Uprising in Albania

The original text of this pamphlet was completed on 25 March 1997 and issued as a statement of the International Secretariat of CWI, published here with minor amendments taking account of new information and more recent developments. The new Postscript was completed on 14 April, 1997.
Our aim is to provide an up-to-date analysis of the origins and course of the Albanian uprising, and especially of the extremely contradictory character of this post-Stalinist mass movement. The complex problems posed by the national question in Kosova/Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece, and throughout the Southern Balkans are, because of pressures of time and space, regrettably beyond the scope of this pamphlet, though they will most probably be high on the Balkan agenda in the near future.