Founded 1979 Headquarters Barcelona | Dissolved 1985 Political position Left-wing to Far-left | |
Ideology Socialism
Catalan independence | ||
Independentists of the Catalan Countries (in Catalan: Independentistes dels Països Catalans) was a independentist political party in the Catalan Countries. IPC was formed on March 3, 1979 through the merger of the Socialist Party of National Liberation - Provisional (PSAN-p) from the Catalan regions in Spain and the Socialist Organisation of National Liberation (OSAN) from the Catalan region of France. IPC published Lluita.
Front groups of IPC included:
In 1985 IPC took part in the formation of the Movement for Defence of the Land (MDT) together with the Socialist Party of National Liberation (PSAN). IPC had worked for unity amongst Catalan independentists since 1983. In 1988 the rivalry between IPC and PSAN leads to a split in MDT and two separate organizations, both called MDT emerge. Later IPC dissolved itself into the MDT faction aligned with it.