Echat (Amharic: ኢጭአት, acronym for የኢትዮጵያ ጭቁኖች አብዮታዊ ትግል, 'Ethiopian Oppressed People's Revolutionary Struggle') was a communist organization in Ethiopia.
[4] As of 1976 Echat held two of the 15 seats in the 'Politburo' of the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs (POMOA).
[7] Echat was also accused of siding with Meison, of having links with the Oromo Liberation Front and of promoting narrow nationalism.
[7] Echat was expelled from the Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations in March 1978, for supposed differences over political and ideological line.
[9][11] The Derg crushed Echat, along with the other factions of the Union of Ethiopian Marxist-Leninist Organizations.