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30 September, 2005:
In continuation of the project of scanning Soviet Life Magazine, which explores the Soviet Union from a cultural and societal perspective, we have uploaded an issue from February, 1969: On Marriage and Family | Roosevelt-Litvinov: Man to Man Talk.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
29 September 2005: Added to the France History Archive:
Report on negotiations with the 5th American Corps, 1944
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
28 September 2005: Added to the New Denis Diderot Archive:
Letter to my Brother, 1760
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
28 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1947-1958):
The Korean Truce and Its Aftermath, by the Editors (1953)
Civil Liberties and the Philosopher of the Cold War, by Gordon Haskell and Julius Falk (1953)
The New Turn in Kremlin Policy, by Abe Stein (1953)
All articles from New International, Vol.19 No.4, July-August 1953 are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
26 September 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Make Way for the People! Make Way for the Commune!, September 1870
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
25 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 2 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the founding of the Communist Party and the split from the Socialist Party by it's left wing:
National Executive Committee of Communist Labor Party Meets: Establishes Communist Labor as Official Organ and makes Class Struggle Magazine and Voice of Labor Official Publication of Party—Takes Over Publishing Business of the Socialist Publication Society. [Meeting of Oct. 25-27, 1919] Account from the official organ of the Communist Labor Party detailing the second gathering of the party’s governing National Executive Committee. The sessions were attended by the entire NEC: National Secretary Alfred Wagenknecht and NEC committeemen Max Bedacht (San Francisco), Alexander Bilan (Cleveland), L.E. Katterfeld (Cleveland), Jack Carney (Duluth), and Edward Lindgren (Brooklyn).
List of State Secretaries and Representatives of the Communist Labor Party [circa Nov. 1919] The CLP initially had a state-based system akin to that of the Socialist Party, with the state divided territorially into “locals.” the largest of these subdivided into “branches.” This structure was eliminated as a by-product of the Palmer Raids of January 1920. This is a complete list of the CLP’s State Secretaries and those organizers in states without a chartered state office.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
25 September 2005: Added to the James P. Cannon Archive: Five new selections from James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920-1928. These 1927 documents describe the efforts of the Cannon group in the CP to overcome factionalism in the party:
Conference on Moderating Factionalism, 7 February 1927, unsigned summary of conversation between J. P. Cannon, C.E. Ruthenberg, Max Bedacht and Jay Lovestone
For the Liquidation of Factionalism 6 May 1927
Theses on the Party Factional Situation, (excerpt), ca. May 1927, with William Weinstone
Report from Moscow , 26 June 1927, unsigned Cannon Group factional circular
Lovestone Faction an Obstacle to Party Unity, ca. June 1927
[Thanks to the Prometheus Research Library and Andrew Pollack]
24 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
The Strike Wave (1946)
De Gaulle as Military Theoretician, by Walter Jason (1946)
Politics in Occupied Germany, by A. Jeffers (1946)
The Post-Liberation Struggle in the Philippines, by Saul Berg (1946)
Lessons of the Detroit Elections, by Martin Harvey (1946)
The Stalinist Bureaucracy from the Inside, by George Stanley (1946)
On the WP-SWP Unity Discussions: Documents of the WP and the SWP Minority (1946)
The Farmers’ Last Frontiers, by Jim Black (1946)
Correspondence: From a Group of European Emigrés (1946)
From the AK of the IKD (1946)
From Ruth Phillips (1946)
All articles from New International, Vol.12 No.1, January 1946 are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
24 September, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
America’s Role in Europe, 1946 (written as Henry Judd)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
24 September, 2005: Added to the James M. Fenwick Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Politics of the International Working Class, 1946 (review of history of the French Trotskyist movement during World War II)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
24 September, 2005: Added to the Workers’ International News Archive:
Palestine Communists Denounce Stalin (1938)
Palestine the Pawn (1938)
Britain Holds Out (1940)
Police Regime in Northern Ireland by Bob Armstrong (1943)
Tasks of the Industrial Militants (1938) (Resolution Adopted at WIL Conference, Oct. 1943)
Terror In Greece (1945)
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie, by Suren Morarji (1946)
Palestine – The Anglo-American Commission of Enquiry (1946) (from Kol Hamaamad, organ of the Fourth International in Palestine)
The Indian Constituent Assembly (1946) (from Spark, the Indian Trotskyist Journal)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
23 September 2005: The
Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line in conjuction with the Holt Labor Library has uploaded to the Oral History section of the ETOL 30 lectures given by Larry Trainor, a worker-educator, on the History of American Trotskyism. Covering the period of the 1920s into the 1950s, these talks cover all aspects of the Marxist movement in the United States, from the Socialist Party, the IWW to the Communist Party and how these currents and tendencies reacted to the major issues of the day: union organizing, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, etc. The lectures are given in MP3 format and require a high-speed connection to download because of their large size. Holt Labor had these lectures digitized from cassette tapes that are part of their collection.
[Thanks to Stephen Upjohn and Shannon Sheppard from the Holt Labor Library and David Walters for the ETOL]
23 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the founding of the Communist Party and the split from the Socialist Party by it's left wing:
Circular Letter from Alfred Wagenknecht in Cleveland to ‘All National Convention Delegates,’ August 19, 1919. With the Emergency National Convention fast approaching, National Executive Sectretary pro tem Alfred Wagenknecht sent this circular letter to elected delegates in an attempt to organize the Left Wing Section for action against the Center-Right alliance loyal to National Executive Secretary Adolph Germer and the outgoing NEC of the party.
Excerpt of a Letter from Victor L. Berger in Milwaukee to Morris Hillquit at Saranac Lake, NY, August 20, 1919. Two of the biggest bogeymen lurking in the CP’s mythology of the 1919 Socialist Party split were Morris Hillquit and Victor L. Berger, held to be the grand chessmasters who manipulated lesser players. This is a valuable glimpse behind the scenes, correspondence from Wisconsin publisher and party leader Berger to the ailing HIllquit, recovering from tuberculosis at a sanitarium in upstate New York, written a mere 10 days before the start of the decisive Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party.
Historical Review of the Split in the Socialist Party and the Organization of the Communist Party and Communist Labor Party. [Sept. 1919] An official review of the split in the Socialist Party and division of the Communist movement in two new organizations from the perspective of the Communist Labor Party. Authorship is unknown, but the document appeared in the CLP’s official organ, Communist Labor Party News, and was reprinted in the CLP-affiliated press.
Application for Membership in the Communist International on Behalf of the Communist Labor Party of America by Alfred Wagenknecht [September 21, 1919] Succinct application for Comintern membership by the Executive Secretary of the Communist Labor Party of America, acting in accord with a resolution passed unanimously at the founding convention of the party, which closed Sept. 5, 1919.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
22 September 2005: Added to the Jean-Paul Marat Archive:
Letter to the Convention on the Sections, 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
22 September, 2005: Added to the James Burnham Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Science and Style: A Reply to Comrade Trotsky, 1940
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 September 2005:
Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:
Introduction to James P. Cannon and the Early Years of American Communism: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1920-1928. The Introduction describes Cannon's role in the activities and disputes of the CP and the Comintern in their early years, including the following topics: Cannon in the IWW; The Birth of American Communism; Cannon in the Underground; The United States in the 1920s; Cannon's Seven Months in Moscow, 1922; The Degeneration of the Comintern; John Pepper Comes to America; The Farmer-Labor Party; The Split with Fitzpatrick; The Fight Against "Pepperism"; Factional Gang War; Trotsky Fights the "Third Party Alliance"; The 1924-25 Faction Fight; The Fight Against Lore's "Two and a Half Internationalism"; The 1925 Decision on the Labor Party Slogan; The Cannon-Foster Split; The International Labor Defense; The American Negro Labor Congress; The TUEL and the Sixth Plenum of the ECCI; Anti-Trotskyism in the Mid-1920s; Ruthenberg's Sudden Death; Lovestone Becomes Lovestone; Cannon Becomes a Trotskyist.
[Thanks to the Prometheus Research Library and Andrew Pollack]
22 September 2005:
Added to the Communist Party U.S.A. Archive:
Four letters of the Socialist Party's Left Wing on the eve of the split which formed the Communist Party. The letters are by supporters of the tactic of prolonging the stay inside the SP so as to take as many members with them when pushed out by the bureaucracy. Most interestingly, three of the letters discuss the role in the intra-Left Wing dispute of the fate of the “Voice of Labor”, a paper which appears to have been a precursor of the Party's later efforts in the field of union reform via the Trade Union Educational League:
Letter by John Reed and Ben Gitlow to the Labor Committee of the National Conference of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, August 13, 1919
Reply by James P.Cannon to Reed and Gitlow, October 15th 1922
Reply by Stankowitz to Reed and Gitlow, August 19, 1919
Reply by L.E. Katterfeld to Reed, August 19, 1919
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Andrew Pollack]
22 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the founding of the Communist Party and the split from the Socialist Party by it's left wing:
Socialist Party on Trial, by William Bross Lloyd [February 1919] An extensive report of the trial of Beger, Germer, Kruse, Engdahl, and Tucker by the financial angel of the Left Wing, published in the pages of The Liberator.
Manifesto and Program of the Left Wing Section Socialist Party, Local Greater New York. [pamphlet version, circa May 1919] The main programatic document of the Left Wing Section, Socialist Party, was the “Left Wing Manifesto,” authored in January or early February by Louis C. Fraina, Bertram Wolfe, and others. The text of the document evolved slightly over time, eventually taking final shape as the content a pamphlet issued by Local Greater New York. This is the full text of the Left Wing Manifesto and Program as published in the May 1919 pamphlet.
Forty Thousand Expelled by Seven, by L.E. Katterfeld, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Louis C. Fraina [published June 7, 1919] An “official” Left Wing perspective of the May 24-30, 1919 plenum of the Socialist Party’s National Executive Committee—written by the two “minority” members of the NEC along with Left Wing leader Louis Fraina. The statement indicates that “the ‘moderates’ on the National Executive Committee show no realization of the problems of the International Revolution.
Letter from James P. Cannon in Kansas City, MO to John Reed and Ben Gitlow in New York, August 16, 1919. The reply of National Conference of the Left Wing Section Labor Committee member Jim Cannon to the letter of John Reed and Ben Gitlow of August 11 to the committee. Cannon offers his “complete endorsement” of the decision of Reed and Gitlow to begin producing “The Voice of Labor” despite the efforts of the majority of the National Council to halt the launch of the publication, calling the first issue of the publication “the biggest thing, in my opinion, that has come out of the national conference.”
Letter from Stankowitz in Pittsburgh to John Reed and Ben Gitlow in New York, August 19, 1919. The reply of National Conference of the Left Wing Section Labor Committee member Stankowitz, an immigrant industrial worker in Pittsburgh, to the letter of John Reed and Ben Gitlow of August 13 to the committee. Stankowitz, expressing himself as well as he is able in broken English, takes a middle position between the Federations wanting immediate formation of a Communist Party and the position of Reed, Gitlow, and Larkin. “
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
22 September 2005: Introducing the Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) Reference Archive. Lu is widely regarded as one of modern China’s most prominent and influential writers. His work promoted radical change through criticism of antiquated cultural values and repressive social customs. This new archive includes the following documents with many more forthcoming:
Biography
A Madman's Diary (April 1918)
The True Story of Ah-Q (December 1921)
Preface to “Call to Arms” (December 3, 1922)
Literature of a Revolutionary Period (April 8, 1927)
The Art of the Number-Two Clown (June 15, 1933)
The Secret of Being a Joker (August 28, 1933)
[Thanks to Mike B., coldbacon.com and Stefan Landsberger]
21 September 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Elections
in the Party!, Jacques Duclos 1931
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
19 September, 2005: Added to the Toward a History of the Fourth International Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Against Pabloist Revisionism A resolution from the 25th Anniversay Plenum of the Socialist Workers Party, November, 1953
[Thanks to Andy Pollack and David Walters]
18 September, 2005: Added to the Peng Shuzi Internet Archive and the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line’s Toward a History of the Fourth International sub-section is Peng’s:
The Chinese Experience With Pabloite Revisionism And Bureaucratism A Letter To James P. Cannon, 1953
[Thanks to Andy Pollack and David Walters]
18 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party:
Administrative Council Outlines Negotiations with Jewish Bureau, States Present Position: Letter of C.E. Ruthenberg to Louis F. Wolf, Dec. 1, 1922. [Published Dec. 16, 1922] An extremely valuable primary source document, a letter by WPA Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg to Louis Wolf, Executive Secretary of the WPA’s German section, recounting the crisis in the Jewish section of the WPA in close detail.
All Party Federations Condemn Breach of Discipline by Jewish Federation Bureau. [Published Dec. 16, 1922] In December 1922 a full-scale factional war erupted in the Yiddish Language Section of the Workers Party of America, pitting the Workers’ Council group, led by Moissaye J. Olgin, against the Jewish Federation of the unified CPA, headed by Alexander Bittelman. The Olgin group sought to consolidate its position by rushing a convention in December 1922, to be held before the 2nd National Convention of the WPA rather than after, and in this manner to present the national organization with a fait accompli. This decision came in opposition to the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the WPA.
The Socialist Party on Trial by William Bross Lloyd [February 1919] An extensive report of the trial of Beger, Germer, Kruse, Engdahl, and Tucker by the financial angel of the Left Wing, published in the pages of The Liberator.
Manifesto and Program of the Left Wing Section Socialist Party, Local Greater New York. [pamphlet version, circa May 1919] The main programatic document of the Left Wing Section, Socialist Party, was the “Left Wing Manifesto,” authored in January or early February by Louis C. Fraina, Bertram Wolfe, and others. The text of the document evolved slightly over time, eventually taking final shape as the content a pamphlet issued by Local Greater New York. This is the full text of the Left Wing Manifesto and Program as published in the May 1919 pamphlet.
Forty Thousand Expelled by Seven, by L.E. Katterfeld, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Louis C. Fraina [published June 7, 1919] An “official” Left Wing perspective of the May 24-30, 1919 plenum of the Socialist Party’s National Executive Committee—written by the two “minority” members of the NEC along with Left Wing leader Louis Fraina. The statement indicates that “the ‘moderates’ on the National Executive Committee show no realization of the problems of the International Revolution.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
18 September, 2005:Added to the MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project of Canada are the following documents:
The LSA’s 1974 Municipal Election Campaigns. In 1974 the League for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière nominated candidates in municipal elections in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal. We’ve posted:
Report from the Political Committee on the LSA’s civic election program
LSA’s main 1974 Toronto Election Brochure,
15 articles from Labor Challenge on the election campaigns.
Origin of the International Socialists. The group that became the International Socialists in Canada began as a study group in the Waffle caucus of the NDP.
Our Manifestos and Founding Statements section now includes the IS’s 1975-76 statements of principles and an article on its first National Convention.
Ross Dowson Remembers His First Decade in Politics. For decades, Ross Dowson was one of the most important figures in the Canadian Trotskyist movement. This pamphlet, published in 1988, is based on his reminiscences about his experiences in the revolutionary left from 1934 to 1945.
A Communist Apprenticeship in the Vietnam Demonstrations: Arnie Mintz recalls his early experiences in the revolutionary left, from the time he joined while still in high school in 1966.
[Thanks to the the Socialist History Project ]
17 September, 2005: Added to the Pierre Frank Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Democracy or Bonapartism in Europe?, 1945
Bonapartism in Europe II, 1945
France Under the Fourth Republic, 1947
A Study in French Centrism, 1948
Evolution of Eastern Europe, 1951 (report to 3rd Congress of the FI)
Imperialism Beckons “Third Camp”, 1951 (critique of the POUM and Shachtman)
The Politics of French Stalinism, 1952
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
17 September, 2005: Added to the new James M. Fenwick Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Carlson: “Homo Stalinensis”, 1948 (book review)
Marxist Missionary, 1948
The Mysterious Bruno R., 1948
War Vignette, 1948 (book review)
Korea and US Foreign Policy, 1950
Originally we identified these articles as originating from the pen of Hal Draper on teh basis of the list of Trotskyist pseudonyms on the Trotskyana website. We have, however, since been informed by Ernest haberkern of the Center for Socialist History at Berkeley, which was founded by Draper, that this is inaccurate and that James M. Fenwick was the pseudonym of another Workers Party/Independent Socialist League comrade called "Stuart". According to the Trotskyana list this would appear to be C.K. Stewart. We are therefore pleased to correct our error and start a James M. Fenwick Archive in ETOL.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
17 September 2005: Added to the George Novack Internet Archive the following three documents:
Review of Matthew Josephson’s The Politicos
Marx and Engels on the Civil War
Plebeian Caesar
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
17 September 2005: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line new section on the Toward A History of the Fourth International are three documents relating to the split in the FI in 1953:
Toward a History of the Fourth International An Introduction to a Discussion by Fred Feldman
Some Comments on the “Contribution to the Discussion,”
by George Clarke
Letter from Joseph Hansen, Morris Stein and Farrell Dobbs to George Novack
What the New York Discussion Has Revealed by Joseph Hansen
[Thanks to David Walters]
17 September 2005: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive:
Engels to Eduard Bernstein, 10 March 1882
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
16 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 2 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party and it’s Yiddish Language Federation:
Administrative Council Outlines Negotiations with Jewish Bureau, States Present Position: Letter of C.E. Ruthenberg to Louis F. Wolf, Dec. 1, 1922. [Published Dec. 16, 1922] An extremely valuable primary source document, a letter by WPA Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg to Louis Wolf, Executive Secretary of the WPA’s German section, recounting the crisis in the Jewish section of the WPA in close detail.
(12) “All Party Federations Condemn Breach of Discipline by Jewish Federation Bureau. [Published Dec. 16, 1922] In December 1922 a full-scale factional war erupted in the Yiddish Language Section of the Workers Party of America, pitting the Workers’ Council group, led by Moissaye J. Olgin, against the Jewish Federation of the unified CPA, headed by Alexander Bittelman. The Olgin group sought to consolidate its position by rushing a convention in December 1922, to be held before the 2nd National Convention of the WPA rather than after, and in this manner to present the national organization with a fait accompli. This decision came in opposition to the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the WPA.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
15 September 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Resolution of the Secretariat of the CI on the Policies of the French Party,
1930
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 September 2005: Added to the Zo d’Axa Archive:
Little Girls, 1895
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 September, 2005: Added to the Chinese Section of the MIA is Rosa Luxemburg’s:
Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
[Thanks to Lam of Chinese language volunteers of the MIA]
13 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party:
The Split in the Socialist Party by Joseph B. Stilson [July 30, 1919] The Translator-Secretary of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation, one of the leading players in the 1919 crisis in the SPA, provides a lengthy perspective on the history of the party split. Stilson saw the war as an important turning point in the radicalization of the SP rank and file, one that tipped the majority of the party against its centrist office holders. Faced with electoral defeat in the party election of 1919, the SP leadership began acting in a manner befitting of Tammany Hall, expelling and suspending its opponents without trial, backed by the flimsiest of excuses, hypocritically framed.
Letter of John Reed, et al. in New York to C.E. Ruthenberg in Cleveland, August 11, 1919. Archival letter attributed to the typewriter of John Reed attempting to bring Left Wing National Council member C.E. Ruthenberg of Cleveland up to speed as to the rapid developments of August 1919.
Letter of John Reed and Ben Gitlow in New York to the Labor Committee of the Left Wing National Conference, August 11, 1919. Letter written by Reed with Gitlow sent out to the other 7 members of the Labor Committee established by the June 1919 National Conference of the Left Wing. Reed outlines the factional politics in the National Council of the Left Wing, pitting Secretary Isaac Ferguson, Revolutionary Age editor Louis Fraina, and their allies on the Council (John Ballam, Max Cohen, and Bertram Wolfe) against the National Council minority of Gitlow and Jim Larkin, along with their allies Reed and Eadmonn MacAlpine.
Minutes and Executive Motions of the Left Wing National Council, August 4-12, 1919. The Left Wing National Council was the executive committee established by the National Conference of the Left Wing held in New York, June 21-24, 1919. Originally a 9 member board, by August the Council had evolved into a 7 member group, headed by Secretary Isaac E. Ferguson and including John Ballam, Max Cohen, Benjamin Gitlow, Jim Larkin, C.E. Ruthenberg, and Bert Wolfe.
The Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement by William Z. Foster [Oct. 1922]
Full text of a pamphlet published by the Trade Union Educational League as No. 4 in its “Labor Herald Library” series, authored by the founder and secretary of the TUEL organization, William Z. Foster. Foster depicts the weak position of American unionism as a by-product of the dual unionist tradition of the countries radical labor militants, who anathmetized the American Federation of Labor in favor of a series of ineffectual attempts to build an explicitly radical alternative. This pamphlet includes a useful chapter in which Foster recounts his previous organizational activities as founder of the Syndicalist League of North America, the International Trade Union Educational League, and the TUEL itself.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
13 September, 2005: Added to the Workers’ International News Archive:
What Next for the ILP? (1939)
Danzig and the Coming War (1939)
Tientsin (1939)
Whither the PSOP? by H.R. (1939)
Slave Camps in Britain (1938)
Ferment in India, by Ajit Roy (1939)
Diplomacy Hides War Plans (1939)
The Irish Revolution has Begun (1939)
Stalinists Turn Back Refugees (1939)
Congress Socialism, by Ajit Roy (1939)
PSOP in Conference, by H.R. (1939)
Anglo-American Relations, by Andrew Scott (1943)
Fascism or Socialism in Post-War Britain, by Andrew Scott (1943)
WIL Thesis on Indian Revolution (1943)
Guerrilla Movements in Greece, by G.D. (1939)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 September, 2005: Added to the Chinese Section of the MIA is Rosa Luxemburg’s:
Reform or Revolution
introduction and ch.1,2,3,4
[Thanks to Lam of Chinese language volunteers of the MIA]
12 September, 2005: Added to the Arabic Section of the MIA is the opening of the new archive for Alexandra Kollontai with the following works:
Who is Alexandra Kollontai? (a biography)
History of the Socialist Women Workers Movement in Europe
The Development of the Working Women’s Socialist Movement
Organization of Women Workers in the West
Communism and the Family
Kollontai’s Report
Additionally we have added to the Arabic language Lenin Archive:
Lecture On The 1905 Revolution
[Thanks to the Arabic language volunteers of the MIA]
12 September, 2005: Added to the Swedish
Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive is the opening of
a Nikita Khrushchev Archive.
Tal till Sovjetunionens kommunistiska partis XX :e kongress, Nikita
Chrusjtjov, 1956
Till det socialistiska paradisets försvar, Nikita Chrusjtjov, 1970
[Thanks to Patrik Olofsson]
12 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 2 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party:
The National Left Wing Conference by Louis C. Fraina. [Published July 5, 1919] Originally an unsigned report from the pages of The Revolutionay Age, attributed to Fraina based upon his editorship and content. This article details the First (and only) National Conference of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, held in New York City from June 21-24, 1919. The session was attended over 90 delegates hailing from about 20 different states. The opening address was given by Fraina, who said that “the proletarian revolution in action has modified the old tactical concepts of Socialism; and the inspiration of the Bolshevik conquests, joining with the original minority Socialism in the Socialist Party, has produced the Left Wing.”
The National Left Wing by Isaac E. Ferguson [published July 25, 1919] An open letter from the Secretary of the National Council of the Left Wing Section, established by the June 1919 National Conference of the Left Wing held in New York. Ferguson announces that the National Council is to conduct “the work of publicity and preparation on a national scale” for the August 30 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party, to be held in Chicago.
“The Left Wing triumph in the party elections makes emphatically clear what
the membership wants.... It must not be annulled by the brazen dictation of
a repudiated National Executive Committee which insists upon ruling the
party in spite of the ending of its term on July 1st.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
12 September, 2005: Added to the new Workers’ International News Archive:
More Arms? (1938)
Imperial Prelude to War (1938)
Hacks of the GPU (1938)
The Lesson of Aylesbury (1938)
Slump (1938)
Jingo-Communism (1938)
A Century of Freedom (1938)
The Social Patriots Face War (1938)
Profit and Loss (1938)
Voluntary Conscription (1938)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 September 2005: Added to the Chinese Communism Subject Archive:
Apologists Of Neo-Colonialism (October 22, 1963)
Peaceful Coexistence — Two Diametrically Opposed Policies (December 12, 1963)
[Thanks to Basu and Mike B.]
11 September 2005: Added to the Greek Civil War Subject Archive:
The Guerilla Struggle in Greece (June 1948)
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis, Ted Crawford, and Mike B.]
11 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party and its split from the Socialist Party of America:
Letter from Adolph Germer in Chicago to Morris Hillquit at Saranac Lake, New York, June 2, 1919 Very illuminating letter from the National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party to leading luminary Hillquit, then convalescing from tuberculosis at a sanitarium in upstate New York.
The National Committee Meeting by James Oneal. [June 4, 1919] The Socialist Party’s most aggressive anti-Communist member of the NEC explains the actions of that body at its seminal May 26-30 plenary session, a riotous meeting which saw the expulsion of the entire Socialist Party of Michigan and the suspension of the party’s Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and South Slavic Language Federations -- a majority of the members of the entire organization.
The Counterrevolution in the Party: Report of the NEC Sessions
in Chicago by I.E. Ferguson [June 7, 1919] The definitive account of
the seminal May 24-30 plenum of the Socialist Party’s National
Executive Committee which expelled the Socialist Party of Michigan
and suspended the entire memberships of the Russian, Ukrainian,
Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Hungarian, and South Slavic Socialist
Federations. Ferguson, one of the principles of the Left Wing
movement, is scathing in his review of the machinations of the
outgoing SP NEC.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
10 September 2005: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
Report On the
Incarcerated, Saint-Just 1793.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 September 2005: Added to the Maurice Thorez Archive:
For the Organization of the United Front of Anti-Fascist Struggle, 1934
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 September, 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Internet Archive:
Letter to Andres Nin, 1936
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 September, 2005: Added to the Irving Howe Internet Archive:
Intellectuals’ Flight From Politics, 1947
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
8 September, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
Behind the British Social Crisis, 1947 (written as Henry Judd)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
7 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1947-1958):
The Marshall Plan vs. the Stalin Plan, Notes of the Month (1947)
SWP and the UAW, Notes of the Month (1947)
James Burnham, A Modern Cato, by Jack Weber (1947)
Political Program for South Africa, by Robert Stone (1947)
The Nature of the General Strike, by Leon Trotsky (1935)
The Fourth International and the Saar, League of Communist Internationalists (Bolshevik-Leninist) (1934)
Colonial Questions Today, Resolution of the Chinese Trotskyists (1946)
The Anti-Hitler Plotters, by Oscar Williams (1946)
All articles from New International, Vol.13 No.8, October 1947 are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
7 September, 2005: As part of the continuing and rapid expansion of the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) a brand new History index page has been started established as part of this project: Toward A History Of The Fourth International. This page groups together previously uploaded documents on the history of Trotskyism with new additions from recently acquired bulletins. The documentation will take the reader from the founding of the Fourth International in 1938 through the early 1980s. Almost all the documents are original documents produced as part of the creation of this legacy of Leon Trotsky and the International Left Opposition. Added to this collection are:
An Introduction to the Toward A History Of The Fourth International from one of the sources for this collection, the The Education for Socialists Bulletins, by Fred Feldman
Some Comments on the “Contribution to the Discussion” by George Clarke
[Thanks to David Walters & Andy Blunden for providing the Education for Socialist Bulletins]
7 September 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Appeal to Working Women, May 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the Communist Party:
Rules of Order of the 3rd National Convention of the Workers Party of America. Held in Chicago, Dec. 30, 1923 - Jan. 2, 1924 The predetermined rules for the 3rd Convention of the WPA and agenda for that same gathering. Reports were delievered to the gathering by Ruthenberg (keynote), Foster, Engdahl, Lovestone, Minor, Lore, Ballam, Jakira, Bedacht, Manley, Abern, and Cannon.
The Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial by Alexander Bittelman [Sept. 1936] From August 19-24, 1936, was held in Moscow the first of three sensational public “show trials” featuring prominent former members of the Soviet elite accused of complicity in counterrevolutionary conspiracies to commit murder and overthrow the Soviet state.
Advance in Chicago: An Analysis of the March 1937 Special Convention by Samuel Romer & Hal Siegel. Factionalism remained one of the central concerns of the organization, however, particularly the working alliance between the historic small group of “single plankers” (who advocated no ameloriative reforms in the party program, only the agitation for revolutionary socialism) and the new cohort of former members of the Trotskyist “Workers Party,” who shared this perspective and gave the position critical mass from a factional standpoint. [Thanks to Tim Davenport]
4 September, 2005: Announcement from the Polish Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive: It is with great pleasure and satisfaction that we announce the commencement of the work on the transcription of the First Volume of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution which was not avaliable in print since the 1930’s. While making transcription we put an extraordinary effort as to preserve both the form and the content of the original version, this includes also leaving intact the orthographical rules that were the norm more than 70 years ago in Polish in order to give to the readership not only the complete content of Trotsky’s work but also to preserve the authorised translation by Stanislaw Lukomski. It should also be a source of inspiration for us that even in times of military dictatorship of Pilsudski in Poland the ideas of Trotsky had an echo. In the coming period we shall conclude the first volume and start the work on the second. It should be also acknowledged that digitalising a text that has more than 70 years and survived war and Stalinism is a very difficult task. At present we have transcribed all the chapters until “The Bolsheviks and Lenin”.
[Special thanks to Kinga Wyszynska, who has dedicated innumerable amount of time to proof-read and correct any mistakes in the text, and Wojciech Figiel, who found and scanned the printed version]
4 September, 2005: Added to the Swedish Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive is the opening of a Karl Kautsky Archive. New works added in the Swedish Marx & Engels Archive are:
Kritiska randanmärkningar till artikeln »Kungen av Preussen och
socialreformen», Karl Marx, 1844
[Thanks to Riff-Raff]
Juristsocialism, Friedrich Engels & Karl Kautsky, 1887
[Thanks to Riff-Raff]
4 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
Blitzkrieg and Revolution, An Editorial (1940)
Mass and Class in Soviet Society, by M. Lebrun (1940)
Where Is the Petty Bourgeois Opposition?, by SWP Minority (1940) (Partial reply to Trotsky’ From a Scratch to the Danger of Gangrene)
All articles from New International, Vol.6 No.4, May 1940 (the second issue after the 1940 split in the Socialist Workers Party) are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
4 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
The Republican Sweep (1946)
Trieste – City Between Two Worlds (1946)
France’s “No Exit” Sign (1946)
Resolution on “Pakistan”, Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India (1946)
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie, by Suren Morarji (1946)
A Note on The Open City, by Meyer Schapiro (1946)
Our Threatened Values, by Richard Stoker (1946) (book review)
Correspondence ..., from Peter Lomos (1946) (on Arthur Koestler)
All articles from New International, Vol.12 No.10, December 1946 are now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
4 September, 2005: Added to the J.T. Farrell Internet Archive:
Cain’s Movietone Realism, 1945
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
4 September, 2005: Added to the Albert Goldman Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Basis of Workers’ Democracy, 1946
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
3 September, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
Behind the Hindu-Moslem Strife, 1946 (written as Henry Judd)
Politics of the International Working Class, 1946 (written as H.J.)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
2 September, 2005: Added to the C.L.R. James Internet Archive:
Native Son and Revolution, 1940
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O’Callaghan]
2 September 2005: Added to the Henri Rochefort Archive:
Selections from La Lanterne, 1868
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
1 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early years of the Communist Party:
Force and Violence by Israel Amter. [Oct. 31, 1922] Amter, long a fixture on the far left wing of the Communist Party of America, launches an attack on American hypocrisy as to “force and violence.” When practiced by foreign states in the service of capital, as in Italy, Hungary, South Africa, Poland, or Finland—“force and violence” is ignored or quietly applauded. When practiced by the American version of the Italian Fascisti, such as the Ku Klux Klan, sections of the American Legion, or the American Defense Society—“force and violence” is allowed to be practiced without fetters. When practiced by state and municipal authorities—“force and violence” is allowed “without regard to law or constitution.”
Cable to the Workers Party of America in New York from Grigorii Zinoviev in Moscow, December 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.
Letter to the Workers Party of America and all its Language Federations from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, January 25, 1923 The ECCI salutes the seeming unity of action coming from the WPA’s Dec. 1922 Second Convention and congratulates it for solving the question of Language Federations in a “satisfactory way, in that it regards the Federations merely as propaganda sections of the Party.”
Letter from Edgar Owens and C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago to Vasil Kolarov in Moscow, Feb. 17, 1923 This is an informative review of the status of “political” cases in the United States, in response to a request from Moscow for information in conjunction with the formation of a new international legal defense organization.
The Nucleus in America: A Secret Memo on Party Organization from the
Executive Committee of the Communist International to the Central Executive Committee of the WPA, July 11, 1923. The underground Communist Party of America was formally liquidated at a convention starting April 7, 1923, in New York City. This secret memo, probably written by Grigorii Zinoviev, reminds the WPA that despite the complete move to an “open” party, “American comrades would be greatly mistaken if they cherished the illusion that henceforward they will be in a position to carry on their work unhindered exclusively in a legal organization.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
1 September 2005: Added to the Jules Vallès Archive:
A Choice Must Be Made, Le Cri du Peuple, April 6, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]