For the Year 1999

(from the months of August, September, October)

1 November, 1999: Thanks to the Workers' Web Project, we have successfully mirrored the John Maclean Internet Archive:

John MacLean (1879-1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and Marxist educator. His Marxist evening-classes produced many of the activists who became instrumental in the Clyde revolts during and after WWI. MacLean was appointed both an Honorary President of the first Congress of Soviets and Soviet Consul to Scotland in recognition of his consistent socialist position on the imperialist war and his tireless work in support of the Bolshevik revolution.

MacLean was at odds with much of the British left and dismissive of the newly-formed Communist Party of Great Britain. He had already turned his back on economism and the syndicalism favoured by the Clyde Workers' Committee, had recognised the nature of British imperialism and come to the conclusion that revolution could only come about through the destruction of the British Empire.

29 October, 1999: The Spanish Language Section has added the final chapters of v. 1 of História de la revolución rusa to the Archivo León Trostky[Thanks to Basque Red Net and Juan Fajardo.], as well as the following speeches to the Archivo Che Guevara [thanks to Juan Fajardo]:

Lo que aprendimos y lo que enseñamos.
Palabras en la despedida de duelo de los compañeros Juan Abrahantes y Jorge Villa.
Reforma universitaria y revolución.
Discurso en la concentración ante el Palacio Presidencial.
ÀQué es un "guerrillero"?
Discurso al recibir el doctorado honoris causa de la Universidad Central de las Villas.
Discurso en "El Pedrero".
Proyección social del Ejército Rebelde.

29 October, 1999: The Marxists Internet Archive is pleased to announce the public opening of our official British mirror site at www.marxists.org.uk. The site is mirrored daily so users of the MIA in Europe and North Africa should set their books marks to this site.[Thanks to Chris Croome]

29 October, 1999: The Trotsky Internet Archive has added one Leon Trotsky's earliest known essays, his 1901 essay On Optimism and Pessimism;on the 20th Century and on Many Other Issues.[Thanks to Matt Siegfried]

29 October, 1999: The Trotsky Internet Archive has added a new chapter, "The events in Petersburg", of Trotsky's 1904 Our Revolution. [Thanks to Alphanos Pangas]

28 October, 1999: The Trotsky Internet Archive has added chapters 99 through 112 from The Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1919, Volume II.[Thanks to David Walters]

23 October, 1999: The Spanish Language Section has added 8 documents:

Marx and Engels' Manifiesto del Partido Comunista
Los sindicatos en la época del imperialismo by Leon Trotsky. [Thanks to M. Pérez Delacruz.]
Carta de L. Trotsky a James P. Cannon (12 sept. 1939)

And the following chapters of Trotsky's Historia de la revolución rusa [Thanks to Basque Red Net.]:
Capitulo VI: Agonía de la monarquía
Capitulo VII: Cinco días (23-27 de febrero de 1917)
Capitulo VIII: ¿Quién dirigió la insurrección de febrero?
Capitulo IX: La paradoja de la revolución de Febrero
Capitulo X:El nuevo Poder

19 October, 1999: The Trotsky Internet Archive has added 18 documents by Russian Red Army Commissar Leon Trotsky from the year 1919, second year of the Russian Civil War. They are from the Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1919, Volume II. We now have a total of the first 98 documents from this volume. [Thanks to David Walters]

18 October, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has added 15 new documents from Volume 24 of the Collected Works: [Thanks to Brian Baggins and David Walters]

Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme
First All-Russian Congress of Peasants' Deputies
Parties in the Petrograd District Council Elections
Two Shortcomings
Resolution on Measures to Cope With Economic Disorganisation
A Deal With the Capitalists or Overthrow of the Capitalists?
The Chain is no Stronger than its Weakest Link
The Capitalists Must be Exposed
Reports On The Economic Debacle
"Sleight Of Hand" and Unprincipled Politicians
The Dark Forces are the Cadets, the Mensheviks and Narodniks....
The Shameful Menshevik-Narodnik Bloc with Yedinstvo
Counter-Revolution Takes the Offensive ("Jacobins without the People")
A Question of Principle ("Forgotten Words" of Democracy)
For Lack of a Clean Principled Weapon they Snatch at a Dirty One

13 October, 1999: The Bakunin Reference Archive has added the work Marxism, Freedom, and the State, describing Bakunin's split with Marx before he was expelled from the International. [Thanks to Natasha Morse]

13 October, 1999: The Marxist classic Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, has been remarked and is available for download. [Thanks to Brian Baggins]

13 October, 1999: In continuing effort to bring the updates made to the Non-English section up to speed, here is an overview of the changes made to the Italian language section since it's start this year:

12 October, 1999: The Portuguese Language section has opened – so far only with a link to the Manifesto [thanks to Jørn Andersen] (Sorry for this late news!)

7 Oct 1999
Bordiga Archive opened with: Tesi della Frazione Comunista Astensionista del PSI (1920), Partito e Classe (1921), Partito e azione di classe (1921) and Il principio democratico (1922). [Thanks to the Editors of "Che fare"]

1 Oct 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Engels: First section of Anti-Dühring (1878). [Thanks to Dario Romeo]

22 Sep 1999
Trotsky Archive opened with: Scritti sull'Italia. [Thanks to Dario Romeo]

10 Sep 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Engels: Karl Marx (1878). [Thanks to Ivan A.]

9 Sep 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Engels: L'evoluzione del socialismo dall'utopia alla scienza (1880) and prefaces and first parts of Anti-Dühring (1878). [Thanks to Dario Romeo]

21 Jul 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Engels: La Questione delle Abitazioni (1872). [Thanks to Dario Romeo]

20 Jul 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Marx: Critica del Programma di Gotha (1875). [Thanks to Ivan A.]

5 Jul 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Engels: Principi del Comunismo (1847) and Per la storia della Lega dei Comunisti (1885). [Thanks to Ivan A.]

20 Jun 1999
Marx/Engels Archive: Il Manifesto del Partito Comunista (1848). [Thanks to Luigi Panzeri and Ivan A.]

14 Jun 1999
Lenin Archive: Stato e rivoluzione (1917). [Thanks to Ivan A.]

22 Jan 1999
Marx/Engels Archive opened with Tesi su Feuerbach (1845).
Lenin Archive: Marxismo e revisionismo (1908).
[Thanks to Ivan A.]

19 Jan 1999
Italian section opened.
Lenin Archive opened with I destini storici della dottrina di Karl Marx (1913) and Tre fonti e tre parti integranti del marxismo (1913). [Thanks to Ivan A.]

10 October, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has added 34 new documents from Volume 24 of the Collected Works: [Thanks to David Walters and Brian Baggins]

An Unfortunate Document
Frightening the People with Bourgeois Terrors
On the Eve
They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
Class Collaboration With Capital, or Class Struggle Against Capital?
A Strong Revolutionary Government
Titbits for the "Newborn" Government
Already the "New" Government is Lagging Behind....
Stealing a March On The Workers
Mandate to Deputies of the Soviet Elected at Factories and Regiments
An Open Letter to the Delegates to the All-Russia Congress of Peasants' Deputies
The "Virtual Armistice"
Secrets Of Foreign Policy
Ministerial Tone
In Search of a Napoleon
A Regrettable Deviation From the Principles of Democracy
On The Question Of Convening An International, So-called Socialist Conference....
Nothing Has Changed
Speech At A Meeting At The Putilov Works
The Proletarian Party at the District Council Elections
Statements About The War Made By Our Party Before The Revolution
Impending Debacle
Despicable Methods
Inevitable Catastrophe and Extravagant Promises
The Question Of Uniting the Internationalists
Muddleheadedness
Combating Economic Chaos By A Spate Of Commissions
One More Departure From Democratic Principles
Still More Lies
How The Capitalists Are Trying To Scare The People
One More Crime of the Capitalists
A Letter to the Editors
Has Dual Power Disappeared?
On the "Unathorised Seizure" of Land

9 October, 1999: The Spanish Language Archivo León Trostky has added chapters Two, Three, Four, and Five of Historia de la revolución rusa. [Thanks to Basque Red Net and Juan Fajardo]

8 October, 1999: The Marx/Engels Internet Archive has completed Volume III of Capital. All three volumes of Capital are now on-line. [Thanks to Mike Griffin and Tim Delaney]

8 October, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has added 10 new documents from Volume 24: [Thanks to Brian Baggins and David Walters]

Introduction to the Resolutions of the Seventh Congress
The Significance of Fraternisation
What the Counter-Revolutionary Steps of the Provisional Government Lead To
Social-Chauvinists and Internationalists
I. G. Tsereteli and the Class Struggle
Anxiety
The "Crisis of Power"
Finland and Russia
A Letter to the Editors
Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases

6 October, 1999: The Marx/Engels Internet Archive has added two new articles by Marx on the U.S. Civil War: [Thanks to Rob Schwarz]

The Civil War in the United States
The Dismissal of Frémont

5 October, 1999: The Spanish Language Archvie has added Rosa Luxemburg's piece El orden reina en Berlin, thus inaugurating the Archivo Rosa Luxemburgo. [Thanks to Basque Red Net and Juan Fajardo]

4 October, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive is pleased to announce the addition of one of Lenin's most important works: What is to be Done? [Thanks to Tim Delaney]

3 October, 1999: The Spanish Archivo de León Trotsky has begun to mirror Trotsky's Historia de la revolucion rusa: [Thanks to Basque Red Net and Juan Fajardo]

Prologo a Historia de la revolución rusa
Capitulo I of Historia de la revolucion rusa

2 October, 1999: The Spanish Archivo de León Trotsky has added: Thaelmann y la "Revolucion Popular" (April, 1931). [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]

1 October, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has added 10 new documents, completing the first 300 pages of Volume 24: [Thanks to David Walters and Brian Baggins]

Honest Defencism reveals itself
Mad Capitalists or weak-minded Social-Democrats?
The Advice of Shingaryov and the Advice of a Local Soviet
Resolution of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P. (B)
Lessons of the Crises
How a Simple Question can be Confused
"Disgrace" as the Capitalists and the Proletarians Understand it
Interview by E. Torniainen
Foolish Gloating
Seventh All-Russian Congress of the Bolsheviks

29 September, 1999: We have decided to announce all updates made to the Non-English Archives on this page, so multi-lingual readers can see the full extent of the content we are adding throughout the site. Here is a list of additions that have been made to the Spanish language section: [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]

Archivo de Ernesto Che Guevara:

Diario del Che en Bolivia — November, 1966 December, 1966
5 communiques of the National Liberation Army (ELN)
Mensaje a los pueblos del mundo a traves de la Tricontinental (1967)
Contra el burocratismo (1963)

Archivo de Marx y Engels:

Simón Bolìvar y Ponte
IX Resolucion de la Conferencia de la I Internacional de 1871

Archivo de León Trotsky:

El control obrero de la produccion (1931)

27 September, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive is pleased to thank Bob Schwarz for generously donating his entire collection of the Lenin Collected Works. We had only one set previously, but this new addition allows us to bring another director into the project (Tim Delaney), so work can get moving at a faster pace. Thanks Bob!

24 September, 1999: The Trotsky Internet Archive has added 27 new chapters, orders, proclamations, speeches and letters by Red Army Commissar Leon Trotsky given during the "dog-days" of the Russian Civil War, 1919. They are from the Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1919, Volume II. We now have a total of the first 80 documents from this volume. [Thanks to David Walters]

23 September, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has added 10 new documents. Also, the subject index has been updated with a basic way to find the most important works of that subject (all works transcribed in the Collected Works index are in the Subject Indexes): [Thanks to Brian Baggins and David Walters]

A Proletarian Militia
Bankruptcy?
Resolution of the Bolsheviks on the Provisional Governments' Note
Appeal to the Soldiers of All the Belligerent Countries
The Provisional Government's Note
Socialists Who Have Gone Over to the Bourgeoisie
Icons Versus Cannons,
Phrases Versus Capital
The Logic of Citizen V. Chernov
Mr. Plekhanov's Futile Attempts To Extricate Himself
Resolution of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P. (B)

21 September, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has transcribed five new documents: [Thanks to David Walters and Brian Baggins]

The Petrograd City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.
Congress of Peasants' Deputies
On the Return of the Emigrants
Our Views
How They Tied Themselves to the Capitalists

20 September, 1999: Two Maoist classics have been remarked for the Mao Reference Archive: [Thanks to Brian Baggins]

On Practice
On Contradiction

18 September, 1999: The Trotsky Internet Archive has added 21 new chapters, orders, proclamations, speeches and letters by Red Army Commissar Leon Trotsky given during the "dog-days" of the Russian Civil War, 1919. They are from the Military Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1919, Volume II.[Thanks to David Walters]

17 September, 1999: We are pleased to announce the First Edition of the Encyclopedia of Marxism. [Thanks to Brian Baggins, Sally Ryan, and David Walters]

We have completed preparations for the MIA CD, and are ready to accept requests.

16 September, 1999: The Marx/Engels Archive has completed Parts III - V of Capital Volume 3, with half of Part 6 completed. [Thanks to Mike Griffin]

15 September, 1999: The Lenin Internet Archive has five new documents:

Against the Riot Mongers
Methods of the Capitalists of all Countries
A "Voluntary Agreement" Between the Landowners and Peasants?
An Honest Voice in a Chorus of Slanderers
The Soldiers and the Land

Also, we have created a new Subject Index for LIA, which contains all the works we will transcribe in the Collected Works. [Thanks to Brian Baggins and David Walters]

13 September, 1999: The Martigeui Archvie has added the eigth lecture on the History of the World Crisis: Germany's Current Political Situation [Thanks to Juan Fajardos]

10 September, 1999:The Trotsky Internet Archive has completed the transcription and HTML markup for Leon Trotsky's writings on Britain, this includes all his letters, articles and documents on Britain, excerpted from his many other writings. [Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]

2 September:We rebuilt the Spanish Revolution History Archive with new documents, fresh HTML and updated links. [Thanks to Jorn Andersen and Eugene W. Plawiuk]

1 September: Capital, Volume One has been remarked into our new (css) format. It is also now available for download in 'book' form. [Thanks to Stephan Baird and Brian Baggins]

1 September: We have resolved most problems and are finished in large part with preparation. We still have some links to repair and are making sure that the Encyclopedia is in good order and is filled out in the most necessary of places (the Encyclopedia will be a work in progress for years to come; we are presently preparing it for first "public consumption", and thereafter we will continually add to it and happily accept articles for it!). The CD will be ready for distribution by mid-September

12 - 31, August: We have been working throughout the month on correcting errors and doing general cleaning in preperation for a CD containing the entire site that we are soon to distribute around the world. More details to come next month.

13 August, 1999: Our Revolution: Essays in Working Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 have been added to the Trotsky Internet Archive. This work was edited by M. Olgin in 1918 for the Bolshevik Party. Many of these selections have been unpublished in English since this original volume was issued. The Preface by M. Olgin and Trotsky's 1904 piece The Proletariat and the Revolution have been added. [Thanks to Alphonsos Pangas]

8 August, 1999: The MIA is proud to announce the launch of the first Subject Index — where a series of authors and documents are collected centered around a particular subject — Women and Marxism. Comments and volunteers welcome (especially translators!). Send mail to Sally Ryan [Thanks to Sally Ryan]

8 August, 1999: The LIA Biography Archive has been opened with portraits from Louise Bryant and Anatoly Lunacharsky and an entry from the Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary of 1985. [Thanks to Brian Baggins, Tim Delaney, and Alphonsos Pangas]

6 August, 1999: Another document in the series of Lenin's final writings, How we should reorganise the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, has been transcribed. [Thanks to Brian Baggins]

5 August, 1999:We've added chapters 23 through 32 from Leon Trotsky's Military Writings, Volume II, 1919. [Thanks to David Walters]

4 August, 1999: The Poverty of Philosophy has been remarked and is available to download. [Thanks to Brian Baggins]

1 August, 1999: The Current Projects page has been updated.

1 August, 1999:The complete version of Leon Trotsky's writings on Britain, that is ALL the excerpts on Britain, excerpted from his many other writings, have been collected and added to the Trotsky Internet Archive for the subject index on Britain Leon Trotsky On Britain [Thanks to Ted Crawford]