Party of Labor of Albania

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Party of Labor of Albania

Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë
Abbreviation

PPSh (Albanian)

PLA
First Secretary Enver Hoxha (until 1985)
Ramiz Alia
Founded 8 November 1941
Dissolved 13 June 1991
Succeeded by PKSh
PS
Headquarters Tirana
Newspaper Zëri i Popullit
Think tank Institute of Marxist–Leninist Studies
Youth wing Labor Youth Union of Albania
Membership (1986) 147,000
Political orientation

Before the early 1950s:
Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism

After the early 1950s:
Revisionism
Centrism
Nationalism
Political position Before the early 1950s:
Far-left
After the early 1950s:
Centrism
Slogan "Punëtorët e botës, bashkohuni!"
"Workers of the world, unite!" (English)
Anthem The Internationale
Party flag

The Party of Labor of Albania (PLA)[a] was the ruling communist party of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania. The party was founded in 1941[b] during a national liberation war, and would assume the rule of the vanguard party of the Albanian people. It was initially a Marxist–Leninist party with Enver Hoxha as its first secretary[1] until the early 1950s, after which it, alongside Hoxha himself, assumed a revisionist character tailing behind Khrushchevism and later Maoism, while propagating their own own theoretical deviations.[2] In 1991, the party was disbanded.

Further reading

See also

References

  1. The Constitution of the Party of Labour of Albania (1977). Available on the Internet Archive.
  2. The Red Spectre, "Against Hoxha", 2024

Notes

  1. Albanian: Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë (PPSh).
  2. As the Communist Party of Albania (Albanian: Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë).