Sindicato Labrego Galego
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| Full name | Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas |
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| Native name | Galician Peasant Union – Peasant Commissions |
| Founded | 1973 / legal organization since 1977 |
| Head union | Isabel Vilalba Seivane |
| Affiliation | Via Campesina |
| Office location | Santiago de Compostela |
| Country | Galicia |
| Website | sindicatolabrego.com |
Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas (SLG, Galician Peasant Union – Peasant Commissions in English language) is a Galician farmers and breeders union centered on family farms and small peasants.
The SLG has a Galician nationalist and left-wing ideology. The union also supports cooperativism, mutual aid, food sovereignty, feminism, the anti-globalization movement, ecologism and self-management.
The SLG was founded in 1973 under the name Comisiós Labregas (CCLL), with the union of several local Committees of Support of the Peasants Struggle (Comités de Axuda á Loita Labrega, in Galician language). The creation of CCLL was supported by the Galician People's Union, that at the time tried to create a National-popular movement with sectoral organizations, like the Galician Workers Union, ADEGA or CCLL itself. Due to the Francoist regime the union was illegal, and its activities clandestine. In the winter of 1973 the official newspaper of CCLL, Fouce (Sickle), appeared. In 1974 and 1975 the union experienced a significant growth. The main struggles during those years were the recovery of the Montes Comunais (territories that traditionally were a common property of a parroquia that were that had been nationalized by the state in the 19th and 20th centuries) and the struggle against the abusive payments to the Social Security network. CCLL also organized protests, rallies and boikots against the construvtion of dams in the Galician rivers, that flooded entire parroquias.
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