Communist Party of Albania backs student protests against Rama, denounces police repression

The Communist Party of Albania (PKSH) has expressed its full support for the ongoing student protests against the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, condemning police repression and calling on workers and the broader population to stand alongside the protesting youth. 

 

In a statement published by party chairman Qemal Cicollari, the PKSH described the students' demands as entirely just and legitimate, denouncing high education fees, deteriorating living conditions and the hardships faced by young people under capitalism.

 

40 years since the death of Enver Hoxha

Today, 11th April 2025, marks the 40th death anniversary of communist revolutionary and leader of Socialist Albania, Enver Hoxha. A controversial political figure, Hoxha led Albania from 1944 to 1985.

Enver Halil Hoxha was born on 16 October 1908 in Gjirokastër. He graduated from the lycée in Korçë in 1930 and then studied at the University of Montpellier in France. He was a school teacher at the French lycée in Korcë until the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, whereupon he was dismissed for refusing to join the newly-formed Albanian Fascist Party. Hoxha then opened a tobacco shop in Tiranë, which, in time, became the center for a communist cell.

Enver Hoxha: Revolutionary communists expect China to come out openly against Khrushchevite revisionism

On April 3, 1962, the leader of the Party of Labour of Albania, Enver Hoxha, called China to publicly denounce what he refereed to as "Khrushchevite revisionism". It is reminded that Socialist Albania's relations with the Soviet Union had been ruptured since December 1961, following Hoxha's fierce critique against Khrushchev's "revisionism" and "anti-marxism".

Enver Hoxha's 1962 statement was the following: