CLN

A Dictionary of Contemporary World History | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

CLN (Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, Committee for National Liberation) The central organization which coordinated the resistance movements in German-occupied Italy, established on 9 September 1943. In all, around 250,000 partisans were active in the Italian resistance, while the CLN itself was dominated by many politicians from the pre-Fascist era. In the initial period after the armistice in 1943, relations between the royal government and the parties active in the CLN were very poor, and it was only on 22 April 1944 that the other parties of the CLN followed the Communists and entered Badoglio's government. The CLN thus formed the nucleus of the postwar political system, as the three main parties of postwar Italy emerged from it: the Christian Democratic Party, the Socialist Party, and the Communist Party.

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