ESB-PSV was formed as the merge of the Basque Socialist Movement and the Aitzina group in 1975.
Originally the party was social democratic and ambiguous about independence, but in 1977 ESB-PSV radicalized its positions, assuming both Basque independence and Marxism.
After a series of internal debates, ESB left Herri Batasuna in 1980, calling for abstention in the Basque elections of that year.
ESB disappeared in 1980, due to its electoral failures and debts.
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