_Pararoja_ (Vanguard),
published in Gjirokaster; and _Adriatic_, which is published in Durres.
These newspapers have been assigned the function of explaining Party
policies in relation to the specific conditions found in the various
localities. They also propagandize against religion and such so-called
crimes as laziness and indifference. Local newspapers give a great deal
of attention to the economic, social, cultural, and political problems
that are specific to their districts.

_Table 7. Selected Albanian Newspapers, 1967_

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Newspaper Frequency Publisher Circulation
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_Zeri i Popullit_ daily Central Committee 86,000
(The Voice of the of the Albanian
People) Workers' Party

_Bashkimi_ do. Democratic Front 20,000
(Union)

_Puna_ do. Central Council 18,000
(Work) of Albanian Trade
Unions

_Zeri i Rinise_ twice Central Committee 36,000
(The Voice of the weekly of the Union of
Youth) Albanian Working
Youth

_Jeta e Re_ n.a. Shkoder Party n.a.
(New Life) Committee

_Perpara_ n.a. Korce Party n.a.
(Forward) Committee

_Pararoja_ n.a. Gjirokaster Party n.a.
(Vanguard) Committee

_Adriatic_ n.a. Durres Party n.a.
(Adriatic) Committee
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n.a.--not available.

In addition to the local newspapers there are wall newspapers, or flash
bulletins, as they began to be called after the 1966 initiation of the
so-called Cultural Revolution in the Party drive to rekindle among the
people a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary spirit. These wall newspapers
are usually single sheets that are posted on bulletin boards in
factories, farms, schools, offices, cultural houses, and other such
places. They are usually written by either the Party agitators or
members of the youth organization, and they serv