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| name = Communist Movement of Euskadi
| native_name = Euskadi Mugimendu Komunista
| logo =
| leader = [[Patxi Iturrioz]]
| chairman =
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| newspaper = ''Zer Egin?''
| seats1_title = [[Congreso de los Diputados]] ([[Spanish legislative election, 1977|1978-79]])
| seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|26|hex=red{{party color|Communist Movement of Euskadi}}}}<small>Inside [[Euskadiko Ezkerra]]</small>
| seats2_title = [[Municipalities of Spain|Town councillors in the Basque Country]] ([[Spanish municipal elections, 1979|1979]])
| seats2 = {{Composition bar|9|3827|hex=red{{party color|Communist Movement of Euskadi}}}}<ref>6 in the [[Basque Autonomous Community]] and 3 in [[Navarre]].</ref>
| colours =
| colorcode = red{{party color|Communist Movement of Euskadi}}
| country = Spain
| state = Basque Country
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===1975-1977===
EMK joined in 1975 the [[Democratic Convergence Platform]], a coalition created by much of the opposition, led by the [[PSOE|Socialist Party]] (PSOE), to fight theagainst [[FrancoFrancoist dictatorshipSpain]]. The EMK took an active role in all the riots and protests of the time and in the creation of the modern [[labor movement]] and tried, along with other organizations, the establishment of an organization that coordinated all the [[Basque people|Basque]] [[Revolutionary Left (Spain)|revolutionary left]], which eventually was not totally possible, although the majority of the organizations<ref>[[Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista]], [[Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia]], [[Euskal Iraultzarako Alderdia]], [[Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak]], [[Langile Abertzale Komiteak]], [[Carlist Party (1970)|Carlist Party of Euskalherria]], [[Organización Revolucionaria de los Trabajadores]], [[Eusko Sozialistak]], [[Eusko Komunistak]], [[Party of Labour of Spain]], [[Communist Unification Party]], [[Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)|Liga Komunista Iraultzailea]], [[Communist Left Organization]] and the [[Communist League]].</ref> (including the EMK) created a common platform, the [[Euskal Erakunde Herritarra]] (EEH).
 
===Transition===
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On April 2, 1983 EMK became independent organizationally from the [[Communist Movement]] (MC), to explore new political spaces, which led the organization to support the coalition [[Auzolan]], comprising [[Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)|Liga Komunista Iraultzailea]] (LKI), [[Langile Abertzale Iraultzaileen Alderdia|LAIA]] and Nueva Izquierda ([[Euskadiko Ezkerra]] split). After the electoral defeat of [[Auzolan]], EMK began a joint campaign with the [[Trotskyism|trotskyist]] formation [[Revolutionary Communist League (Spain)|LKI]], adopting a pro-[[Basque nationalism|abertzale]] speech and asking several times to vote for [[Herri Batasuna|HB]], which has led some historians to believe that the party became a satellite of [[Herri Batasuna|abertzale coalition]].<ref>Leonisio Calvo, Rafael (2012). «Izquierda abertzale, de la heterogeneidad al monolitismo». III Congreso Internacional de Historia de Nuestro Tiempo. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja. p. 385. {{ISBN|978-84-695-5155-4}}.</ref>
Their campaign posters were known for their humor and the use of [[pop art|pop references]] to criticize other parties.
<ref name="Guenaga">{{in lang|es}} ''[http://elpais.com/diario/1991/11/02/espana/689036417_850215.html Por sus carteles los conoceréis]'', [[Aitor Guenaga Bidaurrazaga]], 2 November 1991, ''[[El País]]''.</ref>
<ref name="Kartelartean2010">{{eu}}in {{lang|eu|es}} ''[http://kartelartean.blogspot.com.es/2010/10/emk.html EMK]'', KartelARTEAN, 7 October 2010.</ref>
<ref name="Kartelartean2011">{{eu}}in {{lang|eu|es}} ''[http://kartelartean.blogspot.com.es/2011/02/emk-ren-beste-kartela.html EMK-REN BESTE KARTELA]'', KartelARTEAN, 16 February 2011.</ref>
 
During the 80's, EMK decided to support the new [[social movements]] that emerged in the early eighties, including the [[Spanish NATO membership referendum, 1986|campaign against NATO membership in a referendum in 1986]], the [[Insubordinate movement in Spain|movements of insubordination to the military service]] or the [[LGBT]] movement.
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==References==
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*Merino, Javier (2009). «El espejismo revolucionario: la izquierda radical ante ETA», Cuadernos Bakeaz, núm. 94.
 
==External links==
* [http://www.memoriadigitalvasca.es/browse?type=author&value=Movimiento+Comunista+de+Euskadi. Documents authored by EMK] at the [[Basque Digital Memory]] project of [[Fundación Sancho el Sabio]].
 
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