Balearic Anticolonialist Group (in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

: Grup Anticolonialista Balear) was a political organization in the Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands

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 founded on January 1978. It was yet one more short-lived minority agent in the agitated political context of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

GAB campaigned for independence of the Balearic Islands from Spain

Spain

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, but, contrary to the typical view of radical nationalist left groups, it did not ask for the hypothetical independent Balearic islands to become a part of an equally hypothetical independent Països Catalans

Catalan Countries

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GAB was politically tied to the Communist Party of Spain (international)

Communist Party of Spain (international) (1975)

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(PCE(i)).