Albanian Lictor Youth ( al, Djelmnia e Liktorit Shqiptar, it, Gioventù del Littorio Albanese, abbreviated G.L.A.) was a youth organization which served as the youth wing of the Albanian Fascist Party. The Albanian Lictor Youth was one of the associated organizations of the Albanian Fascist Party, as stipulated in its statute, which was formulated in a decree of the Italian vicegerent issued on 2 June 1939. Giovanni Giro, an Italian fascist official, had been sent to Albania to organize a fascist youth movement there prior to the Italian annexation of the country. However, these efforts had been largely unsuccessful. On the contrary, his activities created various diplomatic incidents.Fischer, Bernd Jürgen.
Albania at War: 1939-1945
'. London: Hurst, 1999. pp. 45 Following the

Italian invasion of Albania The Italian invasion of Albania (April 7–12, 1939) was a brief military campaign which was launched by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom in 1939. The conflict was a result of the imperialistic policies of the Italian prime m ...

in April 1939,

Achille Starace Achille Starace (; 18 August 1889 – 29 April 1945) was a prominent leader of Fascist Italy before and during World War II. Early life and career Starace was born in Sannicola, province of Lecce, in southern Apulia. His father was a wine and o ...

, a leading fascist organizer, was sent to Albania to set up the Albanian Fascist Party and the Albanian Fascist Youth. ENGA, an Albanian youth organization modelled after the Italian '' Opera Nazionale Balilla'' organization merged into GLA. After the founding of the GLA, Giro remained the main organizer of the movement. The GLA was modelled after the Italian Youth of the Lictor, and was politically under the command of its Italian counterpart.Trani, Silvia.
L'Unione fra l'Albania e l'Italia
The uniforms of GLA were similar to those used in Italy.

'' Girls were organized in Female Youth of the Lictor (''Gioventù Femminile del Littorio'') and boys under fourteen years of age were organized in ''Balilla'' groups. Parallel to the Youth of the Lictor there were also groups of university fascists, but these groups were rather marginal as Albania had few universities. The Italian authorities built a marble palace for the GLA in

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, in the same complex as the ''Casa del Fascio'', one of a series of lavish façades that popped up in the city during Italian rule.Consociazione Turistica Italiana.
Albania
'. Milan, 1940. p. 153 The organization's press organ was ''Liktori'' (Lictor) newspaper, with Ligor Buzi as editor.

Ramiz Alia Ramiz Tafë Alia (; 18 October 1925 – 7 October 2011) was an Albanian politician serving as the second and last leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1985 to 1991, serving as First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Alban ...

, who served as head of state of Albania in 1985-1992, had been a member of the fascist youth movement, but later left it and in 1943 he joined the Communist resistance movement.

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