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January 31, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 5 documents:
Leon Trotski:
“Ik zet mijn
leven op het spel”—1937
Voor kwaliteit
— voor cultuur!—1925
Ernest Mandel:
Antwoord op het
Vlaams Marxistisch Tijdschrift,
Kritiek en “kritiek” —1973
Het 11de
wereldcongres van de Vierde Internationale—1980
Christian Rakovski:
De
‘bedrijfsrisico’s’ van macht—1928
[Thanks to Marxisme.net, Frederic
Lehembre]
31 January, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Discurso no Funeral de Karl Marx,
1883
[Thanks to Marcelo da Silva Reis and Fernando Araújo]
31 January 2006: Added to the Georg Lukács Archive:
Legality and
Illegality (July 1920)
[Thanks to Emerson Tung]
30 January, 2006: The French Language Section of the has added the following the documents.
A. Rosmer :
Hommage à Natalia Trotsky (29.5.1962)
Lettre à J. Humbert-Droz (26.7.1922)
Lettre à P. Monatte (18.7.1924)
Lettre à L. Trotsky (1.12.1929)
C.G.T. Conférence nationale d'août 1915
L. Trotsky Postface à l'édition abrégée de "Ma Vie" (décembre 1933)
A. Nin Le fascisme italien)
G. Politzer Ouverture de l'archive)
Lénine Discours au XIe congrès du P.C.(b)R. (1922)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers of the MIA]
30 January, 2006: Between 1973 and 1975, the League for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvriere carried out an in-depth re-evaluation of itss analysis of and policies towards the New Democratic Party. This was the most complete discussion of the NDP ever conducted by Marxists in Canada. The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project begins publishing key documents from the discussion over Canada’s New Democratic Party, most of which have not been available for over 30 years. The initial posting focuses on documents that reflect the LSA/LSO majority's views. Documents from critics of those views will be added as soon as possible. On line now:
Ian Angus: An
Overview of the 1973-1975 NDP Discussion in the LSA/LSO
Ross
Dowson: Our Orientation to the NDP—as a strategy—and its tactical
application (1970)
Excerpt from
LSA/LSO Political Resolution (1973)
John
Riddell & Art Young: Is the LSA/LSO 'Tail-Ending Reformism'? (1973)
John
Riddell & Art Young: Some Starting Points for an NDP Debate (1973)
Gary
Porter: Class Collaboration and Independent Working Class Political Action:
Some Fundamental Aspects of Our Policy Towards the NDP (1974)
John
Steele: Our Tasks in the New Democratic Party Today (1974)
George
Addison: An Outline of Our NDP Policy (1975)
In July 1970, five leaders of the largest new left group on the Prairies announced their decision to join the Young Socialists/Ligue des Jeunes Socialistes. Several of them went on to play key leadership roles in the Trotskyist movement in Canada and Quebec in the 1970s. We have posted the articles in which they explained their decision to join the YS, and three articles they wrote about socialist strategy in the following year.
Saskatchewan
New Left Leaders Join Young Socialists (Labor Challenge Aug. 24 1970;
Young Socialist Sept. 1970; Labor Challenge Oct. 5 1970.)
Richard
Thompson: The Present State of the Student Movement (YS/LJS Discussion
Bulletin, Fall 1970)
Richard Thompson: A Revolutionary Strategy for Canadian
Students (Young Socialist, Sept. 1971)
Howard Brown: Agribusiness and the Farm Crisis (Labor Challenge,
Dec. 20, 1971)
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of Canada]
30 January, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 14 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the early Communist Party.
Letter to the Workers Party of America on the Establishment of
an English-Language Daily from Grigorii Zinoviev, Chairman of the
Communist International in Moscow. [publ. Jan. 21, 1924]
Parliamentarism, by John Pepper [Feb. 2, 1924]
Political Activity in Trade Unions, by William F. Dunne
[Feb. 2, 1924]
Workers' School in New York City Opens Second Term, unsigned
news report in The Daily Worker, Feb. 5, 1924.
Detroit Holds Huge Meeting in Honor of Lenin: 6,000 Workers in
Big Demonstration, by Stanley Boone [Feb. 6, 1924]
Long Live Leninism, Cry New Yorkers: Greatest Revolutionary
Meeting Overflows Garden, by Norman Smith [Feb. 7, 1924] sm!"
A Lenin Library in America, by John Pepper [Feb. 16, 1924]
Call for the National Convention of All Farmer Labor Forces in
the United States: To be Held in St. Paul, Minnesota - June 17, 1924[March 12, 1924]
Statement of Personal History, by John August Miller
[circa July 1924]
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, Workers
Party of America in Chicago from Antonas (“Anthony”) Bimba,
Staff Member of Laisve, Brooklyn, NY. Oct. 8, 1924.
Membership Series by District for the Workers Party of
America. ‘Dues Actually Paid’ — January to December 1924.
Membership Series by Language Federation for the Workers
Party of America.‘Dues Actually Paid’ — January to December 1924.
Initiation Stamps Sold by District for the Workers Party of
America. January to December 1924.
Initiation Stamps Sold by Federation for the Workers Party of
America. January to December 1924.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
30 January 2006: Added to the Bukharin Archive:
Economic Organization in Soviet Russia, 1922
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
28 January, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Trotsky Archive:
A Revolução de
1905, 1922
[Thanks to Revista Marxismo Revolucionário
Atual and Fernando Araújo]
Estalinismo e Bolchevismo,
1937
[Thanks to Pablo de Freitas Lopes and Fernando
Araújo]
28 January, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Malatesta Archive:
A Organização das
Massas Operárias Contra o Governo e os Patrões, 1897
A Organização I, 1897
A Organização II, 1897
Os Anarquistas e o Sentimento Moral,
1904
Capitalistas e
Ladrões, 1911
A Greve
Geral, 1922
Em Torno de
"Nosso Anarquismo, 1924
Mikhail Bakunin, 1926
Anarquia e
Organização, 1927
[Thanks to Cultura Brasileira and Fernando Araújo]
27 January, 2005: Added to the new Tom Kerry Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The West Coast
Longshoremen and the ‘Bridges Plan’, 1942 (writing as C. Thomas)
A Marxist Book on
Maritime, 1943 (book review, writing as C. Thomas)
The Campaign to
Conscript Labor, 1945 (writing as C. Thomas)
Negro Workers and the
CIO, 1950 (writing as C. Thomas)
Why Was the CP Ousted
from the CIO?, 1957 (book review)
Howe’s History of
the CP, 1958 (book review)
Class Struggle and
American Labor, 1959
Class Struggle
– American Style, 1960 (book review)
Maoism and the
Neo-Stalin Cult, 1964
Labor’s Revolt
Against Industrial Oligarchy, 1964 (book preview)
Labor Leaders and the
‘White Backlash’, 1964
The Leap from Open Shop to
Industrial Unionism, 1965 (book review)
Exchange with Brian
Pearce, 1966 (letter)
A Mao-Stalin Rift
– Myth Or Fact?, 1959
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
27 January 2006: Added to the Marxists Internet Archive, several new specialised search engines:
Marx-Engels Correspondence
Marx's Economic Manuscripts
Soviet Psychologists
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
25 January 2006: Added to the new Anacharsis Cloots Archive:
Religion is
the Greatest Obstacle, 17 November 1793
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
24 January, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early Communist Party, it’s early factional history and it’s relationship with the Communist International . The first two documents are written by members of the Socialist Party and deal with the war issue:
Keynote Address to the 1917 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party, St. Louis, MO -- April 7, 1917, by Morris Hillquit The 1917 St. Louis Emergency Convention of the SPA was held immediately on the heels of the American declaration of war on Germany, called to bring together 200 delegates of the party to set policy in the new drastically changed situation. The anti-militarist tenor of the gathering was fanned by Morris Hillquit, who delivered this keynote address to the convention.
The Price We Pay,” by Irwin St. John Tucker [May 1917] A searing polemic prose-poem by the head of the Socialist Party’s Literature Department. Tucker served only briefly at this post, leaving after but a few weeks due to a personality clash with Executive Secretary Adolph Germer, but this blistering statement of anti- militarist rage placed Tucker firmly in the Wilson Administration’s gunsights.
Report of the National Convention at Chicago by John C. Taylor [Sept. 26, 1919] First-hand account of the 1919 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party and the founding Convention of the Communist Labor Party from California SP State Secretary John C. Taylor, not included in volume 1 of Draper.
The American Revolutionary Movement Grows: An Analysis of the Many Achievements of the Third National Convention of the Workers Party by C.E. Ruthenberg [Jan. 13, 1924] An upbeat and positive account of the recently completed 3rd Convention of the Workers Party of America [Dec. 30, 1923-Jan. 2, 1924] by the Executive Secretary of the organization (whose faction lost majority control of the incoming Central Executive Committee to the Foster-Cannon-Lore alliance).
The Farmers and the American Revolution, by John Pepper [Jan. 19, 1924] One of John Pepper’s most interesting and thoughtful analyses of the state of American agriculture and the Farmer-Labor movement.
Letter to the Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America in Chicago from M. Hansen, Secretary of English Branch— Seattle, WPA, July 17, 1924 The July 10, 1924 decision of the National Executive Committee of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party (controlled by 5 WPA members of the 7 member body) to abruptly terminate the candidacies of Duncan MacDonald for President and William Bouck for Vice President came “as a bolt from the blue” to rank and file supporters of an anti-LaFollette “real Farmer-Labor Party.”
Letter to M. Hansen, Secretary, English Branch - Seattle, WPA, from James P. Cannon, Assistant Executive Secondary, WPA, July 22, 1924 Reply of the Central Executive Committee to the July 17, 1924 letter addressed to them by English Branch - Seattle seeking complete and accurate information as to the WPA’s rapid change of course with regard to the Presidential campaign of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party. Cannon replies that the reports in The Daily Worker were, in fact, accurate and that the WPA determined that dspite its best efforts to create a United Front Farmer-Labor Party, this project was unsuccessful.
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, WPA, in Chicago from Norman Tallentire, WPA District 12 Organizer in Seattle, Sept. 19, 1924. While historians of the American Communist movement are aware of the importance of the party’s “District Organizers” in the abstract, there is surprisingly little in the literature detailing the actual job functions of those individuals.
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg, WPA Executive Secretary in Chicago from Alexander Trachtenberg, International Publishers in New York, Oct. 24, 1924. While International Publishers of New York is today the official publishing arm of CPUSA, its origin was completely independent of the Communist Party, as this October letter from IP head Alexander Trachtenberg makes clear.
Circular Letter to the Finnish Branches and Members of the Workers Party of America from Fahle Burman in Chicago, Dec. 4, 1924 The Finnish Language Section of the Workers Party of America was far and away the largest division of the organization during the first years of its existence. Secretary of the Fnnish Federation was Fahle Burman, a member of the WPA’s 13 member Central Executive Committee, a loyal factional adherent of the Foster-Cannon majority group.
Letter to
C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, Workers Party of America, in Chicago from
Norman H. Tallentire, WPA District 12 Organizer in Seattle, Dec. 13, 1924. A
Latvian named Gus Pudnich is said to have come up to Seattle from San Francisco and
was conducting agitation against the Workers Party of America in the Lithuanian and
Latvian communities, attempting to “get them to organize in the pure
underground ’Communist Party.’”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
23 January 2006: Add to the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) are the following misc. documents concerning the Second World War:
Trotsky’s Prognosis of Our
Epoch, by Joseph Hansen
Problems of the
European Revolution, by a Group of European Comrades
Resolution
on Russia: A Statement of Policy by the Political Committee of the Socialist
Workers Party 1940
A New Stage in
the War : Editorial Comment, Fourth International May 1940
Editorial
Comment A New Stage in the War 1940
Defend the
Soviet Union 1941
Manifesto of
the Fourth International on the Dissolution of the Comintern 1943
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
23 January 2006: Added to the Bernard Lazare Archive:
Jews and
Israelites, 1890
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes, 1894
[Thanks to
Paul Halsall]
22 January, 2006: Added to the new Tom Kerry Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The West Coast
Longshoremen and the ‘Bridges Plan’, 1942 (writing as C. Thomas)
A Marxist Book on
Maritime, 1943 (book review, writing as C. Thomas)
The Campaign to
Conscript Labor, 1945 (writing as C. Thomas)
Negro Workers and the
CIO, 1950 (writing as C. Thomas)
The Political
Meaning of the CIO-AFL Merger, 1955
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan & andrew Pollack]
22 January 2006: Added to the Romanian Lenin Archive:
Statul şi
revoluţia [The State and Revolution, 1917].
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
22 January, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Plekhanov Archive:
Os Saltos
na Natureza e na História, 1??? and Os
Princípios Fundamentais do Marxismo, 1908
[Thanks to
Partido da Causa Operária and Fernando Araújo]
22 January 2006: Added to the Herbert Marcuse Archive:
The
Foundation of Historical Materialism, 1932
Added to the
Max Eastman Archive:
1932/introduction.htm">Introduction
to Capital, The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings,
1932
Added to the
Georg Lukacs Archive:
The Role of
Morality in Communist Production, 1919
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
21 January 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 23 editorials from The People from February of 1901:
The
Cuban Spectre
They Are Right and Left
Hand
The
“Magician’s Apprentice” Up to Date
Fourier Lived in Vain for
Him
The Modern Richard
III
When Not Criminal,
Childish
Venturesome
Methodists
S.D. and S.T.
The War Department
The Cost of
Government
Behind the Times
“Cheapness”
Via Capitalist Municipalization
“Boring From
Within” Self-Exhibited
Right for Once!
Grape No. 1 (Fakir
Economics)
Who Is the
“Rabble"?
Grape No. 2 (Fakir
Mentality)
A Novel
“Rogues’ Gallery"
Adding Insult to
Injury
Name Them!
What the Police Imbroglio
Does Teach
Is Palo Alto So Far Away
From New York?
Grape No. 3 (Fakir
Logic)
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
21 January 2006: Added to the Denis Diderot Archive:
On Genius
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
January 21, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 9 documents:
George Novack
De Eerste en Tweede
Internationale — 1972
Michel Foucault
Historisch weten en macht
— 1976
Leon Trotski
Wij en het
Oosten — 1924
De revolutie in India.
Haar taak en gevaren. — 1930
Karl Marx
Het
karakter van de Commune van Parijs — 1871
Cornelius Castoriadis
Het
probleem van de hedendaagse democratie — 1989
Louis Althusser
Eindelijk is de crisis
van het marxisme uitgebroken! — 1977
De crisis van het
marxisme — 1978
Ideologie en ideologische
staatsapparaten — 1970
[Thanks to Marxisme.net,
Maarten Vanheuverswyn, Adrien Verlee]
20 January 2006: Added to the Haiti History Archive:
Letter to the Citizens of Color and
Free Negroes of Saint-Domingue, Henri Grégoire, 1791
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
19 January, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Mandel Archive:
A Atualidade
do Marxismo, 1983 and Por
que somos nós Revolucionários, 1989
[Thanks to Eduardo
Velhinho and Fernando Araújo]
18 January 2006: Added to the Bernard Lazare Archive:
Mikhail Bakunin,
1895
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
16 January 2006: Created on the Chinese Langauge
MIA is a new Russian Communist Page
that includes, among others, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Bukharin, Plekhanov, Kirov and
the late communist historian, Vadim Rogovin
[Thanks to Lam, Gou and other Chinese language
volunteers]
16 January, 2006: The Encyclopedia of History On-Line has
added Dissident Cuban
Communism The Case of Trotskyism, 1932-1965 by Gary Tennant. This is a
multi-chaptered doctoral thesis that spans the entire history of the modern Cuban
workers movement in general and the Cuban Revolution specifically.
[Thanks to Gary Tennent at www.cubantrotskyism.net and David
Walters]
15 January, 2006: The Encyclopedia of History On-Line has added 2 documents to its Trotskyism and the Cuban Revolution sub-archive from our collection of the International Socialist Review [New York]:
First Year of the Cuban
Revolution, by Henry Gitano—1960
The Cuban Revolution and
Its Lessons, by Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso—1968
15 January 2006: Added to the Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) Reference Archive:
A Happy Family (March 18,
1924)
The New Year's Sacrifice
(February 7, 1924)
Forging the
Swords (October 1926)
The
Misanthrope (October 17, 1925)
Regret for the Past (Chuan-sheng's
Notes) (October 21, 1925)
[Thanks to Mike B. and coldbacon.com]
15 January 2006: Added to the Chinese Communism Subject Archive:
The Leaders Of The
CPSU Are The Greatest Splitters Of Our Times (February 4, 1964)
On The Question Of
Stalin (September 13, 1963)
[Thanks to Basu and Mike B.]
15 January, 2006: 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 focusing mostly on the early Communist Party, it’s early factional history and it’s relationship with the Communist International .
Minutes of the Central Executive Committee, (unified) Communist Party of America: New York City — June 7-15, 1921. Minutes of the 2nd session of the CEC of the newly unified Communist Party of America (the CEC of the unified CPA met in nearly continuous sessions).
Constitution of the Young Workers League of America: Adopted by the First National Convention, New York City — May 13-15, 1922. Basic document of organizational law of the Young Workers League, ostensibly the youth section of the Workers Party of America. Interesting in that there is no reference to either the WPA or the Young Communist International in the document, nor is there any sort of party-control mechanism inserted into the structure of the YWL.
Questions to Debs, by J. Louis Engdahl [Aug. 3, 1922] This is a pointed and aggressive open letter to Eugene V. Debs by the editor of The Worker, a former longtime associate of Debs in the Socialist Party. Engdahl rebukes Debs for heeding a request of Socialist Revolutionary Party leader Victor Chernov and sending a cable to Lenin in Moscow with which Debs joined the international chorus of voices demanding leniency in sentencing of the accused in the 1922 show trial of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Communists in the Labor Unions, by William F. Dunne [Aug. 5, 1922] A very concise statement of one of the two primary factional visions of the American Communist movement in the 1920s — the "unionist" perspective associated with William Z. Foster and James P. Cannon.
An Answer from Debs, by Theodore Debs [Aug. 9, 1922] Reply on behalf of Gene Debs by his brother and personal secretary, Theodore, to Louis Engdahl's open letter of August 3, 1922. "The attempt to make [Gene] appear the enemy of Lenin and the Soviet Government in face of the fact that from the hour that government was born he proclaimed himself its friend and has stood by it and defended and extolled Lenin and Trotsky in every word uttered and written, is too false and silly to merit attention," writes Theodore.
A Reply to Debs, by J. Louis Engdahl [Aug. 26, 1922] Rejoinder by the Editor of The Worker to Theodore Debs' "Answer from Debs" of August 9, 1922. Engdahl backs away from his implication that Eugene Debs is in the camp of the international counterrevolutionary movement and instead dismisses him as a wavering pacifist. Engdahl states that it was easy for the pacifist humanitarian Debs to be anti-war; the acid test of "his standing as a revolutionist came in 1920, when, as the Presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, he declared, 'I am a Socialist, not a Communist.'"
Survey of the Present Political Situation in America: Manifesto of the Communist Party of America. [Sept. 28, 1922] A rare post-Bridgman statement of the underground CPA, Abram Jakira Executive Secretary. The situation has changed for the worse, in the estimate of the CPA, with the coal strike ended via a sweeping injunction while the AF of L failed to back up its previous posturing in favor of a General Strike and meekly acquiesced.
The Fifth Year of the Russian Revolution: A Report of a Lecture, by James P. Cannon [1923] Full text of a pamphlet published by the Workers Party of America in 1922 by party leader Jim Cannon, detailing a 7 month stay in Soviet Russia dating from June 1, 1922. Cannon notes that Soviet Russia was well on the way recovering from Civil War — the famine had ended, White armies had been defeated, production was being steadily restored, buildings were being renovated, and the Soviet government was supported by the Russian workng class.
"'Foster at Bridgman': Spolansky. Identified by Testimony of US Operative: Defense Paves Way to Claim Evidence 'Planted.'" [March 16, 1923] Details of the cross-examination of Department of Justice agent Jacob Spolansky and Berrien Co. Michigan Sheriff George Bridgman in the trial of William Z. Foster for alleged violation of the Michigan Criminal Syndicalism Law in association with the August 1922 convention of the Communist Party of America at Bridgman, Michigan.
"Letter to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow from Max Bedacht in Chicago. [circa April 1924] A passionate defense of John Pepper by his alternate on the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party. Bedacht states that while he and Jim Cannon were in Moscow arguing before the Comintern for the legalization of the American Communist Party, the issue was "solved finally by the tactfulness of Comrade Pepper.
"Letter to the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America from Peter Hansen and Cornelia Davis in Buffalo, NY, May 6, 1924. In March of 1924, John J. Ballam was appointed District Organizer of WPA District 4, based in Buffalo, New York. He soon thereafter received a 2 month stipend of $150 a month for organizational expenses of the district office and had earned the enmity of the previous District Organizer, Peter Hansen.
"Should
the American Workers Form a Political Party of their Own? A Debate. Morris Hillquit
(National Chairman, Socialist Party) -- Yes. Matthew Woll (Vice President, American
Federation of Labor) - No. [1932] Nearly a decade after the Labor Party question
first burned hot for the Socialist Party of America, its position had changed little
-- it was in favor of establishing a constituent organization akin to the British
Labour Party.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
14 January, 2006: We gave updated the Industrial Workers of the World page with four new additions:
One
Big Union W. E. Trautmann. (1911)
Jersey Justice" at
Work1913
The Revolutionary
I.W.W.by Grover Perty—1913
Contract Work1917
[Thanks to iww.org, Jim Crutchfield’s Workers Education I.W.W. Page and
David Walters]
14 January, 2006: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
Essays in Socialism, New & Old,
1907 (collection of essays with the usual Baxian mix of the very interesting,
the very obscure and a couple of absolutely disgusting attacks on women’s
rights)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
13 January, 2006: Added to the Belfort Bax Internet Archive:
Individual Rights Under Socialism,
1891
The Bourgeois
Radical Movement and Socialism, 1897
The “Collective Will” and
Law, 1897
Female Suffrage
and Its Implications, 1904
[Thanks to Ted
Crawford]
15 January 2006: Added to the Bernard Lazare Archive:
Jewish
Solidarity, 1890
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 January, 2006: Added to the New International Archive:
What Is
“Socialized” Medicine, by William Harvey, 1938
Socialized
Medicine, from Mia, 1939 (letter criticising the above article by
William Harvey)
Socialized
Medicine, from James Rorty, 1939 (comment on the above article by
William Harvey)
Socialized Medicine
III, from William Harvey, 1939 (reply to these two letters by William
Harvey)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
12 January 2006: Added to the Peng Shuze Internet Archive:
On The Nature Of The
Chinese Communist Party and Its Regime Political Revolution or Democratic
Reform—An extensively detailed document from 1960 on
the status of the Chinese Revolution after the “Great Leap Foward” and
before the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”
[Thanks to Andy Pollack for extensive editing and proofreading and
David Walters for the initial tanscription]
12 January 2006: Added to the Jules Guesde Archive:
May Day and the Public
Authorities, April 1891
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
12 January, 2006: Added to the Fourth International Archive (1940-1945):
Text of the Federal Indictment Against the 18 SWP Members (1941)
Added to the Fourth International Archive
(1946-1956):
A Reply to
Comrade Morrow, by the European Secretariat of the Fourth International
(1946)
Against the Stream – The Trotskyist Position in Palestine
(1948)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
12 January 2006: Added to the Jules Guesde Archive:
May Day and the Public
Authorities, April 1891
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
10 January 2006: Added to the New Sebastien Faure Archive:
Libertarian
Communism, 1903
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 January, 2006: 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 focusing mostly on the early Communist Party and it’s early factional history .
What Socialists Think, by Charles H. Kerr [July 1905] A concise exposition of pre-Bolshevik American Marxist political philosophy. Kerr briefly outlines the concepts of historical materialism and the labor theory of value and makes note of the change iof the capitalist class from actual participants in the production process to idle holders of stocks and bonds.
The Open Communist Party—The Task of the Hour. Unsigned appeal by The Workers’ Council. [Oct. 15, 1921] While there was stiff opposition to liquidation of the underground party inside the unified CPA itself, there was a countervailing tendency standing outside of the ranks of the party pushing in exactly the opposite direction— for the elimination of the underground apparatus and for commitment to a fully legalized communist movement. This tendency’s organizational expression was “The Workers’ Council”.
Membership Series by District for the (unified) Communist Party of America, June to October 1921. The first phase of the (unified) Communist Party of America, bounded on one side by the May 1921 Unity Convention at which the party was formed and on the other by the “Central Caucus” split of Nov.-Dec. 1921, which severely disrupted the organization.
We Want an Open Communist Party Unsigned appeal by The Workers’ Council. [Nov. 15, 1921] This unsigned statement from the pages of The Workers’ Council is a pointed attack on the plan of some inside the underground CPA to maintain a parallel secret organization in conjunction with the open Communist Party designed “to act in the capacity of a controlling organ, directing the activities of the public party, representing it internationally, determining its tactics and its principles.They insist on a system of parallel underground groups whose membership shall, in all important questions, act as a determined unit in the open organization.”
Who Are the Traitors? by Leon Trotsky [May 16, 1922] This Trotsky article was first published in the pages of Pravda and reprinted in New York in the magazine of the Friends of Soviet Russia. In it the Soviet People’s Commissar of Defense attempts to review “the strange fate of the Socialist Revolutionary Party” in light of the forthcoming show trial of the leadership of that organization.
Political Prisoners in Russia, by “James A. Marshall" [Max Bedacht] [June 17, 1922] The “Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries” of 1922 was the first controversial show trial of the post-Civil War period, putting leading members of the PSR on trial for their lives as alleged participants in a terrorist conspiracy against the regime. This article by Max Bedacht appeared in the English weekly The Worker.
Bridgman, Michigan Lakefront postcard. [Relates to CP Conventions of May 1920 & Aug. 1922] Shows the place the convetioneers stayed at.
Letter to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow from Abraham Jakira in New York. [December 1922] Jakira writes on behalf of the underground CEC to Moscow instructing the Comintern to send a letter to the forthcoming 2nd Convention of the Workers Party of America.
The Workers
Party and the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, by John Pepper [Aug. 1923] The
immediate post-convention assessment of the new Federated Farmer-Labor Party written
by the chief adherent of the Farmer-Labor Party tactic, John Pepper. Pepper depicts
the new organization in the most rosy colors, calling it a “militant
revolutionary party” and a “real mass party” to which 616,000
workers and farmers are affiliated through their organizations.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
8 January 2006: Added to the French Revolution Archive :
The Testament of Jean
Meslier, 1729
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 January 2006:
Added to
the Hegel-by-HyperText Archive:
Hegel’s Logic: An Essay
in Interpretation, John Grier Hibben 1902
[Thanks to Hasan]
8 January 2006: Added to the Georg Lukacs Archive:
Moses Hess and the Problems of
Idealist Dialectics, 1926
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
5 January 2006: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Against the Split, 1927
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
January, 2006: Created during 2005 is the Armenia Language Section of the MIA . Included in this new section are the creation of the archive for the following Marxists:
Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
The Communist
Manifesto—1848
V.I. Lenin
The State
and Revolution—1917
Gagik Mardanyan
not only transcribed
(re-typed) it but also turned it into modern Armenian. And, an original
translation Trotsky’s last words into Armenian and long
with his last Testament.
[Thanks to Razmik
Marutyan]
4 January 2006: Added to the French language V.I.Lenin Internet Archive has taken place with the following additions:
P. Broué
Le parti bolchevique
—1963
L. Trotsky
Déclaration des
délégués appartenant à l’Opposition de Gauche pour le
congrès de lutte contre le fascisme—1933
Lénine
Discours au
IXe congrès du P.C.(b)R.—1920
Discours au
VIIIe congrès du P.C.(b)R.—1919
Discours au
VIIe congrès extraordinaire du P.C.(b)R.—1918
[Thanks to all the French language volunteers]
4 January, 2006: Added to the Chinese Language Section of the MIA at 6new documents:
Ernest Mandel
Trotsky as
Alternative—1992
Leon Trotsky
The Bonapartist
Philosophy of the State—1 May,1939
Gramsci
“New
order&38221; sends the automotive factory worker workshop representative’s
letter—1919-9-13
Fourth International
Dynamics of World Revolution
Today Text of the Resolution Adopted by the The First (“Reunification”)
Congress of the United Secretariat (Seventh World Congress)—June 1963
Ernesto Che Guevara
Guerrilla war—1964
Man and Socialism in
Cuba—1965-4-11
[thanks
to the volunteers of the Chinese Lanugage Section of the MIA]
3 January, 2006: The
Felix Morrow
Internet Archive has added the following document:
The Italian
Revolution—1943
[Thanks
to Daniel Gaido, Einde O’Callaghan & David Walters]
3 January, 2006:
The Peng Shuze Internet
Archive has added the following document:
A Criticism Of The
Various Views Supporting The Chinese Rural People’s Communes—1960
[Thanks to David
Walters]
2 January, 2006: 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 early Communist Party and it’s early factional history .
Minutes of the Central Executive Committee, (unified) Communist Party of America: New York City - May 30-June 3, 1921. The minutes of the first plenum of the CEC of the unified CPA, which brought together 5 members of each the old Communist Party of America and the United Communist Party of America to establish the structure of the new organization.
To the CEC of the CPA in New York from Max Bedacht in New York, [late October 1921]. The decision of the Communist Party of America to establish a parallel "Legal Political Party" came at the beheast of the 3rd World Congress of the Communist International [June 22-Aug. 12, 1921] and a supplementary meeting of the American delegation with Lenin held in the Kremlin on July 7, 1921.
Make It a
Party of Action! A Declaration of theCentral Executive Committee to the
Membership. [circa November 1921] Full text of a 4 page leaflet of a statement
by the majority group of the Central Executive Committee of the CPA to the rank and
file on the heated factional situation developing in the party.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]