Party of Labor of Albania
Party of Labor of Albania Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë | |
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| 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: 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 | |
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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
- Against Hoxha(2024), The Red Spectre
See also
References
- ↑ The Constitution of the Party of Labour of Albania (1977). Available on the Internet Archive.
- ↑ The Red Spectre, "Against Hoxha", 2024