Albania Today 1972

Posted on 15/10/2016 by Michael

Skenderbeu’s Artillery, Sali Shijaku, 1968

Albania Today 1972

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.

Numbers 5 and 6 for 1972 are very large files and so are reproduced here in two parts.

Albania Today: Index 1971 – 1979, Index 1980 – 1984, Index 1985 – 1990

Albania Today: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (missing), 1980 (missing), 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 (missing), 1988, 1989, 1990.

Albania Today Vol 2 No 1 January-February 1972

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

Albania Today No 2 (3) 1972

Contents include:

The Working Class and its World Historic Mission

The Dictatorship of the proletariat and the Fight against Bureaucracy

Treasures of Ancient Culture

Albania Today Vol 2 No 3 May-June 1972

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

Albania Today Vol 2 No 4 July-August 1972

Contents include:

Folklore science in Albania

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

Revolutionisation of teaching methods in school

The following two editions were not scanned in the most ideal of circumstances and one consequence of that is their very large size. For that reason they are presented here in two parts.

Albania Today No 5 (6) 1972 – pt 1

Contents include:

Youth – active force in the revolutionisation of the country’s life

The working class and socialist construction in the countryside

Socialist trade in the service of the people

Albania Today No 5 (6) 1972 – pt 2

Contents include:

Present day revolutionary movement and Trotskyism

The peace-loving peoples and countries reject the hegemonistic concepts of the two imperialist superpowers

Albania Today No 6 (7) 1972 – pt 1

Contents include:

The Albanian people fight, work and live happily in the Party epoch

Great victory of our national culture

State social insurance

Albania Today No 6 (7) 1972 – pt 2

Contents include:

The production and the export

Identical imperialist political concepts

Modern revisionism and religion

Albania Today 1973

Posted on 26/09/2016 by Michael

Vojo Kushi – Zef Shoshi

Albania Today 1973

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.

NB. Number 1, 2 and 5 were scanned in relatively unfavourable of circumstances. This means, amongst other things, that sometimes the top of the pages have been cut off. This is a nuisance but hopefully the majority of the text is legible and it shouldn’t detract from the ideas in the content. It also has meant that the files are very large. This is unfortunate but until I can get access to the magazines myself and able to scan them in better circumstances at least this makes them available to those with an interest in an important period in revolutionary socialist history.

(If anyone has those issues and can scan them, or lend them to me so that I can scan them, it would be very much appreciated – in 1973 1, 2, and 5.)

Thanks to the comrades at bannedthought for providing better copies of issues Nos. 4 and 6.

Albania Today: Index 1971 – 1979, Index 1980 – 1984, Index 1985 – 1990

Albania Today: 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (missing), 1980 (missing), 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 (missing), 1988, 1989, 1990.

Albania Today No 1 (8) 1973

Contents include:

Development of sciences in socialism is a necessity and indispensability

Working class control and Party organisations

Philosophy and art

Albania Today No 2 (9) 1973

Contents include:

The women and their complete emancipation

Resolute fight against ideological foreign influences

Self-reliance

JV Stalin – great revolutionary and Marxist-Leninist

Albania Today Vol 2 No 3 (10) 1973 May-June

Contents include:

Albanian women – builder of Socialism

The Intelligentsia in Socialism

Anarchism as Counterrevolutionary Theory and Practice

Albania Today, No 4 (11) 1973

Contents include:

Intensive fight against alien ideological manifestations and liberal stands towards them

Possibilities of building socialism without passing through the stage of developed capitalism

Neo-freudianism – one of the most reactionary trends of bourgeois ideology

Occasionally supplements were added to the regular editions of Albania Today and one was added to the September-October 1973 issue following the Fascist Coup in Chile, which occurred on 21st September 1973.

Albania Today, No 4 (11) 1973 – Chile Supplement

I must apologise for the quality of the scanning for the next issue of 1973 – it’s truly terrible, and I wasn’t aware of that at the time of scanning. However bad the result it is possible to read the majority of the text. I have decided to include it until I can get access to another copy which, hopefully, will be more legible.

Another ‘problem’ is that this particular issue had more pages than normal and so exceeded the limit for a single file on WordPress – don’t know why the limit is so low – therefore it is presented here in two parts.

Albania Today No 5 (12) 1973 – pt 1

Albania Today No 5 (12) 1973 – pt 2

Contents include:

CC of the PLA greets the 10th Congress of the CP of China

Democracy and dictatorship in Socialism

Culture – property of the entire people

Contents include:

Falsifications and theoretical speculations

Organised leadership of the revolution – an historic necessity

Albania Today No 6 (13) 1973

Contents include:

Problems of improving relations of production in the Socialist economy

The people express their great creative talent

About the Middle East crisis

Hegomonistic plans of Soviet social imperialism in Asia

Issue No 6 (13) also included a supplement, this one celebrating the 80th anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, the great leader of the Chinese people and Party.

Albania Today No 6 (13) 1973 – Mao Birthday Supplement

Albania Today 1984

Posted on 24/09/2016 by Michael

With Spring – Nexhat Hajellari

Albania Today 1984

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.

Albania Today: Index 1971 – 1979, Index 1980 – 1984, Index 1985 – 1990

Albania Today: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (missing), 1980 (missing), 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987 (missing), 1988, 1989, 1990.

Albania Today No 1 (74) 1984

Contents include:

Concern for the health of man

The development of national culture is a vital problem, an imperative for the defence of the freedom and independence of every country

Post-modernism – a new expression of decadence in aesthetics and art

Albania Today No 2 (75) 1984

Contents include:

The problems of the woman are problems of a profoundly political and social character

PSRA – a state of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

The new Albanian literature and the tradition

Albania Today No 3 (76) 1984

Contents include:

The 3rd Congress of the Writers and Artists’ League of Albania

Science and technique developing production and raising well-being

The Socialist order is the most democratic order

Windows on the history and culture of the Albanian people

Albania Today, No 4 (77) 1984

Contents include:

The youth is a great revolutionary progressive force

Albanian agriculture on the road of its ceaseless development and intensification

Achievements of Albanian ethnography and folklore

Albania Today No 5 (78) 1984

Contents include:

Socialist industrialisation – a magnificent deed of the Party

Socialist culture – a weapon in the struggle for unbroken progress

About some problems of the struggle of the Party against modern revisionism over the questions of present world development

Albania Today No 6 (79) 1984

Contents include:

The correct line of the Party – the source of our victories – Ramiz Alia

In defence of freedom and the gains of Socialism

Socialism – a really humane order

Socialist Realism – art of great possibilities

Left side of the road

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