More moderate members of these organizations wanted to enter the mainstream political scene, while more radical factions pointed to the failure of the new regime to persecute former Francoist and move away from their legacy of centralization.
The first PSAN (Socialist Party of National Liberation), incorporated into the anti-Francoist struggle and was one of such organizations to experience two significant splits in this period.
[3] In March 1974, some of its founders (Caries Castellanos and the sisters Eva and Blanca Serra) criticised the party's followers of the PSUC communists and its tendency to rely on Spanish solutions.
The IPC had a more stabilised organisation after overcoming the serious problems suffered by both OSAN and PSAN-P, and allowed it to attract new militants from other groups such as the Comunistes Catalans Independents.
[1] While OSAN was a short-lived organization, it became a part of important and influential movements such as the IPC and MDT, which gave it a unique place in the culture of socialist-aligned Catalanists.