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
Succeeded byLiving Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
Youth wingUnified Socialist Youth of Catalonia (1936–1970)
Communist Youth of Catalonia (1971–1992)
Women's wingWomen's Democratic Movement
IdeologyCommunism
Catalan nationalism
Republicanism
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationComintern (1936–1943)
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.