Extremaduran Popular Bloc

Extremaduran Popular Bloc (Spanish: Bloque Popular de Extremadura, BPEx) was a communist political coalition created in Extremadura in 1981 and dissolved in 1983.

Extremaduran Popular Bloc
Bloque Popular de Extremadura
Bloque Populal d'Estremaura
ChairmanCollective leadership
Founded1981
Dissolved1983
Merger ofCommunist Movement
Revolutionary Communist League
Ex-members of the Workers' Party
Unified Communist Party of Spain
Independents
HeadquartersCáceres
IdeologyCommunism
Extremaduran regionalism
Extremaduran nationalism[1]
Revolutionary socialism
Feminism
Local seats (1981-1983)
37 / 3,547
[2]
Local seats (1983-1987)[4]
17 / 3,550
[3]
Party flag

History

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BPEx was founded as a coalition of several political parties and movements in Extremadura, mainly the Communist Movement, the Revolutionary Communist League, the ex-members of the Workers' Party and the Unified Communist Party of Spain. The coalition was also supported by many independents of the social movements, like feminists and anti-militarists. Originally, the coalition "inherited" the 37 town councillors of the organizations which composed it.

The 13 of February 1983 the coalition called for a counter-demonstration against a right-wing anti-autonomist (called Bloque Cacereño Anti-Estatuto), being heavily repressed by the Spanish police.[5][6][7]

In the local elections of 1983 the BPEx gained 17 town councillors.[8] Shortly after that, the coalition de facto dissolved, although in some towns, like Majadas de Tiétar (where they were governing), the coalition continued to exist as the Extremeñist Revolutionary Bloc.[9]

Ideology

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Ideologically they defined themselves as radical left "extremeñists revolutionaries", campaigning for an Statute of Autonomy for Extremadura.

References

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  1. ^ Ortiz Barquero, P. (2018). Aproximación al nacionalismo extremeño: bases ideológicas y manifestaciones. Almenara: revista extremeña de ciencias sociales, (10), 110-127.
  2. ^ INFOELECTORAL
  3. ^ "INFOELECTORAL INFOELECTORAL". Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  4. ^ After its dissolution, in late 1983 the town councillors worked under the label "Extremeñist Revolutionary Bloc"
  5. ^ Se constituyó el Bloque Cacereño Anti Estatuto El País. Europa Press, Cáceres, 30 ENE 1983
  6. ^ Manifestación anti-Estatuto. El País. José Luís Martín Galindo, Cáceres. 23 FEB 1983
  7. ^ 3.000 personas protestan en Cáceres por el articulado del Estatuto extremeño. El País. Julián Leal, Badajoz, 14 FEB 1983
  8. ^ "INFOELECTORAL". Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  9. ^ alcalde de Majadas de Tiétar, del Bloque Extremeñista Revolucionario, convoca una reunión de Colectivos sociales y políticos reclamando la paralización de la central nuclear de Almaraz. El País, Pedro Jara, Cáceres, 13 MAY 1986.