Basque National Liberation Movement

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The Basque National Liberation Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Vasco, MLNV; Euskal Herri Askapenerako Mugimendua) is an umbrella term that comprises all social, political and military organisations that oribited around the ideas of ETA. The wide variety of organisations and their different levels of belonging to this political space made this name very common in the 80s and 90s.

The MLNV has suffered in the past decade a judicial persecution that has brought many of its members to jail and illegalized many but not all its elements.

Some of the most relevant organizations that can be considered to have formed part of this political current are:

[edit] Armed organizations

• ETA militar (ETA(m))
• ETA political-militar (ETA(pm))

[edit] Political parties

• Eusko Abertzale Ekintza (EAE-ANV) (Basque National Action, integrated successively in the different electoral platforms of the MLNV
• Herri Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea (HASI) (People's Socialist Revolutionary Party, illegal, always run in the successive platforms until the formation of Batasuna), it was considered the political arm of ETA
• Herri Batasuna (Basque Union, actually an electoral coalition, formed by both parties and independents)
• Euskal Herritarrok ("We Basque Citizens", another, briefly expanded and successful, electoral platform)
• Batasuna ("Union", structured as political party)
• Euskal Herrietako Alderdi Komunista (EHAK) ("Communist Party of the Basque Homelands", a political party that participated in 2005 elections)

[edit] Other relevant organizations

• Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB) (Nationalist Workers' Committees) an increasingly popular union, still legal in 2006.
• Jarrai (Follow", the youth organization), transformed in Haika and then in Segi, all them illegal by 2006.
• Koordinadora Abertzale Sozialista (KAS), for a long time an actual political organization that gathered most of the entities mentioned in this article. It's badly-known KAS Platform was the political ABC of the MLNV in the 1980s.