The year 1939 not only meant the end of democracy, but the dismantling of Catalan cooperativism, one of the most solid traditions of popular self-organization in Europe. Despite the submission to which it was subjected by the Franco regime, the sovereign and solidarity spirit of the movement remained alive in clandestinity thanks to figures like Pérez Baró or Ventosa i Roig, making the spark arrive practically intact until 1976, the year the Roca Galès Foundation was established to take over from so many people who still believed in this self-management model. Its birth was not a mere institutional procedure, but an act of resistance and recovery of the political soul of Catalan cooperativism.