Más que cabos sueltos. El Partido Socialista Popular (PSP) en su contexto internacional

More than loose ends. The Popular Socialist Party in its international context is a collective contribution aimed at reevaluating the role of the Popular Socialist Party (PSP), founded in 1974 under the leadership of Enrique Tierno Galván and Raúl Morodo, within the political history of late Francoist Spain and the Transition. The volume stems from the commemorative impulse for the PSP's 50th anniversary and the recovery of unpublished documentation belonging to Morodo's archive, which fills a notable historiographical gap surrounding this formation, usually relegated in the hegemonic narratives on Spanish socialism.
The work is structured in four sections. The first offers an introduction to the history of the PSP, from its origins in the “Salamanca group” and the Socialist Party of the Interior to its conversion into a political force with a parliamentary presence in 1977. The second section examines its international relations in the European and Mediterranean context, addressing both its connection with German social democracy and Portuguese socialism and its unusual links with Gaddafi's Libya, which show the versatility—and also the tensions—of party diplomacy.

The third section shifts its focus to the Americas. It analyzes Tierno and Morodo's contacts with the US State Department, Republican exiles, and American universities, as well as their relations with the Socialist International in Latin America, especially in Mexico and Venezuela. These chapters highlight the transnational dimension of the PSP and its key figures, as well as their constant search for legitimacy and economic and political support.
The last section returns the focus to the national arena. It explores the surveillance of Tierno Galván by Franco's security apparatus, as well as his subsequent role as mayor of Madrid, whose cultural and political management is studied here from an academic perspective that transcends the media image of the “mayor of the movida.”

The book offers a choral analysis that combines the assumptions of political history and international history, with extensive use of primary sources, allowing for comparison with available memoirs and biographies. By recovering the PSP as an autonomous historiographical object and connecting it with European, Arab, and American networks, the work opens up new perspectives on socialist pluralism and the complex construction of Spanish democracy. It is thus a valid contribution to rethinking the Transition from a transnational perspective and one that is less focused on the PSOE as the sole actor of Spanish socialism during that period.