Bases Autónomas Autonomous Bases | |
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| Founder | Carlos Rodrigo Ruiz de Castro Fernando Fernández Perdices |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Dissolved | 1996 |
| Newspaper | La Peste Negra ¡A por ellos! |
| Ideology | Spanish nationalism Neo-Nazism Third Position |
| Political position | Far-right |
Bases Autónomas (Bases Autonomes inFrench; "Autonomous Bases") was a Spanishneo-Nazi group, later moving toFrance, and known for its youthful membership and its violent rhetoric and propaganda.
The group was formed inMadrid in 1983 under the leadership of Carlos Rodrigo Ruiz de Castro and Fernando Fernández Perdices (both lawyers) and the student Ignacio Alonso García.[1] The group sought to inaugurate a much greater youth participation infar right politics.[1] They published magazines that encouraged violent action, such asLa Peste Negra (The black plague) and¡A Por Ellos! (Get them!), and used theCeltic cross as their symbol.[1] It has been described as "anarcho-fascist".[2]
Membership was largely made up of footballhooliganUltras andracist skinheads who operated in smallcells.[1] The violence of the group, such as large scale attacks onanarchist andcommunist groups and several attacks on state institutions, attracted much police scrutiny[1] and the Bases Autónomas were finally disbanded as an organization in the mid-1990s. However given the cell-based nature of the movement, which took its organisational, if not its ideological, impetus from anarchism, some individual cells continued to exist for some time after this.[3]
The organization committed several terrorist actions, including the attack on the MPs ofHerri Batasuna, killing the MPJosu Muguruza and severely injuringIñaki Esnaola. In 1995 3 members of the group killed Ricardo Rodríguez García.[4]
Others became heavily involved in the RAC music scene, helping to promote such Spanish bands as Estirpe Imperial, Division 250 and Klan.[5]
The FrenchBases Autonomes were founded on the 1st of August 1991 by members ofSerge Ayoub's Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires (JNR), awhite power skinhead gang of thenationalist revolutionary tendency, following the schism withinTroisième Voie, aFrenchThird Position organisation founded in 1985 by a merger of the smallneo-fascistMouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire, which gathered former members ofFrançois Duprat'sRevolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR), with dissidents from theParti des forces nouvelles.[6][7][8][9][10]
The French Bases Autonomes were conceived after their Spanish model of the Bases Autonomas. The name of their ideological newsletter,Première Ligne, was also inspired by the newsletterPrimera linea of theJuntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista.
After his return to France in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, Serge Ayoub revamped the concept of the Bases Autonomes which he called Bases Autonomes Durables (sustainable autonomous bases).
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