January 2004
2 February, 2004:
The English Luxemburg Archive has added the classic work What Does the Spartacus League Want?
[Thanks to Brian Baggins and Monthly Review Press for their permission]
29 January, 2004: Added to the German-language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Organisationsfragen der russischen Sozialdemokratie, 1904 (Organisational Questions of Russian Social Democracy)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 January 2004: Announcing the new History of the German Revolution—1918-23 Subject archive. The archive will contain speeches, documents and photographs from the period of revolutionary upheaval following the end of World War I in Germany together with contemporary analysis and more recent histories of the period when Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered, and Soviet governments set up in parts of Germany.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden and David Walters]
24 January 2004: A new Thai Section of the MIA was set-up, unannounced last year. We wanted to point this out and update our readers of this event:
Including translations provided by Giles U., a supporter in Thailand, some of
which were previously published in What is Marxism Book 2
(2002)
published by Workers Democracy Book Club, with works by Marx, Engels,
Kollontai, Lenin, Cliff, Hallas and Trotsky.
[Thanks to Giles U. and Andy Blunden]
24 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 25 new documents from Volume 9 of Lenin’s Collected Works covering the summer of 1905.
Concluding Paragraph to the Article “The Paris Commune and the Tasks of the Democratic Dictatorship”
To the Secretariat of the International Socialist Bureau, Brussels
Revolution Teaches
Wrathful Impotence
Original Variant of the Preface to the Pamphlet Workers on the Split in the Party
Preface to
the Pamphlet Workers on the Split in the Party
While the Proletariat is Doing the Fighting the Bourgeoisie is Stealing Towards Power
The Boycott of the Bulygin Duma, and Insurrection
Note on a Resolution of the
Conference of R.S.D.L.P. Organisations Abroad
Note on M. N. Pokrovsky's Article “The Professional Intelligentsia and the Social-Democrats”
Reply from the
Proletary Editorial Board to Questions Put by Comrade “Worker”
“Oneness of
the Tsar and the People, and of the People and the Tsar”
The Black
Hundreds and the Organisation of an Uprising
Editorial
Epilogue to the Article “The Third Congress on Trial Before
the Caucasian Mensheviks”
Are the Zemstvo “Liberals” Already Turning Back?
The Working Class and Revolution
Preface to the Third Edition of the Pamphlet The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats
Note on P. Nikolayev’s Pamphlet The Revolution in Russia
In the Wake of the Monarchist Bourgeoisie, or In the Van of the Revolutionary Proletariat and
Peasantry?
A Most Lucid Exposition of a Most Confused Plan
Keeping International
Social-Democracy Informed of our Party Affairs
Note to the
Article “Russia’s Finances and the Revolution”
Social-Democracy’s Attitude Towards the Peasant Movement
What Our Liberal Bourgeois Want, and What They Fear
The Theory of Spontaneous Generation
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
24 January 2004: The Turkish-language Section has added the following writings by Leon Trotsky:
Grynszpan’dan Yana
Bir Kez Daha “Marksizmin Krizi” Üzerine
Terörizm ve Sovyetler Birlig(i’ndeki Stalinist Rejim
Bireysel Terörizme Neden Kars,?
Güney Afrika Tezleri Üzerine
Katalonya'da Ulusal Sorun
I.spanyol Komünizmi ve Katalan Federasyonu
Katalan Milliyetçilig(inin I.lerici Karakteri
Dog(u'da Perspektifler ve Görevler
"Avrupa Birles,ik Devletleri" Slogan? I.çin Uygun Zaman m?
Yoldas, McKay’e Mektup
Marksistler Bireysel Terörizme Neden Kars,?d?rlar
Bireysel Terörizmin I.flâsi
[Thanks to Marksist Tutum]
22 January 2004: The Italian language MIA has added to the Archivio Marx-Engels:
The forewords to L'origine della famiglia, della proprietŕ
privata e dello Stato (Origin of the family, private property, and the
state) (Engels, 1884), e
Un esempio di matrimonio di gruppo di recente
scoperta (A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage) (Engels,
1892),
[Thanks to Mishů]
Istruzioni per i delegati del Consiglio Centrale Provvisorio
dell'A.I.L. (Instructions for the delegates of Provisiorial Central
Conseil of the International Workingmen's Association) (Marx, 1867)
L'inchiesta
operaia (A Workers' Inquiry) (Marx, 1880)
Lettera di Marx a Sogre
sul programma del Parti Ouvrier (letter to Sorge) (novembre
1880),
[Thanks to La
Contraddizione)
Lavoro salariato
e capitale (Wage Labour & Capital) (scritto da Marx nel 1847)
[Thanks to La Giovane Talpa)
Lettera di Marx alla figlia Laura su Lafargue (Letter to
Laura Lafargue) (Marx, 1882)
[Thanks to Mishů]
Wilhelm Wolff (Engels, 1876)
Johan
Philipp Becker (Engels,1886),
[Thanks to Mishů]
22 January 2004:
The
Italian language MIA has added to the Archivio Lenin: added Ivan Vasěl'evic
Babuskin - obiutuary
[Thanks to Mishů]
19 January 2004:
We start the Italian language
Victor Serge Archive with a biography written by Giorgio Amico
titled Victor
Serge - rivoluzionario senza partito (Victor Serge - revolutionary
without a party)
[Thanks to Giorgio Amico for letting us to use is writing)
22 January 2004:
The
Italian language MIA has added Archivio Bucharin L'A. B. C.
del comunismo (The ABC of Communism)
[Thanks to Rivoluzione
Comunista)
Piattaforma
dell'Internazionale Comunista approvata al suo primo congresso
(Platform of IC approved at its first congress)
[hanks to Antonio Maggio - Primo
Maggio)
19 January 2004: The Zhou Enlai Reference Archive has added one document:
Premier Zhou Enlai's Speech at the National Day Reception (1966)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Roland Ferguson]
19 January 2004: A new document has been added to the Lin Biao Reference Archive:
Comrade Lin Biao’s Speech at the Peking Rally Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution (1967)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Roland Ferguson]
19 January, 2004: We have finished adding Volume 2 of Alexei Fiodorov's book on Soviet guerrilla warfare in Ukraine during World War II, El Comité Regional Clandestino actúa (The Clandestine Regional Committee Goes Into Action), for the Spanish Section's Subject Archives.
[Thanks to 1941-1945: Del desastre a la vitoria]
19 January, 2004: Om några principiella förutsättningar för en materialistisk diskussion om kristeorin (1933)
is added to the newly-launched Karl Korsch-arkivet. [Thanks to För Kommunism]
19 January 2004: A new Frankfurt School Subject Arhive:
Including small archives for Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Leo Lowenthal,
Herbert Marcuse and a brief outline of the history of the “Institute for
Social Research.”
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
18 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added the last 45 documents from Volume 8 of Lenin’s Collected Works, all from the 1905. This represents sort of a mile-stone for the LIA, now having placed 22 full volumes out of 45 of the Collected Works on the World Wide Web. We are now working simolutaneoulsy on Volumes 9 and 42:
On Our Agrarian
Programme. (A Letter to the Third Congress)
What the
Bonapartists Are Up To
A Revolution of
the 1789 or the 1848 Type?
To the Party
The Second Step
European
Capital and the Autocracy
Social-Democracy
and the Provisional Revolutionary Government
The
Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and
the Peasantry
Graft: A
Franco-Russian Custom
The Guilty Blaming
the Innocent
The Agrarian
Programme of the Liberals
Marx on the
American “General Redistribution”
The Council
is Caught Out
Open Letter to
Comrade Plekhanov, Chairman of the Council of the
R.S.D.L.P.
Concerning
the Third Congress
Plan for a
May Day Leaflet
The First of
May
The
Constitutional Market-Place
Fortnightly
Reports of the Party Organisations
The
Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
Political
Sophisms
Report on the
Third Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour
Party
How the
Congress was Constituted
The Third
Congress
Victorious
Revolution
On
Confounding Politics with Pedagogics
A Letter to the
International Socialist Bureau
The Advice of
the Conservative Bourgeoisie
On the
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Debacle
Revolutionary
Struggle and Liberal Brokerage
To the Jewish
Workers
A New
Revolutionary Workers' Association
The
Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat
The First Steps
of Bourgeois Betrayal
“Revolutionaries” in Kid Gloves
Open Letter to
the Editorial Board of the Leipziger
Volkszeitung
Sketch of a
Provisional Revolutionary Government
The Struggle of
the Proletariat and the Servility of the Bourgeoisie
A Third Step
Back
To the
International Socialist Bureau
Three
Constitutions or Three Systems of Government
The
Revolutionary Army and the Revolutionary Government
The Russian
Tsar Seeks the Protection of the Turkish Sultan Against His
People
The
Bourgeoisie Bargains with the Autocracy, The Autocracy
Bargains with the Bourgeoisie
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
17 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added another 22 documents from Volume 8 of Lenin’s Collected Works, all from the 1905:
A Letter to A. A. Bogdanov and S. I. Gusev
Two Tactics
A Militant Agreement for the Uprising
Should We Organise the Revolution?
The Convening of the Third Party Congress
From the New-Iskra Camp
A Letter to the Organisations in Russia
General Plan of the Third Congress Decisions
Draft Resolutions for the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
Modification of the Clause in the Rules Concerning the Centres
Questionnaire For the Third Congress of the Party
Preface to the Pamphlet Memorandum of Police Department Superintendent Lopukhin
Plan of a Lecture On the Commune
New Tasks and New Forces
Osvobozhdeniye-ists and New-Iskrists, Monarchists and Girondists
Evasions Without End
Whom Are They Trying to Fool?
The Proletariat and the Bourgeois Democrats
The Proletariat and the Peasantry
Street
Fighting. (The Advice of a General of the Commune)
The First Step
On the History of
the Party Programme
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
17 January 2004:Polish Marxist Mieczyslaw Bortenstein, better known as "M. Casanova" (a pseudonym adopted during the Spanish Civil War), now has an archive dedicated to his works in the Spanish Section, starting with the book: El Frente Popular abrió las puertas a Franco. [Thanks to PRT-Izquierda Revolucionaria of Spain]
16 January 2004: A new pamphlet has been added to the Le Duan Reference Archive:
Some
Present Tasks (1974)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl and Roland Ferguson]
16 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 22 documents from Volume 8 of Lenin’s Collected Works, all from the 1905:
The Autocracy and the Proletariat
Good Demonstrations of Proletarians and Poor Arguments of Certain Intellectuals
Time to Call a Halt!
Conferences of the Committees
The New Russian Loan
To A. A. Bogdanov
The Fall of Port Arthur
Fine Words Butter No Parsnips
A Letter to the Zurich Group of Bolsheviks
A Letter to Y. D. Stasova and to the Other Comrades in Prison in Moscow
Revolution in Russia
Working-Class and Bourgeois Democracy
From Narodism to Marxism. Article One
The St. Petersburg Strike
Our Tartuffes
The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia
Revolutionary Days
The Tsarist Peace
A Brief Outline of the Split in the R.S.D.L.P.
Trepov in the Saddle
St. Petersburg After January 9
The First Lessons
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
14 January, 2004: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
Patterns of
mass strike, 1985
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
11 January 2004: There are new additons to Hungarian Lukács György Archívum:
Part es
ifjusagi mozgalom Magyarorszagon (Party and youth movement in
Hungary)
III. Internacionale
szervezeti kerdesei (Organisational questions of
the III. International)
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Artur
Anyiszonyan]
11 January, 2004: Added to the German-language Archiv Antonio Gramsci:
Die Revolution gegen das Kapital, 1917 (The Revolution against Das Kapital)
Unser Marx, 1918 (Our Marx)
Brief an das Zentralkomitee der KPdSU(B), 1926 (Letter to the Central committee of the CPSU(B))
[Thanks to Sozialistische Klassiker]
11 January, 2004: Added to the Duncan Hallas Internet Archive:
Eastern European class societies, 1980
Comments on Base and Superstructure, 1987
Trotsky’s Heritage: On the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the 4th International, 1988
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
10 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added the last 19 documents from Volume 7 of Lenin’s Collected Works, all from the 1903:
One Step Foward, Two Steps Back(The Crisis in Our Party)
Letter to the Members of the Central Committee
Statement By Three Members of the Central Committee
To the Party
Session of the Council of the
R.S.D.L.P., May 31 (June 13) and June 5 (18), 1904
What We Are Working For (To the Party)
To the Party
To Five Members of the Central Committee. For Russia.
Letter to Central Committee Agents and Committee Members of the R.S.D.L.P. Siding With the Second Party Congress Majority
Letter to Glebov (V. A. Noskov)
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Reply by N. Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg
An Obliging Liberal
Preface to N. Shakhov's Pamphlet The Fight for a Congress.
Announcement of the Formation of a Bureau of Majority Committees. Draft
The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra's Plan
Outline of a Talk on the Situation Within The Party. Outline of My Talk
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
9 January 2004: There are new additons to Hungarian Lukács György Archívum:
A
parlamentarizmus kerdesehez (To the question of
parlamentarism)
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Artur
Anyiszonyan]
9 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 18 new documents from Volume 7 of Lenin’s Collected Works, all from the 1903.
Account of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
Foiled!
Plan of Letters On Tasks of the
Revolutionary Youth
The Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth.
First Letter.
Second Party Congress. Plan of
Article.
Maximum Brazenness and Minimum
Logic
Draft of a Letter from the Central
Committee and the Editorial Board of the Central Organ to the Members of the
Opposition
Second Congress of the League of
Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy Abroad, October 13-18 (26-31),
1903
An Unsubmitted Statement
Statement of Resignation From the
Party Council and From the Editorial
Board of the Central Organ
The Position of the Bund In the
Party
The Narodnik-Like Bourgeoisie and
Distraught Narodism
To the Editorial Board of the Central
Organ of the R.S.D.L.P
An Unissued Statement
Letter to Iskra
Why I Resigned from the IskraEditorial Board. A Letter to the Editors of "Iskra"
Letter from the Central Committee of
the R.S.D.L.P. to the Administration of the League Abroad, the Party Aid Groups, and to All Party Members Abroad
Note on the Position of the New
Iskra
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
9 January, 2004: Added to the German-language Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Der junge
Lenin, 1936 (The Young Lenin)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
8 January 2004: There are new additons to Hungarian Lukács György Archívum:
A
fehérterror társadalmi hinterlandja (The social
hinterland of the
white terror)
A
konszolidáció kísérlete (The
attempt at consolidation)
A
művelődési munka
kérdéséhez (To the question of
educational
work)
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić and Artur
Anyiszonyan]
7 January, 2004: Added to the German-language Archiv Karl Radek:
Der deutsche
Imperialismus und die Arbeiterklasse, 1911 (German imperialism
&
the working class)
Wege und
Mittel im Kampfe gegen den Imperialismus, 1912 (Ways and means in
the struggle against imperialism)
Unser Kampf
gegen den Imperialismus, 1912 (Our struggle against imperialism)
Genua, die
Einheitsfront des Proletariats und die Kommunistische Internationale,
1922 (Genoa, the united front of the proletariat and the Communist
International)
[Thanks to Sozialistische
Klassiker]
7 January 2004: The Maoist Subsection of the Reference Archive has opened a Hua Guofeng Reference Archive featuring a biography and one document:
Memorial speech by Hua Kuo-Feng... At Mass Memorial Meeting for Great Leader and Teacher Mao Tse-tung (1976)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Roland Ferguson]
7 January 2004: A new document has been added to the Liu Shaoqi Reference Archive:
Internationalism and Nationalism (1952)
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Roland Ferguson]
6 January, 2004: Added to the Dutch-language Internet Archive:
The Part played by
Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man by Frederick Engels
Lecture Delivered at the
Sverdlov University on the state by V.I. Lenin
[Thanks to Marxisme.net]
Socialism and
Religion by V.I. Lenin
[Thanks to Dewaarheid.nu]
5 January, 2004: Added to the German-language Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Verratene
revolution, 1936 (Revolution Betrayed)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
5 January, 2004: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
The Nature of
Stalinist russia, 1948 (the original exposition of his theory of
bureaucratic state capitalism)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
5 January, 2004: Added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive:
Bernstein’s old articles and new afflictions, 1901
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
5 January, 2004: Added to the Paul Lafargue Internet Archive:
The Chino-Japanese War, 1895
Simple Socialist Truths, 1903
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
4 January, 2004: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
The Nature of Stalinist russia, 1948 (the original exposition of his theory of bureaucratic state capitalism)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
4 January, 2004: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added another 9 new documents from Volume 42 of Lenin’s Collected Works, from the Autum of 1921. Noteworthy is the document on the conditions of employment by US born workers travelling to Worker’s Russia in solidarity with the Russian Revolution:
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C,P.(B.) On The Free Sale Of Books From Moscow Warehouse Stocks
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
A Note To V. M.
Molotov With A Motion For The C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
A Letter to V. V. Kuibyshev and a Draft Engagement for Workers Going to Russia from America
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C., R.C.P.(B.) On The Question Of The Far-Eastern Republic
Re Draft Decision For The C.C.,R.C.P.(B.) Plenum
Draft Directives For The Politbureau Of The C.C.,R.C.P.(B.)On The Allotment Of Lands For Sugar-Beet Cultivation In The Ukraine
Draft Decision For The Politbureau Of The C.C.,R.C.P(B) On Social Insurance
Notes On Yugostal
[Thanks to David Walters and Robert Cymbala]
2 January, 2004:
A massive transcription project has been completed with the publication of The Soviet Union: Facts, Descriptions, Statistics. Published in Washington D.C. by the Soviet Union Information Bureau in 1929, this book canvasses all aspects of Soviet society with raw statical data and anaylsis. The book details everything from working hours in various industries, to what is playing in the Bolshoi Theater, to the various efforts underway to promote Women's rights.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]