The Galician Nationalist Brotherhood (Galician Nationalist Brotherhood) was an organization born in Galicia (Spain) in 1922 led by Vicente Risco. It was in favor of cultural action and contrary to the electoral participation of Galician. History
Within the Galician language various trends were distinguished, fundamentally liberal-democratic and neo-traditionalist. One of the differences that faced both tendencies was the one related to electoral participation. Broadly speaking, the former advocated participation, willing to ally themselves with non-nationalist political forces on the condition that they were anticaciquiles (which in practice meant approaching the Second Republic), while the latter rejected participation in order not to "pollute" "to the nascent movement, also alluding to the lack of guarantees of the electoral system of the Restoration, advocating a culturalist rather than a political approach. Its top exponents were Vicente Risco and Antonio Losada.
This tension was maintained during the first Nationalist Assemblies. In the II and III (Santiago de Compostela, 1919, Vigo, 1921), the tandem Risco-Losada managed to impose its position. Nevertheless, the opposition of the Brotherhood of La Coruna to the abstentionism caused the split of the followers of Risco in the IV Nationalist Assembly of 1922, in Monforte de Lemos (to which were united other personalities that, without being traditionalists, sympathized with Risk and his vision of the united nation in front of its enemies, like Villar Ponte, Castelao or Quintanilla), that created the Galega Nationalist Brotherhood. On the margin were the Corunna Brotherhood (which grouped half of the members of the Brotherhoods) and some small groups of nearby towns.
The Nationalist Brotherhood established a centralized and presidential structure, under the leadership of Risco, with an internal discipline close to that of a political party to use. It advocated a greater nationalist radicalism, an active abstentionism and a will to hegemonize the agrarian movement.
In 1923 I already had 16 delegations, although I can not get a large nucleus in the main focus of the Galician language, La Coruña, without ever surpassing the ten affiliates in that city. It celebrates the V Nationalist Assembly in La Coruña in 1923. During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera only maintained the brotherhood of Orense and in 1929 reintegrate again in the Brotherhoods of Speech. Bibliography
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