17 May, 2002: In an effort to archive documents related to Marxism and natural science, a new section for the works of Soviet biologist Trofim Denisovich Lysenko has added to the Reference Writers Archive. It opens with two works that outline Lysenko’ls rejection of the chromosome theory of heredity, favoring changes to plants induced by environmental influences:

Soviet Biology: Report by Lysenko to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 1948
New Developments in the Science of Biological Species, 1950.

Those with an interest in Marxism and natural science are encouraged to email sryan@marxists.org with advice and suggestions.

17 May, 2002: The Karl Kautsky Internet Archive has added two articles: Practical Work in Parliament, 1908, on the futility of socialists focusing on parlimentary reforms, and Must the Proletariat Degenerate?, 1909, a defense of Marxist theory against Tugan-Baranowsky.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

16 May, 2002: The Polish Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has begun work on Trotsky’s autobiography My Life. Available are:

Table of Contents
Foreword
[Thanks to Cezary Cholewinski]

16 May, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added a PDF version of Trotsky’s must-read1939 ABCs of Materialist Dialectics.
[Thanks to Dimitri Verstraeten]

16 May, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has started work on Volume III of the Military Writings of Leon Trotsky: How the Revolution Armed. Volumes 1 and 2 have already been completed. This Volume brings us up to 1920, into the 3rd year of October Revolution. 1920—year of the war with Poland. In the early months, the Red Army’s victories against the White Guards won a breathing-space in which it turned to assist in the reconstruction of the war-torn economy. The first Labour Armies were formed under Trotsky’s direction. Then came the Polish offensive. The Soviet Republic replied by swelling the ranks of the Red Army to five million and launching the contentious march on Warsaw. Beaten back outside the Polish capital, the Soviet forces nonetheless regained lost territories’ enabled the Bolsheviks to conclude a peace, and proceeded in the South to sweep the counter-revolutionary Wrangel into the sea. The third in a five-volume series, this book is part of an imperishable record of the struggle to defend the Soviet state in the years following the Russian Revolution. Long suppressed in the Soviet Union, these writings and speeches of the leader of the Red Army are here published on the Internet for the first time.
[Thanks to Index Books and David Walters]

15 May , 2002: From the Marx-Engels Internet Achive: 27 letters from Marx and Engels for the year 1859 have been added to the Marx- Engels archive. This now completes the correspondence for the 1850s including:

The Selected Correspondence for the 1850s
1859 is the year in which Marx completed the "First Version of Capital", the "Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", and changed the sequence of categories to start with the Commodity. Many of the letters in this group concern the completion of the Critique and Marx’ls efforts to get it published.
In this letter, Marx instructs Engels on what are the two main points he must make in reviewing the book, and we learn that Liebknecht said never has a book disappointed him so much.
There is also a large number of letters to Lassalle covering a range of topics.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

13 May, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s collected letters to Marxists in Belgium from 1927 trough 1937. Special thanks to the comrades at Revolutionary History magazine in London for permission to use these valuable translations.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]

12 May, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added a PDF version of Trotsky’s 1924 Lessons of October.
[Thanks to Dimitri Verstraeten]

11 May, 2002: The Lenin Internet Archive has added 11 more documents from Volume 28 of V. I. Lenin’ Collected Works. Included are:

Speech At the Unveiling Of a Memorial to Marx and Engels, November 7, 1918
Speech At the Unveiling Of a Memorial Plaque to Those Who Fell In the October Revolution, November 7, 1918
Speech At a Rally And Concert For the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission Staff, November 7, 1918
Speech At a Meeting Of Delegates From the Poor Peasants’ Committees Of Central Gubernias, November 8, 1918
Telegram to All Soviets Of Deputies, to Everyone
Speech at First All-Russian Congress of Women Workers
Speech At a Rally In Lenin’s Honour, November 20, 1918. Brief Newspaper Report
Valuable Admissions Of Pitirim Sorokin
Speech On Red Officers’ Day, November 24 1918
Speech Delivered to a Meeting Of Delegates From the Moscow Central Workers’ Co-Operative, November 26, 1918
Moscow Party Workers’ Meeting, November 27, 1918
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]

11 May, 2002: The Marx-Engels Internet Archive has added Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1858 The letters for 1858 contain some real gems. This is the period after Marx completed his study of political economy as found in the Grundrisse in 1857, and wrote the Critique of Political Economy, in which the shape of what was to be Capital appears for the first time. In this context the discussion of Hegel and Marx’s explanation of what he is trying to achieve are intriguing. Also we have Engels’ reaction to the plan of the Critique and his reflections on Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature.

Marx to Engels. 7 January includes interesting quote from Calusewitz
Marx to Engels. 11 January Marx on his difficulties with arithmetic
Engels to Marx. 14 January humourous comment
Marx to Engels. 16 January Among other things this letter includes Marx’s idea that he should write a summary of what is rational in Hegel, in 2 or 3 printed sheets!!
Marx to Engels. 1 February Cutting coments on Lassalle’s book on Heraclitus which includes ideas about how not to use Hegelian ideas, among other things.
Marx to Lassalle. 22 February preliminary "feedback" to Lassalle on his book - note the restrained language! and interetsing comments on his own study of Greek philosophy. But at the end of the letter, by means of a quote from Horace, Marx makes the most shocking comment arising from the reactionary nature of the period they have been living through after the defeat of 1848.
Marx to Engels. 22 February Marx reports on his correspondence with Lassalle to Engels
Marx to Engels. 2 March Comments on crisis building up in France and begins questions to Engels about capital depreciation
Engels to Marx. 4 March Engels’ response to previous letter
Marx to Engels. 5 March Marx explains his concerns about the circulation of capital, and makes some comments about the British political economists
Engels to Marx. 17 March Interesting commentary on teh looming crisis in France
Marx to Engels. 2 April Marx outlines his ideas for the structure of Critique of Political Economy - beginning with capital, landed property ....
Engels to Marx. 9 April Engels finds this very abstract
Engels to Jenny. 11 May Marx is horse riding for his health
Engels to Jenny and Laura. 11 May various
Marx to Lassalle. 31 May Marx gives Lassalle a very diplomatically worded critique of his book
Marx to Engels. 31 May Marx reports to Engels what he has said to Lassalle
Marx to Lassalle. 10 June Marx explains the Party position on Duelling!!
Engels to Marx. 14 July Engels has got a copy of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature and speculates on how Hegel might have written it in 1858 ... premonitions of Dialectics of Nature ...
Marx to Engels. 15 July Begging for money from Engels, Marx tells us how he spends his money shilling by shilling
Marx to Engels. 13 August various
Engels to Marx. 7 October stuff on Ernest Jones
Marx to Engels. 8 October fascinating speculation: will not the revolution be crushed in Europe since bourgeois relations are still on the ascendant around the rest of the world?
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

5 May, 2002: May 5 is the birthday of Karl Marx. On this occasion we have added a recollection of Marx by his future son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, titled Reminiscences of Marx, written in 1890. This article give a glimpse into the work habits of Marx, as well as his love for literature, his family and Engels.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]

2 May , 2002: From the Marx-Engels Internet Achive: A selection of 10 letters of Marx and Engels from 1855 has been uploaded including:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/letters/56_03_05.htm contains a discussion of Lassalle’s betrayal
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/letters/56_05_26.htm has Engels’ description of his travel in Ireland
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1856/letters/56_06_21.htm a letter from Marx to his wife, a love-letter really
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/revelations/index.htm: Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne, Marx 1853 has been uploaded. This has some interesting stuff by Marx defending comrades caught with copies of the Communist Manifesto against charges of plotting to overthrow the government. ch02.htm in particularly interesting (including the difference between a political revolution and a social revolution)
...and the usual money problems ...
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

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: We have starting transcribing Volume 28 of V. I. Lenin’ Collected Works. We’ve added the first 20 documents, essays, articles and speeches of this particular volume.

Speech At a Joint Session Of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet, Factory Committees And Trade Unions Of Moscow, July 29, 1918
Speech At a Congress Of Chairmen Of Gubernia Soviets, July 30, 1918 Newspaper Report
Speech At a Meeting Of the Warsaw Revolutionary Regiment, August 2, 1918. Newspaper Report
Speech At a Meeting In Butyrsky District, August 2, 1918 Newspaper Report
Speech At a Rally Of Red Army Men At Khodynka, August 2, 1918 Brief Newspaper Report
Theses On the Food Question For the Commissariats Of Food, Agriculture, the Supreme Economic Council, Finance, Trade And Industries.
Admission to Higher Educational Institutions Of the Russian Federation. Draft Decision Of the Council Of People’s Commissars. Letter to Yelelts Workers
Speech At a Meelting In Sokolniki Distrtct, August 9, 1918 Brief Newspaper Report.
Comrade Workers, Forward to the Last, Decisive Fight!
Draft Of Telegram to All Soviets of Deputies Concerning the Worker-Peasant Alliance
Speeches At a Meeting Of the Moscow Party Committee On Organising Groups of Sympathisers, August 16, 1918. Minutes
Letter to American Workers
Speech At a Meeting In the Alexeyev People’s House. August 23,1918 Brief Newspaper Report
Speech In Polytechnical Museum, August 23, 1918
Speech At the First All-Russia Congress On Education, August 28, 1918
Speech At a Meeting In Basmanny District, August 30, 1918. Brief Newspaper Report Speech At a Meeting At the Former Michelson Works, August 30, 1918. Brief Newspaper Report.
Greetings to the Red Army On the Capture Of Kazan
Letter to the Presidium Of the Conference Of Proletarian Cultural And Educational Organisations
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]

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]

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