Liberation Front of the Slovene People

On 26 April 1941 in Ljubljana the Anti-Imperialist Front was established. It was to promote "an international massive movement" to "liberate the Slovenian nation" whose "hope and example was the Soviet Union". Its founding groups were the Communist Party of Slovenia, some Christian Socialists, and a dissident group of Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats"), and a group of intellectuals around the journals Sodobnost and Ljubljanski zvon, including Josip Vidmar and Ferdo Kozak.

After the attack of Germany on the Soviet Union the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia changed the Anti-Imperialist Front to the Liberation Front of Slovenia.^[1][2]

In February 1943, the founding groups signed the so-called Dolomite statement: all other groups recognized the Communist Party as the leading force, and renounced independent political action. The Communist Party, which had been the major force in the Anti-Imperialist Front/Liberation Front since its formation, was thus officially recognized as the leading faction, as well as the only group within the Front that kept the right to have a distinct and independent organizational structure.

After the war, the Liberation Front was transformed into the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Slovenia.^[3]

References

1. ^ " In tako smo 30.06. 1941 na plenumu razpravljali o tem , da je treba našo organizacijo preimenovati. Po dolgem ugibanju , smo jo preimenovali v OF Slovenskega naroda." (Josip Vidmar, Bitka kakor življenje dolga, Ljubljana, Cankarjeva založba, 1978, p. 163)
2. ^ "Po nemškem napadu na SZ so se gibanju, ki ga je spodbudila ustanovitev PIF ( ta se je konec junija preimenovala v OF) ..." (Peter Vodopivec, Od Pohlinove slovnice do samostojne države, Ljubljana, Modrijan, 2006, p. 268)
3. ^ General Encyclopaedia, article Socijalisti_ki savez radnoga naroda Jugoslavije, Yugoslavian Lexicographical Institute, Zagreb, 1981., p. 547

See also

• Franja Partisan Hospital
• AVNOJ
• Slovene Home Guard
• Province of Ljubljana