The text of a resolution of the Seventh Conference of the Balkan Communist Federation.
‘The Founding of the Communist Party of Albania’ from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 9 No. 23. May 17, 1929.
The VIII. Balkan Communist Federation welcomes initiative for the founding of a Communist Party of Albania, the only country which hitherto had no proletarian Communist Party. It joyfully accepts into its ranks these new revolutionary fighters in the Balkans who are bound to play a leading role the struggle on a very important sector of the Balkan. The Conference instructs the B.C.F. to afford every assistance and support to the young Communist Party of Albania in development, especially in the sphere of organisation and ideological consolidation.
Economic backwardness, strong feudal remnants and colonial dependence are impelling Albania towards the bourgeois democratic revolution, which however with a victory of proletarian revolution in Italy and in the Balkans will take the country to the path to socialist development.
The social basis of the C.P. of Albania is formed in the existing, if only not very numerous, working masses in towns and in the country, as well as by the poorest. oppressed and exploited portion of the Albanian peasants. The C.P. of Albania, which is independent of the Albanian national movement, will in addition to representing the general and immediate class interests of the proletariat, propagate agrarian revolution and the struggle against the imperialists subjugation of the Albanian people.
Extension of the influence over the broad peasant masses, and over the urban artisans and the working intellectuals, establishment of a close connection with these strata, penetration into the national revolutionary organisations of the country, freeing the national revolutionary movement from the influence imperialists and the Albanian big landowners, establishment of connections with the national revolutionary movement of neighbouring countries, with the general revolutionary movement in the Balkans and the international proletarian revolution, these are the most important tasks of the Albanian Communists, the solution of which will contribute to victory of the revolution in Albania. The Communist Parties of the Balkans and the Balkan Communist Federation extend all-round support to the Communists in carrying out these tasks.
International Press Correspondence, widely known as”Inprecorr” was published by the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI) regularly in German and English, occasionally in many other languages, beginning in 1921 and lasting in English until 1938. Inprecorr’s role was to supply translated articles to the English-speaking press of the International from the Comintern’s different sections, as well as news and statements from the ECCI. Many ‘Daily Worker’ and ‘Communist’ articles originated in Inprecorr, and it also published articles by American comrades for use in other countries. It was published at least weekly, and often thrice weekly.
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