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The PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia), was formed through the unification fo socialist and communist parties in Catalonia in 1936. PSUC played a major role during the days of the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
PSUC was the only "regional" party affiliated to ComIntern. The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) did not organize in Spain, but saw PSUC as its Catalan referent.
During the Franco regime PSUC was outlawed and worked clandestinely and in exile. PSUC was the largest opposition party in Catalonia, and at the fall of the regime it became a mass party.
In 1977 PSUC was legalized.
Gradually PCE and PSUC started going in separate ways. PSUC became involved in Iniciativa per Catalunya, and gradually ceases functioning as a separate party. When PSUC was completely submerged into IC in 1998, a group of hardliners refounded the party as PSUC viu (Living PSUC).
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