Albania Today was a political and informative review produced bi-monthly from the first issue that appeared in November/December at the end of 1971 until everything hit the fan in 1990.

For 20 years it was one way to keep up with the political developments within the country, including its relationship with the People’s Republic of China.

Although there is an emphasis on political statements and speeches there are also insights into the changes, developments and ideas existing within Albanian society during the 1970s and 1980s.

Also reproduced here are three editions of the Information Bulletin, the precursor to Albania Today.

Click on the images below to be taken to a pdf version of the particular issue.

Information Bulletin 1969, No 3 is in two parts and includes a major speech by Enver Hoxha on Education:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information Bulletin 1970, No 2 is in two parts and includes speeches, or excerpts of speeches, by Enver Hoxha and Ramiz Alia:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Includes:

Draft Directives of the 6th Congress of the PLA for the 5th Five Year Plan of Economic and Cultural Development of the People’s Republic of Albania for the Period from 1971 to 1975

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

Excerpts from Enver Hoxha‘s report to the 6th Congress of the PLA

Excerpts from Mehmet Shuhu‘s report to the 6th Congress of the PLA

Resolutions in support of the Vietnamese people

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

Problems of socialist construction in the Albanian countryside

Albania – a State free of taxes and dues

The demarcation line between Marxist-Leninists and modern revisionists cannot be liquidated

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

The Working Class and its World Historic Mission

The Dictatorship of the proletariat and the Fight against Bureaucracy

Treasures of Ancient Culture

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

Enver Hoxha‘s speech at the 7th Congress of Albanian Trade Unions

The intelligentsia and its present day role

From the history of the Albanian language

 

 

 

Contents include:

Folklore science in Albania

Right to pension – a victory for the co-operativist peasantry

Revolutionisation of teaching methods in school

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

Albanian women – builder of Socialism

The Intelligentsia in Socialism

Anarchism as Counterrevolutionary Theory and Practice

 

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

Stability of prices: a distinctive feature of a socialist economy

Socialist Realism by Ismail Kadare

Modern agriculture

 

 

 

Below is a link to a .doc article from Albania Today No 5, 1984. I came across this some time ago and as I’ve yet to get that far I thought I would post it now so that anyone interested in this topic would not have to wait until I get to 1984. I’m sorry I can’t remember the site where I was able to download this article and therefore can’t attribute the work done. I’ll just say thank you for whoever did so and if they get in touch I will then put a link to their website/blog. This article was originally published on pages 15-24 in the said issue under the title ‘The Marxist-Leninist Theoretical Thinking of the PLA and Comrade Enver Hoxha on the Socialist Development and Transformation of Agriculture’.

 

 

Contents include:

Socialist industrialization in Albania

The June 1924 Revolution

Pages from The History of the Party of Labour of Albania

 

 

 

Contents include:

Report delivered to activists of the Party by Enver Hoxha

The principles of socialist realism in Albanian art

French Revisionists in open fight against Revolution and Communism

 

 

 

 

Contents include:

Proletarian Democracy is Genuine Democracy – Enver Hoxha

Chinese warmongering policy

Capitalist character of Relations of Production in the Soviet Union

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