April 2005
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30 April 2005: Added to the Babeuf Archive:
Prospectus for Le Tribun du Peuple, 1795
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
30 April,
2005:
Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the
Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism
On-Line (ETOL), In Defense of Black Power , by George Breitman,
, International Socialist Review, Jan.-Feb. 1967.
[Thanks to Andrew
Pollack]
29 April 2005: Added to the Chinese Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive are 4 new documents from Rosa Luxemberg:
Weary of struggles? 1910
May Day 25th anniversary 1914
The National Assembly 1918
What Does the Spartacus League Want? 1918
[Thanks the Chinese language volunteers from around the world]
29 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Statement of Party Policy by the Socialist Party in National Convention, Chicago, Illinois—Feb. 24, 1925. The 1925 “Special Convention” of the Socialist Party was scheduled and held in Chicago immediately after the close of the 2nd Convention of the Convention for Progressive Political Action in that city. This statement was issued by the SPA’s convention to announce to the party membership that the CPPA Convention had failed to establish a Labor Party on the British model.
The Chicago Conventions, by Bertha Hale White. [March 1925] Assessement of the Chicago conventions of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (Feb. 21-22, 1925) and the Socialist Party of America (Feb. 23-24, 1925) by the National Executive Secretary of the SPA.
Short History of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (CPPA) (1922-25) Called into existence by the 16 railway unions, this heterogenous organization included elements from the Progressive, Farmer-Labor, and Socialist Parties, as well as union officials, representatives of radical farm organizations, cooperators, feminists, and sundry independent individuals. It was closely tied to the LaFollette independent run for the Presidency in 1924, before breaking up in 1925 over the question of electoral tactics.
List of Delegates to the 1924 National Convention of the Socialist Party of America [July 7-9, 1924] List of 155 of the 157 delegates and alternates to the 1924 Cleveland Convention of the SPA. http://www.marxists.org/subject/usa/eam/spa-conv24delegates.html
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
28 April, 2004: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive are the following four documents:
Review of Matthew Josephson’s The Politicos
Mills and Marx
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
28 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Excerpts
from Paris Libre, April 12 - May 24 1871
Revolutionary Socialist Candidates, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
27 April, 2005:
Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line document section a short piece by the editors of the The Bulletin of the Russian Opposition on the relationship between author Victor Serge and the IVth International
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
26 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Conference for Progressive Political Action: A Report to the Membership of the Socialist Party, by Otto Branstetter, et al. [Feb. 1922] The 1921 Detroit Convention of the Socialist Party instructed its National Executive Committee to make a survey of other progressive organizations in the US and the prospects for joint action; using this as justification, five leading members of the SPA accepted invitations to attend the Founding Conference of the Conference for Progressive Political Action.
The American Labor Party, by Eugene V. Debs. [Jan. 1925] The Socialist Party sought the formation of a British-style Labor Party, federating component organizations and envisioning itself as playing the role of the Independent Labour Party in the UK. This article by Eugene Debs in the official organ of the Socialist Party of America gives voice to this desire. Debs states that despite the “blind stupidity of the workers and the covert machinations of their enemies to thwart or misdirect them,” a Labor Party was inevitable in America.
Speech to the Conference for Progressive Political Action, Feb. 21, 1925, by Eugene V. Debs. Debs argued that political parties could be either capitalist or socialist, but not both, and that any attempt to merge the “irrepressible” antagonistic interests of the capitalist class and the working class in a new party would be met with failure.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
26 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Manifesto
of the Freemasons, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
26 April 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Archive:
Letter to Marcel Martinet, 2
June 1937
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
25 April, 2004: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive are the following four documents:
American Intellectuals and the Crisis, 1936
Elements of Dialectical Materialism, 1940
The World of C. Wright Mills, 1960
Who Will Change The World? The New Left and the Views of C. Wright Mills, 1961
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
24 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Why Are We Not Stronger? by Eugene V. Debs. [Nov. 1920] During his 5th and final campaign for the Presidency in 1920, the government’s information blackout on the imprisoned Eugene V. Debs seems to have been abated and he was in periodic contact with some of his comrades in the Socialist Party. Debs even wrote a few columns on current affairs for the party press, as was the case with this article for the November issue of the SPA’s official organ, “The Socialist World.” Debs asks the question of why there is no strong socialist movement in America after 42 years of concerted effort and points to factionalism as the culprit: “Socialists, communists, anarchists, syndicalists, and IWWs spend more time and energy fighting each other than they do fighting capitalism. Each faction assumes that it is entirely right and that all others are entirely wrong, a very human way of seeing things, but far better calculated to prevent than to promote the effective organization of the workers.” To avoid a “disasterous if not fatal” blow to the socialist movement from factional bitterness, Debs strongly counsels his readers to show a “more decent, tolerant, and truly revolutionary spirit” towards those with whom they differ. Debs also states in this article that having now seen Zinoviev’s 21 Conditions for admission to the Communist International, unconditional membership in that body is now impossible: “No American party of the workers can subscribe to those conditions and live,” Debs writes.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
24 April, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), The Meaning of the Struggle Inside the Socialist Workers Party , by Frank Lovell, , which is the Introduction to In Defense of American Trotskyism: The Struggle Inside the Socialist Workers Party 1979-1983, edited by Sarah Lovell, published by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, 1992.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
24 April 2005: Added to the new John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Economic Roots of US Imperialism – The Reigning Oligarchy, 1949
Feuerbach – Philosopher of Materialism, 1956
Anderson’s Dilemma, 1935 (book review)
A Party and Its Book, 1935 (book review) (published in error as In Search of Diana)
Prize Novel, 1936 (book review)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido & Einde O’Callaghan]
24 April 2005:: Added to the James Connolly Internet Archive:
Wages and Prices, 1907
[Thanks to Robert Bills & the Socialist Labor Party of America]
24 April 2005: Added to the Marxist Literature Archive is a section on Vladimir Mayakosky's Poetry, 1916-1930. Mayakovsky was the leading poet of Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period, one of the founders of Russian Futurism movement:
To his Own Beloved Self, 1916
To All and Everything, 1916
Our March, 1917
Attitude To A Miss, 1920
You, 1922
Good!, 1927
Conversation with Comrade Lenin, 1929
At the Top of My voice, 1930
Past One O’Clock ..., 1930
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor and Andy Blunden]
23 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Dictatorship and the International, by Morris Hillquit. [May 1920] Speech by the International Secretary of the Socialist Party of America delivered at the 1920 New York Convention of the party. Hillquit, supportive of the Russian Revolution and the legitimacy of Lenin and Trotsky’s government, calls the Third International “a nucleus, but no more than that, of a new International.” Hillquit objects to any international organization which might impose theoretical interpretations and tactical policies on member parties, noting that “the rule of self-determination in matters of policy and matters of struggle” had been a fundamental principle of both the First and Second Internationals. In particular, Hillquit considers the Third International’s interpretation of the phrase “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” to be historically erroneous (citing the phrase’s origin in Marx’s 1875 “Critique of the Gotha Program”) and tactically disastrous, opening the the Socialist movement to abrogation of democratic norms and victimization by its bourgeois opponents. Hillquit seeks the SPA’s participation in a future International including both the Russian Communist Party as well as the Independent Labour Party of Britain, the Socialist Party of France, and the Independent Socialists of Germany.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
23 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Delegations from the Provinces, March 23 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
23 April 2005: Added to the Mao Reference Archive:
The following documents from Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume 8:
Publisher's Note
Note on Abbreviations
Speech at Banquet Celebrating Insurrection of
KMT Troops (September 23, 1949)
Telegram to Xinjiang Political and Military
Authorities (September 28, 1949)
Proclamation of the Central People's Government
of the PRC (October 1, 1949)
Reply to the Provisional People's Government
of Xinjiang (October 21, 1949)
Reply to the Xinjiang League for the Defence
of Peace and Democracy and to People of the Tacheng-Ili-Ashan Regions
(October 21, 1949)
Preface to The Victory of New Democracy in
China (October 14, 1949)
Telegram to the Insurrectionists on the
"Hailiao" (October 24, 1949)
Inscription for the Inaugural Issue of Renmin
Wenxue [People's Literature] (October 25, 1949)
Telegram to Secretary of the World Federation
of Trade Unions (October 26, 1949)
Telegram to Stalin (December 19,
1949)
Address at Birthday Celebration Meeting Held
for Stalin (December 21, 1949)
Telegram to President Prasad of the Republic
of India (January 28, 1950)
Speech on Departure from Moscow
(February 17, 1950)
Reply to Ambassador of the Republic of India
Comment on Hearing of Mao Anying's Death
(November 1950)
Letter to Huang Niantian (December
2, 1950)
Letter to Li Shuqing (October 16,
1952)
Inscription on the Arts (September
26, 1952)
Reply to Ambassador of the Republic of India
(September 26, 1952)
Inscription for Inauguration of the Tianshui-Lanzhou
Railway (September 28, 1952)
Toast on Third Anniversary of Founding of the
PRC (September 30, 1952)
Telegram to the Peace Conference of the Asian
and Pacific Region (October 2, 1952)
Letter to Qi Baishi (October 5,
1952)
Telegram to the German Democratic Republic
(October 5, 1952)
Talk with Tibetan Delegates (Excerpts)
(October 8, 1952)
Letter to Song Qingling (October
10, 1952)
Letter to Tan Zhenlin (October
15, 1952)
Inscription Awarded to Soviet Troops in Lushun
(February 23, 1953)
Telegram to Inquire after Stalin's Illness
(March 4, 1953)
Telegram to the USSR on Stalin's Death
(March 6, 1953)
The Greatest Friendship (March 9, 1953)
Talk at the Conference on Intellectuals Called
by the Centre (January 20, 1956)
Contradictions Under Socialism (April
5, 1956)
Stalin's Place in History (April
5, 1956)
Speech at Expanded Meeting of CPC Political
Bureau (April 25, 1956)
Chairman Mao's Talk to Music Workers
(24 August 1956)
Letter to Zhou Enlai (July 7, 1957)
Comment on Class Education with Leaders from
Shanghai Motor Power Institute (July, 1957)
Comment to the Loatian Patriotic (Liberation)
Front Representative on Education (1957)
Talk at the Enlarged Third Plenary Session of
the 8th Central Committee of the CCP (October 7, 1957)
No Power on Earth Can Separate Us (November
2, 1957)
Speech at Moscow Celebration Meeting
(November 6, 1957)
The East Wind Prevails Over the West Wind!
(November 17, 1957)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
23 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
To the
National Guardsmen of Paris, March 19 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
22 April, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), a 1990 book on the fight to maintain Trotskyist continuity: In Defense of American Trotskyism: Rebuilding the Revolutionary Party , Edited by Paul Le Blanc, Fourth Internationalist Tendency, December 1990. Contains:
In Defense of Revolutionary Continuity, by Paul Le Blanc and Dianne Feeley.
The Platform of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency
The Socialist Workers Party Today, by Frank Lovell and Paul Le Blanc
Balance Sheet on the Socialist Workers Party, Adopted by the FIT National Conference, September 2, 1990
The Socialist Workers Party Formalizes Break from the Fourth International
Fourth Internationalist Unity in the United States, Resolution adopted September 2, 1990 by the FIT National Conference
Building the U.S. Fourth Internationalist Movement: Fourth Internationalist Unity in the United States
Report to September 1990 FIT National Conference, by Paul Le Blanc
A Call by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
22 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Address of the Positivist Society of Paris, November
1870
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
22 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Review and Personal Statement, by Eugene V. Debs. [Oct. 2, 1922] At the time Gene Debs was imprisoned in April of 1919, factional storm clouds were brewing in the Socialist Party of America, but the party had not been split asunder. Isolated from active politics, the factional wars of 1919-21 took place in his absence, with Debs maintaining a strict neutrality in terms of stating his personal allegiance. It was not until this lengthy October 1922 published statement that Debs formally declared his intention to stay with his beloved Socialist Party and to help rebuild it.
Underground and Above: A Memoir of American Communism in the 1920s, by Max Bedacht. Bedacht’s account details the factional struggle that swept the party from the unification of the UCP with the old CPA in 1921 through the expulsion of Jay Lovestone and his associates in 1929.
A Brief History of the National Party. [1917-1919?] Short outline of the history of this social-patriotic social democratic Third Party, which included individuals who broke with the Socialist Party over the issue of American entry into the war in a broad coalition. Includes links to a list of the group’s officials and downloadable documents.
List of Delegates to the 3rd Convention of the Workers Party of America. [Dec. 1923-Jan. 1924]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
21 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Republican Central Committee of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, September 20 1870
The Elections, Le Cri du Peuple, April 10, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
20 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Against Braids, April 1871
20 April 2005:Added to the Quebec Archive:
Lauretinne
Manifesto, September 1958
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
20 April 2005: Added to the Evelyn Reed Archive:
Is Biology Women's
Destiny?, 1917
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
20 April 2005: Added to the Chinese Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive are 5 new documents from Rosa Luxemberg:
What do we want?—Polish empire and Lithuania Social Democratic Party guiding principle illustration (1906)
Germany working class's political leader (1910)
The Idea of May Day on the March (1913-4)
Social Democratic Party minority faction policy (1916)
Junius Compendium draft (1916)
[Thanks the Chinese language volunteers from around the world]
20 April 2005: Added to the Documents Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) and the Max Shachtman Internet Archive:
Correspondence Concerning the Workers Party Unity Proposal to the Socialist Workers Party, 1945 (documentation of a failed unification proposal) consisting of:
Letter From Workers Party on Question of Unification of the Workers Party and the Socialist Workers Party, August 1945
SWP Reply to Workers Party, August 1945
WP Letter on Unity, October 1945
SWP Resolution on the Unity Proposal of the Workers Party, October 1945
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
19 April 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is an article on developments in the USSR, from The New Militant, (New York), the Bolshevik-Leninist newsweekly published by the U.S. Section of the Movement for the Fourth International, in 1936. This is a comment on an Associated Press dispatch that was reported in the Communist Party’s Daily Worker:
“Trotsky Cables Denial to AP on Daily Worker Lies”
[Thanks to David Walters]
19 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
A Letter to the Communist Party of America, Oct. 9, 1921, by Grigorii Zinoviev. The head of the Communist International sent this handwritten note to the American Communist Party urging the immediate formation of a legal political party.
Save the Party! An Appeal to All Members of the Communist Party! [circa Nov. 1921] This is “Statement No. 1” of the Central Caucus Faction of John Ballam, Charles Dirba, and George Ashkenudzie—a detailed catalog of the transgressions of the CPA’s Central Executive Committee majority group. These faults included the arbitrary and wreckless formation of a Legal Political Party with mandatory participation of all members of the underground—an “insane” and "suicidal” policy that would result in a liquidation of the Communist Party.
Statement to the Membership of the Communist Party of America by the CEC, April 24, 1922. At the session held Monday, April 17, 1922, the Central Executive Committee decided to reorganize itself, with a number of members voluntarily submitting pro forma resignations and three voted off, in order to make way for three new members of the body—Robert Minor, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Earl Browder.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
19 April 2005: Added to the France History Archive:
Your
Commune Has Been Constituted, March 29 1871
To
The Citizens Of The XXth Arrondisement, May 25, 1871
Long Live Free
Algeria, Confederation Communiste Libertaire 1954
A Comrade is Dead,
June 11 1968
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
17 April, 2005: Added to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive:
Dictatorship of Party or Proletariat? – Remarks on a Conception of the AWP ... and Others, 1934.
Fatal Admissions, 1934.
The Second International in the War, 1934.
A Stupendous Bureaucracy, 1934.
The Russian Revolution 17 Years After, 1934.
What Next in the Socialist Party, 1934.
Right Face in the Socialist Party, 1934.
A Stupendous Bureaucracy, 1934.
Behind the Kirov Assassination, 1935.
Letters, 1935 (correspondence with Alice Hanson & Francis Henson).
Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, 1935.
In Opposite Directions: The Cleveland Convention of the Socialists and the Swing to the Right of the Stalinists, 1936.
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Russia, 1938.
The Stalinist Convention, 1938.
China’s Tragedy, 1938, review of Harold Isaac’s Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution.
Old Garbage in New Pails, 1939.
The Crisis in the American Party: An Open Letter in Reply to Comrade Leon Trotsky, 1940 (Shachtman’ reply to Trotsky’s A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party).
Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, 1935.
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
17 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Platform and Constitution of the National Party:...Adopted March 6-7-8, 1918: Principles, Spirit, and Aims. In 1917 a substantial percentage of the Right Wing of the Socialist Party of America quit the party over the SPA’s militant opposition to American intervention in the European war.
Financing a Party of the People. [March 1918] Statement of the National Party outlining its system of finance. The National Party was to be a “mighty engine” to “wage a war of extermination on the liquor traffic; on political oligarchy and despotism; on economic privilege and injustice; and upon all those evil forces which burden the people and create conditions for war,” the party declared.
Two letters to A. Wagenknecht in New York from Charles Dirba in New York, Feb. 9 and 26, 1920. Two replies on behalf of the Communist Party of America to a proposal for unity put forward by the Communist Labor Party.
Letter to Alfred Wagenknecht in New York from C.E. Ruthenberg in New
York, April 22, 1920. Formal notification to the Executive Secretary of the Communist Labor Party that a split has taken place in the ranks of the CPA. Ruthenberg claims his group has the allegiance of the Polish, South Slavic [Yugoslav], Ukrainian, German, and Estonian Federations of the CPA, as well as four of seven district organizers; that the Jewish Federation of the CPA has withdrawn support to the majority group of the CEC and declared its neutrality; and that “all the evidence goes to show that the larger part of the party will be united in our group.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
17 April 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive are two articles on developments in the USSR, from The New Militant, (New York), the Bolshevik-Leninist newsweekly published by the U.S. Section of the movement for the Fourth International, in 1936.
Stalin Plans Wholesale Persecution
The Stalin-Howard Interview
[Thanks to David Walters]
17 April 2005: Added to the Evelyn Reed Archive:
The Savage Mind,
1967
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
16 April 2005: We add our first text in Macedonian:
Marx's Тези
за Фојербах (Theses on Feuerbach), 1845
[Thanks to Alek Atevik]
16 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Report of ‘John Moore,’ Delegate of the Minority Faction of the Communist Party of America to the Comintern, to the CEC, June 27, 1922, by John J. Ballam. Ballam, one of the leaders of the Central Caucus faction that split from the CPA in late November and early December of 1921, went to Moscow to state his faction’s case.
Report on the Labor Union Situation in the United States and Canada, Dec. 16, 1922, by William Z. Foster. A confidential report from the Comintern Archive, likely intended to Grigorii Zinoviev and other decision-makers in the Comintern apparatus. Foster describes the efforts of the Trade Union Educational League in rather heroicterms, stating that with a paid staff of 2 and virtually no funding it had “started” the amalgamation movement, which was “now the sensation of the American trade unions” and “running like wildfire.” As unions melted away under the fire of the capitalist offensive, rand and file revolt against “Gompersism” was brewing. Foster requests an annual appropriation of $25,000 to fund four full-time field organizers for TUEL and upgrade the official organ of the organization, The Labor Herald.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
16 April 2005: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
Introduction to the Republican Calendar, Babeuf 1793
16 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Decree on
Separation of Church and State, April 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
16 April 2005: Added to the Evelyn Reed Archive:
Anthropology Today,
1957
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
15 April, 2005: Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL): and to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive, two documents on the fight against “Pabloism”:
Against Pabloist Revisionism, Socialist Workers Party Plenum Report, Fourth International, September-October, 1953
Factional Struggle And Party Leadership, by James P. Cannon, Fourth International, November-December, 1953
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
15 April 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive are two articles analyzing the development of Stalinism in the USSR, from The New Militant, out of New York, the Bolshevik-Leninist newsweekly published by the U.S. Section of the movement for the Fourth International, in 1936.
Tell Workers the Truth About Stalin’s Hounding of Revolutionists in the Soviet Union
The New Constitution Of The USSR
[Thanks to David Walters]
15 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Letter from Garibaldi, April 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Michigan in the Muck, by Eugene V. Debs. [May 1923] Article on the heated legal battle over the August 1922 raid of the Communist Party of America’s Bridgman, MI convention. Debs, the most widely recognized member of the Socialist Party’s National Executive Committee, unleashes a barrage on the “idiotic and criminal ‘criminal syndicalist’ law enacted by political crooks to seal the lips of industrial slaves” in Michigan. Debscharges that “the Communists had as good a right to hold a convention in the state of Michigan and to discuss their affairs and formulate their program, any kind of a program that stopped short of the actual commission of crime penalized under the law, as the graft-infested Republican and Democratic parties have to hold such a convention.” The Michigan prosecutions were nothing but a “foul assault upon the Constitution and upon the elemental rights of citizenship,” according to Debs.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
The Moscow Trial in Historical Perspective, by Jay Lovestone. [Feb. 1937] As with Leon Trotsky, Lovestone looks to French Revolutionary history for an explanation of the Zinoviev-Kamenev-Radek trial of 1936—the first of the three Great Soviet Show Trials of 1936-38. Lovestone contends that “the merest glance at the official proceedings...is enough to convince any candid person that some, at least, of the charges and allegations...cannot hold water for a moment since they are full of gross contradictions, material and psychological.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
15 April 2005: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
The Decree
establishing the Republican Calendar, 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Report to the Communist International on the Joint Convention of May 26-31, 1920, by the United Communist Party of America. Brief report to the Comintern about the May 26-31, 1920, joint unity convention which formed the United Communist Party.
Report to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America, April 14, 1922 by Jay Lovestone. Jay Lovestone served a first stint as Executive Secretary of the CPA in 1922, taking over for William Weinstone on Feb. 22, 1922, and serving for several months.
Open Letter to Every ‘Minority’ Member, from the Central Executive
Committee, CPA. [circa May 1, 1922] This document, very likely written by CPA Executive Secretary Jay Lovestone, was transmitted to the members of the Central Caucus faction, inviting them to rejoin the party “without discrimination” in accord with the unanimous decision of the Executive Committee of the Communist International.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
14 Arpil 2005: Added to the Marat Archive:
Letter
to the Convention, 1793
Added to the Paris CommuneArchive:
The
Fusion of the Democratic and Socialist Republican Committees
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 April 2005: Added to the France History Archive:
Our War, Henri
Jeanson, 1960
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
To the
Social Democracy of the German Nation, 1870
The
Fatherland is in Danger!, 1870
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
12 April 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
The National Guard Opposes Prussian Entry Into Paris, February
1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
11 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Fifty-Seven Questions Answered, by the National Office, Communist Labor Party. [Oct. 1919] “Fifty-Seven Questions Answered,” by the National Office, CLP. [Oct. 1919]. Frequently Asked Questions of the National Office regarding affiliations of individuals and full SP Locals and Branches to the newly organized Communist Labor Party
Your Shop. [Communist Party of America Propaganda Leaflet No. 3, printed Nov. 1919] A very early propaganda leaflet of the old CPA, revolutionary in content, urging workers to “organize and make it your shop.” The Russian workers were the model, they “organized their power”—then, “when the crisis came they were prepared to use their mass power.”
America or Anarchy? An Appeal to Red-Blooded Americans to Strike an Effective Blow for the Protection of the Country We Love from the Red Menace Which Shows Its Ugly Head on Every Hand, by A. Mitchell Palmer. [Nov. 14, 1919] Attorney General of the United States A. Mitchell Palmer delivered this report to Congress, later published as a pamphlet. Palmer lamented the lack ofany applicable law with which to prosecute individual radicals, due to the termination of the war and with it the Espionage Act.
The Party Outlook: Unsigned Editorial in Communist Labor, Feb. 25, 1920. This document appeared in the official organ of the Communist Labor Party, outlining the various members of the CLP arrested during the coordinated raids of January 2, 1920, in which thousands were arrested and hundreds held—with 8 deaths of arrestees held at Ellis Island.
Greetings to the Communist International. A Message from the First Convention of the United Communist Party of America, May 31, 1920. Convention greetings to the Executive Committee of the Comintern from the newly established UCP announcing the formation of that organization.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
10 April, 2005: Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL): and to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive, three articles on the fight against “Pabloism”:
Sternberg vs. Karl Marx, by Myra Tanner, Fourth International, Winter 1954
The Soviet Union Under Malenkov, by John G. Wright, Fourth International, Winter 1954
Trotsky or Deutscher? On the New Revisionism and Its Theoretical Source, by James P. Cannon, Fourth International, Winter 1954
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
10 April 2005: Added to the
Swedish
Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive in the
Swedish Lenin
Archive:.
Brev till en kamrat, Lenin, 1902
Till diktaturfrågans historia, Lenin, 1920
[Thanks to Maoistiskt Forum]
10 April, 2005: Added to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive:
Footnote for Historians, 1938. A short trip into the outer reaches of 1930s sectariana.
[Thanks to Lance Murdoch]
9 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of the early American Marxism:
The National Defense Committee [Dec. 1921]. This is a brief history of the establishment and first year's activities of the National Defense Committee, the first of the communist-sponsored mass organizations dedicated to legal defense of political prisoners in the United States.
For a Labor Party: Recent Revolutionary Changes in American Politics: A Statement by the Workers Party of America, Oct. 15, 1922. Full text of a rather long pamphlet published by the Workers Party of America without authorship noted—purported to be the work of John Pepper. The pamphlet argues that while most previous efforts have met with failure, the success of the Republican Party—originally a Third Party—in establishing itself proved that the Third Party tactic was viable.
Embattled Liberators by Eugene V. Debs. [written Nov. 1922] An article written to herald the 5th Anniversay of the Russian Revolution by Socialist Party orator Eugene Debs. Debs does not step back from the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic an inch: “That the revolution and the republic which sprang from it have survived, not only to be commemorated on their Fifth Anniversary, but are today more puissant and promising, and pulse with keener life and activity than ever before, in the face of every conceivable attempt to crush and destroy them on the part of the combined capitalist powers of the earth, is a miracle no less marvelous and seemingly impossible than the revolution and republic themselves.”
Leading the World Revolution, by Alexander Bittelman. [July 1924] Summary of the activity of the recently completed 5th Congress of the Comintern by a participant, a factional ally of William Z. Foster. Bittelman states that the Comintern is a “one international party of Communism with disciplined sections in every corner of the world.”
Workers and Farmers on the Mark, by C.E. Ruthenberg. [July 1924] An account of the June 17-19, 1924, Convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, held in St. Paul, MN, by the head of the Workers Party of America. The convention, dominated by the WPA, was attended by over 500 delegates, who drew up a program and nominated candidates for President and Vice President of the United States.
ME Start a Vanguard Party to Lead the Working Class to Revolution? You
Must Be Kidding!! [July 1977] Who says the Left doesn't have a sense of humor? This is a good chuckle no matter what yer politics happen to be... From the July-Aug. 1977 issue of “Radical America.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
9 April, 2005: Added to the Hal Draper Internet Archive:
“Comrade” Tito and the 4th International: Left-Wing Stalinism – A Senile Disorder, 1948
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan
8 April, 2005: Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Reunification of the
Fourth International, by Farrell Dobbs and Joseph Hansen, International
Socialist Review, Fall 1963
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
8 April, 2005: Added to the Hal Draper Internet Archive:
The Neo-Stalinist Type: Notes on a new Political Ideology, 1948
How to Defend Israel: A Political Program for Israeli Socialists, 1947
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan
7 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Debs Goes to Prison, by David Karsner. [May 1919]. Text of a pamphlet privately published in New York in May 1919, probably compiling material previously published in pages of “The New York Call.” Author David Karsner was the editor of the Call’s Sunday supplement and a biographer of Debs.
Convention Impressions, by William Bross Lloyd. [Written Sept. 1919]. An account of the preliminary political jousting and formation of the Communist Labor Party by a founding member of that organization. William BrossLloyd, a millionaire, was one of the financial angels of the American radical movement during the last years of the 1910s.
Call for a Mass Membership Convention For the Purpose of Organizing Local
Cook County of the Communist Labor Party of America. [Sept. 1919]. A rare leaflet held in the Comintern Archive, a call by the provisional Cook Coounty, Illinois, CLP organization for a “Mass Membership Convention” to establish “Local Cook County, Communist Labor Party of America.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
7 April 2005: Added to the Auguste Blanqui Archive:
Organization of the
Society of Families, 1833-4
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 April, 2005: We have restructured and updated the Turkish Section. Notable among the developments are:
—a new index page;
—creation of a Writer's archive for Che Guevara;
—creation of Reference archives of J. V. Stalin and Mao Zedong;
—creation of Subject section, thus far incorporation an archive dedicated to the Comintern.
[Thanks to the efforts of Chanda and Juan Fajardo, and material from Marksist Tutum]
6 April, 2005: Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Test of the
Cuban Revolution, by Joseph Hansen, International
Socialist Review, January 1965
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
5 April 2005:
Year One
of The Russian Revolution has been transcribed to the
Victor Serge archive. In this work Serge presents an uncommon
historical perspective: a former anarchist supporting the revolution, the
achievment of Socialism and the gains of the Russian working class,
while conversely showing signs of the decline and failure of the
revolution within the first year, as opposed to the more common views
of 1921, 1927, 1936, 1952, etc, being the years when the revolution
'failed'.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
5 April, 2005: Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Argentina and
Bolivia—The Balance Sheet, by Hugo Blanco, Peter Camejo, Joseph
Hansen, Anibal Lorenzo, Nahuel Moreno, International
Internal Discussion Bulletin, Volume X Number 1,, January 1973
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
5 April, 2005: Added to the Hal Draper Internet Archive:
Third-Party Trends: Liberal-Labor Coalition Versus Labor Party, 1947
The “Inevitability of Socialism”: The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula, 1947
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan
4 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of the early American Marxism:
The Industrial Convention, by Eugene V. Debs. [Aug. 1905] Socialist Party leader Debs attacks what he claims was systematic and intentional misrepresentation and distortion in its reporting of the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World.
‘Nigger’ Equality, by Kate Richards O’Hare. [March 1912] One of the Socialist Party’s dirty little secrets was the presence in its ranks of a significant number of individuals with explicitly racist perspectives. This 1912 pamphlet by Kate Richards O’Hare appealing to Southern voters is the epitome—the most racist document ever issued on the Socialist Party’s behalf.
The Communist Party Convention, by I.E. Ferguson [Sept. 27, 1919]. Ferguson, a prominent member of the Left Wing National Council, founding member of the Communist Party of America, and editor of that party’s official organ provides a lengthy and detailed account of the founding convention of the CPA, published in the pages of “The Communist” for the benefit of CPA members. Ferguson’s account makes clear that the gathering was anything but monolithic -- he emphasizes the division of the organization between three groups: the Michigan faction, the Language Federationists headed by Alexander Stoklitsky, and the Left Wing National Council group.
The Chicago Conventions, by Max Eastman. [Oct. 1919]. At the end of August and first of September, there were three monumental conventions of the American left simultaneously taking place at Chicago: the 1919 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party of America, the Founding Convention of the Communist Labor Party, and the Founding Convention of the Communist Party of America.
Report of the Executive Secretary to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America, Jan. 18, 1920, by C.E. Ruthenberg. This document, a handwritten report by C.E. Ruthenberg in the Comintern Archive, indicates for the first time that the underground structure of the old Communist Party of America based around industrial urban centers was not a matter of external direction or unhinged revolutionary ardor, but was rather a direct result of the January 2, 1920, coordinated raids against the radical movement conducted by the Justice Department and its state and local associates in law enforcment.
Call to the Second Convention of the Communist Party of America.
Acting Secretary’s Report to the Second Convention of the Communist Party of America, July 13, 1920, by Charles Dirba. An extremely important document which lists in summary form the receipts and expenditures of the old Communist Party of America during the interval between its formation in September 1919 and its Second Convention, which began July 13, 1920.
B.R.T. Strikers! Leaflet of the Communist Party of America, Local New York. [Sept. 1920] Full text of a leaflet, revolutionary in content, issued by the old CPA at the time of a Brooklyn streetcar operators’ strike.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
3 April, 2005: Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Trial of the
21, Editors, New International, April 1938;
analysis of the trial of Bukharin, Rykov et al.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
2 April 2005: Added to the FLQ Archive:
Our National
“Harkis”, 1964
2 April 2005: Added to the Maurice Thorez Archive:
Paris Has
Liberated Itself, Moscow Radio, 1944
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
1 April, 2005: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive from Volume 39 of Lenin’s Collected Works:
To G.M. Krzhizhanovsky 1904
To the Iskra Editorial Board 1904
[Thanks to D. Moros]
1 April 2005: Added to the Natalia Sedova Trotsky Internet Archive:
Mr. Davies and the Moscow Trials 1941
[Thanks to Mike Bessler]
1 April 2005: Added to the French Language Marxists Internet Archive for the previous month is:
IV° Internationale:
Argentine, Bolivie : le bilan (Fraction Lénine-Trotsky, 1972)
F. Engels:
La guerre des paysans en Allemagne (1850)
A. Pannekoek:
La propriété publique et la propriété commune (11.1947)
L'acte personnel (1933)
Lettre à "Socialisme ou Barbarie" (8.11.1953)
A propos des grèves (01.1948)
Espérances en l'avenir (11.1912)
Le syndicalisme (01.1936)
Ch. Rappoport:
Intervention au congrès de la S.F.I.O. sur le rapport parlementaire (1911)
L’organisation de la Société de demain (1908)
K. Marxt:
Le Capital - Livre III
P. Lafargue:
Les luttes de classes en Flandre de 1336-1348 et de 1379-1385 (01.1882)
Le matérialisme économique de Karl Marx—cours d'économie sociale—(1884)
La légende de Victor Hugo (06.1885)
Visite à Louise Michel (09.1885)
Le matriarcat (10.1886)
Le darwinisme sur la scène française (1890)
Un appétit vendu (1893)
Origine des idées abstraites (1909)
avec J. Guesde : Essai critique sur la révolution française du XVIIIº siècle (1883)
L. Trotsky:
Karl Kautsky (18.03.1919)
Oeuvres—octobre 1929
La vérification des idées et des individus à travers l'expérience de la révolution espagnole (24.08.1937)
[Thanks to the French langauge volunteers of the MIA]
1 April, 2004: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following original documents from the history of the early American Marxism:
Now For the Next Step, by C.E. Ruthenberg. [Jan. 1919] Text of a direct mail piece sent out to subscribers of the “Socialist News” [Cleveland] by Local Cuyahoga County, Socialist Party over the signature of its Secretary, C.E. Ruthenberg. Ruthenberg seeks to bolster the subscription roll of the newspaper in order to fund its expansion.
What Is the ‘Left Wing’ Movement and Its Purpose? by Edward Lindgren. [Feb. 1919] Lindgren, one of the organizers of the Left Wing section of the Socialist Party in New York City, outlines a brief history of the faction in this article published in Louis Fraina and Ludwig Lore’s theoretical journal, “The Class Struggle.”
Left Wing are Disruptionists, by Joseph Gollomb. [March 12, 1919] Text of a long letter to the Editor of “The New York Call,” in which SPA member Joseph Gollomb attacks the ideology and tactics of the Left Wing Section and its leaders in the struggle for control of the party apparatus in New York City. Gollomb charges that the so-called “Left Wing Section” is an internal enemy of the Socialist Party, “the spirit and purpose of old Michael Bakunin.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]