Galician Socialist Party (GSP). Declaration of principles
Cataloguing Data
Period / Epoch
1977
Original title
Partido Socialista Galego (PSG). Declaración de principios
Category
Policy proposal
Original language
Galician
Date
1977
Author(s)
Xosé Manuel Beiras Torrado, Mario Orxajes Pita, Salvador Rey, Salvador García-Bodaño Zunzunegui, Xosé Luís Rodríguez Pardo, Cesáreo Saco López, Manuel Caamaño Suárez, Ramón Piñeiro López, Francisco Fernández del Riego, Luís Viñas Cortegoso, Amado Losadan Domingo Pombo López, Ramón Lugrís
Context
The Galician Socialist Party (GSP; PSG, in galician languague) was a political party with socialist and nationalist ideology. Founded on August 23th, 1963, its secretary general from 1971 to 1977 was Xosé Manuel Beiras Torrado. GSP was presented to the general elections of June 15th, 1977, earning 27,197 votes (2.41%) in Galicia. In the 80’s there is a break in her womb: one part is integrated into the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) and another joins to Esquerda Galega (Galician Left), forming the coalition PSG-EG. Later the PSG-EG would eventually be integrated into the BNG.
The document summarizes in 11 points the ideological and political principles of the GSP, a political organisation that wrestles to covert Galicia into a socialist society, that is, to build a socialist society for all Galician people. We envisage a socialist society as a society without classes, totally democratic, where the real property of productive resources is the people’s creation and more of a heritage, and where political power expresses the majority’s conscious wish and guarantees freedom for everybody. In this paper highlights that Galician people have the right to political self-government, and later, to create the constituent power to formalise political institutions suitable for its self-government.