Nationalist and feminist activist Arantza Arruti died at the age of 79
Arantza Arruti Odriozola , a nationalist and feminist militant, died today at the ageof79. Zarauztarra began the armed struggle against Francoismat the age of 19.
In1968, he was arrested in Pamplona/Iruña and tried in the Burgos Trial a year later; Arruti was the only one of the 16 Basque activists indicted who was acquitted . He leftprison in 1974. He was also imprisoned years later, but was released shortly thereafter. He had previously been arrested in Toulouse, but after several months in Martutene prison he was released.
While he was free, he continued to engage in politics and feminism withinthe abertzale left, and in the 1980s he participated in the process of creating feminist groups such as Aizan and KAS Emakumeak.
In 1998he stood for election to the Basque Parliament on the list of Euskal Herritarrok, and in 2015he was a candidate for EH Bildu in the elections to Congress and the Senate.
He was latera professor of French and English , and worked in Osakidetza for several years, as a nurse and nurse's assistant, until his retirement.
His death has provoked many reactions in the Basque Country and, among others, the General Coordinator of EH Bildu , Arnaldo Otegi, recalled him at the subsequent appearance of the Political Bureau after the summer: "Arantza Arruti has been a militant, nationalist, feminist and independence woman, one of those who once sang the Basque gudari before a Franco court in the Burgos Process."
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