Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste [SEP] inception
Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste
Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste ( (PCTLT); ((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,
, when he resigned from all position in protests against the overwhelming Communist influence. After the formation of the Free Territory of Trieste in 1947, Ferfolja organized the Group of Independent Slovenes ("Skupina neodvisnih Slovencev", SNS), together with Frane Tomčič and Dušan Rybář, as an alternative left wing opposition against the prevailing influence of the Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste among the Slovene workers in Trieste. After 1950, Ferfolja's platform joined forces with other Slovene anti-Communist political organizations, forming the Slovene National