Albania – View from abroad

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Albania – View from abroad

On this page the intention is to provide a selection of articles, pamphlets and books that were produced outside of the country in an effort to provide information on the developments within Albania during its period of Socialist Construction.

New Albania Society, England

New Albania Society Bulletin – Number 1, 1974, London, 1974, 10 pages.

New Albania Society Bulletin – Number 2, 1974, London, 1974, 10 pages.

New Albania Society Bulletin – 1975, London, 1975, 10 pages.

New Albania Society Bulletin – Number 10, London, nd, 8 pages.

Albania, the most successful country in Europe, New Albania Society, London, 1977, 36 pages. A pamphlet produced in Britain in 1977 based upon the experiences and observations of a delegation of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) who visited the country on 1976.

Albanian Life

Albanian Life was the journal of the Albanian Society in England.

A short guide to the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, William Bland, Regent Holidays and The Albanian Society, Bristol, 1981, 39 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 24, Number 1, 1983, London, 1983, 52 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 25, Number 2, 1983, London, 1983, 52 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 26, Number 3, 1983, London, 1983, 45 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 27, Number 4, 1983, London, 1983, 48 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 29, Number 2, 1984, London, 1984, 49 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 32, Number 2, 1985, London, 1986, 50 pages. Published in England commemorating the life and work of Enver Hoxha shortly after the announcement of his death on 11th April 1985.

Albanian Life, Number 33, Number 3, 1985, London, 1985, 49 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 34, Number 1, 1986, London, 1986, 49 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 35, Number 2, 1986, London, 1986, 49 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 36, Number 3, 1986, London, 1986, 48 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 38, Number 1, 1987, London, 1987, 51 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 39, Number 2, 1987, London, 1987, 53 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 40, Number 3, 1987, London, 1987, 52 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 41, Number 1, 1988, London, 1988, 52 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 42, Number 2, 1988, London, 1988, 52 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 43, Number 3, 1988, London, 1988, 49 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 45, Number 2, 1989, London, 1989, 51 pages.

Albanian Life, Number 49 – March 1990-January 1991, London, 1991, 54 pages.

The Albanian Party of Labour on Czechoslovakia, Albanian Society, London, 1968, 17 pages.

Marxist-Leninist Journal

The Marxist-Leninist Journal was the Theoretical Journal of the Revolutionary Communist party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

Marxist-Leninist Journal, Volume 3, Number 2, July 1990, London, 1990, 100 pages. This edition included and article ‘On the 100th Anniversary of International Workers Day’ – (May 1st.) and two articles by Ramiz Alia

The Marxist-Leninist

Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).

The Marxist-Leninist – Number 7, April 14 1985, 29 pages. This issue devoted to the life and work of Enver Hoxha, produced in the days after his death in April 1985

Albania Report

Albania Report was a bulletin edited by the Albanian Affairs Study Group. The periodical was published by Gamma Publishing Company, which was based in New York.

Albania Report Volume 1, Number 9, 1971, New York, 1971, 6 pages. Includes articles on Albanian Agriculture and The Permet Congress of 1944.

Albania Report Volume 2, Number 2, 1971, New York, 1971, 6 pages. Includes articles on the success of the Albanian Resolution for the People’s Republic of China to take its rightful seat in the United nations, the 6th Congress of Party of Labour of Albania, the 30th Anniversary of the Party of Labour of Albania and Pensions for Co-op farmers.

Albania Report Volume 3, Number 1, 1972, New York, 1972, 6 pages. Includes articles on Albanian comments on the US Presidential election campaign and about Albanians commemorating Georgi Dimitrov (the great Bulgarian Marxist-Leninist).

Albania Report Volume 3, Number 3, 1973, New York, 1973, 4 pages. Includes articles on Albania’s condemnation of Nixon’s war escalation in Vietnam, the joyous celebration of Albania’s National Day and the Albanians re-affirmation of support for the Cambodian People.

Albania Report Volume 3, Number 4, 1973, New York, 1973, 4 pages. Includes articles on Albania’s pledge of full support to the Vietnamese people, Imperialist aid: a neo-colonial trap and the Budget and economic plan for 1973.

Albania Report Volume 3, Number 6, 1973, New York, 1973, 6 pages. Includes articles on Albanian women celebrating great achievements and Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian leader, visits Albania.

Albania Report Volume 4, Number 1, 1973, New York, 1973, 6 pages. Includes articles on Albania hailing the 10th Congress of Communist Party of China, the ‘Internationalisation’ of culture and art and Albania’s condemnation of the fascist coup in Chile.

Albania Report, Number 63, September 1985, New York, 1985, 4 pages. On the death of Enver Hoxha.

Albania Report, Number 67, December 1988, New York, 1988, 4 pages. Includes articles on Ramiz Alia‘s comments on the world situation and the great achievements of Cooperative Farm workers.

Socialist Albania

Socialist Albania was a quarterly publication of the New Albania Study Group, an organization which was devoted to informing people about the Peoples’ Socialist Republic of Albania, the life of the Albanian people, and the realities of their economic and social system. Their aim was to increase the understanding and friendship between the American and the Albanian peoples.

Socialist Albania, Number 2, Fall 1989, Chicago, 1989, 38 pages. With articles relating to 45 Years of Liberation of Socialist Albania including; on the economy and the situation of women in the country.

New Albania – A small nation, a great contribution, 1984, USA, 46 pages. A booklet produced in the United States in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the country and the beginning of the Socialist Revolution – 29th November, 1944. A collaboration by a number of US based Albanian Friendship Societies.

Pickaxe and rifle, William Ash, Howard Baker, London, 1974, 271 pages. The first book to give the opportunity of those in the capitalist ‘west’ to get an idea of the vilified and ‘isolated’ People’s Republic of Albania. Written by a British based Marxist-Leninist it offers the general reader the opportunity to get to know a society where the workers were in control. This was even more important at a time when the society in Britain was falling apart – not too different from how it is more than 40 years after its publication.

Pickaxe and rifle, William Ash, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2024, 290 pages.

Remembering Comrade Enver Hoxha

The name and work of Comrade Enver Hoxha will live forever, Hardial Bains, speech delivered at the meeting held on October 14 1985, in Toronto, to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Enver Hoxha, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Institute, Toronto, 1985, 61 pages.

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History of the Party of Labour of Albania

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History of the Party of Labour of Albania

The most complete, official, history of the Albanian Communist Party/Party of Labour of Albania available. We don’t believe the history of the Party after 1980 was ever published, in Albanian let alone English.

Ten years of the Albanian Party of Labour 1941-1951, Orbis, Prague, 1951, 105 pages. A very early book on the history of the Party of Labour of Albania, published in Prague in 1951. It has text in three languages, Albanian, Russian and English. Interesting especially for its collection of photos from the National Liberation War and the first years of Socialist Construction.

History of the Party of Labour of Albania – Chapters 1 and 2, Naim Frashëri Publishing House, Tirana, 1969, 326 pages.

Chapter 1 – The struggle to found the Albanian Communist Party (1929-1941)

Chapter 2 – The Communist Party of Albania – organizer and leader of the War for the Liberation of the Country and for the establishment of the People’s Power (1941-1944)

History of the Party of Labour of Albania – Chapters 3, 4 and 5, Naim Frashëri Publishing House, Tirana, 1970, 308 pages.

Chapter 3 – The Communist Party of Albania in its struggle to rebuild the country and promote Socialist Revolution (December 1944-1948)

Chapter 4 – The struggle of the Party to turn Albania from a backward agrarian country into an agrarian-industrial one (1948-1955)

Chapter 5 – The Party of Labour of Albania and its struggle to complete the building of the economic basis of Socialism (1956-1960)

History of the Party of Labour of Albania, 8 Nëntori Publishing House, Tirana, 1982, 2nd edition, 632 pages. The second edition of the ‘History of the PLA’ covers the activity of the Party up to 1980. Apart from this, the first edition has been re-edited, making a number of minor alterations which do not affect its structure or general content. The changes comprise some abridgements and corrections made on the basis of documents.

As well as the same 5 chapters listed above this volume includes;

Chapter 6 – The PLA in struggle for the complete construction of Socialist society in the conditions of the imperialist-revisionist blockade (1961-1965)

Chapter 7 – The struggle of the PLA for the further revolutionization of the Party and the life of the country (1966-1971)

Chapter 8 – The struggle of the Party for the deepening of the Socialist revolution in all fields through stern class struggle (1971-1976)

Chapter 9 – The PLA leads the people resolutely on the Marxist-Leninist road of the complete construction of Socialist society (1976-1980)

The history of the building of a Communist Party in Albania – according to the modern revisionists

Georgi Dimitrov and the Albanian Democratic and Communist Movement, 1920-1939, Elena Atanassova, Sofia Press, 1979, 62 pages. An approach, not withstanding the outstanding figure of Georgi Dimitrov, that attempts to denigrate the struggle of the Albanians to create their own Communist Party.

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Ramiz Alia – Articles and Speeches

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Ramiz Alia – Articles and Speeches

Ramiz Alia was Member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania and Vice-Chairman of the General Council of the Democratic Front of Albania and then took over the role as leader of the country and the Party on the death of Enver Hoxha in 1985.

Leninism – the banner of struggle and victories, speech at the solemn meeting commemorating the centenary of Lenin‘s birth, April 1970, Naim Frasheri, Tirana, 1970, 43 pages.

The Albanian League of Prizren – a brilliant page in our history written in blood, speech on the Centenary of the Albanian League of Prizren, Tirana, June 10, 1978, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1978, 42 pages.

The Revolution – a question taken up for resolution, report submitted to the Scientific Session on problems of current world development, under the auspices of the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies at the CC of the PLA, October 2-4, 1978, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1978, 42 pages.

The Revolution – a question taken up for solution, report submitted to the Scientific Session on problems of current world development of development, October 2-4, 1978, November 8th Publishing House, Toronto, 2024, 42 pages.

Stalin and his work – a banner of struggle for all revolutionaries, speech delivered on the 20 December 1979 at the commemorative meeting on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of J.V. Stalin, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1979, 59 pages.

The correct line of the Party – the source of our victories, speech delivered at the solemn meeting commemorating the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Homeland and the triumph of the people’s revolution, by Comrade Ramiz Alia, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania and President of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, November 27, 1984, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1984, 45 pages.

Enver Hoxha and his work live and will live for ever, address delivered by Comrade Ramiz Alia, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania and President of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, at the memorial meeting on the occasion of the burial of Comrade Enver Hoxha, April 15, 1985, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1985, 23 pages.

Albania will always advance on the road to Socialism, address of Comrade Ramiz Alia, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania and President of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, at the rally of the working people of Korca, August 26th, 1985, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1985, 36 pages.

Enver Hoxha – the banner of struggle for freedom and Socialism, speech at the National Conference dedicated to the immortal work of Comrade Enver Hoxha, October 15, 1985, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1985, 20 pages.

Report to the 9th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania, report on the Activity of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania and the Tasks for the Future, submitted to the 9th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania, November 3, 1986, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1986, 215 pages.

Democratization of socio-economic life strengthens the thinking and action of the people, speech at the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, April 17, 1990, 8 Nentori, Tirana, 1990, 51 pages.

Our Enver, Ramiz Alia, November 8th Publishing House, Ottowa, 2023, 402 pages.

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