Galician Workers' Party

Galician Workers' Party Partido Obreiro Galego
Leader	Camilo Nogueira
Founded	October 3, 1977 (1977-10-03)
Dissolved	November 1, 1980 (1980-11-01)
Merger of	Galician People's Assembly and independents.
Succeeded by	Galician Left
Membership	Around 200[1]
Ideology	Socialism Galician nationalism Left-wing nationalism Marxism[2][3]
National affiliation	Galician Unity (1979-1980)
Politics of Galicia Political parties

Galician Workers' Party (in Galician: Partido Obreiro Galego) was a political party in Galicia, Spain.

History

POG was founded in October 1977, following a split from the Galician National-Popular Bloc (BN-PG). POG was led by Camilo Nogueira and Xan López Facal. The founders of POG saw autonomy as a first step towards Galician self-rule. POG attracted members from various parties, like Communist Movement of Galicia, Galician Socialist Party, Communist Party of Galicia and Workers Party of Spain. The majority of the membership of the Galician People's Assembly also entered the new party.^[1]

At its peak POG had around 200 members, mainly based in Vigo and Santiago de Compostela.

In the 1979 general and municipal elections POG formed part of the coalition Galician Unity (Unidade Galega).^[4] In the 1980 plebiscite on the Galician Statute, POG advocated a blank vote.

In December 1980 the party was reconstructed as Galician Left (Esquerda Galega).

References

1. Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): O nacionalismo galego. A Nosa Terra, Vigo
2. "Libros e eBooks, descuentos y envíos gratis | Casa del Libro". casadellibro.
3. March, n Juan. "Artículo: Nace el Partido Obreiro Galego - Diario 16 - 04/10/1977". Archivo Linz de la Transición española • Fundación Juan March (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-04-13.
4. Muruais, Perfecto Conde (January 17, 1979). "Unidade Galega, primera coalición galleguista" – via elpais.com.

Sources

• Manuel Anxo Fernández Baz, A formación do nacionalismo galego contemporáneo (1963-1984), Laiovento, 2003.
• Beramendi, X.G. (2007): De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político. Xerais, Vigo