Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste
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Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste
Komunistična partija Svobodnega tržaškega ozemlja Partito Comunista del Territorio Libero di Trieste |
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| Founded | 1947 |
| Dissolved | 1954 |
| Merger of | Local branch of Italian Communist Party and Communist Party of Slovenia |
| Succeeded by | Italian-Slovenian Popular Front Italian Communist Party |
| Newspaper | Il Lavoratore |
| Youth wing | Communist Youth Federation of the Free State of Trieste |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Colors | Red |
Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste (Italian: Partito Comunista del Territorio Libero di Trieste (PCTLT); Slovene: Komunistična partija Svobodnega tržaškega ozemlja ((KPSTO)) was a communist party in the Free Territory of Trieste. It was founded at a congress in 1945 by a merger of the local branches of the Italian Communist Party and the Communist Party of Slovenia as the Communist Party of the Giulian Region (Partito Comunista della Regione Giuliana, PCRG, Komunistična partija Julijske krajine, KPJK). The party published a daily newspaper, Il Lavoratore.
At the time of its foundation, the party favoured integration of the area with Yugoslavia. This stood in contrast with the line of the Italian Communist Party and its leader Palmiro Togliatti, which opposed Yugoslav claims to the region. The main leaders of the party were Rudi Uršič and the Yugoslav partisan leader Branko Babič.
In 1947, when the Free Territory was formally constituted, the party adopted the name PCTLT/KPSTO.
The party suffered a split following the June 28, 1948 resolution of Cominform, resulting in the expulsion of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The pro-Yugoslavia wing was led by Branko Babič, and the pro-Cominform wing was led by former Comintern agent Vittorio Vidali. The pro-Cominform wing was able to retain a majority in the Central Committee (6 against 4), and Vidali became the leader of the party. Under Vidali's leadership the party began opposing the annexation of the Free Territory by Yugoslavia.
The pro-Yugoslav minority was largely composed of Slovenian cadres. They formed a separate PCTLT under the leadership of Babič. The pro-Yugoslav minority then regrouped as the Italian-Slovenian Popular Front (FPIS).
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