This can be done with the help and blessing of the DP The Socialist Party considers and will continue to consider all such actions illegal This can be done with the help and blessing of the DP The Socialist Party considers and will continue to consider all such actions illegal - Nine people inexplicably become owners of the brickworks enterprise in Kuçovë - - 185 other employees of the enterprise are left empty-handed - - The enterprise, valued at 160 million lekë (old lekë), is “bought” using a loan of 114 million lekë (old lekë) from the Savings Bank - - Documents relating to the privatization of the enterprise are falsified - - The National Privatization Agency, the Ministry of Construction and other state bodies have a hand in and support these illegal actions - - The new “owners,” before they have properly become owners, throw the enterprise’s workers out onto the street - - The local authorities in Kuçovë denounce this action - - The list of “owners” of the enterprise also includes the chairman of the DP in Kuçovë, Namik Dardha - What we are reporting happened in the district of Kuçovë over the past few months. But it may also have happened at enterprises in other districts, because the attitude of today’s government does nothing but support and foster corruption. The case above confirms [text unclear] ... we consider it appropriate to conduct a full autopsy of this crime against the people’s wealth. In this way, people will be convinced once again of where today’s government is leading them through its attitudes and actions. In this way, the prosecution authorities too (if anything of that name still remains here) will not ... ... including the chairman of the trade union council, Veli Kokoshi, and the secretary of this council, Bejkush Skëndo. Fifth, why is the enterprise not being bought by all its employees, as it is, and why is no method of purchasing the enterprise in accordance with the law being provided for? In our efforts to answer these questions ... to make their work difficult. It all began with a decision by the governing council of the brick factory dated 20 February of this year. This council decision, which makes no reference to any law or government decision, states: “The governing council of the Kuçovë brick production enterprise, convened today, 20.2.1993, having considered the request submitted by the employees to purchase the factory (the five [text unclear] political), decided as follows: The factory is to be privatized by a group of employees who are currently genuine workers (politically persecuted persons, without the participation of any outside person, whoever they may be). The persons who will buy the brick factory are: 1. Ndriçim Skrapari 2. Veli Kokoshi 3. Bekujsh Shkëndo 4. Kliton Shëneprremte 5. Aurel Koroveshi 6. Përparim Leskaj 7. Syrja Lezo 8. Gafur Salilu 9. Namik Dardha.” This decision was signed by the director, Aurel Koroveshi. Several questions arise from this decision. First, what law or government decision is it based on? Second, what is this “request by the employees” to purchase the enterprise? Third, why is the chairman of the DP in Kuçovë included on the list when he is neither an employee of the enterprise nor a politically persecuted person? Fourth, why are the managers also included on the list— What we are recounting took place in the Kuçovë district happened in enterprises in other districts, because the stance The case described above has come to light even before privatization begins at the five hundred enterprises under the Government’s well-known decision. It shows what a massacre can be made of the sweat of the people, shed over dozens of years, by so-called democrats wielding illegitimate power. As such, it should be examined in detail so that lessons may be learned for the future. Nine people in Kuçovë woke up one fine day in June, undeservedly, as owners of that district’s brick factory. This list includes the chairman of the Kuçovë district Democratic Party, Namik Dardha, who has not worked a single day at that factory; the enterprise director Aurel Koroveshi, who reached that position a year ago “thanks to the democratic reform”; the so-called chairman of the independent brickworkers’ union, Veli Kokoshi; and the independent union’s secretary, Bekush Shkëndo. In this way, the enterprise’s other 185 workers, some of whom have worked there for three decades, were left empty-handed. They make up around 95 percent of the enterprise’s workforce. The purchase of the enterprise is being made with a loan from the Savings Bank. The workers protest these absurd actions; the people now calling themselves the owners dismiss them from their jobs. This is the essence of everything we are about to recount. What follows consists only of facts, documents, requests, petitions, ultimatums, protests, forged authorizations, dates, the truth, and so on. Whoever has not received [anything], look at the figures and read. But be patient—perhaps you may not read them. [sections cut off/unclear] against the people’s property. In this way, people will once again be convinced of where today’s government is leading them through its stance and actions. In this way, the prosecution authorities (if anything of that institution still remains among us) will also find their work easier. In our efforts to answer these questions in Kuçovë, we learned the following. The enterprise’s management board made the above decision on the basis of a decision by the so-called council of the factory’s independent union, which called for the factory to be bought by a group of workers (according to the list above). We say “so-called” union council because, according to written statements by three members of the union council, Messrs Shaban Hima, Bexhet Ziu, and Bujar Sollaku, Veli Kokoshi, who signed on behalf of the union council, has never been a member of the enterprise’s union council. He appointed himself, or the director appointed him, say the factory’s union members. It seems we are dealing with a “family alliance” between the director and the self-appointed head of the union council, naturally with Namik Dardha’s “blessing,” to take the brick factory for themselves. As for the politically persecuted, the factory and union leaders who made the above decisions admitted that, of the nine people on the list, only four were politically persecuted. As for including the chairman of the Kuçovë DP, Namik Dardha, on the list of owners, that is not hard to understand. As a Party chairman, he cannot be left with nothing in this general sale of the people’s property. When we asked why they had put Namik Dardha on the list, Aurel Koroveshi and Veli Kokoshi said, “We need Namik, because in this process of selling the bricks Kokoshi said, ‘We need Namik because [continued on page 2]’ …dical, Veli Kokoshi, and the secretary of this council, Bekjush Shkëndari. Fifth, why is the enterprise not being bought by any of its workers? Sixth, why is the method for purchasing the enterprise not provided for in accordance with the law? brick factory for themselves.

NATIONAL LIBRARY TIRANA A QUESTION FOR YOU, MR. BERISHA: WHEN WILL THE CRIMINALS WHO VIOLATED THE SYMBOLS OF THE ANTI-FASCIST NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL? ... - Let us follow Germany’s example As the Reuters and ATSH agencies reported, on 13 July two German citizens appeared in court, accused of destroying the Holocaust memorial at the former Nazi concentration camp. The right-wingers, Ingo Kehn, 19, and Thomas Haberdand, 22, according to Reuters and ATSH, were accused of arson and violating the fire-safety law in September of last year; the flames destroyed the former barracks that had housed Jewish prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. Taking this case—which is not the first in Germany and Europe—as my starting point, I dare to ask you, Mr. Berisha: - When will the criminals who, during the transition period, brought to trial? - When will the grave desecrators, cannibals, and destroyers of memorial columns, commemorative plaques, and martyrs’ cemeteries be brought to justice? - When will the murderers of Qemal Stafa, Vasil Shanto, Margarit[a] Tutulani, Abaz Shehu, Misto Mame, Bardhok Biba, Ndrecë Ndue Gjo[k]a, the Four Heroines of Mirdita, and all the others be placed in the dock? - When will the priests of criminals of the Ndue Gjo-markaj type and their associates answer before the people and justice? Answer, Mr. Berisha, because you are the number one figure of today’s Albanian state, the state that claims to be democratic at a time when you have [text unclear] the War and placed fascist criminals on a pedestal of honor. The heroes and martyrs of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War are more than martyrs, as you put it. They are the honor and pride of the nation. Those who rise against them are nothing but criminals, whose fate has been determined once and for all by history itself. I do not wish to prejudge you, but if you do not wish to defend the [text unclear] National Liberation War and all its heroes, martyrs, commanders, commissars, communists, honest and true patriotic nationalists—a thing which, unfortunately for you, you have not done so far—it would be better not to answer, since you might make a mistake. Otherwise, act in practice within your powers and abilities, to show that you are truly democrats and not demagogues, and to show that you genuinely wish to lead the country along the right path toward a civilized and anti-fascist Europe. LUAN M. RAMA.

On Wednesday, at around 18:20, 200 meters from the “21 Dhjetori” intersection, a gray “Benz” car, which was somehow lured by the open road as well as by the fumes of alcohol, at “skeleton” speed ... “hellish” speed (as drivers commonly put it), struck a man around 60 years old. The impact caused serious injuries to his head, from which blood was flowing, as well as broken teeth. The old man, who lay on the ground for three or four minutes, showed no signs of life. The driver who caused the accident fled the scene in an unknown direction. The old man was taken to the hospital in a passing car that stopped there. Is he dead or alive? Was the driver caught with his car? Correspondent of “Zëri i popullit”

As has been reported in the newspaper “Zëri i Popullit,” the Presidency of the Socialist Party of Albania issued a Statement concerning the events of 18 June 1993, relating to the planned meeting of the chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania, Fatos Nano, and several Socialist Party members of parliament in the city of Shkodër. This statement was also sent to several major European bodies and distinguished figures. Numerous European figures, politicians, journalists, writers and others showed particular interest in learning the details of the event. They were also sent the “Zëri i Popullit” issue containing telephone interviews with the press, and they met with many foreign journalists in Albania. In the context of this legitimate interest in this anti-democratic and illegal action by the authorities in Albania, we publish below the response of Mr. Miguel Angel Martinez, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly The President Strasbourg, 1 July 1993 To the Socialist Party of Albania Steering Committee Tirana Dear friends, Thank you for your Statement concerning the events of 18 June 1993. I have sent copies of the Statement ... to the chairmen of the Assembly committees dealing with Albania’s request for membership of the Council of Europe. Yours sincerely, Miguel Angel Martinez

(Socialist Party meeting in Elbasan) - Socialist Party Vice-Chairman Servet Pëllumbi takes part - While the country is experiencing a deep economic crisis and a crisis of confidence, as well as an undeclared parliamentary and political crisis, the Socialist Party, as a serious political force, feels obliged to its electorate to proclaim and explain its alternative ever more clearly. The condition in which our society finds itself today must under no circumstances be viewed pessimistically. Albania has sufficient resources, strong intellectual potential and hardworking people to recover and embark on the path of development, that is, to change the state of the economy and raise the people’s standard of living. Yesterday’s and today’s events compel every politician or state official to put an end to failed experiments and finally set out on the most optimal path of development. Anyone acting contrary to this logic will sow nothing but further destabilization and ruin. Rapid changes and an end to the amateurish management of economic and social life, and a change in the way the country is governed, are not merely a wish but an urgent necessity, it was stressed at the meeting organized by the steering committee of the Socialist Party in the Elbasan district. Party activists in the district and its elected representatives, taking the floor at the meeting, emphasized the city residents’ particular economic ties, unemployment—which is perhaps greater than in other districts by comparison—the lack of productive investment and essential goods, to such an extent that it has not been possible even to finance the flour mill, and the city is often forced to experience bread shortages; the lack of sufficient irrigation, agricultural machinery, and other problems of this kind in the countryside, etc. While production has stopped at most enterprises in the district and workers are receiving assistance, there is another problem, particularly concerning the metallurgical combine. The units of this combine, which have now stopped working, are at risk of being damaged and corroded, and perhaps becoming permanently unusable. Thus a large asset is at risk—the only asset of the approximately 12,000 workers at this combine. On the other hand, dozens of engineers and economists at this complex are left without support and, indeed, discriminated against. Some are receiving assistance, others have gone abroad for work or are working as manual laborers. If Elbasan was fortunate enough to have such a large number of intellectuals, this potential has been abandoned and forgotten. But can this city, with so many problems, progress without the ideas and participation of these intellectuals in production and scientific work? The meeting devoted extensive discussion precisely to ways out of and solutions to these problems. “Parties are not ornaments,” the speakers said. They were created to compete with development alternatives. In this context, the Socialist Party must hold firmly to its own alternative and make it more understandable to as broad a public as possible. To achieve this, and to meet the economic and other challenges brought by the present moment, effective organization is needed [Continued on page 3]

Yesterday evening, Tuesday, Socialist members of parliament continued their preparatory work on the Constitution. On the basis of the 7 working groups ... [the text is partly illegible at the end and cut off] The Socialist MPs met ... and discussed issues relating to the Constitution; the MPs ... had consulted most of the constitutions in Europe and other democratic countries of the world. On the basis of this broad understanding of the issues, ... by MPs ... Yesterday, Servet Pëllumbi, Kastrjot Islami, Ylli Bufi, Shkëlqim Cani, Leontiev Çuçi, Shevat Lloshi, etc. ... ... on Monday at 10 o’clock, the Socialist parliamentary group is to begin discussing the suggestions, conclusions and findings produced by the working groups. Working with seriousness and responsibility, the Socialist parliamentary group has done good work on the final preparation of the Constitution since the day it left parliament. Spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group 15.7.1993

On 17 July 1993, Saturday, at 10:00, in Skënderbej Square, Dinamo Square in the capital, the Albanian National Unity Party is organizing a peaceful rally to oppose the unjust decision to sentence Mr. Idajet Beqiri. All members and supporters of this Party are invited to attend. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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