Mendeku
Encyclopedia
Mendeku was a group of the Basque
armed organisation Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas
who killed Enrique Casas, a Spanish senator, in 1985. The police tried to link another group with the same name with this commando, after an attack against the headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
in Portugalete
in 1987, where two people died.
Basque nationalism
Basque nationalism is a political movement advocating for either further political autonomy or, chiefly, full independence of the Basque Country in the wider sense...
armed organisation Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas
Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas
The Comandos Autónomos Anticapitalistas were a Basque armed group with Autonomist Marxist politics, defined as an anarchistic breakaway of ETA....
who killed Enrique Casas, a Spanish senator, in 1985. The police tried to link another group with the same name with this commando, after an attack against the headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...
in Portugalete
Portugalete
Portugalete is a town lying to the west of Bilbao in the province of Biscay in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.The town has 51,066 inhabitants and is part of Bilbao's metropolitan area. It is located at the mouth of the Estuary of Bilbao, on the left bank...
in 1987, where two people died.