(''Fraternalist'') is a newspaper of the

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of America (CFU), a fraternal benefit society of the

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. The magazine was started in 1904, during the CFU's presidency of

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, its founder and the first president.
''Zajedničar'' is headquartered and printed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh,

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. It is published in dual-language format with the first section in English and the second section being a full Croatian translation. Since 2009, the newspaper is also distributed in

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format. The paper is the only ongoing Croatian-language newspaper in the United States. Another publication called (''People's Fraternalist'') was launched by Croatian communists within the CFU in 1939, but it was short-lived and no surviving copies are known to exist. It formed part of

non-English press of the Communist Party USA During the nine decades since its establishment in 1919, the Communist Party USA produced or inspired a vast array of newspapers and magazines in at least 25 different languages. This list of the Non-English press of the Communist Party USA provi ...

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