Everyone against the Nano government. Strike in Patos, Kuçovë, Laç, Bajzë, Tirana Oil workers are on a week-long strike. Metalworkers in Laç have gone on strike. Railway workers in Bajzë suspend work. High school students in the capital are striking? A government that sows death and destruction The deadly silence of state television, the officials of Fatos Nano, the demand by the “self-employed” for the dismissal of the port director, the government’s failure in the face of the grave situation and the misery that are pushing Albanians onto the rubber-boat route, which is controlled by mafia gangs linked to high-ranking state officials. These are only some of the wounds of today’s government, which is driving the country toward collapse. In many enterprises and cities across the country, a wave of strikes and protests has begun. The silence of state television in the face of pain and popular revolt has now become open cooperation with the policy of impoverishing the country. The Albanian Oil Trade Union Community began yesterday its week-long strike in oil extraction and processing enterprises. The strike has started in Patos, Kuçovë and in other sectors where the unions have declared disobedience to government policy. The unions’ demands are clear: back pay, guaranteeing jobs, stopping the destruction of industry, transparency over privatizations, and social protection for workers. In Laç, metal workers have gone on strike, while in Bajzë the railways have suspended work. In Tirana, protest movement has also been reported in the high schools. The Nano government is facing citizen rejection on many fronts, and this is a sign that the country is entering a new phase of social and political confrontation.

Oil workers are having their wages stolen by government officials Today they will stop work, paralyzing city life as well The government and its agencies owe the oil union unpaid salaries and bonuses. In Patos and Kuçovë, work is expected to stop as a form of protest. Union representatives declare that it is no longer possible to continue with empty promises, while workers live in miserable conditions. The strike is scheduled to last one week and paralyze activity in several sectors of the oil industry.

The opposition denounces political dependence and the continuation of the communist clique’s betrayal of the national issue Communism and April neo-banditry, taken together, of the Balkans. The West cannot work only with the Albanian government, but must neutralize the effects of a possible another Albanian tragedy [?]

ON PAGE 3 His evening statement to defend that final Germanic humanism, Shkëndar Keta The killing of Verdin Avdili in the Durrës police station and the shooting of young people for political and human motives on this eve put an end to the simulation of any kind of “humanism” on the part of the government.

It is announced from the offices of Brego - National S that on Sunday, 2 November 1997, at 17:00, at the Palace of Culture in Tirana, in hall 7, on Durrës Street, a meeting of political subjects will be held with the participation of Mr. Brego. Together with those present, the problems of the electoral campaign will be discussed and the platform of the Democratic Reform Party for the elections in Tirana Municipality will be examined. All basic organizations are invited to take part. Democratic Reform Party