Four separate parties sat down in Barcelona on July 23, 1936—socialists, communi

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Catalan Unified Socialist Party Founded: Spanish Civil War Factions Form

Four separate parties sat down in Barcelona on July 23, 1936—socialists, communists, worker unionists, Catalan separatists—and walked out as one. The Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya formed exactly one week after Franco's coup began. Timing wasn't coincidence. They'd been negotiating for months, getting nowhere. Then fascist troops landed in Andalusia and suddenly ideology mattered less than survival. Within weeks, the PSUC controlled Catalonia's militias, factories, and food supply. The crisis that forced unity also guaranteed they'd fight each other once the crisis passed.

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