Related Research Articles
The Galician Nationalist Bloc is a political party from Galicia, formed with the merger of a series of left-wing Galician nationalist parties. It is self-defined as a "patriotic front".
Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao, commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós. He was also one of the founders and president of the Galicianist Party and had a great influence on the renovating group of Galician art known as Os renovadores. Castelao is considered to be the most important figure in Galician culture of the 20th century.
Ricardo Carballo Calero, self-styled as Ricardo Carvalho Calero from 1981 onward, was a Spanish philologist, academic and writer. He was the first Professor of Galician Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was a member of the Royal Galician Academy, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and also an honorary member of the Galician Language Association. He was one of the main theorists of contemporary Galician reintegrationism and his works on this field are considered a primary reference. Many consider Carballo Calero as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century Galician intelligentsia.
Galician Revolutionary Students was a leftwing nationalist students organization in Galicia, Spain. ERGA functioned as the students wing of the Galician People's Union (UPG). ERGA was founded in 1972. ERGA published a monthly, Lume. ERGA was the first mass organization of nationalism after the Spanish Civil War, got a broad presence in the universities and high schools of Galiza and formed future UPG leaders and militants.
Reintegrationism is the linguistic and cultural movement in Galicia which advocates for the unity of Galician and Portuguese as a single language. In other words, the movement postulates that Galician and Portuguese languages not only shared a common origin and literary tradition, but that they are in fact variants of the same language even today. According to this, Galicia should re-integrate into the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.
Galician, also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language. Around 2.4 million people have at least some degree of competence in the language, mainly in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it has official status along with Spanish. The language is also spoken in some border zones of the neighbouring Spanish regions of Asturias and Castile and León, as well as by Galician migrant communities in the rest of Spain, in Latin America including Puerto Rico, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe.
Galiza Nova is the youth organisation of the Galician Nationalist Bloc, founded in 1988.
The Galician Party of the Proletariat (PGP) was a party galician independentist and Marxist-Leninist party formed in March 1978, as a continuation of Galician People's Union-Proletarian Line, a split of the original Galician People's Union. The Central Committee was clandestine, and even the party militants didn't know the members of it. Tha party supported armed struggle, which considered as anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchic. Its official magazine was called Sempre en Galiza.
Isca! is the name of a Galician youth organization that promotes Galician independence, combined with anti-capitalist and feminist ideology. They are linked to the Galician Movement for Socialism, a socialist and pro-independence party that forms part of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG).
Briga is a Galician independentist political organization formed by young people in 2004 as a split of the Assembleia da Mocidade Independentista. It is the youth wing of the political party Nós–Unidade Popular and defines itself as a socialist, anti-patriarcal, ecologist, anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist and internationalist organization. It also defends social monolingualism and linguistic reintegrationism in Galiza. Briga has AGIR as its reference in student unionism.
AGIR is an organization of students with a Galician independentist and anticapitalist ideology. It's an organization that has presence in different comarcas of Galiza and is made up only of active students.
The Galician Student League is a student union that advocates for a public education, in galician language, democratic, of quality and not patriarchal. It is an open organization, which is governed by internal democracy and horizontal assemblies. In the LEG can participate any high school, vocational training or university student.
Comités is a student organization of Galiza. Formed from the union of the CAF-CAF and the CAE. Comités defends public, democratic and quality education in galician language. It is an assembly-based organization. The Comités are considered the heirs of the CAF, CAE and of the ERGA.
Comités Abertos de Faculdade was a student organization of Galiza. Formed from the union of different faculty assemblies. The main goals of the CAF were defending quality and the Galician language public education. It was an assembly-based organization. The CAF were considered the heirs of the ERGA.
Movemento Estudantil Universitario was a student union representative of college students with presence in the universities of Galicia. Born in December 2010, its main goal was a single, public, Galician, international and democratic university in Galicia.
Independentist Students was a Galician independentist and socialist student union, formed by university students. FER was founded in December 1995. In 1996 EI gained several representatives in the University of Santiago de Compostela Council and in the Faculty Councils. In 1996, the student union grew significantly, although in 1997 and early 1998, the organization stopped growing. Despite their early success in the student elections, EI always focused in the struggle in the street; demonstrations and strikes were the main means of struggle. Between 1998 and 2000, the organization grew again, gaining presence in all the universities of Galiza and getting seats in the faculty and university councils. Between 1998 and 2000 EI also staged group actions, demonstrations and strikes with the Comités Abertos de Faculdade and the Movemento Estudantil Universitario. In 2001, the group focused more in unity with other independentist and leftist collectives, like the Revolutionary Students Federation or the Galician Antifascist Students Assembly.
The Galician Youth Union is the youth wing of the Galician People's Union. It was created in August 1977.
The Galician Rural Federation is a Galician farmers and breeders union centered on family farms and small peasants. The organization has its origins in a split of the Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas (SLG) in 2009. The splitters, that later founded FRUGA, wanted the SLG to take a closer political line to the Galician Nationalist Bloc and the Galician People's Union. FRUGA is particularly strong among milk cows small farmers.
Dios Ke Te Crew is a Rap music group formed in 2003 in Ordes, Galiza. Its members are DJ Murdock, Sokram, Mou and Jamas. Their songs are performed in Galician language. Later they also formed a group of graffiti and breakdance. All these aspects of hip hop come together in live performances of the group, where it is common to witness the painting of graffiti in the background of the stage and breakdance, while the band plays its songs. Their lyrics tend to be heavily political, criticizing things like capitalism, the Guardia Civil, the Spanish monarchy, the discrimination of the Galician language or corruption.
Galicia irredenta or Galicia estremeira, also spelled as Galiza irredenta and Galiza estremeira and also known as Faixa Leste or Franxa Leste, is a term used for all Galician-speaking territories located outside of Galicia. These are all located in Spain, in either Asturias or Castile and León. These territories are sometimes divided into three subregions: El Bierzo, Eo-Navia and As Portelas.
References
- ↑ "Erguer. Estudantes da Galiza: Apresentaçom e resoluçons da nova entidade unitária". Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
- ↑ O movemento estudantil nacionalista únese.
- ↑ "A derogación da LOMCE non debe ser negociable". Archived 2017-01-22 at the Wayback Machine El Correo Gallego