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{{Infobox political party
| name             = Party of Labour of Albania
| native_name      = Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë
| logo             = Ppshsymbol1981.png
| logo_size        = 200
| leader1_title    = First Secretary
| leader1_name     = [[Enver Hoxha]] (1941–1985)<br>[[Ramiz Alia]] (1985–1991)
| foundation       = 1941
| dissolution      = 1991
| international    = [[Cominform]] (1947–1956)
| successor        = [[Socialist Party of Albania|PS]]<br />[[Communist Party of Albania (1991)|PKSh]]<br/>[[Social Democratic Party of Albania|PSD]]
| headquarters     = Tirana
| newspaper        = ''[[Zëri i Popullit]]''
| youth_wing       = [[Labour Youth Union of Albania]]<br />[[Pioneers of Enver]]
| national         = [[Democratic Front of Albania]]
| flag             = [[File:Flag of Party of Labour of Albania.svg|175px]]
| wing1_title      = Military wing
| wing1            = [[National Liberation Movement (Albania)|National Liberation Movement]] (1942–1945)<br />[[Albanian People's Army]] (1946–1991)
| ideology         = [[Communism]]<br>[[Marxism–Leninism]]<br>[[Anti-revisionism]]
| position         = [[Far-left politics|Far-left]]
}}
The '''Party of Labor of Albania''' ('''PLA'''){{Efn|Albanian: Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë, '''PPSh'''}}, known as the '''Communist Party of Albania''' between 1941 to 1948, was a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] [[communist party]] which ruled the [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]]{{Efn|Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë, '''PKSh'''}} as the sole legal party of the [[socialist state]]. [[Enver Hoxha]] served as First Secretary of the Party from 1941 to 1985, when he died.

==Ideology==
The Party of Labor of Albania adhered to a firm [[Anti-revisionism|anti-revisionist stance]] grounded in [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] thought, termed by some as "[[Hoxhaism]]" after its First Secretary.

==Further reading==
* [https://bannedthought.net/Albania/PLA/HistoryOfThePLA-2ndEdition-1982.pdf ''History of the PLA''] (1982)

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===Notes===
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[[Category:Marxist–Leninist parties]][[Category:Anti-revisionist parties]][[Category:People's Socialist Republic of Albania]]