January 2005
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31 January 2005: Added to the History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) pageare 11 new pamphlets produced by writers, members and unions affiliatedto the I.W.W. during the period of 1919 through 1938. Scans of theoriginal pamplet covers and backs are included:
The Most Important Question by Justus Ebert (1919)
With Drops of Blood Big Bill Haywood (1920)
Historical Catechism of American Unionism (1923)
The History of the I. W. W. A Discussion of its Main Features By a Group of Workmen (1923)
Building ConstructionA Handbook of the Industry Issued By Building Construction Workers’ Industrial Union No. 330 Of The I. W. W. (1924)
Education And System: The Basis Of Organization (1924)
Giant Industry and the I. W. W. Against the Concentrated Power Of Modern Big Business Put the Concentrated Power of Workers (1925)
25 Years of the Industrial Unionismby: Covington Hall, James P. Thompson, Roger N. Baldwin, Ralph Chaplin,C. E. Payne, Tom Connors, F. W. Thompson, Ed Delaney, Clifford B.Ellis, Joseph Wagner, John A. Gahan (1930)
The I. W. W. In Theory And Practice (1938)
Coal-Mine Workers and Their Industry (undated)
Delegates’ Work and Organization Bookkeeping (undated)
[Thanks to David Walters and Jim Crutchfield for allowing us to use the pamplets from his wonderful on-line collection]
31 January 2005: Added to the Romanian LeninArchive:
Sarcinile uniunilortineretului
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
31 January 2005:Added to the Auguste Blanqui Archive:
The Army Enslaved and Oppressed, 1880
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
January, 2005: The French Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive has added to the following archives:
A. Gramsci
Le congrès de Tours (01.04.1921)
Notre ligne syndicale (18.10.1923)
Lettre au C.C. du P.C.U.S. (14.10.1926)
P. Monatte
La classe ouvrière reprend confiance en elle (25.6.1936)
V. Serge
La pensée anarchiste
Plékhanov
Les bourgeois d’autrefois (23.4.1893)
W. Morris
La vie ou la mort de l’art (15.03.1884)
Où en sommes-nous ? (15.11.1890)
Lénine
Les syndicats, la situation actuelle et les erreurs de Trotsky (30.12.1920)
Les tâches de la social-démocratie révolutionnaire dans la guerre européenne (14.8.1914)
L. Trotsky
Léon Sédov (20.02.1938)
Céline et Poincaré (10.05.1933)
Interview sur la "Littérature Prolétarienne" (07.1932)
La mission de la FIARI (22.12.1938)
Il faut publier Malraux (09.11.1933)
Au sujet du contrôle ouvrier de la production (20.8.1931)
K. Marx
Abd El Kader - Bugeaud - Algérie (articles pour The New American Cyclopaedia, 1858)
[Thanks to the volunteers of the French TOTAL group]
30 January 2005: Added to the Portuguese Trotsky Archive:
A Revolução Traída - Capitulo 5
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
30 January 2005: The Early American Marxism and Depression Era American Marxism websites have added several new documents, among which are:
(1) Report of the Finnish Translator-Secretary to the Socialist Party National Convention,May 1912, by J.W. Sarlund. Report by the Translator-Secretary of theFinnish Socialist Organization in the United States to the 1912Indianapolis convention of the Socialist Party of America. Sarlundprovides details on the history of the Finnish socialist movement, itssize, demographics, finances, publications, and educational efforts.Sarlund includes specific recommendations fo the 1912 convention withregards to language federations, notably a nationally-binding rulemaking federation branches answerable to the national and state partyorganizations only, rather than state and local party groups.
Report of the South Slavic Section to Socialist Party National Convention, May 1912, by Frank Petrich. The South Slavic Socialist Federation affiliated with the Socialist Party of America in January of 1911. This is the report of the Translator-Secretary of the Yugoslav Federation Frank Petrich to the 1912 Indianapolis Convention of the Socialist Party of America. Details about membership demographics, size, and the financial status of the SP’s South Slavic (Yugoslav) Federation up to March 31, 1912, are provided.
The Bolshevists: Grave-Diggers of Capitalism,by C.E. Ruthenberg. Ruthenberg, Secretary of Local Cuyahoga Country[Cleveland], first published this article in the Jan. 29, 1919, issueof The Ohio Socialist, the official organ of the Socialist Party ofOhio. Ruthenberg poses the question whether the Russian Bolsheviksactually represented “something new”—“anarchy, ...rioting andbloodshed, wholesale murder and destruction.... the collapse of orderlysociety...” (as depicted in the pages of the capitalist press)—orwhether it represented instead the consistent application of theestablished principles of Marxian Socialism. After outlining the basictenets of Marxism, Ruthenberg argues in favor of the latterproposition, of course, stating that Bolsehevism is “Marxian Socialismin action. It is the workers on the road to victory and a betterworld.” Ruthenberg later served as the first Executive Secretary of theCommunist Party of America.
The Left Wing Manifesto, by David P. Berenberg [May 1919]. Berenberg, an instructor at the Rand School of Social Science, was one of the leaders of the anti-Left Wing movement in the Socialist Party of New York. In 1919 he started a weekly newspaper in response to John Reed’s “New York Communist” called the “New York Socialist.” (Reed later returned the favor by issuing a parody issue of the “New York Socialist” and sneaking a stack into the Rand School bookstore for distribution!) It was in the pages of the NY Socialist that this lengthy analytical critique of the “Manifesto and Program of the Left Wing Section” was published in serial form. Berenberg’s critique was doubtlessly influential among party regulars in the hothouse that was Socialist Party politics in New York city during the spring and summer of 1919.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
30 January 2005: Added to the Portuguese Lenine Archive:
Em Memória da Comuna
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
30 January 2005: Added to the Portuguese Lenine Archive:
Sobre as Greves [Galego]
[Thanks to Primeira Linha em Rede]
Sobre as Greves
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
30 January 2005: Added to the Portuguese Paul Lafargue Archive:
Socialismo e Patriotismo
Oração Capitalista
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
30 January 2005: Added to the Portuguese Georgy Lukacs Archive:
Velha e Nova Cultura
[Thanks to Biblioteca Virtual Revolucionária]
30 January, 2005:Added to the Paul Foot Internet Archive:
Introduction to Tony Cliff, A World to Win, 2000
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
30 January, 2005:Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
Lenin 2: All Power to the Soviets, 1976 (chapters 1, 7 & 16)
[Thanks to Marc Newman &: Red Flag Archive]
29 January 2005: Added to the History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) page is the Founding Convention, Seventh Day Afternoon Sessionfeaturing discussion on whether “America” should be in theorganization’s name, and how the new organization should structureitself to match industrial structures.
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
29 January 2005:Added to the new Jacques Hébert Archive:
Fuck the Pope, 1790
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
28 January 2005:Added to the Messali Hadj Archive:
Ben Bella on Messali Hadj, 1963
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
27 January 2005:Added to the Toussaint Louverture Archive:
The Expulsion of Commissioner Roume, 1800
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
26 January, 2005:Added to the Paul Foot Internet Archive:
Portrait of an Appalling Man, 1974 (book review)
Shirley, Shirley, quite contrary, how will your garden grow?, 1981
Battle for the NUM, 1988
Poor on pioneers, 1988 (letter, with Margaret Renn)
Dividing Ireland, 1988
Can Labour win?, 1989
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 January 2005: Added to the Mao Reference Archive:
The following documents from Selected Works of MaoTse-tung: Volume 8:
Speech at the Hankow Conference (April6, 1958)
Speech at the Supreme State Conference (September 8, 1958)
Talks with the Directors of Various Cooperative Areas (November, December 1958)
Speech at the Sixth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee (December 19, 1958)
Replyto Article "Tsinghua University Physics Teaching and Research GroupInclines Toward the ’Left’ Rather Than Right in Handling Teachers" (December 22, 1958)
[Thanks to Basu]
26 January 2005: Added to the Josef Stalin Reference Archive:
Letter to V.I. Lenin, 1918
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
25 January 2005: Added to the History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) page are the Founding Convention, Sixth Day Afternoon Session featuring further discussion of the I.W.W. approach to politics and the Seventh Day Morming Sessionfeaturing discussion of participation in militias and labor parties,“indictment of old-style trades unionism, ” and relations with unionsabroad.
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
25 January, 2005: Added to the Dutch Peter Kropotkin Reference Archive:
Wat moeten we doen met wetsovertreders? (What to Do with Criminals?)
Memoires van een revolutionair. Samenvatting (Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Summary)
Een ontmoeting tussen V.I. Lenin en P. A. Kropotkin (Meeting between V.I. Lenin and P. A. Kropotkin)
[Thanks to Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
24 January, 2005:Added to the Peter Sedgwick Internet Archive:
Introduction to Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary, 1963/1978
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
24 January, 2005: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive:
31 Articles from The New-York Daily Tribune, making up:
The First Indian War of Independence, 1857-58,
and a further three articles from the same period:
The Political Situation in Europe, Marx 5 September 1857
The British Government and the Slave Trade, Marx 2 July 1858
The Increase of Lunacy in Great Britain, Marx 20 August 1858
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
23 January, 2005:Added to the Paul Foot Internet Archive:
Harold Wilson and the Labour Left, 1968
‘An Agitator of the Worst Type’: A portrait of miners’ leader A.J. Cook, 1986 (pamphlet)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
23 January, 2005:Added to the Michael Kidron Internet Archive:
The economic background of the recent strikes, 1958
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
23 January, 2005: Added to the Dutch Marx/Engels Internet Archive:
Productieve en onproductieve arbeid (Productive and Unproductive Labour)
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee]
23 January, 2005:Added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive:
The League of Nations, 1924
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
22 January 2005: Added to the Mao Reference Archive:
The following documents from Selected Works of MaoTse-tung: Volume 8:
Instructions (June-September 1958)
On Huan Hsiang’s Comment on the Disintegration of the Western World (November 25, 1958)
A Letter to Chou Shih-chou (November25, 1958)
Speech at the First Chingchow Conference (November 1958)
On the Question of Whether Imperialism and all Reactionaries are Real Tigers (December 1, 1958)
[Thanks to Basu]
22 January, 2005:Added to the David Widgery Internet Archive:
The Streets are Our Palettes: A Tribute to Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1972
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 January, 2005:Added to the Duncan Hallas Internet Archive:
Guides to Action, 1972 (written as Fred Hall)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 January, 2005:Added to the Paul Foot Internet Archive:
The Old Firm
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 January, 2005: Opening of a Dutch Peter Kropotkin Reference Archive:
Revolutionaire regering (Revolutionary Government)
De onafhankelijke moraal (Independent Morals)
Brief aan Brandes (Letter to Brandes)
Wat moet er gedaan worden? (What Must Be Done?)
Brief aan de arbeiders van West-Europa (Letter to the Workers of Western Europe)
Brief aan Lenin (Letter to Lenin)
[Thanks to Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
22 January, 2005:Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
From Marxist circle to Agitation, 1972
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
21 January 2005: Added to the Mao Reference Archive:
The following documents from Selected Works of MaoTse-tung: Volume 9:
Appendix: South of the Mountains to North of the Seas — Interview with Edgar Snow
The following documents from Selected Works of MaoTse-tung: Volume 8:
Talks at the Nanning Conference (January11, 12, 1958)
To the Kwangsi Regional Party Committee on Newspapers (January 12, 1958)
Speech at the Supreme State Conference [excerpts](28 January 1958)
Red and Expert (January 31, 1958)
Sixty Points on Working Methods - A Draft Resolution from the Office of the Centre of the CPC (February 2, 1958)
Talks at the Chengtu Conference (March1958)
National Minorities (March 1958)
Introducing a Co-Operative (April 15,1958)
Speeches at the Second Session of the Eighth Party Congress (May 8-23, 1958)
Speech at the Conference of Heads of Delegations to the Second Session of the 8th Party Congress (May 18 1958)
Speech at the Group Leaders Forum of the Enlarged Meeting of the Military Affairs Committee [excerpts] (28 June1958)
Communes Are Better (August 9, 1958)
Interview with a Hsinhua News Agency Correspondent (September 29, 1958)
The Masses Can Do Anything (September29, 1958)
[Thanks to Basu]
22 January 2005:Added to the Marx-Engels Archive,
Articles written by Marx and Engels for the New-York Tribune in 1861:
German Movements, Engels Jan 23
The American Question in England, Marx Oct 11
The British Cotton Trade, Marx Oct 14
The London Times and Lord Palmerston, Marx Oct 21
The London Times on the Orleans Princes in America, Marx Nov 7
The intervention in Mexico, Marx Nov 23
The News and Its Effect in London, Marx Dec 19
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
22 January 2005:Added to the FLQArchive:
Strategic Retreat and Rearguard bases, 1966
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 January, 2005:Added to the new Paul Foot InternetArchive:
Saints and devils, 1992
Why Labour lost, 1992
Poetry of protest, 1992
Press: Private parts, 1992
Birth of our power, 1992
Stop press, 1993
Vision of a new world, 1993
Seize the time, 1993
Christmas Crackers, 1993
Silencing the Nazi threat, 1994
Ship without a keel, 1994
Ten things everyone should know about the Labour Party, 1994
Parliamentary privilege, 1994
Arms dealing: Will they get off Scott free?, 1995
Pipe dreams, 1995
The government that devoured itself<, 1995
State of terror, 1995
Treated for health or for wealth?, 1995
Judges’ ruling, 1995
Waste disposal, 1995
Armed and dangerous, 1996
A Passionate Prophet of Liberation, 1996
In the colonial style, 1996
New Statesman, Decline and Fall, 1996
Corruption: Members declare an unhealthy interest, 1996
Ireland: Majority rule<, 1997
Socialism and democracy, 1997
It’s been a long time coming, 1997
Jonathan Aitken: Weaving a tangled web, 1997
The triple whammy, 1997
Labour: Millionaires’ welfare, 1998
The Lessing legend, 1998
Beyond the Powell, 1998
‘A groundswell of anger and dismay’, 1998
No time to make up, 1998
House of cards, 1999
London, 27 February 1900, 1999
Democracy and socialism: Century of the great hope, 2000
Tribune of the People, 2000
Big Business and Government: Tony Blair’s well oiled machine, 2000
Labour’s Crisis: Ghost of a chance, 2000
Ireland: Come all you young rebels, 2001
Passports and Politics: A beautiful symmetry, 2001
Haunted by the Future, 2001
Election: Is this what democracy looks like?, 2001
Stop the war: The Truth Machine, 2001
Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Poet of the Granite City, 2001
Workers’ movement: The party’s just begun, 2002
Corruption: Dirty Business, 2002
Doing the Deed of Death, 2002
Election: Is this what democracy looks like?, 2001
The Budget: Not very taxing on the bosses, 2002
Red Barbara’s Rocky Road, 2002
Slaughterhouse Six, 2002
Stocking Thriller, 2002
Born Unfree and Unequal, 2003
Corruption: Who Said Crime Doesn’t Pay?, 2003
Orwell Centenary: The Cold War Controversy, 2003
Democracy: A grand delusion, 2003
Left Alternative: Beyond the Crossroads, 2003
Karl Marx: The Best Hated Man, 2004
Mordechai Vanunu: Israel’s Whistle Test, 2004
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
21 January 2005:Added to the Messali Hadj Archive:
To the Newspaper Franc-Tireur, 1956
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 January, 2005: Added to the Dutch Trotsky Internet Archive:
Lessen van Oktober (Lessons of October)
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
20 January, 2005:Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
Africa, 1888
Limits to Majority Rule, 1923
War and the League, 1923
The Helpless League, 1923
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
20 January 2005: Added to the History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) page is the Founding Convention, Sixth Day Morning Session,featuring discussion on the Preamble to the Constitution (“The workingclass and the employing class have nothing in common..”), includingfirst discussions on the IWW approach to politics, and an answer to thequestion: why do Wobblies say “an injury to one is an injury to all”and not “the concern of all”?
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
20 January, 2005:Added to the new Paul Foot InternetArchive:
Off the Christmas tree, 1986
Powell’s poison platform, 1986
Without a paddle, 1987
Confessions and repressions, 1987
Tribunes and the people, 1990
All fall down, 1990
Press Censorship: The media massage, 1991
Birmingham Six: Injustice seen to be done, 1991
Man’s unconquerable mind, 1991
Will Labour make a difference?, 1991
They all knew he was a crook, 1992
The Devlin Report, 1966
Wilson: the man who murdered reformism, 1968
Law and Order, 1970
If only Harold had got the date right, 1970
Army reign of terror, 1971 (with Jimmy Grealy, Chris Harman & Brian Trench)
How the TUC killed workers’ paper, 1973
Clay Cross double-crossed, 1974
Shelley: The trumpet of a prophecy, 1975
Why you should be a socialist, 1977 (book)
How much longer must these people be hounded and humiliated?, 1977 (with Lionel Starling)
The Rotherham lads are here!, 1980
The Labour Left’s Brightest Star, 1980
Three letters to a Bennite, 1982 (pamphlet)
No sects please, 1986
101 years of not thinking, 1986 (obituary)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
20 January, 2005: Added to the Dutch Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive:
De socialisatie van de maatschappij (The Socialisation of Society)
[Thanks to Vonk]
20 January 2005:Added to the Jean-Paul MaratArchive:
Freedom is Lost, 1791
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
19 January 2005: Added to the Josef Stalin Reference Archive:
Letter to V.I. Lenin, 1918
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
18 January 2005: Added to the History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) page are the Founding Convention, Fourth Day Session featuring introduction of resolutions and the Fifth Day Session featuring discussion of May Day as the workers’ holiday, and of how to welcome and educate unions leaving the AFL for the IWW.
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
19 January 2005: The following document has been added to the Tim Buck Reference Archive:
Europe’s Rebirth: An Eyewitness Account, 1947
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Mike B.]
19 January 2005:Added to the Toussaint Louverture Archive:
A dictatorial Proclamation, 1801
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 January 2005:Added to the Marx-Engels Archive,
Articles written by Engels in English in 1886-89
Appendix to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England
On the Strike at a Glass-Works in Lyons
Letter to the Editors of The Labour Elector
The Ruhr Miners’ Strike of 1889
Possibilist Credentials
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
17 January 2005:Added to the Marx-Engels Archive,
Some Letters written by Marx and Engels in the English and US Press in 1878-81
The Workingmen of Europe in 1877, Engels, 3 March 1878
To the Editor of The Daily News , Marx & Engels, 13 June 1878
Sir. George Howell’s History of the IWMA, Marx, 4 August 1878
To the Editor of The Daily News , Marx & Engels, 1 April 1881
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
16 January, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive has added the following eight documents:
Report of the Finnish Federation to the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America,May 1913,” by J.W. Sarlund. Report by the Translator-Secretary of theFinnish Socialist Organization in the United States to the 1913 plenumof the National Committee of the Socialist Party. The FinnishFederation was at this time the Socialist Party’s largest (roughly 10%of the entire party), and Sarlund details the Finnish Federationsfinances and activities for the year 1912 and the first quarter of1913. Sarlund remarks that the Finnish Federation’s three-prongedregional daily press “is and has been the secret of our success.”
Report of the German Language Federation to the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, May 1913,by A. Dreifuss. The German Federation of the Socialist Party wasorganized late in December of 1912. This was the first report ofTranslator-Secretary Adolph Dreifuss to the 1913 plenum of the SPA’sgoverning National Committee. Details of its first National Conventionand the size and structure of the German Federation are provided here.Difficulty with Local San Francisco over the new federation structurein the party is noted, with loss of dues revenue under the new systemidentified as probable cause for the difficulty.
Report of the Hungarian Socialist Federation to the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, May 1913by Armin Loewy. The Hungarian Socialist Federation was formed when theUnited Hungarian Federation voted to affiliate with the SPA in 1912.This first report of the Translator- Secretary of the HungarianFederation to the 1913 plenum of the SPA’s National Committee detailsthe organization’s activities in the first 8 months of affiliation.Included is an interesting table detailing size, number ofiniitiations, number of meetings held; as well as amounts spent on duesstamps, the Hungarian socialist press, and literature by each of thenearly 40 constituent branches of the Hungarian Federation.
Report of the Jewish Translator-Secretary to the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, May 1913,by J.B. Salutsky. The Jewish Federation of the Socialist Partyestablished itself in the summer of 1912 and sent its Secretary, JacobSalutsky, to serve as Translator-Secretary in the SPA’s National Officeon December 20 of that year. Over the next nine months the group nearlytripled in size, to a paid membership of nearly 2,000 in 68 branches.This is Salutsky’s report to the 1913 plenum of the SPA NationalCommittee, detailing the history and growth of the Jewish Federation.Salutsky went on to edit the newspaper of the Jewish Federation, “NayeWelt” [New World] from 1914-1920, was active in the Committee for theThird International (1920), the Workers Council Group (1921) [pseudonym“J.B.S. Hardman"], and was briefly a member of the Workers Party ofAmerica before being expelled in July of 1923.
Report of the South Slavic Socialist Federation to the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, May 1913,by Alex Susnar. The South Slavic Socialist Federation affiliated withthe Socialist Party of America in January of 1911. This is the reportof a new Translator-Secretary of the Yugoslav Federation to the 1913plenum of the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America.Some details about organizational size over time are provided.
Organizational Preamble of the Communist Propaganda League of Chicago. (Adopted Dec. 6, 1918.)Organizational manifesto calling for a fundamental change in the formand course of the Socialist Party, demanding that “the personnel of ourparty officialdom and our candidates for public office...must bebrought into harmony with the revolutionary character of our movement.”The preamble was signed by a prominent group of members of theSocialist Party of America including the Translator-Secretaries of theRussian, Lithuanian, Latvian, German, and Scandinavian Federations.Secretary of the group was attorney I.E. Ferguson.
Speech to the Third Congress of the Labor and Socialist International, Aug. 6, 1928,by Morris Hillquit. Text of an address by the International Secretaryof the Socialist Party of the United States to the InternationalSocialist Congress held in Brussels from Aug. 5 to 11, 1928. Hillquitidentifies three trends in the development of the world economy in thepost- World War world: centralization, internationalization, andAmericanization. He cautions about the negative effects of industrialrationalization and the trend towards American financial hegemony,warns of a trend towards exploitation of cheap “Asiatic labor and laborin backward countries,” and calls for international efforts to developa labor movement “as powerful and more powerful than moderncapitalism.”
The Class Struggle,edited by Albert Weisbord and Vera Buch: Run of Issues, 1931-1934. 33issues of the monthly theoretical journal of The Communist League ofStruggle, a small organization headed by Albert Weisbord and his wifeVera Buch. Weisbord, best known as the Communist Party’s most importantcadre in the Passaic textile strike of 1926, was the former head of theSocialist Party’s Youth Organization (1922-24), a 1924 graduate ofHarvard Law School, and instructor at the Rand School of SocialScience. He left the Communist Party in 1930, probably throughexpulsion, and split with James Cannon’s Communist League of Americathe following year, ostensibly over that group’s decision toconcentrate on propagandizing to members of the Communist Party ratherthan dedicating itself to strikes and other mass actions. If Cannon’sgroup was tiny in this period (100-200 members), Weisbord’s splinterwas microscopic (less than 100); nevertheless, the organization putinto the world an impressive array of theoretical material, written byWeisbord and Buch and other CLS activists, as well as translations ofmaterial by Leon Trotsky—to whom the CLS claimed fundamental allegianceuntil a 1934 break. Issues of “The Class Struggle” from 1935-1937 willbe added shortly. All material has been mirrored (with minor stylisticchanges) from the website of the Albert and Vera Weisbord Foundation(http://www.weisbord.org) with their kind permission.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
16 January 2005: Added to the History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) page is the Founding Convention, Third Day, Afternoon Session featuring speeches by Eugene Debs, Daniel De Leon, Charles Moyer, Big Bill Haywood and Lucy Parsons
16 Jan 2005: Added to the Portuguese-language Rosa Luxemburgo: :
Reforma ou Revolução
A Socialização da Sociedade
O Socialismo e as Igrejas
Liberdade de Crítca
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
16 Jan 2005: Added to the Portuguese-language Karl Marx: :
O Capital - Volume 1 - Capitulo 1
[Thanks to Alexandre Linares]
Algumas Questões Sobre a Guerrilha no Brasil
Chamamento do Povo Brasileiro
Mini-manual do Guerrilheiro Urbano
[Thanks to Pablo de Freitas Lopes]
16 Jan 2005: Added to the Portuguese-language Karl Marx: :
O 18 de Brumário de Napoleão Bonaparte
[Thanks to "O Vermelho" e "Edições <<Avante!>>"]
16 January, 2005: Added to the German-language Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Die Akkumulation des Kapitals, 1913 (The Accumulation of Capital)
[Thanks to Unser Kampf – Our Struggle]
16 January, 2005: Added to the Peter Sedgwick Internet Archive:
Discussion on factions, 1970
Death of a Community, 1973 (book review)
Letter from Afar, date unknown
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
16 January, 2005: Added to the Dutch Marx/Engels Internet Archive:
Productiviteit van het kapitaal. Productieve en onproductieve arbeid (Theories of Productive and Unproductive Labour)
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee]
15 January 2005: Added to the Marxists Internet Archive’s History of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) page are the following pamplets issued by the IWW:
Industrial Unionism: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM by Joseph J. Ettor(1913)
Cut Down The Hours Of Work! (1919)
The I. W. W.: What It Is and What It Is Not (1920)
An Economic Interpretation of the Job (1922)
Technocracy or Industrial Unionism (1933)
[Specialthanks to Jim Crutchfield member in good standing of the I.W.W. forallowing us to copy the pamphlets from his web site: Jim Crutchfield’s I.W.W. Page]
15 January 2005: Added to the Swedish Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive is an extract of Our Political Tasks (1904)by Leon Trotsky
Våra politiska uppgifter (utdrag), 1904
[Thanks to Patrik Olofsson]
15 January, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
Socialism, Materialism, and the War, 1914 (with H.M. Hyndman)
The Modern State, Internationalism, and War, 1918
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
15 January, 2005: Added to the Peter Sedgwick Internet Archive:
The appalling silence and inactivity of the British Left as Biafrans face death and starvation ..., 1969
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
15 January 2005: Added to the Charu Mazumdar Reference Archive:
Hate, Stamp and Smash Centricism
[Thanks to Basu Acharya and Mike B.]
15 January 2005: Added to the Vinod Mishra Reference Archive:
Remembering Mao
[Thanks to CPI-ML and Mike B.]
15 January 2005: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive,
A series of Letters written by Marx and Engels to the English Press in 1872-3
To the Editor of The Times, Marx August 1872
To the Editor of The Daily News, Marx September 1872
To the Editor of The Times, Marx January 1873
And articles in Marx and Engels in The Eastern Post: 1871-1873
On Alexander Baillie Cochrane’s Letter, Engels 11 November 1871
On Giuseppe Garibaldi’s Statement, Engels 11 November 1871
Bebel’s Speeches in the Reichstag, Engels 18 November 1871
The Position of the Danish Members of the International on the Agrarian Question, Engels 9 December 1871
To the Editor of The Eastern Post, Marx 23 December 1871
To the Editor of The Eastern Post, Marx 20 January 1872
To the Editor of The Eastern Post, Marx 28 January 1872
Declaration of the General Council, Marx & Engels, 24 February 1872
On the Police Persecution of Theodore Cuno, Engels 27 April 1872
On the Universal Federalist Council, Marx 26 May 1872
Announcement of the Congress at The Hague, Engels 29 June 1872
And articles in Marx and Engels in The International Herald: 1871-1872
To the Editor of The International Herald, Marx & Engels), 21 December 1872
Reply to the British Federal Council (Marx), 25 January 1873
News on the Activities of the International on the Continent (Engels), 1873
I, 11 January 1873
II, 1 February 1873
III, 8 February 1873
IV, 15 February 1873
News on the International Labour Movement (Engels),
I, 22 March 1873
II, 29 March 1873
III, 12 April 1873
IV, 26 April 1873
V, 3 May 1873
VI, 24 May 1873
Communication from the Continent, Engels 24 May 1873
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
14 January 2005: The Farsi Language Section of the Marixsts Internet Archive has added the following works:
Where is the empire going by Hobsbawm
A manifesto for history by Hobsbawm
State-nation, nationalism, globalisation and internationalism Lowy
Marxists and the national question Lowy
On Lenin’s death Stalin
The tasks of the revolutionary youth Lenin
Hava-ye Tazeh (Fresh Air) is a book of poems by Shamlou-the greatest modern poet of Iran Shamlou
[Thanks to our Iranian and other Farsi speaking comrades]
14 January 2005: The Marxists Internet Archive has started building a a major collection of original works by the Industrial Workers of the World.In celebration of this militant industrial union’s 100th Anniversarythis year, we’ve started two simultaneous projects. One is totranscribe the Founding Convention of the I.W.W.,a massive work with contributions and speeches by Eugene V. Debs,Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Big Bill Haywood, Daniel De Leon andhundreds of other rank-and-file delegates. We have completed the firstfew sessions of the Convention, which are available at the link above.Additionally, we have received permission from I.W.W. member andarchivist Jim Crutchfield to copy dozens of early Wobbly pamphlets hehas transcribed on his wonderful archive of old I.W.W. pamphlets. As part of this project, we are also copying some selected pamphlets from the main site of the I.W.W. All these works are linked on the MIA’s main IWW History page under "Historic Pamphlets by the Wobblies of the Past". Currently the following 3 pamphlets are available:
Industrial Unionism: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM by Joseph J. Ettor(1913)
Cut Down The Hours Of Work! (1919)
An Economic Interpretation of the Job (1922)
[Thanks to Jim Crutchfield, Andy Pollack, Brian Baggins, Tim Davenport and the Industrial Workers of the World]
14 January 2005: Added to the Jean-Paul Marat Archive:
The Hébertists Back Marat, April 1792
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 January 2005: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive:
Notes on the War, a series of 60 articles written by Engels for The Pall-Mall Gazette, following the course of the Franco-Prussian War, July 1870 to February 1871
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
12 January 2005: Added to the Josef Stalin Reference Archive:
Telegram to V.I. Lenin, 1918
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
12 January 2005: Introducing the Vinod Mishra Reference Archive, which is launched with the addition of this document:
India of My Dreams
[Thanks to CPI-ML and Mike B.]
12 January 2005: The Early American Marxism and Depression Era American Marxism websites have added several new documents, among which are:
Bibliography of the Publications of Charles H. Kerr & Co.,Chicago (1885-1940s). Charles H. Kerr & Co. was the first Marxistpublisher in the United States and the main publisher of socialistworks during the period of the Debsian Socialist Party of America. Thepublishing house began in 1885 as a publisher of liberal Unitarianworks, moved through a populist phase in the mid- to late-1890s, beforeswitching over to Marxism in 1899. In the 1920s, control of Kerr &Co. passed over to the Proletarian Party of America, which continuedits operations for the duration of the PPA. Kerr still publishes booksin Chicago today as the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., with a vaguelyIWW-esque political orientation.
This listing was compiledover the past two years and features format of eachpublication-leaflet, pamphlet, paperback, or hardcover-and the firstdate of publication by Kerr, if known.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
12 January 2005: Added to the Jacques Roux Archive:
On the Majesty of the French People, 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
11 January 2005: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive,
A series of Letters written by Marx and Engels to the English Press in 1871
Concerning the Arrest of the Members of the Central Committee of the Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (Marx)
On the Freedom of the Press and Meetings in Germany (Marx)
General Council to the Editor of The Times et. al. (Marx)
To the Editor of The Times (Marx)
To the Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette (Marx)
General Council On Jules Favres Circular (Marx & Engels)
General Council on George Jacob Holyoake’s Letter (Engels)
To the Editor of The Daily News (Marx)
General Council on the Letters of Holyoake and Lucraft (Engels)
Letter to the Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette (Marx)
To the Editor of The Morning Advertiser (Marx)
To the Editor of The Standard (Marx)
To the Editor of Public Opinion (Marx)
Letter to the Editor of The Sun, Charles Dana (Marx)
The Commune and Archbishop Darboy (Marx)
To the Editor of The Evening Standard (Marx)
To the Editors of Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (Marx)
[Thanks to Tony Brown]
11 January 2005: Added to the Jean-Paul Sartre Archive:
Fellow Traveller of the PCF, 1972
This is a new translation of great interest by Mitch Abidor, of aninterview with P. Victor, where Sartre describes his relationship withthe Communist Party.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
10 January 2005: Added to the Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa Subject Archive:
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, 1973
This is the seminal African work on Neo-Colonialism.
[Thanks to Joaquin Arriola]
10 January 2005: Added to the Second International Archive:
100 articles written by William Morris between 1885 and 1890 for Commonweal, English-language paper of the International
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
10 January 2005: Added to the Toussaint Louverture Archive:
Proclamation on Saint Domingue, 1799
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
10 January 2005: Added to the PCI Archive:
Government Responsible (for assassination attempt on Togliatti, 1948
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 January, 2005: The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre, better known as the Moscow Trials of 1936, has been reformatted and carried over from the Artbin site.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
9 January, 2005: Added to the Dutch Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Revolutionaire kunst en socialistische kunst (Revolutionary And Socialist Art)
Inleiding tot Literatuur en revolutie (Introduction to "Literature and Revolution")
Wat is de permanente revolutie? Basisstellingen (What is the Permanent Revolution? Theses)
De Spaanse revolutie en de gevaren die haar bedreigen (The Spanish Revolution and the Dangers Threatening It)
De les van Spanje. Laatste waarschuwing (The Lesson of Spain. Last Warning)
[Thanks to Marxisme.net]
8 January, 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added one of Trotsky’s polemics against the Spanish Anarchists:
The Fifth Wheel
[Thanks to Christian Liebl]
8 January, 2005: Added to the Catala Language Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Resultats i perspectives (Results and prospects, 1906)
Lliçons d’octubre (Lessons of October, 1924)
Noranta anys del manifest comunista (90 years of the Communist Manifesto, 1937)
Manifest de la Quarta Internacional sobre la guerra imperialista i la revolució proletària (Manifesto of the Fourth International On Imperialist War
[Thanks to Alejo Martínez]
8 January, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
The Word "Religion", 1879
Modern Socialism, 1879
The Ideal of the Future (Part 1), 1881
The Ideal of the Future (Part 2), 1881
Leaders of Modern Thought: XXIII. Karl Marx, 1881
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
8 January, 2005: Added to the Jim Higgins Internet Archive:
1956 and All That, 1993
[Thanks to What Next?]
8 January, 2005: Opening of a Dutch Clara Zetkin archive
The first work is an excerpt of Herinneringen aan Lenin (Reminiscences of Lenin).
[Thanks to Marxisme.net]
7 January, 2005: Announcing the opening of the Dutch language George Novack Internet Archive. The first work are two chapters from his Understanding History, i.e. Marxisme en vervreemding (Marxism and Alienation).
[Thanks to Marxisme.net]
7 January 2005: Added to the Marx and Engels on Ireland:
Engels To Marx. September 27, 1869
Engels To Marx. November 17, 1869
Marx To Engels. December 17, 1869
Engels To Marx. January 19, 1870
Engels To Marx. January 25, 1870
Engels To Marx. February 17, 1870
Marx To Engels. February 19, 1870
Marx To Engels. March 5, 1870
Marx To Paul and Laura Lafargue. March 5, 1870
Engels To Marx. March 7, 1870
Marx To Engels. March 19, 1870
Engels To Marx. April 15,1870
Engels To Marx. May 15, 1870
Karl Marx To Jenny Marx (His daughter). May 31, 1870
Marx To Friedrich Adolf Sorge. November 29, 1871
Engels To Sigismund Borkheim. Beginning of March 1872
Engels To Sigismund Borkheim. Beginning of March 1872
William Thorne and Eleanor Marx-Aveling To Samuel Gompers. January 25, 1891
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
7 January 2005: Added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive
Two 1932 articles from The Militant on the slogan " Rank-and-File Leadership"
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
7 January 2005: Added to Marx and Engels on the Irish Question:
History of Ireland, 1870
Preparatory Notes by Engels, including a Chronology of Irish History
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
7 January 2005: Added to the Marat Archive:
Prospectus for Journal de la république française, 1792
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
5 January, 2004: Added to the Dutch Lenin Internet Archive:
De socialistische revolutie en het recht der naties op zelfbeschikking. Stellingen. (The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination. Theses.).
Rede over het nationale vraagstuk (Speech on the National Question).
[Thanks to Marxisme.net]
5 January, 2004: Opening of a Dutch Frank Glass (Li Fu-jen) Internet Archive
The first work is Leon Trotski: Revolutionaire leermeester van de koloniale volkeren (Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary Teacher Of the Colonial Peoples).
[Thanks to Marxisme.net]
5 January, 2004: Added to the Dutch Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
De strategie der overgangseisen (The Strategy of Transitional Demands).
[Thanks to Frédéric Lehembre]
5 January, 2004: Added to the Dutch Marx/Engels Internet Archive:
Parijse manuscripten (Paris Manuscripts).
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee and Maarten Vanheuverswyn]
5 January 2005: Added to the James P. Cannon Internet Archive are the following 1940 articles from The Socialist Appeal on the Socialist Workers Party’s military policy:
Military Policy of the Proletariat(transcript of a speech to an SWP plenum)
and three articles explaining the policy:
First Results of our Military Policy
Militarism and Workers’ Rights
Lenin, Trotsky and the First World War
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
5 Januari 2005: Added to the Swedish Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive is an original translation of an Antonio Gramsci article.
Caporetto och Vittorio Veneto, 1921
[Thanks to David Larsson]
4 January 2005: Added to new Jacques Roux Archive:
Enrages Manifesto, 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
3 January 2005: Added to the France History Archive: Algerian War:
Letter from Francis Jeanson to Jean-Paul Sartre, 1960
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
3 January, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive has added the following documents:
Socialism and the Municipalities,by Henry L. Slobodin. [Oct. 1913]. A short defense of the strategy ofSocialists engagement in civic electoral politics en route to thesocial revolution. Not only would an educated, well-housed, andwell-fed working class do more to advance the Socialist cause than anignorant and impoverished working class, Slobodin argued, socialrevolutions historically always had been urban events-and victory wouldbelong to those who controlled the city governments, with the number ofSocialists in Congress a comparatively unimportant detail. Slobodin wasthe Executive Secretary of the SLP Right (the so-called "Kangaroos")during the 1899 party split before moving into the Socialist Party.First published in The New Review, October 1913.
May Day Message,by C.E. Ruthenberg, A. Wagenknecht, and Charles Baker. [1918] A shortcommunique dated April 7, 1918, written by three imprisoned leaders ofLocal Cuyahoga County, Socialist Party to Cleveland party members. Thetrio call for their comrades to stand firm for the principles ofInternational Socialism, as exemplified by Karl Liebknecht and hiscompanions in Germany and "Trotsky and the Bolsheviki" in Russia. Firstpublished in the 1918 Edition of the Year Book of the ClevelandSocialist Party.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
2 January 2005: Added to the Minneapolis Teamster Strike page:
American City,by Charles R. Walker, 1934, a book about the Teamster strikes,featuring detailed descriptions of strike strategy and battles, andinterviews with participants. [Note: We’ve started with the chapters onthe strikes to whet your appetite. But soon we’ll have the rest,including some fascinating historical background. For instance, did youknow the man who did more than anyone to make Minneapolis an open-shoptown, railroad baron James Hill, was also the first target of Debs’American Railway Union?]
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
2 January, 2005: Elucidating Luxemburg’s position on the rights of self-determination being contrary to the task of abolishing nations:
The National Question
The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement;
The Polish Question at the International Congress in London
[Thanksto Monthly Review for putting this work in the Public Domain, andthanks to Ted Crawford and Brian Baggins for transcription and markup.]
1 January 2005: Added to the Literary Criticism Subject Archive:
Speeches of Zhdanov and Stetsky, Resolutions and Introduction to the Soviet Writers Congress, 1934
[Thanks to Jose Braz]
1 January, 2005: The Communist Party: A Manual on Organisation.This little red booklet was published in 1935 and became anindespensible tool for party members around the USA on how to conductevery aspect of their affairs: from organising Shop, Town, and StreetUnits to disciplinary measures such as, when finding a spy, "Let thechildren boycott his children or child; organize the children not totalk to his children, etc". We also see such remarks as "We do notquestion the political correctness of the decisions, resolutions, etc.,of the Executive Committee... We do not question thecounter-revolutionary nature of Trotskyism." This book does howeverrepresent a meat and potatoes approach to party organising, and is verythoroughgoing in the aspects it covers. Thus, I hope it can serve as atemplate for both things to do and not to do in organisation.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]