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Socialist Party of National Liberation

Socialist Party of National Liberation
Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional
Secretary-General Josep Guia
Founded 1968 (1968)
Split from National Front of Catalonia
Headquarters València
Newspaper Lluita
Youth wing 1972-1984: Catalan Revolutionary Youth
1988-2012: Maulets
2012-today: none
Ideology Socialism
Catalan independence
Marxism Leninism
Països Catalans
Political position Left
National affiliation Catalan Solidarity for Independence
Colors      Red
     Yellow
Website
psan.cat

The Socialist Party of National Liberation (Catalan: Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional, PSAN) is an independentist and communist party active in the Catalan Countries. The PSAN was created in 1968 following a split in the more leftist sector of the National Front of Catalonia. Initially it was only present the Principality of Catalonia, but later also gained presence in Northern Catalonia (September 1971), the Valencian Country (July 1974) and the Balearic Islands (February 1976). The party was illegal and clandestine until 1978, when all parties were fully legalized, after the Franco Dictadorship.

In March 1969 the Constituent Assembly of the party was celebrated. In this assembly the organization officially adopted a communist and independentist ideology. Joaquim Maurín, Jaume Vicens i Vives and the classical international marxist authors were the most important theoretical inspirations the party. The influence of the Third World revolutionary movements, specially the Cuban Revolution, the Vietcong and the Algerian FLN was also very important. The Basque organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) and the Galician People's Union (UPG) were also references, both in theory and practice. The main objectives of the party were: the expulsion of the occupation forces, the territorial unity of the Catalan Countries, the creation of a Catalan socialist state and the constitution of a Catalan socialist society in an international socialist society. The strategic line of the party was defined as:


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