30 September, 2003: There are new additons to the Serbo-Croatian Karl Marx Archive:

На јамни рад и капитал

[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Pobunjeni um]

28 September 2003: The Rosa Luxemburg Archive added her last great speech: On the Spartacus Programme, given 16 days before her execution. [Thanks to Brian Baggins]

27 September 2003: The Encyclopedia of Marxism has added an indepth definition on the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. This war was among the most important of the 19th century, as it ended French hegemony in Europe and enacted the complete unification of Germany as Europe's strongest economy and military. This war would also lead to the first attempt of working people to create Socialist society. [Thanks to Brian Baggins]

25 September, 2003: There are new additons to Serbo-Croatian Fredrick Engels Archive:

О историском материјализму (On Historical Materialism)
Улога рада при претварању мајмуна у човека (Part Played by Labour in Transition From Ape to Man)

[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Pobunjeni um]

24 September, 2003: There are new additons to Serbo-Croatian Leon Trotsky Archive:

Sloboda tiska i radnička klasa (Freedom of the Press and the Working Class)

[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Pobunjeni um]

23 September, 2003: There are new additons to Hungarian Language Rosa Luxembourg Archive:

Társadalmi reform vagy forradalom? (Social reform or revolution?)

[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Artur Anyiszonyan]

23 September, 2003: We have started the Hungarian Language Szabó Ervin Archive with:

Bevezetés Marx "A Nemzetközi Munkásszövetség első üzenete" című
művéhez (Foreword for Marx's "The First Message of International Workers' Alliance" )
Kellenek-e forradalmárok? (Do we need revolutionaries?)

[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Artur Anyiszonyan]

23 September 2003: The V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has continued adding documents [31 total] from Volume 42 of the V.I.Lenin Collected Works from Lenin’s writings in the Spring and Summer of 1920:

Draft Decision For The C.P.C.On Unloading Potatoes And Snow Clearing Of Moscowa Streets and Railway Tracks
On Bonuses For Workers and Office Employees
A Conference of Chairmen of Gubernia and Uyezd Executive Committees
Draft Decisions for theCouncil of Defence On the State of Transport
Postscript To Decisions Of The Council Of Defence On The State Of Transport
Privileges for Locomotive Repair Workers
Speech at the Fourth Conference of Gubernia Extraordinary Commissions
Draft Resolution On The Ukrainian Borotbist Party
Interview With Lincoln Eyre, Correspondent Of The American Newspaper The World Allies Playing “Chess Game”
Remarks On The Resolution Of The Executive Of The Communist International On The Borotbists
Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On Stocks Of Commodities
Remarks On Trotsky’s Draft Theses “The Immediate Tasks Of Economic Development”
The Prosecution Of Minors
Measures For Improving The Organisation Of State Farms
Resolutions Of The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Concerning Breach Of Party Discipline By Members Of The A.C.C.T.U. Party Group
Preface To The English Edition Of The Pamphlet The Proletarian Revolution And Kautsky The Renegade
Addendum To The Draft Regulations On Subbotniks
To Members Of The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Notes Concerning The Decree On Work Rations
The Stone-Laying Ceremony for a Monument to Karl Marx
The Opening Ceremony Of The Zagorsky Workers’ Palace
Speech At The Eleventh Issue Of Red Commanders Of The First Moscow Machine-Gunners Training Courses Draft Decision For The Council Of People’s Commissars On The Purveyance Of Raw Materials Remarks on the Draft Decree on Measures for Proper Distrubtion of Housing Among the Working Population
Rough Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On Grain Resources
Interview With M. Nakahira, Correspondent Of The Japanese Newspaper Osaka Asahi
Interview With K. Fusse, Correspondent Of The Japanese Newspapers Osaka Mainichi and Tokyo Nichi-Nichi
Material For The Second Congress Of The Communist International
Interview With K. On The Conflict Between The Petrograd Commune and the Petrograd Soviet
Answers To Questions By A. M. Krasnoshchokov, Foreign Minister Of The Far-Eastern Republic
Speech At A Stone-Laying Ceremony For A Monument To Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
[Thanks to David Walters]

22 September, 2003: Added to the Portuguese-language Archive Marx & Engels :

A Revolução na China e na Europa, 1853
[Thanks to geoeconomia.com]

21 September, 2003: Added to the Portuguese-language Archive Marx & Engels :

Deslocamentos do Centro de Gravidade Mundial, 1850
[Thanks to geoeconomia.com]

8 September 2003: ODMAAA, [Society for the Preservation and Study of the Left Opposition Archives] has joined the Greek Section! “The Society for the Preservation and Study of the Left Opposition Archives (O.D.M.A.A.A.) was created by historians, archivists and scientists interested in the history of the labour movement, with the purpose of locating, preserving, making known and accessible to researchers the archives of the Greek Left Opposition and the Greek Trotskyist movement, in Greece, in archives or private collections.” [From the founding announcement] The site is currently in Greek but an English section will follow in due time.
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Tasos Anastasiadis]

8 September 2003: The following documents have been added to the Greek Archive:

V.I. Lenin:
The Balkan War and bourgeois chauvinism
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Leonidas]

Rosa Luxembourg:
Marxism or Leninism?
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and “Left Turn”]

P. Pouliopoulos:
The 3rd Conference of SEKE
The coming War and the Communists' tasks in Greece
Supplement to “The coming War and the Communists' tasks in Greece”
For the defence of the USSR!
Anniversary with Hitler's tanks around Moscow

Beginning the new Greek Alexandra Kollontai Archive with:
Do Internationalists want a split?
Plus biographies of R. Luxembourg and K. Liebknecht in Greek
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis]

7 September, 2003: We have added to the Dutch-language Section an update of the index page and Trotsky's Het ABC van de materialistische dialectiek [Thanks to Maarten Vanheuverswyn and Vonk]

7 September, 2003: We have several new writers --A. Kollontai, E. Guevara, P. Mattick, and A. Pannekoek-- to the Swedish-language Section [Thanks to Mathias Bismo]

7 September, 2003: Added to the German-language Archiv Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels:

Theorien über den Mehrwert, 1863 (Theories of Surplus Value) (work in progress)
[Thanks to Hans Ehrbar]

7 September 2003: Rosa Luxemburg sets the record straight on the absolute importance of women's emancipation in the struggle for Socialism. Special thanks to Monthly Review Press for allowing us to reproduce this copyrighted translation: Women's Suffrage and Class Struggle.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]

5 September, 2003: Added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive has added The Road to Power written, published and tranlsted into English in 1909.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]

2 September, 2003: Added to the Franz Mehring Internet Archive has added his massive tome on the history of Germany: Absolutism and Revolution in Germany 1525 - 1848 written and published in 1910.
[Thanks to David Walters, Bob Archer for the translation and Index Books]

30 August, 2003: We have added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive a series of new documents from the post-WWII period:

The Two Americas.[1948]
What Socialist America Will Look Like. [1953]
America Under the Workers’ Rule. [1953]
Defending Trade Unionists And Revolutionists. [1953]
Internationalism and the SWP. [1953]
Socialism and Democracy. [1957]
The Russian Revolution and the Black Struggle in the United States. [1959]
[Thanks to David Walters and Resistance Books]

26 August, 2003: We have added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive are 2 new documents and a new biographical sketch:

Theses on the American Revolution.[1946]
The Treason of the Intellectuals. [1947]
[Thanks to David Walters and Resistance Books]

25 August, 2003: Added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive are 3 documents:

Our Aims and Tactics in the Trade Unions.[1924]
How to Organise and Conduct a Study Class. [1924]
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [1945]
[Thanks to David Walters and Resistance Books]

25 August, 2003: The French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive has added extensively to it’s growing collection of documents over the last month.:

Bordiga :
Discours à l’exécutif de l’I.C. (Février 1926)

Boukharine:
Rapport au V° congrès de l’I.C. (27.6.1924)

Trotsky :
La question noire aux Etats-Unis (28.2.1933)
Déclaration à propos du meurtre d’A. Nin (8.8.1937)
A propos de l’émancipation des femmes (28.11.1923)

Barta :
Syrie et Liban (Lutte de Classes 48, 11.06.1945)
Le deuxième front et l’URSS (Lutte de Classes 02, 22/10/1942)
25ème anniversaire de la Révolution Russe (Lutte de Classes 03, 07/11/1942)
Echec à la relève impérialiste (Lutte de Classes 01, 15.10.1942)
Tito rompt avec Staline (08.1948)

Internationale Communiste :
Le VI° congrès de l’I.C. (1928)
La "bolchévisation" (1924-1926)

IV° Internationale:
La IV° Internationale en danger (N. Trotsky, B. Péret, G. Munis, 27.6.1947)
Lettre à "France-Soir" (N. Trotsky, 9.11.1961)
Lettre d’adieu (A. Joffe, 15.11.1927)
Lettre au C.C. du P.C.U.S. (I. Reiss, 17.7.1937)
Kollontaï :
Le prolétariat international et la guerre (1.5.1912)

Lénine :
Les objectifs généraux du mouvement féminin (23.9.1919)
Matérialisme et empiriocriticisme (1908)

F. Loriot:
Lettre au C.C. du P.C.F. (22.11.1925)
Qui touble la conscience du Parti ? (12.1925)

R. Luxemburg:
L’accumulation du Capital (1913)
[Thanks to the French the MIA team]

23 August, 2003: Added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive is Year Five of the Russian Revolution. A lecture given in 1923 to members of the new founded Communist Party in the US after Cannon’s return from visiting Revolutionary Russia.
[Thanks to David Walters and Resistance Books]

23 August, 2003: Added to the Pantelis Pouliopoulos Internet Archive:

Communists and the Macedonian Question, 1940
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis, Roland Ferguson, OKDE-Spartakos]

22 August, 2003: Added to the Georgi Plekhanov Internet Archive:

A New Champion of autocracy, 1889
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

21 August 2003: In this work Rosa Luxemburg comprehensively touches on a subject few Marxist’s venture with such depth, critique, and brilliance: the study of capitalist economics. Marx, Engels, and Lenin all made major contributions to the Marxist economic theory of capitalism. Luxemburg adds her own powerful critique to challenge both Marx and Lenin on several points and set forward a more accurate path. The Accumulation of Capital is now available.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]

21 August, 2003: Added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive is The Struggle for a Proletarian Party a collection of letters and documents on the construction and political orientation in the US of the Socialist Workers Party prior the start of the Second World War. Special thanks goes to Resistance Books in Austraila for letting the JPCIA use their copyrighted published version of The Struggle for a Proletarian Party and in particular David Holmes whose introduction to the book we are using here.
[Thanks to David Walters and Resistance Books]

19 August 2003: 2 new documents have been added to the Ho Chi Minh Reference Archive:

Appeal To Compatriots To Carry Out Destruction, To Wage Resistance War (1947)
Message Sent To The Artists On The Occasion Of The 1951 Painting Exhibition (1951)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl]

18 August, 2003: Added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive is his 1941 court testimony after being arrested with 18 other leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 and Socialist Workers Party indicted under the first use of the notorius Smith Act. The published work is known as Socialism on Trial. This testimony, in the format of questions and answers, has come to be known as one the most important primers for questions involving ‘What is Socialism’ and ‘What is Communism’ and other similiar questions. Special thanks goes to Resistance Books in Austraila for letting the JPCIA use their copyrighted published version of Socialism on Trial and in particular David Holmes whose introduction to the book we are using here.
[Thanks to David Walters and Resistance Books]

18 August, 2003: Added to the August Thalheimer from this German Communist leader is his A Missed Opportunity? October Legend and the Real History of 1923.
[Thanks to Mathias Bismo]

18 August, 2003: The Daniel De Leon Internet Archive, in conjunction with the Socialist Labor Party of the US, has brought over from the SLP’s on-line De Leon Library, almost 100 documents, pamphlets and editorials written by one the US’s earliest Marxists. All the documents are in PDF format, some with the original masthead of the SLP’s newspaper, The People, included. The original HTML library of De Leon’s works will still stand, but we will attempt to “HTMLiz” the new contributions so they can be available in all formats. According Robert Bills who did the original transcription of these documents, there are over 8,000 written articles by De Leon.
[Special thanks to Robert Bills of the Socialist Labor Party ]

17 August, 2003: Added to the Marxist Writers Archive:

New Writer’s Archive. Amadeo Bordiga Bordiga has long been in the German, Catalan, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian archives - now he’s in the English-language archive.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

13 August 2003: A new document has been added to the Ho Chi Minh Reference Archive:

Report On The National And Colonial Questions At The Fifth Congress Of The Communist International (1924)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl and Roland Ferguson]

12 August, 2003: Added to the Marxism and Psychology Subject Archive:

The following additional works by Vygotsky.
The Development of Perception and Attention
Mastery of Memory and Thinking
Internalization of Higher Psychological Functions
Problems of Method
Art as a Cartharsis
The Psychology of Art
The socialist alteration of man
The development of thinking and concept formation in adolescence
Imagination and creativity of the adolescent
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

10 August 2003: Six new documents have been added to the Greek Archive:

V.I. Lenin:
Within 12 years (excerpts)
The April Theses

L. Trotsky:
The fall of Barcelona
On the petit- bourgeoisie and Centralism
Excerpts from "In defence of Marxism"

Beginning the new Greek Karl Liebknecht Archive with:
A letter to the Polish comrades
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Roland Ferguson]

9 August 2003: Added, reorganized and reformatted for the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive are the following documents:

The Turn In The Communist International And The Situation In Germany
On the Labor Party Question in the United States
The Soviet Economy in Danger
Hitler’s Program
On the Jewish Question
Romain Rolland Executes an Assignment
[Thanks to David Walters]

8 August 2003: Two new documents have been added to the Ho Chi Minh Reference Archive:

The Martyrdom of Amdouni and Ben-Belkhir (1922)
About Siki (1922)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl and Roland Ferguson]

6 August, 2003: Added to the Michael Kidron Internet Archive:

Maginot Marxism: Mandel’s Economics, 1969
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

6 August, 2003: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is a 1931 Letter to French Revolutionary Marxist Albert Treint over issues relating to Stalin, Zinoviev and the failure of the 1923 German Revolution.
[Thanks to David Walters]

6 August, 2003: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:

Fabianism, 1891
Clericalism and socialism, 1903
Patriotism: its growth and outcome, 1904
The economical theory of history, 1905
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

5 August, 2003: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:

Sketches of the French Revolution, 1890
Biographical Sketch of E. Belfort Bax by Ted Crawford
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Andy Blunden]

5 August, 2003: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is Trotsky’s polemic surrounding the suppression of the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion against soviet power: Hue And Cry Over Kronstadt
[Thanks to David Walters]

5 August, 2003: Added to the Portuguese-language Archive V. I. Lenine :

Carta a um Camarada, 1902 (Letter to a Comrade)
[Thanks to "O Trabalho"]

4 August 2003: A few new documents have been added to the Greek language section of the Marxists Internet Archive:

V.I. Lenin:
For a Proletarian Civil Guard
On National Equality
The Immediate Tasks of our Movement
Letter to comrade Stalin
Our Revolution
Letter to L. Trotsky
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Leonidas]
On the Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Savvas Michael]

J. Stalin (Reference):
Speech to the Plenary Session of the CC of the Party
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and Savvas Michael]

L. Trotsky:
On Optimism and Pessimism
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and "Left Turn"]
The Revolutionary Path of the Intelligentsia
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis and "OKDE-Spartakos"]

4 August, 2003: Added to the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

The Spanish Trotskyists and the Foundation of the POUM, 1991, by Andy Durgan
[Thanks to Revolutionary History]

3 August 2003: Three new documents have been added to the Ho Chi Minh Reference Archive:

Annamese Women and French Domination (1922)
An Open Letter To M. Albert Sarraut, Minister of Colonies (1922)
Murderous Civilization! (1922)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl and Roland Ferguson]

2 August, 2003: Added to the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):

Spain Betrayed: How the Popular Front Opened the Gates to Franco, 1939, by Mieczyslaw Bortenstein (M. Casanova)
[Thanks to Revolutionary History]

1 August, 2003: The full text of Gregory Zinoviev’s “Lenin” has been added to the Gregory Zinoviev Internet Archive:

Lenin: Speech to the petrograd Soviet by Gregory Zinovieve
[Thanks to Roland Ferguson, Anthony Megremis, and David Walters]

1 August, 2003: Added to the Marxism and Psychology Subject Archive:

The Making of Mind by A R Luria
and Knowledge and Activity by E V Ilyenkov
[Thanks to Nate Schmolze]

1 August, 2003: Mirror of Revolutionary History site updated:

Addition of Volume 3 No.4 on Imperialist War and National Resistance and Volume 4 Nos.1 & 2 on The Spanish Civil War: The View from the Left, plus completion of Volume 3 No.1 on Stalinism & Communism in Eastern Europe
[Thanks to Revolutionary History]

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