The electronic version of the book is created by http://www.enverhoxha.ru ALBANIA CHALLENGES KHRUSHCHEV REVISIONISM ENVER HOXHA First Sectretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania ALBANIA CHALLENGES KHRUSHCHEV REVISIONISM Speeches, Reports, Letters, Radiograms JUNE-DECEMBER 1960 Pertaining to the Moscow Conference of the 81 Communist and Workers' Parties (Materials extracted from Volume 19 of Enver Hoxha's Works in Albanian) PUBLISHED BY: GAMMA PUBLISHING CO. P.O. Box 206 New York, N.Y. 10008 © Copyright 1976 Gamma Publishing Co. First Edition: October 1976, 4000 copies. The materials contained in this book have been extracted from Volume 19 of Enver Hoxha's Works, published in Albanian by the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies under the Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania. PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. ENVER HOXHA First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania CONTENTS Publisher's Preface XIII Extracts from the Introduction to Volume 19 of Enver Hoxha's Works (in Albanian) XVII • • • June 21, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Bucharest. 1 June 22, 1960. Always Follow a Correct Line. (From the Contribution to the Discussion at the Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CC of the PLA) 2 June 22, 1960. Letter to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Bucharest. 7 June 23, 1960. From the Letter to Liri Belishova On the Stand She Should Adopt in Peking Towards the Disagreements Between the Soviet Union and China. 13 June 24, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Bucharest. 15 June 24, 1960. We Should Not Submit To Any Pressure. (From a Contribution to the Discus­ sion at the Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CC of the PLA) 17 June 25, 1960. Letter to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Bucharest. 20 June 25, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Bucharest. 21 VIII CONTENTS June 28, 1960. From the Letter to Liri Belishova on the Proceedings of the Bucharest Meeting and the Attitude She Should Maintain in Moscow. 22 July 9, 1960. Verbal Note Presented to the Soviet Ambassador to Tirana on the Anti-Marxist Stand of the Soviet Ambassador and Military Attache to Belgrade, Concerning the Meeting in Sremska Mitrovica. 24 July 11, 1960. At the Bucharest Meeting We Did Not Accept Violation of the Leninist Norms of Relations Among Parties. (From the Speech at the 17th Plenum of the CC of the PLA) 28 July 12, 1960. We Shall Speak in Moscow as Marxism-Leninism Teaches Us; For Us There Is No Other Language. (Closing Speech at the 17th Plenum of the CC of the PLA) 46 August 3, 1960. The Central Committee Is the Lead­ ership of the Party Which Always Judges Fairly, Wisely, Calmly and, When Necessary, Severely, Too. (From the Conversation with Koco Tashko) 55 August 6, 1960. Letter to the CC of the CPSU Con­ cerning the Open Interference in the Internal Af­ fairs of the PLA and the Albanian State by Some Functionaries of the Soviet Embassy in Tirana. 70 August 9, 1960. Letter to All the Basic Organizations of the Party About the Bucharest Meeting and About the Disagreements Between the Com­ munist Party of the Soviet Union and the Com­ munist Party of China. 74 August 27, 1960. Real Unity Is Achieved and Strengthened Only On the Basis of Marxist- Leninist Principles. (Letter to the CC of the CPSU and the CC of the CP of China) 80 CONTENTS IX August 29, 1960. Letter to the CC of the CPSU with Regard to the Proposals Made by the CC of the CPSU About Organizing a Meeting of the Repre­ sentatives of the CPSU and the PLA Prior to the November 1960 Meeting of the Communist and Workers' Parties in Moscow. 85 September 6, 1960. We Shall Go to Moscow Not With Ten Banners, But With Only One, With the Banner of Marxism-Leninism. (Speech at the 18th Plenum of the CC of the PLA Concerning Liri Belishova's Grave Mistakes in Line) 88 September 7, 1960. The Defense of the Marxist- Leninist Line Is Vital For Our Party and People and For International Communism. (Contribu­ tion to the Discussion at the 18th Plenum of the CC of the PLA) 102 September 8, 1960. We Must Guard Against Provoca­ tions and Defend the Party. (Discussion at the 18th Plenum of the CC of the PLA on the Hos­ tile, Anti-Party Stand of Koco Tashko) 109 September 20, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Meh- met Shehu in New York. 112 September 23, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Meh- met Shehu in New York. 114 September 26, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Meh- met Shehu in New York. 116 September 28, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Meh- met Shehu in New York. 117 September 29, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Meh- met Shehu in New York. 119 September 30, 1960. Our People and Party Will Pre­ serve and Develop Friendship With the People's X CONTENTS Republic of China With All Their Strength. (Speech at the Reception Given by the Embassy of the PRC on the 11th Anniversary of the Pro­ clamation of the People's Republic of China) 121 October 1, 1960. Letter to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Moscow. 128 October 1, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Moscow. 131 October 1, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Mehmet Shehu in New York. 134 October 4, 1960. The Moscow Declaration Should Be Made As Strong As Possible, With Gun­ powder and Not Cotton Wool. (Letter to Com­ rade Hysni Kapo in Moscow) 137 October 4, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Mehmet Shehu in New York. 141 October 6, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Mehmet Shehu in New York. 143 October 7, 1960. Letter to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Moscow. 145 October 9, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Mehmet Shehu in New York. 149 October 11, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Moscow. 150 October 13, 1960. Letter to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Moscow. 151 October 31, 1960. Even If We Have To Go Without Bread, We Albanians Do Not Violate Principles, We Do Not Betray Marxism-Leninism. (Contri­ bution to the Discussion at the Meeting of the Political Bureau of the CC of the PLA) 153 CONTENTS XI November 8, 1960. Whether Albania Is A Socialist Country Or Not Does Not Depend On Khrushchev, But It Has Been Decided By the Albanian People Through the Wars They Have Fought and the Blood They Have Shed. (From a Conversation with Y. Andropov in Moscow) 159 November 10, 1960. We Shall Ardently Defend Marxism-Leninism and the Interests of the Peo­ ple. (From the Conversation of the Delegation of the PLA with the Representatives of the CPSU, A. Mikoyan, F. Kozlov, M. Suslov, P. Pospyelov, Y. Andropov, in Moscow) 161 November 12, 1960. We Have Fought Empty-Bellied and Bare-Footed, But Have Never Kowtowed To Anybody. (Conversation of the Delegation of the PLA headed by Comrade Enver Hoxha, at a Meeting with N.S. Khrushchev in the Kremlin, Moscow) 171 November 16, 1960. Speech Delivered At The Meet­ ing Of 81 Communist And Workers' Parties in Moscow. 178 November 30, 1960. Radiogram to Comrade Hysni Kapo in Moscow. 233 December 19, 1960. From the Report at the 21st Plenum of the CC of the PLA "On the Meeting of the Representatives of the Communist and Workers' Parties Which Was Held in Moscow in November 1960." 234 December 20, 1960. The Principled and Consistent Struggle Against Imperialism and Revisionism Has Been and Remains the Road of Our Party. (Closing Speech at the 21st Plenum of the CC of the PLA) 279 PUBLISHER'S PREFACE On Nov. 8, 1975, the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Party of Labor of Albania, Volume 19 of Enver Hoxha's Works was released to the public and distributed throughout Albania. This volume, which covers the period from June to December 1960, was immediately hailed for its extraordinary political and ideological importance. It deals, among other things, with the Bucharest Meeting of the communist and workers' parties in June, and the 81 Party Conference in Moscow in November, which for the first time brought out into the open the deep split that had arisen within the ranks of the international communist movement. The book includes speeches and reports to the Political Bureau and the Central Committee of the Party, letters and telegrams to Albanian representatives in Bucharest, Moscow and the United Nations, verbatim reports of discussions held between Albanian leaders and Soviet leaders, as well as verbatim reports of discussions between Enver Hoxha and two of the former leaders of the PLA who had sold out to the Khrushchev revisionists. Also included is the historic speech by Enver Hoxha at the Moscow Meeting on Nov. 16, 1960, which courageously attacked the revisionist policies of Khrushchev right in the very heart of the Kremlin, and criticized the wrong line of the Soviet leader­ ship. Most of these documents had never been published before. This volume has aroused intense interest and has stimulated study by many people not only in Albania but throughout the world. Parts of this book have already appeared in several foreign languages in the No. 6, 1975, issue of Albania Today magazine. This edition which we have prepared is the first appearance in English and in book form in this country of those materials in Volume 19 which pertain to the historic struggle of the Party of Labor against the emergence of modern revisionism in the world with its center in the Khrushchev leadership of the CPSU. (We have omitted from this edition other materials in Volume 19 which deal with matters which are unrelated to the above central question.) Anyone interested in the development of events at this turning point in world history, every student of Marxism-Lenin­ ism, and indeed anyone interested in Albania as a nation, will XIII XIV PUBLISHER'S PREFACE find this book indispensable and a revelation.