December 2003
31 December, 2003: Rounding out the year 2003, The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 9 new documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’s Collected Works, from the Summer of 1921:
Letter To G. Y. Zinoviev
And Instructions To The Secretary
Draft Decision
For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On An Inspection Of The
People’s Commissariat For Foreign Trade
Motion To The Politbureau Of
The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Bringing Ungern To Trial
A Note To E.
Varga And Theses On The Organisation Of An Information Institute On Questions Of
The International Labour Movement
To E. Varga
Decision Of The
Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P(B.) A Record Of Workers’ Donations In
Europe
A Note To V. M. Molotov And A
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Noulens’
Note
Addendum To The
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Directives To The
People’s Commissariat For Food
Draft Decision For The
Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Spendings From The Gold Fund
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
31 December 2003: The ‘Maoists’ subsection of the Reference Archive has opended a Zhu De Reference Archive featuring a biography and one document:
Message from Chariman Zhu De to Jorge Reven Rosas, Speaker of the National Assembly of Panama (1964)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Roland Ferguson]
31 December 2003: A new document has been added to the Lin Biao Reference Archive:
Comrade Lin Biao's Speech at the
Celebration Rally (1966)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Roland Ferguson]
30 December, 2003: Added to E Belfort Bax Arhive:
German Society
at the Close of the Middle Ages, Belfort Bax
The Peasant War
(Germany), Belfort Bax
The Rise and Fall
of the Anabaptists, Belfort Bax
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
29 December, 2003: Added to the French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive for this month:
Appel aux Fédérations ouvrières internationales (Fédération de Rouen, oct. 1869)
A Bebel : Entretien avec J. Huret (1897)
II° Internationale: Rapport sur l’antimilitarisme à la Conférence nationale des Jeunesses de la S.F.I.O. (23.3.1913)
J. Guesde: Intervention au congrès de la SFIO (1912)
Le collectivisme (7.3.1894)
La loi des salaires et ses conséquences (10.9.1878)
Collectivisme et Révolution (5.1879)
M.N. Roy: L’impérialisme britannique contre le prolétariat de l’Empire (1924)
G. Deville:
Ouverture de l’archive.
Trotsky:
Pour un programme d’action (printemps 1934)
Appel des déportés à l’I. C. (13.1.1928)
F. Engels:
La situation de la classe laborieuse en Angleterre (1845)
Barta :
Voix des travailleurs n°s 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44 et 45 (du 11.02 au 05.05.1948)
S. Just:
Aperçus sur les crises à ’lépoque impérialiste (I)
(1983)
IV° Internationale:
Contre Wall Street et le Kremlin (mai 1948)
Des révolutions socialistes victorieuses peuvent seules empêcher la troisième guerre mondiale (avril 1946)
Lettre ouverte aux militants du PCI et de la "IV° Internationale" ("Socialisme ou barbarie", 28.2.1949)
Rosmer :
Lettre aux abonnés de "La Vie Ouvrière" (1.11.1915)
Lénine :
Sur l’infantilisme "de gauche" et les idées petites-bourgeoises (5.5.1918)
[Thanks to the Francais MIA Team]
28 December, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 7 new documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’s Collected Works, from the Summer of1921:
Addenda To The Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On Collective Pay For Employees Of State Institutions
Motion To The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Bonuses For Enterprises
Addenda To The Draft Decision Notes On Measures For Combating Famine And Stepping Up Economic Works
Re Draft Decision For The C.P.C. On The Organisation Of Commodity Exchange By Centrosoyuz
Motion For The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Proposals To F. E. Dzerzhinsky&38217;s Conclusions On The State Of Transport
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
27 December 2003: Two new documents have been added to the Liu Shaoqi Reference Archive:
Some Questions Concerning Urban Work (1949)
Message from Chairman Liu Shaoqi and Premier Zhou Enlai to Roberto Chiari, President of the Republic of Panama (1964)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham, Roland Ferguson, and Christian Liebl]
27 December, 2003: With the inclusion of an extract from the article
La liberación
de la mujer we innaugurate the Spanish-language
Archivo Michel Pablo.
[Thanks to PRT-Izquierda Unida
of Spain]
27 December, 2003: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
The bureaucracy today [1971]
The year 1905 [1985]
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
27 December, 2003:Added to the Duncan Hallas Internet Archive:
Stalinism in Britain, 1971
A focus for anger?, 1981
Class struggle, but no party!, 1983
Armed without an army, 1985
Mad dog days, 1986
Saving the system, 1986
Wars within wars, 1987
Running a temperature, 1994
Tony Cliff, 2000
Introduction to International Socialism 61, 1973
The First Shop Stewards’ Movement, 1973
Down the line, 1985
My favourite books, 1993
The making of a working class historian, 1993
Some prospects for 1977, 1977
The CP, the SWP and the rank and file movement, 1977
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 December, 2003: Into the Slovenian Leon Trocki Archive - Fasizem: Kaj je in kako se proti njemu boriti.
The Slovenian Section has also started a Georgi
Plehanov archive with Anarhizem
in socializem, and an Eleanor
Marx-Aveling archive with her Predgovor
v Georgij Plehanov knjiga Anarhizem in socializem
[Thanks
to Juan Fajardo and Luka Pregelj]
26 December, 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added the last 12 documents fromVolume V: The Years 1921-1923 of The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky: How the Revolution Armed. These documents complete Trotsky’s analysis of the situation in Germany as well as his ideas on developing the nascent Red Air Force, and finally, his over all perspectives on “Military Doctrine” and the fierce and lively debates in the Red Army among Communist cadre there. We have now completed ALL FIVE VOLUMES of this impressive history, by one of communism’s greatest military generals:
Speech at the celebration of the 5th anniversary of the Russian Young Communist League, October 29, 1923
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the USSR, October 30, 1923, No. 282
The Air Fleet is on the Order of the Day
Air Power: speech at the ceremonial meeting of the Society of Friends of the Air Fleet, April 26, 1923
Air Power: Letter to the editorial board of the newspaper Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn
Air Power: The weapon of the future
Air Power: Aviation and the metal-workers. (From report to the Moscow Provincial Conference of Metal-Workers, June 5, 1923)
Order by the Revolutionary War Council of the USSR, November 23, 1923, No. 2545
Opening and closing speeches in the discussion on military doctrine held by the Military Science Society attached to the Military Academy of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, November 1, 1921
Military Doctrine or pseudo-military doctrinairism
From talk with a representative of the American press
Report and concluding remarks at the meeting of military delegates to the Eleventh Congress of the Russian Communist Party, April 1, 1922
Military knowledge and Marxism. Speech at the meeting of the Military Science Society attached to the Military Academy of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army, May 8, 1922
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books, London.]
25 December, 2003: Added to the Dutch-language Internet Archive:
A transcript of Mandel’s speech on The Revolutionary Crisis
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
25 December, 2003: Added to the Dutch-language Internet Archive:
Leon Trotsky’s Fascism, what it is and how to fight it
[Thanks to Geert Cool and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
25 December, 2003: Added to the Dutch-language Internet Archive:
Opening of a Tony Cliff Archive
Addition of Cliff’s article on The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust
[Thanks to Brian Droop and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
21 December,
2003:
The Leon
Trotsky Internet Archive has added another 8 speeches and reports,
completing the section on the International situation with serveral detailed
tals
ks on the German revolution of 1923 given to various industry workers
conferences, to Volume V: The Years
1921-1923 of The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky: How
the Revolution Armed:
Report to the 6th
All-Russia Congress of Metal-Workers, June 16, 1923
From speech at the
meeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of the Russian Communist
Party, June 25, 1923
From talk with the
American Senator King
Reply to greeting from
the artillery units of the West-Siberian Military District
Letter to the editorial
board of Rote Fahne
Report to the 3rd Moscow
Provincial Congress of the All-Russia Union of Metal-Workers, October 19,
1923
Report to the 8th
All-Russia Congress of the Transport Workers’ Union, October 20,
1923
The present situation and
our tasks in building the army. Report to the 3rd All-Union Conference of
Political Workers in the Red Army and the Red Navy, October 21, 1923
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books, London.]
19 December 2003: Several new documents have been added to the Mao ZeDong Reference Archive:
Rent Reduction And
Production Are Two Important Matters For Defence Of The Liberated Areas
(1945)
Correct The
“Left” Errors In Land Reform Propoganda (1948)
Essential Points In
Land Reform In The Newly Liberated Areas (1948)
On The Policy
Concerning Industry And Commerce (1948)
On Strengthening The
Party Committee System (1948)
Turn The Army Into A
Working Force (1949)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl]
14 December, 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added another 5 documents dealing mostly with the international situation and Russia’s role in it, to Volume V: The Years 1921-1923 of The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky: How the Revolution Armed:
Interview given to a
representative of the British press
Speech at the ceremonial
meeting at the Military Academy of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red
Army devoted to the 4th anniversary of the Academy, December 7, 1922
Speech at the parade on
Red Square, May 1, 1923
Speech at the emergency
plenary meeting of the Moscow Soviet, May 12, 1923
To the Kikvidze
Division
From report to the
Conference of Metal Workers of Moscow Province, June 5, 1923
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books, London.]
14 December, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 15 new documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’s Collected Works, from the late Spring and early Summer of 1921:
Speech At A Meeting Of Communists and Candidate Members of The R.C.P.(B.) Of The Kremlin Area
Draft Decision For The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On Measures For Achieving Concentration Of Production
Plan Of A Speech At A Meeting Of The Communist Group Of The Fourth All-Russia Congress Of Trade Unions
Proposals To The Draft Decision For The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Plenum On Clause 13 Of The Party Programme
On Local Economic Conferences, On Reporting And On Complying With The Instructions Of The C.L.D.
Draft Resolution For The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Decision of the CC. (Politbureau) 22/V. 1921 on the Decisions of the R.C.P. Group of the Trade Union Congress
Remarks Concerning The Work Plan Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Plan of a Speech at the Trade Union Congress
To The Miner Comrades of The Petrovskoye Industrial Group
Tenth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.)
To All People’s Commissars and to the Chief of the Central Statistical Board
Brief Monthly Extracts From Reports
Proposals On A Check-Up And Purge Of The R.C.P.(B.) Membership
The Third Congress Of The Communist International [supplemental]
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
14 December, 2003: Added to the Dutch-language Ernest Mandel Archive:
Principles and Practice of Marxist Economics, a transcription of a series of lectures by Ernest Mandel at Brussels’ University (VUB)
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
13 December, 2003: We are very proud to announce the opening of the Tagalog language section of the MIA. We are starting off with two writers in this archive: Filemon ‘Ka Popoy’ Lagman, former leader of the Communist Party of the Philipines and Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky.
13 December, 2003: We’ve opened a Moreno Archive Internet Archive. Moreno was one of the best know leaders of the Trotskyist movement in the 60s and 70s. He was the leader of the Liga Internacional de Trabajadores (LIT), and of Movement for Socialism (MAS) in Argentina, the largest revolutionary current in Latin America which remained oriented to the urban working class after the Cuban Revolution, and opposed guerilla-ism. We have started the archive with the following two documents:
Revolution and Counter Revolution in Portugal [1977]
[Thanks to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line]
The Transitional Program Now [1980]
[Thanks to the Secretariado Centroamericano, Centro Internacional del Trotskismo Ortodoxo. Julio, 2001. Tomado de Ediciones Antídoto, Buenos Aires]
11 December, 2003: We’ve opened Serbo-Croatian Georgi Plekhanov archive with the following works:
О
материјалисm
0;ичком
схватању
историје (The
Materialist conception of History)
К
питању о
улози
личности у
историји (The
Role of Person in History)
Прилог
питању о
развитку
монистичког
погледа на
историју (The
Development of the Monist View of History)
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Pobunjeni
um]
10 December, 2003: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
Lenin: Volume 1 Building the Party, 1975
[Thanks to Dylan Stillwood & Haymarket Press]
8 December, 2003: The Hungarian Antonio Gramsci Archive has added:
Robert Michels
és a politikai pártok
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Inessa]
7 December 2003: A new document has been added to the August Bebel Internet Archive:
Reminiscences [1910]
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Roland
Ferguson]
7 December, 2003: Added to Georg Lukacs Archive:
Four more chapters from History and Class
Consicousness,
including two critiques of Rosa Luxemburg.
Four more chapters from The Young
Hegel,
covering the period when Hegel developed the concept of
“Recognition”.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
6 December, 2003: Started: Filemon Lagman Internet Archive (1953-2001) Filipino Communist who led the split in the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1991 over his opposition to the strategy of guerilla warfare. Lagman advocated a Leninist orientation to the workers movement, advocating the United Front, party building and combining parliamentary and extra-parliamentary means of struggle. While the list below has documents written in English there are also writings in Tagalog as well.
[Counter Theses against the Theoretical Framework of Joma Sison and the Communist Party of the Philippines]:
Biography
PSR: A Semi-feudal Alibi for Protracted War
PPDR: Class Line vs. Mass Line
PPW: A New-Type Revolution of the Wrong Type
[On the Reorientation of the Party Work and the Reorganization of the Party Machinery]:
Reorganisahin ang Ating Rebolusyonaryong Makinarya
Reoryentasyon ng Gawaing Pampartido
[On Globalization and the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference—APEC]
Ang Aming Paninindigan Laban sa APEC at Globalisasyon
Mensahe para sa Solidarity of Labor Movement Against APEC (SLAM APEC) Conference
[Text of Basic Courses for Socialists and Militant Trade Unionists]:
Puhunan at Paggawa (Capital and Labor)
Aralin sa Kahirapan
[Thanks to Andy Blunden, John Ho and the Filipino Workers Party from where these texts were copied]
6 December, 2003: Added to the French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive:
S. Just: Aperçus sur les crises à l’époque impérialiste (I) (1983)
IV° Internationale: Contre Wall Street et le Kremlin (mai 1948)
Des révolutions socialistes victorieuses peuvent seules empêcher la troisième guerre mondiale (avril 1946)
Lettre aux abonnés de “La Vie Ouvrière” (1.11.1915)
V.I.Lénine:
Sur l’infantilisme “de gauche” et les idées petites-bourgeoises (5.5.1918)
[Thanks to the Francais MIA Team]
5 December, 2003: Added to the Portuguese-language Archive Trotsky :
Carta à Juventude, 1938 [Letter to youth]
Está na Alemanha a Chave da Situação Mundial, 1931 [Germany and the World Situation]
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
4 December, 2003: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 8 new documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’s Collected Works, from the early Spring of 1921 1921:
Motion At The Politbureau of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
Concerning The Draft Decision For The All-Russia Central Executive Committee On The Abolition Of Monetary Taxes
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
On Purveyance In Tambo Gubernia
Meeting Of The Communist Group Of The All-Russia
Central Council Of Trade Unions [supplementary notes]
Applications For Foreign Trade Order
Draft Decision for the Council of Labour and Defence on
“Algemba”
Addendum To The Draft Decision For The
C.P.C. “On The Distribution Of Agricultural Machines”
Draft Of A Letter Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On
The Attitude To Non-Party Workers;
On The Attitude To Non-Party Workers
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
3 December, 2003: With the addition of
two works, 1 Mayıs’ın Kökenleri Nedir? (1894) and
1 Mayıs Düşüncesi İlerliyor (1913), we finally been able to
launch the Turkish languageRosa Luxemburg Archive.
[Thanks to Marksist Tutum]
2 December, 2003: With the addition of mirrors of archives devoted to two Peruvian communist poets, Javier Heraud (1942-1963) and César Vallejo (1910-1938), we have launched a new Spanish Section subject archive on Marxism and Literature. [Thanks to Grupo de Trabajo y Estudio "Amanecer Comunista Será"]
2 December, 2003: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added another 7 documents to Volume V: The Years 1921-1923 of The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky: How the Revolution Armed:
Listen and get ready, Red Army! Speech at the ceremonial meeting of the Moscow Soviet devoted to the fourth anniversary of the Red Army, February 23, 1922
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, February 28, 1922, No. 268a
Japan at Genoa and Vladivostok
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, April 13, 1922, No. 271
Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, April 14, 1922, No. 272. Keep your powder dry!
Speech at the parade on Red Square, May 1, 1922
From talks with representatives of the foreign press about the Genoa and Hague Conferences
[Thanks to David Walters and Index Books, London.]
1 December, 2003: Added to the Duncan Hallas Internet Archive:
Problems of
Rearmament, 1951
[Thanks to Mike Pearn]
1 December, 2003: Added to the Dutch-language Internet Archive:
Anton Pannekoek Archive
Pannekoek’sHistorical Materialism
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]