Brest Charter

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.”

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

Occitan Struggle

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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

armed struggle, did not send a representative to a follow-up meeting in 1978.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cullen 151
^ ^a ^b ^c Cullen 158
^ Coluzzi, Paolo. Minority Language Planning and Micronationalism in Italy: An Analysis of the Situation of Friulian, Cimbrian and Western Lombard with Reference to Spanish Minority Languages. Peter Lang, 2007
^ ^a ^b Cullen 164

Sources

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

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[cullen151-1] Cullen 151

[cullen158-2] Cullen 158

[3] Coluzzi, Paolo. Minority Language Planning and Micronationalism in Italy: An Analysis of the Situation of Friulian, Cimbrian and Western Lombard with Reference to Spanish Minority Languages. Peter Lang, 2007

[cullen164-4] Cullen 164

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