Acción Nacionalista Vasca
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Basque Nationalist Action
Eusko Abertzale Ekintza / Acción Nacionalista Vasca |
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| Founded | 1930 |
| Dissolved | 2008 (Outlawed) |
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Acción Nacionalista (1932-1933) Tierra Vasca-Eusko Lurra (1933-1940, 1956-1976) Eusko Ekintza (2005-2008) |
| Membership | Herri Batasuna (1978-2001) |
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Basque nationalism Basque independence Left-wing nationalism Anticapitalism |
Basque Nationalist Action (Basque: Eusko Abertzale Ekintza, Spanish: Acción Nacionalista Vasca, EAE-ANV) is a Basque nationalist party based in Spain. Founded in 1930, it was the first Basque nationalist political party to exist running on a socialist program. On 16 September 2008, the party was outlawed by the Spanish Supreme Court based on ties with ETA. The Spanish ruling was appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, which, after reviewing the question, upheld the Spanish courts on the matter.
It was formed in 1930, upon the reunification of the Aberri group and the ultraconservative and majority Comunión Nacionalista Vasca in the Basque Nationalist Party, by those who refused to support the traditional clerical ideology of the party. Its support was restricted to urban middle class and, as such, was a minority party. ANV played a minor role during the Republic, when it usually aligned with left and republican parties (being even part of the Popular Front in 1936) and in the Civil War. It was a part of the Basque Government in Exile from 1936 to 1979, and of the Spanish Republican government in Exile from 1938 until 1946, represented by a minister without portfolio, Tomás Bilbao.
When democracy resumed in Spain, ANV run by itself for the first contemporary Spanish general election presenting candidates in Biscay and Gipuzkoa, achieving a meagre 0.64% of the total votes in the Basque country. During these years, ANV received compensation for the property seized after the war by the Francoist government.
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