The Brest Charter was a document signed by several European far-left separatist groups in February 1974, in Brest , Brittany , France . 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.” The initial signatories were the Official branch of the Irish Republican Movement (represented by Eoin Ó Murchú ), the Breton Democratic Union (UDB), and the Galician People's Union (UPG). Herriko Alderdi Sozialista signed the charter a few weeks later.
5-753: Other signatories included Cymru Goch , Socialist Party of National Liberation , Catalan Workers Left , Su Populu Sardu , and Occitan Struggle . At the time, the Charter attracted little attention within the Official Republican Movement, which was more focused on establishing links with the Soviet Union. The Charter was reaffirmed at a gathering in San Sebastián in November 1977. The Official Republican Movement, which
10-501: A Free Socialist Wales . Following the collapse of the Welsh Socialist Republican Movement , a number of former members, along with some who had previously been active in other parties including Plaid Cymru formed Cymru Goch. By the mid 1990s the party had over 300 members and 13 branches throughout Wales. It produced a journal, Y Faner Goch ('The Red Flag'), which had previously been published by
15-771: The Welsh local government elections in 1995 , 3 Cymru Goch candidates were elected as councillors and the part stood a candidate in the elections to the European Parliament in 1994 in the South Wales East constituency against Glenys Kinnock . The party stood on an abstentionist platform and would have refused to take the seat if elected, seeing the European Parliament and the UK Parliament as foreign parliaments. It decided not to contest
20-621: The Welsh Socialist Republican Movement, a newsletter ' Y Fflam ' (The Flame) and various booklets and pamphlets explaining its aims and discussing the relationship between Marxism and Welsh nationalism. It was one of the founders of the Welsh Socialist Alliance but left in 2002. In late 2003, it subsumed itself into the new Forward Wales party formed around John Marek AM in Wrexham . In
25-443: Was moving away from armed struggle , did not send a representative to a follow-up meeting in 1978. This European history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cymru Goch Cymru Goch ( Welsh for ' Red Wales ' ; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəmrɨ ˈɡoːχ] ) was a left-wing Welsh nationalist political party, founded in 1986 and fought for what it described as
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