Original scientific paper
Constituting of Territorial Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Croatia
Hodimir Sirotković
Abstract
The introductory part of the essay states that the Creating Assembly of Territorial Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Croatia (TACNLC), which took place on 13th and 14th June 1943, represents the breaking point in the historical development of the national governing and socialist revolution in Croatia. The essay can be divided in four chapters, the first one describing the political and organizational preparations for creating of TACNLC. The second chapter discusses the work of the Initiatory Committee of TACNLC; its most important tesks had been done in the period between 1st March to 14th July 1943. that work was to help towards a more efficient organization of the national government on the liberated area of Croatia. A minute account of the preparations for the creating assembly of TACNLC has been given in this part of the essay.
The third chapter analyzes some aspects and problems arising from the convocation as well as from the work of the creating assembly of TACNLC, as: the manner of electing the councillors in TACNLC, the internal organization and political documents from the First Sitting .
The fourth part, the conclusive chapter, is stating that the councillors of TACNLC on their first sitting had successfully identified themselves with the political feelings and demands of all the followers of national liberation war in Croatia, and that the fact is to be understood from the people spontaneously approving the political documents from the First Sitting. The author establishes another fact yet, that TACNLC, at the very moment of its creating too, had proclaimed the basical duties of its work: un-ceasing, inexorable fighting against the occupiers and home quislings, for a national democratic governing, for a federal community of Yugoslav peoples, for a political unity of Serbs and Croats, for territorial integrity and for a Croatia as a state inside a federal and democratic Yugoslavia.
Though TACNLC until its Third Sitting in Topusko (on 8th and 9th May 1944) bore a very simple name of Political Leadership of National Liberation Movement in "Croatia" it had already, from the moment of its constituting, begun to work as a highest organ of national government in Croatia, while its Excutive Committee had taken on the legal capacities of a factual government of Croatia. From its very constitution TACNLC had become and had remained till the end a symbol of sovereignty of partisan Croatia.
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219278
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Publication date:
29.12.1973.
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