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Union of the Galician People (UPG). Minimum 10 principles

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CATALOGUING DATA

  • PERIOD / EPOCH: Second half of the twentieth century
  • ORIGINAL TITLE: Unión do Pobo Galego (UPG). 10 principios mínimos
  • CATEGORY: Foundational documents for political movements
  • DESCRIPTION:
    The foundational manifesto of the Unión do Pobo Galego (UPG) setting out the party’s ideology, political objectives and original belief in the need to form a common front with other organisations.
  • ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: Galician
  • DATE: 1964
  • AUTHOR(S): Unión do Pobo Galego (UPG)
  • REFERENCE PERSONS:
    Álvarez, Bautista; Rodríguez, Francisco
  • CONTEXT:

    The Union of the Galician People (UPG) is a political party founded in 1964 and defined as “communist patriotic, because it assumes the national liberation struggle”. Around it were bringing together during the seventies sectors which then form the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), in 1982.

ABSTRACT
The foundational manifesto of the Unión do Pobo Galego (UPG) setting out the party’s ideology, political objectives and original belief in the need to form a common front with other organisations.

A FRONT THAT OFFERS ALL GALICIAN PEOPLE TO ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING MINIMUM 10 PRINCIPLES

  1. Galicia is a nation, and as such has the right to self-government
  2. The Galician people shall exercise power in Galicia
  3. The resources for production, distribution and credit belong to the Galician people.
  4. The countryside association shall start with a cooperative stage, as a first stage to more developed manner of socialisation.
  5. Small companies and artisanal industries shall be joined up into larger production units.
  6. Large capitalist companies shall be nationalised with immediate effect
  7. The administrative organisation of the Galician countryside shall have as its centre parish type groups, that shall be integrated into the Region. Urban areas shall be managed by the Councils, made up from Districts.
  8. Education shall be available to all people
  9. Galician shall be the official language of Galicia, and shall be compulsorily taught.
  10. National Galician liberation does underrate Galician federative validity with other nations in the Peninsula.
Santiago, 1964

Sources

Terra e Tempo, number 1, México, 1965.

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