August 2005
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31 July, 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:
The Convention of Revolutionists by I.E. Ferguson. [June 12, 1920] The definitive first-hand account of the 1920 Bridgman Unity Convention between the Communist Labor Party and the Ruthenberg faction of the Communist Party of America.
The First CEC Meeting of the United Communist Party [published June 12, 1920].
‘At Last’ the Centrists Unite! (‘A Convention of Revolutionists!’) by Charles Dirba. [July 1, 1920]
The Socialist Party and Moscow: Statement Issued by the NEC in Reply to
An Inquiry by the Executive Committee of the Finnish Socialist Federation. [Nov. 1920]
Another One Caught: Joseph Krieg of St. Louis a Spy [Nov. 15, 1920]
List of Delegates to the First Convention of the Social Democratic Party of America, Indianapolis, March 6-9, 1900.
List of Socialist Party State Secretaries, as of July 1903.
List of Socialist Party State Secretaries, as of Oct. 1907.
List of Socialist Party State Secretaries, as of May 1908.
List of Socialist Party State Secretaries, as of April 1914.
List of Delegates to the 1917 St. Louis Convention of the Socialist Party of America..
List of Socialist Party State Secretaries, as of May 1925.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
31 July 2005: Added to the French Language Marxists Internet Archive for this month are:
Hommage à P.Broué and his work:
Les trotskystes en Union Soviétique (1929-1938)
L. Trotsky: Sklianski est mort (28.08.1925)
G. Lukacsy :
Ouverture de l’archive
T. Cliff :
Traits communs et différences entre un Etat ouvrier et un capitalisme d’Etat (1955)
Les racines économiques du réformisme (1958)
La révolution permanente déviée (1963)
[Thanks to the Marxists Internet Archive French language Volunteers]
31 July, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
The Decay of Pagan Thought, 1890
Courage: The Logic, Phenomenology, and History of a Concept, 1890
Liberalism versus Socialism, 1890
The Economical Basis of History, 1891
A Socialist’s Notes on Practical Ethics, 1891
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
30 July, 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:
State Secretary Reports [July 1903] In July of 1903, the weekly Appeal to Reason published a special issue which included individual reports by 23 of the State Secretaries of the Socialist Party of America. Many of these recounted the history of the socialist movement in their state up to that juncture, details difficult to uncover from any other source. The result is an extremely important primary source document, an excellent starting place for in depth research of specific state histories.
The New Review: A Socialist Weekly, (A Prospectus) [Sept. 1911] One of the most important American Socialist periodicals of the decade of the 1910s was a small theoretical journal published in New York City called The New Review. First published in 1913, the magazine brought together various stands of international socialist thought, including revolutionary industrial unionism and the general strike and anti-militarism.
The Left Wing and the Truth by Adolph Germer [July 2, 1919]. The National Executive Secretary makes a spirited defense of the decision of the party’s governing National Executive Committee to expel the state organization of Michigan for violation of the constitution of the Socialist Party.
‘At Last.’ [Unsigned article from the official organ of the United Communist Party, June 12, 1920]. The article declares that “the United Communist Party makes no pretense of legality. It has not attempted to express the fundamental Communist principles in a way to make them pass the censorship of its bitter enemy....The program of the party declares that the final struggle between the workers and the capitalists, between exploited and exploiter, will take the form of civil war, and that it is the function of the United Communist Party systematically to familiarize the working class with the necessity of armed insurrection as the only means through which the capitalist system can be overthrown.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
29 July, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Leninism in the United States and the Decline of the Socialist Workers Party, by Paul Le Blanc (introduction to 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]
27 July 2005: Added to New Charles Rappoport Archive:
Karl Marx, 1903
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
27 July 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Circular of the International Workingmen’s Association, 1870
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
26 July 2005: Added to the Anarchism Subject Archive:
Anarchy and its Heroes, Cesare Lombroso 1897
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
26 July 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 dealing mostly with the issue of Socialist Party reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution:
Message from the Amsterdam Sub-Bureau of the Comintern to the American Communist Movement, March 20, 1920 A sympathetic message to the Communists of America sent by the Executive Committee of the short-lived Amsterdam Sub-Bureau of the Communist International and published in the party press.
National Executive Committee Meets [May 1, 1920] This news article from the official organ of the underground Communist Labor Party is interesting not for what it reveals, but for the fact that it reveals basically nothing -- and example of the oblique vacuousness that dominated the press of the underground communist movement. Purporting to relay to the membership the actions of "another three days’ session" of the party’s governing NEC, the report fails to give any information whatsoever that might allow rank-and-file party members to assess the actions of its governing body.
Challenge of the Mandates of the CPA Delegation to the 2nd Congress of the Communist International, August 5, 1920 The CPA dispatched two representatives to Moscow to serve as its delegates at the 2nd Congress (Louis C. Fraina and Alexander Stoklitsky) prior to the Bridgman Unity Convention of May 1920. The majority of the members of the old CPA refused to join the United Communist Party of America at this time, resulting in the continued existence of two communist organizations in America.
For the United Front of the Proletariat: The Call for the First Enlarged Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, January 1, 1922 The 3rd Congress of the Communist International (Summer 1921) barely mentioned the tactic of the “United Front.”
[CORRECTION] List of Delegates to the May 1912 Indianapolis Convention of the Socialist Party
Brief Organizational History of the Socialist Propaganda League of America (1915-1919). Includes linked pages of SPLA officials, publications, and downloadable documents.
Organizational History of the Communist International (1919-1935) Admittedly still in early stages of preparation, this is already a page worth bookmarking on your web browser: World Congresses and Enlarged Plenums of the Executive Committee of the Communist International (the latter of which functionally supplanted World Congresses during the 1922-35 period) integrated into a single chronological list. This page will increase in value as the written history expands -- but the integrated list of dates alone fills a very large hole in the literature.
List of Delegates to the Founding Convention of the Communist International (March 1919) Alphabetical list by countries of the 34 delegates with decisive voice and 18 delegates with consultative voice. The Socialist Labor Party of America was represented by Boris Reinstein, who was allocated 5 votes; The Socialist Propaganda League of America was represented by S.J. Rutgers, who attended as a consultative delegate with voice but no vote.
List of Delegates to the Second Convention of the Communist International (July-Aug. 1920) Alphabetical list by countries of the more than 220 delegates to the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, held July 19 through Aug. 7, 1920, in Moscow and Petrograd. The gathering was attended by six voting American representatives: Alexander Bilan, Edward I. Lindgren, Eadmon MacAlpine, and John Reed of the United Communist Party, as well as Louis C. Fraina and Alexander Stoklitsky of the old Communist Party of America. Interesting for the massive size of the Russian delegation.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
25 July, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive, International Socialist Review Archive and James P. Cannon Archive:
Frederick Douglass: Great Abolitionist Leader, (September 1946)
American Radicalism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, by James P. Cannon (Winter 1960)
Deutscher’s Biography of Leon Trotsky, by Joseph Hansen (Winter 1960)
Race — Social or Biological? by David Dreiser (Winter 1960)
Century of Women’s Struggle, by Frances James (Winter 1960)
Where Nationalization Went Wrong, by John Marshall (Winter 1960)
“To Shake Up White America”, by Evelyn Sell (Winter 1960)
The Problem of Negro Leadership, by Jean Blake (Winter 1960)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and Andrew Pollack]
23 July 2005:
The present economic system, Willem Bonger 1916
Anti-Patriotism, Gustav Hervé 1905
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
20 July 2005: Added to the John Brown Archive:
Letter to Thomas Russell, 1859
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
20 July, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
The Curse of Law, 1889
The Natural History of the Non-Conformist Conscience, 1894 (devastating critique of Evangelical Christianity in England)
“Voluntaryism” versus “Socialism”, 1895 (critique of rather obscure bourgeois anarchist theory
Legal Encouragements to Blackmail, 1897
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
19 July, 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 dealing with the issue of Socialist Party reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution as well as reports on varoius SP conventions:
Letter to Leo Laukki in Moscow from Alfred S. Edwards in Boston [circa Nov. 1921]. A letter from a Latvian-American radical who helped found the Socialist Propaganda League to a compatriot in Moscow, detailing the transgressions of the majority group of the Central Executive Committee.
Delegates to the 1908 Convention of the Socialist Party of America held May 10-17, 1908, at Chicago, Illinois. Among the largest conventions of the Socialist Party, this gathering was attended by 216 delegates representing 46 states and territories.
Delegates to the 1910 “Congress” of the Socialist Party of America held May 15-21, 1910, at Chicago, Illinois.
Delegates to the 1912 Convention of the Socialist Party of America Convention was held May 12-18, 1912, at Indianapolis, Indiana. This convention, the largest ever held by the SPA, was attended by 287 voting delegates and 8 non-voting delegates, representing 47 states plus the District of Columbia and 7 of the party’s foreign language groups.
List of Local Secretaries of the Friends of Soviet Russia, as of Nov. 15, 1921. An alphabetical list by state and city of some 88 Local Secretaries spread across 22 states, 3 Canadian provinces, and the District of Columbia.
Direct Action and Sabotage by Moses Oppenheimer. [Jan. 25, 1913] There has been a tendency in the literature to dismiss the Socialist Party’s “Anti-Sabotage” faction fight of 1912-13 as a historical event having little relationship to the Communist/Socialist split of 1919. In reality, both of these episodes were chapters in the same long-running saga, heated political events linked to an ideological division within the SPA dating back to the 1901 establishment of the party and before.
Manifesto of the Socialist Propaganda League of America [January 1918] In the aftermath of the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Revolution, the Socialist Propaganda League of America issued a new organizational manifesto attempting to make general application of some of the forms and principles of the Bolsheviks.
The Fundamentals of Bolshevism by N.I. Hourwich [Dec. 7, 1918] A brief exposition of the fundamental premises of Russian Bolshevism. Hourwich characterized the Bolsheviks as “first of all a party of revolutionary action, a party of dynamic Socialism.”
National Council and NEC: An Open Letter to A. Wagenknecht in Cleveland from Louis C. Fraina in Boston, Aug. 13, 1919 An open letter published in the pages of The Revolutionary Age by its editor, Louis C. Fraina, addressed to the (insurgent) Temporary National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party, Alfred Wagenknecht.
Letter to Fred Walchli in Bellaire, Ohio, from L.E. Katterfeld in Cleveland, Ohio, October 12, 1919 Reply by CLP Organization Director Ludwig Katterfeld to an Oct. 6 letter from Walchli condemning the alleged statement of Tom Clifford that “We want to make the Communist Labor Party 100% American.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
19 July, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
The Modern Revolution I, 1883
The Modern Revolution II, 1883
Bourgeois Economy and School Boards, 1884
International Socialism, 1884
Socialist Ethics and Abstinence, 1896 (letter)
The Proposed Debate, 1896
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
19 July, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1946-1956):
Tom Paine – Revolutionist, by Jean Simon (1952)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
19 July, 2005: Jean-Paul Marat Archive:
A Contemporary Account of Marat’s Assassination, 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 July, 2005: We have begun a project of scanning Soviet Life Magazine, which explores the Soviet Union from a cultural and societal perspective. The first issue scanned is from August, 1983: Tashkent Celebrates its 2000th Aniversary.
On the other side of life, we have recently posted the 1946 book:
The
Population of the Soviet Union: History and
Prospects. This book is also just a
raw PDF scan, which is rare for us to do, but in
both cases this was done because conversion of
these kinds of materials into html would be
extremely time consuming, and the greater benefit
is served by getting more of these kinds of
materials up, rather than getting far fewer up in
"correct" format. If you would like to volunteer
to put either of these in html format, please let
us know! :)
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
18 July, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
The Conflict in the OSP (1934)
What Schacht Is Heading Towards, by BRN (1934)
The Bankruptcy of the Belgian Labor Bank (1934)
The Defeat of the Spanish October, by L. Fersen (1934)
The Socialists’ Errors in Spain, by Juan Arenillos (1934)
Marxism: Science or Method?, by Rubin Gotesky (1934)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
18 July, 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:
Letter to C.W. Fitzgerald in Beverly, Massachusetts from N. Lenin [V.I. Ul’ianov] in Berne, Switzerland. [Written between Nov. 13 and Nov. 22, 1915.] Text of a letter from Lenin to the head of the fledgling “Socialist Propaganda League” approving of a recent letter which had been sent and outlining the position faced by the revolutionary socialist movement in the current international political environment.
Manifesto of the Socialist Propaganda League of America. [Nov. 26, 1916] The "Left Wing" of the Socialist Party of America was a long-existing ideological trend, dating back to the 1901 origin of the SPA and before.
Constitution of the Socialist Propaganda League of America [January 1917] Organizational law of the Socialist Propaganda League of America, the Boston-based forerunner of the “Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party.”
The Cleveland May Day Demonstration by C.E. Ruthenberg [May 10, 1919]. A disturbing tale of the crude and premeditated exercise of force and violence by a coordinated circle of conspirators against a law-abiding citizenry. On May 1, 1919, the Socialist Party of Ohio sponsored a massive May Day parade, in which a goodly number of unions and thousands of individuals participated. Despite disruptions by right wing provocateurs, including one wildly brandishing a handgun, the carefully-planned assembly was completely peaceable. This calm was shattered by the premeditated action of the Cleveland police department and their conservative vigilante allies, who violently attacked the marchers, crushing them with horses and motor vehicles and beating them with clubs. In the melee which followed, two marchers were murdered by the police and scores arrested (police brutality following), and the headquarters of the Socilaist Party of Ohio was vandalized under the winking eyes of the Cleveland constabulary.
One Lie Nailed, by Ludwig E. Katterfeld [July 26, 1919] Left Wing Section partisan Ludwig Katterfeld goes on the offensive in response to a charge by NEC member James Oneal that the outgoing National Executive Committee was not repudiated by the referendum of 1919
Examples of a Communist Labor Party monthly dues stamp and special
founding member’s organizational stamp [Circa Sept. 1919] ***pdf graphics file*** Specimens of a monthly dues stamp and the special charter members’ revenue stamp of the CLP.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
17 July, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
Still a Man’s World, by Hedda Grant (Spring 1962) (Review of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex)
Fidelismo and Marxism, by Luis Vitale (Winter 1963)
Phases of the Cuban Revolution, by Luis Vitale (Spring 1963)
OLAS General Declaration (November 1967)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
17 July, 2005: Added to the mirror of the Socialist History Project of Canada are the following documents:
Our selection of documents on Quebec now includes four key statements from the LSA/LSO and RWL/LOR in the critical period 1968-1978:
Vive le Quebec Libre (1968)
For an Independent Socialist Quebec (1970)
The Revolutionary Dynamic of the National Struggle in Quebec (1975)
For an Independent and Socialist Quebec (1978)
Also: articles on other left organizations’ refusal to support Quebec independence: a Response to Criticism from the Communist Party of Quebec, and a Critique of En Lutte/In Struggle
Richard Fidler’s Red Power in Canada (1970) was one of the first analyses by a Canadian Marxist of the then-new movement of aboriginal people for self-determination and self-government. We’ve posted the full text, together with a new introduction by the author.
[Thanks to the the Socialist History Project ]
16 July, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added two fascinating documents by foudning US Socialist Eugune V. Debs:
Debs on Syndicalism: A Letter to H.M. Hyndman in London from Eugene V. Debs in Terre Haute, Indiana, January 30, 1913. This letter to British Socialist H.M. Hyndman was widely published in the American Socialist press as a means of propagating Debs’ views on the bitter conflict over "syndicalism" which divided the Socialist Party. Debs wrote: "Syndicalism has swooped down upon us, and the capitalist papers and magazines are giving it unlimited space, but the Socialist Party is in no danger on account of it.
Debs on IWW: A Letter to William English Walling from Eugene V. Debs in Terre Haute, Indiana, March 5, 1913. This letter to William English Walling was widely reprinted in the
Socialist Party press as a means of making known SPA leader Eugene V.
Debs’ view of the party’s anti-”sabotage“ provision and the recent recall
of Bill Haywood from the SPA’s National Executive Committee. “I regret to
see Haywood’s recall, but it was inevitable. He brought it on himself. I
should not have put section 6 in the constitution, but it is there, and
put there by the party, and Haywood deliberately violated it. Is not this
a fact?” Debs declared. He added that “The IWW for which Haywood stands
and speaks is an anarchist organization in all except in name, and this is
the cause of all the trouble. Anarchism and Socialism have never mixed and
never will. The IWW has treated the Socialist Party most indecently, to
put it very mildly. When it gets into trouble it frantically appeals to
the Socialist Party for aid, which has always been freely rendered, and
after it’s all over, the IWW kicks the Socialist Party in the face. That
is the case put in plain words, and the Socialist Party has had enough of
that sort of business, and I don’t blame them a bit.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
12 July, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), 10 articles by Frank Lovell published in the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism, publication of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency:
Ten Giant Steps in the History of American Trotskyism
The Socialist Purpose: To Educate the Working Class
The Cataclysm: World War II and the History of American Trotskyism
Along the Road to the First Hundred, October 1992 [a history of the Bulletin through its 100th issue]
Toward an Understanding of Working-Class Radicalization
A Program for U.S. Labor: Debate and Lessons from the Hormel Strike
The Decline of American Unionism; A review of An Injury to All: The Decline of American Unionism, by Kim Moody
Labor Notes Conference, 1993
AFL-CIO Convention, 1995
AFL-CIO Convention, 1997
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
15 July 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
The Barricades Commission
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 July, 2005: Added to the Karl Radek Internet Archive:
Dictatorship and Terrorism, 1920 (part of the same series of critiques of Kautsky’s attacks on the Russian Revolution as Lenin’s The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky and Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido & Ted Crawford]
14 July, 2005: Added to the Karl Radek Internet Archive:
Larisa Reisner, 1927
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
14 July, 2005: Added to the James Connolly Internet Archive:
The Corporation and the Children, 1900
An Object Lesson, 1900
Socialist Electioneering, 1901
[Thanks to Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh & Red Banner]
13 July 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
The Other Side of the
Picture, 1896
French and German
Classes for the SDF, 1896
The Gotha Congress,
1896
Socialist
Municipalities and Communes in France, 1897
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
13 July, 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:
Statement of Principles of the Social Democratic Party: Adopted at Chicago, June 11, 1898. A first platform issued by the fledgling socialist political organization which was to merge with the insurgent so-called “Kangaroo” faction of the Socialist Labor Party to form the Socialist Party of America in 1901.
The Negro and the Class Struggle by Eugene V. Debs [Nov. 1903] A fearless and principled defense of black Americans delivered by the past and future Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America.
Aid for Russia. [An appeal published in The International Socialist Review, Feb. 1905] As revolution against the oppressive Tsarist regime swept the vast Russian empire, a group of 15 leading luminaries of the Socialist Party of America consituted themselves as a fundraising committee, placing this appeal in the socialist press. This appeal was signed by Victor Berger, John Chase, Eugene Debs, Ben Hanford, Max Hayes, MorrisHillquit, S. Interman, Alexander Jonas, Jack London, William Mailly, Algie Simons, Henry Slobodin, and Julius Wayland.
What is the Matter with the Socialist Party? by Charles H. Kerr [Nov. 1909] The Communist movement did not magically materialize from thin air in 1919; it was an ideological trend which had deep roots in American radicalism, older than the Socialist Party of America from whence it emerged. This editorial by Charles H. Kerr in "The
International Socialist Review gives voice to the proto-communist
revolutionary socialist wing inside the Socialist Party
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
13 July 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Suggestions for
Propaganda Work, 1897
Karl Marx’s
Capital, 1897
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
13 July 2005: Added to the Jean Longuet Archive:
A Protest
Against Misrepresentation, 1897
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 July,
2005: Opening of a Dutch Herman Gorter Internet
archive
The first work is Klassenmoraal (Class Morals) .
12 July,
2005: Opening of a Dutch Georgi Plekhanov
archive
The first works are:
De rol van de persoonlijkheid in de
geschiedenis (The Role of the Individual in History)
De materialistische opvatting van de geschiedenis (The Materialist Conception of History)
Fundamentele vraagstukken van het marxisme (Fundamental Questions of Marxism)
Kunst en maatschappelijk leven (Art and Society)
12 July, 2005: Added to the Dutch Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
De marxistische opvatting over de staat (The Marxist Conception of the State)
Het socialisme dat wij willen (The Socialism We Want)
Socialisme en vrijheid (Socialism and Freedom)
Kritiek op het eurocommunisme (Critique of Euro-communism)
De bureaucratie (The Bureaucracy)
12 July,
2005: Opening of a Dutch Rein van der Horst
The first work is De vakbeweging en de strijd voor het socialisme (The Trade Union Movement and the Struggle for Socialism).
12 July, 2005: Added to the Dutch Marx/Engels Internet Archive:
Loonarbeid en kapitaal (Wage-Labour and Capital)
12 July,
2005: Opening of a Dutch Wilhelm Reich Internet
archive
The first work is Wat is klassenbewustzijn? (What is Class Consciousness?).
[Thanks to the Dutch MIA team]
12 July 2005: Added to the Louise Bryant Archive:
Art for American Children, 1919
[Thanks to Thomas Stern]
12 July 2005: Added to the new Étienne Cabet Archive:
The Situation in Iowa, 1853
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
12 July, 2005:
Added to the Bolivia Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Bolivia Before and After the July Rebellion, Juan Vandervelde, Fourth International, March 1947, Volume VIII, No. 3.
Revolution and Counter Revolution in Bolivia: The Great Decade of Class Struggles, Guillermo Lora, Fourth International, in two parts, May-June and July-August, 1952, Volume XIII, Nos. 3 and 4.
Upheaval in Bolivia: An Eyewitness Report, Livio Maitan, International Socialist Review, Winter 1965, Volume 26, No. 1.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
12 July, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The “End of American Trotskyism?”— Some Comments in Response to Alan Wald, Frank Lovell, Bulletin in Defense of Marxism, publication of the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, May-June 1995.
Reflections on the Fourth Internationalist Tendency, Paul Le Blanc, 2000.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
12 July 2005: Added to the Babeuf Archive:
Letter
to “l’Observateur”, 1789
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
11 June 2005: Added to the Ho Chi Minh Reference Archive:
Address On The
Occasion Of The Inauguration Of The Congress To Merge The Viet Minh And Lien
Viet (1951)
Letter To
The Compatriots In The Thai-Meo Autonomous Region (1955)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl]
10 July 2005: Added to the Arabic language section of the MIA:
V.I. Lenin Internet Archive:
Eugene
Pottier
Imperialism:
The Highest Stage of Capitalism
The
State: A Lecture Delivered at the Sverdlov University
LeftWing
Communism: an Infantile Disorder
Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
The
Lessons of October
Centrism and the Fourth International
Democratic
Centralism
[Thanks to the Arabic language volunteers of the MIA]
10 July 2005: Added to the Blanqui Archive:
Democratic
Propaganda, 1833
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 July 2005: Added to the Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci:
Study Philosophy
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
8 July, 2005:
Added to the Fourth
Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), the remaining documents from 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. New documents uploaded, completing the book:
Castroism: Revolutionary or Centrist?, by George Breitman
Letter on "Loyalty and Party Membership", by George Breitman
"If Ever You Surrender Your Right to Criticize, You’re Dead!", by Tom Kerry
Why the Political Resolution Should Be Amended on the FI and Castroism, by George Breitman
Some Comments in Support of George Breitman’s Amendments, by Steve Bloom
Minority Report on the NC Draft Political Resolution, by Steve Bloom
Statements Concluding the 1981 Convention:
Weinstein/Henderson Minority Caucus Statement
Breitman Minority Caucus Statement
Barnes Majority Caucus Statement
Proposals for Political Discussion, Letter from Frank Lovell and Steve Bloom to the PC and the NC
For a Discussion of Leninism, Letter to the NC from Frank Lovell
Report on November 1981 Plenum, by Nat Weinstein
The Workers’ and Farmers’ Government and the Socialist Revolution, by Steve Bloom
Problems of the Middle Eastern Revolution
The Revolution in Central America and the Caribbean
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
8 July 2005: Added to the Pannekoek Archive:
The Position and Significance of J. Dietzgen’s Philosophical Works, 1902
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
8 July 2005: Added to the Jean-Paul Marat Archive:
To
Louis-Philippe-Joseph d’Orleans, French Prince, 1792
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
7 July 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive Archive are the following four articles on Black history and democracy:
The Aims of American Imperialism, 1941
The Movement for American Independence, 1950
Jefferson, Lincoln and Dewey, 1959
Some Thoughts On The Emancipation Proclamation, 1963
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
7 July, 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
To
France’s Great Cities, May 15 1871
7 July, 2005:Added to the Quebec History Archive:
Greetings, Jérémie,
Pierre Falardeau
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
7 July, 2005: Added to the mirror of the Socialist History Project of Canada are the following documents:
Gay Liberation in Canada: A Socialist Perspective. In 1971 the LSA/LSO was the first organization on the Canadian left to declare support for the gay liberation movement, and members of the League were active in the movement throughout the 1970s. In 1977 the LSA/LSO published this anthology of documents and reports from the League’s extensive discussions on “the political significance of the gay liberation movement, and what approach revolutionary socialists should take to it.”
Obituary tributes to Vic Bystrom and Elizabeth Hnatyshyn.
[Thanks to the the Socialist History Project ]
7 July 2005: New Henri Richefort Archive: including
For
a citizens’ army, February 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 July, 2005: Added to the M.J.Olgin Archive is his 1939 essay:
Jewish Reconstruction on the Order of the Day
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 July, 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:
Immediate Demands, by Louis Waldman [June 14, 1919]. Prominant New York Socialist Louis Waldman (later one of the “5 Expelled Socialist Assemblymen of 1920”) takes on the Left Wing’s call for the elimination of immediate demands from the platform of the Socialist Party. Waldman notes that only nine months previously, at the NY Socialist Party State Convention, such Left Wingers as Bertram Wolfe, John Reed, and Eadmonn MacAlpine had voted in favor of immediate demands as part of that state’s platform; now, despite no changes on the domestic or international front to merit such a shift, immediate demands were bitterly oppsed.
The Willful Group of Seven, by David P. Berenberg [June 18, 1919]. Unsigned front page commentary from the New York Socialist, presumably penned
by editor David P. Berenberg. Here Berenberg responds to an article in The
Communist by L.E. Katterfeld and Alfred Wagenknecht concerning the hearing of
the seven federations prior to their suspension by the National Executive
Committee.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
6 July, 2005: Added to the Macedonian Otto Bauer Archive:
Chapters 6-15 of his 1920 book, Болшевизам
или
социјалдемократија?(Bolshevism or Social Democracy?)
[Thanks to Zdravko Saveski and Juan Fajardo]
6 July 2005: Added to New Friedrich Adolph Sorge Archive:
Socialism and the
Worker, 1876
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
5 July, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1946-1956):
The Power and Its Nemesis, by the Editors (1949)
Organizer of Counter-Revolution, by George Clarke (1949)
Program of the Opposition, by William F. Warde (George Novack) (1949)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
5 July,
2005:
Added to the Fourth
Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the
Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism
On-Line (ETOL), more documents from 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. New documents uploaded:
The American Political Situation and Our Perspectives
New Norms vs. Old: The Erosion of Proletarian Democracy in the SWP, Draft resolution by Steve Bloom, Frank Lovell, Nat Weinstein, and Lynn Henderson
Resolving the International Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership Today, Draft resolution submitted by Steve Bloom, Frank Lovell, Lynn Henderson, and Nat Weinstein to the August 1983 plenum
Draft Resolution on Perspectives for the 1984 Election, Submitted by the Opposition Bloc in the National Committee to the August 1983 plenum
The Suspension of the Four Opposition NC Members, Statement of NC members Steve Bloom and Frank Lovell
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
July, 2005: The French Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive has added to the following archives:
Bordiga:
Sur le cadavre de la démocratie (1923)
Lénine:
L’opportunisme et la faillite de la II° Internationale (Janv. 1916)
L. Trotsky:
Ecrits de novembre 1929
Que se passe-t-il en Chine ? (10.11.1929)
La crise autrichienne et le communisme (13.11.1929)
B. Rizzi:
Le collectivisme bureaucratique (1939)
P. Monatte:
Alphonse Merrheim (1925)
P. Lafargue:
L’idéalisme et le matérialisme dans la conception de l’histoire (1895)
Campanella, Etude critique sur sa vie et sur la Cité du Soleil (1895)
Le socialisme et la science sociale (12.1896)
[Thanks to the volunteers of the French TOTAL group]
5 July, 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:
The National Executive Committee Acts, by David P. Berenberg [June 4, 1919]. Unsigned editorial in the New York Socialist, presumably penned by editor David P. Berenberg, reporting the decision of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party to revoke the charter of the organization of the Socialist Party of Michigan, thus effectively expelling the state from the party.
The Enemy Within, by Abraham Tuvim [June 11, 1919]. The bitterness of the faction fight between the Left Wing section and the Socialist Party regulars in New York state is made clear in this article from the New York Socialist by adherent of the SP Right Abraham Tuvim.
Why the Foreign Language Federations Were Suspended, by David P. Berenberg [June 11, 1919]. While accompanied by brief editorial comment in support of the decision, the bulk of this article presents the full text of the landmark resolution of the Socialist Party’s National Executive Committee to suspend seven of the organization’s Language Federations for a list of specific alleged violations of the party’s constitution.
Foreign Federations, by David P. Berenberg [June 11, 1919]. Unsigned editorial in the New York Socialist, presumably penned by editor
David P. Berenberg, attempting to justify the action of the Socialist Party’s
National Executive Committee decision to summarily suspend the entire
memberships of seven language federations from the party ultimately due to the
endorsement of the Left Wing Manifesto by leading officials or sections of each.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
5 July, 2005: Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), more documents from 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. New documents uploaded:
Lenin and the Theory of "Democratic Dictatorship", by Les Evans
Plus:
Democratic Centralism and Building a Revolutionary Combat Party
Party Norms and Appeals, by Frank Lovell
The Attempt to Establish a Partywide Tendency: Call for the Fourth Internationalist Tendency
Letter from Jack Barnes
Resolution to Open Pre-World Congress Discussion
Proposal to Secure Party Democracy, Letter from Frank Lovell and Steve Bloom
Two Letters from Frank Lovell for a Party Convention
Call for Formation of Partywide Fourth Internationalist Caucus
Platform to Overcome the Party Crisis
28 Theses on the American Socialist Revolution and Building the Revolutionary Party
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
5 July 2005: Added to the Second International Archive:
The Coming
Terror, John Round 1881
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
3 July 2005: Added to the Josef Stalin Reference Archive:
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (1951)
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
3 July, 2005: Added to the Greek Civil War Subject Archive:
Civil War in Greece (1945)
[Thanks to Mike B. and Anthony Megremis]
1 July, 2005:
The Soviet History archive has added the book Soviet Russia: A living history, by William Henry Chamberlin. This book is one of the least biased and most balanced accounts of the Soviet Union one can find, the author traveled throughout the country interviewing Soviet citizens on various questions. This book also stands on the precipice of an epoch changing event: Collectivization. Thus, one can get an exact idea of Soviet society before this massive calamity, and the feelings of the peasantry as the policy was just begining to be implemented.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]