The Communist Party of Albania (in Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

: Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë, PKSH) is a communist, and anti-revisionist

Anti-Revisionist

In the Marxist–Leninist movement, anti-revisionism refers to a doctrine which upholds the line of theory and practice associated with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and usually either Mao Zedong or Enver Hoxha as well...

 Marxist-Leninist, political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

. It is led by Hysni Milloshi

Hysni Milloshi

Hysni Milloshi is the founder and incumbent First Secretary of the Communist Party of Albania, successor to the Party of Labor of Albania.During communist rule, Milloshi, who was a member of the Party of Labour, was a writer and a somewhat obscure figure...

. The party was formed in 1991, as a split from the Albanian Party of Labour

Albanian Party of Labour

The Party of Labour of Albania was the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule...

 which converted itself into the Socialist Party of Albania

Socialist Party of Albania

The Socialist Party of Albania , is a centre-left, social democraticand socially liberal political party in Albania, it is currently the leading opposition party in Albania. It seats 66 MPs in the 2009 Albanian parliament . It achieved power in 1997 after a political crisis and governmental...

. It upholds Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...

 and Hoxhaism

Hoxhaism

"Hoxhaism" is an informal term used to refer to a variant of anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism that developed in the late 1970s due to a split in the Maoist movement, appearing after the ideological row between the Communist Party of China and the Party of Labour of Albania in 1978.The Albanians...

.

Nexhmije Hoxha

Nexhmije Hoxha

Nexhmije Hoxha is the widow of Albanian Socialist leader Enver Hoxha.-Personal history:Hoxha was born in Debar, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; present-day Debar, Republic of Macedonia. She studied at a high school in Tirana. After the war, she continued her studies at the State University...

 is a member of the party.

In 1998, the PKSH became the first communist party post-1991 to legally register at the Electoral Commission.

In 2002, a fraction of PKSH split and merged into the refounded Albanian Party of Labour.

In the 2005 parliamentary elections, the party gained 8,901 votes (0.7%) on the proportional list.

In a 2006 unification congress, the Communist Party of Albania, Albanian Party of Labour and smaller communist parties merged in Communist Party of Albania. 300 members of these parties participated in this congress and Hysni Milloshi is the leader of the unified party.

PKSH publishes Zëri i së Vërtetës ('The Voice of Truth').

The youth wing of the party is known as Communist Youth of Albania.