Galician Antifascist Students Assembly

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Galician Antifascist Students Assembly
Assembleia de Estudantes Galeg@s Antifascistas
Founded1998 (1998)
Headquarters Vigo, Galicia
Ideology Galician independence
Libertarian socialism
Feminism
Anti-fascism

Galician Antifascist Students Assembly (AEGA, Assembleia de Estudantes Galeg@s Antifascistas in Galician language) was a Galician student union with its main base in the University of Vigo. AEGA had an antifascist, anticapitalist and Galician independentist ideology. The organization was one of the 4 student groups that created AGIR in 2000, [1] dissolving itself in the process. [2] A sector of AEGA (mainly the more anarchist sector) that didn't agree with the self-dissolution formed Assembleia Azrael, that disappeared in 2001. [3] One of the main goals of the organization was to fight fascism in the University of Vigo, specially the Syndicalist Students Front, a student group linked with the Falange. [4]

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