Movemento pola Base (

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: ''Movement for the Grassroots'', ''MpB'') is a Galician pro-independence and

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political organization. The MpB was born in the summer of 2006 from a group of militants of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), critical with the political line of the organization at the time.

History

Origins

The participation of the BNG in a government with the

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(PSdG) in the

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created a critical current in the

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front. Some members of the BNG felt that the political line and the actions of the party deviated from the historical principles of the organization. The same happened in the youth of the BNG,

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, where Isca! appeared as a critical organization. In 2006 finally several militants of the

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decided to leave that party to create a new organization within the BNG, under the name of Movemento pola Base (MpB). They were joined by independent militants of the BNG (not attached to any internal group or party) militants and members off the

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in the comarcas of

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, Compostela and

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, among them Antolín Alcántara,Leader of the

-Metal federation. Fermín Paz, Manuel Mera and Ramiro Oubiña, who were part of the executive of the CIG. The MpB presented then its own candidacy to the National Council of the BNG, that was chosen in the XII National Assembly of the BNG. The list was headed by Fermín Paz and Paula Castro, and finally got 245 votes (9.32% of the total) and 5 representatives in the National Council. The MpB criticized what they considered a drift towards homogeneity in the BNG. On 28 October 2007, the MpB formally constitutes itself as a political organization, being defined ideologically as "independentist" and

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and as a working class organization.

Rupture of the MpB

Between the months of December 2008 and January 2009 this current split between those in favor of creating a new political formation outside of the BNG and those who advocated to continue within that front. It was also an important element in the division the role of MpB in the CIG and its relations with the UPG within this union. The two factions claimed their legitimacy and the use of the name Movemento pola Base. The faction that used as its communication channel the website ''polabase.net'' held a national assembly on February 7, 2009 where it was decided to abandon the BNG as the electoral platform of the organization and expressed the need for a new sovereigntist organization with presence in the institutions. This faction definitely abandoned the BNG on March 14, 2009. After the members of the Movement for Base who used the domain ''polabase.net'' had abandoned the BNG, the majority sector of the Movemento pola Base that remained in the BNG (''polabase.org'') decided to give up the acronym and name, to avoid greater confrontation, and created a new organization called the

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Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood

In 2012 the MpB joined Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood In 2014 the MpB supported a coalition with United Left to the European elections of 2014.

References

External links

MpB official website
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