Formed in 1979 as a coalition between the
Catalan Workers Bloc (BCT) and the
Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN), along with some independents, like
Lluís Maria Xirinacs. In the
local elections of that year the coalition gained 19 town councillors and 2 mayors (
Arbúcies and
Sant Pere de Ribes). In the city of
Barcelona the Bloc withdrew the candidacy, supporting the
PSUC and the
Socialists' Party of Catalonia. In the
general elections of the same year the coalition obtained 46,962 votes for
Congreso de los Diputados in
Catalonia (1.59%) and 9,620 votes (0.51%) in the
Valencian Country. For
Senate BEAN supported the successful independent candidacy of
Lluís Maria Xirinacs in
Barcelona. In 1980, after the departure of
PSAN and
POUM, the coalition became a party. In the Catalan autonomic elections of that year BEAN only obtained 14,077 votes (0.52%), failing to gain any seat. The party disappeared in 1982, with many of its members joining either
Left Nationalists or the
Movement for Defence of the Land. ==References==