Hoxhaist armed struggles

[red cat]

I am looking for detailed descriptions of all Hoxhaist armed struggles.

[Crux]

Supposedly there is a Hoxhaist guerilla in Colombia, I think.

[Blackscare]

Supposedly there is a Hoxhaist guerilla in Colombia, I think.

His name is Escachio.

[mosfeld]

IIRC, there are Hoxhaite guerrillas in Ecuador, which Hoxhaites on this forum pride themselves on.

[Nolan]

Supposedly there is a Hoxhaist guerilla in Colombia, I think.

There is.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Liberation_Army_%28Colombia%29)

IIRC, there are Hoxhaite guerrillas in Ecuador, which Hoxhaites on this forum pride themselves on.

They are capable of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Communist_Party_of_Ecuado r), but right now they're not fighting a guerrilla war. The main party is illegal, but the other one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_People%27s_Movement) is influential among workers, students, etc.

[Roach]

There is this excellent document of the PCdoB about their struggle during the brazilian military dictatorship unfortunately it is currently only in portuguese at marxists.org http://www.marxists.org/portugues/tematica/misc/analise-arag-pcdob.htm

BTW in ecuador ''hoxhaists'' or ''hoxhaites'' is considered an insult.

[Ismail]

Me in another thread:

Ethiopia - the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (wasn't itself pro-Albania, but ostensibly the main organization within it, the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray, held onto a theoretical pro-Albania view up until late 1989 or early 1990.)
Colombia - Popular Liberation Army (it demobilized in the 90's, but dissident factions continue fighting)
Ecuador - Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (stopped fighting in the 90's, has a legal electoral front with seats in the legislature)
Brazil - Communist Party of Brazil (guerrilla activity in the 70's and 80's)
Venezuela - Red Flag Party (began fighting in the 1970's, demobilized in the 90's, has moved away from being pro-Albania and is now more Maoist than anything)
Nicaragua - MILPAS (fought alongside the Sandinistas against the Somoza regime, then a section joined the Contras against the Sandinistas)For the TPLF (which wasn't really pro-Hoxha, just its leadership) you can read "A Political History of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front," a thesis paper which can be found online in PDF. Some sections of MILPAS were pro-Hoxha. There is apparently a faction within ZANU that likes Hoxha (because Hoxha liked Stalin), but isn't really "Hoxhaist" ideologically and by the time of Hoxha's break with China in 1977-78 ZANU was already moving towards the negotiated settlement. There was also an urban-based pro-Albanian group in late 1970's-mid 1980's Afghanistan called Akhgar (aka Organization for Liberation of Working Class) which was one of the splits from the pro-China Sholay-y-Jaweid.

Doesn't really count, but the Malian Party of Labour was significantly involved in anti-government activities amongst students in the 1980's. It is apparently still supportive of Hoxha, but I have no clue what it does in the present coalition government in Mali (though it backs the present government.) In a similar vein there is the PCOT in Tunisia today, which is opposed to the government right now.

[red cat]

Thanks everyone ! Can you provide more details about how the above organizations worked, how their practice before the Sino-Albanian split was different from that thereafter, what their achievements were etc ?

[Lyev]

Aren't a lot of these pro-Albania part of bourgeois governments now? Ethopia's current president, Meles Zenawi, is an ex-Hoxhaist, right? More generally though, when Mao died and the Sino-Albanian split made hostile the relations between the CPC and PPSh, Hoxhaists began to fight guerrilla warfare in '80s and '70s sometimes even against pro-Soviet troops.

[Ismail]

Aren't a lot of these pro-Albania part of bourgeois governments now? Ethopia's current president, Meles Zenawi, is an ex-Hoxhaist, right?The PCdoB partakes in the present Brazilian government (and to my knowledge is no longer pro-Hoxha), but there is a pro-Hoxha party that retains its anti-revisionist positions in the country. Ecuador has the MPD, which is the legal wing of the PCMLE and has seats in the legislature but is noticeably anti-Correa. The Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray (the pro-Albania leading group within the TPLF) was disbanded when Zenawi and Co. were close to gaining power and Zenawi is now a neoliberal US ally. In Nicaragua the pro-Albania party there had seats in the legislature in the 1980's and was against the centrist policies of the FSLN, but ceased being pro-Albania after the 1980's and faded from public view.


More generally though, when Mao died and the Sino-Albanian split made hostile the relations between the CPC and PPSh, Hoxhaists began to fight guerrilla warfare in '80s and '70s sometimes even against pro-Soviet troops.Yes, and? So did the Maoists. Albania and China viewed the USSR as a social-imperialist superpower that had to be fought just like the USA. Only difference is Mao decided to ally with the USA against the Soviets, whereas Hoxha condemned this as opportunist and stressed a dual struggle against both superpowers.

There were Maoist rebels in Afghanistan against the Soviet puppet regime and the Soviet army, too.

[Roach]

In the early 90s the revisionist faction inside PCdoB publicated articles praising Ramiz Alia as Enver Hoxha ''heir''( again only avaible in portuguese on the internet) something laughable to all modern hoxhaist parties, a big part of the PCdoB and almost all the original central comittee of the current brazilian ''hoxhaist'' party, the PCR, were killed or arrested during the military dictatorship.
Two PCdoB articles praising Ramiz Alia: http://grabois.org.br/beta/revista.int.php?id_sessao=50&id_publicacao=112&id_indice=355 and http://grabois.org.br/beta/revista.int.php?id_sessao=50&id_publicacao=109&id_indice=329

The best to comprehend modern ''hoxhaist'' parties and organisations is through the Unity & Struggle articles in the CIPOML website most of them are avaible in spanish on PDF format. http://www.cipoml.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=58&lang=en.

[Red_Struggle]

Don't forget the 1997 Albanian uprising. Workers broke into arms depots and armed themselves, occupied Southern Albania and established liberation councils. The reactionary Sali Berisha had to call in NATO to quell the dissent in "Operation Alba".

http://redrebelde.blogspot.com/2009/10/albania-1997-on-brink-of-revolution.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/355.html
http://ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/ALLIANCE48InterviewsCPA(UNITED).html
http://www.un.int/slovenia/pk-alba.html
http://www.mltranslations.org/Albania/intlnl.htm

I think this should suffice.