Herriko Alderdi Sozialista Explained

Herriko Alderdi Sozialista
Native Name:Basque Socialist Party
Merged:Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista[1]
Newspaper:Euskaldunak
Ideology:Basque independence
Revolutionary socialism
Marxism-Leninism
Abertzale Left
Position:Far-left
Colorcode:darkgreen
Flag:File:Flag of the Basque Country.svg
Country:France
State:Basque Country

Herriko Alderdi Sozialista (English: People's Socialist Party; HAS) was a revolutionary socialist Basque political party, with presence only in the French Basque Country.

History

HAS was founded in 1974 in Bayonne by ex-members of Enbata, a Basque nationalist organization banned in January of the same year by the French president Georges Pompidou.[2] One of the main goals of HAS was to give support to the independentist struggle in the Southern Basque Country and to organize mobilizations of support to the Basque prisoners and to the ETA(m) militants that were being judged in the Process of Burgos.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/53028/43037 «Herriko Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea. Nacimiento.»
  2. http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/48862 «Enbata», Enciclopedia General Ilustrada del País Vasco Auñamendi.
  3. Egaña, Iñaki. Diccionario Histórico-Político de Euskal Herria. Txalaparta, 1996, p.226.