{{Short description|Urban riots in the Spanish Basque Country}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2025}} [[Image:PSE san Francisco.jpg|thumb|A PSE-EE club in Bilbao attacked with paint blots.]] '''{{lang|eu|Kale borroka}}''' ({{IPA|eu|kale boroka}}, "Street Fighting") refers to urban guerrilla actions carried out by Basque nationalists in the Basque Country and Navarre who are integrated into the ''abertzale left''.<ref>{{cite news |title=La 'kale borroka' se intensifica a raíz de la segunda muerte de un preso en una semana |language=es |trans-title=The 'kale borroka' protests intensify following the second death of a prisoner in a week. |url=http://www.diariovasco.com/pg060304/prensa/noticias/Politica/200603/04/DVA-POL-312.html |work=Diario Vasco |date=4 March 2006}}</ref> Along with ETA, the kale borroka was the only remaining armed faction of Basque nationalists in the Basque Conflict.
Their most common actions included: attacking offices of political parties, especially the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and People's Party, but also other parties such as Basque Nationalist Party and Navarrese People's Union; attacking the property of people linked to these groups (burning cars, attacking housing); attacking and destroying ATMs, bank offices, public transport; and rioting using molotov cocktails, burning trash containers and even private vehicles in demonstrations, etc.
During ETA's ceasefire from March 2006 to 2007, the {{lang|eu|kale borroka}} did not cease to act, but its activities have been decreasing since it peaked in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite news |first=Nieves |last=Colli |url=http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-22-12-2003/Nacional/el-entorno-familiar-predispone-a-los-menores-de-la-kale-borroka-a-cometer-acciones-terroristas_228027.html |title=El entorno familiar predispone a los menores de la kale borroka a cometer acciones terroristas |language=es |trans-title=The family environment predisposes minors in kale borroka to commit terrorist acts. |work=ABC |date=22 December 2003}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20031125224056/http://www.guardiacivil.org/quesomos/organizacion/organosdeapoyo/gabinete/cap/nota02.jsp Guardia Civil (Spanish language)] * [http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/historico-11-11-2006/Nacional/otegi-ofrece-al-gobierno-y-al-pnv-el-fin-de-la-kale-borroka-a-cambio-de-impunidad_1524203715467.html M.L.G.F. filed story (Spanish language)]
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