- Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
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Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya
Founded July 23, 1936 Dissolved 1997 Merger of Catalan Federation of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Communist Party of Catalonia, Socialist Union of Catalonia and Proletarian Catalan Party Merged into Initiative for Catalonia Ideology Communism International affiliation Comintern (-1943) The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (Catalan: Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC), was formed on July 23, 1936 through the unification of four left-wing groups; the Catalan Federation of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the Partit Comunista de Catalunya (Communist Party of Catalonia, the Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain, PCE), the Unió Socialista de Catalunya (Socialist Union of Catalonia) and the Partit Català Proletari (Proletarian Catalan Party).
PSUC foundation poster
PSUC Civil War posterThe PSUC played a major role during the days of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War, and was the only regional party affiliated to Comintern. The PCE did not organize in Catalonia, but saw PSUC as its Catalan referent. This setup has been replicated by other Catalan communist groups. The setup is somewhat similar to the relation between the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
During the Francisco Franco regime (see Spain under Franco), the PSUC was outlawed and remained active clandestinely and in exile. The PSUC was the largest opposition party in Catalonia and upon the fall of the regime it became a mass party.
In 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy, the PSUC was legalized. Gradually, the PCE and the PSUC started going in separate directions: PSUC became involved in Iniciativa per Catalunya (IC), and gradually ceased functioning as a separate party. When PSUC was completely submerged into IC in 1997, a group of hardliners refounded the party as PSUC viu (Living PSUC). PSUC viu became the new referent of PCE in Catalonia.
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Political parties in Catalonia 
Represented in the
Catalan national Parliament (135)Convergence and Union (62) (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia - Democratic Union of Catalonia) · Socialists' Party of Catalonia (28) · People's Party of Catalonia (18) · Republican Left of Catalonia (10) · (United and Alternative Left - Initiative for Catalonia Greens) (10) · Catalan Solidarity for Independence (3) · Citizens – Party of the Citizenry (3) · Democracia Catalana (Grup Mixt) (1)Represented in the Spanish
Congress of Deputies (47)Represented in the
Spanish Senate (22)
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