Between Marxism and patriotism: Catalan indenpendentism in the long 68 global cycle of political violence.

Abstract

A cycle of social protest took place in most parts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. One of the sides of this long ’68 was political violence, which, in Spain, was strongly conditioned by the Franco regime. Sometimes, this phenomenon was interrelated with the emergence of sub-state nationalism that occurred in several Western European countries during the second half of the twentieth century. Taking their own documentation as a basis, this article analyses the main armed organizations that emerged in this context from Catalan independentism. They ranged between the influence of Marxism and plain patriotism.