La Voce del Popolo (Voice of the People) is the only daily newspaper in the Italian language in Rijeka and in Croatia. Today, it is published by the Italian Union (Unione Italiana), the main organization of the Italian minority in Croatia and Slovenia. The newspaper was established during the Second World War, as one of several partisan publications in Italian in the region that were duplicated by cyclostyle, a small machine and ancestor to the photocopier that was used by many resistance movements across Europe. La Voce was named after an 19th century newspaper from Fiume, and the first number was issued on October 27, 1944. In May 1945, after the end of the war, La Voce del Popolo started to be published daily, becoming the newspaper of the Italian minority in Yugoslavia. It was under the control of the Communist Party and expressed the political line of the new authorities, but it also became one of the main expressions of the cultural and intellectual life of the Italian community in Rijeka and in Istria. Many leftist journalists and intellectuals who moved from Italy to Yugoslavia after the war were employed at the newspaper. The relationship between the editorial board and the Party was not free from tensions. After the expulsion of Yugoslavia form the Cominform in 1948, for example, part of the journalists explicitly supported Stalin against Tito. Later, la Voce del Popolo suffered as a result of changes in Yugoslavia's policies towards national minorities and was downsized. Nevertheless, it continued to be financially supported and published as a daily newspaper despite the constant numerical decline of the Italian minority population in Yugoslavia. After the disgragation of Socialist Yugoslavia, in the new Independent Croatia, the publishing house of La Voce del Popolo, Edit, was privatized. Since 2001, it is owned by the Italian Union and it is partially subsidized by the governments of Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. The newspaper has a daily run of around 4000 copies.