| Left Bloc for National Liberation | |
| Native Name: | Bloc d'Esquerra d'Alliberament Nacional |
| Spokesperson: | Lluís Maria Xirinacs Fèlix Cucurull i Tey Josep Guia |
| Founded: | (coalition) (political party) |
| Successor: | NE MDT |
| Headquarters: | Barcelona |
| Newspaper: | Temps de Tempesta |
| Ideology: | Revolutionary socialism Communism Catalan independence Pancatalanism |
| Merger: | Catalan Workers Bloc Socialist Party of National Liberation (1979-1980) POUM (1980) |
| Position: | Far-left |
| Country: | Spain |
| State: | Catalonia |
Left Bloc for National Liberation (Catalan; Valencian: Bloc d'Esquerra d'Alliberament Nacional, BEAN) was a coalition and, later, political party in Catalonia and Valencia, Spain. BEAN was an independentist and socialist party, that defended a Socialist Federal Republic of the Catalan Countries.[1]
Formed in 1979 as a coalition between the Catalan Workers Bloc (BCT)[2] and the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN), along with some independents, like Lluís Maria Xirinacs. In the local elections of that year the coalition gained 19 town councillors and 2 mayors (Arbúcies and Sant Pere de Ribes[3]). In the city of Barcelona the Bloc withdrew the candidacy, supporting the PSUC and the Socialists' Party of Catalonia.[4] In the general elections of the same year the coalition obtained 46,962 votes for Congreso de los Diputados in Catalonia (1.59%) and 9,620 votes (0.51%) in the Valencian Country. For Senate BEAN supported the successful independent candidacy of Lluís Maria Xirinacs in Barcelona.
In 1980, after the departure of PSAN and POUM, the coalition became a party. In the Catalan autonomic elections of that year BEAN only obtained 14,077 votes (0.52%), failing to gain any seat. The party disappeared in 1982, with many of its members joining either Left Nationalists or the Movement for Defence of the Land.[5]