Brest Charter

Brest Charter sticker

The Brest Charter was a document signed by several European far-left separatist groups in February 1974, in Brest, Brittany, France .^[1] The Charter advocated for a Europe of independent socialist states and affirmed “the right of the oppressed people to respond to counter-revolutionary violence with revolutionary violence.”^[1] The initial signatories were the Official branch of the Irish Republican Movement (represented by Eoin Ó Murchú), the Breton Democratic Union (UDB), and the Galician People's Union (UPG).^[1] Herriko Alderdi Sozialista signed the charter a few weeks later.^[1]

Other signatories included Cymru Goch,^[2] Socialist Party of National Liberation,^[2] Catalan Workers Left,^[2] Su Populu Sardu,^[3] and Occitan Struggle.

At the time, the Charter attracted little attention within the Official Republican Movement, which was more focused on establishing links with the Soviet Union.^[1]

The Charter was reaffirmed at a gathering in San Sebastián in November 1977.^[4] The Official Republican Movement, which was moving away from armed struggle, did not send a representative to a follow-up meeting in 1978.^[4]

References

Sources

• Cullen, Niall. Radical Basque Nationalist-Irish Republican Relations. Routledge, 2023.

0.00 (0 votes) Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brest Charter. Read more