Los inicios de un partido nuevo: la creación del PSOE en Navarra (1974-1976)

Abstract

In the middle of 1974 a group of people drafted the act of incorporation of the PSOE of Navarra. They were about fifteen members from Christian grassroot movements with no connection to that party, which had disappeared after the Spanish Civil War. Despite some difficulties, they managed to develop the PSOE in three locations of Navarra. Three ideological currents emerged within the group, two of which competed against each other to get the control of the Party. The revolutionary sector took control of the Socialist Youth of the province in the midst of an internal debate between reformist and revolutionary positions. The other two currents were representative of the social democratic ideology, but they were differentiated by the way they thought the spanish transition should be. The study of the beginnings of the PSOE in Navarra is mainly based on oral history, after conducting several interviews with people that participated in the creation of a new party with historical acronyms.