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Political party in Kosovo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The League of Communists of Kosovo (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Kosova, Савез комуниста Косова, SKK/СКК; Albanian: Lidhja e Komunistëve të Kosovës) was the Kosovo branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990.
League of Communists of Kosovo Savez komunista Kosova Савез комуниста Косова Lidhja e Komunistëve të Kosovës | |
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| Leader | President of the League of Communists of Kosovo |
| Founded | 25 July 1937 |
| Dissolved | 12 October 1990 |
| Headquarters | Pristina, SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism Titoism |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| Colours | Red |
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Kosovo branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia | |
Unlike the various factions throughout Yugoslavia which composed the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the Communist Party of Kosovo was founded on 25 July 1937. The status of an honorary autonomous province was presented to ethnic Albanian communists who helped the Yugoslav partisans in their struggles during World War II, carved out from the section of the former Ottoman province within the Socialist Republic of Serbia (i.e. whilst one chunk of the former province was given to Albania in 1912, the other sections of it were awarded to Yugoslavia's newly created republics: Montenegro and Macedonia). The new party was given the task of running certain local affairs. In 1952, the party was renamed the League of Communists of Kosovo.
From its creation, Kosovo's administration lacked real power. With various revisions of the constitution, the LCK was granted more and more power until when the new constitution was ratified in 1974, greater power was devolved to all branches.
During the early 1990s, growing ethnic tensions between the republics of Yugoslavia led to the breakup of the federal party — the Kosovo Communists wanted to upgrade Kosovo from an autonomous republic within Serbia to the 7th socialist republic of Yugoslavia, with the same status of Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia proper.
On October 12, 1990, it ceased to exist due to amendments to the constitution reverting Kosovo to its pre-1974 status by Slobodan Milosević.[1]
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