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31 May, 2006: Added to the
Tese Sobre a
Questão Agrária,
1920, and A
Internacional Comunista e a Internacional Sindical Vermelha, 1921 -
(Documentos da III Internacional Comunista)
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
30 May, 2006: Added to the Eugene Lanti Internet Archive is his 1929 essay:
If Lenin Was an Esperantist 1929
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
30 May, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 6 documents:
Leon Trotski
Platform van de Verenigde
Oppositie, 1927
Walter Ulbricht
Uit de programma
verklaring van de voorzitter van de Staatsraad van de DDR voor de volkskamer,
1960
Ernest Mandel
Na de
krach, 1987
Spinoza, consequente verdediger
van de burgerlijke vrijheid, 1978
Henriette Roland Holst - van der Schalk
Clara Meyer-Wichmann
herdacht, 1936
Clara Wichmann
Vrouw en
Maatschappij, 1936
[Frederic Lehembre, Rick Denkers, Marxisme.net]
29 May, 2006: Added to the Added to the Chinese Language MIA is the following document :
John Reed:
Ten Days That Shook The World 1919
[Thanks to the Chinese language section volunteers]
26 May, 2006: Added to the
Declaração do I Congresso
Nacional dos Lavradores e Trabalhadores Agrícolas Sobre o Caráter da Reforma
Agrária
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
26 May 2006: Added to the Bela Kun Archive:
The Second
International in Dissolution (1933)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
26 May, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project in Canada has made the following additions:
From 1933 to 1961, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was the principal social-democratic party in Canada. We’ve opened a new section for CCF documents, beginning with The Regina Manifesto
We’ve also opened a new section for documents from the Waffle Group and its successor, the Movement for an Independent Socialist Canada. The Waffle Manifesto
Origins of the International Socialists
InA Party of a New Type: The Socialist Party of Canada and the Birth of Canadian Communism
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of Canada]
26 May, 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 on the Socialist Party and youth:
SSS Organizes on National Scale," by William Kruse [Sept. 1918] On July 27-28, 1918, a conclave was held in New York City bringing together representatives of the Socialist Sunday Schools movement from 6 Eastern cities and the National Office of the Socialist Party.
Gene Debs at the Socialist Conference," by William Kruse [Sept. 1918] In August 1918, State Secretaries and elected officials of the Socialist Party gathered in conference in Chicago to discuss the party’s political position and to make plans for the forthcoming fall election campaign.
National Election in YPSL: Wanted -- A New National Secretary," by William Kruse [Dec. 1918] Two-term National Secretary of the Young People’s Socialist League Bill Kruse decided not to run for re-election in 1919
Yipsels and the Socialist Sedition Trial," by Harry L. Gannes [March 1919] New Editor in Chief of The Young Socialists’ Magazine continues the story of the "Trial of the 5 Chicago Socialists" (Berger, Germer, Engdahl, Kruse, and Tucker) begun in the previous issue of the magazine.
Constitution of the Young People’s Socialist League: Adopted by 1st National Convention -- Chicago, May 1-4, 1919. This seems to be the first formal constitution of the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth section of the Socialist Party of America. Inspired by the experience of European Socialist parties in the field of youth organization, Young People’s Socialist Leagues (under various names) began to spontaneously arise in the United States from about 1907.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
25 May 2006: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added 5 documents on the Chicano National Question in the United States from the US Socialist Workers Party.
The Forging of an Oppressed Nationality, by Antonio Camejo 1971
The Struggle for Chicano Liberation: Resolution adopted at the Twenty-fourth National Convention of the SWP,August 1971
Chicano Liberation Report to the 1971 SWP Convention, by Antonio Camejo, August 1971
The Crisis of American Capitalism and the Struggle for Chicano Liberation: Resolution adopted at the SWP’s Twenty-seventh National Convention,August 1976
Chicano Liberation Report to the 1976 SWP Convention, by Olga Rodriguez, August 1976
[Thanks to Andy Pollack]
24 May, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 8 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing on the Socialist Party and youth:
“The Red Flag and the Stars & Stripes,” by Morris Hillquit [Dec. 1912] In this short article from The Young Socialists’ Magazine, Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit asserts the “open and honest” allegiance of the Socialists to the Red Flag as a symbol of “worldwide peace, harmony, and brotherhood” in the “great international fight against corruption, exploitation, and oppression.”
“A National Organization is On Its Way!” by J. Louis Engdahl [April 1913] Powered by the success of the Los Angeles Young People’s Socialist League, with 1200 members, and the support of State Secretary of the Socialist Party of California T.W. Williams, the establishment of the national YPSL organization was finally about to happen, according to this report by Chicago Socialist Louis Engdahl.
“The Finnish Young Socialists of the United States” by J. Louis Engdahl [May 1913] With a decision by the Socialist Party’s National Committee on the organization of a national young people’s section looming, Louis Engdahl analyzes the division of the youth sections on language lines, the most important section of which was the Finnish Gymnastic Societies organized by the various Socialist Party branches.
“To Work with Young People,” by James M. Reilly [June 1913] Short article in The Young Socialists’ Magazine by a Socialist Party National Committee member from New Jersey announcing the May 1913 decision of the NC to establish a Youth Department attached to the National Office, effective October 1, 1913.
“Marx and Young People,” by Eugene V. Debs [May 1918] This May 1918 article was written by Gene Debs for the magazine of the youth section of the Socialist Party to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (born May 5, 1818). Debs is effusive in his praise of Marx, the “founder of modern socialism and of the international socialist movement.”
“The Last Days with John Reed: A Letter to Max Eastman in New York, From Louise Bryant in Moscow, November 14, 1920.” John Reed’s death in Moscow and subsequent burial at the foot of the Kremlin wall was a political event—a first widely-known American martyr for the Communist cause.
“The Aims and Methods of Young Workers Education,” by Oliver Carlson [August 1927] Oliver Carlson was a former National Secretary of the Young People’s Socialist League (1918-1919) who joined the Workers Party of America and was an active leader of the Young Workers League.
“History of the American Socialist Youth Movement to 1929,” by Shirley Waller [circa 1946] A summary history of the early Socialist and Communist youth movement in America written circa 1946 by a member of a small Trotskyist organization, the Workers Party.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
23 May, 2006: The Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive received another two Debs documents from the archives of the Socialist Labor Party of the US:
On the Death of Daniel De Leon (1914)
James Connolly’s Foul Murder (1916)
[Thanks to Robert Bills, National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
23 May, 2006: The V.I. Lenin Internet Archive has added the last 500 new documents from Volume 44 of the Lenin Collected Works. These are composed mostly of telegrams and short letters to various comrades of Lenin during the period of October 1919 through the middle of the Civil War in Russia in 1921
[Thanks to David Moros and Robert Cymbala]
23 May, 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:
A. Rosmer:
Un îlot en 1914:
la “Vie ouvrière” 02.1936
J.
Jaurès:
Idéalisme et matérialisme dans la conception de l’histoire
déc. 1894
P. Monatte:
La fondation de “La Vie ouvrière” 1959
J. Guesde et P.
Lafargue:
Socialisme et patriotisme 23.01.1893
P. Lafargue:
Les trusts américains avril 1903
L. Trotsky:
Victor Adler 13.07.1915
Lénine:
Séance du comité exécutif central de Russie en date du 4 17
novembre 1917
Projet de résolution sur la liberté de la presse 1917
Le comité central du Parti Ouvrier Social-Démocrate bolchévik
de Russie 1917
Le comité central du Parti Ouvrier Social-Démocrate bolchévik
de Russie 1917
Ultimatum de la majorité du comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)
R. à la minorité 1917
Résolution du comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)
R. sur la
question de l’opposition à
l’intérieur du comité central 1917
Interventions à la séance du comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)
R. 1917
Esquisse de règlement pour les employés 1917
Radiogramme du conseil des commissaires du peuple 1917
Réunion des représentants des régiments de la garnison de
Pétrograd 1917
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
22 May 2006: Added to the Bela Kun Archive:
Preface to
Fundamental Laws of the Chinese Soviet Republic (1934)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
22 May, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Lenin:
Carta ao Congresso (Testamento Político) 1923
[Thanks to Rafael L. W. Góes —Juventude do PSTU and Fernando Araújo]
22 May 2006: Added to the Zhou Enlai Reference Archive:
Report on the Work of the Government (January 13, 1975)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
21 May, 2006: The V.I. Lenin Internet Archive has added 272 new documents from Volume 44 of the Lenin Collected Works. These are composed mostly of telegrams and short letters to various comrades of Lenin during the period of October 1917 through the middle of the Civil War in Russia in 1919
[Thanks to David Moros]
21 May 2006: Introducing the Manabendra Nath Roy Internet
Archive. Throughout the early 20th century, M.N. Roy had a leading role in revolutionary movements in India, Mexico, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, Indonesia and China.
Documents in this new archive include the following:
Legal Murder in India (1923)
Historical Role of Islam:
An Essay on Islamic Culture (1939)
[Thanks to Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha, Brian Reid, and Mike B.]
20 May, 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 Socialist Party:
The Tour of the Red Special, by Charles Lapworth [Dec. 1908] This is a valuable primary source document, a participant’s account of the famed Socialist Party Presidential “Red Special” of 1908. This lengthy memoir from the pages of The International Socialist Review is in addition rather fun to read—its colloquial tone and sometimes snide commentary not entirely dissimilar in form from a punk rock tour diary from a 1990s fanzine. The Red Special, a chartered train which crisscrossed the country in the late summer and early fall of 1908, was met everywhere by large and enthusiastic crowds, many of whom paid admissions to hear silver-tonged Presidential candidate Gene Debs and other Socialist luminaries expound upon the party program. Speeches from the train at depots across the nation were additionally coordinated with successful evening meetings, Lapworth makes clear.
Hoboed Over 8,000 Miles, by Thomas J. Mooney [May 1910] An article weird and wonderful from the pages of The International Socialist Review. In 1910-11, the P.T. Barnum of American Socialism, Gaylord Wilshire, conducted an 11 month long subscription-selling contest with the lucky winner to receive a trip around the world. The battle of the socialist salesmen shook down to a head to head competition between SP National Organizer George Goebel and an unknown young man from San Francisco named Thomas J. Mooney—this well prior to the latter’s de facto martyrdom as America’s most famous class-war prisoner in 1916.
Operating a Socialist Sunday School, by Kenneth Thompson [November 1910] Rare participant’s account of the structure and operations of a Socialist Sunday School written by a Bay Area Young People’s Socialist League activist.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
20 May, 2006: Added to the Paris Commune History section is another chapter of Jules Vallès account of the world’s first Workers Government:
The Paris National Guard
[Thanks for Mitch Abidor who translated this document from the French for the Marxists Internet Archive]
20 May, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Stalin:
Anarquismo ou Socialismo? 1907
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário and Fernando Araújo]
18 May, 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. 9 of these documents are from the Socialist Party and deal with the effect of the World War 1 on the Socialist Party. Included are two previously unpublished articles by Eugene V. Debs.:
Memorial: To the President and Congress of the United States from the NEC of the Socialist Party of America. [circa Feb. 15, 1918] This is a road map to peace in the European war issued by the governing Ngoverning National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party.
Proclamation to the People of of the United States from the NEC of the Socialist Party of America. [circa Feb. 15, 1918] This message to the American people was issued by the NEC of the Socialist Party (Berger, Hillquit, Maley, Stedman, and Work) at the same time as Memorial to President Wilson and Congress on ending the war.
Views on the Double Attack on Russia, by Eugene V. Debs [March 16, 1918] Still more evidence of the thorough support for the Bolshevik revolution by American Socialists of all stripes in 1918 and 1919.
Indicted, Unashamed and Unafraid, by Eugene V. Debs [March 16, 1918] The March 10, 1918 announcement that federal indictments had been returned against 5 top officials in the Socialist Party of America for purported violation of the so-called “Espionage Act” came as a bolt from the blue, ending what seemed to the Socialists to be a brief moment of social peace.
‘Left Wing’ Convention is as Secret as Paris Conference: Next Move of Faction Will be Attempt to Capture Socialist Party’s Emergency Convention in August, says James Oneal, by James Oneal [July 15, 1919] The Socialist Party regulars kept a close eye on the development of the Left Wing Section throughout the summer of 1919.
Long Live the Soviet Republic! An Editorial in The Milwaukee Leader—July 19, 1919. The Socialist Party daily The Milwaukee Leader and its founder and editor, Victor L. Berger, have been regarded as hailing from the SPA’s Right Wing, generally by those who have never seen the paper or read Berger. In reality, Berger and Hillquit composed a SPA Center—anti-militarist in sentiment, analytically Marxist, internationalist in perspective (the true SPA Right Wing departed en masse in the aftermath of the St. Louis Emergency Convention of 1917).
Local Cleveland’s Referendum, by James Oneal [July 22, 1919] Immediately after the Socialist Party’s NEC abrogated the 1919 election, expelled Michigan, and suspended the entire memberships of 7 of the party’s language federations, the Left Wing Section sprang into action, with Local Cleveland, Ohio putting forward a party referendum aimed at overturning the NEC’s actions within 24 hours.
Manifesto to Socialist Youth: Adopted by the Reorganizational Conference of the New York Young People’s Socialist League, September 5 & 6, 1920. The New York state organization of the Socialist Party’s youth section reorganized itself at a conference held in New York city on Sept. 5-6, 1920, which issued this “Manifesto to Socialist Youth.”
The American Labor Alliance: An Editorial, by Otto Branstetter [Aug. 1921] The formation of the American Labor Alliance for Trade Relations with Soviet Russia, an open adjunct of the United Communist Party, was the cause of great mirth for some officials of the beleaguered Socialist Party of America.
John Reed and the Real Thing, by Michael Gold [Nov. 1927] This article came from the issue of the Communist Party’s artistic and literary monthly commemorating t he 10th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution—a tribute by Mike Gold to his friend Jack Reed. The article is written against the views of Walter Lippmann and other “pale, rootless intellectuals” who smugly claimed that Jack Reed was a romantic, a playboy, and a superficial adventurer.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
17 May, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Mao Zedong Archive:
Atenção às Condições de Vida das Massas e aos Métodos de Trabalho, 1934
[Thanks to Centro Cultural Antonio Carlos Carvalho and Fernando Araújo]
16 May, 2006: The V.I. Lenin Internet Archive has added the last 150 new documents from Volume 37 of the Lenin Collected Works. These are composed mostly of letters to Lenin’s sisters Anna and Maria, his mother and brother . This completes Volume 37 and brings the total count of transcribed works from the LCM to 39 complete.
[Thanks to David Moros]
14 May, 2006: Opened Luiz Carlos Prestes in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Carta
aos Comunistas, 1980
[Thanks to Fernando
Araújo]
14 May, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project has made the following additions:
A History of B.C. Trotskyism as seen through Labor Challenge and Workers Vanguard, 1945-1961, written by Elaine Bernard in 1977, provides an overview of this Marxist current as reported in its newspapers. Elaine Bernard is now Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.
New in our “Reminiscences” section: in Coming Into Contact with the Trotskyist Movement, Ken Hiebert recalls his first experiences with the revolutionary left in B.C. in the 1960s.
Ian Angus’s article describes the formation of Workers Party of Canada, in February 1922 as “the real birth of communism as an open and influential current in the Canadian working class.” We have now added Maurice Spector’s Closing Address to the 1922 Workers Party Convention to our selection of documents by and about the WPC .
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of Canada]
14 May, 2006: 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:
A Trip to Girard, by “Wayfarer” [Jan. 1900] Brief first hand account of a trip by a pseudonymous Midwestern member of the Social Democratic Party to the “modern Mecca of Socialism,” Girard, Kansas to visit the editor of the seminal socialist weekly newspaper, The Appeal to Reason, J.A. Wayland.
The Campaign This Year, by Eugene V. Debs [Feb. 9, 1918] This article by Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs, prematurely declaring an end to state repression of the Socialist Party, is most interesting from the standpoint of irony: “The Socialist Party is emerging from another struggle crowned with victory. When the party declared its attitude toward war at the St. Louis convention [April 7-14, 1917] it was fiercely attacked from within as well as without as an anti-patriotic, seditious, traitorous organization.... Since that time and especially since President Wilson’s recent message virtually recognizing the Bolsheviki and proposing to accept their peace terms there has been a marvelous change of sentiment toward socialists and the Socialist Party. The capitalist press is today actually covering Lenin and Trotsky with fulsome praise in the vain attempt to square itself for the foul abuse it has poured upon their heads.... No more speakers are being arrested and no more indictments are being found, and it is a sage prediction that acquittal will follow the trials of those under indictment if the trials ever taken place.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
13 May, 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:
IVe Internationale:
n° 1 de “La Vérité” (15.08.1929)
Lénine:
La plate-forme électorale du P.O.S.D.R. (1912)
Conversation par fil direct avec Helsinfors (1917)
Projet de règlement sur le contrôle ouvrier (1917)
Deuxième congrès des Soviets des députés ouvriers et soldats de Russie (1917)
Séance du Soviet des députés ouvriers et soldats de Pétrograd du 25 octobre (7 novembre) 1917 (1917)
Aux citoyens de Russie ! (1917)
Lettre aux membres du Comité central (1917)
Le parti socialiste-révolutionnaire trompe une fois de plus les paysans (1917)
Les tâches de notre parti dans l’internationale (1917)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
13 May, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 6 original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
“The ‘Pittsburgh Proclamation’: Adopted by the Founding Congress of the American Federation of the International Working People’s Association, October 14, 1883.” From October 12-14, 1883, 40 representatives of anarchist and Social Revolutionary groups came together in congress at Pittsburgh, PA and established themselves as the “American Federation of the International Working People’s Association" — styling themselves the American affiliate of the so-called ”Black International" formed in London in 1881.
“The Disintegration of the SLP and the Establishment of the Socialist Party of America,” by Morris Hillquit [Oct. 1903] Section from Hillquit’s History of Socialism in the United States (1903) in which he relates the story of the 1899 split in the Socialist Labor Party and the subsequent negotiations of the SLP’s ”Rochester faction" (so-called “Kangaroos”) for unity with the Social Democratic Party of America — two events in which Hillquit was himself a primary participant.
“Aping Our Elders,” by Oliver Carlson [Aug. 1919] The newly-elected 3rd National Secretary of the Young People’s Socialist League here criticizes the tendency for the YPSL to mindlessly divide itself into “Right,” “Center,” “Left,” and “Communist” factions.
“Patriotism,” by Ralph Korngold [June 1911] This short essay, really a prose poem, by Socialist Party activist Ralph Korngold was published in the monthly magazine of the Young People’s Socialist Federation and Socialist Sunday Schools. “The capitalist class, by making the workers propertyless, has made them fatherlandsless.participant.
“How I Became a Socialist: An Episode of My Boyhood,” by Alexander Jonas [published March 1912] Alexander Jonas was the most important figure in the history of the 19th Century German-American Socialist movement — a fact somehow missed by historical encyclopedia editors of left (Buhle, Buhle & Georgakas) and right (Johnpoll & Klehr) alike.
“Rose Pastor Stokes Asks Privilege to Return to Socialist Party Ranks,” by J. Louis Engdahl [Jan. 19, 1918] Rose Pastor Stokes, prominent lecturer, social worker, and future member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America, had a “Zinoviev moment" in 1917 when she, together with her millionaire husband J.G. Phelps Stokes, exited the Socialist Party to help found the social-patriotic National Party shortly after the American declaration of war on Germany.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
12 May 2006: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added a speech by a historic leader of Cuban Stalinism, Blas Roca entititled: The Trotskyist Slanders Cannot Tarnish the Cuban Revolution. Roca gave this speech in January 1966 a few years after he had become a leader in the newly organized, post-1959, Communist Party of Cuba. The rebuttal to this speech is given by Joseph Hansen in his Stalinism or Trotskyism in the Cuban Revolution?
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
12 May, 2006: Added to the Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese-language section:
Análise Sobre a
Guerrilha do Araguaia - PC do B;
Em Defesa do Povo
Pobre e Pelo Progresso do Interior MLP and
Comunicado n°. 1 MLP.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
12 May, 2006: The Joseph Hansen Internet Archive has added two documents on the early years of the Cuban Revolution:
Stalinism or Trotskyism in the Cuban Revolution? 1966
The OLAS Conference:
Tactics and Strategy of a Continental Revolution 1967
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
11 May 2006: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added series of three speeches from the Latin-American Conference for National Sovereignty, Economic Emancipation and Peace in 1961. These speeches are collected in one document and listed as part of the Toward a History of the Fourth International sub section of the ETOL and the International Socialist Review index page. The 3 talks are given by:
—Speech by General Lazaro Cardenas
—Speech by Alberto T. Casella
—Speech by Señora Vilma Espin
—Closing Declaration
all from the International Socialist Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 1961
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
11 May, 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:
The Young People’s Socialist Federation, by Louis Weitz [Sept. 1911] This short article from the monthly Young Socialists’ Magazine published by the New Yorker Volkszeitung was written by the director of the Young People’s Socialist Federation. It provides a brief outline of that organization’s history — short on specific detail but nevertheless providing important clues about the origins of the youth section of the Socialist Party of America which eventually emerged as the Young People’s Socialist League.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
10 May, 2006: The following documents have been added to French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. More links to the documents can be seen at the French What’s New section:
P. Lafargue:
Socialisme et internationalisme
Le 1er Mai et le mouvement socialiste en France
La boucherie de Fourmies du 1er mai 1891
J. Guesde:
Participation ministérielle (03.12.1899) - texte complété à partir d’une nouvelle source
L. Trotsky:
Salut à Franz Mehring et Rosa Luxemburg (03.03.1916)
Nouveaux accrochages dans la galerie de photographies
Grande époque (06.03.1919)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
9 May, 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:
“Report from William Z. Foster in Chicago to A. Lozovsky in Moscow, November 7, 1924.” This is an interesting report from the leading figure in the Workers Party of America in 1924, recent Presidential candidate and majority factional leader William Z. Foster, to the head of the Red International of Labor Unions, A. Lozovsky, in Moscow.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
9 May 2006: Added to the Chinese Language MIA are the following the following documents:
Leon Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution, VOLUME THREE The Triumph Of The Soviets
Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky: The ABC of Communism 1919
[Thanks to the MIA’s Chinese language
volunteers]
9 May, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
Sobre os Probelmas da Política Agrária na URSS, 1928
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
8 May, 2006:
The Romanian Language
Section
opened an Encyclopedia.
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
7 May, 2006: The Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive received another batch of Debs documents from the archives of the Socialist Labor Party of the US:
The Negro In The Class Struggle (1903)
Danger Ahead (1911)
Labor’s Struggle For Supremacy (1911)
[Thanks to Robert Bills, National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
7 May 2006: Added to the Bela Kun Archive:
Marxism Versus Social
Democracy (1932)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
5 May, 2006: Opened Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese-language section, with:
A
Experiência Guerrilheira no Vale do Ribeira - VPR (1970);
Apelo da
Internacional Comunista aos Operários e Camponeses da América do Sul;
Manifesto
da ALN e do MR-8 - Seqüestro Embaixador Americano no Brasil and
Sobre a
Organização dos Revolucionários (ALN)
[Thanks
to José Braz and Fernando Araújo]
5 May, 2006: The Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive has uploaded a batch of 13 news documents transcribed by the Socialist Labor Party of the US:
The Western Labor Movement (1902)
The Industrial Convention (1905)
The Socialist Party’s Appeal (1908)
Railroad Employes and Socialism (1908)
Letter to Frank Bohn, National Secretary, Socialist Labor Party (1908)
The Socialist Party’s Appeal (1908)
Industrial Unionism (1909)
Industrial Unionism: A Letter to Tom Mann (1910)
A Letter from Debs on Immigration (1910)
Help! Help!! Help!!! (1911)
This is Our Year: But Two Parties And But One Issue (1912)
The Crime Of Craft Unionism (1912)
A Contrast Presented by Presidential Candidates of the Socialist Labor Party and the Socialist Party (1912)
[Thanks to Robert Bills, National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
5 May, 2006: The Portuguse Language Section opened a Subject Index with links to:
5 May, 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:
A Brief History of Socialism in America. [Published January 1900] Morris Hillquit’s 1903 History of Socialism in the United States has been long regarded as the first comprehensive history of the American Socialist movement in the English language written by a participant.
Again Mr. Hillquit. [Published circa Dec. 1, 1920] This is the unsigned lead article from the UCP’s official organ, The Communist (#11), written in response to a piece called “Again the Moscow International” by Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit which appeared in the New York Call on Nov. 15-16, 1920.
Spies and Traitors! [re: Morris Zucker] [Published circa May 1, 1921] This is a short, unsigned news snippet from the 16th and final issue of the United Communist Party’s official organ making note of the return of Morris Zucker from Soviet Russia.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and the Marxist History Archive]
3 May, 2006: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
Reformismo ou Revolução?, 1934
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário and Fernando Araújo]
2 May 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 29 editorials from The People from July of 1901:
1901, July 1—Bounce McMackin!
1901, July 2—The Skeptic in the Socialist Movement
1901, July 3—Capitalism Is the Handmaid of Death
1901, July 4—Manchester Insurrections
1901, July 5—The Iron Situation
1901, July 7—In No Need of Men
1901, July 8—Candidate Bryan
1901, July 9—Anaconda Capitalism
1901, July 10—The 10th of July
1901, July 11—Improving the Army
1901, July 12—Socialist Unity
1901, July 13—Workingmen, Be Ready!
1901, July 14—Wealth and War
1901, July 15—"Prosperity" and Strikes
1901, July 16—More "Prosperity"
1901, July 17—A Priceless Lesson
1901, July 18—Playing Labor for Bass
1901, July 19—"Unionizing," for Whose Benefit?
1901, July 20—Satraps of England
1901, July 21—Militarism
1901, July 22—New? Nay, Exceeding Old!
1901, July 23—Municipalization Again
1901, July 24—Fighting Old Battles Again
1901, July 25—Bryan "Coming Our Way"
1901, July 26—Can This Be? Quite Likely
1901, July 27—A Sore Spot Exposed
1901, July 28—Pals Falling Out
1901, July 29—Fresh Tariff Wrangles in the Wind
1901, July 30—The Struggle for Existence
1901, July 31—New Methods in Slavery
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
2 May 2006: The Marxists Internet Archive continues its tradition of offering mirroring of worthwhile historical sties that are not hosted on the MIA itself. One such site is the Canadian Socialist History Project. Below are the last few months additions to the CSH that are mirrored here on the MIA:
The 2006 issue of the journal Marxism contains two important articles on the history of the Canadian left: “A Party of a New Type: The Socialist Party of Canada and the Birth of Canadian Communism,” by Ian Angus; and “Origins of the International Socialists,” by Abbie Bakan and Philip Murton.
To purchase the journal send a cheque for Cdn$10.00 or US$8.00 to Marxism, PO Box 339, Station E, Toronto ON M6H4E3
Ian Angus’s article describes the formation of Workers Party of Canada, in February 1922 as “the real birth of communism as an open and influential current in the Canadian working class.” We have now added Maurice Spector’s Closing Address to the 1922 Workers Party Convention to our selection of documents by and about the WPC
In 1973, Belgian Trotskyist Ernest Mandel wrote a remarkably harsh attack on the program and policies of the League for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvrière. His views echoed criticisms made inside the LSA/LSO by the Revolutionary Communist Tendency, an opposition current that subsequently left the organization.
The LSA/LSO response was an important statement by the League’s new leadership team on key issues then being debated in the Canadian Trotskyist movement, including the NDP, Quebec, and Canadian Nationalism.
We have posted the main documents from the 1973 debate:
Ian Angus: Introduction to the 1973 Debate With Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel: “In Defense of Leninism; In Defense of the Fourth International” (sections dealing with Canada)
Joseph Hansen: “Dragon Hunting in the North"
John Riddell and Art Young: “The Real Record of the Canadian Section.”
Mitch P. who was active in the League for Socialist Action and the Revolutionary Marxist Group in the 60s and 70s, has contributed two reminiscences of his experiences in the Trotskyist movement:
The Art of Politics is a short humourous anecdote about working with Joe Flexer in a campus election.
Overture begins as a reminiscence of and tribute to Arnie Mintz. It goes on to offer an account of the 1973 split in the League for Socialist Action from the perspective of the members who left to form the RMG, and the lessons Mitch believes should be learned from that experience.
[Thanks to the Canadian Socialist History Project]
2 May 2006: The following documents have been added to French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. More links to the documents can be seen at the French What’s New section:
L. Trotsky :
Notice autobiographique (1918)
Autobiographie (déposition devant la commission Dewey) (17.04.1937)
Pétrograd (30.10.1919)
Lettre à Kroupskaia (17.05.1927)
Lénine :
La crise est mûre (1917)
Lettre à I. SMILGA, président du comité régional de l’armée, de la flotte et des ouvriers de Finlande (1917)
Les tâches de la révolution (1917)
La révolution russe et la guerre civile (1917)
J. Guesde:
Laïcisation à faire (22.10.1887)
Qui nous sommes ? (nov. 1907)
R. Luxembourg:
Martinique (1902)
A. Thalheimer:
Vº congrès du Comintern (juin 1924)
A. Kollontaï:
L’Opposition Ouvrière (version complète)
Conférences à l’université Sverdlov sur la libération des femmes
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
1 May, 2006: Added to the Gregory Zinoviev Archive:
A Five
Years’ Lesson (1922)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
2 May, 2006: Added to the Maxim Gorky Archive:
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1920)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
2 May , 2006: Started the Bela Kun Internet Archive
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
1 May 2006: Added to the Swedish Language Section of the Marxists Internet Archive is at last the vol 3 of The Capital available in theMarx-Engels Library.
1894, Kapitalet, band
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[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]