Press Release – Basque İndependentist Left

BASQUE COUNTRY | 17 – 02 – 2010 | Abertzale Left Regional Assemblies gathered this weekend have put an end to the debate “Clarifying the Political Phase and Strategy”. More than six hundred representatives of more than two hundred and seventy local Assemblies concluded the debate and defined and decided the strategy to be developed in the future ratifying the Resolution “Stand Up Euskal Herria”. Those are the main contents of the resolution:

1. – The political phase Basque Country is facing is the phase of political change. This change has to be made through the Democratic Process. Once the conditions for the change have been achieved, it is time to realise it. The objective of this phase is to reach a democratic scenario where all political projects can be not only defended with equal opportunities but also implemented. The objective is to reach a stable and lasting peace in the Basque Country. Materializing this change also requires that we change ourselves.

2.- For the Abertzale Left there is a real opportunity for the desired real political change. The opportunity to overcome the current cycle and open a new democratic one is there. The challenge is to pass the door opened after decades of struggle and tireless work and to do the change. There are enough political and social conditions to do it.

3.- The Abertzale Left reaffirms its commitment to use exclusively political and democratic means. Those means make possible the necessary masses mobilization and unity of action of the democratic and progressive forces of the country to open the process and to develop it. Those are the guarantee and leading forces of the process. This democratic process must be developed in a complete absence of violence and without interference. Dialogue and negotiation among the political forces should be governed by the principles of Senator Mitchell.

4.- An increasing accumulation of forces through exclusively mass, institutional and ideological struggle is the basis to move the State to the field of the democratic and free confrontation of ideas and political projects and to achieve a scenario where the Basque people freely, peacefully and democratically will be able to decide about their future. We call Basque people and all progressive, democrat and popular forces, maintaining each one its own history, identity and being, to unite forces to make this process irreversible. We call international community to accompany this process. We are sure that through common work and masses struggle next months will bring us new scenarios and developments making this process irreversible.

Basque Country February 2010