El Socialista (newspaper)

El Socialista is a Spanish language socialist newspaper published in Madrid, Spain. The paper is the organ of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).[1]

El Socialista
Front page dated 18 July 1938
TypeMonthly newspaper
Owner(s)Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Founder(s)Pablo Iglesias
Founded12 March 1886 (1886-03-12)
Political alignmentSocialist
LanguageSpanish
HeadquartersMadrid
CountrySpain
ISSN0210-4725
Websiteelsocialista.es

History and profile

El Socialista was established by Pablo Iglesias, founder of the PSOE, in Madrid on 12 March 1886.[2][3] The paper is owned and published by the PSOE and its union, Union General de Trabajadores (UGT).[4][5] The headquarters of the paper is in Madrid.[6] It was started as a two-page publication.[7] In 1913 the paper began to be published daily.[2]

El Socialista was published weekly in the early 1970s.[8] The paper was closed during the rule of Francisco Franco.[4] However, El Socialista continued its publication clandestinely in that period.[9] In 1978 it resumed its regular publication.[4]

The paper is currently published monthly, while its online edition is active every day.

Content, circulation and editors

El Socialista did not show enthusiasm about the communist revolution in Russia in 1917.[10] It even argued that the revolution was a departure from the significant obligation of Russia to defeat the German Empire.[10] Just after World War II the paper adopted an anti-Communist political stance and reported the political tenets of the PSOE.[11] In the 1940s and 1950s it supported the Zionist causes and was an ardent critic of the Arabs who were portrayed in a negative manner.[11] It also considered Egypt as "a miserable country."[11]

In 1949 El Socialista sold only 8,000 copies.[11]

Miguel Unamuno was among the early contributors.[2] Enrique Angulo, son-in-law of socialist politician Ramón Lamoneda, served as the director of the paper.[12] Another director was Andrés Saborit.[13]

See also

References
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  2. David Ortiz (2000). Paper Liberals: Press and Politics in Restoration Spain. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-313-31216-8.
  3. "El socialista órgano del Partido Socialista Obrero". University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Retrieved 24 February 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Laura Desfor Edles (1998). Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy After Franco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-521-62885-3.
  5. "Union General de Trabajadores (UGT)". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  6. Gabriel Jackson (2012). Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 555. ISBN 978-1-4008-2018-4.
  7. Víctor Alba (1983). The Communist Party in Spain. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-4128-1999-2.
  8. "El socialista". Library of Congress. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  9. James Burns (1977). "The wrinkled new face of Spain". Index on Censorship. 6 (3): 5. doi:10.1080/03064227708532644.
  10. Paul Preston (January 1977). "The Origins of the Socialist Schism in Spain, 1917-31". Journal of Contemporary History. 12 (1): 103. doi:10.1177/002200947701200105.
  11. Dario Migliucci (2019). "East conflict (1947–57): The portrayal of Israelis and Arabs in the Spanish left-wing press". Journal of Israeli History. 37 (1): 90, 94, 96. doi:10.1080/13531042.2019.1623539.
  12. Patricia Weiss Fagen (1973). Exiles and Citizens. Spanish Republicans in Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 123. doi:10.7560/720022. ISBN 9781477301685.
  13. Francisco Javier Rodriguez Jimenez (2016). "Trade Unionism and Spain-Us Political Relations, 1945-1953". Ventunesimo Secolo. 15 (8): 105. doi:10.3280/XXI2016-038006.
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