Editing Croatian Spring (section)

===November plenum and student protest===
[[File:Vladimir Bakarić (1).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Vladimir Bakarić]] helped replace the reformist leaders of Croatia.|alt=Photograph of Vladimir Bakarić facing the camera]]
At the 5 November plenary session of the SKH, Dabčević-Kučar said that the national movement was evidence of the unity of the nation and the SKH, which she said should not be sacrificed to achieve revolutionary purity. After she rejected several of Bakarić's proposals to modify the SKH's policies, the conservative faction—most vocally Bilić and Dragosavac—demanded the enforcement of the August Action Programme. The issue was not resolved by the plenum but, in the aftermath of the session, Bakarić decided to support Bilić and Dragosavac and to ask Tito to intervene.{{sfn|Swain|2011|p=174}} On 12–15 November, Tito visited [[Bugojno]] in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was hosted by the republic's leadership ([[Branko Mikulić]], [[Hamdija Pozderac]], and [[Dragutin Kosovac]]). On 13 November, they were joined by the Yugoslav prime minister, [[Džemal Bijedić]], who criticised the SKH's demands for changing the distribution of foreign currency earnings. Dragosavac met with Tito on 14 and 15 November to discuss the Croatian Spring.{{sfn|Kamberović|2012|p=146}} On 15 November, Tito was joined by the heads of the JNA to view recordings of political rallies in Croatia where nationalists and SKH members spoke and where anti-Tito shouts could be heard.{{sfn|Swain|2011|p=174}}

The extended SKH Central Committee secretly met from 17 to 23 November, but the two opposing factions could not agree.{{sfn|Swain|2011|p=174}} On 22 November, about 3,000 Zagreb University students voted to begin a strike the next morning. Initially, they protested federal regulations on [[hard currency]], banking and commerce. At Paradžik's urging,{{sfn|Ramet|2006|p=256}} a series of proposed constitutional amendments was added to the demands: defining Croatia as a sovereign and national state of Croats, making Croatian the official language, guaranteeing that residents of Croatia would complete their compulsory [[military service]] in Croatia, and formally establishing Zagreb as Croatia's capital and {{lang|hr|Lijepa naša domovino}} as the anthem of Croatia.{{sfn|Knezović|1995|pp=231–232}} The protesters singled out Bakarić for sabotaging Tripalo's currency reform.{{sfn|Swain|2011|p=175}} The Croatian Student Federation expanded the strike over Croatia. Within days, 30,000 students were on strike demanding the expulsion of Bilić, Dragosavac, Baltić, [[Ema Derossi-Bjelajac]] and [[Čedo Grbić]] from the SKH as unitarists.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|pp=256–257}} On 25 November, Tripalo met with the students, urging them to stop the strike, and Dabčević-Kučar made the same request four days later.{{sfn|Swain|2011|p=175}}