The Socialist Party is being cleared of people without files The Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Ruçi, de facto the party’s number one man, forgot the first list of those who must be removed from the right to be elected. After failing to secure approval of the declaration of loyalty, Ruçi, with the mechanisms that actually control the entire party, managed to obtain the mandate of the “filter” through which all those who will put forward their candidacies in the upcoming elections must pass. The first fact of this “filter” is the marginalization and elimination of all those Socialists, regardless of the position they now hold in the party, who have accepted the communist genocide in Albania and who have expressed reservations about the political course followed by the leadership of the PS. The first harsh reaction of the conservative clan of the PS, led by Ruçi, was their stance against the five, whom the PS faction managed to eliminate from the leadership without much difficulty. After the five, as expected, the conservative clan led by Ruçi decided to grow more aggressive against all persons who have expressed clear origins or positions in favor of, even through their silence and inactivity, accepting that the PS must be reformed, or otherwise this party will sink into the abyss. In the past, over several newspapers and institutions, Ruçi worked with his closest collaborators and discussed with members of the electoral commission, which Nano nominally chairs, the proof that Ruçi was determined that, in order to strengthen the positions of the criminalization within his party, he decided to remove reformist elements and people generally without files, thereby strengthening the former State Security clan within his party. The very fact that Pellumbi has not denied this list, while some of the main leaders have played ignorant, shows that Pellumbi, Dokle, Brokaj and others were informed about the drafting of this list. Meanwhile, the anti-Albanian political current from the ranks of the former State Security in the pages of “ZP”, who after lashing out against intellectuals and true Albanian dissent, openly defending the State Security and others, reconfirms that this party is passing into the hands of the State Security and is being fully controlled by these incriminated elements. Because only the common culpability of the declaration of loyalty for Ruçi, Nano, Dokle[n?], Pellumbi, Brokaj and other incriminated elements that have usurped the PS. A. DAJTI

Press Communiqué of the Council of Ministers On the situation and measures taken in the areas flooded by rain As a result of the heavy and ongoing rainfall in several districts of the country, flooding has occurred. According to data up to midday, the situation is as follows: In Shkodër: around 5,000 hectares have been flooded. The greatest damage has been in the village of Kuç, where 300 houses have been flooded. In Anajëm 50 families were evacuated. Flooding also occurred in the village of Obot. There were no casualties among people or livestock. In Lezhë - the area of Tales and part of the Gjadr area have been hit by flooding. There is no flooding of homes. In Krujë - around 11:45 this morning the Ishëm River burst its banks, flooding an area of 200 hectares, an uninhabited area. In Malësia e Madhe - around 1,200 hectares of land and more than 20 houses, as well as a considerable part of the food supply base, have been flooded. The Shkodër-Lezhë road at the Baqallëk bridge has been blocked, and traffic from Shkodër to Lezhë and Tirana is being carried out via Mjedë. Meanwhile there have been no problems in rail transport. As for electricity supply, the 220, 110 and 35 kV lines are generally on standby. The only fault is on the Fushë Arrëz-Kalimash Kukës line, where supply has been interrupted since 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Attention is being paid to the state of the waters in the Koman and Vau i Dejës lakes. Koman has reached the maximum permitted level of 150-175.53. Hourly inflows are 2,000 cubic meters per second. At the Fierzë hydroelectric plant the situation is normal. The government has followed the situation with special attention and has taken all measures to eliminate the consequences and to be close to the residents of the affected areas. Specifically: - Work teams from various ministries have been sent to the flooded areas. The Minister of the Interior, Mr. Agron Musaraj, Minister of Health Mr. Maksim Cikuli, Minister of Agriculture, Mining and Energy Mr. Abdyl Xhaja, and the Secretary of State for Local Government, Mr. Nizet Kosovrasti, have gone to follow the situation closely. - Near the general headquarters (Continues on page 2)

EDITORIAL The hypocrisy of the socialists The left-wing political element has grounded this demagoguery in the country’s very social reality. This reality, of course, is not so perfect that it is an advantage for the socialists, nor is it a reality that can bring left-wing government. Albania is in social trouble today precisely because of the extreme left-wing ideology that kept it isolated and in extreme poverty. If one speaks of solving social problems in today’s Albanian situation, the only alternative remains moving away from the invisible basis of the ideology accumulated among Albanians who still bear this ideology of socialism. The claim of social realism in the implementation of reforms by the socialists runs counter to what they offer in their so-called program, which is unquestionably a disguised return to the forms and methods of economic centralization, deconsumption, and the creation of illegal unemployed at the expense of the state budget. The alternation of capitalism in Albania with a rebirth, toward adventure and the upsetting of social balances through saving, would in practice lead back to the socialism of four years ago. The socialists do not like that we should be the bright work in the Çarçani cabinet that would effortlessly draft what our country ought to be. Likewise, they need to create every time a strategy for the normative use of social consumer goods in a rapid degradation of overall and economic development in the country. As for the restructuring of some enterprises in Albania, such a decision would be a return to the communist method of a single metropolis over the economy, namely the state, without disputing what is the basis of the development of a market economy: the initiative of the individual, which is crushed to the point of making its existence impossible. If they use in their vocabulary the term market economy or development according to the laws of capitalism, they do so in order to draw people into their electoral trap. The principles of a controlled economy can never go together with those of a fast-moving economy, which is a feature of capitalism. What they have preached in recent days is more than a typical Eastern socialism that does not go beyond what was achieved in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc., some thirty years ago. When socialism, in its efforts to regenerate the structures of the economy, goes mad, it is absurd to speak of capitalism in the rest of the individual’s activity. A market economy leaves behind it a free way of life, once again compressing life to the point of suffering. But just as the socialists can speak of social problems and their gathering from the program they have drafted, so too can one speak without any evasion of the right to sabotage the reform begun in Albania. The removal of the individual as a hierarchy in capitalism means for Albania a hope bereke. The socialist electoral program, hidden behind social problems, is an open antagonism to what Albania has achieved up to the end and to what Albanians have achieved as individuals. The Albanian people are a young people, and this is another explanation of the natural rapidity of Albanian development. Not only is Albania doing so in those countries where social problems have been restored, but to a large extent the socialist method of solving them has been avoided. The method of taxation and that of pensioning people lead to a retrograde step with respect to what has been laid down in Albania. People need more space from the state than care from it. The state’s care is suffocating. Socialism is not an ideology of possibility but of impossibility, or of someone else’s possibility to have mercy.

Euronews television network commentary on President Berisha's statements Efforts to avoid further conflicts Commentary by the EURO NEWS television network on President Berisha's statements The Euronews television network yesterday broadcast all its news programs with a commentary devoted to the request of Albanian President Sali Berisha to begin talks between Prishtina and Belgrade. The President calls for the authorities in Belgrade and Kosovo representatives to begin talks, Euronews stresses, noting that in an effort to avoid further conflicts, President Berisha asked that independent mediators help implement the talks. Euronews points out that tension in the province has risen recently, after Serbian President Slobodan Milošević there refugees and from Krajina. The Euronews television station cites information from German authorities, saying that the province between neighboring Albania and Serbia is 95% ethnically Albanian.

Helmut Kohl declared the number one personality for 1995 Kohl - Berisha at their latest meeting in Germany German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unanimously chosen on Wednesday by a jury chaired by former President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, as the number one European personality for 1995 - the French news agency AFP reported. This is an award bestowed since 1987 and intended to elevate and reward that European whose work, achievements, initiative and personality embody the identity and will of all the peoples of Europe. Delors thus paid tribute to the extraordinary personality this distinguished German statesman has achieved. He highlights the Chancellor’s total commitment in all strategic directions, which I have valued the European Community to recognize only moving forward. For Helmut Kohl himself, this does not represent a symbolic matter, and his dypikës status, as before, toward the triumph of wonder, without having distrust that from time to time, it may rise up in Europe. We are dealing with a man of good fortune toward a powerful personality, who has been characterized since his youth by thoroughly European traits.

Militants who expect to be rewarded for anti-intellectualism Jupe would do well to read his newspaper the right way round, not upside down The statement by the vice-chairman of the PS, Namik Dokle, that the PS will reward ignorant militants and fight intellectuals had its effect, and on journalists of the Jupe type. Hamdi Jupe, the man who came to prominence and began climbing the journalistic career ladder at “ZP” by fiercely attacking in 1990 the young singer Mira Konçi (after it appeared that her concert was shining normally and the party for socialist culture), today is fully entitled to demand rewards for his anti-intellectual services and “values.” In reporting the President Berisha press conference upside down, the journalist of “ZP” writes that the questions of the journalist of “RD” were supposedly based on untrue facts. Specifically, the issue is the fact that at the last meeting of the PS KD it was decided that the leaders of the PS who fall under the anti-genocide law should not be included in the lists of candidates for MPs, as one of the two articles published in the newspaper “ZP” against intellectuals. Comrade Jupe laughed even at the newspapers and at the old self-criticism that these were supposedly not true but had been invented by the journalists of “RD.” But the militant Jupe would do better if he at least read his newspaper backwards rather than reading it as written, upside down. Also at the last meeting of the PS KD it was decided that the genocidists not run as candidates; all newspapers wrote this on the same day, not just “RD”, and this is the fact, just as it is a fact that until the meeting the leaders of the PS had declared that they would not recognize the anti-genocide law. So where does Comrade Hamdi find the untruth? As for the attack against intellectuals, since Jupe does not read his newspaper either on Sunday or Monday, we are republishing passages from the end of the article that may also be of interest to his anti-intellectual campaign. “SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMICS HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO MISERABLE PEOPLE... A NATION WITH SUCH INTELLECTUALS IS LOST.” “ZP” 24 December 1995 N. DOKLE “THE PS WILL BRING TO POWER THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE KNOWN HOW TO OPPOSE BERISHA’S POWER AND NOT THOSE WHO ARE CAREERISTS WHO AIMS TO STAND OUT THROUGH SCIENTIFIC CRITICISM” “ZP” 24 December 1995 We hope that now comrade Jupe will understand that the party has declared war on intellectuals. If this is not the case, as he says, the invention of “RD” what he calls a lie for a job and better for no one would think to classify among intellectuals also those who must be attacked as a prerequisite all the time that Jupe and others like him in the steps of the career ladder in the PS. EDI PALOKA

From the Socialist Party heritage fund Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSH, dated 2 and 3 July 1974 Minutes of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PPSH, dated 2 and 3 July 1974 p.7

Today: Press Conference of PDSH Today, on 28.12.1995 at 12:00 in the hall of the PDSH Headquarters, the Secretary General of the PDSH, Mr. Tritan Shehu, and the deputy chairmen of the PDSH will hold a press conference regarding the conclusion of the PDSH local committees’ activities in the districts.

Activity of the PD branch of the Saranda district Activity of the PD branch of the Saranda district PD enjoys the support of the majority of Albanians p.2

Declaration of assets The end of the PS's anti-corruption demagoguery p.3

Freedom to eradicate poverty p.3

Tessera three accuses the PSSh Euronews again broadcast yesterday the news concerning the financial scandals of the socialists of Kurdisk. As this television channel reported, the party of Kurrdisk arrested No. 3 of the PS, who has taken bribes from Japanese funds and businesses. The accusations range from 10 to 20 million dollars. By bringing these things down on the PS, it is evident that some important members of their Korean party have been anti the model of exploiting activity, and for this party power and it is that the candidates have been scratched and are for power and political career.