The mass of honest Socialists is abandoning the PS leadership. There were no more than 7,000 nationalist rally-goers in Tirana, 700–800 in Fier, and 400–500 in Tepelenë. “ZP” adds a zero to the true figures, counting democrats and other indifferent spectators, passers-by, and vendors as well.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Order reports that in July a rally in defense of Fatos Nano was held in Tirana at the request of the Tirana Socialist Party Committee. The Order Forces had taken all the necessary measures to ensure that the rally proceeded peacefully and in accordance with the requirements of the law. The spokesperson also reports that Gramoz Ruçi, together with Pëllumb Vladi, secretary of the Tirana Party Committee, and former members of the notorious 326 unit, called for the lawful rally to be broken up and for people to proceed along the capital’s main streets to “Skënderbej” Square. The Order Forces, without using the force authorized by law, tried to stop them, but the organizers and those following them continued with their plan. The thousands of Tirana citizens who were in Skënderbej Square did not protest with slogans, and only the intervention of the Order Forces prevented a confrontation and the serious consequences that might have followed. The Order Forces detained the organizers and principal participants in this illegal demonstration and will hold them legally accountable. The Ministry of Public Order informs citizens that it will not permit any illegal demonstration by any political force whatsoever, and will use all the means and measures provided for by law. (ATSH)

People who are truly disadvantaged and bewildered, do not be deceived by Fatos Nano’s gang, which has usurped the PS leadership, or by the red businessmen who are trying to turn the millions they inherited or gained through corruption this year and at the end of last year into billions! They have gained a lot from Democracy, while you have gained and will gain a great deal. Fatos Nano and his friends are worthy successors of Enver Hoxha and Ramiz Alia, who persecuted you, tortured you, robbed you, ruined you, and impoverished you for almost 50 years. These new Enverists and others are trying to deceive you again, to make you scapegoats so they can bring back the paradise they lost. They trampled even on your corpses and bodies, on your blood, to seize the seats, privileges, and power they had lost. They want a revolution, blood, civil war, because they dream that they can win, while you lose everything through their insane social-communist adventures. Think about easing your burdens, about making the fullest and most honest use of democracy’s many great advantages to become prosperous and, at last, to make life better for every citizen. We have suffered like no other people. Now we have the right and the duty to live like every other people in Europe.

STATEMENT of the Presidium of the Albanian Youth Federation Today, 31.07.1993, the Presidium of the FRSH, convened urgently, having analyzed the tense political situation and in order to prevent a possible confrontation, clarifies its position and its relation to recent events: - We give our full moral support to the justice bodies in pursuing the legal proceedings against persons who have broken the law. We consider the law the institutional foundation of democracy and, as such, will fight to defend and implement it without hesitation against any force with vested interests— - The people of Tirana showed the fascist-communists of the PS their place; they broke the law, disrupted public order, and provoked the rule-of-law state at Friday’s rally. - The capital’s democrats expressed their anti-communist sentiment with dignity, shouting: “We do not want communism”! “We do not want socialism”! “Fatos Nano is a thief”! “Down with communist revanchism”! “Let justice show Fatos the thief his place”! “State Security spies, get off the square”! “Heroic Tirana, with the Democratic Party”! “Either we die or we live; we will not betray Berisha”! “Berisha, Berisha”! “There is no turning back”! “Down with corruption, down with the red criminals”! - We welcome the initiative of the judicial authorities against corruption and the people implicated in it. We consider the arrest of Fatos Nano lawful and just, as a flagrant violation of the law. - We condemn the organizers of yesterday’s rally as responsible for stimulating uncontrolled political instincts. - We condemn every kind of attempt aimed at destabilizing the country. - We also condemn the extremism of the Islami, Dokle, Ruçi kind, and all the others who dream of a return to dictatorship in Albania. - The democratic state must bring Kastriot Islami before the law, as he issued a call for genocide and public massacres in the newspaper “Zëri i Popullit,” which, as a platform for voices wishing for civil war in Albania, must be put on trial. - The Albanian Youth Federation declares that it supports the democratic government and President Berisha personally, calling on them to take all the measures provided for by law to prevent communist revanchism in Albania. Otherwise, we reserve the right to use all our democratic means and potential to confront this danger. For the Political Sector MESILA DODA For the Information Sector MARK MARKU CHAIRMAN BARDHYL UKCAMA

— It promised you great freedom and gave you prisons and concentration camps, turning Albania into one great prison. It promised you paradise and plunged you into hell. — It promised national unity in words, while in deeds it sold Kosovo and Çamëri. — It promised that you would eat with golden spoons, but left you for 47 years with blackened aluminum spoons or wooden spoons. — It promised that you would have villas and palaces, but left you in shacks and single-storey houses of adobe and mountain stone, in apartments not even as large as a doghouse elsewhere in the world, in basements and bunkers. — It promised that it would make it possible for you to stay alive, to live like an African, with savings that would require several years of lottery winnings to buy, with authorization, a black-and-white television, a refrigerator, or a washing machine—things the rest of the world makes in a day’s work, or at most a week’s. — It promised you abundance, but guaranteed you minimal rations with ration cards and coupons. — It promised to fill the country with modern factories, plants, and industrial complexes, which would mean there would be no unemployment in Albania. Instead, it built you a few workshops, factories, plants, and industrial complexes that the Yugoslavs, Soviets, and Chinese had discarded from their countries decades earlier as primitive and inefficient. We did not escape unemployment, and 80 percent [of them?]. Now most of them are no longer operating and are of no use to us. — It promised to make you the happiest people in the world, but made you among the poorest and most wretched. — It promised to make you masters of the whole country and of its power, but made you the most oppressed, most discriminated against people, slaves of the real Enver Hoxha, the party-state, and his dictatorship. — It promised you a thousand and one wonders, but deceived you with a thousand and one fairy tales. It promised to make you rich by taking the high road, but for 47 years gave you laughable wages and pensions, just enough to— with blackened aluminum spoons or wooden spoons. - I promise you, he would thanks to which unemployment in Albania would become a thing of the past; he built you some workshops or factories, plants, and industrial complexes that you—those wretches, the Soviets and the Chinese—had discarded decades ago in your own countries as primitive and ineffective, and on which you spent and lost more than - I promise you, he would primitive and ineffective. You spent and lost more on them than - I promise you, he would fill the country with blackened aluminum spoons or wooden spoons. - I promise you, he would fill the country with the most oppressed, most discriminated-against people, true slaves of Enver Hoxha, the Party-State, and the dictatorship of - I promise you a thousand and one wonders; he deceived you with a thousand and one fairy tales. XHEVAT MUSTAFA

Exemplary calm from the democratic state’s police On Friday afternoon, “the Enverist hordes came out of their villas, out of their oversized homes, closed the shops given to them by the Government of Stability, and poured into the streets of Tirana to demand blood...” Unbelievable, but absolutely true. The nostalgics for communism, mostly old men and women, their children who were former State Security officers, former Labour Party of Albania cadres, leaders of the Enverist kolkhozes, first secretaries of the former and present-day Labour Party, poured into the streets of the capital, eager to provoke new massacres even worse than the one on 2 April in Shkodër. But, fortunately for this nation, the sinister scenario of the criminals Ruçi - Dokle was not carried out. Credit for preventing bloodshed goes to the security forces, who, with exemplary restraint, ensured that the Enverist rally-goers peacefully kissed the empty pedestal of Enver Hoxha in “Skënderbej” Square and, tails between their legs, went home. Our democratic state thus once again demonstrated tolerance and composure in the face of the most discredited and reactionary forces known to the millennia-old history of humanity. From beginning to end, the 30 July rally in Tirana openly called for the overthrow of democratic rule and the constitutional order in Albania, and expressed a desire for Enver and communism to be brought back to life. Do not such fairy tales as “Party—Enver, we are always ready,” “The Party of Labour, the Party of Labour,” and other cries of this kind show precisely that? Who benefits from this new conflagration? Apart from our age-old declared enemies, a political caste that, unfortunately, leads the PS today? Which Albanian wants to lose the freedom they have won? Two million Albanians, whom the democracy won on 22 March made the lawful owners of the land; citizens who, thanks to this democratic government, acquired shops... and property and became owners and a new bourgeoisie; the highlanders and country folk who now keep herds of cows, sheep, and goats and no longer have to dip their bread in sugar, but have meat and milk in abundance; citizens who have finally acquired private homes; those who DULEJMAN KARAJ (Continued on page 2)

NANO: THEIR DRUG. Well, the rally-goers here were not drugged with some wonderful kind of drug. They had not taken opium, heroin, cocaine, hashish... No, their drug was Nano. Their desire and the signs carried by their vanguard were fulfilled: “Free Fatos Nano.” Watching them in that state, with their faces contorted and trembling, I could not help thinking of the anti-climactic revolt of the dictatorship’s criminals. Oh God, how sweet it felt—when I saw some of them from Librazhd—to realize they were the same ones. Only now they have replaced Enver; perhaps they pay Fatos the same respect they paid Enver precisely because, like them, he holds his power in his heart. And so the motive of protesting the persecution of the opposition’s rights turned into protests against the arrest of Fatos Nano. THE OLD GUARD FOLLOWING THE NEW CADRE If Servet Pellumbi was there, I believe he himself does not know what he said. The library-, orator, Dokle took the floor, but the cultured, civilized, educated PS crowd would not let us hear him or enjoy his oratory. Meanwhile, little Kac, though short, was thickset and had to do something special—something distinctive. And he did.

The appearance of the communist hordes yesterday in “Skënderbej” Square showed that the anti-Albanian communists have changed none of their historical views or assessments, including their views on the rule of law and democracy. They showed that democracy does not suit them, and that they do not accept its historic victory. The communists once again revived their calls for fratricide, counterrevolution, and the intensification of the nature of Slavic Bolshevism, of the experiments for 50 (Continued on page 2) Standing among the crowd and watching those elderly people being brought out, I thought that they were officers, former security officers, former party secretaries—in other words, former privileged people. Seeing how they had raised their children in comfort, they were now making the ultimate sacrifice for them: they would fight once again to restore this privilege. There will be many victims in this little war of theirs—they say, with self-satisfaction, as these people run toward the fields of life. (Continued on page 2)

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Read some of their fairy tales and judge for yourselves. - “Party—Enver, we are always ready!” - “Party of Labour—Party of Labour!” - “We want blood, we want war!” - “O djegm rrëmeni armët!...” - “Long live Enver Hoxha!” - “We will seize power by force.” - “We will hang the democrats......” - “We want revenge, we want revenge!”