Defunct Basque nationalist political party
Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia (Party for the Basque Revolution ) or EIA was a Basque Country /Spanish political party between 1977 and 1982.
History
The party was founded in April 1977 in Gallarta (Biscay ) after the 7th general assembly of ETA , during the Spanish transition to democracy . Its ideology was based on a blend of "independentism" and socialism - originally, they tended to be rather Marxism-Leninism , but subsequently moved towards Eurocommunism .
EIA made a coalition with the Basque section of the Communist Movement of Spain (Movimiento Comunista de España ), creating a coalition named Euskadiko Ezkerra . They won a seat in the Spanish Congress of Deputies , occupied by Francisco Letamendia (also known as "Ortzi") and another in the Senate , occupied by Juan María Bandrés . It campaigned for the "no" in the 1978 referendum to approve the Spanish constitution , but in favour of the Basque Statute of Autonomy in the referendum held in 1979. EIA disappeared in 1982, when Euskadiko Ezkerra became a political party.
References
Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla, Agur a las armas. EIA, Euskadiko Ezkerra y la disolución de ETA político-militar (1976-1985) , in Sancho el sabio . Revista de cultura e investigación vasca, ISSN 1131-5350, Nº 33, 2010, pp. 55–96 [1]
Javier Merino, El espejismo revolucionario: la izquierda radical ante ETA , in Cuadernos Bakeaz , nº 94, 2009 [2]