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Popular Liberation Front
Frente de Liberación Popular
Founded 1958 (1958)
Dissolved 1969 (1969)
Headquarters Madrid
Ideology Democratic socialism
Antifascism
New Left
Antiimperialism
Self-management socialism
Political position Left
National affiliation Linked to the Workers' Front of Catalonia and to Euskadiko Sozialisten Batasuna.

The Popular Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente de Liberación Popular, abbreviated FLP or FELIPE) was a clandestine anti-Francoist opposition group in Spain 1958-1969. FLP was founded by Julio Cerón. Amongst the personalities that joined FLP were José Luis Leal, Pasqual Maragall, José Pedro Pérez Llorca and Miguel Roca. FLP emerged as a response to the difficulties of the traditional left to establish a foothold inside Spain. FLP was inspired by the development of left socialist parties like PSU in France and PSIUP in Italy, and was influenced by New Left and Third Worldist movements. The Catalan referent of FLP was the Workers Front of Catalonia and its Basque referent was Euskadiko Sozialisten Batasuna.

In 1962 there was a crackdown against FLP, and around a hundred FLP militants were detained by police.

In 1969 a student and member of the FLP, Enrique Ruano Casanova, was killed by the political police while he was arrested, causing a wave of demonstrations and strikes in the universities of Spain. Due to the protests the Regime declared the State of exception on the 24 of January 1969.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Frente de Liberación Popular para niños

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