page_title: Juan Astigarrabía
section_title: Civil war (1936–39)
hierarchical_section_title: Juan Astigarrabía / Civil war (1936–39)
caption_attribution_description: Euskara: Antigua auzoko kulturetxearen aurrean jarritako oroigarria. Español: Monumento a Juan de Astigarrabia en Donostia.
context_page_description: Juan Domingo Astigarrabía Andonegui was a Basque communist politician, one of the founders of the Communist Party of the Basque Country and its first secretary-general. He was made a scapegoat for the fall of the North during the Spanish Civil War. He was expelled from the party and went into exile in Panama. Later he was rehabilitated and later still returned to Spain.
context_section_description: With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936 Astigarrabía and the other Basque communist leaders, Jesús Monzón and Ramón Ormazábal, became isolated in the North. From November 1936 to June 1937 Astigarrabía represented the Basque Communist Party as Director of Public Works in the Basque government of José Antonio Aguirre.
  After the fall of the Basque front in 1937 Astigarrabía was made a scapegoat. The Basque Communist Party held a conference on 12–13 December 1937 in Barcelona, where they decided to expel him for excessive "proximity" to Basque nationalism. Although the Basques had the right for self-determination, this could only be achieved after the successful defense of the Spanish Republic against the Fascists and the victory of the popular revolution. Ramón Ormazabal accused him and Jesús Larrañaga of causing the fall of Biscay through "appeasement" and nationalism. Astigarrabía made a self-criticism, was expelled from the party and left Spain.
caption: Monument to Astigarrabía in Donostia (San Sebastián)
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