December 2006
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30 December, 2006: The following documents have been added to Catalan language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the specific documents can be seen at the Catalan What’s New section:
Lev Trockij:
Problemes nord-americans (1940), de Lev Trockij.
Testament (febrer del 1940) de Lev Trockij.
La dialèctica i la immutabilitat del sil·logisme (1939), de Lev Trockij.
Stalin vol la meua mort (1940), de Lev Trockij.
Lletra als obrers de l’URSS (1940), de Lev Trockij.
El memorial Tanaka (1940), de Lev Trockij.
[Thanks to the Catalan language volunteers]
30 December, 2006: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the William Paul Archive:
Lenin on Communist Tactics in Britain
Added to the Arthur MacManus Archive:
Added to the R. Page Arnot Archive:
Unemployment!
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
30 December, 2006: Added to the
O
Trabalho Feminino Dever de Todo o Partido,1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
30 December 2006: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive:
To the Workers of
England (1920), an abbreviated letter published in The Communist
from the All-Russian Trade Union Council to the workers in England that
publicizes British authorities’ refusal to allow their delegation into
the country and appeals for support and world revolution to sustain the Russian
Revolution.
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
December 30, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 9 documents:
Peter Kropotkin
De verovering
van het brood — 1892
Patrice Lumumba
Rede op de dag van
de onafhankelijkheid — 1960
Walter Ulbricht
Ons
vijfjarenplan voor een vreedzame opbouw — 1952
Onze schat:
socialistische brigaden en arbeidsgemeenschappen —
1961
Michael Bakoenin
Het
kapitalistische systeem — 1871
Ernest Mandel
Twintig jaar na
de Hongaarse Arbeidersopstand (audiobestand) —
1976
Henk Sneevliet
Spontaan
verzet tegen steunverlaging — 1934
Het monsterpact van
Stalin met Hitler — 1939
Edward Thompson
Een soort
machine — 1968
[Simon Degraeve, Herman Mechiel, Frederic Lehembre,
Rick Denkers, Adrien Verlee]
29 December 2006: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:
Russia on the March: a
study of Soviet Foreign Policy (1941), a justification of the ‘zig-zags’ in Soviet foreign policy that touches on
‘Socialism in One Country,’ the relationship between the stalinized
Comintern and the Soviet Government, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Finno-Soviet War and
the lead up to WWII.
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
28 December, 2006: Added to the
O
Programa do Partido e as Tarefas da U.J.C.,1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
26 December, 2006: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Twenty Years After 1905
[Thanks to Committee for a Workers International and David Walters]
26 December, 2006: The following documents have been added to French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the specific documents can be seen at the French What’s New section:
Lénine:
Une commission de plus
Partis dirigeants et responsables
Une singulière falsification de citations
En justice Rodzianko et Djounkovski pour avoir couvert un provocateur !
L'Ukraine et la défaite des partis dirigeants de la Russie
Comment combattre la contre-révolution ?
De quelle classe viennent et « viendront » les cavaignac ?
L'Ukraine
L. Trotsky:
Lettres de L. Trotsky, novembre et décembre 1931
P. Broué:
La Révolution et la Guerre d’Espagne (avec E. Témine, 1961)
Section Israël-Palestine:
Le problème palestinien et le conflit israélo-arabe (Manifeste de l'Organisation Socialiste Israélienne - 18 mai 1967)
Préface à "La Conception Matérialiste de la question juive", d'Abraham Léon (M. Rodinson - 1968)
[Thanks to the French
language volunteers]
26 December, 2006: The following documents have been added to Catalan language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the specific documents can be seen at the Catalan What’s New section:
Clara Zetkin:
Per l’alliberament de la dona (1889)
Lev Trockij:
La situació mundial i les seues perspectives (1940)
Els Estats Units participaran en la guerra (1939)
Stalin, el comissari de Hitler (1939)
Mansur Hekmat:
Característiques fonamentals del Partit Obrer Comunista (1992)
Hal Draper:
Les beceroles dels moviments d’alliberament nacional (1968)
James Connolly:
Els amics de les petites nacionalitats (1914)
[Thanks to the Catalan
language volunteers]
26 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 new PDF documents:
The Farmer-Labor Party Convention: Chicago -- July 11-14, 1920, by Robert M. Buck The second convention of the Labor Party of the United States, held in Chicago July 11-14, 1920.
'May It Please the Court': Trial of Communist Labor Party Commences. State Opens Its Side. Trial Expected to Last 6 Weeks, by Jack Carney [July 12, 1920] On July 12, 1920, a mass trial of 21 members of the Communist Labor Party was begun in Chicago, charged with violation of the Illinois Overthrow Statute.
The Farmer-Labor Party, by Upton Sinclair [July 25, 1920] Brief summary of the 2nd Convention of the Labor Party of the United States (which changed its name to the Farmer-Labor Party of the United States) by California Socialist author Upton Sinclair.
Eugene V. Debs, Prisoner No. 9653, Interviewed in Prison, by Norman Hapgood [Oct. 23, 1920] Prison interview by conservative editor Norman Hapgood with Socialist Presidential candidate Eugene Debs, conducted in the visiting room of Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. “To me he and Trotsky are monumental figures. But I have been puzzled by what he [Lenin] has said recently about other Socialist parties, if he is authentically reported. The British Labour Party saved him.”
Statement to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America from the Lithuanian Bureau on the Proposed Reorganization of the Party, by K. Povas [circa March 1923] Communique of the Secretary of the Lithuanian Bureau of the unified CPA to the governing Central Executive Committee taking issue with the decision to amalgamate the underground and legal wings of the organization.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
26 December, 2006: Added to the
O
Programa do Partido, A Questão Agrária, a
Organização e a Luta dos Camponeses,1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
25 December, 2006: Added to the
[Thanks to Editora Civilização Brasileira and Pablo de Freitas Lopes]
24 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 new PDF documents:
Socialist Unity in the United States by Charles H. Kerr [Dec. 1907] Eminent Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr presents the recent referendum put forward by Local Redlands, California calling for the amalgamation of the Socialist Party of America with the Socialist Labor Party on the basis of industrial unionism and a party-owned press.
The Failure to Attain Socialist Unity by Frank Bohn [June 1908] This article by former SLP member and current IWW activist Frank Bohn states that “unity of the Socialist movement should undoubtedly have been attained in 1901...”
’No War!’ is Socialist Party Demand: Declaration of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America [Feb. 17, 1917] This resolution of the Socialist Party’s governing National Executive Committee blasts Woodrow Wilson for his unilateral executive decree breaking off diplomatic relations with the German empire and placing “the people of the United States in imminent danger of being actively drawn into the mad war of Europe.”
President Wilson Has Heard the ‘Voices of Humanity That Are in the Air’ and Declares in Favor of Democratic Settlement of War by Louis Kopelin [Dec. 15, 1917] While attempting to characterize the action as a continuation of previous editorial policy, this lead editorial by Appeal to Reason editor Louis Kopelin marks a major shift in that publication’s editorial line toward American militarism in Europe.
St. Louis Resolution Must Be Repudiated is Decision of Loyal American Socialists by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius [May 25, 1918] In the spring of 1918, sentiment among the social patriotic minority still inside the Socialist Party (and their apostate co-thinkers now outside of the party) began to build for the formation of a new political organization.
South Slavic Federations Withdraw From Socialist Party; May Combine with Social Democratic League by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius [event of Sept. 20, 1918] The war in Europe was a divisive issue within the South Slavic Federation of the Socialist Party of America, with the radical Croatian component staunchly supporting the party’s unbending anti-militarist position, while the large Slovenian and small Serbian component bitterly disagreeing.
Circular Letter to Comintern-Affiliated Parties on Parliamentarism and the Soviets from Grigorii Zinoviev, President of ECCI, September 1, 1919. This communique from the President of the Executive Committee of the Communist International to affiliated Communist organizations around the world (received and published in the United States in February 1920) deals with the hot-button topic of parliamentarism.
Socialist Party Going Strong! by Jack Carney [Jan. 23, 1920] Sarcastically titled commentary on the state of the rival Socialist Party of America from Communist Labor Party NEC member and newspaper editor Jack Carney of Duluth, Minnesota.
The Socialist Party Convention by Jack Carney [May 21, 1920] Communist Labor Party NEC member and editor of Duluth Truth Jack Carney grudgingly provides a brief commentary to the paper’s readers on the May 8-14, 1920 Convention of the Socialist Party of America.
Correspondence Relating to the Application of the South Slavic Federation for Readmission to the Socialist Party of America from Frank Petrich, Secretary.’ [July 1, 1920] The Slovenian-dominated South Slavic Federation withdrew from the Socialist Party on Sept. 20, 1918, over the issue of the war (the Slovenian and Serbian members of the federation being generally pro-war in orientation, the SPA maintaining a strong anti-militarist line throughout).
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
24 December, 2006:
Added to The
Communist Review section of the Communist
Party of Great Britain Archive:
The first edition of the Communist Review (complete)
Books
and Pamphlets Explaining the Communist Position
Review
of the Month
The
Heroic Sailors of the Russian Revolution, Larissa Reisner
Ireland
and the Social Revolution, Frederick Willis
What
are Soviets? (Part I), W. E. Harding
The
Class War in Germany, Charles Rappoport
The
Practical Problems of World Revolution, F. Maharadze
How
Lefebvre, Lepitet and Vergeat were Drowned, Frederick Strom
Peter
Kropotkin’s Last Letter, Peter Kropotkin
Report
of Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
Agenda
of the Third Congress of the Communist International
A
Circular of the Russian Central Committee, Communist Party of Soviet
Russia
A
Decision the Executive of the Communist International
An
Appeal of the Communist Party of Georgia
France:
Propaganda By Word, P. Vaillant-Couturier
Georgian
Workers and the R.T.U.I., Georgian Trade Union Alliance
Summary
of the Resolution adopted by the
United Communist Party of Germany, United Communist Party of Germany
The
United Communist Party of Germany and the Trade Unions, United Communist
Party of Germany
[Thanks to Adam Buick & Brian Reid]
23 December, 2006: Added to the
O Partido Comunista Quer,
Precisa, Deseja Ser Compreendido, 1945
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
23 December, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project in Canada has made the following additions:
Documents of the 1954 Split in the Canadian Trotskyist Movement In 1953, the Trotskyist Fourth International split into two public factions. Most of the national parties and groups in the International supported one side or the other, and many experienced serious splits. These documents outline the experience of the Canadian organization, from the point of view of the majority.
The Communist Party Condemns Publication of Tim Buck's Reminiscences A 1977 letter from the CP of Canada's Central Executive Committee explains why two party leaders were censured and disciplined for editing and publishing the a book based on interviews with Tim Buck.
The Political Journey of Charles Gagnon Two reminiscences about the the founder of En Lutte!, together with an essay on the evolution of his views, based on interviews conducted shortly before his death.
We have opened two new sections of the website, for documents by and about the Canadian Party of Labour and En Lutte! Though very different from each other, both groups both started out as pro-China, but then evolved away from orthodox Maoist positions:
The Canadian Party of Labour Handbook, published in 1975 as an introductory guide for people who were considering joining CPL.
Charles Gagnon 1939-2005, an evaluation of the founder and main leader of En Lutte!, written by Marxists who respected him while disagreeing with his politics.
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of
Canada]
23 December, 2006: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
The Position of
Women in the Socialist Movement
“Republics Versus
Women,” by Mrs. Kate Trimble Wolsey
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
22 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 8 new PDF documents, focusing on the development of the radical Chacago union based Labor Party:
The Parlor Socialists, by Ellis O. Jones [Oct. 1907] This is one of the most thoughtful and well-crafted essays of the Debsian period of the Socialist Party of America—a defense of the so-called “parlor socialists, published in the pages of the International Socialist Review. Jones, a rank-and-file socialist from Columbus, Ohio, states that up until as few as 5 years previously socialism had received scant attention in America, dismissed as an idiosyncratic preoccupation of peculiar European immigrants.
Circular Letter ‘To All Members of the Socialist Party’ from Executive Secretary Adolph Germer, Aug. 8, 1919. Reply of National Secretary Germer to the provisional National Executive Committee who were denied their seats on the NEC when the outgoing NEC abrogated the 1919 party elections.
Letter from Samuel F. Hankin in Chicago to Benjamin Gitlow in New York, Aug. 18, 1919. Communication from Chicago Left Wing leader Samuel Hankin to New York leader Ben Gitlow.
Call Off Steel Strike, Union Drive Goes On: National Committee Says Men Can Go Back to Mills While New Plans are Perfected, by Robert M. Buck [event of Jan. 8, 1920] Beginning Sept. 22, 1919, a enormous strike was conducted in the American steel and iron industry, led by the National Committee for Organizing Iron and Steel Workers headed by William Z. Foster.
Wild-Eyed Palmer Waves Red Flag: His Fake May Day ‘Rebellion’ Makes Him Laughing Stock of Nation, by Robert M. Buck [May 8, 1920] According to The New Majority, May Day 1920 was cynically used by Presidential aspirant Attorney General Mitchell Palmer as a means of launching his bandwagon.
Socialists Discuss Labor Party League: National Convention to Decide Whether Union of Forces May Become Possibility, by J.C. Laue [May 11, 1920] Report from the official organ of the Labor Party of the United States on the deliberations of the Socialist Party of America with respect to cooperation with non-socialist political organizations.
Thumbs Down” is Socialists’ Edict: Can’t See Labor Party—Caution Governs Deliberations at 8th Convention. (Unsigned news article from The New Majority) [May 22, 1920] Contrary to previous expectations, the Socialist Party did not liberalize its anti-fusionism rules at its 1920 national convention.
John Fitzpatrick Greets Delegates: Room for All Useful Citizens in the Labor Party of US, He Says. by Robert M. Buck [July 11, 1920] Keynote speech by Chicago Federation of Labor leader John Fitzpatrick to the 2nd Convention of the Labor Party of the United States.
“As to ‘Red Terror,’ by Will Herberg [Dec. 15, 1934] Rather snotty editorial from the pages of the offical organ of the Communist Party (Opposition) attacking Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party for their protests against the mass repression which swept the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the assassination of Sergei Kirov.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
21 December 2006: Added to the Zinoviev Archive:
Circular Letter to
Comintern-Affiliated Parties on Parliamentarism and the Soviets, September
1, 1919
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
19 December, 2006: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
Une Imprimerie
Phalanstère
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
18 December 2006: Added to the Marxism in Japan Section:
The Labor Movement in Japan
, 1918
[Thanks to T. Crawford]
18 December 2006: Added to the Marxism in Japan Section:
Exploitation of Labor
, 1967
[Thanks to M. Schauerte]
17 December, 2006: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:
The
Workers’ Committee: An Outline of its Principles and Structure
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
17 December, 2006: To the Swedish Lenin Archive was added:
The state and revolution, V.I. Lenin, 1917
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
17 December: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
Prison Reform:
from a Social-Democratic Point of View
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
16 December, 2006: Added to the Tom Mann Archive in the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Power Through
the General Strike: A Call to Action
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
16 December, 2006: Added to the T. A. Jackson Archive in the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Utopia and its
Author, Review of Kautsky’s Thomas More and his Utopia
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
13 December 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 19 editorials from The People [New York] for the month of June, 1903:
1903, June 1—The Fates Are Unkind to Gompers!
1903, June 2—Tom Soley’s End of “Equality”
1903, June 3—Welcome Suiciders
1903, June 4—Imperium in Imperio
1903, June 5—A Gem and Its Setting
1903, June 6—Sailing Under False Colors
1903, June 9—Roosevelt on the Flying Trapeze
1903, June 10—The Female Upper Ten
1903, June 11—National Degradation
1903, June 14—The Modern Macedon
1903, June 16—“Halunkes” and “Schuftes”
1903, June 17—Prosperity? Sure!
1903, June 19—Morgan—Saint Gaudens
1903, June 21—Lightning-Rods
1903, June 22—The Phenomena of Imports and Exports
1903, June 23—What Does This Mean?
1903, June 24—Sailing Under False Colors
1903, June 25—The Rev. R.A. Elwoods
1903, June 27—A New Industry
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
12 December 2006: Added to the Social Democrat Archive [Britain]:
The
Industrial and Social Outlook in Australia – Tom Mann
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 December 2006: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
Capitalist Development in South Africa, 1912
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
10 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 8 new PDF documents, focusing on the development of the radical Chacago union based Labor Party:
Report of the National Secretary of the Socialist Party of America: Delivered to the 1904 Chicago Convention, May 3, 1904 by William Mailly Annual statement of party achievements and shortcomings by the Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, made to the 2nd Convention of the party (May 1904).
Proclamation Concerning the Race Riots by the Chicago Federation of Labor [Aug. 9, 1919] Racist violence erupted in the summer of 1919 centered around Chicago's stockyards, pitting largely non-union black workers against the largely unionized whites whom they replaced during the war and after.
National Labor Party is Born: Conference of Delegates Calls Convention at Chicago, November 22nd," by Robert M. Buck [event of Aug. 18, 1919] On Aug. 18, 1919, a national conference consisting of 30 representatives of Labor Party groups from 7 states met in Chicago and determined to establish a national Labor Party at a convention to be held Nov. 22, 1919.
Call to the Convention to Organize a National Labor Party in the United States [Aug. 30, 1919] This is the call for a convention to establish a national Labor Party, to begin Nov. 22, 1919, in Chicago. The basis of representation was announced as: "1 delegate from each state or local organization with a membership of 500 or less and 1 delegate for each 500 additional members or major fraction."
Keynote Speech to the Founding Convention of the Labor Party of the United States [excerpt]: Chicago -- November 22, 1919 by Max S. Hayes On Nov. 22, 1919, over 1,000 delegates from around America assembled in Chicago to help form the Labor Party of the United States.
Declaration of Principles of the Labor Party of the United States: Unanimously Adopted by the 1st National Convention: Chicago, IL -- Nov. 22-25, 1919 The 32 point program of the newly organized Labor Party of the United States.
Vegetarians Arrested as ‘Reds': Tailor Seized in ‘Tolstoy' Cafe Freed on Showing Union Card. [event of Jan. 2, 1920] Anecdotal news account emphasizing the dysfunctionality of the coordinated nationwide “Palmer Raids” conducted over the night of Jan. 2/3, 1920. B. Slater, an official in Local 104 of the Ladies' Tailors union, stopped by the “Tolstoy Vegetarian Restaurant and Library” in Chicago to attend a lecture on Vegetarianism.
Terrorism by Robert M. Buck [Jan. 10, 1920] This is a militant front page declaration of The New Majority, official organ of the Labor Party of the United States, about the right wing offensive represented by the Palmer Raids of Jan. 2/3, 1920.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
10 December, 2006: The Spanish-language section launches an archive for the writings of Jesús Hernández Tomás an early member of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) and education minister for Spain's First Republic. Items thus far included are two writings from 1951:
La URSS en la guerra del
pueblo español
A los comunistas de
España.
[Thanks to Fernando Hernández Sánchez.]
10 December 2006: Added to the Thomas Bell Archive:
British
Advocates of Industrial Unionism
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
10 December 2006: Added to the William Paul Archive:
Power
or Persuasion?
Scientific
Socialism
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
10 December, 2006: Added to the
Sobre o
Direito das Nações à Autodeterminação,
1914
[Thanks to Editorial Avante! e Fernando Araújo]
10 December, 2006: To the Swedish Reference Archive was added:
Weltanschauung, Sigmund Freud, 1932
One Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse, 1964
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
9 December 2006: Added to the Harry Pollitt Archive:
Why you should be a
Communist
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
8 December, 2006: Added to the
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo] 8 December 2006:
Added to the
Social
Democrat Archive:
The
War and Democracy – Th. Rothstein 8 December, 2006:
Added to the Romanian
Marx-Engels Archive:
Prefaţă
la ediţia întîi a volumului I al Capitalului [Capital vol. I, Preface to the First German Edition,
1867] 7 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 new PDF documents, focusing on the development of the radical Chacago union based Labor Party: Like a Prairie Fire Labor Party Spreads: Movement Starts in Widely Scattered Localities—Enthusiasm and Loyalty in Hundreds of Letters [unsigned article from The New Majority] [Jan. 4, 1919] This editorial from the debut issue of The New Majority, official organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the Labor Party of Cook County, trumpets the fact that a labor party movement was spreading “like wildfire.” Labor's 14 Points, by The Labor Party of Cook County [IL] [Jan. 11, 1919] Taking a page from the political playbook of President Wilson, the Labor Party of Cook County issued this set of “14 Points” as general demands of the emerging labor party movement. Ex-Alderman Buck Joins Labor's New Party: Leaves Republican Fold with Statement Charging No Difference Between Old Political Groups. [unsigned article from The New Majority] [Jan. 18, 1919] This article from the official organ of the Labor Party of Cook County (Illinois) documents an important addition to the organization—former Chicago alderman and progressive Republican activist Robert M. Buck. Socialist Party in Swing to the Left, by Robert M. Buck [events of May 17-18, 1919] This short news snippet from the Labor Party of Cook County's official organ documents the heated proceedings at the recently completed convention of the Socialist Party of Cook County. Fred C. Ellis Plunges 5 Stories; Hits Walk: Cartoonist Escapes with Minor Fractures When Painters' Swing Rope Breaks, by Robert M. Buck [event of July 24, 1919] A short anecdotal sidebar to the tumultuous history of 1919, this news story documents the near-fatal fall of Fred C. Ellis, one of the great political cartoonists of his generation. 7 December 2006:
Added to the new
Emile Armand Archive:
Is the Illegalist Anarchist
our Comrade?, 1911 7 December 2006:
Added to the
Arthur MacManus Archive:
Fourteen Points 7 December 2006:
Added to the Added to the
J. T. Murphy Archive:
The Issue 7 December 2006:
Added to the
William Paul Archive:
The Melting
Pot: S.L.P. and the Election 7 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 new PDF documents, from the Socialist Party of America: In Dixie: Things Seen from a Car Window—New Machinery for Cotton Production—The Negro and Politics, by Allan W. Ricker [May 9, 1903] The Debsian Socialist Party has been charged—with some justification—with having turned a blind eye to the question of racism and the struggle for emancipation by American blacks, rather piously reducing the great question of systemic racism to a minor footnote of the colorblind class struggle. But facts show that the Socialist Party was not entirely silent on the matter. On the Color Question, by Eugene V. Debs [June 20, 1903] Extended excerpt of an article written by Socialist Party publicist Gene Debs at the invitation of the editor for the Indianapolis World—a “Negro” newspaper. Debs sees an economic basis for the racism of those unions denying black workers the right of membership: “There was a time when organized labor in the main was hostile to the Negro, and it must be admitted in all candor that certain unions, such as the railroad brotherhoods, still ignorantly guard the trades they represent, as well as their unions, against invasion by the colored man, and in this they have always had the active support of the corporation in whose interest it is to have workingmen at each others’ throats, that they may keep them all, black and white, in subjection.” Italian Socialist Convention: West Hoboken, NJ—Sept. 6-7, 1903, by Silvio Origo In September of 1903 the Federazione Socialista Italiana held its first convention in West Hoboken, NJ—a conclave attended by 33 delegates from 8 states. The gathering marked the start of a turn of the Italian-American radical movement, built around the daily newspaper Il Proletario, away from the Socialist Labor Party and to the upstart Socialist Party of America. 6 December, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project in Canada has made the following additions:
Ukrainian Socialists in Canada, 1900-1918. When the Canadian Communist movement was born after World War I, many of its founding members and supporters were socialists who had immigrated to Canada from Ukraine. In this chapter from his book on the Ukrainian left, historian Peter Krawchuk examines the origins and evolution of the Ukrainian socialist movement in Canada, from its beginnings in the early 1900s to the time of the Russian Revolution. 6 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 new PDF documents, from the Socialist Party of America: Auguries for the New Year: E.V. Debs Writes of His Late Tour, by Eugene V. Debs [Jan. 3, 1903] Report from the road by Socialist leader Gene Debs. Debs notes that he had visited 10 states during his most recent trip and everywhere lectured before enthusiastic crowds filling the house.
National Committee: The Policy of the Socialist Movement Outlined for Another Year: An Enthusiastic Gathering: St. Louis, Missouri -- Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 1903, by Allan W. Ricker Leading Appeal to Reason journalist Allan Ricker leaves this account of the seminal 1903 annual gathering of the National Committee of the Socialist Party -- a conclave similar in form and content (if not size) to a national convention.
Review of National Committee Meeting: St. Louis - Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 1903,by Victor L. Berger Wisconsin National Committee member Victor Berger presents his contrarian account of the seminal 1903 National Committee meeting, which renounced the tactics of the St. Louis Quorum, elected a new National Secretary, moved party headquarters from St. Louis to Omaha, and reaffirmed the party's anti-interventionist trade union policy. 6 December 2006: Added to the
Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 13 editorials from The People [New York] from the end of May of 1903:
1903, May 17—A Valuable Specimen 5 December 2006:
Added to the
T. A. Jackson Archive:
Is the
Socialist Propagandist Necessary? 5 December, 2006: Added to the
Encylopedia of Trotskyism-Online in the History Section of the MIA are two documents contributing to the sub-section on the ETOL Toward a History of the Fourth International. Contributed by the Prometheus Research Library in New York:
Documents on the Proletarian Military Policy 4 December, 2006: Added to the
Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese language Section:
O
Programa do Partido e a Luta Pela Paz,1954 3 December 2006:
Added to the new
Nepali Language Section:
Marx and Engels on Religion 3 December, 2006:
To the Swedish Lukacs Archive was added:
History & Class Consciousness, György Lukács, 1919-23 2 December, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 new PDF documents, from the Socialist Party of America: Semi-Annual Report of the National Committee of the Socialist Party, Sept. 12, 1902. This 2nd constitutionally-required report of the Socialist Party's governing National Committee, prepared by the St. Louis Local Quorum, is sharply critical of structural defects which revealed themselves in the first year of the organization's operations. Socialist Party Membership Data: A survey circulated in 1908. Compiled by Emma Pischel. In December 1907, the NEC of the Socialist Party determined to survey the entire party membership in attempt to better understand the social composition and demographic makeup of the organization. Conference of the Polish Socialist Organizations: National Headquarters, Socialist Party of America: Chicago -- Oct. 29, 1910: Minutes by Mabel H. Hudson, Secretary. The year 1910 saw a move for admittance to the Socialist Party by the Polish Socialist Alliance [Zwiazek Socjalisów Polskich -- ZSP], which sought to join the Polish Socialist Section [Zwiazek Polskiej Partii Socjalistyczne -- ZPPS] in the ranks of the Socialist Party of America. 2 December 2006:
Added to the new
Kier Hardie Archive:
Social-Democrats and the
Suffrage (from The Social Democrat July 1905)
Parliamentarianism
and the General Strike (from The Social Democrat November 1905) 2 December 2006:
Added to the
Social
Democrat Archive [UK]:
Bernstein
and the German Party – J.B. Askew 1902 2 December 2006:
Added to the
Harry Quelch Archive:
The Rout of
Revisionism, 1905 2 December 2006:
Added to the new
Andre Lorulot
Archive:
Who Are We? What
Do We want?, 1911 Added to the
1848 Revolution
Archive:
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Workers, Paris May 11 1848 1 December, 2006: The following documents have been added to Catalan language
section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the specific
documents can be seen at the Catalan What’s New section: Paul Mattick: 1 December, 2006: The following documents have been added to French language
section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the specific
documents can be seen at the French
What’s New section:
Lénine: 1 December, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist
History Project in Canada has made the following additions:
Dawn Fraser: Echoes From Labor’s War. Dawn Fraser is nearly forgotten today, but in the 1920s he was the unofficial poet laureate of the massive labor struggles in Cape Breton’s mines and steel mills. He read his verse on the streets, at union meetings, and at the massive labour and political meetings. His writings appeared in pamphlets, books, magazines and newspapers.
Echoes From Labor’s War includes an essay on Fraser’s life and work by Professors David Frank and Donald Macgillivray, and 21 of Fraser’s poems, including “The Case of J.B. McLachlan,” “The Hair-Breadth Escape of Red Malcolm Bruce,” and “The Parasites.”
Over the next few months, we hope to substantially expand our online collection of documents from the Communist Party of Canada and the Labor-Progressive Party. We’re starting this with a rare pamphlet: A Better Canada: Electoral Program of the Labor-Progressive Party was originally published in 1944 or early 1945. We’ve added two new articles to our collection of material from the Workers Party of Canada, the "legal party" created on the initiative of the Communist Party in 1922. Join the Workers’ Party! is an appeal published just a few weeks after the WPC was born. 1 December, 2006: Added to the
Sobre a Tendência
Nascente do "Economismo Imperialista", 1916
Aprender Com
os Erros do Passado Para Construir um Partido Novo, Efetivamente
Revolucionário, 1981
The
Conflict in the Far East – Th. Rothstein
The
British in Egypt, Translated from Die Neue Zeit by – Theo
Rothstein.
The
Crisis in the Independent Labour Party – Theodor Rothstein
Military
Reform – G. Moch
Military
Reform (Continued) – G. Moch
Military
Reform (Concluded) – G. Moch
A Bundle of
Fallacies – E. Belfort Bax
The Yellow Danger
– H. Quelch
On the Steppes
– Maxim Gorki
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
Postfaţă
la ediţia a doua a volumului I al Capitalului [Capital vol. I, Afterword to the Second German Edition,
1873]
Tendinţa
istorică a acumulării capitaliste. Capitolul 24 al volumul I al
Capitalului (Fragment) [Capital vol.
I, Chapter 24 (fragment), 1867]
Recenzie la
volumul întîi al Capitalului pentru Demokratisches
Wochenblatt [Review of Volume One of
Capital for the Demokratisches Wochenblatt, 1868]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
The Individual and
Dictatorship, 1935
Individualist
Perspectives, 1957
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
The League of Peoples
A Call
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of
Canada]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
1903, May 18—The Kishineff Massacre
1903, May 19—"Restoring" a Resolution
1903, May 20—Mulvihill’s Fix
1903, May 21—On Leading Topics of the Day
1903, May 22—The "Sick Man of the West"
1903, May 25—A Crushing Fact
1903, May 26—The Cause of the Industrial Turmoil
1903, May 27—Wanamakering Over Again
1903, May 28—The Merry War
1903, May 29—The North Pole Party
1903, May 30—Chamberlain "Dumps" the "Dumpers"
1903, May 31—Signs of Coming Squalls
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
Evolution By
Revolution
Socialism
and Respectability
“Class-Consciousness”
Essays in
Censorship
The
Struggle for a Workers’ International
[Thanks to Adam Buick]
In Memoriam Richard S. Fraser. Critical documents on the Black question from the SWP
[Thanks to John Heckman and the Prometheus Research Library]
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
[Thanks to Gokarn]
Preface
What is Orthodox Marxism?
The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
Class Consciousness
The Phenomenon of Reification
Antinomies of Bourgeois Thought
The Standpoint of the Proletariat
The Changing Function of Historical Materialism
Legality and Illegality
Critical Observations on Rosa Luxemburg's "Critique of the Russian Revolution"
Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organisation
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
Added to the new
Rudolf Hilferding
Archive:
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
Revisionism
in Germany – J.B. Askew 1903
The
Fortunes of Social Democracy in Russia or the Dogma Triumphant – Th.
Rothstein 1905
The
East Asiatic War and the Militia (Citizen Army) – Rudolf Kraft 1905
The
Revolutionary Movement in Russia: Its Aims and Its Leaders, 1906
The
“Synthetic” Criticism of Marx – Th. Rothstein 1906
Empire
and Murder – C.H. Norman
The
Franchise in Germany – Jacques Bonhomme, 1906
The
Marxian Method Translated from Vorwaerts by – Jacques
Bonhomme 1906
Defeat
better than a Victory – Th. Rothstein 1907
Terrorism,
1907
Socialism
and Militarism – Arthur Hickmott 1907
Conscription
and the Armed Nation – H.W. Lee 1907
Bourgeois
Parties and Militarism – Carl Emil 1907
The
Social Democratic Party of Russia and Its Recent Congress (Concluded)
– Elia Levin 1907
Maxim
Gorky on Religion and Socialism 1907
Marx,
Engels and the S.D.F. – Theo. Rothstein 1908
The
Belgian and Prussian Electoral Systems 1908
Colonial
Civilisation – Th. Rothstein 1908
A
Study in Socialist Heresy-Hunting. – “Why I am Opposed to Female
Suffrage” – Dora B. Montefiore 1909
democrat/1909/09/parlow.htm">First Effects of Germany’s New Taxes
– Maud Parlow 1909
democrat/1909/09/ledebour.htm">The Limitation of Naval Armaments – G.
Ledebour 1909
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
Socialism, Patriotism and
Militarism, 1905
Socialism and
Militarism, 1905
Army Reform, 1905
Monarchy and Debt,
1907
Nuremberg and
Newcastle, 1908
Anglo-German Relations
and the Duty of Social Democrats, 1909
Socialism and Taxation,
1909
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
Karl Kautsky, de Marx a Hitler
Armes i capital (1968)
Harry Braverman:
Marx en el món modern (1958)
Duncan Hallas:
S’encongeix la classe? (1982)
Lev Trockij:
La independència d’Ucraïna i el confusionisme sectari (1939)
Els feudalistes democràtics i la independència d’Ucraïna (1939)
Un pas vers el social-patriotisme (1939)
Una paràlisi progressiva (1939)
A la vespra de la Segona Guerra Mundial (1939)
Rosa Luxemburg:
Casa de cartes (1919)
[Thanks to the Catalan
language volunteers]
Attitude contradictoire
La politique extérieure de la révolution russe
Lettre à la rédaction de la Pravda
Au tournant
Section Israël-Palestine:
La révolte de 1936-39 en Palestine (G. Kanafani 1972)
E. Mandel:
Préface à "La Conception Matérialiste de la question juive", d’Abraham Léon (1946)
R. Luxemburg:
Un Devoir d’honneur (18 nov. 1918)
V. Serge:
Lettre à A. Gide (mai 1936)
Lettre à M. Paz (mai 1936)
[Thanks to the French
language volunteers]
Women and The New Age, by Florence Custance, is one of the very first articles on the “woman question” ever published by the Canadian left.
Canada & the Civil War in Spain, by Ross Dowson, is a 1972 review of Victor Hoar’s book The Mackenzie-Papineau Batallion. The review includes little-known information about Canadians who took part in the military defense of Spain against Franco, but were critical of the leadership of the Republican cause.
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of
Canada]
[Thanks to Editorial Avante! e Fernando
Araújo]
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