Felix Likiniano Liki, was a Basque

Basque people

The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...

 anarchist

Anarchism

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In the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

, he took a leading role in the defense of St. Sebastian in the hours after the fascist

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

 uprising, cutting the rebel advance through Urbieta street into the center of the city. Later, after fellow Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

Confederación Nacional del Trabajo

The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions affiliated with the International Workers Association . When working with the latter group it is also known as CNT-AIT...

 (CNT) militiamen came from Eibar

Éibar

Eibar is a city and municipality within the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country of Spain. The city was chartered by Alfonso XI of Castile in 1346...

, they drove back the nationalists and took their stronghold in the military headquarter of Loiola.

Later he took part in the defense of the lines at the Gipuzkoa–Navarre

Navarre

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 border and, after St. Sebastian fell to the fascists, he continued armed resistance in Aragon

Aragon

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, Catalonia

Catalonia

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, France

France

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 (inside the French Resistance

French Resistance

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 to Nazi

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 occupation) and the Basque Country

Basque Country (historical territory)

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 (trying to create guerrillas along the Franco–Spanish border).

It is claimed that he first drew the anagram of the axe and serpent, later used by ETA

ETA

ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...

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His vision of unifying anarchism with Basque nationalism

Basque nationalism

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, shared with his life friend Federico Krutwig

Federico Krutwig

Federico Krutwig Sagredo was a Spanish Basque writer and politician, author of several books.Along with Felix Likiniano, he tried to create some resistance to the Francoist regime after the Spanish Civil War...

, was recognized in the early 1990s by autonomous

Autonomism

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 activists of Bilbao

Bilbao

Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...

 who created a cultural association that bears his name (Felix Likiniano Kultur Elkartea). This organization died in 2006, being replaced by Gatazka http://www.ddtgatazka.com/.