Macedonian revolutionary fight day

On 23rd October 1893 a Macedonian revolutionary organization was founded. The basic aim of the organization was the achievement of autonomy for Macedonia. The leaders and ideologists were Goce Delcev and Gjorce Petrov. In April 1903 a group of Macedonian revolutionaries, known as "Gemidzii", carried out a series of attacks on a number of buildings in Thessaloniki in order to draw the attention of the European public towards the situation of the Macedonian people. On August 2, 1903 the Ilinden uprising had begun. The rebels in the town of Krusevo organized their own power, well known as the Republic of Krusevo ("Krushevska Republika"), which lasted 10 days. In 1903 Krste Petkov - Misirkov published the book "On Macedonian Matters" ("Za makedonckite raboti") in which he projected the principles for standardization of the Macedonian literary language.

Controversy

With the new legislation adopted by the Macedonian parliament, 23rd of October, officially became public holiday for the first time in 2007, celebrating the forming of the Macedonian revolutionary organization - VMRO, thus marking the beginning of the Macedonian revolutionary fight in 1893. The opposition Social democratic party (SDSM), decided to boycott the holiday, stating that the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE, has made the party's holiday a national holiday.