Chumbo para resucitar aos fusilados''. , access-date=2017-02-09 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304231521/http://www.xabierpita.es/2008/06/chumbo_para_resucitar_aos_fusi.php , archive-date=2016-03-04 , url-status=dead of left-of-centre to far-left ideological allegiance. This flag merges the Galician national flag (a blue band on a white background) with a red star (a symbol of communism created in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century). The ''estreleira'' flag was created by

communist 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 s ...

activists of the UPG (Unión do Povo Galego) in the 1960s, correlating the red star to the stars in the flags of many Socialist countries, in particular Yugoslavia. All the nationalist left-wing political parties of Galicia ( BNG,

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, FPG,

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, Nós-Unidade Popular, Causa Galiza, ...) use the Estreleira flag as a party symbol. It's also used by the

left-wing nationalist Left-wing nationalism or leftist nationalism, also known as social nationalism, is a form of nationalism based upon national self-determination, popular sovereignty, national self-interest, and left-wing political positions such as social equali ...

trade unions (such as CIG or

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). It doesn't have exact size, and the

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in the middle sometimes goes aligned with the blue band. Other examples of Socialist-inspired flags within nationalist movements are the Catalan (

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) and the Occitan fla

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