For the Year 2000
August & September, 2000
28 September, 2000:
For the C.L.R. James Internet Archive, transcription has begun of his 1937 book,
World Revolution 1917-1936:
The Rise and Fall of the Communist International. The work has historical
importance as being the most significant English-language anti-Stalinist history
of the Comintern of its time.
Chapters 1 - 6 have been completed. Also included is the introduction to the 1993 edition by Al Richardson. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
28 September, 2000: New in the Georgi Plekhanov Archive:
Socialism and the Political Struggle, 1883
Programme of the Social-Democratic Emancipation of Labour Group 1884
Second Draft Programme of The Russian Social-Democrats, 1887
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
27 September, 2000:
The Trotsky Internet Archive has completed the massive The Case of Leon Trotsky. This is the official transcript from the famous 1937 "Dewey Commisssion" on the Moscow Frame-up Trials.
[Thanks to David Walters]
26 September, 2000: Che Guevara's Man and Socialism in Cuba is now available in PDF format. [Thanks to Andrea Naffis]
24 September, 2000:
The Marxist Internet Archive Spanish language section is please to announce the launching of the Enciclopedia del Marxismo
[Thanks to Jaun Fajardo]
21 September, 2000: The MIA's Italian Language Section has added the following documents:
Trotsky:
Perchèi marxisti si oppongono al terrorismo individuale (1909)
La bancarotta del terrorismo individuale (The bancruptcy of the individual terrorism) (1911)
Lettera da Prinkipo (Prinkipo Letter) (1932)
Per una storia grafica del bolscevismo (Graphic History of the Bolscevism)
(1936)
In che modo Stalin ha sconfitto l'opposizione? (How Did Stalin defeat the Opposition?) (1935)
Verso un bilancio sulle purghe (Balance on the purges) (1939)
[Thanks to Dario Romeo]
Lenin:
Sull'orgoglio nazionale dei Grandi-Russi (1914)
Discorso sull'educazione al primo congresso di tutta la Russia (1918)
Il socialismo e la guerra (Socialism and war) (1915)
[Thanks to Organizzazione Comunista Internazionale & Dario Romeo]
Bordiga:
La Rivoluzione Russa (1921) (The Russian Revolution)
Il Partito Comunista (1922) (The Communist Party)
Intervento di Bordiga al congresso socialista a Livorno 1921 (1921)
Il problema del potere (1922)
Il compito del nostro partito (1922)
La discussione sulla tattica (1922)
Manifestazioni comuniste per il fronte unico in Germania (1922)
La tattica dell'Internazionale Comunista (1922)
[Thanks to the Partito Comunista Internazionalista
(Internationalist Communist Party)]
Luxemburg:
La tragedia russa (The Russian Tragedy) (1918)
[Thanks to Dario Romeo]
21 September, 2000: New at the Encylopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Red
Book: On the Moscow Trial—Documents edited and collected by Trotsky's son, Leon Sedov.
Trotzky's Diary in Exile:
1935—a review by Erich Fromm from his unpublished papers.
A Letter to Trotskyists
Throughout the World—From the 25th Anniversary Plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, 1951.
Trotsky's Struggle for the
Fourth International—by John G. Wright, 1946.
How the Fourth International Was Conceived—by Jean van Heijenoort, 1944.
What is Revolutionary
Leadership?—by Cliff Slaughter,
ca. 1960.
Declaration of the
Delegates of the French Majority and Resolution on the Austrian Question
SWP's International Information Bulletin,December 1951.
The SWP and the Fourth International, 1946-54: Genesis of Pabloism,1972.
In Defense of a
Revolutionary Perspective,1962.
Our Orientation—by
Bert Cochran, 1954
What Should Be Modified and What Should Be Maintained in the Theses of the Second World Congress of the Fourth International on the Question of Stalinism? (Ten Theses)—by Ernest Germain (Mandel), 1951
Cuba and Marxist Theory—by Mage, Wohlforth and Robertson, 1960
[Thanks to LD, SR & DW and the IBT]
21 September, 2000: The beginning of a History of the Cuban Republic has been created. This new archive hitherto focuses on the first five years of the Cuban revolutionary government, specifically on the Cuban Missile Crisis, through a time line of events and primary source documents by Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, (soon to be transcribed material from Kennedy) and recently declassified U.S. government documents.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
16 September, 2000: There are a
number of developments to report in the Spanish-Language section:
The recently-created Archivo
Antonio Gramsci has added to Necesidad de una
preparación ideológica de la masa and Carta al Comité Central
del Partido Comunista Soviético. [Thanks to its
new director, Aritz]
The text of La moral
anarquista has been added to the
Archivo de Referencia Pedro
Kropotkin and we have started the Archivo de Referencia Mikhail
Bakunin with two works: El principio del estado and
Dios y el estado. [Thanks to Biblioteca Virtual
Espartaco]
The article Sobre la
contradicción, has been added to the Archivo de Referencia Mao Zedong,
while the Archivo Palmiro Togliatti has been moved from
the Spanish-language Section's Marxist writers archive to its reference section.
11 September, 2000:
The Lenin Assembly Line Project has added to Volume 25 of Lenin's Collected Works A Contradictory Stand to the Lenin Internet Archive. .
[Thanks to Charles Farrell & David Walters]
10 September, 2000:
The Trotsky Internet Archive has started added the first five Sessions of The Case of Leon Trotsky. This represents the first 200 pages of the transcript from the famous "Dewey Commisssion".
[Thanks to David Walters]
5 September, 2000: Happy Labor Day to all U.S. workers! In memory of the struggles that created Labor Day in the United States, we have written this entry in the Encyclopedia of Marxism: Origins of Labor Day .
2 September, 2000: The Encyclopedia of Marxism has received a minor facelift and cleanup, all pages are now using a revised format to allow for better viewing.[Thanks to the janitor]
1 September, 2000: The Mao Reference Archive has added the following works: 1956: Opening Address to the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, 1958: Communes Are Better , 1959: Speech At Cheng-Chow.[Thanks to Andrea Naffis]
31 August, 2000:
The Trotsky Internet Archive has started work on The Case of Leon Trotsky, the complete transcript of hearings on the charges made against him in the Moscow Trials. The Commission holding these hearings was Chaired by US philosopher John Dewey.
[Thanks to David Walters]
29 August, 2000:
The Lenin Assembly Line Project is continuing to add to Volume 25 of Lenin's Collected Works on the Lenin Internet Archive. Added today are 4 works from June of 1917:
[Thanks to Charles Farrell & David Walters]
A Bird In The Hand Or Two In The Bush
Introduction Of Socialism Or Exposure Of Plunder Of The State?
Confused And Frightened
Insinuations
29 August, 2000:
The Trotsky Internet Archive has completed work on Moissaye J. Olgin's Our Revolution, a selection of pre-1918 writings by Leon Trotsky.
[Thanks to Alphansos Pangas & David Walters]
26 August, 2000:
New developments at the Spanish language section:
Added four new texts to the Spanish-Language Archivo Marx/Engels:
La
revolución de la ciencia de Eugenio Dühring.
("Anti-Dühring")
Del
socialismo utópico al socialismo cientifico.
El
origen de la familia, la propiedad privada y el estado.
Ludwig
Feuerbach y el fin de la filosofía clásica alemana.
Work has begun on adding vol. 1 of Mao's
Obras
Escogidas to the Spanish-Language reference archives. We've also begun working on Archivo
Carlos Marighella to house the works of that Brazilian Marxist
revolutionary in the Spanish Language Section.
[Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
25 August, 2000:
We are pleased to announce that new Trotsky Internet Archive volunteer Chris Edwards has placed into Acrobat PDF format all the major works of Leon Trotsky.
[Thanks to Chris Edwards]
24 August, 2000:
After over a year of compiling and editing, we are very pleased to announce the release of the Marx and Engels Selected Works: On Historical Materialism . This compilation contains abstracts and links to over 30 books, documents and letters written by Marx and Engels — each of which uniquely highlights different aspects of the materialist conception of history, through a description of the theory itself, its application to historical events and economics, to its conclusions on class society.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
23 August, 2000: Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling's 1891 pamphlet, The Factory Hell, into the Women and Marxism section. The piece is a report on the deplorable conditions of the nineteenth century working class under the English Factory Acts. [Thanks to Sally Ryan]
21 August, 2000: Into the Kautsky Internet Archive, an 1911 essay from The Social Democrat, Finance-Capital and Crises. Kautsky reviews Hilferding's book on Finance-Capital and develops his own work on the Marxist theory of crises. [Sally Ryan]
21 August, 2000: Twelve letters from Jenny Marx, 1845-51, to colleagues, friends and her husband, Karl, into the Jenny Marx Correspondence section. Many give insight into their personal financial and other hardships. [Sally Ryan]
20 August, 2000:
We have now opened a several new language sections at the MIA since early July. This represents a very large expansion for the MIA and opens up the classic works of Marxism to much larger readerships around the world. They are:
Rumanian section
Arabic section
Serbo-Croat section
Japanese section
Basque section
Dutch section
Chinese section
If you are not sure that you have got the latest updates you can consult the main non-English What's New? page. If you read and can transcribe Marxists texts in these languages and you would like to volunteer doing this, please contact our non-English language director at jorn@marxists.org"
19 August, 2000: The Lenin Assembly Line Project (LALP) has begun organized work to complete Volume 25 of Lenin's Collected Works for the Lenin Internet Archive. In addition to works already completed, the LALP has added: [Charles Farrell and David Walters]
First All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
Economic Disclocation and the Proletariat's Struggle Against It
The Thousand and First Lie of the Capitalists
The Diehards of June 3 Favour An Immediate Offensive
An Alliance To Stop the Revolution
Gratitude
Is There A Way to A Just Peace?
The Enemies of the People
Note
"The Great Withdrawal"
The Use of Sticking to the Point in Polemics
An Epidemic of Credulity
All Power to the Soviets!
14 August, 2000:
The Lenin Internet Archive has added Lenin's
Remarks On the Draft "Propositions Concerning the Management of Nationalised Enterprises"
[Thanks to D. A. van den Berg and Charles Farrell]
14 August, 2000: The Stalin Reference Archive has added the following items:
A Letter To Comrade Dov
A Letter To Comrade Molotov
A Letter To Comrade Yermakovsky
Talk With the German Author Emil Ludwig
[Charles Farrell]
12 August, 2000: We are happy to announce the addition of a fifth mirror of the Marxists Internet Archive, located in Blacksburg, Virginia. Thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger and the Virginia Technical Institute.
9 August, 2000: The Greek language section of the MIA is pleased to announce the completion and translation into Greek of Leon Trotsky's 1922 classic essay on the national question Between Red and White. [Thanks to Alphanos Pangas]
8 August, 2000: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has uploaded Trotsky's Literature and Revolution, originally published by the Soviet government as a collection of essays as part of an-going debate over art and culture in workers Russia. [Thanks to N. Vaklovisky and David Walters]
7 August, 2000:
The Mao Reference Archive has uploaded the PDF version of Mao's Redbook
[Thanks to Andrea Naffis]
5 August, 2000: The Chinese Language Section has uploaded the complete Collected Works of Marx and Engels and the complete Collected Works of Lenin in PDF format. This is an outstanding accomplishment, and it is unparalleled by any of our other language sections, including our thirteen-year-old english section! This has been achieved thanks to the Communist Party of China, translated to Chinese by the Central Translation and Assembly Bureau (published by China People's Press), converted to PDF files by the Red Flag Press, and brought to our archive by our Chinese language director Weidong Ren.
These awesome contributions were possible because, with difficulty, we agreed not to restrict Weidong's work and contributions on the basis of his political beliefs that both Mao and Trotsky belong in a Marxist section.