August 2005
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31 august 2005: Added to the French Language Marxists Internet Archive for this month are:
G. Munis:
Ouverture de l'archive
P. Lafargue:
De l'antiparlementarisme et des réformes (15.10.1908)
II° Internationale:
Intervention au congrès de la S.F.I.O. (J. Zyromski, 10.6.1935)
IV° Internationale:
Ce fut ainsi... (N. Trotsky, 1940)
Lettre ouverte au P.C.I. (N. Trotsky, G. Munis et B. Péret, juin 1947)
S. Just:
A propos des « 25 thèses sur "La révolution mondiale" » d'E. Mandel (1976)
L. Trotsky:
A la mémoire du Général Nicolaev (05.10.1919)
La nouvelle politique économique des Soviets et la révolution mondiale (14.11.1922)
Ne vous dispersez pas ! (23.05.1923)
Avant-propos à l'édition de 1926 de "Europe et Amérique" publiée par la "librairie de l'Humanité" (25.02.1926)
Le Plenum de Juillet et le danger de droite (23.07.1928)
La situation en Europe : nos tâches d'aujourd'hui (07.11.1933)
C'est au tour de la France ! Pour la Quatrième Internationale (03.1934)
Lettre à Victor Serge sur différents groupes et personnalités en France à propos de la construction du parti révolutionnaire (30.07.1936)
[Thanks to the French language MIA team]
31 August, 2005: Added to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive:
The Soviet Union and the World War, 1940. Early post-split statement of his differences with Trotsky.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
31 August, 2005: Added to the James Burnham Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Politics of Desperation, 1940 (Reply to Trotsky’s A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
31 August, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
India and the Third Camp, 1940
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
31 August, 2005: Added to the new Dwight Macdonald Internet Archive:
The United States at War, 1940
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
31 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
The Voice of the Third Camp Must Be Heard! Edjtorial Stateement (1940)
For the Third Camp! Editorial Comment (1940)
All articles from New International, Vol.6 No.3, April 1940 (the issue after the split with the SWP), are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
2 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
Blitzkrieg and Revolution, An Editorial (1940)
Mass and Class in Soviet Society, by M. Lebrun (1940)
Where Is the Petty Bourgeois Opposition?, by SWP Minority (1940) (Partial reply to Trotsky’ From a Scratch to the Danger of Gangrene)
All articles from New International, Vol.6 No.4, May 1940 (the second issue after the split with the SWP), are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
31 August, 2005:
In continuation of the project of scanning Soviet Life Magazine, which explores the Soviet Union from a cultural and societal perspective, we have uploaded an issue from October, 1984: Free Health Care | Turkmenia and Uzbekistan Today | Poet Mikhail Lermontov.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
29 August, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section New free dowloadable files and html documents posted this past week to the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA): of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party:
Report on the United States of America: A confidential document prepared
for the Comintern, June 1922. by James P. Cannon
Nine Questions and Eight Answers About the Michigan Red Raid Cases: A
leaflet of the Labor Defense Council, circa Oct. 1922.
Minutes and Theses of the 4th Annual Conference, Lithuanian Federation,
[circa Dec. 1922]. by R. Margis.
Letter No. 7 to the Executive Committee of the Communist International
in Moscow from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, February 20, 1923.
Inviting Debs to Soviet Russia: Letter from Israel Amter in Moscow to
the Presidium of the Comintern, March 9, 1923.
Memo from C.E. Ruthenberg to All WPA District Organizers on Infiltration
of the Socialist Party, March 17, 1923.
Report on the United States: Up to March 20, 1923 [Selections] by
Israel Amter
Memo from C.E. Ruthenberg to All WPA District Organizers on Maintenance
of Underground Apparatus, March 21, 1923.
On Louis C. Fraina: An Excerpt from Israel Amter's No. 17 from Moscow to
the Central Executive Committee, WPA, in New York. July 5, 1923.
Report on the United States: From May 10 to July 25, 1923
[Selections] by Israel Amter
Report on the United States: Up to October 20, 1923 [Selections] by
Israel Amter
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
28 August 2005: The Literature Archive of the Romanian Language Section opened with poems by Mihai Beniuc, Nicolae Labiş and Vladimir Maiakovski.
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
26 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
UAW
vs. GM, Editorial Comment (1945)
Is Full
Employment Possible?, by David Francis (1945)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde
O’Callaghan]
26 August 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Class
Against Class, 1932
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
25 August, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party:
Italian Federation Endorses NEC Action: Resolution on the Expulsions and Suspensions of the Left Wing Section, June 8, 1919. At its June 8, 1919, meeting the Executive Committee of the Italian Federation passed a resolution on the crisis in the Socialist Party, which was already marked by the May 27th suspension of the entire state organization of Michigan and the suspension of seven of the Slavic, Baltic, and Finnish federations of the party.:
Stedman's Red Raid by Robert Minor. [May 1, 1921] Full text of a pamphlet produced by the UCP's Toiler Publishing Association detailing a particularly disgusting footnote to the 1919 split of the Socialist Party.
A Christmas Party by Max Eastman. [Feb. 1922] The above-ground ("legal") Workers Party of America was established at a founding convention which opened in New York City on Christmas Day, 1921. Liberator editor Max Eastman was on hand for the festivities, turning in this piece of eyewitness reportage. Eastman is enthusiastic for the new organization, calling it "much more mature and confident than any previous assemblage of its kind in this country."
Labor Liquidates Revolution by J.B. Salutsky. [October 1922] This artidcle from the pages of The Liberator drew the intense wrath of WPA Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg. Salutsky, a late-comer to the Communist Movement from the ranks of the old Jewish Socialist Federation, was extremely hostile to underground conspiratorial structure.
Where Do We Stand? by C.E. Ruthenberg [Oct. 24, 1922] In reply to critical articles by WPA CEC members Jacob Salutsky (The Liberator, Oct. 1922) and Ludwig Lore (Volkszeitung, Oct. 15, 1922), Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg lashes out with strong criticism of the tone and ideas of each. With regard to Salutsky, Ruthenberg attacks his thesis that the labor movement had "liquidated" revolutionism in the wake of the Bridgman, Michigan, raid and arrests.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
25 August, 2005: Added to the new Albert Glotzer Internet Archive:
James P. Cannon as Historian, 1945 (written as Albert Gates)
The Relevance of Marxism, 1950 (written as Albert Gates)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
25 August, 2005: Added to the Hal Draper Internet Archive:
Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism, 1945 (written as Harold Draper)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
25 August, 2005: Added to the new Emanuel Garrett Internet Archive:
Behind the Pearl Harbor Exposé, 1945
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
25 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
New Tactics in Fighting Totalitarianism II, by James Barrett (1945)
Economic Basis of the Black Market, by Susan Green (1945))
How PAC’s Strategy Worked Out, by Eleanor Mason (1945)
[Thanks to David Walters, Einde O’Callaghan & Ted Crawford]
25 August 2005: Added to the Alexandr Bogdanov Archive:
Socially Organised Society:
Socialist Society, 1919
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
25 August 2005: Added to the New Enrico Ferri Archive:
Socialism and religious
beliefs, 1894
The political
quarter-of-an-hour in Italy, 1897
Clericalism and
Socialism, 1902
On Socialist Tactics, 1905
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
Added to the New Gabriel Deville Archive:
The Materialistic Conception of
History, 1883
The State and Socialism,
1895
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
24 August 2005:
Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:
Report on the United States of America: A document prepared for the Comintern , 1922.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Andrew Pollack]
24 August 2005: Added to the Conspiracy of Equals (Babeuf) Archive:
Philippe
Buonarotti
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
23 August 2005: Added to the Charles Rappoport Archive:
Jaurès’ Speech
1903
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
22 August, 2005:
Added to the Socialist Workers Party—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL),
Sam Adams And the American Revolution, by Harry Frankel, published in The Militant, November 12, 1951, through March 3, 1952.
[Thanks to Roland Sheppard and Andrew Pollack]
22 August, 2005: Added to the Peng Shuzi (Peng Shu-tse) Internet Archive.:
Two Interviews on the “Cultural Revolution”, 1967
Open Letter to the Members of the Chinese Communist Party, 1967
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
22 August 2005:
Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:
Happy Birthday, Arne Swabeck, 1953.
Engels on the American Question, 1955
Intellectuals and Revolution, 1961
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
22 August, 2005:
Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Chen Tu-Hsiu and the General Council
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
22 August 2005: Added to the Ota Šik Archive:
Dictatorship of the proletariat, 1976
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
23 August 2005: Added to the Liu Shaoqi Reference Archive:
Eliminate Menshevist Ideology Within the Party (July 1943)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
22 August, 2005: Added to the new Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
Lenin’s Way – or Tito’s Way?, 1950 (letter)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
22 August, 2005: Added to the new Irving Howe Internet Archive:
1984 – Utopia Reversed, 1950
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 August, 2005: Added to the new Eugene Lanti Archive:
International or A-national Organizing? 1920
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 August, 2005: A new addition to the Marxists Internet Archive’s Writers Archive: Peng Shuzi (Peng Shu-tse) Internet Archive. Peng was an early member (1922) of the Chinese Communist Party. He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Party Central and was also made head of the Propaganda Branch and Chief Editor of the CCP paper, Xiang Dao (‘The Guide’). He was returned to the Central Committee at the 5th Congress of the CCP in 1927. He was a leader of the Second Chinese Revolution, 1925-1927, and was personally involved in leading the Shanghai events of 1927. After the defeat of the Revolution he became a member the Left Opposition. In exile shortly after WWII he became a prolific writer both on the subject of Chinese Stalinism and on various internal polemical issues confronting the Leninist-Trotskyist movement, the Fourth International:
The Causes of the Victory of the Chinese Communist Party over Chiang Kai-Shek, and the CCP’s Perspectives: Report on the Chinese Situation to the Third Congress of the Fourth International, 1951
Pabloism Reviewed: From Pablo to Cochran, Clarke, and Mestre, 1955
Therefore they Demand Immediate Reunification, 1955
A Common Discussion for Reunification with all the Trotskyists Remaining with the IS, 1955
Resolution On The Parity Commission, 1955
The Relationship and Differences Between Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-Ch’i, 1968
What Our Position Should Be on the Factional Struggle Inside the CCP, 1968
Letter of Comrade Peng Shu-Chi to the International Executive Committee, 1968
The Struggle Within the CCP and China’s Situation, 1968
Return To The Road Of Trotskyism, 1969
Criticisms on the U.S. SWP’s Opinion on Cuba, 1982
[Thanks to Andy Pollack and David Walters]
21 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1947-1958):
The Constituent Assembly in Russia, by Saul Berg (1950)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 August, 2005: 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:
Speech of Harry Winitsky at a Public Meeting in New York City, Dec. 22, 1919 **SECOND EDITION: adds 1920 mug-shot photo of Winitsky published in the Lusk Report.** Harry Winitsky, Executive Secretary of Local Greater New York of the Communist Party of America, was free on bail at the time this speech was made, having been swept up in the Nov. 8 raids of the Lusk Committee on CPA headquarters.
Application of the Socialist Party of America for Membership in the Communist International. A letter from Otto Branstetter to Grigorii Zinoviev, March 12, 1920 Even after suspending and expelling a majority of the members of the Socialist Party for endorsing the program of a formal Left Wing faction within the party, the rump of the organization approved via referendum vote a minority plank on international affiliation calling for the SP to immediately join the Communist International.
Draft of a Supplemental Appeal to the Executive Committee of the Communist International from the Socialist Party of America, circa March 12, 1920 by Otto Branstetter. While the official application for inclusion in the Communist International submitted on behalf of the Socialist Party of America by its National Executive Secretary, Otto Branstetter, was tepid and certain of immediate rejection, there was considered a strong appeal affirming with vigor the SPA's credentials for membership. This fascinating document is a draft of a supplemental appeal to the ECCI composed by Branstetter. The Socialist Party's opposition to the European war is characterized as militant, consistent, and nearly unanimous. The SP's officials are characterized as "no less loyal and devoted and steadfast in maintaining the position of the Party," as examplified by the draconian legal action taken against them by the "black reaction" of the capitalist state
List of Delegates to the 17th National Convention of the Socialist Party of America (May 20-24, 1932). Over two hundred delegates and alternates listed from 35 states, the District of Columbia, and the 7 language groups of the party (Czechoslovak, Finnish, Italian, Jewish, Yugoslav, Lithuanian, and Polish). Interesting names on the list include Marcet Haldeman-Julius (Kansas), Heywood Broun (New York), and Louis Hendin (New York).
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
21 August, 2005: Added to the Alfred Rosmer Internet Archive:
Problems of Yesterday and Today: Toward Anti-Stalinist Union Unity in France, 1949
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 August 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Foreign
Workers 1928, 1928
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 August, 2005: Added to the Hal Draper Internet Archive:
Korea and US Foreign Policy – A New Stage in World Politics, 1950 (written as James M. Fenwick)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 August, 2005: Added to the Max Shachtman Internet Archive:
Leon Trotsky, 1879-1940, May 1950
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
20 August, 2005: Added to the T.N. Vance (Ed Sard) Internet Archive:
The remaining 4 parts of Vance’s seminal work on The Permanent War Economy, 1951:
Part III – Increasing State Intervention, 1951
Part IV – Military-Economic Imperialism, 1951
Part V – Some Significant Trends, 1951
Part VI – Taxation and the Class Struggle, 1951
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Einde O’Callaghan]
19 August, 2005: 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:
What’s the Matter With America? by John Reed. [Nov. 5, 1919] The most famous member of the Communist Labor Party of America sounds off in the party weekly The Ohio Socialist. Reed states that America had begun 1919 as “one of the most reactionary nations on earth.”
Report of the CLP Ohio State Secretary to the Ohio State Executive Committee, November 8, 1919 by A. Wagenknecht. A report by the head of the Ohio state organization of the CLP to its governing State Executive Committee. Wagenknecht notes that the split in the socialist movement was an international phenomenon, made more complex in the United States by the premature formation of a Communist Party by various Socialist language federations ahead of the timetable set by the majority of the Left Wing National Conference.
To the Foreign Committee of the American Communist Party and the American Communist Labor Party. A Confidential Letter from the Executive Committee of The Communist International, circa December 1919. One of the earliest communiques from the Communist International to the American communist movement.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
19 August 2005: Added to the Louise Michel Archive:
The Young Girls of Owié, 1885
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
19 August 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
An Account of Abbé Vogler, 1881
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 August 2005: Added to the Louise Michel Archive:
Legends et Chants de Gestes Canaques, Introduction, 1885
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 August, 2005: 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:
Is the ‘Left Wing’ Right? A Letter to the Editor of The New York Call, March 4, 1919 by Cameron King. The 1919 faction fight within the Socialist Party in general, and the Socialist Party of New York in particular, was wound up in matters of personality, position, and power.
People Ready for Socialism; Party Starting Work—Germer. [July 24, 1919]. This article contains the content of an interview which Germer granted to the New York Socialist Party daily, the New York Call. Germer held a “rosy” view of the SP’s immediate future.
The Chicago Conventions by Max Eastman; Drawings by Art Young. [Oct.
1919]. [Large file—1 megabyte] **SECOND EDITION: restoring many of the original sketches and pen-and-ink drawings by Art Young.** 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. No more than a small handful of people attended sessions of all three bodies and only one chronicled them with a journalist’s touch and a historian’s eye. This lengthy analysis of the three gatherings by Max Eastman is a seminal pieces of reportage—absolutely indispensible for historians of the Debsian SPA and the early American
Communist movement. Those with slow internet may alternatively download the text-only
version, still posted on the EAM website.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
18 August 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
To the Army, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 August 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Doriot Expelled from the French Communist Party, 1934
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
17 August, 2005: The Bangladeshi Language Section of the MIA has just to the writings of Leon Trotsky for the first time in the Bangladesi language:
Fascism: What it is and How to Fight it. 1936
[Thanks to Saurobijay who translated this material and did the markup and editing]
17 August 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Procession of Children
for the Hyde Park Peace Demonstration, July 1897
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
17 August 2005: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
Le Vieux Cordelier, Camille Desmoulins 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
16 August, 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is a 1938 essay on anti-Imperialism, particulary revelant for todays world situation:
Anti-Imperialist Struggle Is Key To Liberation
[Thanks to David Walters]
15 August 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
The Liverpool
Congress, October 1890
Dramatic Notes,
February 1890 - February 1891
Literature Notes,
August 1890 - February 1891
A
Doll’s House Repaired, March 1891
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
14 August, 2005: Added to the new Alfred Rosmer Internet Archive:
On Since Lenin died, 1925
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor & Andy Blunden]
14 August, 2005: Added to the T.N. Vance (Ed Sard) Internet Archive:
The first 2 parts of Vance’s seminal work on The Permanent War Economy, 1951:
Part I – Its Basic Characteristics, 1951
Part II – Declining Standards of Living, 1951
The other 4 parts will be added in the course of the next week or so.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Einde O’Callaghan]
13 August 2005:
Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:
New Revolutionary Forces Are Emerging, by James P. Cannon, Socialist Workers Party Discussion Bulletin, June 1961. Under the impact of the Cuban Revolution, Cannon looks at the historical approach of revolutionaries toward new political tendencies.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
13 August 2005: Added to the C L R James Archive:
“The
Talented Tenth”: Negro Leadership and Civil Rights, and
Road Ahead in
Negro Struggle
2 articles on the problems of the Civil Rights struggle from Fourth
International, 1949
[Thanks to Danie Gaido]
12 August 2005: Added to the Communist Party of France Archive:
Declaration of an Ex-Trotskyist 1932
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
12 August 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
The Liverpool
Congress, October 1890
Dramatic Notes,
February 1890 - February 1891
Literature Notes,
August 1890 - February 1891
A
Doll’s House Repaired, March 1891
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 August, 2005: Added to the Charles Rappoport Archive:
Evolution and
Revolution 1900
Women workers in Japan
1904
The society of to-morrow
1908
Fatalism and historic
necessity 1911
What is Socialism?
1928
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
11 August, 2005: The Bangladeshi Language Section of the MIA has just added Leon Trotsky’s:
Why Marxists oppose Individual Terrorism 1911
[Thanks to Saurobijay]
11 August, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following two documents from the history founding period of the Communist Party:
Call for a Special Convention of the Communist Party of America [December 1920] This is the convention call for an extraordinary 3rd Convention of the Communist Party of America (“majority”). The call stated that the convention was necessary to bring the program and tactics of the CPA into “perfect conformity with the decisions adopted and policies determined upon by the Communist International, especially as enunciatedin the various theses and the conditions of affiliation.”
1920s Pseudonym Scorecard compiled by Tim Davenport. As the old saying goes, “Ya can’t tell the players without a scorecard.” Here it is... Alphabetical listing of 1920s Communist Party pseudonyms. Part 1 features known pseudonyms, listed alphabetically by "real" name." Part 2 is a list of unidentified ("maverick") party names with clues as to their identity. This is the first downloadable pdf version of this list, pdated to Aug. 1, 2005.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
11 August, 2005:
A new Subject Archive has been created for the Soviet Union. We’ve done this following an influx of books from Soviet Historians. Many of these books contain unique accounts on various subjects, and thus the task became clear that stringing together these common subjects would be a helpful reference point. If you would like to see new subjects added, please let us know!
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
11 August 2005: Added to the Capital:
Appendix to the First German Edition, 1867
[Thanks to Paul Hampton]
11 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Saragat and the Italian Election (1948)
Marshall Plan: Road to Conquest, by Homer Paxon (1948)
American Science Goes to War, by Walter Grey (1948)
Ukrainian Problem – Past and Present, by A. Rudzienski (1948)
Russia’s Secret Documents on Munich, by Philip Coben (1948)
Boom Days, by Gertrude Blackwell (1948)
Mealy-Mouthed Martyrs, by Theodore Enright (1948)
Crisis of Leadership, by Vincent S. Wheelon (1948)
Pattern of Jim Crow in South Africa, by Robert Stone (1948)
Stalinist Terror in Rumania, by Valentin Toma (1948)
Italy: Third Front Versus CP, by A. Rudzienski (1948)
Trotskyist Primer, by Philip Coben (1948)
No Glory, No Glamor, by Charles Stewart (1948)
Miscellany on Russia, by Philip Coben (1948)
All articles from New International, Vol.14 No.5, July 1948 and Vol.14 No.7, September 1948 (except for two extracts from The Year one of the Russian Revolution by Victor Serge) are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
11 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-46):
The British Conquest Of India, Thesis of the Indian Revolutionary Socialists (1942)
The International Significance of the British Elections, by A. Arlins (1945)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
10 August, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL),
Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights, by Evelyn Sell, pamphlet published by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, 1989/91
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
10 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Truman’s Christmas Gift and Altgeld’s Anniversary (1948)
Partition and the Division of the Globe (1948)
Leon Blum’s “Third Force” (1948)
Compulsory Free Trade at Havana (1948)
The Politics of Anti-Inflation (1948)
Why Wallace Is Running (1948)
Peron: Argentine Sub-Imperialist, by Luis Velasco (1948)
What’s Ahead for Palestine? by Al Findley (1948)
Fanaticism and Heresy, by Richard Stoker (1948)
Is Social Science Possible? by Walter Grey (1948)
Rudzienski Replies to Oak, by A. Rudzienski (1948)
Marshall Plan: Road to Conquest, by Homer Paxon (1948)
All articles from New International, Vol.14 No.1, January 1948, (except a short extract by Leon Trotsky from Problems of Everyday Life) are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
10 August, 2005: Added to the new Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
Toward a Re-United India, 1947
On the Czechoslovakian Coup, 1948 (resolution) (written with Ernest Erber & Emanuel Garrett)
Can the Marshall Plan Succeed?, 1947 (extended review article)
Criticism of Henry Paxon on the Marshall Plan, 1948 (letter)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
10 August, 2005: 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 focusing on the organizationg of the Socialist Party Left-Wing and transition into the Communist Party:
The Situation in Ohio by Eugene V. Debs. [Jan. 8, 1919] This article was written for The Ohio Socialist by Gene Debs, essentially the Socialist orator’s hometown newspaper during from the tail end of 1918 into early 1919 during the legal persecution of Debs for his Canton speech.
Call for a National Conference of the Left Wing [Published June 4, 1919] This is the call for the holding of a National Conference of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, issued jointly by Local Boston, Socialist Party (Louis C. Fraina, Sec.); Local Cleveland, Socialist Party (C.E. Ruthenberg, Sec.); and the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party of New York City (Maximilian Cohen, Sec.).
Letter from L.E. Katterfeld in Dighton, KS, to John Reed in New York City, Aug. 19, 1919 An important letter detailing the thinking of the future Communist Labor Party element of the Left Wing Section heading into the August Emergency National Convention of the SPA. Katterfeld tells Reed that while the Left Wing National Council now felt the fight to win control of the Socialist Party was "futile," the struggle should be continued nonetheless.
The Three Parties by L.E. Katterfeld [October 1919]. An official CLP history of the division of the American marxist movement into "three parties" -- the Socialist Party, the Communist Party of America, and the Communist Labor Party of America.
August 1920 Budget Request for the Communist Party of America made to
the Comintern [Aug. 21, 1920] This is a funding request on behalf of the Communist Party of America (the majority group not uniting with the CLP into the United Communist Party) made by one of the CPA’s men in Moscow, Louis C. Fraina. Fraina seeks $60,000 in all, one-third of which was to go for the defense and support of prisoners and their families, $15,000 for agitation among black Americans, $10,000 for agitation among the military (the latter being two tasks not specifically mentioned in the budget of the UCP), and $15,000 to start three legal weekly papers.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
10 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
James P. Cannon as Historian, by Albert Gates (1945) (Harsh but seemingly justified criticism of the bureaucratic and anti-intellectual tendencies of James P. Cannon)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
8 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
What is Walter Reuther? by Herman Benson (1947)
Thomas Mann’s “War Guilt”, by W. Brooks (1947)
Trotskyism in Bolivia, by J. Robles (1947)
Why SWP Blocked Unity, Resolution of the Workers Party (1947)
Betrayal in the Philippines, by Gerald McDermott (1947)
The Fate of the Sudeten Germans, by Arthur Stein (1947)
The Role of Centrism in France – II, by Saul Berg (1947)
Four Recent Books on Palestine, by William Gorman (1947)
Korea Under Occupation, by A. Kimbay (1947)
The Bitter Box, by Richard Stoker (1947)
Discovery of Europe, by Avel Victor (1947)
Letter from W. Brooks (1947)
All articles from New international, Vol.13 No.3, March 1947, are now on-line.
All articles from New international, Vol.13 No.9, December 1947, are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
7 August, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1946-1956):
A Soviet Note to President Wilson, April 1942
The NAACP at the Crossroads, Jean Blake (May-June 1950)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and Andrew Pollack]
6 August, 2005: 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:
Financial Needs of the American Delegation: A Budget Proposal to the Comintern from the UCP, August 1920. After Edward Lindgren made it to Moscow with news of the May 1920 formation of the United Communist Party, joining the CLP with the Ruthenberg wing of the Communist Party of American, the CLP delegation in Moscow terminated their working agreement with CPA reps Stoklitsky and Hourwich and began to act on their own as the sole legitimate representatives of the American Communist movement.
To the Manager of the Communist International from Louis C. Fraina, August 15, 1920. Louis Fraina, one of two delegates of the Communist Party of America to the 2nd Congress of the Communist International, dispatched this protest letter to "the manager of the Communist International" in reponse to the United Communist Party’s attempt to receive the exclusive funding of the American Communist movement.
List of delegates to the 1920 Bridgman Unity Convention. (May 26-31, 1920) Convention which united the CLP with the Ruthenberg/Minority faction of the CPA to form the United Communist Party of America. There were 57 voting delegates, one fraternal delegate, and CI representative Samuel Agursky in attendance at this underground convention. List here is partial.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
6 August, 2005: Added to the new Irving Howe Internet Archive:
Why Stalin Needs Slaves – Forced Labor Under Bureaucratic Collectivism, 1947 (extended review article)
Bernard Shaw’s Anti-Capitalism, 1948 (book review) (damning critique of George Bernard Shaw’s politics)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
6 August, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL),
The remaining sections of :In Defense of American Trotskyism: Revolutionary Principles and Working-Class Democracy, Edited by Paul Le Blanc, Published by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, September, 1992
II. Overview
III. The Purge Begins
IV. Expulsion of National Committee Members
V. The Case of the Legless Veteran
VI. The California and Minnesota Purges
VII. Four Comrades
VIII. The Fourth Internationalist Tendency
IX. Evaluations
Appendix: The Organizational Norms of a Proletarian Party
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
6 August, 2005: Added to the Hal Draper Internet Archive:
Carlson: “Homo Stalinensis”, 1948 (review article, written as James M. Fenwick)
Marxist Missionary, 1948 (review, written as James M. Fenwick)
The Mysterious Bruno R.: Footnote on the History of the “Russian Question”, 1948 (writen as James M. Fenwick, the first study to actually analyse the work of Bruno Rizzi)
War Vignette, 1948 (review, written as James M. Fenwick)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan
5 August 2005: Added to the Hua Guofeng Reference Archive:
Speech at the Fourth Session of the Standing Committe of the Fourth National People’s Congress (October 23, 1977)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
5 August 2005: Added to the Zhou Enlai Reference Archive:
Letter to All Government Heads (August 2, 1963)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
5 August 2005: Added to the Greek Civil War Subject Archive:
Greek Chorus (March 12, 1945)
“…And don’t send any wreaths…” (May 7, 1946)
Coming Back (September 3, 1946)
[Thanks to Morning Star (UK), Mike B., and Ted Crawford]
4 August 2005: Added to the The Arabic Language Section of the MIA are the following three sections to help students of Marxism who use the MIA:
Subject Section (still under construction)
Encyclopedia of Marxism
What is Marxism?
[Thanks to the Arabic speaking volunteers of the MIA]
4 August 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) and the James P. Cannon Archive:
“Don’t Strangle the Party!”!, by James P. Cannon, with an introduction by George Breitman; Section I of In Defense of American Trotskyism: Revolutionary Principles and Working-Class Democracy, Edited by Paul Le Blanc, Published by the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, September, 1992
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
4 August 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive Archive is the following review of George Breitman’s The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary:
Malcolm X, Black Nationalism and Socialism, 1967
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and Andrew Pollack]
2 August, 2005: 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:
American Socialists and the War by Morris Hillquit. [September 1917] The Socialist Party’s New York mayoral attempts to clarify the "systematic campaign of misrepresentation" waged against it by "the capitalist press with the helpful cooperation of a group of ’patriotic’ Socialist intellectuals."
Constitution of the Lithuanian Workers Literature Society, (Organized Sept. 20, 1915) [Published in 1919]. A rare document seized and saved for posterity by the Lusk Committee. The Lithuanian Workers Literature Society was a membership-based adjunct of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation of America.
Letter from Adolph Germer in Chicago to Morris Hillquit at Saranac Lake, NY, April 17, 1919.
Scuttling the Ship: A Statement of the Seven Suspended Language Federations, June 2, 1919 This is the joint protest statement of the 7 affected Language Federations of the SPA (Russian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, South Slavic, and Latvian) in response to the May 27 action of the party’s National Executive Committee to unilaterally suspend the entire memberships of these organizations.
Present Party Officialdom Overwhelmingly Repudiated by National Referendum. (A Tabulation of the 1919 Socialist Party Election) [June 18, 1919] In the spring of 1919, the Socialist Party of America conducted a referendum vote to elect new officers for the organization, in accord with the constitution fo the group.
Another Victory for Uncompromising Socialism: New National Executive Committee of Left Wing Socialists [June 25, 1919]
Impressions of the Convention by ’R. Newman’" [published June 22 &
July 15, 1920]. An alternative account of the May 26-31, 1920, Bridgman Unity Convention that joined the Ruthenberg "minority" wing of the CPA with the CLP to establish the United Communist Party of America.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
2 August, 2005:
Added to the Fourth
Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), appendices to the 1992 book, In
Defense of American Trotskyism: The Struggle Inside the Socialist Workers Party, 1979-1983, Edited by Sarah Lovell, Fourth Internationalist Tendency, March 1992:
Letter to the Political Committee: For a discussion of Party Work with the Unemployed and for a literary discussion on the meaning of Trotskyism, Frank Lovell, January 18, 1983
Counterreports, Comments and Summary on Bilateral Nuclear Freeze Referendum, July-August 1982 National Committee Plenum, Socialist Workers Party (U.S.A.); Counterreports and Summary by Ackerman and Lovell; Comments by Bloom and Weinstein
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
1 August, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Cotton Economy in Depression, by Jerry Pytlak (1939)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
1 August, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1946-1956):
Frederick Douglass: Great Abolitionist Leader (1946)
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
1 August, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, by Arthur Jordan (Winter 1960)
Natural Manners, by Maria di Savio (Summer 1962)
A Classic Reprinted, by Richard Garza (Summer 1962)
Review of C. Wright Mills’ The Marxists, by William F. Warde (Summer 1962) {William F. Warde was a pseudonym for George Novack, perhaps the most profound of the American SWP’s theoreticians)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]