For the Year 2001
March—April, 2001
Buy our CD-ROM! Production and distribution has resumed on our Marxists CD Archive. This is a CD-ROM of the entire MIA through September 2000. To find out how to order this CD-ROM, click here. All proceeds from the sale of the CD are used to maintain this web site or to subsidize the free distribution of the CD to users in developing countries who can not afford to purchase it.
1 May, 2001: Happy May Day! Workers around the world celebrate the first of May as a day of international working-class solidarity. For the origins and history of May Day, See the Encyclopedia of Marxism: May Day. See also for more information on May Day events around the world .[off-site link]
28 April, 2001: Today is Workers' Memorial Day, in recognition of the 3,300 workers who are killed on the job every day. Over 1.3 milion workers die every year in the class war; a war that has extracted a toll tens of thousands of times greater than any imperialist war ever waged. Today is a day of remembrance and solidarity for all our brothers and sisters who have been killed. Source: International Labour Organisation. For more information and propaganda materials, check out the (reform oriented) AFL-CIO: Safety and Health on the Job: Workers' Memorial Day.
25 March - April, 2001: We've been doing alot of work in setting up the new marxists.org server, from system setup to building accounts for all our volunteers and providing technical support, to configuring all our web services. We are pleased to report that our work in the main has been completed, and accessing any and all portions of the site should be functioning properly, we are of course continuing to endeavour to expand the technological solutions we offer, and suggestion are always welcome. [Thanks to Trevor Schroeder and Brian Baggins]
25 April, 2001: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s 1924 speech on the third anniversary of the Communist University for Toilers of the East entitled Perspectives and Tasks in the East
[Thanks to Chris Valade]
24 April, 2001: Added to the
Lenin Intenet Archive is all of Volume 14 of the Lenin Collected Works, which is composed of soley of Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Lenin’s most extensive contribution to Marxist philosophy.
[David Walters]
23 April, 2001: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution
[N. Vaklovisky and David Walters]
23 April, 2001: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is Trotsky’s Czechoslovakia: Toward A Decision an original essay scanned from New International, 1938
[Tesla Coyle & David Walters]
22 April, 2001: Thirteen songs of the Soviet proletariat have been uploaded to the Sounds of the Soviet Union Archive:
Dubinushka
International
Nash paravos
Orljonok
Pa dolinam i
pa vsgorjam
Pa morjam, pa
volnam
Rabotshaja
Marcelesa (Marse)
Raskinulos
morje shiroko
Slanoje
morje, sbjashtshenn
Smelo,
tovaritshi v' nogu
Tam vdali sa
rekoj
Varshavjanka
Vy shertvoju pali
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
22 April, 2001: The Communist Manifesto is now available in the following formats:
Word
Document
PDF
PRC
(for the Palm Pilot)
Plain text
HTML.
[Thanks to The Janitor]
19 April, 2001: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s Political Profiles. This is a compilation of political and biographical essays produdced between 1909 and 1923. The compilation was completed by Index Books, a Trotskyist publishing house in Britain that granted us rights to use this work. Included are profiles on:
Karl Kaustky
Rosa Luxemburg
Victor Adler
Karl Liebknecht
Hugo Haase
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books]
18 April, 2001: The Marx-Engels Internet Archive has added the entire text, preface, footnotes and images of Volume 5 of MECW has been added. The majority of Volume 5 is The German Ideology
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
14 April, 2001: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is Trotsky’s Social-Patriotic Sophistry—The Question of the Defense of Czechoslovakia’s “National Independence”,an original essay scanned from New International,
[Thanks to Tesla Coyle]
April 13, 2001: We have added several documentes to the Che Guevara Internet Archive:
A New Old Interview
Cadres for the New Party
Cuban Exceptionalism
Farewell letter
Ideology of the Cuban Revolution
Mobilising the Masses
[Thanks to Andrea Naffis]
April 13, 2001: We have added the
text of the article Navidad en
el asilo de noche to the Spanish-language Archivo Rosa Luxemburgo.
[Thanks to Juan R. Fajardo]
13 April, 2001:
We added a detailed biographical entry on the Marxist Encyclopedia for Cervetto Arrigo, noted Italian revolutionary communist and founder of the left-communist group Lotta Communista.
[Thanks to Dario]
9 April, 2001: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has completed all of Volume 1 of Lenin’s Collected Works. This milestone is adds the fourth completed volume, in addition to Volume 22, Volume 24 and Volume 26. Volume 1 contains:
New Economic Developments in Peasant Life
On the So-Called Market Question
What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight Social-Democrats
The Economic Content of Narodism and the Criticism of it in Mr. Struve’s Book
[Thanks to David Walters]
8 April, 2001: We have added Introduccion a 5 años de Internacional Comunista to the Archivo Leon Trotsky.
[Gracias por José Lopez]
7 April, 2001: The Wallon Internet Archive has been updated and now includes,
Psychology and Dialectical Materialism, 1942
The Role of the Other in the Consciousness of the Ego, 1946
The Psychological and Sociological Study of the Child, 1947
The Origins of Thought in the Child, 1947
Genetic Psychology, 1956
Interview with Henri Wallon, 1961
The Psychological Development of the Child, 1965
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze]
1 April, 2001: We have finished adding a number of documents to the Archivo Marx-Engels:
Viejo prólogo para
el [Anti]-Dühring. Sobre la Dialéctica, by
Engels
De la carta circular a
A. Bebel, W. Liebknecht, W. Bracke y otros (III. El Manifiesto de los
tres de Zurich), by Marx & Engels
Contribución a la
crítica del proyecto de programa socialdemocrata de 1891, by
Engels
La venidera
revolución italiana y el Partido Socialista, by Engels
El problema campesino en
Francia y en Alemania, by Engels
Carta de Marx a Guillermo
Bloss, 10 Nov., 1877
Carta de Engels a Carlos
Kautsky, 12 Sept., 1882
Carta de Engels a A.
Bebel, 18-28 March, 1875
Carta de Engels a
Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky, 28 Dec., 1886
Carta de Engels a
Conrado Schmidt, 27 Oct., 1890
Carta de Engels a
Francisco Mehring, 14 July, 1893
Carta de Engels a
Nikolai Frantsevich Danielson, 17 Oct., 1893
Carta de Engels a W.
Borgius, 25 Jan., 1894
Carta de Engels a Werner
Sombart, 11 March, 1895
[Thanks to Juan R. Fajardo]
29 March, 2001: Marx's Prólogo a la Contribución a la Crítica de la Economía Política has been added to the Archivo Marx-Engels. [Thanks to Germán Zorba]
17 march, 2001: Recent additions to the Archivo de Referencia Jorge Dimitrov:
Versión
taquigráfica del discurso de conclusión ante el
Tribunal
Acerca de las
medidas de lucha contra el fascismo y los sindicatos amarillos
[Thanks to a Aritz]
In addition, the article, Las lecciones de la Comuna has been added to the Archivo Trotsky. [Thanks to J. López]
17 March, 2001:
Marx/Engels Collected Works Volume 4 has now been completed. This volume includes nearly 700 pages of texts and illustrations from 1844-45.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
16 March, 2001: Added to the Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Manifest der
IV. Internationale zum imperialistischen Krieg und zur proletarischen
Weltrevolution (1940) (Manifesto of the Fourth International on the
Imperialist War and the Proletarian Revolution)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
13 March, 2001: Added to the Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Der Krieg und
die International (1914) (The War and the International)
Das
Zimmerwalder Manifest (1915) (The Zimmerwald Manifesto)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
11 March, 2001:
The Pandeli Pouliopoulo Internet Archive, one Greece’s best defenders of Marxism, has added The Popular Fronts and Proletarian Policy.
[Thanks to V. N. Gelis]
11 March, 2001:
The Holy Family from the Marx/Engels Collected Works Volume 4 has now been completed. Formerly we had only 70 pages, now
the remaining 140 pages have been completed. Of particular interest is the section, "The Critical
Battle Against French Materialism" - in which Marx gives a brief summary of
the history of Philsophical Materialism.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
10 March, 2001: In the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), another two sections of Robert Alexander's 1991, International Trotskyism: 1929-1985, A Documented Analysis of the Movement:
Ceylon/Sri Lanka,
Vietnam
[Thanks to Johannes Schneider and David Walters]
8 March, 2001: An entry on the socialist origins of International Women's Day has been added to the Encyclopedia of Marxism. A few new texts have also been added to the Women and Marxism section:
Maxwell Bodenheim—To a Revolutionary Girl, 1934
Josephine Herbst — A Passport from Realengo, 1935
Dorothy Parker—Incredible, Fantastic...and True, 1937
Ruth Lechlitner—Forever This Spring, 1939
Meridel LeSeuer—Salvation Home, 1939
Genevieve Taggard—Ode in Time of Crisis, 1940
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
4 March, 2001: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is pleased to announce the transcription and markup of a very rare work by Trotsky entitled Lenin. First published in 1925 by the Soviet Government, and translated that same year for republication in the United States, it has since long been out of print. The TIA would like to thank Ruth and Asher Harer for providing this work from their personal archives.
3 March, 2001:
Volume 3 of Marx-Engels Collected Works is now completed with the addition
of Engels' works of 1844, including his Condition of England which shows
the clear outline of what we will come to know as "Historical Materialism",
and a number of newspaper articles in which his revolutionary communist
views are already clearly developed. We have numerous volunteers taking on different volumes of this project. Any more volunteers for this project would be much appreciated.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden and all the volunteers...]