Casa del pueblo

In Spain, a Casa del Pueblo (Spanish: House of the People) refers to a typical local branch office of both the PSOE and the Unión General de Trabajadores.

Inside, Arturo Barea records offices, a hall for cinema, theater and rallies, a library and the site of the first health insurance managed by the workers of Madrid, the Mutualidad, which protects the worker and his family at a time without Social Security and has a clinic that provides free medicine to the affiliate.

The example of the Casa del Pueblo in Madrid was rife throughout Spain, particularly in the industrial areas of Asturias and the Basque Country.

The name is also used for some cultural sites managed by anarchists and the union Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT-AIT), although in these cases the general term was Ateneo libertario.

The casa del pueblo in Alcoy is the cultural home of UCE (Communist Unification of Spain).