The Irmandades da Fala (
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: "Brotherhood of the Language") was a
Galician nationalist organization active between 1916 and 1936. It was the first political organization of Galicia that used only the
Galician language.
Origin
Aurelio Ribalta, a Galician writer living in
Madrid
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, called for the protection of the
Galician language in 1915. On January 5, 1916,
Antón Vilar Ponte started a campaign for the establishment of a League of Friends of the Galician Language in the newspaper ''
La Voz de Galicia
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'' and in March 1916 he published ''Galician Nationalism (Notes for a Book): Our Regional Affirmation'', where he supported the protection, dignification and use of the Galician language.
The proposal was supported by leaders of different ideological persuasions. The most important of these were
Antón Losada Diéguez and the
Traditionalists and the Liberal Democrats.
Political program
In the congress of November 1918 in the city of
Lugo, they established their program:
#Primary objectives:
##Complete autonomy for
Galicia.
##Municipal autonomy.
##Entry of Galicia into the
League of Nations
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.
##Federal union with
Portugal
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.
#Objectives for Galicia:
##The
legislative power
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to be in a Galician Parliament, elected by the people.
##The
judicial power
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to always be exercised by the Galician people.
##Galicia to have its own tax laws, without the intervention of central government.
##Galician and Spanish to be the official languages in Galicia.
##Equal rights for women and men.
##Suppression of the
Provincial Deputations.
References
* Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): ''O nacionalismo galego''. A Nosa Terra, Vigo
* Beramendi, X.G. (2007): ''De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político''. Xerais, Vigo
History of Galicia (Spain)
Galician nationalist parties
Left-wing nationalist parties
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