[2][page needed][3] It was mainly composed of intellectuals, students and agricultural unionists.

The group had a revolutionary, autonomist, and Occitan nationalist ideology, and was headquartered in Toulouse.

The group primarily desired the complete decolonization of Occitania, and appealed to the Occitan working class, which they thought would contribute to the destruction of the capitalist French state.

The group gained prominence thanks to demonstrations against the expropriations of Larzac.

[4] In 1974 Lucha Occitana underwent an internal crisis and fragmented into numerous factions.