Canarian leftist nationalism: The ephemeral Unión del Pueblo Canario

Union del Pueblo Canario was the most important experience in the history of Canarian leftist nationalism. Emerged in the last years of the seventies, this coalition of individuals and groups from the former antifrancoist left, it development in the islands a powerful but ephemeral political activity. Closely connected with communism, thirdworldism and national liberation movements in Africa Union del Pueblo Canario tried to channel the rising nationalist and worker awakening on the islands. The main objective of this paper is to analyze aspects that produce the appropriate context for the development of the caolition like Union del Pueblo Canario, and also try to describe the factors causing its rise to certain levels of power and how its actions and the changing context of the eighties in the Canary Islands Spain and the world, makes the coalition losing its strength and crumble