Basque Workers' Solidarity

Basque Workers' Solidarity (in in Basque Country , having been created, as ''Solidaridad de Obreros Vascos'', by members of the Basque Nationalist Party on June 10 1911 , in Bilbao {Link without Title} .

It has been opposed to the influence of trade unions who appealed to a Working Class Ethos ( Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo and Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo ), advocating instead a Basque Nationalist outlook. Initially, ELA-STV was centered on projects of mutual assistance between its affiliates, as a vehicle for Social Security . It expanded with much more success in Gipuzkoa and Vizcaya than in Navarra and Álava .

ELA-STV was caught in the fighting of the Spanish Civil War , and banned by the Franco Dictatorship . It reemerged in 1976 , during the Transition To Democracy . Today, it has over 100,000 members.

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