Séptimos, octavos y milikis. Los finales de ETA político-militar (1981-1985)

Authors

Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla Universidad del País Vasco

Keywords:

ETA, ETA, terrorism, terrorism, Spanish Transition, Spanish Transition, Basque nationalism, Basque nationalism, Basque Country, Basque Country, Euskadiko Ezkerra, Euskadiko Ezkerra

Abstract

Séptimos, octavos and milikis. The end of political-military ETA (1981-1985)

Political-military ETA was one of the Basque nationalist terrorist organizations active during the Spanish Transition. In 1977 it set up a Bolshevik-inspired party, EIA, and a coalition which ran at the general election of that year, Euskadiko Ezkerra. For some years EIA and pmETA constituted the so-called political-military Block, but eventually the path of terrorism proved incompatible with demo- cratic institutions. Differences in strategy brought about internal crises in both groups. As a result, pmETA declared a truce in 1981. The organization split up into two groups. Thanks to the negotiations between the EIA party and the UCD government, one of these factions dissolved itself and its militants easily reintegrated into the society; the militants of the other faction either joined military ETA or gradually disappeared.

Received: 14-03-2010

Author Biography

Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla, Universidad del País Vasco

Gaizka Fernández Soldevilla si è laureato in Storia presso la Universidad de Deusto (2003). È docente presso il IES Marqués de Manzanedo (Santoña). Sta completando la propria tesi dottorale presso la Universidad del País Vasco sotto il coordinamento del professor José Luis de la Granja Sainz. Fra i suoi temi d’indagine si annoverano l’analisi del passato recente di Euskadi, il nazionalismo basco e il terrorismo dell’organizzazione ETA. Ha pubblicato diversi articoli in altrettante riviste, quali: “Historia Contemporánea”, “Historia del Presente”, “Cuadernos de Alzate”, “Revista de Estudios Políticos”, “Sancho el Sabio”, “Alcores” y “Pasado y Memoria”.