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Julen Kerman Madariaga Agirre (11 October 1932 – 6 April 2021) was a Spanish Basque people politician and lawyer who co-founded the Basque armed group ETA in 1959 together with , Rafael Albisu and Txillardegi.
He was one of the founders of "Ekin" in the early 1950s, a splinter organization of the Basque Nationalist Party youth that was the embryo of the future Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA). This was created in 1959 and, three years later, Madariaga participated in Bayonne in the I Assembly of the organization. He was since then one of the members of its executive committee. Madariaga was indicted in the Burgos trial and declared in absentia.
He was a leader of ETA, a prominent member of Herri Batasuna and, later, founder of the political party Aralar Party and was close to the pacifist organization, Elkarri.
Madariaga served long prison sentences and spent years in exile, but severed his links with ETA in 1989 after becoming disillusioned with the group's methods. He left Herri Batasuna in 1995 after the coalition refused to condemn ETA violence.
In June 2006, he was arrested in France on charges of Extortion businessmen into making financial contributions to ETA. However, the charges were dropped and he was released within days.
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