Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia

Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya
Founded23 July 1936 (1936-07-23)
Dissolved1997 (1997)
Merger ofCatalan Federation of the PSOE
Communist Party of Catalonia
Socialist Union of Catalonia
Proletarian Catalan Party
Merged intoInitiative for Catalonia
Youth wingUnified Socialist Youth of Catalonia (1936โ€“1970)
Communist Youth of Catalonia (1970โ€“1992)
Women's wingWomen's Democratic Movement
IdeologyCommunism
Catalan nationalism
Republicanism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationComintern (1936โ€“1943)
Trade union affiliationWorkers' Commissions (CCOO)

The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (Catalan: Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC) was a communist political party active in Catalonia between 1936 and 1997. It was the Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain and the only party not from a sovereign state to be a full member of the Third International.