March 26 Movement Movimiento 26 de Marzo | |
Foundation: | 1971 |
Country: | Uruguay |
Seats1 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
Position: | Far-left |
Newspaper: | Liberación |
Youth Wing: | Youth of March 26 Movement |
National: | Popular Unity |
Leader: | Eduardo Rubio |
International: | Foro de São Paulo |
The March 26 Movement (Movimiento 26 de Marzo - M26) is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Uruguay, which emerged out the Tupamaros – National Liberation Movement.[1] Since its foundation in 1971 until March 2008 was a member organisation of the BroadFront. After that the M26 founded a new party called "Asamblea Popular" (People's Assembly) in cooperation with other leftwing groups; nowadays that coalition is known as Popular Unity.[2]