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In the small Basque town of Otxandio, there is a plaque to mark the first ever bombing of a civilian population in Europe from the skies. The slaughtering of sixty-one residents on July 22, 1936 ...
Apr 20, 2024 · Hysteria over ETA is part of Spain’s broader polarized political landscape. The awkward reality for PSOE is that its coalition government with left-wing Sumar is a minority in the Spanish Congress, and its survival relies on a string of pro-independence parties in Catalunya, Galicia, and the Basque Country, including EH Bildu.
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In 1974 self-determination for the Basque Country was a part of PSOE platform, and the party asserted that "all nationalities and regions had the right to break free from the Spanish state". However, the party moved towards centralist position after 1976, and Spanish parties "abandoned all pretensions to support self-determination within a ...
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Perhaps the most long standing and powerful basis for Irish nationalism is in the historical grievances of the Irish Catholic community. While Irish Republicanism itself has had strong secular features at times, its core support has always come from the Catholic community and this remains the case in Northern Ireland today. Historically, since the ...
If those are important differences, there are also intriguing parallels. Both Ireland and the Basque County are home to very old languages – Gaeilge and Euskara respectively. In both places, the languages, (neither of which are any relation to English or Spanish respectively) are associated very closely with a traditional rural culture and with nat...
Another intriguing parallel is the importance of the “split” in both movements. Both ETA and the IRA split in the 1970s, and along similar lines. In both countries, a left-wing faction – the Official IRA and ETA Politico Militar, renounced the use of violence in favour of the primacy of political action. The Official IRA called a ceasefire in 1972 ...
If there are philosophical and ideological similarities between Irish and Basque nationalism, there have also been concrete links going back to the 1920s. Such was the admiration of some Basque nationalists for the Easter Rising of 1916 that they located their national day, the Aberri Eguna, on Easter Sunday. After the fall of the Basque Country in...
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who is close to people in Batasuna, has urged the Spanish government to respond positively to ETA’s cessation of violence this week. However, the Basque separatists’ ability to benefit from a political process has been severely damaged by their bungled handling of past ceasefires. In 1998, inspired largely by the Good ...
Desmond Fitzgerald, The Memoirs of Desmond Fitzgerald, p80 Podríamos decir con cierta ironía que es la tenacidad en la lucha por la libertad la que nos mantiene vascos http://www.uv.es/pla/terrorisme/etamarco.htm Gara, 6/9/10 http://www.gara.net/paperezkoa/20100906/219143/eu/Euskadi-Ta-Askatasunaren-agiria-Euskal-Herriari Mar-Molinero, Clare, Smith...
The text introduced the ambiguous term “nationality” to refer to the particular regions of Catalonia, the Basque Country, Galicia, and Andalucia, without recognizing the plurinational nature of Spain. At the same time, it reserved the term “nation” to refer only to Spain, denying the right of self-determination to these regions.
History of Catalonia. The lands of what today is known as Catalonia, in Spain, were first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic era. Like the rest of the Mediterranean side of the Iberian Peninsula, the area was occupied by the Iberians and several Greek colonies were established on the coast before the Roman conquest.
Dec 29, 2018 · Nationalism is a highly topical subject in Spain. The region of Catalonia attracts the most interest at the moment, given that the majority of Catalans want to vote to decide on the nature of their nation’s relationship with Spain. 1 Moreover, after the last regional election (21 December 2017), in which pro-independence parties gained the majority of seats in the Catalan Parliament once ...
