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'''''Confederazione dei Sindacati Unici Classisti del Territorio libero di Trieste''''' ('Confederation of United Class-Oriented Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste', ''Sindacati Unici Classisti'' in brief) was a [[Titoist]] [[trade union]] confederation in the [[Free Territory of Trieste]].<ref name="ilo">[[International Labour Organization]]. ''[http://bravo.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/pdconv.pl?host=status01&textbase=iloeng&document=1694&chapter=3&query=Italy%40ref&highlight=&querytype=bool&context=0 Case(s) No(s). 52, Report No. 7 (Italy): Complaints against the Government of Italy presented by The "Confederazione dei Sindacati Uniti Classisti del T.L.T"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726173015/http://bravo.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/pdconv.pl?host=status01&textbase=iloeng&document=1694&chapter=3&query=Italy@ref&highlight=&querytype=bool&context=0 |date=2011-07-26 }}''</ref><ref name="tr">Roletto, Giorgio. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=BC_RAAAAMAAJ Trieste ed i suoi problemi; situazione, tendenze, prospettive]''. Trieste: E. Borsatti, 1952. p. 87</ref> The organization was estimated to have around 2,000 members.<ref name="tr"/>
After the [[Cominform]] [[Tito–Stalin split|resolution condemning]] the [[Communist Party of Yugoslavia]], the Titoist trade unionist sector (whose most important leader had been Ivan Bukovec-Vojmir) broke away from the [[United Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste]] (''Sindacati Unici'', the trade union movement linked to the [[Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste]]) in the autumn of 1948.<ref name="lo"/> They founded the ''Comitato promotore dei sindacati unici classisti'' ('Promoting Committee of the United Class-Oriented Trade Unions'), with the goal of founding a new trade union confederation. Their work progressed slowly, only in early 1951 were they able to found the ''Confederazione dei Sindacati Unici Classisti del Territorio libero di Trieste'' as a new trade union confederation.<ref name="lo">Zucca, Lorenzo. ''[http://lorindol.altervista.org/7_-_19481951.htm LA CITTÀ OCCUPATA (1948 – 1951)]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}''</ref> The publication ''Il Comunista'' served as the organ of ''Sindacati Unici Classisti''.<ref name="tr"/>
''Sindacati Unici Classisti'' failed to become a prominent force in the labour movement in the Free Territory.<ref name="tr"/><ref name="br"/> A document from the [[UK|British]] [[Foreign Office]] stated that "[s]carcely anything was heard of the pro-Tito union, Sindacati Unici Classisti,...".<ref name="br">Preston, Paul, Michael Partridge, and Piers Ludlow. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PwyQAAAAMAAJ British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Part V, Series F, From 1951 Through 1956. Europe, 1951]''. Bethesda, MD: LexisNexis, 2005. p. 90</ref>
In 1952 ''Sindacati Unici Classisti'' sent a petition to the [[International Labour Organization]], protesting restrictions in the [[freedom of association]] by the [[Allied Military Government]] in the port of Trieste.<ref name="ilo"/><ref>Great Britain. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=reMZAAAAYAAJ Foreign Office, General Correspondence--Political, 1953 (FO 371/102561-108094)]''. Kew, Richmond, Surrey: List and Index Society, Public Record Office, 1989.</ref>
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