Eusko Alderdi Sozialista

Eusko Alderdi Sozialista
Basque Socialist Party
Founded 1974 (1974)
Dissolved 1975 (1975)
Merged into Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista[1]
Paramilitary wing ETA(m)
Ideology Basque independence
Revolutionary socialism
Marxism-Leninism
Abertzale Left
Antifascism
Political position Radical left
Politics of Basque Country

Eusko Alderdi Sozialista (English: Basque Socialist Party; EAS) was an underground revolutionary socialist Basque political party.

History

ETA(m) considered that armed struggle and mass struggle should be independent and clearly separated, unlike their rivals of ETA(pm) that considered that political and armed struggle were the same. In line with this idea, ETA(m) created a political party composed only of civilians that should participate and/or lead the mass struggle in Euskal Herria. The party participated in the social unrest that existed in the Basque Country during the last years of Francoism.

The party disappeared in 1975 when it merged with their Basque-French counterparts of Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, to form Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista, the first Basque party at both sides of the border.

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