Name/Title
Out of prison : ETA life stories become historyEntry/Object ID
2023.027.054Description
"The birth of the Basque insurgent group ETA (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna [Freedom for the Basque Country]) in 1959 coincided with the beginning of an industrialization process that modernized Spanish society during the 1960s. At that time, in the mid-1960s, ETA already believed that the independence of the Basque people would only be achieved through the workers' struggle. This notion was not only held by the organization. In 1968, when ETA assassinated its first victim, Melitón Manzanas, a police officer and the head of the Political-Social Brigade of the Basque province of Guipúzkoa, many Basque people understood the necessity of the armed struggle against the Franco regime. In 1973, when ETA murdered Admiral Carrero Blanco, who had been appointed president of the government by Franco, the Basque nationalist society and much of the anti-Francoist Spanish movement also began to sympathize with ETA and its armed struggle. However, by 2011 when ETA declared a unilateral cease-fire, the organization had become completely isolated from both Spanish society and the Basque people. What had happened in the intervening sixty years to cause ETA to move from being the vanguard of the struggle against the Franco regime to the context of the twenty-first century in which the majority of the Basque population wanted the organization to abandon the armed struggle? Rather than focusing on what "mistakes" ETA has committed, my work reveals the necessity of understanding how this organization reflects changes in both Basque and Spanish society. Therefore, my intention in this book is to understand the Basque conflict not as an isolated armed struggle between ETA and the Spanish security forces but as a part of recent Spanish contemporary history"-- Provided by publisher
ix, 204 pages ; 23 cm.Book Details
Author
Buckley, NicolasPlace Published
City
RenoState/Province
NevadaCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
2021Call No.
HV6433.S72 E85328 2021