Yugoslav Social-Democratic Party or JSDS was a political party

Political party

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 in Slovenia

Slovenia

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 and Istria

Istria

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 during the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...

. It was founded in 1896.

In 1909 the party issued its 'Tivoli resolution', calling for the cultural and political unification of all Southern Slavs. However, the party also worked for limited Slovenian autonomy at the times of the Constituent Assembly.

Organs

On March 18, 1898, the party organ Rdeči prapor ('Red flag') began publishing in Trieste

Trieste

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. Josip Zavertanik and Josip Kopač were its main editors. On October 20, 1905, the editorial office shifted to Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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. Zarja ('Dawn') was founded in Ljubljana in 1911 as a party organ. In 1914 the newspaper shifted to Trieste, and ceased to be an official party organ.

Legacy

Between 1990 and 2002, the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia regarded itself as the moral and spiritual heir of the Yugoslav Social Democratic Party.

Prominent members

• Etbin Kristan
  Etbin Kristan
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• Henrik Tuma
• Josip Ferfolja
  Josip Ferfolja
  Josip Ferfolja was a Slovene lawyer and Social democratic politician, and human rights activist from the Province of Gorizia...
  
  
• Anton Dermota
• Ivan Cankar
  Ivan Cankar
  Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature...
  
  
• Dragotin Lončar
  Dragotin Lončar
  Dragotin Lončar was a Slovenian historian, editor and Social Democratic politician.He was born as Karel Lončar in Selo near Lukovica in Upper Carniola. After finishing the State Gymnasium in Ljubljana, he studied history at the Charles University in Prague, graduating in 1904...
  
  
• Albin Prepeluh
  Albin Prepeluh
  Albin Prepeluh was a Slovenian left wing politician, journalist, editor, political theorist and translator. Before World War I, he was the foremost Slovene Marxist revisionist theoretician...
  
  
• Dragotin Gustinčič
• Lojz Kraigher
• Anton Kristan
• Rudolf Golouh
• Ivan Regent