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Galician Revolutionary Students Estudantes Revolucionarios Galegos

Founded	1972 (1972)
Dissolved	1988 (1988)
Headquarters	Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
Ideology	Galician nationalism Socialism Galician independence Antifascism^[1]
Mother party	Galician People's Union and the Galician Nationalist Bloc

Galician Revolutionary Students (in Galician: Estudantes Revolucionarios Galegos) was a leftwing nationalist students organization in Galicia, Spain. ERGA functioned as the students wing of the Galician People's Union (UPG). ERGA was founded in 1972. ERGA published a monthly, Lume. ERGA was the first mass organization of nationalism after the Spanish Civil War, got a broad presence in the universities and high schools of Galiza and formed future UPG leaders and militants.

History

ERGA was founded on the initiative of the Galician People's Union (UPG), in a climate of tension that followed the strikes at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the death of a student, Chema Fuentes, by the police in December 1972. The initiative was commissioned to Manuel Mera, that had just arrived from Argentina and knew the experience of the Maoist Communist Vanguard university organization, that had to organize an organization that could put together university and high school students. In Santiago de Compostela, with the help of supporters UPG, ERGA was able to capture a group of university students and secured the incorporation of some members of the Communist Movement of Galicia, including Elvira Souto. A few months later ERGA reached 40 militants, including Carreira Anselmo López, Alfredo Suárez Canal and Chus Pato. In 1976 the organization held his first assembly and in 1977 the second.

In January 1978 the I Congress was attended by 1,000 delegates and organized a permanent direction.^[2] When the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) was formed in 1982, ERGA was integrated in it. ERGA had the organ of the Lume newsletter published its first issue in February 1973, ERGA was the first mass organization of nationalism after the civil war, got a broad presence in universities and high schools of Galiza and "trained" future leaders of the UPG and the BNG. The organization was illegal for almost all its existence. It was only legalized in early 1988, a few months before its self-dissolution.

In 1988 ERGA merged into the youth wing of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), Galiza Nova.

References

^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Avantar - CIG: Confederación Intersindical Galega". galizacig.gal. 14 February 2008.

Bibliography

Various authors. ERGA. Un lume que prendeu. Edicións Terra e Tempo, Compostela, 1999. Authorized PDF version here (in Galician language).
Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): O nacionalismo galego. A Nosa Terra, Vigo
Beramendi, X.G. (2007): De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político. Xerais, Vigo

Galician nationalism

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Current	Bloque Nacionalista Galego (Unión do Povo Galego, Galician Movement for Socialism, Abrente-EDG and Galician Workers Front) Renewal–Nationalist Brotherhood (Galician People's Front and Encontro Irmandiño) En Marea (Cerna) Commitment to Galicia (Máis Galiza, PNG-PG, Acción Galega, Partido Galeguista Demócrata) Converxencia XXI Terra Galega Agora Galiza (Primeira Linha) Land Party New Galician Left Espazo Ecosocialista Galego Causa Galiza Galician Convergence Communist Party of the Galician People
Until 1950	Galicianist Party Irmandades da Fala Galician Socialist Union Dereita Galeguista Autonomous Galician Republican Organization Republican Nationalist Party of Ourense CRAG Galician Nationalist Vanguard Galician League (A Coruña) Galician League (Santiago de Compostela) Galician Solidarity Galician Regionalist Association Acción Gallega Xeración Nós
Since 1950	BN-PG AN-PG PSG-EG Galician Left Galician Coalition PSG Galician Unity Galician Socialist Space Galicianist Party (1978) Partido Galeguista (Nationalist) Galician People's Party Galician Workers' Party Galician Unity (1991) Galiza Ceibe-OLN Assembleia do Povo Unido Galician Party of the Proletariat UPG-lp Galician People's Assembly PGSD PCLN Inzar Galicia Socialista Nationalist Left Galician Socialist Space Galician Nationalist Convergence Socialist Collective Communist Movement of Galicia Movemento pola Base Nós-Unidade Popular

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Current	CIG CUT SLG-CCLL FRUGA STEG
Former	INTG CXTG CTC ING SOG

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Current	Galiza Nova (Union of the Galician Youth) Erguer-Estudantes da Galiza Isca! Xeira BRIGA MNG Terra
Former	ERGA Galician Student League Comités AGIR AMI Federación de Mocedades Galeguistas FER Independentist Students Adiante-Galician Revolutionary Youth MEU AEGA CAE CAF Nationalist Left – Youth Galician Socialist Youth Mocidades Galeguistas Federación de Mocedades Galeguistas

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