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31 December, 2005: Added to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
The
Economic Roots of American Imperialism, 1970
On the Workers and
Peasants Government, 1985
Dictatorship of
the Proletariat and Socialist Democracy, 1985
Bureaucracy and
Commodity Production, 1987 (translated for MIA by Mike Murray, first
English-language publication)
How To Make No Sense
of Marx, 1989
The Nature of
Social-Democratic Reformism, 1977
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan, Ernest Mandel
Internet Archive & Mike Murray]
31 December, 2005: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
The Present Agrarian
Crisis in Egypt, 1935 (first article written by the Tony Cliff as an
18-year-old – first time ever published in English)
[Thanks to Ian Birchall]
30 December 2005: Added to the Daniel Deleon Internet Archive are 21 new documents recently placed on the Daniel DeLeon On-Line Library established by the Socialist Labor Party of America and mirrored here on the DDIA. These documents span January of 1901.
1901
January 01—Welcome XX Century!
1901 January 03—Gen.
Colville’s Ugly Fact
1901 January 04—The
Vilest of Pullers-In
1901 January
05—Truthful for Once
1901 January 06—They
Are One
1901 January
07—“Tight” and “Loose” Organization
1901 January 08—Their
Greatness the Nation’s Weakness
1901 January 09—Spook
Seances in Capitalism
1901 January 10—The
Corn That Aches Them
1901 January 11—The
Canteen
1901 January
12—Shifting Scenes Anent Africa
1901 January
13—Perpetual War
1901 January 14—Blind
Cassandras
1901 January 16—Marcel
Sembat’s Interpellation
1901 January 17—A
Timely Information and Lesson
1901 January 21—Cowes
News Upsets “Individuality”
1901 January 23—Take
Notice, and Take Warning
1901 January 24—A
Common Error
1901 January
26—Tempering the Sword
1901 January 27—A
Return to “Appearances”
1901 January
29—‘Tis Time for the Strait-Jacket
1901 January
31—“VeVenezuelan Disorders”
[Thanks
to Robert Bills of the Socialist Labor Party of America]
30 December 2005: Added to the new Tarrida del Marmol Archive:
Cubans in the
Prison Camp of Ceuta, 1897
The Inquisition in Porto Rico,
1897
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
30 December, 2005: Added to the John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Scientists and
Atomic Energy, 1946 (enthusiastic piece about nuclear energy, which in
retrospect seems rather naive)
A Biography of Stalin,
1946 (book review) (review of trotskys Stalin)
Stalin’s New
“Three-Year” Plan for Agriculture, 1947
Has the Depression
Already Begun?, 1947
Economic Balance
Sheet of 1948, 1949
Wolfe Changes Masters,
1949 (book review)
“Welfare
State” and Depression, 1949 (extended book review)
Money Utopias of the
“Welfare State”, 1949 (critique of Keynes and Silvio Gesell)
Inflation and the
Arms Program, 1953
The Farm Crisis in
the Soviet Union, 1954
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
30 December, 2005: Added to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
Crisis in the Common Market,
1963
Defend the Cuban
Revolution, 1964
Soviet Management Reform,
1965
The 23rd
Congress of the CPSU, 1966
Surplus Capital and Realization of
Surplus Value, 1966 (extended book review) (sympathetic but critical review of
Baran & Sweezy’s Monopoly Capitalism)
The Labor Theory of Value and
Monopoly Capitalism, 1977 (further longish article on Baran &
Sweezy’s book)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
30 December, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
The Case for a
Neo-Marxist Theory, by David horowitz (1967)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 December, 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 early Communist Party and it’s early factional history .
Seeing Red: Civil Liberty and the Law in the Period Following the War, by Walter Nelles [August 1920] Full text of a pamphlet published in the summer of 1920 by the Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union chronicling the gross abuses of American civil rights that were being practiced by the Wilson regime and the governments of the various states.
Minutes of the Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of America: New York City—Jan. 11-16, 1921. The Central Executive Committee of the old Communist Party of America held frequent extremely lengthy plenums—taking up evenings for the better part of a week. This plenum dealt with the issue of Maximilian Cohen, accused of violating party discipline and misrepresenting the position of the CEC with respect to proposed merger with the United Communist Party.
Membership Series by Federation for the (old) Communist Party of America, July 1920 to Jan. 1921. For those of you who like your history crunchy instead of fluffy, here are two pages worth printing out and saving. This is an outstanding membership series for seven core months of the old Communist Party of America, as presented by Executive Secretary Charles Dirba to the May 1921 Unity Convention held at Woodstock, NY. Each of the seven months is divided among the six language federations of the old CPA (these being from big to small: Lithuanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Polish, Jewish) as well as the handful of “Non-Federation” (i.e. English language) members.
Letter to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow from C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago, January 8, 1924. This cover letter was written by Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg to ECCI to explain the unseen politics behind the 3rd Convention of the Workers Party of America and the decisions of that gathering. Ruthenberg cites three main areas of division: (1) the policy of the WPA with regards to an anticipated petty bourgeois “Third Party” springing out of the Conference for Progressive Political Action; (2) the United Front policy of the Chicago district—a veiled attack on William Z. Foster by John Pepper; (3) and the composition of the newly elected Central Executive Committee—in which the Foster-Cannon faction in conjunction with the Lore “Anti-Third Party” group attained a decisive majority, defeating the Pepper group.
The Workers Party of America’s Comintern Appropriation Request for 1924. [Jan. 10, 1924] Text of a coded message to the Comintern sent by Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg shortly after the close of the Third National Convention of the Workers Party of America [Dec. 30, 1923-Jan. 2, 1924]. Includes extensive explanatory notes by Tim Davenport.
Thesis on the Present Situation in Relation to Our Labor Party Policy, Feb. 15, 1924, Submitted by C.E. Ruthenberg and John Pepper This thesis was prepared by Ruthenberg and Pepper for the February plenum of the Central Executive Committee, held in Chicago on Feb. 15-16, 1924. William Z. Foster prepared a similar document regarding Labor Party tactics and there was some effort made to combine the two documents in a subcommittee, which seems to have vetoed by Pepper, who did not see the documents as reconcilable.
Statement of Party Activies: A document prepared by William Z. Foster and uanimously adopted by the CEC of the WPA, March 18, 1924. Originally a four page summary of WPA activities, written by Foster and approved unanimously by the CEC after minor amendment at its March 17-18, 1924 plenum. Foster states that the differences in the WPA over “education, organization, and Party strategy” are the result of a failure of the CEC to establish a “clear-cut, well balanced program for the schooling, building, and functioning of our organization.”
Letter from the WPA CEC Majority to ECCI Requesting the Recall of John Pepper, March 27, 1924. The Fosterite majority of the CEC of the Workers Party of America addressed this communication to the Executive Committee of the Comintern requesting the recall of John Pepper from the United States.
Theses on the Workers Party Policy in the Elections of 1924: Presented by the Anti-Third Party Group, circa April 1924, by Moissaye J. Olgin The March 17-18, 1924 meeting of the Central Executive Committee dispatched three leading factional figures to Moscow to argue the merits of their programs for the Workers Party of America with respect to a formation of an American Labor Party. William Z. Foster represented the majority faction, John Pepper represented the minority, and M.J. Olgin represented the New York-based “Third Faction” (which was personified by Ludwig Lore on the party CEC).
Inner-Party Questions of the VKP(b): A Report to the 7th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI,
Moscow—December 7, 1926, by I. Stalin The 7th Enlarged Plenum of the
Executive Committee of the Communist International [Nov. 22-Dec. 16, 1926] marked
the formal removal of Grigorii Zinoviev as head of the Comintern and his replacement
by Nikolai Bukharin, close factional ally of Iosef Stalin. At the 18th Session of
this plenum, the agenda moved to the USSR and the situation in the All-Union
Communist Party (bolsheviks).
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport]
28 December, 2005: Added to the John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Falsified Statistics
– The Death Chart of Stalinism, 1939
Nazi Destruction of
Soviet Economy, 1942
Why We Defend China,
1942
What
the Soviet Press Reveals, 1942
Twenty-five Years of the
Revolution, 1942
A New Marxist Classic,
1943 (book review) (review of Trotsky’ In Defense of Marxism)
The Civil War
in Yugoslavia, 1943
Soviet Life In Wartime,
1943
“What To Do With
Italy?”, 1943 (extended book review)
The Rising German
Revolution – Its Enemies, Betrayers and Vilifiers, 1945
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 December, 2005: Added to the new Bert Cochran (E.R. Frank) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
A Manual
of Party Organization, 1943 (book review, written as E.R. Frank)
(extremely enthusiastic review of James P. Cannon’s Struggle
for a Proletarian Party)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 December, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Zionism and the
Lion, by Ben Herman (article on relationship between Zionism and
British imperialism in Palestine)
The Palestine
Question, by Paul Koston (Letter criticising the first article on
Palestine written by L. Rock)
Zionism and the Arab
Struggle, by The Spark (Critique of the first two
articles by L. Rock on Zionism in Palestine from the Workers Party of South Africa,
the South African Trotskyist organisation)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
28 December, 2005: Added to the new Dwight Macdonald Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Once More –
Kronstadt, 1938
They, the People,
1938
They, the People,
1938
Save Capitalism
First, 1935 (extended book review)
They, the People,
1938
Reading from Left to
Right, 1938
Reading from Left to
Right, 1939
Reading from Left to
Right, 1939
Reading from Left
to Right – The Monopoly Committee – First Year, 1939
School for Dictators,
1939 (book review)
Reading from Left to
Right, 1939
Reading from Left
to Right – Popular Education in Crisis, 1939
Reading from Left to
Right, 1939
Twenty-five
Million of Us, 1939 (major study of the welfare system under the New Deal)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 December, 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Internet Archive:
Once More: Kronstadt,
1938 (letter)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 December, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Once More:
Kronstadt, by the Editors (Reply to criticisms by Victor
Serge and Dwight Macdonald)
A Program
of Action for Palestine, by Haor (semi-Zionist proposal for
partition of Palestine)
A Step
Towards Social-Patriotism, by Editorial Board, Bulletin
of the Russian Opposition (Critique of positions advanced
by a group of Palestinian Trotskyists)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 December 2005: Added to the new Pierre Monatte Archive:
Letter to
Zinoviev, 1924
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
25 December, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
Problems of Colonial India
III, 1938 (writing as S. Stanley)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
25 December, 2005: Added to the new Jack Weber (Louis Jacobs) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
New Trends Under the New
Deal, 1934
America and the War in
the Pacific, 1934
Roosevelt and the
State, 1934
The End of the Naval
Truce, 1935
Problems of the Pacific,
1935 (book review)
In Justification of
Stalinism, 1936 (book review)
The Jewish Question,
1938
Burnham’s Letter
of Resignation, 1940
War Strips the
Lovestonites, 1940
Twilight in the British
Empire, 1942 (writing as A. Roland)
Stalin Bolsters
His “New” Tradition, 1942 (writing as A. Roland)
The Kremlin
Bureaucracy and the War, 1943 (writing as A. Roland)
Political Economy
Under Stalin, 1944 (writing as A. Roland)
[Thanks to
Einde O’Callaghan]
24 December, 2005: Added to the Portuguese Serge Archive:
O Que
Todo Revolucionário Deve Saber Sobre a Repressom, 1926
[Thanks to Primeira Linha, Organizaçom Comunista Galega and
Fernando Araújo]
24 December 2005: Added to the new Walter Benjamin Archive:
On the Concept of History,
1940
[Thanks to Dennis Redmond]
24 December 2005: Added to the Theodor Adorno Archive:
Minima Moralia, 1951
Late Capitalism
or Industrial Society?, 1968
Negatice Dialectics, 1966
[Thanks to Dennis Redmond]
24 December, 2005: Added to the Albert Glotzer Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Browder’s Two
Roosevelts, 1938 (written as Albert Gates)
The Myth of Isolation,
1938 (written as Albert Gates)
The War Mobilization
Plan, 1938 (written as Albert Gates, with M.J. Michaels)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
24 December, 2005: Added to the new Joseph Carter Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
American Socialist
Quarterly, 1934 (review)
A Legal Marxist,
1934 (book review)
Apologetics, 1935
(book review)
Twilight of
Capitalism, 1936 (book review)
History of the CI,
1938 (review of C.L.R. James8217; World Revolution 1917-1936)
A Meeting of
Bankrupts, 1938
A New Lenin Book,
1938 (review of a collection of Lenin articles on the NEP period)
The Problem of the
People’s Militia, 1939 (letter)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
24 December 2005: Added to the Jean-Paul Marat Archive:
Illusion of the
Blind Multitude on the Supposed Excellence of the Constitution, 1791
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
23 December, 2005: Added to the Arne Swabeck Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Production, Profits
and Inflation, 1959
Who Is Ahead?s,
1959
In Defense of
Dialectics, 1962
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
23 December, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
White Sahibs,
1938 (book review, writing as S. Stanley)
Notes on
Contemporary India, 1938 (writing as S. Stanley)
Mann in
Uniform, 1938 (book review, writing as S. Stanley)
Will
India Accept Federation?, 1939 (writing as S. Stanley)
The Story
Behind Tea, 1939 (writing as Sherman Stanley)
British
Imperialism in India, 1938 (writing as Sherman Stanley)
India and
the Third Camp, 1940 (writing as Sherman Stanley)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 December, 2005: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
A Insurreição Armada e a
Nossa Tática, 1905 and A Contra-Revolução
Internacional, 1906
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
22 December 2005: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
Speech Given in
the Name of the Prussian Fédérés, August 12, 1792
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 December, 2005: Added to the Arne Swabeck Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
A World in
Crisis, 1958
The
“Recession” Deepens, 1957
What
Price Depression?, 1958
The
Split in the AFL-CIO, 1958
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
19 December, 2005: Added to the Arne Swabeck Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
American
Prosperity Undermines Itself, 1957
The
Soviet Challenge To Capitalist Economy, 1957
Why
Beck Is Not Their Real Target, 1957
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
19 December 2005: Added to the Baron d'Holbach Archive:
The Abbot and the
Rabbi, 1764
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
19 December 2005: Added to the August Bebel Archive (1840-1913):
Woman and Socialism,
1910 edition of work written in 1879
[Thanks to Andy
Blunden]
We have at last now reproduced the 1910 unexpurgated, 510-page US edition, an authorised English translation of this monumental work by Bebel, fully updated by Bebel himself.
This is a remarkable work, in which Bebel traces the social position of woman from tribal times (drawing on Marx and Engels' work, but with a great deal of new material) and then makes a comprehensive survey of the status of women in every aspect of contemporary life - marriage, prostitution, education, the factories, etc., etc., and then outlines a socialist program for the liberation of women.
However, Bebel was clear that the emancipation of women was a pre-condition to a successful social revolution, not simply something to be achieved by means of socialism. While calling upon proletarian men and women to unite in common struggles, he supported cross-class alliances between women around shared issues such as the vote.
This is a remarkable work of scholarship, and its popularity and frequent re-printing, suggests that it was widely influential.
18 December 2005: Added to the Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) Reference Archive:
In Memory of Miss Liu Hezhen
(April 1, 1926)
[Thanks to Mike B. and Andy Pollack]
18 December 2005: Added to the Vinod Mishra Reference Archive:
Central Committee's Message
to the IPF Rally (October 8, 1990)
[Thanks to Mike B. and CPI-ML(L)]
18 December, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 2 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the early Communist Party and it’s early factional history .
Minutes of the Central Executive Committee, WPA: Chicago, IL -- January 3, 1924. Immediately after the conclusion of the Third Convention of the Workers Party of America [Dec. 30, 1923-Jan. 2, 1924], the newly elected Central Executive Committee met in Chicago to reorganize the executive structure of the party. One surprise was the decision of Minority faction leader John Pepper to nominate himself for Moscow representative of the WPA to the Comintern—seemingly a spur of the moment decision which gained only two votes, while Israel Amter was reelected with the votes of nine others, crossing factional lines. Includes decisions on the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party situation (decision to name Clarence Hathaway an organizer among the Minnesota farmers), the Conference for Progressive Political Action (decision to mobilize to elect as many delegates as possible), and the National Council for Protection of the Foreign Born (decision to mobilize language federation units as local councils of a United Front organization).
Minutes of the Central Executive Committee, WPA: Chicago, IL—Feb. 15-16, 1924. Minutes of the second 1924 plenum of the governing Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America. A decision of the Executive Council to purchase a Chicago building to house party headquarters and The Daily Worker is approved unanimously. The CEC splits bitterly over the question of the WPA's actions in the Farmer-Labor Party movement, with the Ruthenberg-Pepper minority seeking specific direction to build a "class" Farmer-Labor Party independent from the Third Party (LaFollette) movement, with a mandatory call for a May 30th convention—with or without the participation of outside forces. A thesis by Foster (not included in the minutes) is instead adopted by the majority, which results in the minority declaring that it will immediately appeal to the Communist International for resolution of the matter. Foster, Cannon, Pepper, and Ruthenberg are decided to be immediately dispatched to Moscow to argue the merits of the case before ECCI; Hathaway and Halonen (Foster faction); Bedacht and Manley (Pepper-Ruthenberg faction) are named to the CEC as substituted during the departure of the four leaders, and Alexander Bittelman is elected Acting Secretary of the WPA in Ruthenberg's absence. James Cannon resigns the largely ceremonial post of Chairman; since the post is listed in the constitution, a motion to eliminate it is ruled out of order and William Z. Foster is elected to the position by a vote of 9 to 3 (Ruthenberg voting with the majority group). Bill Dunne is elected a co-equal co-editor of The Daily Worker to join the current (minority faction) editor, J. Louis Engdahl..
Minutes of
the Central Executive Committee, WPA: Chicago, IL—March 17-18, 1924.
Minutes of the third 1924 plenum of the governing Central Executive Committee of the
Workers Party of America. The report of Executive Secretary Ruthenberg indicates
that progress on the Foreign Born Protection Campaign is proceding well. Party
membership continues to grow, he says, although "at least one-third" of the Party's
members are not paying dues regularly. As a result, the Party's financial situation
"is not the best," he says, having increased its indebtedness by approximately $1500
since Dec. 1, 1923. A report is given on the June 17th Convention of the
Farmer-Labor Party, the date arrived at as a compromise with the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Party (the WPA initially seeking a May 30 date—attempting to
stave off a planned July 4 convention that was to link non-communist Farmer-Labor
forces to the LaFollette bandwagon). Olgin, Pepper, and Foster are dispatched to
Moscow at once to seek the Comintern's decision on the WPA's role in the turbulent
American political environment. After factional dancing between the Foster majority
and the Pepper minority of the CEC, Ludwig Lore is rebuked for "certain erroneous
statements" in the New Yorker Volkszeitung and instructed to write an editorial
correcting them. John Pepper attempts to get the CEC to weigh in in support of the
Anti-Trotsky decisions of the 13th Conference of the Russian Communist Party, but
the Foster majority decides its input is not requested at this time. Ruthenberg is
named representative of the WPA to the 3rd Convention of the Workers Party of
Canada; Lovestone to the forthcoming convention of the Mexican Communist Party.
Moves are made to support the Jewish Federation's desire to appoint the editor of
the Freheit, in all likelihood meaning the replacement of Benjamin Gitlow. Halonen
is named to temporarily replace Foster and Bedact to replace Pepper on the CEC while
the two are in Moscow arguing their cases on the American political situation. A
motion by Ruthenberg to immediately change the Party name to "Communist Workers
Party" is defeated by a vote on straight factional lines, but the CI is asked for
its permission on the same.
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport]
18 December, 2005: Added to the new A.J. Muste Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Workers Party Is
Founded, 1934
Strikes on the 1935
Horizon, 1935
Labor in 1935 –
Panorama & Prognoses, 1935
Some Lessons of the
Toledo Strike, 1935
Trade Unions and the
Revolution, 1935
From Atlantic City
to Atlantic City, 1935
Some Notes on
Workers’ Education, 1935
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
18 December, 2005: Added to the new Livio Maitan Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Rise of
Neo-Fascism in Italy, 1952
Benedetto Croce:
1866-1952 – Bourgeois Philosopher – Educator of Marxists, 1953
Upheaval in Bolivia
– An Eyewitness Report, 1964
Revolt of the Peruvian
Campesino, 1965
Major Problems of the
Latin-American Revolution – A Reply to Regis Debray, 1967
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan & Andrew Blunden]
18 December, 2005: Added to the new Guillermo Lora Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Revolution and Counter
Revolution in Bolivia – The Great Decade of Class Struggles, 1952
Class Struggles in
Bolivia (II), 1952
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan
& Andrew Blunden]
18 December, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
Interview With Bolivian
Miner: Vivid Account of the Battle of Sora-Sora (1965)
Hugo Blanco
Correspondence (1965)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
17 December, 2005: Added to the new Tom Kemp Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Soviet Bid for
World Trade, 1958
Europe and the
Recession, 1958
Socialist Equality by
1965?, 1959
Browder
‘Refutes’ Karl Marx, 1959 (book review)
Tremors Under the Fifth
Republic, 1960
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
17 December, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
The Manifesto of
the 121 (1960)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
16 December, 2005: Added to the growing Toward a History of the Fourth International archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) are the complete set of Resolutions and Reports from the 3rd World Congress of the Fourth Interntional in 1951:
Theses on Orientation and Perspectives—Resolution of
the 3rd World Congress of the 4th International
The International Situation and Tasks in the Struggle against Imperialist
War— Resolution of the 3rd World Congress of the 4th
International
The Class Nature of Eastern Europe—Resolution of the
3rd World Congress of the 4th International
The Yugoslav Revolution— Resolution of the 3rd World
Congress of the 4th International
Latin America: Problems and Tasks—Resolution of the 3rd
World Congress of the 4th International
World Trotskyism Rearms—by Michel Pablo
Evolution of Eastern
Europe—by Pierre Frank
Yugoslavia: Review and Outlook—by Harold
Livingstone
A
Milestone in Internationalism: An Editorial
The 3rd World Congress of the 4th International
[Thanks
to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
16 December, 2005: Added to the new Sam Gordon (J.B. Stuart) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
New Trends in
Nationalist Thought on the European Problems, 1944 (book review) (writing as
J.B. Stuart)
Germany’s
Prison Camps, 1944 (book review) (writing as J.B. Stuart)
A Brief Report on
England, 194r (writing as J.B. Stuart) (report on the founding of the British
RCP)
Cuba’s
Elections, 1944 (writing as J.B. Stuart)
The Renault Strike,
1947 (writing as T.J. Peters)
Civil War in Korea,
1947 (writing as J.B. Stuart)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
16 December 2005: Added to the John Brown Archive:
Last Letter to His
family, November 30 1859
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
14 December, 2005: Added to the Portuguese Mandel Archive:
O Futuro do
Comunismo, 1990
[Thanks to Revista Marxismo Revolucionário Atual and
Fernando Araújo]
14 December, 2005: Opened Guiorgui Plekhanov in the Portuguese-language section, with:
A
Concepçăo Marxista da História, 1901
[Thanks
to Partido da Causa Operária and Fernando Araújo]
14 December 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Archive:
Kronstadt 1921, Response to Trotsky,
1938
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 December, 2005: Added to the new Bert Cochran (E.R. Frank) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The
Great Strike Wave and Its Significance, 1946 (written as E.R.
Frank)
The
Kremlin in Eastern Europe, 1946 (written as E.R. Frank)
The
New Union Bureaucracy, 1949
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
The
Silent Revolution, 1954
Classes
in America, 1955
The
Next Ten Years, 1955
Socialism
and Democracy, 1955
Toward a
New Movement of Democratic Socialism, 1956
Socialism,
Power Elites and Bureaucracy, 1957
Trends
on the Left – A Tour Report, 1957
New
Horizons for European Socialism, 1958
What
is Peronism?, 1958
American
Labor in Midpassage, 1958
New
Thunder out of Communist China, 1959
Exchange
with Michael Harrington on China, 1959
[Thanks to Louis Proyect]
13 December 2005: Added to the PCF Archive:
What
is the State of the Unemployed Movement?, Charles Tillon 1933
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
10 December 2005: Extensive growth of the French language V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has taken place with the following additions:
La Question Des Nationalités Ou De L’«Autonomie» (1922)
Billet À L. B. Kaménev Sur La Lutte Contre Le Chauvinisme De Grande
Puissance (1922)
Au Camarade Münzenberg, Secrétaire Du Secours Ouvrier International (1922)
Lettre À Sidney Hillman (1921)
Aux Camarades Communistes D’azerbaïdjan, De Géorgie,
D’arménie, Du Daghestan Et De La République Des Peuples Du Caucase
Du Nord (1921)
Premičre ébauche Des Thčses Sur Les Questions Nationale Et Coloniale (1920)
A L’association Révolutionnaire Indienne (1920)
Lettre Aux Ouvriers Et Aux Paysans D’ukraine À L’occasion Des
Victoires Remportées Sur Dénikine (1920)
Aux Camarades Communistes Du Turkestan (1919)
Conquis Et Consacré (1919)
Appel Aux Soldats De Tous Les Pays Belligérants (1917)
Lettre À Inessa Armand (1916)
Au Secrétaire De La «Ligue Pour La Propagande Socialiste» (1915)
L’égalité En Droits Des Nations (1914)
Projet De Loi Sur L’égalité Des Nations (1914)
Une Manifestation Pacifiste Des Ouvriers Anglais Et Allemands (1908)
Eugčne Pottier (1913)
Premier Mai (1905)
[Thanks to all the French language volunteers]
10 December, 2005: Added to the Joseph Hansen Internet Archive:
Cuba—the Acid Test: A Reply to the Ultraleft Sectarians, 1962.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
10 December 2005: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism’s growing section on history of the Fourth International has added the following 16 documents from the First [Emergency] Congress of the Fourth International (1940):
Foreword to the Conference
Imperialist War And The Proletarian World Revolution—Drafted by Leon Trotsky right before his murder by a Stalinist agent
Imperialist War And The Proletarian World Revolution
Supplementary Statement Of The IEC
Resolution Of Greetings To Natalia And Leon Trotsky
Resolution Of Solidarity With Class War Prisoners
Resolution On The Unification Of The British Section
Resolution On The Internal Struggle In The Socialist Workers Party
Correspondence With The Workers Party
Resolution On The French Section
On The Situation In Spain And The Tasks Of The Bolshevik-Leninists [Spain]
Organizational Report Of The International Communists Of Germany (IKD)
Political Report Of The Central Committee Of The French Section
On The Movement Of The Fourth International In Latin America
The Canadian Section And The War
The Colonial World And The Second Imperialist War
[Thanks to David Walters and Shannon Sheppard from the Holt Labor Library]
10 December, 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 mirrored from the Marixst History Website.
Resolutions of National Executive Committee, Socialist Party of America: St. Louis, Missouri—January 29-31, 1903. One of the great issues of the early Socialist Party of America was the role of that organization in relation to other working class political organizations sharing the field. No issue burned so hot as the question of “fusioin”—whether the SPA should periodically terminate its participation in local, state, or national campaigns in favor of joint campaign activity with other political organizations in an attempt to win power and thereby enact palliative change.
May Day 1919: A Challenge and a Greeting, by Rose Pastor Stokes [May 1, 1919] Facing an onslaught of prosecutions by the Wilson administration for alleged violations of the so-called Espionage Act, the Socialist Party launched a counterattack on May Day 1919, holding hundreds of May Day meetings across the country to build membership in the party and support for its objectives. This speech by Rose Pastor Stokes was part of the centrally prepared program for these meetings, published in a pamphlet by the SPA’s Department of Organization and Propaganda and dramatically read to meetings by local party members along with shorter statements by other prominent party defendants.
1919 May Day Speech, by Kate Richards O’Hare [May 1, 1919] This speech by Kate Richards O’Hare (not included in the book of O’Hare’s writings published by Philip S. Foner and Sally Miller) attempts to advance the idea that the American working class had the power within itself to end the imprisonment of conscientious and political objectors if only it would “DEMAND” the same. An interesting discussion of the evolution of the main slogans of the American bourgeoisie: from “He kept us out of war” to “War to make the world safe for Democracy” to “Americanism” to the bogey of “Bolshevism.” O’Hare states that ”whether or not blood is spilled” in the achievement of Socialism “depends upon the tyrants of today.”
1919 May Day Speech, by Eugene V. Debs [May 1, 1919] Facing an onslaught of prosecutions by the Wilson administration for alleged violations of the so-called Espionage Act, the Socialist Party launched a counterattack on May Day 1919, holding hundreds of May Day meetings across the country to build membership in the party and support for its objectives. This speech by Eugene Debs was the keynote speech in the centrally prepared program for these meetings. The speech was published in a pamphlet by the SPA’s Department of Organization and Propaganda and was dramatically read to meetings by local party members.
Circular Letter ‘To All Ohio Locals and Branches,’ from Alfred Wagenknecht. [September 1919] This mimeographed letter was sent out to the Secretaries of the various Locals and Branches of the Socialist Party of Ohio by Communist Labor Party Executive Secretary Alfred Wagenknecht in the immediate aftermath of the split of the Socialist Party of America at its convention held at the end of August and during the first week of September. Wagenknecht briefly recounts the history of the Left Wing movement from the time of the June 21-24, 1919, Left Wing National Conference in New York.
Statement of the Illinois Delegates Who Withdrew from the Emergency Convention and
Participated in the Formation of the Communist Labor Party. [September 1919]
This mimeographed letter was sent out to the Secretaries of the various Locals and
Branches of the Socialist Party of Illinois by a group of 12 delegates elected to
the Socialist Party’s August 1919 Emergency National Convention.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marixst History Website
website]
10 December, 2005: Added to the Pierre Frank Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Mr. X Versus de
Gaulle, 1964
The Transitional
Program, 1967
“We Will Emerge
Stronger Than Ever!”, 1968
May 1968 –
First Phase of the French Socialist Revolution, 1968 (book-length analysis of
the May Events in France)
Otto Bauer – A
Representative Theoretician of Austro-Marxism, 1969
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
10 December, 2005: Opened Ernest Mandel in the Portuguese-language section, with:
A Burocracia no
Movimento Operário, 19??
[Thanks to Revista
Marxismo Revolucionário Atual and Fernando Araújo]
9 December, 2005: Added to the Lucien Sanial Archive:
Introduction to Marx’s Value,
Price and Profit, 1901
Preface and Notes to the American
Edition of Karl Marx’s The Paris Commune, 1902
General Bankruptcy or
Socialism, 1913
Prefatory Note to
Frederick Engels’ Historical Materialism, 1902
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
9 December, 2005: Opened José Carlos Mariátegui in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Ponto de
Vista Antiimperialista, 1929
[Thanks to Revista
Marxismo Revolucionário Atual and Fernando Araújo]
9 December, 2005: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
Cidadăos, 1905
and
A Burguesia Prepara a
Armadilha, 1905
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
8 December, 2005: Added to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
Peoples Frontism in Ceylon: From
Wavering to Capitulation, 1964 (analysis of the events leading to the
participation of the LSSP, the Ceylonese section of the Fourth International, in the
popular front government of Mrs. Bandaranaike)
[Thanks to
Einde O’Callaghan]
8 December 2005: Added to the Jules Vallčs Archive:
Paris, Free
City, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 December 2005: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism’s growing sub-archive Toward a History of the Fourth International has added the complete collection of documents from the Founding Congress of the Fourth International (1938), the World Party of Socialist Revolution (the Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution, formally titled: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, written by Leon Trotsky, and adopted at this Founding Congress, was uploaded to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive previously):
Salute to
Our Living Martyrs and Our Heroic Dead
Greetings
to the Fighters in Spain
World
Congress Greetings to Leon Trotsky
Against
Imperialist War
Statutes
of the Fourth International
The War
in the Far East and the Revolutionary Perspectives
Thesis on
the World Role of American Imperialism
Resolution
on the Tasks of the French Section
Statement
of the I.S. on the Molinier Group
Resolution on the Work of the Canadian Section
On
Unification of the British Section
On the
Greek Section
Resolution
on the Situation in Poland
On the
Mexican Question
On
Organizing Defense and Relief for Persecuted Revolutionists
Resolution
on the Youth
[Thanks to David Walters]
6 December, 2005: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
A Todos os
Operários, 1905
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
6 December, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 6 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the early Communist Party.
Mission Statement of Työmies (From the Debut Issue—July 20, 1903) by Victor Kosonen. Translated by Donald G. Wirtanen. Työmies was the leading radical American newspaper in the Finnish language, published variously in Massachusetts, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and Wisconsin. This is the lead editorial from the first issue of the publication, stating the aims of the new periodical. Työmies was promised to be “the voice of the Finnish working people in America” and “the most ardent promoter of the spiritual and physical endeavors of the Finnish working people.”
Member’s Individual Ballot: National Referendum “B” 1917: Anti-War Proclamation and Program Adopted by the National Emergency Convention, St. Louis, Mo., April 7th to 14th, 1917. [May 5, 1917] A strong majority of the Emergency Convention (141 of 200 delegates) voted in favor of a report of the War and Militarism Committee which stated in no uncertain terms that “our entrance into the European war was instigated by the predatory capitalists in the United States.” The war was one for crass profit, this report stated, since democracy could not be imposed nor could militarism be eliminated by force of arms.
Hail to the Soviets! May Day Proclamation by the Central Executive Committee Communist Party of America. [late April 1920] This is the full text of an agitational leaflet distributed by the underground Communist Party of America for May Day 1920—the first such holiday in the history of the organization. Eighteen months had passed since the end of the World War, the leaflet observed, but the purported war of “democracy against autocracy,” which resulted in “the slaughter of millions of workingmen upon the battlefields of Europe” had produced nothing worthy of note for the working class.
District Boundaries and Organizers of the Workers Party of America (as of October 1, 1923), compiled by Tim Davenport. A very useful handlist detailing the geographic boundaries of the 14 districts of the Workers Party of America and listing the name and address of the District Organizers for each, as of October 1, 1923.
Soviet Russia: A Triumph of Marxism, by C.E. Ruthenberg [Nov. 7, 1923] An agitational article for the Workers Party of America’s party press by WPA Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg. Ruthenberg marks the 6th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution by crediting it with the transformation of Marxian abstract theory into Marxian concrete fact.
Our
Party Convention by John Pepper [Jan. 9, 1924] The 3rd National Convention of
the Workers Party of America [Dec. 30, 1923-Jan. 2, 1924] accentuated the factional
division win the WPA which had emerged over the party’s handling of the
formation of a federated Farmer-Labor Party. This article by one of the principals
in the Ruthenberg-Pepper-Lovestone faction explains two seemingly contradictory
actions of the Convention—affirming the policy of the CEC majority (Ruthenberg
group) on the FFLP, while at the same time demoting that group to minority status on
the incoming CEC.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
6 December 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
The Government of National Defense Surrenders, 28 January 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
3 December, 2005: Opened Karl Korsch in the Portuguese-language section, with:
O Fim da
Ortodoxia Marxista, 1937
[Thanks to Núcleo de Pesquisa Marxista and Fernando
Araújo]
3 December, 2005: Added to the new Bert Cochran (E.R. Frank) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Auto Workers –
A Step Forward, 1942 (written as E.R. Frank)
John L. Lewis and
Roosevelt’s Labor Policy, 1943 (written as E.R. Frank)
The Coal Crisis
and its Lessons for American Labor, 1943 (written as E.R. Frank)
Post-War Preview
(written as John Adamson)
Nine Months of Allied
Rule in Italy, 1944 (written as E.R. Frank)
The European
Revolution –Its Prospects and Tasks, 1944 (written as E.R. Frank)
The Imperialist
War and Revolutionary Perspectives, 1944 (written as E.R. Frank)
The Situation in the
Far East, 1945 (written as E.R. Frank)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
3 December, 2005: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
Viva a Fraternidade
Internacional, 1905
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
2 December 2005: Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:
American Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism, 1947
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
2 December 2005: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism’s growing sub-archive Toward a History of the Fourth International has completed adding the final documents and a table of contents for the Second Congress of the Fourth International (1948):
Opening Address Delivered at Second World Congress of Fourth International
Resolution of the Second World Congress on the Committee Abroad of the Internationalist Communists of Germany
Reorganization of the German Section of the Fourth International
Resolution of the Second World Congress on the Partito Operaio Comunista (POC) of Italy
Resolution of the Second World Congress on the Expulsions from the French Section
Greetings to 4a Internazionale and Die Internationale
3 Resolutions of the Second World Congress: South Africa; Latin America; Cyprus
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]