For the Year 2000
December, 2000
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29 December, 2000:
Complete! To end the millenium the V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has completed Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works. We will now work on completing Volume 25 which is about half way finished.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins, Charles Farrell and David Walters]
28 December, 2000:
The Marx/Engels Internet Archive now has nearly the complete Collected Works Volume 1, August 1835-March 1843. The many new additions include Marx's treatise, Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
28 December, 2000:
A new page devoted to visual art satire has been created in the Marxism and Arts subject section. It opens with some caricatures and editorial cartoons by such artists as Robert Minor, Art Young and William Gropper.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan, Nate Schmolze and Trevor Schroeder]
20 December, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 28 new documents, written during and immediatly after the October Revolution, from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works:
Draft Decree On the Right of Recall
Report On the Right of Recall At a Meeting of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee November 21 (December 4), 1917
Speech At the First All-Russia Congress of the Navy, November 22 (December 5), 1917. Minutes
Foreword to the Pamphlet, Material On the Agrarian Question
Outline Programme For Peace Negotiations
Decree On the Arrest of the Leaders of the Civil War Against the Revolution
The Tasks of the Public Library In Petrograd
Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, December 1(14), 1917
Speech Delivered At the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies, December 2 (15), 1917
Manifesto to the Ukrainian People With An Ultimatum to the Ukrainian Rada
Report On the Economic Condition of Petrograd Of Petrograd Workers And The Tasks Of The Working Class Delivered At A Meeting Of The Workers' Section Of The Petrograd Soviet Of Workers' And Soldiers' Deputies December 4
On the Opening of the Constituent Assembly
Draft of a Manifesto to the Peasantry From The Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies
Note to Fe. Dzerzhinsky With a Draft of a Decree On Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries and Saboteurs
Speech At a Meeting of the Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.), December 11(24), 1917. Minutes
Draft Resolution On the Provisional Bureau of the Bolshevik Group In the Constituent Assembly
Theses On the Constituent Assembly
Speech At the Extraordinary All-Russia Congress of Railwaymen, December 13(26), 1917
For Bread and Peace
Speech On the Nationalisation of the Banks Delivered At a Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, December 14(27), 1917. Minutes
Draft Decree on the Nationalisation of the Banks
Questions to Delegates to the Army Congress On the Demobilisation of the Army
Draft Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars
Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars On Negotiations With the Rada
Fear of the Collapse of the Old and the Fight For the New
How to Organise Competition?
Draft Decree On Consumers’ Communes
Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars On the Rada’s Reply to the C.P.C
Speech At the Send-Off of the Socialist Army’s First Troop Trains. January 1 (14), 1918. Newspaper Report
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
18 December, 2000: The Spanish-Language Section has added new documents to the Archivo Marx-Engels:
Carta de Engels a
Marx (21 de agosto de 1851);
Carta de Marx a Engels
(20 de junio de 1866);
Los bakuninistas en
acción: Memoria sobre el levantamiento en España en el verano de 1873
;
[Thanks to Juan Rafael Fajardo]
17 December, 2000:
Added to the James Connolly Internet Archive are:Home Thrusts and
How to Release Larkin.
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
16 December, 2000: Several updates have been made to the Marx & Engels Internet Archive. We have begun to upload a full index of the Marx/Engels Collected Works. Hitherto we have transcribed and marked-up the indexes for the first 9 Volumes of the Collected Works, and we will be making future indexes available once we complete them. [Thanks to Andy Blunden & Brian Baggins]
We have also created a Subject Index for the Marx & Engels Internet Archive and have begun work on a Selected Works; all with the intention of giving readers more choices in how to find documents. The main image has also been recreated in accordance to these new indexes.[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
15 December, 2000: New in the James Connolly Internet Archive: 3 articles from 1899:
"Soldiers
of the Queen"
Home thrusts
A Plea
for the Children
[Thanks to Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh and Red Banner (PO
Box 6587, Dublin 6)]
15 December, 2000:
The Women and
Marxism section has added Larissa Reissner's
Hamburg at the Barricades: and other writings on Weimar Germany. The book contains some of her remarkable journalistic sketches and also includes tributes to Reissner by Karl Radek, Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Pasternak and Lev Sosnovsky.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
14 December, 2000: 4 new texts have been added to the German language sections Trotsky Internet Archive
Der amerikanische Pazifismus (American Pacifism" (1926)
Pazifist Hitler ("Hitler teh Pacifist") (1933) [Thanks to Oliver
Fleig and Sozialistische Klassiker]
Karl Kautsky (1938) [Thanks to "trend" in "PARTISAN.net"]
Über den dialektischen Materialismus (extracts from
"Trotsky's Notebooks, 1933-1935") [Thanks to
Wolfram Klein, Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische Klassiker]
13 December, 2000:
A new archive on the Marxist Humanist Erich Fromm has been added to the Marxist Writers page. It opens with a biography and six texts.
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze]
11 December, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 7 new documents, written during and immediatly after the October Revolution, from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works:
Wireless Message Of The Council Of People'S Commissars October 30 (November 12), 1917
Wireless Message To All Regimental, Divisional, Corps, Army, and Other Committees, to all Soldiers of the Revolutionary, Army and Sailors of the Revolutionary Navy
Foreword to the Pamphlet, How the Socialist Revolutionaries Cheated The People
Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee November 10 (23), 1917
From The Council Of People's Commissars To The Revolutionary Military Committee
The Extraordinary All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Peasants' Deputies November 10-25 (November 23-December 8), 1917
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]
10 December, 2000: The Spanish-Language Section has added new documents to two archives.
The 1911 article, Por qué
los marxistas se oponen al terrorismo individual has been added to
the Spanish-language Archivo León
Trotsky.
[Thanks to
Germinal]
To the Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Carta a los miembros del
CC.
[Thanks to Aritz];
Carlos
Marx.
[Thanks to the Unión de Juventudes
Socialistas of Puerto Rico]
To the Archivo Marx-Engels:
Del socialismo
utópico al socialismo cientifico
[Thanks to the Unión de Juventudes
Socialistas of Puerto Rico]
In addition to which we are pleased to announce the launch of a
Spanish-language reference archive for the works of Albert
Einstein with his article, ¿Por qué
socialismo?
[Thanks to the Unión de Juventudes
Socialistas of Puerto Rico]
8 December, 2000:
Added to the German language sections Trotsky Internet Archive is Der einzige Weg (The Only Road)
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
8 December, 2000: New for the German language Section of the MIA: We have opened a Reference Archive with four new writers:
Otto Bauer
with Das kapitalistische Weltbild (The capitalist image of the world") (1924)
and Der Faschismus (Fascism) (1936)
Ferdinand Lassalle with Zur
Arbeiterfrage ("On the Worker Question") (1863)
Josef Stalin with Über die Aufgaben der Wirtschaftler ("On the Tasks of Managers") (1931) and finally
Wilhelm Weitling with Die Menschheit, wie sie ist und wie sie sein sollte ("Humanity as it is
and as it should be") (1838/39)
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[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
7 December, 2000:
Two new texts have been added to the James Connolly Internet Archive: An Open Letter to Dublin Castle (1898) and Home
Thrusts (1898)
[Thanks to Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh and Red Banner (PO Box 6587, Dublin 6).]
7 December, 2000:
Into the Kautsky Internet Archive, his 1908 book, The Foundations of Christianity.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
4 December, 2000: The Spanish-Language Section has added new documents to several of its archives.
To the Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Consejos de un
ausente.
[Thanks to Justo de la Cueva and the
Basque Red Net]
To the Archivo León Trotsky:
La nueva Turqu'a;
La quiebra del terrorismo
individual;
Los Balcanes, la Europa
capitalista y el zarismo;
Hace falta un nuevo partido
en Alemania;
Carta al Bur- Pol'tico del
PCUS;
El socialismo en los
Balcanes;
[Thanks to Germinal]
as well as the pamphlet, Balance y
perspectivas
[Thanks to José Madariaga and the Basque Red Net]
And, to the Archivo Marx-Engels:
Marx's La España
revolucionaria and Engels' works:
De la autoridad;
El papel del trabajo en
la transformaci-n del mono en hombre;
El papel de la violencia
en la historia;
Introducción de
1891 a La guerra civil en Francia de Carlos Marx;
[Thanks to the Biblioteca de
Textos Marxistas]
4 December, 2000:
We added to the German Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive his 1933 work on German fascism: Der einzige Weg (The Only Road).
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]
3 December, 2000: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has added 12 new documents, written during and immediatly after the October Revolution, from Volume 26 of Lenin's Collected Works. We have now completed 2/3 of this Volume:
Draft Rules For Office Employees
Speeches at a Meeting of the C.C.—Nov. 1 (14), 1917
Resolution of C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.(B) on the Opposition within the C.C— November 2 (15), 1917
Ultimatum from the C.C. Majority of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) to the Minority
Draft Resolution On Freedom Of The Press
Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee
Speech at a Joint Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies and Delegates From the Fronts
To The Population
Reply To Questions From Peasants
From The Central Committee Of The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
From the Central Committee Of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
Direct-Line Conversation Between The Government and Field H.Q. November 9 (22), 1917
[Thanks to Charles Farrell and David Walters]