Marxists Internet Archive: Archive updates


MIA Updates


For the Year 2003

 

April—May, 2003

 

29 May, 2003: We have started the Hungarian language section of the MIA!. Included in the first uploads are:

Leon Trotsky:
Levél a Szovjet munkásokhoz
Lev Szedov (Fiú, barát, harcostárs)
A Szovjet rendszer problémái
[Thanks to Artur Anyiszonyan and Stevan Gostoji]

Georg Lukacs:
Az erkölcs szerepe a kommunista termelésben
A kommunizmus erkölcsi alapja
[Thanks to Artur Anyiszonyan and Stevan Gostoji]

 

29 May, 2003: Added to the August Thalheimer Internet Archive launched:

Strategy and Tactics of the Communist International: What are Transitional Slogans?
Trotsky, the anti- pope
Rosa Luxemburg or Lenin
Notes on a stay in Catalonia
[Thanks to anonymous]

 

28 May, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive is pleased to announce the completion of Volume 5 of the Lenins Collected Works (LCW). This brings to 20 the number of completed volumes of the LCW, including the following volumes: Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 21, 32 & 33. Volume 5 contains the following new additions/reformatted older ones and edited articles and documents:

Where to Begin?
Another Massacre
The Persecutors of the Zemstvo and the Hannibals of Liberalism
A Valuable Admission
The Lessons of the Crisis
The Serf-Owners at Work
A Zemstvo Congress
The Agrarian Question and the "Critics of Marx"
The "Unity" Conference of R.S.D.L.P. Organisations Abroad
Fighting the Famine-Stricken
A Reply to the St. Petersburg Committee
Party Affairs Abroad
Penal Servitude Regulations and Penal Servitude Sentences
Review of Home Affairs
1 Preface to the Pamphlet Documents of the "Unity" Conference
The Protest of the Finnish People
The Journal Svoboda
A Talk With the Defenders of Economism
On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Revolutionary Activity of G. V. Plekhanov
Demonstrations Have Begun
On A Letter From "Southern Workers"
Anarchism and Socialism
Political Agitation and "The Class Point of View"
Reply to "A Reader"
What is to Be Done?
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]

 

28 May, 2003: Added to the German-language Archiv Paul lafargue:

zum Reich des Sozialismus!, 1892 (To the realm ofd socialism!)
[Thanks to Fritz Keller]

 

27 May, 2003: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:

Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism, 1957
Mao Tse-Tung and Stalinism, 1957
Background to the French Crisis, 1958
China: The Hundred Flowers Wilt, 1959
The 22nd Congress, 1961
The Belgian General Strike, 1961
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

 

27 May, 2003: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:

Portugal: The Lessons of the 25th November, 1975
The case for a socialist workers party, 1977
Why socialists must support gays, 1978
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

 

23 May, 2003: Added to the Serbo-Croatian language section of the MIA :

Fridrih Engels, Uloga rada pri pretvaranju majmuna u čoveka 1876
Vladimir Ilič Lenjin, Fridrih Engels 1918
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić]

 

16 May 2003: Added to the Greek language section of the MIA:

Leon Trotsky’s Ukrainian Independence and the sectarian muddleheads
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis andOKDE-Spartakos, Greek section of the USFI]
V.I. Lenin’s Religion and the stance of the Worker's Party (1909) and
Socialism and Religion (1905)
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Savvas Michael]

 

14 May 2003: The first document has been posted to the new Peng Zhen Reference Archive:

Speech at the Aliarcham Academy of Social Sciences in Indonesia
[Thanks to Roland Ferguson]

 

12 May 2003: We have removed the version of Marx’s El Capital, vol. I, which had been scanned and marked-up by another site and and contributed by them to us, from the Spanish Section’s archives due to similarities we have noted with a published copyrighted version.

 

7 May 2003: Ban Chemical Weapons! Such is the call of this 1984 book published in the Soviet Union, detailing Soviet efforts to rid the world, everyone included, of these weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile, the US was supplying Iraq with chemical weapons, and building up its own stockpile. This material has been added to the Soviet Goverment section of the Soviet History Archive, in a section called Propaganda.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]

4 May, 2003: Added to the Jim MacLean Internet Archive are 7 new documents from Scottish nationalist and revolutionary communist Jean MacLean. These additions represent the first step in almost doubling the current size of MacLean’s writings:

Karl Marx and the Labour Party 1910
A Workers’ Party Necessary, but Labour Party Useless 1910
The Labour Party Muddle 1910
Why a Labour Party? Come out! 1910
My Objections1910
Why a Labour Party? 1910
Inflation 1910
[Thanks to David Walters (markup) and the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement]

 

We have also added three articles from the 1960’s --żDe dónde provienen las ideas correctas?, Mi afiche sobre la cuestión de bombardear los cuarteles generales and Directiva referida al Gran Plan Estratégico de la Revolución Cultural Proletaria-- to the Spanish-language Mao Zedong reference archive. [Thanks to Gabriel Hernán Ravano]

 

3 May, 2003: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:

Industry and banking in Egypt, 1946 (Unpublished at the time)
Rosa Luxemburg, 1959
Trotsky on substitutionism, 1946
The Labour Party in perspective, 1962
Incomes policy, legislation and shop stewards, 1966 (with Colin Barker), France – the struggle goes on, 1968
Rosa Luxemburg, 1959 (revised edition)
Factory branches, 1973
Portugal at the crossroads, 1975
[Thanks to Art Room, East End Offset (TU) Ltd. London]

May Day!

 

1 May, 2003: We are pleased to announce, on this special day, that with the addition of:

Sobre la acción política de la clase obrera
La nacionalización de la tierra
Contribución al problema de la vivienda
El programa de los emigrados blanquistas de la comuna
Acerca de la cuestión social en Rusia

and a number of Marx & Engels’ letters we have been able to finish uploading the entirety of the 3-volume Obras Escogidas from the USSR’s Editorial Progreso, that has long been the standard edition Marx-Engels selected works in Spanish. [Thanks to Ediciones Bandera Roja and Juan Fajardo]

We are also pleased to announce the addition of Vol. I of Marx’s El Capital, Lenin’s El Estado y la Revolución and Vol. II of Trotsky’s Historia de la Revolución Rusa to the Spanish-language archives. [Thanks to Unión de Juventudes por el Socialismo, Argentina]  

That is in addition to the launching of the new Spanish-language Archivo Eugene V. Debs. [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]

 

25 April 2003: A new document has been added to the Pantelis Pouliopoulos Archive:

In the 13th Anniversary of the Russian Proletarian Revolution
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Roland Ferguson]

 

22 April , 2003: The G. Dimitrov Reference Archive has added 11 new documents from the early period of Dimitrov’s political life, 1907 through 1920:

The Need of Trade Unions in Bulgaria and Their Organization
Bulgaria’s Economic Development
The Budapest Resolution
Towards Unity
Against Military Credits
The Significance of the Second Balkan Conference

The Small Nations
The Right Road
No Pardon, but Amnesty
Lenin to the Workers in Europe and America Third Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
[Thanks to Mathias Bismo]

 

21 April , 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has completed the next 26 documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’a Collected Works These documents contains, essays, letters and some shorter speeches given by Lenin from the end of December 1918 through August of 1919:

To G. V. Chicherin
Instructions For Compiling A Reading Book For Workers And Peasants
Notes On Help To Kharkov
On The Co-Operatives
The State Of Library Service
Draft Decision For The C.P.C.: A Concession On The Great Northern Railway
On The Question Of Allotting Farms To Industrial Enterprises
Re Draft Resolution For The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On The Food Surplus-Appropriation System In The Ukraine
On The Appeal Of The German Independents
Draft Decision For The Council Of Defence On Regulating Relations Between The Vecheka, The Railway Cheka And The Commissariat For Railways And A Letter To The Members Of The Council Of Defence Decision of the Council of Defence
Speech At Agitators’ Courses Of The Mother And Child Protection Department Of The People’s Commissariat For Social Security
Rough Draft For A C.P.C. Decision On The Printing Industry Department
Notes On Co-Operation
Draft Resolution For The C.C., R.C.P,(B.) On Sending Groups Of Workers Out On Food Transportation Jobs
Draft Decision For The Council Of Defence On Supplying Breadstuffs To The Railwaymen
On The Question Of Relations With The Middle Peasants
Draft Resolution on the Report on The Domestic and Foreign Situation of the Soviet Republic At the Extraordinary Plenary Meeting of the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies April 3, 1919
Motion To Endorse The Draft Resolution Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Containing Directives For The C.C. Of The C.P.(B.) Of The Ukraine
Re Decision Of The Council Of Defence On Stepping Up Work In The Field Of Military Defence
Postscript to the Appeal To Hungarian Internationalists
Draft Decision For The C.P.C.’S Economic Commission On Alleviating The Position Of The Workers
Salaries For Specialists Draft Decision May 23, 1919
Draft Decision For The Council Of Defence On The Mobilisation Of Soviet Employees Draft Decision May 23, 1919
Decree of The Council of Workers’ and Peasants’ Defence on Calling up for Military Service Trade, Industrial and Transport Workers and other Employees
Order To The C.P.C. Secretariat
Directives To The Commissariat For Agriculture Be Modification Of Instructions
[Thanks to David Walters]

 

15 April 2003: Two new documents have been added to the Pantelis Pouliopoulos Archive:

Declaration
A Political Villainy
Also, a new biography of Pantelis Pouliopoulos has been added to the Encyclopedia.
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Roland Ferguson]

 

15 april 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s The Peasant War in China and the Proletariat. Additionally, with this essay, we have updated Trotsky’s Writings on China Subject Index.
[Thanks to David Walters]

 

14 april 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added Trotsky’s widely acclaimed 1937 essay: Ninety Years Of The Communist Manifesto
[Thanks to David Walters]

 

13 april 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 5 more documents from Trotsky’s early writings on the Spanish Revolution:

The Character of the Revolution
Problems of the Spanish Revolution
Tactics Flowing from the Election Results
The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning
On The Slogan of Soviets—From a Letter to Andres Nin
[Thanks to David Walters]

 

8 April, 2003: Added to the new French language L’archive Auguste Blanqui:

Appel de Blanqui aux étudiants, 11 décembre 1830
Formulaire de réception à la Société des saisons
Discours du 2 fevrier 1832 à la Société des amis du peuple
Défense du Citoyen Louis- Auguste Blanqui 1832
Qui fait la soupe doit la manger, 1834
Appel du Comité de la Société des saisons 1839
Audience de Blanqui devant la Haute Cour de Bourges, 1849
Instructions pour une prise d’armes 1866
Proclamation à l’armée 1866
Proclamation à parisens 1866
Proclamation du 20 février 1866
Contre positivisme 1869
Usure
Le communisme, avenir de la société
L’éternité par les astres 1872
L’armée escalve et opprimée 1880
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

7 April, 2003: Waarom marxisten individuele terreur afwijzen and Het Communistisch Manifest Vandaag have been added to the Dutch Section’s Trotsky Archive.
[Thanks to Gert Cool and Linkse Socialistische Partij, Belgian section of the Committee for a Workers’ International]

 

7 April 2003: Many new documents have been added to the Swedish language section of the MIA

Grunddragen till kritiken av den politiska ekonomin (1857-58)
added to Marx/Engels-arkivet.
[ Thanks to H. ]

Organisationsdemokratin (1913) added to Luxemburg-arkivet.
[ Thanks to Folkmakts ]

Rĺdskommunism (1939)
Ĺterblick över Rosa Luxemburg (1978)
Om Pannekoek (1978)
Arbetarkontroll (1978)
Marxismen - igĺr, idag & imorgon (1978)
added to Mattick-arkivet.
[ Thanks to Folkmakts ]

Världsrevolution och kommunistisk taktik (1921)
Parti och Arbetarklass (1936)
Varför tidigare revolutionära rörelser har misslyckats (1913)
added to Pannekoek-arkivet.
[ Thanks to Folkmakts ]

 

7 April 2003: A new document has been added to the Pantelis Pouliopoulos Archive:

(Excerpts from) The Moment of War and Our Tasks
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Roland Ferguson]

 

6 April, 2003: New Reference Archive forAuguste Blanqui:

This new archive starts with the first English translation of Blanqui’s defence speech of January 1832.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

 

4 april 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added another document from Trotsky’s early writings on the Spanish Revolution:

The Spanish Revolution [1931]
[Thanks to David Walters and Bolerium Books]

 

2 april 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 3 documents from Trotsky’s writiings on the Spanish Revolution. These documents will be added to a special subect index of Trotsky’s writings on Spain:

The Spanish Revolution and the Dangers Threatening It [1931]
For Communist Unity in Spain [1931]
The Problems Of The Spanish Revolution From Day To Day [1931]
[Thanks to David Walters and Bolerium Books]

 

31 March 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 2 documents one from 1935 and one from 1937:

Romain Rolland Executes an Assignment [1935]
Once Again: The USSR and its Defense (On the class nature of the Soviet state) [1937]
[Thanks to David Walters]

 

30 March 2003: Annoucning the initiation of a Thai Marxist Internet Archive. This makes it our 32nd language! Included are selections from Marx and Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kollontai and Gramsci with material on its way from Tony Cliff.
[Thanks to Thanks to Giles]

 

30 March 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added 4 documents from 1935 and 1936:

The Stalinist Turn [1935]
Who Defends Russia? Who Helps Hitler? [1935]
On Dictators and the Heights Of Oslo [1936]
Notes Of A Journalist[Essays on Uruguay, USSR, and “Socialist Culture” [1936]
[Thanks to David Walters]