Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 17:46:31 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu> Subject: M-I: Albania, March 9, 1997--an attempt to disarm a rebellion! A classic case of capitulation of a ex-CP, now Socialist Party, to a explicit bourgeois party with the objective of disarming a rebellion! Paul ************************************************************************* Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 10:30:38 PST TIRANA, Albania (Reuter) - "President Sali Berisha and Albania's ruling and opposition parties signed an agreement Sunday calling for a national unity government and elections by June. "The nine-point accord, made available to reporters, also gave rebels holding several cities in the south of the country a week to hand in their weapons. "The agreement, clinched after two days of talks and mediation by senior European emissaries, followed Berisha's reversal of his refusal to form a coalition with the Socialists, heirs to Albania's Communist party. "The setting of the June deadline for fresh elections was a further concession to the opposition. Berisha had initially proposed elections within 45 days and then extended it to two months. "The opposition, which criticized last May's election as unfair, had objected to such a short time frame, saying it was impossible to hold elections under a state of emergency introduced last week. "More than 20 people have died in the latest wave of violence in Albania, initially sparked by the collapse of fraudulent investment schemes with the life savings of hundreds of thousands. Rebels holding several southern towns have said they will not give up their weapons until Berisha resigns." THREE HOURS LATER, UPI reports that the offer of a "week to turn in their weapons" as "an offer the BBC correspondent in southern Albania says is being ignored." Paul Zarembka ************************************************************************* Paul Zarembka, supporting the RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY Web site at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka, and using OS/2 Warp. ************************************************************************* --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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