Borba (newspaper)
Borba (Борба in Serbian Cyrillic) was a Serbian newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Yugoslav Communist League (SKJ). Its name is the Serbian and Croatian word for 'struggle' or 'combat'.
History
The very first issue of Borba was first published in Zagreb on 19 February 1922 as the official gazette of the Yugoslav Communist Party (KPJ), a banned political organization since December 1920 that nevertheless operated clandestinely in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia.. Functioning as the banned Yugoslav Communist Party's propaganda piece, the paper played in important part in disseminating information among the party members, activists, and sympathizers.
On 13 January 1929, a week following the proclamation of King Alexander's 6 January Dictatorship, Borba got banned.
During World War II Borba was published in the Republic of Užice. After the World War II liberation by the Partisans, its publication moved to Belgrade.
From 1948 to 1987, the newspaper was also published simultaneously in Zagreb. For a long time, Borba alternated pages in Serbian Cyrillic alphabet and Gaj's Latin alphabet in the same edition.
Borba
Borba may refer to:
Borba (surname)
Borba blanca
Borba blanca is a white Spanish wine grape variety grown primarily in the Extremadura region of south central Spain. According to wine expert Jancis Robinson, the grape is of average to low quality and notable mostly for the high productivity and yields of the vine.
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