The afternoon of February 18, 1976, in an apartment on Catalunya street in Ciutat, the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands was presented to the media. A drizzle of drizzle barely wet the road, while a squad of police from the Social Political Brigade was lurking in the street. It had been barely three months since the dictator's death. A broad group of citizens with a firm and active commitment to anti-Francoism had participated in the creation process of the new party: from Bandera Roja (who came from the Communist Party of Spain, which they had joined a year earlier), from the Popular Socialist Party and other left-wing organizations, trade unionists, from nationalist circles, and independents who had participated in a debate process around the idea.

Island Social Promotions. This was the name displayed half a century ago on a premises on the central Can Verí street in Palma. Near where the newsroom of this media outlet you now hold in your hands, or on your screen, is located. Perhaps some might wonder what these promotions were. The answer is as simple as this: it was the front for a political party, then illegal, like all the others: the Socialist Party of the Islands (PSI), whose initials coincided with those of this entity. And that was its headquarters. Fifty years ago, on January 18, 1976, that PSI, which would later become the Socialist Party of Mallorca (PSM), made its presentation to the press.