The Euskadiko Sozialisten Batasuna ( en, Basque Socialist Union, ESBA) was a clandestine political movement in the

Southern Basque Country The Southern Basque Country ( eu, Hegoalde, Hego Euskal Herria; es, Hegoalde, País Vasco y Navarra, País Vasco peninsular) is a term used to refer to the Basque people, Basque territories within Spain as a unified whole. Name In Basque langu ...

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, formed in 1959, and active under

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. It was the Basque sister organization of the Spanish Popular Liberation Front (FELIPE) and the Catalan Workers' Front of Catalonia (FOC).«EUSKADIKO SOZIALISTEN BATASUNA :: Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia :: Euskomedia». 23 May 2014.
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History

ESBA was founded in 1959, being heavily inspired by the

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. In 1962 several militants of ESBA were arrested in Donostia, including their leader José Ramón Recalde. In 1965 Recalde was jailed again for refusing to pay a fine imposed for denouncing torture. The group disappeared in 1969, due to police repression and to internal contradictions. Ex-ESBA members dispersed among many different organizations. Some former leaders of ESBA participated in the VI Assembly of

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(1970), when most delegates approved an approach to revolutionary Marxism and the abandonment of the traditional

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thesis, splitting and creating 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 ...

-ETA VI Assembly (LKI-ETA VI).

References

* García Alcalá, Julio Antonio. ''Historia del "Felipe" (FLP, FOC y ESBA): de Julio Cerón a la Liga Comunista Revolucionaria''. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2001. {{Authority control Defunct communist parties in the Basque Country (autonomous community) Anti-Francoism 1959 establishments in Spain Political parties established in 1959 1969 disestablishments in Spain Political parties disestablished in 1969