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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]
30 June, 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:
‘Parliamentarism’ and ‘Political Action,’ by Jay Lovestone and William Weinstone. [March 17, 1919] Former City College of New York Young People’s Socialist League leaders Jay Lovestone and William Weinstone co-authored this lengthy letter to the "New York Call" in response to New York Socialist leader Cameron King’s critique of the Left Wing Manifesto published earlier in those pages.
Letter to Morris Hillquit in Upstate New York from Adolph Germer in Chicago, March 22, 1919. Historians of American Communism running the gamut from Theodore Draper to William Z. Foster have depicted Morris Hillquit as the master puppeteer behind the expulsions, suspensions, and split of the Socialist Party in 1919.
An Evening’s Experience, by Max Schonberg. [March 31, 1919] An interesting and rather illuminating first-hand report of hardball tactics employed at a March meeting of the 3rd-5th-10th AD Branch of Local New York, with "Big Jim" Larkin in the chair.
Report to the NEC, by Adolph Germer [May 24, 1919]. The "nationality card" is played here for the first time by the National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, Adolph Germer.
Indicting the Left Wing: A Speech to the NEC, by James Oneal [circa May 27, 1919]. On May 27, 1919, the lame duck National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America unilaterally suspended the entire memberships of seven constituent language federations, consisting of over 20,000 dues-paying rank-and-filers.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
29 June, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
The Course of US Imperialism and the Revolutionary Struggle for a Socialist America (Resolution of the SWP Party Convention, Labor Day Weekend, 1969)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
29 June, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
Outraged Feminism, 1901 (another outraged and outrageous attack on women’s rights)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
28 June, 2005:
Added to the Fourth Internationalist Tendency—US Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL), a 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. Documents uploaded so far:
Introduction: The Meaning of the Struggle Inside the Socialist Workers Party, by Frank Lovell
Platform of the Fourth Internationalist Caucus, by Steve Bloom and Frank Lovell
Theses on the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government
Poland, the Fourth International, and the Socialist Workers Party, by Steve Bloom
The Iranian Revolution and the Dangers That Threaten It
The Socialist Workers Party and the American Revolution
Party Tactics in the Unions and Political Tasks
Tasks of the SWP in the Antiwar Movement
The SWP and the Women’s Liberation Movement Today
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
28 June, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
The American Antiwar Movement, by SWP (Resolution of SWP Party Convention, 1969)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
27 June 2005: New Jean Longuet Archive:
The French
Municipal Elections 1896
Dewsbury
Election 1902
Armenia 1903
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
26 June, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Bolshevism and Democracy – Query to Albert Goldman, by A. Alper (1938)
Ten Years of the Russian Bulletin, by Editorial Board of the Russian Bulletin (1938)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 June, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1940-1945):
Capitalist Economy under Fascism, by Jack Weber (1941)
Behind the Argentine Coup, by Terence Phelan (1943)
The Month in Review, by the Editors (1944)
How teh Eighteen Were Railroaded to penitentiary, by the Editors (1941) (report of the results of the Minneapolis frameup of the leaders of the SWP and Local 544)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 June, 2005: Added to the new Albert Goldman Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Labor Party and Progress, 1938
Martov’s Mysticism, 1938
Bolshevism and Democracy – Reply to A. Alper, 1939
The Congress of the PSOP, 1935 (writing as Fauchois)
False Light on the Moscow Trials, 1941 (hard-hitting political critique of Koestler&#´8217;s Darkness at Noon)
The Central Slogan for Occupied Europe, 1943 (writing as M. Morrison)
Sidney Hook’s Attack on Trotskyism, 1943 (writing as M. Morrison)
Was There A Revolution In Italy?, 1943
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
25 June 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Report to the
Brussels International Congress, 1891
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
25 June, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
Malcolm X: Voice of the Black Ghetto, by Robert Vernon (1964)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
24 June, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
White Radicals and Black Nationalism, by Robert Vernon (1964)
The Black Muslims, by Robert Vernon (book review – 1964)
A Transitional Program for Black Liberation, (SWP Conference resolution – 1969)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
23 June 2005: Added to the Mao Reference Archive:
The following documents which complete Selected Works of Mao
Tse-tung: Volume 8:
Reading Notes on the Soviet Text ‘Political Economy’
(1961-1962)
Concerning ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’ (November 1958)
Critique of Stalin’s ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’ (1961)
[Thanks to Basu]
23 June, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Art and Marxism, by Feroci (1935)
A Labor Lieutenant and Top-Sergeant, by Harry Strang (1935)
Spending and the Stock Marke, by David Cowles (1938)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
23 June, 2005: Added to the Volume 34 of the Lenin Collected Works. Special thanks goes to David Moros for his monumental effort in completing this work. The completion of this volume leaves only 8 more volumes to complete the entire LCW
23 June, 2005: Added to the Socialist History Project of Canada:
Report of the Founding Convention of the Revolutionary Workers Party. The Canadian Trotskyist movement was driven underground and shattered by the repression during World War II. In 1946 representatives from across Canada came together to launch a new public organization.
Remembering Bill Moriarty. When this pioneer Canadian communist died in 1936, the entire left turned out to remember him. Speakers at his memorial included representatives of the CCF, the Trotskyist movement, the Communist Party and the Toronto Trades and Labor Council.
The Slave of the Farm. An alternate text, either a first draft or a later version, of a widely circulated 1914 Socialist Party of Canada pamphlet.
J. B. McLachlan, the Communist Party of Canada, and the United Front. Doug Nesbitt offers a different perspective on the activities of the Nova Scotia miners’ leader J. B. McLachlan in the 1930s, in the essay in a 1936 letter to CPC leader Tim Buck, J. B. McLachlan explained why he resigned from the Communist Party
Peter Campbell provides another early Socialist Party of Canada leaflet, Who Are the Dreamers ?, from 1912.
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project]
22 June, 2005: Added to the new Max Eastman Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Marxism:
Science or Philosophy?, 1935
A Letter
to Corliss Lamont, 1938
Burnham
Dodges My Views, 1938
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 June, 2005: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question, 1947 (hard-hitting anti-Zionist polemic criticising certain tendencies in the American SWP to be soft on Zionism)
[Thanks to Mike Pearn & Ian Birchall]
21 June, 2005: We are pleased to announce the creation of the Kurdî (كوردي) Section with archives for the writings of:
20 June, 2005: Added to the Turkish Lev Troçki Archive:
Entelijensiya ve Sosyalizm, 1910
Tek Ülkede Sosyalizm, 1930
Savaş ve Dördüncü Enternasyonal, 1934
Amerika Komünist Olursa, 1934
Rus Devrimini Savunurken, 1932
Komünist Manifesto’nun Doksanıncı Yıldönümü, 1937
Zamanımızda Marksizm, 1939
[Thanks to Marksist Tutum]
20 June 2005: Added to the Romanian Lenin Archive:
Karl Marx (Scurtă
schiţă biografică şi expunere a marxismului)[Karl
Marx (A Brief Biographical Sketch with an Exposition of Marxism),
1914].
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
19 June, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
The Crisis in Fascism – 2. How It Happened in Italy, by I.C.H. (1934)
Problems of Colonial India 1, by S. Stanley (1938)
The Crisis of Stalinism in Brazil (1938)
The Land Problem in Mexico, by Bernard Ross (1938)
Problems of Colonial India 2, by S. Stanley (1938)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
19 June, 2005: Added to the Macedonian Marx-Engels Archive:
Германска идеологија (The German Ideology, 1845).
Also added to the Macedonian Section, three new author archives:
[Thanks to Alek Atevik, Zdravko Saveski, and Juan Fajardo]
19 June, 2005: Added to the Vietnamese Section: an archive for the works of Leon Trotsky, with an initial inclusion of
Stalin đã đánh bại cánh tả như thế nào?(How did Stalin Defeat the Left Opposition?, 1935). [Thanks to Lı Quang Tuấn]
18 June 2005: Added to the Auguste Blanqui Archive:
Address of
Central Republican Society to the Government, 1848
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
16 June 2005: Added to the Anarchism Subject Archive:
Exerpts from “The
Anarchist Encyclopedia”, ed. Sébastien Faure 1934
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 June 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Archive:
On “Their Morals
and Ours”
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 June, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Economic and Political Life in Argentina, by Pedro Milesi (1939)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
15 June 2005: Added to the Zo d’Axa Archive:
Without a
Goal, 1895
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 June, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1940-1945):
Inter-Imperialist Struggle for South America, by Quebracho [Liborio Justo] (1940)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
15 June, 2005: Added to the International Socialist Review Archive:
Guatemala 1954 – The Lesson Cuba Learned, by Bert Deck (1940)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
15 June, 2005: Added to the Jean van Heijenoort Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Political Misadventures of the French Bourgeoisie, 1943 (as Marc loris)
The Giraud-De Gaulle Dispute, 1943 (as Marc Loris)
Lebanon’s Fight For Independence, 1944 (as Marc Loris)
Whither France?, 1944 (as Daniel Logan)
On The European Situation And Our Tasks – Part I, 1945 (as Daniel Logan)
On The European Situation And Our Tasks – Part II, 1945 (as Daniel Logan)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
14 June 2005: The British Library and the Marxist Internet Archive:
Recently the British Library noticed that there were many sites of literary, academic or scholarly importance that had appeared on the web and that these had often an only temporary appearance when their founder or group lost interest, died or for any other reason the website disappeared. The BL felt that they should be preserved and set up a committee to decide which sites it would archive. Such an archived site would be updated every year, would be publicly available as a mirror site and the previous versions would be available. It is not yet running (June 2005) but readers of the Marxist Internet Archive will be delighted to hear that we are one of the few dozen sites that has been chosen so far which is a compliment to all the hard work of the volunteers involved. With such an archive we can be sure that our work will last, short of a catastrophe such as the collapse of ancient civilisation which destroyed the great Library at Alexandria.
The British Library is no longer housed in the British Museum where Karl Marx studied, that building is now totally the Museum proper, but it has moved to a fine modern building half a mile away on the north side of Euston Road next to St Pancras Station. Special thanks to Ted Crawford for organizing this important liaison between two of the worlds most important scholary institutions.
13 June 2005: Added to the Quebec History Archive:
Will the Queen
of England Come to Celebrate 100 Years of our Humiliation?, 1964
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 June 2005: Added to the Philosophy Reference Archive:
Subject Object
Cognition, V A Lektorsky 1980
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
12 June, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Diplomacy in the World War, by G. Vassilkovsky (1934)
Storm Clouds Over Europe, by Marko Shtip (1934)
Labor Historian, by Dennis Brown (1935) (book review)
Wells’ Autobiography, by John Hart (1935) (book review)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
12 June, 2005: Added to the new John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
A New Technics, 1934 (book review)
Shifts in the Negro Question, 1934
Stalin the Theoretician, 1935
To Make a Revolution, 1935 (book review)
Gangway fo’ de Lawd, 1935
Humanism in One Country, 1935
A Reply to Olgin, 1935 (with Joseph Carter)
A Page of American Imperialism, 1936
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido & Einde O’Callaghan]
11 June, 2005: Introducing the Greek Civil War Subject Archive (1946-1949), including the following documents:
Youth of Greece (10 MB pdf) Published by Unified Panhellenic Organisation of Youth (EPON) (1949)
The Massacre of the Internationalist Communists in Greece, December 1944 by Agis Stinas
Reports from World News and Views
Two Sides in Greece (5 March 1949)
Tito Against the Peoples of Greece and Albania (27 August 1949)
Only a Democratic Peace for Greece! (29 October 1949)
Greece on Path to Open Dictatorship (January 21, 1950)
The ‘Abducted’ Greek Children (January 21, 1950)
Greece’s “Independence Day” (March 25, 1950)
The Tito-Plastiras Wedding (May 13, 1950)
[Thanks to Mike B., Anthony Megremis, Hari Kumar, Andy Blunden and Ted Crawford]
11 June, 2005:
Introducing the
Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in India Subject Archive, including a selection of documents by
Sushital Roy Choudhuri,
Jadunandan Sharma,
Felix Morrow,
Zhou Enlai and others.
[Thanks to Mike B., Hari Kumar, "Basu," Basu Acharya and Ardhendu Roy]
10 June, 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:
Declaration: By Carr [Ludwig Katterfeld] for the CEC of the CP of A (Majority) and Moore [John Ballam] for the Minority Group. [March 29, 1922] John Ballam was elected by the Central Caucus faction-CPA’s Emergency Convention of Jan. 7-12, 1922 as an international delegate to the Comintern, where he traveled to state his group’s position in the bitter factional controversy.
To the Communist Party of America: A Communique from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, March 30, 1922. This document was the cover letter for a 10 point decision of the ECCI on the American factional situation.
No Compromise -- No Political Trading, by Wilhelm Liebknecht. This 1899 pamphlet by Liebknecht stated the traditional SPD line on non-collaboration with bourgeois parties. It was frequently reprinted in the United States and should be regarded as one of the fundamental Marxist works of the Socialist Party of America during the pre-WWI period.
Through Germany in the Sealed Coach," by Karl Radek. [1924] Not directly related to American radicalism but worthy of note is this 1924 account of Lenin’s journey through Germany by a fellow passenger. This marks the first time this document has been published in English.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
9 June 2005: Added to the CLR James Archive:
In
the International Tradition, New International, January 1944.
The American
People in ‘One World’, New International, July 1944.
The Course of the
War, New International, August 1944.
The French Rats
and the Sinking Ship, New International, September 1944.
Which Way for PAC,
New International, December 1944.
Germany
and European Civilization, New International, November 1944.
Reconversion,
New International, March 1945.
The Lesson of
Germany, New International, May 1945.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
10 June 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
To
the Democratic Socialists, September 1870
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 June 2005: Added to the Emile Henry Archive:
Interrogation of
Emile Henry, 1894
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 June, 2005: Added to the Arne Swabeck Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
American Imperialism at Home and Abroad, 1946 (as William Simmons)
The Housing Shortage, 1947
Two Pages from American Labor History, 1947
Three Years of the British Labor Government, 1948
Dynamics of Revolutionary Change, 1949
Some Comments on Falling Rate of Profit, 1949
Economic Roots of the Labor Crisis, 1951
Inflation and the Arms Economy, 1952
Social Relations in US Today, 1953
Social Relations in US Today, 1954
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
8 June, 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 Psychology of Syndicalism (An Editorial), by Gaylord Wilshire. [March 1913] During the first years of the 1910s, a new radicalism blossomed both inside and outside the ranks of the Socialist Party of America. This left wing moment, centered its orientation around building revolutionary industrial trade unions and winning power through use of the tactic of the general strike.
Democratic Defense: A Practical Program for Socialism, by W.J. Ghent, et al. [March 1917] The approach of American entry into the European was spurred Socialists of all colors into action. This document was produced by a group of individuals on the SPA’s Right, signing alphabetically and including prominently W.J. Ghent, the widow of Jack London, Upton Sinclair and his wife, William English Walling, and others.
Letters to Oscar Tyverovsky in Moscow from Charles Dirba (Sept. 3, 1921) and John Ballam (Sept. 2, 1921). An account of the factional situation in America provided to the Central Caucus faction’s man in Moscow, Oscar Tyverovsky, representative of the CPA to the Executive Committee of the Commuinst International.
Letter to Sen Katayama from Charles Dirba, Sept. 6-9, 1921. This is a fascinating primary source document, an account of the issues behind the "Central Caucus faction" split which erupted late in November of 1921, written by a leading participant, Charles Dirba. Dirba was the Executive Secretary of the unified CPA from the time of its formation at the end of May 1921.
Appeal of the Minority Members of the CEC of the Communist Party of
America Against the Policies of the CEC on the Question of the Formation of a
Legal Political Party in the United States. [Circa December 1921]. The formal appeal of the CEC Minority (i.e. the Central Caucus faction) to the Communist International seeking a halt to the actions of the CEC Majority’s actions with regard to establishment of a legal political party.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
8 June, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1940-1945):
International Notes – India (January 1945)
International Notes – Germany (March 1945)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
8 June 2005: Added to the Daniel Deleon Internet Archive are 37 new documents recently placed on the Daniel DeLeon On-Line Library established by Socialist Labor Party of America and mirrored here on the DDIA. These documents span August of 1900.
Bresci-ism Is but Capitalism in Retail, 1900, Aug 01
Sodom and Gomorrah Insinuating (replacement), 1900, Aug 01
Bryanism Spells Bresci-ism, 1900, Aug 03
Internationality of Swindle, 1900, Aug 03
A Fit Specimen, 1900, Aug 04
A Higher Law, 1900, Aug 05
They Don’t Mean It, 1900, Aug 06
The Paramount Issue, 1900, Aug 07
William Liebknecht, 1900, Aug 09
Labor (?) Parties, 1900, Aug 09
So Say We, Too!, 1900, Aug 10
Who Is “Us”?, 1900, Aug 11
Investing in War (replacement), 1900, Aug 11
The Approaching Slump, 1900, Aug 12
Suicidal Unionism
A Caricature of Capitalism, 1900, Aug 12
Wages of Sin, 1900, Aug 12
“Bad” Socialists
Very Bad, 1900, Aug 13
Suicide or Solidarity, 1900, Aug 13
Jugging a Juggler, 1900, Aug 14
“Make Them Work, by God!”, 1900, Aug 18
Neolithic Reasoning, 1900, Aug 18
Huntington, American Individualist, 1900, Aug 18
Proletarian Janissaries, 1900, Aug 18
“Co-operation in China”, 1900, Aug 19
Why, Dethrone Consuelo and Anna!, 1900, Aug 20
“Educating” the Conqueror, 1900, Aug 21
Presto, Change!, 1900, Aug 21
A Great National College, 1900, Aug 23
The Value of a Daily, 1900, Aug 24
Militarism and Wage Slavery, 1900, Aug 24
Truly Emblematic, 1900, Aug 25
Dr. Quack, 1900, Aug 26
The Finest Fruit of the Tree, 1900, Aug 26
The Political Vulture, 1900, Aug 27
“Organized Labor”, 1900, Aug 28
Exit the People’s Party, 1900, Aug 29
The Anti in Politics and Elsewhere , 1900, Aug 30
[Thanks to Robert Bills of the Socialist Labor Party of America]
7 June, 2005: Added to the Document Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
International Notes – Ireland (March 1945)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
7 June, 2005: Added to the new Arne Swabeck Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Decay of the Stalinist Party, 1934
The Stalinists and Pacifism, 1934
The Second Roosevelt Election, 1934
The Long and Coughlin Movements, 1935
The Passing of the NRA, 1935
The 3rd Party, 1935
The Real Meaning of the United Front, 1935
What Is this Business Revival?, 1936
Hitler’s “New Order”, 1941 (as William F. Simmons)
World Role of US Capitalism, 1943 (as William Simmons)
US Capitalism Heads For Bankruptcy, 1944 (as William Simmons)
Trotsky on America’s Role in Europe, 1944 (as William Simmons)
The Coming Upsurge of American Labor, 1944 (as William Simmons)
The Outlook for a Labor Party, 1945 (as William Simmons)
European Perspectives, 1945 (as William Simmons)
Trotskyist Tasks in Europe, 1945 (as William Simmons)
Lessons of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, 1945 (as William Simmons)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
6 June, 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:
Labor Party Must Be Formed: Manifesto on the Cleveland Conference by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party. [Published Dec. 30, 1922] The failure of the Workers Party of America to have its delegates seated at the Cleveland assembly of the Conference for Progressive Political Action was a disappointment; the conference’s failure to immediately move forward to the establishment of an American Labor Party on the British model was a “betrayal.”
Jewish Federation United: Statement to the Party by the Administrative
Council. [Published Dec. 30, 1922] Facing the possibility of a split of the Workers Party’s Jewish Federation, emergency negotiations were conducted between the Bureau of the Federation and the Administrative Council of the WPA, resulting in the agreement summarized here.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
5 June 2005: Added to the Quebec History Archive:
Independence and Political
Action, L’Indépendance, 1960
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
5 June 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Shelley and
Socialism, with Edward Aveling, April 1888
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 June 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Address of the
3rd Congress of the Romande Federation of the International Workingmen’s
Association to the Paris Commune
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
2 June, 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:
Workers! Organize the Party of Labor! Manifesto of the Workers Party of America, Published December 9, 1922. In the aftermath of the 1922 election and prior to the first national meeting of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, the Workers Party of America attempted to exert its influence to bring about the creation of an American Labor Party on the British model.
All Eyes on Cleveland! Workers! Watch for Treason at Political Conference! [Dec. 1922] A last minute appeal by the Workers Party of America for its members and supporters to bombard the forthcoming Second Conference of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (held Dec. 11-12, 1922) with demands for an immediate formation of an “independent party of labor opposing all capitalist parties.”
First Day’s Proceedings of the Cleveland Conference of the CPPA, Dec. 11, 1922. Unsigned journalism from the pages of The Worker recounting the activities of the first day’s sessions of the 2nd gathering of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, held in Cleveland. Of major importance was the decision of the Conference to deny seats to the delegates of the Workers Party of America and the Young Workers League.
Salutsky—A Communist? by C.E. Ruthenberg [Dec. 23, 1922] The Workers Party of America actively sought to participate in the Second Conference of the CPPA, going so far as to send delegates to Cleveland.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
2 June 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive Archive are the following four articles on Black history and democracy:
A Forgotten Fighter Against Plutocracy, 1949
Two Lessons of Reconstruction, 1950
W. E. B. Du Bois and His Work, 1950
The American Civil War: Its Place in History, 1961
1 June 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Archive:
Open Letter to Andre Gide,
1936
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
1 June, 2005: Added to the new Ted Grant Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Character of the European Revolution, 1945
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
1 June, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1946-1956):
Anti-Imperialist Struggle in Egypt, by S. Munier
The Military Coup in Egypt, by S. Munir
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
1 June 2005: Added to the John Brown Archive:
To His Family, 1859
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
1 June, 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:
A Call for United Action: To All Labor Unions, Farmers’ Organizations, and Other Economic, Political, Cooperative, and Fraternal Organizations of the Producing Class. [Sept. 1921] The origin of the Conference for Progressive Political Action has long been attributed to a joint decision of the 16 main railway unions, which sponsored a founding conference in Chicago in February of 1922.
Declaration to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America, Section of the Communist International, by Central Bureau, Lithuanian Federation of the Central Caucus faction. [June 21, 1922]. Faced with an the ultimatum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to rejoin the official Communist Party of America or face expulsion from the Communist International, the Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Federatiion voted unanimously at its June 21, 1922, session to rejoin the official party, to turn over its records to the majority group, and to appeal to the members of the Lithuanian Federation to do likewise.
Comrades of the Jewish Federation! Stand by the Party! Statement by the
Central Exeuctive Committe of the Workers Party, Published Dec. 9, 1922. In 1922 the Jewish Federation of the Workers Party of America was racked by an internal split, pitting the historic leadership of the Jewish Federation dating back to Socialist Party days, headed by Alexander Bittelman against the Jewish component of the Workers’ Council group, headed by Moissaye Olgin.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
31 May, 2005: Added to the new John G. Wright (Joseph Vanzler) Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Thorstein Veblen, Sociologist, 1935
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]