Albania: Historical political flags

Last modified: 2001-06-01 by ivan sache
Keywords: albanian labor party | union of albanian workers | communist party | sickle and hammer |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

• Communist Party during Second World War
• Albanian Labour Party (1946-92)
• Youth organization of the ALP (1946-92)
• Union of the Albanian Workers (1946-92)

See also:

• Albania
• Albania: Political flags
• People's Republic of Albania (1946-1992)

Communist Party during Second World War

by Jaume Ollé

The communist guerillas in Second World War used a red flag with the hammer and sickle, the emblem of the Albanian Communist Party.

Jaume Ollé

Albanian Labour Party [Partia ë Punes ë Shqiperisë] (1946-92)

by Jorge Candeias, after Jaume Ollé's original

The above is the flag of the Albanian Labour Party (communist, founded in 1941). In 1992, it's Xth Congress adopted the name Socialist Party of Albania.

Jaume Ollé

SH is the abbreviation for Shqipërise (the Albanian word for "Albanian"). Therefore I think that there should not be a dot after the S.

Zeljko Heimer, 21 April 1999

Youth organization of the ALP (1946-92)

by Jorge Candeias, after Jaume Ollé's original

Union of the Albanian Workers (1946-92)

by Jorge Candeias, after Jaume Ollé's original

The Union of the Albanian Workers was the communist trade union.

Jaume Ollé

See above the remark about S.H.