Herri Batasuna

Popular Unity
Herri Batasuna
Founded27 April 1978 (1978-04-27) (as electoral coalition)
5 June 1986 (1986-06-05) (as political party)
Dissolved23 May 2001 (2001-05-23)
Merger ofEuskal Sozialista Biltzarrea
Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia
Herri Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea
Eusko Abertzale Ekintza
Abertzale Sozialista Komiteak
Merged intoEuskal Herritarrok
HeadquartersC/ Astarloa, nº 8-1º, Bilbao
NewspaperHerria Eginez
Youth wingJarrai
Affiliated unionLangile Abertzaleen Batzordeak
IdeologyBasque nationalism
Revolutionary socialism
Abertzale Left
Left-wing nationalism
Basque independence
Anticapitalism
Political positionFar-left[1]

Herri Batasuna (Basque pronunciation: [eˈri baˌtas̺uˈna]; English: Popular Unity; HB) was a far-left Basque nationalist coalition in Spain. It was founded in 1978 and defined itself as abertzale, left-wing, socialist, and supported the independence of the Greater Basque Country. It was refounded as Batasuna in 2001 and subsequently outlawed by the Spanish Supreme Court for being considered the political wing of the separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA).

  1. ^ Hepburn 2013, p. 38: «EA, besides adopting a more radical stance on the centre-periphery dimension, has targeted the regionalist electorate distributed between the centre-right PNV and extreme-left HB-Ba».