Basque Fatherland and Liberty n 1: a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials" [syn: {Basque Homeland and Freedom}, {Basque Fatherland and Liberty}, {Euskadi ta Askatasuna}, {ETA}]