Our aim is to provide an up-to-date analysis of the origins and course of the Albanian uprising, and especially of the extremely contradictory character of this post-Stalinist mass movement. The complex problems posed by the national question in Kosova/Kosovo, Macedonia, Greece, and throughout the Southern Balkans are, because of pressures of time and space, regrettably beyond the scope of this pamphlet, though they will most probably be high on the Balkan agenda in the near future.

I would like to thank IS comrades for their comments and suggestions on the draft; Manny for rapid, meticulous typing; Dennis for design and layout; and especially our print comrades for producing yet another publication at a time when the general election campaign of the Socialist Party, the CWI's British Section, has made massive printing demands on them.

Lynn Walsh