Kale borroka

A PSE-EE club in Bilbao attacked with paint blots.

Kale borroka (Basque pronunciation: [kale boroka], "Street Fighting") refers to urban guerrilla actions carried out by Basque nationalist youth who are integrated into the abertzale left. Along with ETA, the kale borroka is the only remaining armed faction of Basque nationalists in the Basque Conflict.

Their most common actions include: attacking offices of political parties, especially the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and People's Party, but also other parties such as Basque Nationalist Party and Navarrese People's Union; attacking the property of people linked to these groups (burning cars, attacking housing); attacking and destroying ATMs, bank offices, public transport; and rioting using molotov cocktails, burning trash containers and even private vehicles in demonstrations, etc.

During ETA's ceasefire from March 2006 to 2007, the kale borroka did not cease, but it has been decreasing since it peaked in the mid 1990s.

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Basque conflict

Participants in the Basque сonflict

Chronology

Political parties

1959: Euskadi ta Askatasuna is formed
1973: Operación Ogro
1975: Batallón Vasco Español
1975: Franco's death
1978: Herri Batasuna is formed
1983: Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación are formed
1984: Santiago Brouard killed by GAL
1987: Hipercor bombing by ETA
1997: Killing of Miguel Ángel Blanco
1998: ETA ceasefire declaration
2003: Banning of Batasuna
2006: ETA ceasefire declaration
2010: ETA ceasefire declaration

Basque nationalist parties

Batasuna/Herri Batasuna Basque Nationalist Action Eusko Alkartasuna Aralar Basque Nationalist Party Sortu

Spanish parties

Socialist Party of the Basque Country Spanish Socialist Workers' Party People's Party

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