Maulets () was a youth political organization that belongs to the Catalan

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History

Maulets was founded in 1988 as the youth wing of Catalunya Lliure (Free Catalonia). The term " maulet" comes from the popular name given to Austriacist supporters in the Kingdom of Valencia during the

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. By 1998 it had fused with Joventuts Independentistes Revolucionàries (Pro-independence Revolutionary Youth). In 2012 Maulets and CAJEI (Coordinadora d'Assemblees de Joves de l'Esquerra Independentista) were joined after a long process that began in 2008 having as a result the creation of ARRAN, a pro-independence and revolutionary youth organization in the Catalan Countries.{{Catalan nationalism Catalan independence movement Politics of Catalonia Left-wing nationalism