For the Year 2002
March & April, 2002
MAY DAY , 2002:
A new resource page devoted to May Day has been started in
the Subjects
Section. Focusing on the labor history origins of May Day as a
workers' holiday, it includes many new documents related to the eight-hour
movement, the Haymarket Tragedy, international May Day, as well as
recollections, music, literature and images. Articles/Essays/Songs/Documents on May Day and the 8 hour day from Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rosa Luxemburg, Alexander Trachtenberg, Nestor Makhno, Joseph North, Federation of Trades and Labor Unions, Samuel L. Gompers, James Connolly, Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Art Young, Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, Haymarket Defendants, and Leon Trotsky [and many, many more!]
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
1 May, 2002: Added to the Rosa Luxemburg Internet
Archive is the 1918 statement, A Call to the Workers of the
World, issued by Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Klara Zetkin and Franz Mehring.
This document was published as a May Day appeal in Revolutionary Age
magazine in 1919.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
30 April, 2002: The Spanish-language Section starts two new archives:
Archivo Alejandra Kollontai, with her article El Día de la Mujer; and,
Archivo Jorge Abelardo
Ramos with his articles Las izquierdas en el proceso
político argentino y Bolivarismo
y marxismo.
[Thanks to Gabriel Hernán
Ravano]
29 April, 2002: The Polish section of the Marxists Internet Archive has added several new documents:
Started working on Marx’s Capital
Instroduction to Capital[Thanks toComrade Wlodzimierz]
Marx on the Black Question in America (1905)by Lenin[Thanks to Comrade Wlodzimierz]
Politcal Profiles (1905) Lenin[Thanks to Comrade Wlodzimierz]
About the Party’s Purge
(1921) Lenin[Thanks to Piotr Strebski]
Independence of Ukraine and Sectarian Tangle (1939) Leon Trotsky
[Thanks to Comrade Tadeusz]
28 April, 2002: Added to the Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Der englische
Bergarbeiterstreik 1893 (1893) (The English miners’ strike)
Keine
Überraschung (1914) (No surprise)
Für die
internationale Solidarität! (1914) (For international
solidarity!)
Parteidisziplin
(1914) (Party discipline)
and Perspektiven
und Projekte (1915) (Perspectives and projects)
[Thanks to R. Kuli]
27 April, 2002: Added to the Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Der englische
Bergarbeiterstreik 1893 (1893) (The English miners’ strike)
Wie entstand
die Maifeier? (1894) (How did Mayday come about?)
Der erste
Kongreß der deutschen Bergarbeiter (1895) (The first congress
of German miners)
Die
„deutsche Wissenschaft“ hinter den Arbeitern (1900) (The
“German science” behind the workers)
Sozialdemokratie
und Parlamentarismus (1904) (Social Democracy and parliamentarism)
Zur
russischen Revolution (1918) (The Russian Revolution)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
27 April, 2002:
Added to the
Liu Shaoqi Reference Archive is Some Questions Concerning Urban Work (1949)
[Thanks to Roland Furgerson]
25 April, 2002: Added to the Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Ermattung
oder Kampf? (1910) (Fatigue or struggle?)
Das
Offiziösentum der Theorie (1913) (The semi-official nature of
theory)
Nach dem Jenaer
Parteitag (1913) (After the Jena conference)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
25 April, 2002: From the Marx/Engels Inernet Archive: Eight more letters have been added to the Jenny Marx Corresondence. Jenny’s letters of course give us amuch more graphic picture of their lives. This goup of letters deals among other things with their death of their son Heinrich Guido. In addition, a selection of Marx-Engels Corresondence has been uploaded for the year 1855. These letters deal with the birth of one child and the death of another and also the death of other comrades and struggles of various kinds.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
25 April, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Ermattung
oder Kampf? (1910) (Fatigue or struggle?)
Das
Offiziösentum der Theorie (1913) (The semi-official nature of
theory) and
Nach dem Jenaer
Parteitag (1913) (After the Jena conference)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
24 April, 2002: The Lenin Internet Archive has added two documents from 1913:
The Development of Workers’ Choirs in Germany
Eugene Pottier: The 25th Anniversary of His Death
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
24 April, 2002: Added to the German languageArchiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Die
sozialistische Krise in Frankreich (1901) (The socialist crisis in
France)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
24 April, 2002: Added to the German languageArchiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Diskussionsbeitrag
am 7. MŠrz 1914 in der Protestversammlung gegen die Verurteilung Rosa
Luxemburgs in Freiburg i.B. (1914) (Contribution to a protest
meeting in Freiburg on 7 March 1914 against the sentencing of Rosa
Luxemburg), Die andere
Seite der Medaille (1914) (The other side of the coin) and Friede und
Schiedsverträge (1916) (Peace and arbitration treaties)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
23 April, 2002: Added to the German languageArchiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Der Parteitag
und der Hamburger Gewerkschaftsstreit (1901) (The party conference
and the trade union row in Hamburg)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 April, 2002: Added to the German languageArchiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Friedensutopien
(1911) (Peace utopias) and Rückblick
auf die Gothaer Konferenz (1917) (The Gotha conference in
retrospect)
[Thanks to Oliver Fleig and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
21 April, 2002:
New addition to Marxist Writers Acrhive: Christopher Hill’s The English Revolution 1640 Hill was the pre-eminent historian of the English Revolution and a member of the British Communist Party. This classic, written to mark the 300th anniversay of the Revolution, in 1940, and tells the story of the first bourgeois revolution in just 133k, in simple, clear narrative. It should be compulsory reading for any student of Marxism.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
21 April, 2002: The The Lenin Internet Archive has completed Volume 27, of Lenin’s Collected Works. The final set of 16 documents completing this volume are from the summer of 1918, just prior to the heating up of the Russian Civil War and the infamous "July Uprising" of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries against Soviet power
Fourth Conference of Trade Unions and Factory Committees of Moscow, June 28, 1918.
Speech at a Public Meeting in Simonovsky Sub-District. June 28, 1919. Brief Newspaper Report
Prophetic Words
Speech Delivered at a Meeting in the Alexeyevsky Riding School, July 2, 1918. Brief Newspaper Report
Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Communist Group at the Fifth Congress of Soviets, July 3, 1918Brief Newspaper Report
Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Deputies July 4-10, 1918
Telegram to J. V. Stalin
Interview Granted to an Izvestia Correspondent in Connection wit the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Revolt. Brief Report
To the Workers of Petrograd
Speech and Government Statement at the Session of the All-Russia C.E.C., July 15, 1918
Speech Delivered at a public meeting in Lefortovo District, July 19, 1918
To Zinoviev, Lashevich and Stasova
Report Delivered at a Moscow Guernia Conference of Factory Committees, July 23, 1918 Brief Newspaper Report
Conversation with J. V. Stalin by direct Line, July 24, 1918
Speech Delivered at a Meeting in Khamovniki District, July 26, 1918 Brief Newspaper Report
By Direct Line: To Zinoviev, The Smolny, Petrograd
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]
21 April, 2002: A selection of Marx/Engels Correspondence has been uploaded to the Marx Engels Internet Archive. Of partilcular interesest is an 1854 letter by Engels to the New York Daily News to be Military Correspondent for this paper. Additionally there are the usual range of personal health and money problems, the ups and downs of their comrades, problems getting published, progress of their studies and much discussion of military matters.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
19 April, 2002:
The
Liu Shaoqi Reference Archive is up and running with the first document ha been added: Mr. Liao Zhongkai and Worker and Peasant Policy (1926)
[Thanks to Roland Furgerson]
19 April, 2002: We’ve added Marx’s 1965 Confession to the Marx Engels Internet Archive “Confessions” were semi-jocular questionaires that were very popular in Victorian England, and filling them out a common passtime in many families, including Marx’s, where friends and relatives particpated. A number of versions of Confessions belonging to Marx have been preserved.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
19 April, 2002: The MIA would like to acknowlege the contributions of Nick Salmon, who died recently at age 44. Nick was a scholar and tireless promoter of William Morris’s work. He made available many of Morris’s writings in print and also collaborated with MIA volunteer, Chris Croome, to set up the William Morris Internet Archive. Nick was interested in presenting the wide range of Morris’s interest and vision which is reflected in the work he and Chris have done at MIA. More of Nick’s transcription work will soon be added to our Morris Archive.
19 April, 2002:
The Women and Marxism Archive has added Supreme Soviet member M. Pichugina’s pamphlet Women in the U.S.S.R. Written in 1939, this is a report of the status of economic gains made by women since tsarist Russia, now under the Stalinist policy of "strengthening the family", which outlawed most abortions, restricted divorce, and paid out huge sums of money to women who gave birth to at least seven children.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
19 April, 2002: New texts in the Children’s Literature section:
José Martí, Naughty Nené (Nené Traviesa)
Yeh Tan, It Happened in a Coconut Grove, 1965
Yang Yi and Liang Ko, I Am on Duty Today, 1966
16 April, 2002:
We are happy to announce hosting the website
Leftist Parties of the World
. This site contains a wealth of information about unions and all types of left parties in the world. We encourage interested readers to learn from and contribute to this great resource. :)
[Thanks to Nico Biver]
14 April, 2002:
The
Encyclopedia of Marxism
is proud to announce it’s Third Edition — with an entirely new and easy to use interferace coupled with a new style. We have added hundreds of terms since the last edition, and our process of research, writing, and critique has advanced considerably. We’ll be listing new terms here as we pass over them for a final edit, in the meantime, enjoy the new interface and style! :)
[Thanks to Brian Baggins, Andy Blunden, and Trevor Schroeder]
12 april, 2002: The The Lenin Internet Archive has added the following 16 new documents from Volume 27, of Lenin’s Collected Works. These documents are all from the spring of 1918 during which the Brest-Litovsk Treaty was signed and as famine was in full swing in Moscow and Petrograd
Report on the Current Situation to the Moscow Regional Conference of the R.C.P.(B), May 15, 1918
Report to the All-Russia Congress of Represetatives of Financial Departments of Soviets, May 18, 1918
Letter Addressed to the Conference of Representatives of Enterprises to be Nationalized, May 18, 1918
Draft of Telegram to the Petrograd Workers, May 21, 1918
On the Famine. Letter to Workers of Petrograd
Speech at the Second All-Russia Congress of Commissars for Labour, May 22, 1918
The Socialist Academy of Social Sciences
Theses on the Current Situation
Speech at the First Congress of Economic Councils, May 26, 1918
Appeal to Railway, Water Transport and Metal Workers
Joint Session of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet of Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Deputies and the Trade Unions, June 4, 1918
Speech Delivered at the First All-Russia Congrress of Internationalist Teachers, June 5, 1918
Telegram to J. V. Stalin and A. G. Shlypnikov
Food Detachments. Speech at Workers’ Meetings in Moscow, June 20, 1918.
Speech Delivered at a Public Meeting in the Sokolniki Club. June 21, 1918
Organization of Food Detachments/a>
Fourth Conference of Trade Unions and Factory
Committees of Moscow, June 27 to July 2, 1918
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]
12 April, 2002: The Director of the Marx-Engels Internet Archive has selected 30 of the 137 available letters from Marx or Engels from the period 1850-51 and loaded them at:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/letters/index.htm and
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/index.htm
Here is a note from the Director and short descriptions and links to the letters:
This was probably the darkest period of their lives. The revolutions of 1848 had been defeated and they had had to flee to England. Marx and Jenny are almost starving, isolated, they are lonely, frequently ill, betrayed by former friends, whilst others face trial in Europe. From this period we have their reflections on the revolution: Class Struggles in France and Peasant Wars in Germany.
The topic discussed are mainly: polices spies and other forms of teachery and betrayal, money and lack of it and illness, but I have reduced the quantity of this material to a sample.
We see also the beginnings of their study of warfare and political economy, they test out ideas with each other and pick the brains of others where they can. There are some surprises and some things that will make you laugh:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/letters/50_03_12.htm
for a sample of Marx putting a false friend in his place
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/letters/50_11_19.htm
and
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/letters/50_11_23.htm
on the death of their Marx and Jenny’s son.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_01_07.htm
Marx asks Engels if he is right in thinking Ricardo has it all wrong on rent
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_01_08.htm
gives an insight into the struggles among British workers at the time
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_01_29.htm
Engels answers Marx question and we get more insights into the political turmoil in
England and a sense of their growing frustration with their comrades.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_02_03.htm
has a bit of boy talk about Engels’ love-life and Marx’s marriage, interspersed with Marx’s exploration of the relation between gold reserves and currency value.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_02_11.htm
reflects on their growing isolation
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_02_13.htm
some shocking comments from Engels for those who want to place the idea of "The Party" on a pedestal.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_02_23.htm
some amusing reflections on the changes taking place among their various associates and their prospects.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_03_31.htm
money talk
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_04_02.htm
Marx is disappointed that Jenny has given birth to a girl, and not a boy! and Marx believes he will be finished with his study of political economy in about 5 weeks!!
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_04_03.htm
"I’m glad that you’ve at long last finished with political economy" says Engels!
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_05_23.htm
as they speculate about events in Europe some more boy-talk.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_05_23.htm
police problems
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_06_19.htm
Engels seeks advice for his military studies from the ex-soldier Wyedemeyer
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_06_27.htm
betrayals
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_07_09.htm
their opinion of their associates falls even lower
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_08_08.htm
Marx asks ENegls for opinion on Political economic studies
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_08_11.htm
Marx gets stuck into Proudhon’s economics
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_08_14.htm
continuing on Proudhon
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_09_23.htm
Marx opens discussion on miitary theory and revolution
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_09_26.htm
Engels’ reply, as try to estimate the balance of military force in Europe for and against the revolution
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_10_13.htm
some lovely boy talk with Marx reporting on some personal exchanges
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1851/letters/51_10_16.htm
has a charming note from Jenny tacked on.
11 April, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Miliz
und Militarismus (1899) (Militia and Militarism)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan and Sozialistische
Klassiker]
8 April, 2002: Added to the German language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Massenstreik, Partei und
Gewerkschaften (1906) (Mass Strike, Party and Trade Unions)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
7 April, 2002: Added to the Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Sozialreform oder
Revolution? (1899) (Social Reform or Revolution?)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
7 april, 2002: Added to the Bukharin Internet
Archive is Bukharin’s Historical
Materialism—a System of Sociology (1921).
[Thanks to Mathias Bismo]
6 April, 2002: Added to the Mao Zedong Reference
Archive is Mao’s Proclamation of the Central
People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China (1949)
[Thanks to Roland Ferguson]
5 april, 2002: The Lenin Internet Archive is
pleased to announce the completion of Volume
26 of V. I. Lenin’s
Collected Works after adding the remaining documents and performing quality/HTML
assurance checks.
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]
5 april, 2002: The Antonio Gramsci Internet Archive has added two new documents:
Men or
machines? from Avanti!, 24 December 1916
The Revolution Against
‘Capital’ from Avanti!, 24 December 1917.
[Thanks to Marcus Green]
3 april, 2002: The The Lenin Internet Archive has added the following 19 new documents from Volume 27, of Lenin’s Collected Works:
Concerning the
Decree of Revolutionary Tribunals
Preface to the Collected
articles Against the Stream
Theses on Banking
Policy
Speech at a Meeting in the
Alexeyevsky Riding School, April 7, 1918
Directives to the Vladivostok
Soviet
Speech on the Financial Question
at the Session of the All-Russia C.E.C, April 18, 1918
Speech in the Moscow Soviet of
Workers’, Peasants’ and Red Army Deputies, April 23, 1918. Verbatim
Report
The Immediate Tasks of the
Soviet Government
Session of the All-Russia C.E.C,
April 29, 1918
Six Theses on the Immediate
Tasks of the Soviet Government
Basic Proposition on Economic
and Especially on Banking Policy
unism , Engels 1847
Wage Labour and Capital , Marx 1847
Communist Manifesto , Marx & Engels 1848
Capital Volume I , Marx 1867
Socialism: Utopian & Scientific , Engels 1880
Origin of the Family, Private Property & the State , Engels 1884
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
9 March, 2002:
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 18 new documents, originally published in the ‘dissident’ Left Oppositionist newspaper in the United States, Class Struggle, the newspaper of the Communist League of Struggle lead by veteran communist activist, Albert Weisbord. The documents listed below are from the Vera Buch and Albert Weisbord Archive.
Letter to the Communist League of Struggle (1st)
For the Spanish Revolution The Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communists
Thermidor
and Bonapartism
The Passage of Trotsky to Anvers Open Letter to Vandervelde
Letter to the Communist League of Struggle (2nd)
On the Disarmament Question
On Economic Nationalism
Family Relations Under The Soviets
On the Labor Party Question
What are, at present, the chief elements of the political situation in China?
On the War in China
On the War in China
The Spanish “Kornilovs” and “Stalinists”
Two Articles On Those Who Have Forgotten The A B Cs
Two Articles On Centrism
Hitler’s Program
On the Jewish Problem
Nationalism
and Economic Life
[Thanks to the Vera Buch and Albert Weisbord Archive for transcription and David Walters for HTML markup]
8 March, 2002: In recognition of International Women’s Day, the Women and Marxism Archive announces several recent additions:
Marietta Shaginyan, Walks Through Armenia
(Excerpt)
Vera Inber, The Crime of Nor Bibi
Mary Heaton Vorse, Weisbord’s Farewell to
Passaic
Mary Heaton Vorse, The Battle of Passaic
Meridel Le Sueur, Evening in a Lumber Town
Jean Starr Untermeyer, Church Sociable
Lola Ridge, Histrionics
Khamza Khakimzade Niyazi, A Song of Emancipated Women
[Thanks to Sally Ryan and Paula Garb]
4 March, 2002:
The Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
Reference Archive, has added Lectures to
Parents. These texts are lectures that were given by Makarenko over Soviet
radio in 1937, and cover such topics as discipline, play, work, sex education
and development of cultural interests.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]