Republican Left (Spain)

The Republican Left ("Izquierda Republicana"; in Catalonia it ran as "Partit Republicà d'Esquerra", and in Galicia as "Esquerda Republicana Galega") is a Spanish political party. The party is the successor of the Acción Republicana, established in 1926 by Manuel Azaña.

It merged in 1934 with Organización Republicana Gallega Autónoma, a Galician regional party and a faction of the Radical Socialist Republican Party into the Republican Left.

As a partisan of the Second Spanish Republic and a member of the Popular Front, it was banned in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Its leadership took refuge in Mexico. There are attempts to revive the party after 1976 (ever since the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy that ended the dictatorial regime established by Francisco Franco). The present-day party is the result of such an attempt, and its results are modest as of yet.

The present-day party describes itself as republican, federalist, radical, secularist, and environmentalist; it maintains close links with the Nonviolent Radical Party.

ymbols

*the Republican Flag of Spain
*"El Himno de Riego"
*the generic republican motto "Libertad, Igualdad y Fraternidad"

Notable members

*Álvaro de Albornoz
*Santiago Casares Quiroga
*Marcelino Domingo
*José Giral
*Victoria Kent
*Manuel Azaña

ee also

*Liberalism and radicalism in Spain

External links

* [http://www.izqrepublicana.es/ Official site]