The Basque National Liberation Movement (Spanish: Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Vasco, MLNV; Basque: Euskal Herri Askapenerako Mugimendua) is an umbrella term that comprises all social, political and military organisations that oribited around the ideas of ETA. The wide variety of organisations and their different levels of belonging to this political space made this name very common in the 80s and 90s. Basque (in Basque: Euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France. ... For other uses, see ETA (disambiguation). ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...

The MLNV has suffered in the past decade a judicial persecution that has brought many of its members to jail and illegalized many but not all its elements.

Some of the most relevant organizations that can be considered to have formed part of this political current are:

Armed organizations

• ETA militar (ETA(m))
• ETA political-militar (ETA(pm))

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Political parties

• Eusko Abertzale Ekintza (EAE-ANV) (Basque National Action, integrated successively in the diferent electoral platforms of the MLNV
• Herri Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea (HASI) (People's Socialist Revolutionary Party, alegal, always run in the succesive platforms until the formation of Batasuna), it was considered the political arm of ETA
• Herri Batasuna (Basque Union, actually an electoral coalition, formed by both parties and independents)
• Euskal Herritarrok ("We Basque Citizens", another, briefly expanded and succesful, electoral platform)
• Batasuna ("Union", structured as political party)
• Euskal Herrietako Alderdi Komunista (EHAK) ("Communist Party of the Basque Peoples", an umbrella formation to run even illegalized in the elections of 2005.

Batasuna (Unity) is a Basque political party based mainly in Spain but with a French presence, which is presumed to be associated with the Basque separatist armed group ETA. Their relation is similar to that of Northern Irelands Sinn Féin and the IRA. History and outline The party was... Batasuna (Unity) is a Basque political party based mainly in Spain but with a French presence, which is presumed to be associated with the Basque separatist armed group ETA. Their relation is similar to that of Northern Irelands Sinn Féin and the IRA. History and outline The party was... Batasuna (Unity) is a Basque political party based mainly in Spain but with a French presence, which is presumed to be associated with the Basque illegal armed group ETA. It is part of the Basque National Liberation Movement which includes social organizations, trade unions, youth (Jarrai and Gazteriak, now merged...

Other relevant organizations

• Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB) (Nationalist Workers' Comitees) an increasingly popular union, still legal in 2006.
• Jarrai (Follow", the youth organization), transformed in Haika and then in Segi, all them illegal by 2006.
• Koordinadora Abertzale Sozialista (KAS), for a long time an actual political organization that gathered most of the entities mentioned in this article. It's badly-known KAS Platform was the political ABC of the MLNV in the 1980s.