Editorial Socialists are missing December Albanian socialists find themselves outside the events that were linked to the establishment of democracy in Albania. Their December belongs to the objectivity of the past. This retreat is still justified today. On the anniversary of the December student movement, they are indeed absent in relation to the events that conditioned the democratic evolution of Albanian politics. First of all, they lack the history of protest against communism, which made it weigh heavily for all the moderate left and right political forces in Eastern Europe. Worse still, they are under the daily pressure of the dogma of continuity, which is otherwise interpreted as a camouflage of the communist method in a zone mined for this ideology. The absence of these events constitutes, for a party with ambitions over a not small terrain in Albanian politics, an obstacle to major change for this political organization. First of all, the ideology that precedes its activities must be verified. At this point the Socialist Party appears as the future of the Communist Party or, in other words, they express the form in which communism can replace itself within a capitalist order. They have everything within them, with the profile of a dictatorial party which until the beginning of 1992 used the state as an organization to preserve continuity. Their current alternatives are not only unfit for the circumstances, but also lack the history that should accompany them. Thus they martyrize political reality with an old mentality, which they alone glorify. The life of compromise is not very long, especially when even as compromise it must be unbelievable. Secondly, the composition of this party remains the source of the crisis of figures. In the conditions of this crisis, they chose to eliminate the quality party members who were expected to take part in the reform of the Party. In this case they have fully descended to the level of a party linked to Marxism and have favored figures with no future within this party. This phenomenon has occurred both because of the clans within the party and because of the complete lack of visionary figures for the future. The absence of December will be felt for a long time within the Socialist Party. If we look specifically at the leadership of this party, not only can they not cross out December, but they easily create anti-December. In the days when the student movement had entered Albania, led by students, while the Democratic Party was being formed those days, its representatives remained at the cry of its institutionalization of this class, the present members of the leadership of the Socialist Party were lined up on the opposite side. Gramoz Ruçi was first secretary of a district in the south and soon afterward became Minister of the Interior, Namik Dokle was [?] editor of “Zp”, which on that day was as aggressive as the state Security, Servet Pëllumbi was still lecturing on the class struggle while Fatos Nano was vegetating in the Marxist-Leninist course and Nënmike Hoxha. The four of them are holding the Socialist Party in their hands, treating it as untouched by political changes in Albania and in an amorphous state in the face of the country’s economic, legislative and conceptual reform. This situation leaves them weakened and inferior, in the face of the most important events of the country they also aspire to govern. No Comment Ramiz Alia - 1995, 8 December, Koha Jone “...This has acknowledged that there is a part of the PD and the responsibilities of the right-wing forces if the opposition for the development of pluralist democracy has placed anticommunism. But anticommunism as an ideology of human reaction against communism, which represented and opposed communism as a representative regime and especially those populist expressions...” Ramiz Alia - December 1990, speeches and talks “...imperialism, capitalism and revisionism are passing from aggression to aggression... in order to dismantle socialism, to overthrow it and to win restored capitalism...” No Comment Ramiz Alia - 1995, 8 December, Koha Jone Ramiz Alia - December 1990, speeches and talks

Today Albanian music is institutionally present within the European and world structures of music With composer Vasil S. Tole P. 6

Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSH, dated 2 and 3 July 1974

Rugova meets with Christopher Kosovo in the diplomatic foreground Engell said that they will continue to work for a solution to the Kosovo issue, both in Congress and in his contacts with administration officials and with President Clinton. Tirana: President Rugova asked U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher for direct U.S. involvement in resolving the Kosovo issue. Christopher learned that the United States will remain engaged in resolving the Kosovo issue. We mainly discussed resolving the Kosovo issue on the basis of the political will of the people. I am very pleased with the meeting, Dr. Rugova stressed after this meeting. During the meeting Christopher stated that “part of the sanctions against Serbia will be conditioned on the Kosovo issue.” He added that President Clinton’s administration continues to include the situation in Kosovo and stressed that achieving peace in Bosnia creates conditions for Kosovo to be brought to the diplomatic forefront. The President of Kosovo said that the meeting was a continuation of the close contacts between the United States and Kosovo. Mr. Rugova also held a meeting with MP Eliot Engel, co-chair of the group on Albanian affairs in the House of Representatives. Mr. Engel said that the commitment to resolving the Kosovo issue will continue both in Congress and in his contacts with administration officials and with President Clinton. History cannot be made with corpses like R. Alia EDI PALOKA Everything has a limit, and shamelessness, as it seems, has no limit for the being of R. Alia. Summoned to the newspaper “KJ” to testify about the December ‘90 movement, the former head of communism in Albania, with the greatest shamelessness, also twists things and claims to have helped the country through 5 years while the protagonists are still alive. Even on other occasions in newspapers such as “ZP”, the victory of democracy has been presented as the result of the great desire of the communist leaders to show that it was he and the political bureau that brought democracy to Albania, and for the sake of truth Alia also mentions the plenary session of the Central Committee which, according to him, opened the way for pluralism in Albania; now all Albanians have followed on television screens what Alia said at that Plenum. Proudly pounding his fist, he declared that Albania is neither East nor West, therefore no one will be able to stop socialism in Albania. Indeed, the minister boasted that Albania does not invent the “recipes” for pluralism and a market economy. But now, with the idea of “no impositions,” it is supposedly Alia’s request that the Albanian communists, who oppressed Albanian democracy, had made. Alia also tries to present the other thesis, that he supposedly had no escape, and even for this he brings as an argument the words of Langent that Alia preferred not to play the Romanian card. It is true that Alia did not dare to play the “Romanian card” for the simple reason that the Albanian communist leaders also feared that game and were not under any illusion about the end of the Romanian dictator. But this by no means means that the victory of democracy in Albania came without blood. No one has forgotten those killed during the events of February and 2 July, the killings of 2 July 1991. No one forgets that Alia ordered the massacre on the day the dictator’s monument was toppled. Blood was indeed shed, and pure blood. It was the merit of the PD that, at the moment when popular hatred had reached its peak, it did not allow revenge to cause further bloodshed. And yet this former dictator of Ilion, spared by the tolerance of this democracy, is not satisfied today with lies and even dares to sell nonsense in democracy and even declares that the PD must pay for the harm it brought to Albania by destroying Alia’s socialism. Everything has a limit, and when the shamelessness of these beings exceeds the limits of tolerance, it goes as far as the limits of [?].

8 December, National Youth Day, also marks the beginning of the student protests in Albania, which five years earlier had led to the creation of the first opposition party in our country on 12 December 1990, after a long 50-year dictatorship that had brought the country into complete isolation, political misery, and the suppression of every human right and freedom. This event had dealt the greatest blow to the PPSH and to the regime of the dictators Hoxha and his successor Alia. It was commemorated yesterday with several activities organized by the Youth Forum of the FRPD and the Municipality of Tirana. Let us keep alive and preserve the ideals for which student Arben Broci gave his life -Ceremony on the occasion of naming the Martyr of Democracy Arben Broci to a secondary school in the capital -The President of the Republic, Mr. Sali Berisha, takes part The Albanian President Sali Berisha called “one of the greatest days in our history” the eighth of December, the day that marks the beginning of the Democratic revolution of 1990, speaking at the ceremony organized yesterday around 2 p.m. in Tirana, on the occasion of naming the Martyr of Democracy, former December student Arben Broci, to a secondary school in the capital. Revisiting the December events, Berisha said before the enthusiastic students and teachers of this school that “on 8 December the students clashed with the dictatorship. The demonstration was dispersed but not defeated; the honor of carrying it forward belonged to the youth,” Berisha went on, saying that this movement would transform the actions of this powerful movement that stood up to the dictatorship with courage. “One of these students,” the Albanian president continued, “was Arben Broci, founder of the PD, who worked tirelessly for the democratic movement and the PD. On 2 April 1991, after the unstoppable victory of the PPS, with his life and work he would pay tribute to the martyred in Vërsafë,” Berisha said, referring to the Shkodra students, and added that “his ideals were freedom, democracy, peace and humanism, ideals for which he fought and was treacherously killed. “Preserve and carry forward these ideals, these great messages of this hero of democracy,” Berisha told the students and teachers, who gave Berisha a warm welcome. “As we will all fight and work together to preserve these ideals,” Berisha continued, concluding. On behalf of the family, Mr. Fatbardoçka, the father of the martyr, greeted them. Dritan Broci, meanwhile, the student movement leader Azem Hajdari and the Mayor, Mr. Sali Kelmendi, etc., would also greet them. At the end, the President of the Republic unveiled the relief dedicated to A. Broci by Raimond Mato, which was placed on the front facade of the school that immortalizes the former student Broci in a deep perspective and position of perpetual movement. MUJE BUÇPAPAJ HOMAGE FOR THE FIRST CLASH OF BOARDING STUDENTS WITH THE DICTATORSHIP The first clash of boarding students of U.T. with the military machine of the communist regime, which had taken place on the evening of 9 December 1990 on the street opposite the Tirana Artistic Lyceum, was immortalized yesterday in the premises through a commemorative plaque placed on the side walls of the building of the residence of the Italian Embassy in Tirana. The boarding students, stressed in his speech the former participant of (Continued on page 2)

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