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Movement for Defence of the Land Moviment de Defensa de la Terra
Founded	1984[1] 1998[2]
Dissolved	2014[3]
Merger of	PSAN IPC PCV
Succeeded by	Poble Lliure
Headquarters	Barcelona
Youth wing	Maulets
Ideology	Socialism Catalan independence Anti-capitalism
Politics of Catalonia Political parties Elections

TheMovement for the Defence of the Land (Catalan:Moviment de Defensa de la Terra,MDT) was the united front of thesocialistindependence organisations of theCatalan Countries; specifically theSocialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN),Independentists of the Catalan Countries (IPC).^[4] In 1986 the movement split in two sectors: the MDT-PSAN and the MDT-IPC. In 1991 theCommunist Party of the Valencians (PCV) joined the MDT. The MDT dissolved itself in 2014, and formed a new party:Poble Lliure.^[5]

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