Albania Today 1971

6th Congress of The Party of Labour of Albania, 1971

6th Congress of The Party of Labour of Albania, 1971

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Albania Today 1971

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.

There was only one issue produced in 1971, at the end of the year and the ‘rush’ to do so (rather than waiting for the beginning of the new year) was probably due to the successful completion of the 6th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1st – 7th November of that year. This also coincided with the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Party  

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

Albania Today: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 (missing), 1980 (missing), 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 (missing), 1988, 1989, 1990.

Albania Today November-December 1971 - First ever issue

Albania Today November-December 1971 – First ever issue

 

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

 

 

 

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Albania Today 1972

Skenderbeu's Artillery, Sali Shijaku, 1968

Skenderbeu’s Artillery, Sali Shijaku, 1968

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Albania Today No 6 (7) 1972 – pt 2

 

 

Contents include:

The production and the export

Identical imperialist political concepts

Modern revisionism and religion

 

 

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Vojo Kushi - Zef Shoshi

Vojo Kushi – Zef Shoshi

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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

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

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

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

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

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 1

Albania Today No 5 (12) 1973 - pt 2

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

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 No 6 (13) 1973 – Mao Birthday Supplement

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