Party of Labour of Albania Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë | |
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| Abbreviation | PPSh |
| First Secretary | Enver Hoxha (1941-1985) Ramiz Alia(1985-1991) |
| Founded | 8 November 1941 |
| Dissolved | 13 June 1991 |
| Newspaper | Zëri i Popullit |
| Youth wing | Labour Youth Union of Albania Pioneers of Enver |
| Political orientation | Marxism-leninism Anti-revisionism Hoxhaism (post-1970s) |
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The Party of Labour of Albania was the ruling party of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1945-1991, when a bourgeois counter-revolution resulted in a Capitalist government being installed.
The Party of Labour of Albania had its orgins in various Anti-fascist and Marxist organisations that resisted the Monarchy and later the Fascist Italian colonisers, and itself would form in 1941 under the name of the Communist Party of Albania. After succeeding in liberating Albania from Fascist Imperialists, the Communist Party would begin to develop a People's Democracy, as well as recover Albania from its war-torn state, and develop Socialism. It would be renamed to the Party of Labour in 1948.[1]
Led by Enver Hoxha, who served as general secretary, the Party of Labour would later begin an ideological struggle against the leaders of the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia and labelled them as "social-imperialists."[2]
The modern legacy of the Party of Labour of Albania can be seen in modern political parties like the Socialist Party of Albania, or the Reorganised Party of Labour of Albania.
References
- ↑ Enver Hoxha. Selected Works, vol. Vl: 'When the Party was born'. [PDF]
- ↑ History of the Party of Labour of Albania. [PDF] Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies at the Central Committe of the Party of Labour of Albania.
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