Socialist Party of National Liberation of the Catalan Countries
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Socialist Party of National Liberation
Partit Socialista d'Alliberament Nacional |
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| Secretary-General | Josep Guia |
| Founded | 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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