Report Submitted to the 7th Congress of the Party of Labour of Albania

262 Pages·1977·6.1 MB·English

by  Enver Hoxha

E N V E R H OX H A
REPORT
SUBMITTED TO THE
7th CONGRESS OF THE PARTY
OF LABOUR OF ALBANIA

ENVER HOXHA
REPORT
ON THE ACTIVITY
OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
OF THE PARTY OF LAROUR
OF ALRANIA
Submitted to the 7th Congress of the Party
of Labour of Albania
November 1, 1976
Second edition
THE «8 NENTORI* PUBLISHING HOUSE
TIRANA, 1977

ENVER HOXHA

Dear comrades,
Five years have elapsed since the Party gathered
at its 6th Congress and laid down the guidelines of the
economic and social development of the country for this
period. The important tasks it undertook it has accom­
plished successfully. Today our Party comes to its 7th
Congress fully prepared and determined to undertake
new and more difficult tasks, to carry the cause of so­
cialism and communism in Albania constantly forward
to victory.
Our people and Party come to this Congress full of
vitality and dynamism, proud of the successes they have
achieved and with unwavering confidence in the future.
Life has proved again that the Marxist-Leninist course
of the Party is completely correct, that the road on which
it is leading our people is the reliable road of the construc­
tion of socialism, the road of the further strengthening of
the freedom and independence of the homeland.
Our internal situation is healthy and stable in all
fields and on all fronts. The Marxist-Leninist line of the
Party, the magnificent achievements attained, the devel­
opment of the class struggle in the correct way, have
brought about the further strengthening of the moral and
political unity of the people and their unbreakable links
with the Party, and the creation of a vigorous revolu­
tionary atmosphere.
Under the leadership of the Party, the working class,
the cooperativist peasantry and the people’s intelligentsia
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have, on the whole, successfully carried out the funda­
mental tasks of the development of the economy and
culture laid down by the 6th Congress of the Party.
During the past five-year period, the productive forces
have developed in all the branches of the economy, the
material and technical base of socialism has been strength­
ened and the socialist relations of production have been
further improved.
The program of the Party for the building of a
complex heavy and light industry, its expansion with
new sectors of modern production has been proved by
practice to be fully capable of realization. Now we note
with satisfaction that with rapid industrialization the
Party’s objective of transforming Albania from an agri­
cultural-industrial country into an industrial-agricultural
one is coming ever closer to attainment. With the workers’
skilful hands, with their spirit of perseverance and keen
minds, the great Metallurgical Combine at Elbasan has
begun to pour the first steel in the history of Albania.
The Oil Refinery at Ballsh will soon be commissioned
and the oil wealth of our prosperous soil will be processed
into products for which the economy of our country has
great need. The Fierza Hydro-power Plant on the Driri River
is advancing towards completion, together with many
other projects. With the new factories and plants that
have been and are being commissioned, another major
objective of the Party, namely, the most rational utiliza­
tion, the further processing and increasing of the value
of our raw materials, is being successfully attained.
We are all witnesses of the radical change that is
taking place in our agriculture. Responding to the call of
the Party, with their fiery patriotism, tireless work and
unshakable confidence in their own strength, this year,
for the first time, the cooperativist peasantry and the
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workers of state farms produped all the bread grain the
country needs. As a result of the special care of the Party,
the mechanization of agriculture has been stepped up and a
rapid increase of all agricultural and livestock products
has been secured. Upon the instruction issued- by the
6th Congress, higher type cooperatives have been set up,
and the organization and management of agricultural econ­
omies have been further improved. The measures taken
have led to a further narrowing of distinctions between
town and countryside. The plains and mountains of our
country are now seething with the great work of transfor­
mation to make them still more fertile, to make our home­
land more prosperous, more beautiful, and more power­
ful.
Important victories have been achieved also in the
deepening of the socialist revolution in the field of ideo­
logy and culture, in all the work of the Party for the re­
volutionary education of the masses. The line of the Party
for the development of schooling on the basis of linking
lessons with life, of training a younger generation temper­
ed with the proletarian ideology, equipped with know­
ledge and culture, capable in work and defence, is being
implemented consistently and yielding ever better results.
Our socialist culture, which is developing in compliance
with the teachings of the Party, has been raised to a
higher level as a culture with a lofty revolutionary con­
tent and clear national and popular form. A vivid ex­
pression of this reality is the cultural and artistic creative­
ness of the masses of which there has been a great upsurge,
particularly in recent years, and which sings with feeling
to the happy socialist life, the Marxist-Leninist correctness
and wisdom of the Party, and the heroism of our people.
Under the special solicitude of the Party and its direct.
leadership, the defence potential of the country has been
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further increased and strengthened. With might and main
our worker and soldier people are striving to make Alba­
nia an impregnable socialist bastion, training and on guard
so as to be always ready to defend the revolution and its
achievements against any threat from the enemies.
The 6th Congress charged the Party, the working
class and all the masses of the working people with the
task of further strengthening the dictatorship of the pro­
letariat as a fundamental, condition and guarantee for at­
taining the majestic objectives put before the Party and
the people. Now we can say that the measures which
were taken and carried out by the Party have further
strengthened our state, have extended and improved our
proletarian democracy, have raised the level of the direct
participation of the working people in governing the
country.
The rise in the capabilities of the working class and
in its consciousness of the leading role it must play in
socialist society, the establishment of worker and peasant
control, the struggle of the Party to root out bureaucratic,
technocratic, and liberal distortions and tendencies, have
further enriched the experience of the dictatorship of the
proletariat in the struggle to defend and consolidate our
socialist order. They have contributed greatly to barring
the way to the danger of bourgeois and revisionist degen­
eration and of a switch back to capitalism. This is a
major victory for the Party, the working class, and the
entire people.
The unbreakable unity of the people, their unity
around the line of the Party, is a distinctive feature of
our internal situation. A brilliant expression of this unity,
which is based on the close alliance of the working class
with the cooperativist peasantry, is the determination and
mobilization of our working masses to fulfil the tasks of