Liberation Front of Andalusia

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Liberation Front of Andalusia
Frente de Liberación de Andalucía
LeaderAntonio Medina Molera
Founded1978
Dissolved1980
Merger ofIndependents
Unified Socialist Party of Andalusia
Nationalist Left of Andalusia
Merged intoYama'a Islámica de Al-Andalus
IdeologyRevolutionary socialism
Andalusian nationalism
Andalusian independence
Political positionRadical left

Liberation Front of Andalusia (in Spanish: Frente de Liberación de Andalucía) was an independentist and socialist party in Andalusia, Spain.

History[edit]

FLA was founded in 1978 by the Cordobés documentarist and ex-member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) Antonio Medina Molera. The party was also a result of the union of several splinter factions of various left movements; like the Unified Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSUA) or the Nationalist Left of Andalusia.[1] In Catalonia the party had good relations with the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN), and even gave support to the Left Bloc for National Liberation (BEAN) in the Catalan parliamentary elections of 1980.[2]

FLA disappeared in 1980, and the majority of its members joined the Yama'a Islámica de Al-Andalus and, later, Andalusian Liberation. These new organizations wanted not only independence for Andalusia, but also to reclaim the Islamic legacy of Al Andalus.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rosón Lorente, Francisco Javier. [migraciones.ugr.es/cddi/images/tesis/RosonLorente2008.pdf ¿El retorno de Tariq? Comunidades etnorreligiosas en el Albayzín granadino (tesi doctoral)]. Granada: Editorial de la Universidad de Granada, may 2008, page 91. ISBN 978-84-691-4584-5.
  2. ^ Francisco García Duarte. El Ideal de Blas Infante en Cataluña. Centro de Estudios Históricos de Andalucía , 2007, p. 73. ISBN 84-930939-2-0