We recognize the constitutional right and not Berisha’s rag Speech by the Chairman of the Socialist parliamentary group Namik Dokle The PS’s stance toward the dictatorship state is clear and unequivocal. It is an institutional, not conjunctural or pragmatic, stance. Meanwhile, Berisha and his propaganda strive to prove that the PS had not “distanced itself” from the stench of communist crime with its program: “We categorically condemn the communist regime, its political, social and economic methods, which could not ensure the country’s rapid development and the improvement of individuals’ well-being. We reject the practice of the party-state and of Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship, any ideology and everything else, the violation of human rights and the persecution in the name of the ‘class struggle’.” (PS Program – page 60) Those who are the initiators of the so-called law against genocide are certainly familiar with this programmatic stance of the PS. But we come here to parliament and are quoted journalists, troubadours, macho men and mice. Fine, gentlemen, I will quote you a leader of European freedom and democracy, the words he said when the British Parliament and the government he led had the mandate to wage war against fascism. That day Churchill said: “He who thinks he can build the present by dealing with the past loses the future.” A great leader of European freedom and democracy said this at a time when, alongside Hitler, Ballists, Ustashas and Chetniks had begun to sprout up in the world. That is why the Ballists are so passionately defended here by some right-wing descendants. Do you want to bring back the political scene of the partisan-Ballist war? You have lost that battle, because any truth may be covered up, but not the truth of freedom. Those who place flowers, or speak of the liberation war with excessive demagoguery, those who decorate Hysni Lepenica and Gjon Marka Gjon, have secretly buried the first general of the Anti-Fascist resistance in Europe, Myslym Peza, under cover of night. And do not forget, gentlemen, that this was said before General De Gaulle. And do not forget, gentlemen, that even the future candidate for president of the USA, Bob Dole, announced his candidacy on a significant day in his life: the 50th anniversary of his wounding in the fight against the fascists. As for you, when you ask here what position we took against the Ballists. Did Myslym Peza and his comrades perhaps have the Parliament microphones and shout: “Hey, Ballists, move aside while we kill the Germans!”? Whoever joined the occupier pays the price of that fate. You speak of the generals of the dictatorship it imprisoned. I value that stance. But at the same time I ask: Who informed on Gjin Marku in prison? A Sigurimi colonel says Arbnori. But I have also caught a couple of mice scurrying around. And you, Mr. Pjeter, who seem to have the right to open the archives to find your alibis, open them again and find out: Who informed on Gjin Marku, since after the informing he never came out of prison alive? It is completely clear that those who initiated this law know... very well that the PS has condemned and is against: - the class struggle and its consequences; - extrajudicial killings and political trials; - torture used in violation of the laws of the time; - inhuman treatment of political prisoners and other prisoners; - massive and violent expropriations; - the destruction of cultural values; - social contempt and discrimination; - mass expulsions and internments; - and other acts of the totalitarian state mentioned in the declaration of the Initiating Commission for the condemnation of the crimes of the Enverian dictatorship. In this forum there are certainly also people who have suffered, and real intellectuals who deserve respect. But in these initiatives there are also mixed in, to a great extent, those who yesterday were the most zealous servants of the dictatorship and today are the disgusting servants of neo-dictatorship or political genocide, if we use the term invented by them themselves. If we truly want to condemn genocide and those who carried it out, let us take them one by one. People ask: Who committed genocide? Ndreqi Plasari or Ilir Meta and Pandeli Majko? You speak of religious genocide? The last two priests in Shkodër were condemned in 1974, and for what? For an illegal baptism. Say who did it? The notorious Rustem Gita, who yesterday lynched Zef Brozi. You speak of genocide [?] (continued on page 3)

On pages 2, 3 and 4 you will read the full speeches of the Socialist deputies delivered the day before yesterday in the plenary session of the People’s Assembly

Read on page 6 the BBC journalist’s commentary

-With the world’s young socialists Read page 5

Berisha’s inquisition against Dritero Agolli Works by Neshat Tozaj and Dalan Shapllo The 90th birthday of Greta Garbo Read more on pages 7, 8, 9, 10,