Editing Pier Paolo Pasolini (section)

=== Relationship with the Italian Communist Party ===
[[File:SanVitoT-piazzadelpopolo.jpg|thumb|250px|Piazza del Popolo in [[San Vito al Tagliamento]]]]
By October 1945, the political status of the [[Friuli]] region became a matter of contention between different political factions. On 30 October, Pasolini joined the pro-devolution association ''Patrie tal Friul'', founded in [[Udine]]. Pasolini wanted a Friuli based on its tradition, attached to the [[Catholic Church in Italy]], but intent on civic and [[social progress]], as opposed to those advocates of regional autonomy who wanted to preserve their privileges based on "immobilism".<ref name="Siciliano, Enzo. 2014, 111-112">Siciliano, Enzo. 2014, 111–112</ref> He also criticized the [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI) for its opposition to [[devolution|regional devolution]] and preference instead for [[Unitary state|State centralisation]]. Pasolini founded the party Movimento Popolare Friulano, but resigned upon realizing that it was being covertly manipulated by Italy's ruling [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democratic Party]] to counter local [[Titoism|Titoists]], who were attempting to annex large swaths of the Friuli region to the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].<ref name="Siciliano, Enzo. 2014, 111-112"/>

On 26 January 1947, Pasolini wrote a declaration that was published on the front page of the newspaper ''[[Libertà (newspaper)|Libertà]]'': "In our opinion, we think that currently only Communism is able to provide a new culture." It generated controversy, partly due to the fact he was still not a member of the PCI. Pasolini planned to extend the work of the Academiuta to the literature of other [[Romance language]]s, and met [[exile]]d [[Catalan people|Catalan]] poet Carles Cardó. He took part in several demonstrations after joining the PCI. In May 1949, he attended the Peace Congress in Paris. Observing the struggles of workers and peasants, and watching the clashes of protesters with Italian police, he began to conceive his first novel. During this period, while holding a position as a teacher in a secondary school, he stood out in the local Italian Communist Party section as a skilful writer, while defying the official Party platform that [[Stalinism]] was [[anti-Christian]]. Along with the Party leadership, local Christian Democrats and Catholic clergy also took notice. In the summer of 1949, Pasolini was warned by a [[Roman Catholic priest]] to renounce [[Marxism-Leninism]] or lose his teaching position. Similarly, after some posters were put up in Udine, Giambattista Caron, a Christian Democrat deputy, warned Pasolini's cousin Nico Naldini that "[Pasolini] should abandon communist propaganda" to prevent "pernicious reactions".<ref name="Siciliano, Enzo. 2014, 148">Siciliano, Enzo. 2014, 148</ref>