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A FORMACIÓN DO NACIONALISMO GALEGO CONTEMPORÁNEO (1963-1984)

By MANUEL ANXO FERNÁNDEZ BAZ

About this book

This book seeks to show the evolution of contemporary Galician nationalism, highlighting the facts and processes that are key to understanding the dynamics in that movement and the participants in it. The book presents the Unión do Povo Galego (Union of the Galician People) and the Partido Socialista Galego (Galician Socialist Party), later the Partido Obreiro Galego (Galician Woker’s Party), Galiza Ceive (Free Galicia) or the recently renewed Partido Galeguista (Galician Party). The author also focuses on those unifying experiences that marked in one way or another the evolution of Galician nationalism in the years after the dictatorship, amongst them the Galician Council and the Table of Galician Political Powers.

Book fragment

As the elections were coming and both the UPG and AN-PG had not been legalised, there is a proposal to create a popular national block, which is understood as “a strategic alliance, genuinely Galician and popular, that assumes the fight for the national and social liberation of Galicia”. This is the description of the Bloque Nacional Popular Galego, the Galician National Popular Block, which started as the political alternative to the UPG and ANPG and that initially had to be presented as a cluster of voters, since none of these parties was legal, but it will function as an electoral coalition. The elections of June 1977 were the first experience of the BNPG. This fact marks a constant in the history of the UPG, as they never run for the elections under their own name, but always in a coalition -- the BNPG in this case, or in a nationalist front, as the BNG.