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Catalan Workers Bloc

Catalan political party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ3324147 ↗
Source-derived summary

Catalan Workers Bloc (Catalan: Bloc Català dels Treballadors) was a political party in Catalonia, Spain. Formed in 1978 through the merger of the Party of Labour of Catalonia (PTC) and the Marxist Unification Movement (MUM). BCT participated in the National Liberation Left Bloc (BEAN) in the 1979 general elections.

In 1982 when BEAN was dissolved, BCT dissolved and most of its members joined the Left Nationalists (NE).

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“Catalan Workers Bloc” enters the record as catalan political party. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Catalan, Workers and Bloc can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1979, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Catalan, Workers and Bloc.
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“Catalan Workers Bloc” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Catalan, Workers and Bloc provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3324147. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 1979 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Catalan Workers Bloc” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.