May 2005
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See Also: Daily list of files updated (automatically generated)
1 June 2005: Added to the John Brown Archive:
To His Familoy, 1859
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
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]
31 May 2005: Added to the Jacques Hébert Archive:
The
Reawakening of Père Duchesne, 1790
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
30 May2 005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Karl Marx,
1883
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
30 May, 2005: Added to the Tony Cliff Internet Archive:
AS new British Provocation in Palestine, 1946
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
30 May, 2005: Added to the Grandizo Munis Internet Archive:
The Future of the Soviet Union And The Victories of the Red Army, 1944
A Correction, 1945
Defense of the Soviet Union and Revolutionary Tactics, 1945
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
29 May, 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:
Socialist Party Referendum ‘A’ 1917. [Mailed March 10, 1917] The Ninth Ward Branch of Local Cook County, Illinois, proposed this referendum to call a special National Convention of the Socialist Party in Chicago to begin Sunday, Sept. 2, 1917. Two hundred delegates were to attend. Although it is not so stated, it was implied that the convention would be held to determine the SPA’s position on the European War and the looming participation of America therein.
Minutes of the National Executive Committee Meeting Held in Chicago, March 10-11, 1917. With a war crisis rapidly approaching and in view of a popular party referendum for a September 2 National Convention certified as seconded and mailed, the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party (Comrades Berger, Hillquit, Maley, and Work) decided at its March 10-11 meeting to set aside the organization’s constitution and to immediately issue a call for an Emergency National Convention.
Replies of the National Committee to the Proposed Emergency National Convention of 1917. [March 12, 1917] With war looming and a popular referendum calling for a September Emergency National Convention qualified to be mailed, the National Executive Committee sprung into action and went outside the SPA’s constitution to rush a convention to April 7 in lieu of the proposed September 2 conclave.
The Soviets and the IWW, by I.E. Ferguson. [November 15, 1919] This article from the official organ of the Communist Party of America criticizes the Industrial Workers of the World for their inability to “transpose in their own minds” the concept of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The IWW fails to grasp the evolving nature of the soviets, Ferguson notes, instead describing them as “a makeshift substitute for industrial unions.”
Report of the Executive Secretary of the CPA: Submitted to the Central
Executive Committee at Meeting of November 15, 1919, by C.E. Ruthenberg. The Executive Secretary of the Communist Party of America briefly summarizes his activity during the first two months on the job for the governing Central Executive Committee of the CPA. Ruthenberg details direct mailings made to the locals and branches of the Socialist Party and its language federations.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
29 May, 2005: Added to the Document Archive of the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
A letter from Ireland
A Letter from Ulster, by Bob Armstrong
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
29 May 2005: Added to the French Language Marxists Internet Archive for the previous month is:
A. Gramsci:
Syndicats et conseils (1919)
Rapport sur le mouvement turinois des conseils d’usines (1920)
P.O.U.M.:
Préface à L’insurrection des Asturies de M. Grossi (J. Maurin, 5.7.1935)
L’assassinat d’A. Nin : ses causes, ses auteurs (J. Andrade, juin 1939)
Le marxisme et les problèmes de la révolution espagnole (J. Andrade, 14.3.1937)
L. Trotsky:
Sur les évènements de Dublin - Irlande, 1916 - (04.07.1916)
Lettre à Marguerite Rosmer (12.07.1929)
Le socialisme en Amérique (17.08.1934)
Lénine:
Les philantropes bourgeois et la social-démocratie révolutionnaire (1.5.1915)
La faillite de l’internationalisme platonique (21.5.1915)
J. Burnham:
Ouverture de l’archive de référence
[Thanks to the French langauge volunteers of the MIA]
29 May, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1940-1945):
On the Essence of Constitutions, by Ferdinand Lassalle
The National Question and Europe, by SWP National Committee
Three Theses on the European Situation and the Political Tasks
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
29 May, 2005: Added to the Grandizo Munis Internet Archive:
Franco’s Dilemma, February 1941
Who Are Hitler’s Agents in Russia?, November 1941
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
29 May 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Underground
Russia, 1883
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
28 May 2005: Added to the Spanish Section:
a subject archive related to agrarian issues
[Thanks to Juan R. Fajardo]
28 May 2005: Added to the Macedonian Section:
Кон Руската револуција (The Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemberg)
[Thanks to Zdravko]
28 May 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Record of the Popular Movement, 1884
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
28 May, 2005: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1946-1956):
Wall Street’s Labor Salesmen, by Bert Cochran (Analysis of the subordination of the American trade unions to the imperialist agenda)
The Two Germanies, by Charles Hanley (Analysis of the situation in Germany after the establishment of the Federal Republic and the GDR)
Zionism and the Middle East, by S. Munier (Report of the situation in the Middle East after the first Arab-Israeli War)
W.E.B. DuBois and His Work, by William Gorman (The title accurately describes the contents of this article)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido & Ted Crawford]
28 May 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
To the
People
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
28 May 2005: Added to the Daniel Deleon Internet Archive are 69 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 the fall and winter of 1899 and run through July of 1900.
Note the Fact
The Party’s Voice
Turning the Cycle
“Starting Right”
Truly Pictorial
Two Shots
Revolutionary, From Wing to Wing
No Standing-Room for the Freak
As the Foe, So the Methods
A Brainless Pulpiteer
No Idolatry
Shadows Cast Ahead
Undivided Allegiance
’Tis the First Step That Costs
Order With Progress, Progress With Order
That New Zealand Paradise
What Are the British Cannon Saying in South Africa?
Impeach McKinley!
Is There a "Woman Question"?
Disgraceful Attitude of Continental Powers
Pucking Socialism
The Delusion of Property
Syracuse a Belated New York
Shooting Fire-Crackers in Massachusetts
“The High Mission of the Blackmail in Civilization”
Confirmed Within Ten Months
What Else the Cannon in the Transvaal Is Saying
Instructive Pages
Endorsing the Alliance and the Party
Two Hearts That Beat As One
Frick Out on Strike
Guilty!
Fifth Kick-Out
We Bring the Jubilee
Why "Philanthropy" Halts
Cast Aside Like a Squeezed Lemon
A Signal Surrender
Tammany Hall Impotently Fighting the Daily People
Between Two Fires
Tweedism Over Again
From the Seat of War
Will Mr. Justice Bischoff, Jr., Explain?
Vainly Seeking to Block the Daily People
The Logic of the Situation
Labor As a Pawn
From the Seat of War
He Sees a Glimmer
Arthur to the Rescue
Financiering With Injunctions
Scuttling Debsism
Capitalist "Nobility”
The National Convention
The People’s Next Week’s Issue
Shanghaiing
A Waterloo
Salutatory
Is the Democratic Party Against Expansion?
Minister Straus, Turkey and China
The Tenth of July
“Third Parties”
The Heathen Chinee Outdoes Us
“The Ports”
Political St. Vitus Dance
The Labor Vote
Unionism and Unionism
Government by Purchase
I Came, I Saw, I Conquered
The Assassination of Humbert
Pegasus Yoked
[Special thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of America]
27 May, 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:
Death Chills Seize Meeting of Socialist Party, by C.E. Ruthenberg. [May 13, 1922] The new Executive Secretary of the Workers Party of America, C.E. Ruthenberg, observed and wrote about the 1922 Cleveland Convention of the Socialist Party of America.
The Michigan Raid. Unsigned news article in The Worker, Sept. 23, 1922. On the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 22, 1922, a large number of heavily-armed sheriff’s deputies, detectives, and Department of Justice officials swooped in on the Wolfskeel Summer Resort near Bridgman, Michigan, and arrested 17 remaining members of the Communist Party of America (one of whom was a government agent-provocateur) in connection with a convention of the CPA held on those premises.
Exposes Third Degree: Lambkin Tells of Brutalities Following Arrest in Michigan Raid. [Oct. 21, 1922] This news report from the organ of the WPA, The Worker,
quotes Lambkin’s affidavit detailing police brutality following his arrest: a blow to the hip, grilling by multiple federal agents, a slap to the face, being hurled into another room, and being pulled up from the floor by his hair.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
27 May, 2005: Added to the New International Archive:
Notes on the Jewish Question, by Charles Crompton (Attempt to develop a coherent line on the Jewish question and Palestine)
The Economics of Cotton Farming, by Jerry Pytlak (Analysis of the situation of black share-croppers in the Southern States)
Rebuttal on the Palestine Question, The Spark (SA) (Critique of positions advanced by the Palestinian Trotskyist L. Rock in an earlier issue)
The Negro in Southern Agriculture, by Robert L. Birchman (Further points on the position of Blacks in Southern agriculture)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
27 May, 2005: Added to the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
New International Index (1934-1940) (A comprehensive index of content by issue for this important theoretical magazine)
Fourth International Index (1940-1945) (a comprehensive index of content by issue)
Fourth International Index (1946-1956) (continuation of the above index of content by issue)
International Socialist Review Index (1956-1970) (comprehensive index of content by issue until March 1970)
Links have been provided to the texts when available in the Marxists’ Internet Archive or the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 May, 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:
Report by the Executive Committee, National Lettish [Latvian] Organization, SP to the National Convention, May 1912, by C. Karklin. Organizational report by the Secretary of the Latvian Federation of the Socialist Party of America to the 1912 convention of the party—the longest and most detailed of the various federation reports so submitted.
‘Force and Violence!’ (An Editorial), by Elmer T. Allison. [June 11, 1920].
Radicalism in Amerca, by Morris Hillquit. [October 15, 1920] This article by Socialist Party NEC member Morris Hillquit in the party’s official organ reviews the two new political organizations to emerge in post-war America—the Labor Party (which transformed itself to the Farmer-Labor Party) and the Communist Party.
The United Front of Labor, by William W. Weinstone. [March 18, 1922] Weinstone recounts the history of the United Front policy, noting explicitly that it was a tactic originating with Lenin and the Second Congress of the Comintern.
National Constitution of the Socialist Party: As Amended by the National
Convention at Cleveland, April 29-May 2, 1922. Basic document of organizational law of the Socialist Party.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
26 May 2005: Added to the FLQ Archive:
Is It Necessary to
Become a Policeman?, 1963
Quebec Should Denounce
Terror, 1964
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
25 May 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
The Central Committee of the Republican Federation of the
National Guard, May 23 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
25 May 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
The Rev. Landsell
D.D., 1883
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
23 May, 2005: Added to the Wilhelm Liebknecht Internet Archive:
No Compromise – No Political Trading, 1899 (pamphlet by Liebknecht senior stating the traditional SPD line on non-collaboration with bourgeois parties)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
23 May, 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:
Activity in Ohio, by Caleb Harrison. [June 1922] Around the first of May, 1922, Executive Secretary of the Workers Party of America Caleb Harrison stepped down from his post to make room for C.E. Ruthenberg, newly released from prison in New York.
The Workers Party and the Labor Party, by C.E. Ruthenberg [Nov. 27, 1922]Executive Secretary of the Workers Party of America C.E. Ruthenberg attempts to explain the relationship between the WPA and a forthcoming labor party— an institution which Ruthenberg was being inevitably brought into existence by the development of economic forces.
Constitution of the Workers Party of America. As Amended by the Second National Convention, New York City, December 24-25 and 26, 1922. The 2nd Convention of the Workers Party of America approved a small set of revisions to the constitution of the organization.
List of Delegates to the 2nd Convention of the Workers Party of America, NYC, Dec. 24-26, 1922. The gathering was attended by 53 regular and 4 fraternal delegates.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
23 May, 2004: Added to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
Trotsky’s conception of self-organisation and the vanguard party, 1989
[Many thanks to Mike Murray]
22 May, 2005: Added to the Michel Pablo Internet Archive:
Where Are We Going?, 1953 (The first clear statement of what later became known as Pabloism.)
[Thanks to International Bolshevik Tendency]
22 May, 2005: Added to the Karl Radek Internet Archive:
Through Germany in the Sealed Coach, 1924 (Account of the Lenin’s journey through Germany by a fellow passenger. This is the first time it has ever been published in English.)
[Thanks to Ian Birchall]
22 May 2005: Added to the Mao Reference Archive:
The following documents from Selected Works of Mao
Tse-tung: Volume 8:
To The Communist Labour University In Kiangsi
(August 1, 1961)
Talk At An Enlarged Working Conference Convened By The Central Committee Of The Communist Party Of China (January 30, 1962)
Speech At The Tenth Plenum Of The Eighth Central Committee (September 24, 1962)
[Thanks to Basu]
21 May, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
Reason v. Rhetoric, 1887 (some philosophical thoughts on sexual morality – quite advanced for the period)
The St Gallen Congress, 1888 (report on the clandestine St Gallen congress of the illegal German Social Democracy)
– Et Impera, 1888 (critique of some ideas put forward by Annie Besant, which includes some rather odd ideas on the nature of sexual attraction)
A Free Fantasia on Things Divine and Human, 1888 (more musings on religion and morality)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 May, 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:
Constitution of the C.P. of A.: Adopted at the Emergency Convention, January 1922, of the Communist Party of America. [Central Caucus faction] The document details the complicated underground structure of the group, containing five layers of organizational structure between the individual member and the Central Executive Committee.
Provisions for the Organization of Communist Party Nuclei in the Shops and Unions. [Central Caucus faction—Jan. 1922] This document was produced by the Central Caucus faction’s CEC as a sort of appendix to the Constitution of the CCf-"Communist Party of America.” A THIRD parallel organizational structure—based on structured arrangement of party organizations in the workplace—was thereby established, joining the geographic-based and language-based apparati already in place.
Our Next Step, by Jay Lovestone. [Feb. 1922] This fascinating document was written immediately prior to the founding meeting of the Conference for Progressive Political Action by Jay Lovestone for the official organ of the new “legal political party,” the Workers Party of America. Lovestone was made Executive Secretary of the underground Communist Party of America that same week—this consequently may be regarded as an authoritative exposition of Communist thinking about the forthcoming CPPA. Lovestone argued that the Conference offered the WPA “an opportunity of joining with large sections of the workers in the immediate struggle” as part of the united front against the capitalist foe.
CEC Settles Defense Policy. A document sent by the Workers Party of America to its press, DOs, and Language Bureaus, April 1922. A document announcing an agreement on the structure of the WPA’s defense committee, reached between a subcommittee of the governing Administrative Council of the Workers Party of America and the previously-existing National Defense Council.
Address to the Convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers, Wednesday, May 3, 1922, by C.E. Ruthenberg. C.E. Ruthenberg, former Executive Secretary of the CPA and future Executive Secretary of the Workers Party, was freed from prison on $5,000 bond pending the outcome of his appeal on Monday, April 24, 1922.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
21 May 2005: Added to the C L R James Archive:
Stalinism and Negro
History, 1949
Herbert Aptheker’s
Distortions, 1949
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
21 May 2005: Added to the John Brown Archive:
Prison
Interview
Last Speech
Last Note
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 May, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
To Our Readers, 1884 (introduction to a new socialist magazine To-day, with J.L. Joynes)
Unscientific Socialism, 1884 (critique of non-Marxist socialisms)
The Modern Revolution, 1884 (short argument for the necessity of socialist revolution)
A French Economist on Collectivism, 1884 (critique of a bourgeois attack on marxist economics)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
18 May, 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 Story of the British Labour Party, by Morris Hillquit [Sept. 1923] This article by SPA leader Morris Hillquit in the party’s official organ recounted the path of success in Great Britain.
A View of the Trial, by Adolph Germer. [Jan. 22, 1919] National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party Adolph Germer (in the past a miner and United Mine Workers Union official, in the future one of the key participants in the 1919 Socialist-Communist split) briefly summarizes the results of the Trial of the Five Socialists, in which he was a leading defendant.
The End of War, by C.E. Ruthenberg. [Feb. 12, 1919] This article by the Secretary of Local Cuyahoga County, Socialist Party was published in the official organ of the Socialist Party of Ohio. In it Ruthenberg addresses the proposed League of Nations—specifically its claim that it will be an institution able to abolish future wars.
The Socialist Apostle Speaks, by Nicholas I. Hourwich. [Oct. 25, 1919] This article in the official organ of the Communist Party of America attacks the perceived duplicity of Morris Hillquit’s second article on the factional war, “We Are All Socialists,” [Sept. 22, 1919], in the immediate aftermath of the Chicago party split.
Consitution of the Communist Party of America: Adopted at the Founding Convention, Chicago, Sept. 1-7, 1919. Basic document of organizational law of the old Communist Party of America. Structurally similar to the apparatus used by the Socialist Party of America.
The Socialist Party Convention, by Ammon A. Hennacy. [May 19, 1920] An uncommon document, a critical first-hand account of the 1920 Socialist Party Convention in New York from the perspective of the Left Wing minority.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
18 May 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Atrocity on
Atrocity
Manifeto of
the Paris Commune
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 May 2005: Added to the Max Eastman Archive:
Foster
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
18 May 2005: Added to the Evelyn Reed Archive:
Feminism and the
Female Eunuch, 1971
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
17 May, 2005: Added to the mirror of the Socialist History Project of Canada are the following documents:
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
J. B. McLachlan explained why he resigned from the Communist Party in a 1936 letter to CPC leader Tim Buck
Who Are the Dreamers?, Peter Campbell provides another early Socialist Party of Canada leaflet, from 1912.
Never before published! Frank Watson’s September 1939 Antiwar Speech led to him becoming the first person convicted under the Defense of Canada Regulations.
Peter Campbell of Queens University has provided transcriptions of two early Socialist Party of Canada leaflets. One appears to be from the 1908 federal election, and the other remains to be dated.
In 1919, underground Communist groups created a sensation on southern Ontario by late-night distributions of pro-Bolshevik leaflets. The Edmonton local of the Socialist Party observed wryly that Toronto is Nervous.
Alex Shepherd was a long time SPC member who opposed joining the Communist International in 1921. From the The Western Socialist.
[Thanks to the the Socialist History Project ]
16 May
2005: Added to the
Swedish
Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive in the
Swedish Trotsky
Archive:.
Bort med tassarna från Rosa Luxemburg, Trotsky, 1932
[Thanks to Patrik Olofsson]
15 May, 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 Story of the British Labour Party, by Morris Hillquit [Sept. 1923] This article by SPA leader Morris Hillquit in the party’s official organ recounted the path of success in Great Britain.
Our Labor Party Policy, by James P. Cannon and William Z. Foster. [Nov. 1923] The split of the Chicago Federation of Labor from the Federated Farmer-Labor Party Conference of July 3-5, 1923, came as a stunning blow to the Communist Party’s union-oriented activists—of which Bill Foster and Jim Cannon were in the first rank. It was this matter that triggered a bitter factional war inside the Communist movement that lasted for the rest of the decade. This internal party document by Cannon and Foster is a salvo against the New York leadership of John Pepper and his co-thinkers.
Communist Party Pays for Farmer-Labor Party Convention, by Emil Herman. [Dec. 1923] This unusual and rare perspective of Socialist Party regional leader Emil Herman briefly details the Washington state convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, held in Everett over the weekend of Nov. 24-25, 1923. Herman states that “the Federated Farmer-Labor Party was born under the guidance and domination of the Workers Party”.
The Workers Party to the Fore, by William Z. Foster. [Nov. 1924] A rundown of the political situation in America by the Workers Party’s candidate for President of the United States. Foster view of the independent Presidential campaign of Sen. Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin is harsh.
Minutes of the Convention of the Communist Party, New York, May 20, 1944." Immediately prior to the convention founding the “Communist Political Association” there was a short pro forma convention of the Communist Party USA (technically the organization’s 12th) held to officially dissolve the CPUSA to make room for establishment of the CPA.
Constitution of the Communist Political Association: Adopted by the Constitutional Convention, May 20-22, 1944. The basic document of organizational law for the Communist Party during its brief interlude as the “Communist Poltical Association.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
14 May, 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:
For a Labor Party: Addenda to the Second Edition, May 15, 1923, by John Pepper. This document collects the vast majority of changed material from the original October 15, 1922, document (available as a separate file). Pepper excoriates the action of the Socialist Party delegates to the December 1922 Cleveland gathering of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, blaming them for the failure of the gathering to launch the Labor Party anxiously sought by rank and file trade unionists and poor farmers.
Statement of Principles of the Federated Farmer Labor Party: A document of the National Conference establishing the FFLP held at Chicago, July 3-5, 1923. During the 4th of July holiday in 1923 a conference was held in Chicago, conceived in large measure by the Workers Party of America as the vehicle for its united front efforts, which established the “Federated Farmer-Labor Party.”
Organization Rules of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party: A document of the National Convention establishing the FFLP held at Chicago, July 3-5, 1923. Constitution of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party approved by the founding convention of the organization.
The Farmers in the New Party, by Hal M. Ware. [Aug. 1923] While a great deal of analysis has been lavished upon the relationship between the Communist Party and the trade union movement during the Federated Farmer-Labor Party interlude of 1923-24, little effort has been spent on examining the relationship of the radical farmer movement to the new organization. This short article, written by the leading CP specialist in agricultural affairs of the first years of the 1920s, casts the relationship in a glowing light.
Let Us Build, by Eugene V. Debs. [Sept. 1923] From the time of his imprisonment in 1919 until the end of his life, Gene Debs tirelessly argued against factionalism within the radical movement. In this article from the Socialist Party’s official organ, Debs rues the energy lost to factional infighting and calls for an end to namecalling (“reds” vs. “yellows”) in the party. He colorfully remarks that “I know a good many of both, and so far as I am able to discern, they are much alike. The actual difference between them, were it fire, would hardly be enough to light a cigarette.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
13 May, 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive are the following three documents:
American Imperialism Grasps Its Manifest Destiny, 1941
Homage to John Brown, 1938
The Rise and Fall of Progressivism, 1957
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
13 May, 2005: Added to the new T.N. Vance (Ed Sard) Internet Archive:
A.A. Berle’s Capitalist Revolution, 1955 (book review)
An Amalgam of Marx and Keynes, 1957 (book review)
The Eisenhower Recession, 1958
Three more texts from the first theoretician of the Permanent War Economy.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 May 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is an article originally written in 1929 and serialized in The Fourth International in 1946 and 1947:
The Defense of the Soviet Union and the Opposition, in which Trotsky looks at how ultraleftists failed to defend the Soviet Union in the face of claims of violations of democratic and national rights. The article, which is also an early instance of the debate over the nature of the Soviet Union and the use of the Thermidor parallel, takes off from a dispute between Moscow and Chiang Kai-shek over the Chinese Eastern Railway, also looks at the relationship between the class struggle and the fight for national self-determination in an oppressed nation.
[Thanks to Andrew Polack]
11 May, 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive are the following four documents:
The Struggle for National Supremacy, 1789-1848, 1939
Negro Slavery in North America, 1939
The Colonial Plantation System, 1939
Radical Intellectuals in the 1930s, 1967
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
10 May, 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:
Plan of Action, three resolutions adopted by the Founding Conference of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, Chicago, IL, Feb. 21-22, 1922. Resolution1 recommended that “all labor, farmer, cooperative, and progressive political forces of the country, as represented in this Conference” unite to elect federal, state, and local political officials.
Theses on the United Front of Labor, a confidential document adopted by the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America at its session of May 29, 1922. A fascinating glimpse from the Comintern Archives at the thinking of the governing CEC of the Communist Party with respect to its United Front strategy. The majority of the American proletariat was not conscious of its distinct class interests, the document stated, and could gain awareness—and usefulness to the revolutionary movement—only through its daily struggle over wages, working conditions, etc.
A Look at the Elections, by C.E. Ruthenberg. [Nov. 1922] The Secretary of the Workers Party of America examines the significance of the recently-completed November 1922 elections. Ruthenberg sees ... a America in which “will bring into existence in the United States a conservative party of the capitalists; a Progressive Party representing the interests of the middle class and wealthy farmers; and a Labor Party, the mass party of the workers.”
Are the Communists Ready? by Max Bedacht. [March 1923] A brief summary of the development of the Communist International by a leading American participant. “The working class has only one rallying point in its struggle against capitalism—the Communist International,” states Bedacht, noting that the opponents of working class revolution have also learned from experience “the seriousness of the claims of the proletariat to political domination.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
10 May 2005: Introducing the Bill Bland Reference Archive, including two documents with more to follow:
Biography
Stalin: The Myth and the Reality (1999)
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
10 May 2005: Introducing the Fred Rose Reference Archive, part of the Canada Section of the Comintern Archive. The new archive incluses this work:
Le Masque Tombe
[Thanks to Kenneth Higham and Mike B.]
10 May 2005: Added to the Josef Stalin Reference Archive:
Speech at the Opening of the Second All-Russian Congress of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East (1919)
The Political Tasks of the University of the Peoples of the East (1925)
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
10 May 2005: Added to the Zhou Enlai Reference Archive:
Premier Chou En-Lai’s Letter to Prime Minister Nehru (1959)
[Thanks to Hari Kumar and Mike B.]
9 May 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
List of
Candidates, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 May 2005: Added to the Mayakovsky Archive:
Back
Home, 1925
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 May 2005: 3 documents have been added to the Ho Chi Minh Reference Archive:
Letter To Old
People (1945)
Twelve
Recommendations (1948)
Instructions
Given At The Conference Reviewing The Mass Education In The First Half Of
1956 (1956)
[Thanks to Christian Liebl]
8 May, 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive are the following eight documents:
U.S. Capitalism: National or International?, 1935
Marxism and the Intellectuals, 1935
American Intellectuals and the Crisis, 1936
The Big Five at London, 1945
New Judgment on the Sino-Soviet Rift: Monthly Review and the Great Debate, 1963
Some Reflections On The Life and Death of Malcolm X, 1965
Third Parties in American Politics, 1968
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
8 May, 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:
Constitution of the Workers Party of America: Adopted at National Convention, New York City, Dec. 24- 26, 1921. Full text of the intitial set of organizational rules governing the so-called "Legal Political Party" attached to the the underground Communist Party of America.
Minutes of the Central Executive Commitee of the CPA, January 1922. Official minutes of what seems to be the only January 1922 session of the Communist Party’s governing Central Executive Committee. This version expands abbreviations and provides the identities of underground pseudonyms whenever possible, making it relatively easy to interpret the document.
Emergency Convention: The Fifth Convention of the Communist Party of America. [Feb. 1922] From Jan. 7-11, the Central Caucus Faction of Ballam/Ashkenudzie/Dirba held an "Emergency Convention of the Communist Party of America," attended by 20 delegates and 18 fraternal delegates. Over this five day interval, the group heard a series of reports on the status of the organization, including a reading of confidential letters of the Comintern by Robert Minor on behalf of the CPA majority group.
Minutes of the Central Executive Commitee of the CPA, February 10, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 1922. Official minutes from the February 1922 sessions of the Communist Party’s governing Central Executive Committee. A variety of interesting tidbits: the balance of his funds owed the American CP by Louis Fraina ($15,666); decision-making as to participation in the founding conclave of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (three delegates sent with a declaration that the Workers Party is a revolutionary organization not believing in reforms); This version expands abbreviations and provides the identities of underground pseudonyms and coded slang whenever possible, making it relatively easy for casual users to comprehend the document.
Address to the American People, a document adopted by the Founding
Conference of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, Chicago, IL, Feb.
21-22, 1922. This declaration of purpose passed by the First Conference of the CPPA was wrapped in patriotic terms reminiscent of the Declaration of Independence.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
7 May, 2005: Added to the Dutch Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
De bureaucratie (The Bureaucracy)
De marxistische opvatting over revolutie en contrarevolutie (The Marxist Case for Revolution Today)
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee and Fréderic Lehembre]
7 May 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Thiers’
Declaration of Victory over the Commune
Added to the
Algerian War
Archive:
Declaration of Pierre
Frank at His Trial, Pierre Frank, 1956
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 May 2005: Added to the Eleanor Marx Archive:
Gladstone’s Budget
Speech Of 1863, correspondence with Sedley Taylor
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
6 May, 2005: Added to the new T.N. Vance (Ed Sard) Internet Archive:
After Korea – What?, 1950
An Exchange on Nationalisation, 1953 (correspondence with Kenneth MacKenzie)
The Myth of America’s Social Revolution, 1953 (review)
The Economic Outlook for 1954, 1954
T.N. Vance was a pseudonym for Ed Sard, an economist working on Wall Street, who also wrote under the names Walter J. Oakes and Frank Demby. He was originally a member of the YPSL and joined the SWP when the American Trotskyists were expelled from the Socialist Party in 1938. In the 1840 split he went with Shachtman into the Workers Party, where he became an important writer on economic questions. He developed the original concept of the Permanent War Economy, which was later picked up by Tony Cliff and Mike Kidron (of the British international Socialists) and developed into the theory of the Permanent Arms Economy. Armed with this they tried to explain the long post-war boom. We plan to include Vance’s 6-part series on the Permanent War Economy in the near future.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
5 May, 2005: Added to the Arabic section are a massive number of new writers and additions, some are translations into Arabic for the first time:
Lenin Archive:
On Strikes
What is to be Done?
(only chapter 5)
Where to Begin?
May Day
Trotsky Archive:
Biography
The Age of the Permanent Revolution(Biography by Isaac Deutscher)
The Permanent Revolution
Results and Perspectives
Opening of The 4th International Archive (sub-section in Trotsky’s Archive) with the following materials:
The Transitional Program
Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Social Democracy
4th International’s Role and Tasks
New World Situation
Opening of Rosa Luxemburg
archive with the following materials:
What Are the Origins of May Day?
Reform or Revolution
The Mass Strike
On the Spartacus Programme
Opening of Ernest Mandel archive with the following materials:
Introduction to Scientific Socialism
Leon Trotsky
Why an International Organization?
The Foundational Elements of Trotsky’s Theory on Fascism
Lectures in Marxist Political Economy
4th International: 40 years after its foundation
In Defence of October
The Revolutionary Concept and the Reformist Concept
Opening of J. Stalin archive within the Reference Writers Section with the following materials:
Works: Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Letters: Letter to Comrade Molotov
A Letter To Comrade Dov
[Thanks to the Volunteers of the MIA’s Arab Language Section]
5 May, 2005: Added to the German-language Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Der Kampf für eine Labor Party in den USA (1938) (The Struggle for a Labor Party in the USA).
Das Problem der Labor Party (1938) (The Problem of the Labor Party).
Drei Möglichkeiten einer Labor Party (1938) (Three Possibilities of a Labor Party).
[Thanks to Heinz Hackelberg]
5 May, 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 Yankee Convention, by Robert Minor. [April 1920] In this article from the pages of “The Liberator,” Communist Party leader Robert Minor reports on the Cooperative Congress, a national convention bringing together cooperative operators, farmers’ groups, labor unions, and the Plumb Plan League.
The Story of Alex Howat, by James P. Cannon. [April 1921] Article from the legal Communist monthly “The Liberator” on Alexander Howat, one of the most important left-wing labor leaders of the day as President of District 14 of the United Mine Workers of America. Cannon deals at length with his fellow Kansan’s protracted battle with the Southwestern Coal Operators’ Association, who had made use of the Kansas legislature to establish an Industrial Court as a mechanism for suppressing labor dischord. Lack of support by the UMWA for Howat’s cause was alleged to be a contributing factor in the mine owners’ uninterrupted battle with Howat.
Ruthenberg Convicted, by Jay Lovestone. [June 1923] The second trial springing from the August 1922 raid of the Bridgman Convention of the Communist Party of America saw Executive Secretary of the Workers Party of America C.E. Ruthenberg in the dock. This article from “The Liberator” by former and future CPA Executive Secretary Jay Lovestone details the course of the trial, which resulted in a conviction of Ruthenberg under the Michigan “Criminal Syndicalism” law.
The Labor Party Campaign: An Excerpt from the Report of the Central Executive Committee to the Third National Convention of the Workers Party of America, by C.E. Ruthenberg. [Jan. 1924] The Executive Secretary of the Workers Party of America reviews the organization’s activity for 1923 in the Farmer-Labor Party in this report to the 3rd Convention of the WPA.
St. Paul—June 17th, by James P. Cannon. [May 1924] An article from the monthly magazine of the Trade Unional Educational League lauding the forthcoming June 17th Convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, scheduled for St. Paul, MN. The St. Paul gathering was held in parallel with a July 4, 1924 convention of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, scheduled for Cleveland, which the Socialist Party was not incidentally attempting to steer in the same direction that the Workers Party was attempting to take the FLP. Cannon’s article attempts to explain this dualism.
Short History of the Farmer-Labor Party (1918-1924). A brief history of the national Farmer-Labor Party, from its origins in independent state organizations in 1918-19 to the termination of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party controlled by the Workers Party of America in 1924. Links to a partial list of officials of the national organization. (note: This is an early draft -- more work remains to be done.)
List of Delegates to the 1921 Detroit Convention of the Socialist Party of America. Listing of the 39 delegates and 6 fraternal delegates to the June 1921 Convention of the SPA, listed alphabetically by state.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
5 May, 2005: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
A Short Account of the Commune of Paris of 1871, 1886 (short account of the Paris Commune written with Victor Dave and William Morris)
An Old War Horse, 1898 (short biographical note on Frederick Lessner, an old comrade of Marx and Engels)
The Ethics of the »Burning Stain«, 1899 (remarkably progressive comments on sexual morality)
Last Words on “Blacks and Whites”, 1901 (some interesting thoughts on ethics)
A Study in Socialist Heresy-Hunting, 1909 (another dreadful tract against women’s suffrage)
Women’s Privileges and »Rights«, 1909 (rant against the Suffragettes)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 May 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
The Republic is Proclaimed, 4 September 1870
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
2 May, 2005: Added to the Dutch Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
Trotski: zijn bijdrage tot het marxisme
De opkomende “Vierde stand” in de burgerlijke
omwenteling van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1565-1585, 1789-1794, 1830)
Wie was Roman Rosdolsky (1898-1967)
De opheffing van de schuld van de Derde Wereld
Systeemconforme vakorganisaties?
Getuigenis van Ernest Mandel
Het lange golven debat: de inzet
De lessen uit het BCCI-schandaal
De lange golven van de kapitalistische ontwikkeling
[Thanks to Fréderic Lehembre]
2 May, 2005: Added to the Dutch Kropotkin Reference Archive:
De gemeente
Communisme, communes en de individuele vrijheid
Anarchisme (uit The Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Anarchie, filosofie en ideaal
[Thanks to Maarten Vanheuverswyn and Adrien Verlee]
2 May, 2005: Added to the Dutch Marx/Engels Internet Archive:
Anti-Dühring
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee]
2 May,
2005: Opening of a Dutch Mao Zedong Reference
archive
The first work is Een studie naar lichamelijke opvoeding.
[Thanks to S. Kroes]
2 May,
2005: Opening of a Dutch Otto Bauer Internet
archive
The first work is De opstand van de Oostenrijkse arbeiders.
[Thanks to Fréderic Lehembre]
1 May 2005: Added to the Chinese Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive are 3 new documents from Rosa Luxemberg:
The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case 1899
Stagnation and Progress of Marxism 1903
Karl Marx
[Thanks the Chinese language volunteers from around the world]
1 May 2005: Added to the French Language Marxists Internet Archive for the previous month is:
Lénine:
Sur les bonnes manifestations des prolétaires et des mauvais raisonnements de certains intellectuels (4.1.1905)
L’autocratie et le prolétariat (4.1.1905)
Il est temps d’en finir (4.1.1905)
Conférence des comités (4.1.1905)
La lutte contre le social-chauvinisme (1.6.1915)
Le problème de l’unification des internationalistes (1.5.1915)
IV° Internationale:
Rapport sur l’U.R.S.S. (P. Naville, congrès du POI, 1937)
La guerre du Moyen-Orient et la constituante palestinienne (CORQI, 1973)
P. Lafargue:
Origine de la propriété en Grèce (1895)
V. Serge:
La lutte des classes dans la révolution chinoise (fin avril 1927)
Adieu à A. Nin (25 août 1937)
P. Monatte:
L’Union Catholique des Cheminots (5 février 1913)
La voie est ouverte à la révolution espagnole (5 mai 1931)
Remerçions Staline (25 mai 1935)
La nouvelle CGT (janvier 1948)
M. Valière:
Fractions et tendances (9 mai 1948)
L. Trotsky:
Réponses aux questions du journal “Osaka Mainichi” (21 avril 1929)
Octobre 1929 (ajout de deux lettres à P. Naville)
II° Internationale:
Projet de charte d’unité S.F.I.O.-S.F.I.C. (1936)
A. Pannekoek:
La théorie de l’écroulement du capitalisme (1934)
La destruction comme moyen de lutte (1933)
[Thanks to the French langauge volunteers of the MIA]