Catalan Workers' Left (in Catalan: ''Esquerra Catalana dels Treballadors'') was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

Northern Catalonia Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia or French Catalonia is the Catalan language, Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange for France's effective renu ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

. ECT was formed in 1972, with its main base in

Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ; ) is the prefectures in France, prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales departments of France, department in Southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the Me ...

. ECT was linked to the

Socialist Party of National Liberation The Socialist Party of National Liberation ( Catalan: ''Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional'', PSAN) was an independentist and communist party active in Catalonia. The PSAN was created in 1968 following a split in the more leftist sector of ...

(PSAN). In 1977 a group, linked to the

Socialist Party of National Liberation - Provisional Socialist Party of National Liberation - Provisional (in Catalan: ''Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional - Provisional'', PSAN-P. PSANp or PSAN (p)) was a pro-Catalan independence political party in the Catalan Countries. The PSAN-P was form ...

(PSAN-p), broke away from ECT and formed the Socialist Organisation of National Liberation (OSAN). The newspaper of the organization was ''La Nova Falç''. ECT was dissolved in 1981, but many of its cadres continued to work in other political outfits, like

Catalan Unity Catalan Unity (, ) is a regionalist party based in southern France. It claims to represent the Catalan minority of what it calls "Northern Catalonia". The party advocates for making "Northern Catalonia" into an autonomous region An autonomous ...

(UC).

References

*Sastre, Carles. ''Terra lliure, punt de partida: 1979-1995, una biografía autoritzada.'' Edicions del 1979, 2012, p. 34. .

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