October 2006
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October 31, 2006: The Macadonian Language Section has added:
Social Democracy
Versus Communism CHAPTER 8, by Karl Kautsky
[Thanks to the Macadonian Language volunteers]
October 31, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 17 documents:
Michael Bakoenin
De Verklaring van het project
aan Poolse Kameraden - 1861
Brief aan Herzen en
Ogareff - 1861
Gedeelte van een brief van
Bakoenin aan Herzen en Ogareff - 1861
Brief van Bakoenin aan
Herzen en Ogareff - 1861
De Cloche en het Poolse volk -
1862
Brief aan Herzen
en Ogareff - 1863
De Rode Vereniging -
1870
Friedrich Engels
Ludwig Feuerbach en het einde
van de klassieke Duitse filosofie - 1886
Ernest Mandel
Zes vragen over de crisis -
1987
Het ware testament van
Trotski - 1948
Het
kapitaal van Karl Marx 100 jaar - 1967
Karl Marx
Inhuldigingsrede van de
Internationale Arbeidersassociatie - 1864
Claude Meillassoux
De huishoudelijke
reproductie - 1975
Komintern
Oprichting van de Communistische
Internationale - 1919
Rosa Luxemburg
Brieven 1904-1917
Orde heerst in Berlijn.
Pamfletten en artikelen 1916-1919
Uit: De accumulatie van het
kapitaal - 1912
[Thanks to Simon De Graeve, Frederic
Lehembre, Arno Dusart, Peter den Haan, Rick Denkers, Adrien Verlee]
31 October, 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:
IV°
Internationale:
La "Révolution" de Mao Tse-Toung (Hsieh
Yueh, 15.04.1948)
Lénine:
Le « grand départ »
Note
Sur les
ennemis du peuple
Y a-t-il un chemin vers une paix équitable ?
Remerciements
Une alliance pour arrêter la révolution
L. Trotsky:
Culture et Socialisme (03.02.1928)
[Thanks to the French
language volunteers]
29 October, 2006: Added to the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
For Soviet Britain, The Programme of the Communist Party
adopted at the XIII Congress February 2, 1935
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
31 October, 2006: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):
Rocks At Brighton, (Notes of the Quarter)
(1962)
Fists Against the Fascists, (Notes of the Quarter)
(1962)
The Young Socialists, by Will Fancy & John
Philips (1962)
Letter to
Readers, by the Editor (1962)
Songs With
Teeth, by Bobby Campbell (1962)
The Miners
Again, by Ken Coates (1962)
Education,
by David Cairns (1962)
The Young
Rebel, by Peter Ibbotson (1962)
City
Politics, by Sergio Junco (1962)
Managerisms, by J.C. Stonebridge (1962)
Morris and
Socialism, by P. Mansell (1962)
Community
and Change, by Peter Ibbotson (1962)
Wilson’s
New Frontier, (Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
How to Fight the
Sack, (Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
Shop
Stewards, (Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
Prediction
and Politics, by Alistair MacIntyre (1963)
Letter to
Readers, by the Editor (1963)
Algeria, by Jean-François Lyotard (1963)
Letter on
YS, from John Eric Austin (1963)
The Two
Nations, by John Crutchley (1963)
Curate’s
Egg, by David Cairns (1963)
Clinical
Horror, by Barry Gorden (1963)
Arms
Economy, by David Breen (1963)
Complicity, by Barry Hindess (1963)
Factual
Jungle, by Tirril Harris (1963)
Religion and
Revolt, by John Ashdown (1963)
Way Out,
by Peter Mansell (1963)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
October 29, 2006: To the Swedish Marx-Engels Archive was added:
Marx to Ruge, September
1843, Karl Marx, 1843
Two
letters from Marx to Engels in Manchester, Karl Marx, 1868
Five letters from Engels to Marx in
Vontnor, Friedrich Engels, 1882
Circular Letter to August Bebel, Wilhelm
Liebknecht, Wilhelm Bracke and Others, Marx/Engels, 1879
Programme of the French Worker’s
Party, Karl Marx, 1880
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
29 October, 2006: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):
Aldermarch Four, (Notes of the Quarter)
(1961)
Tory Transport, (Notes of the Quarter)
(1962)
Central Africa, (Notes of the Quarter)
(1962)
Belgium: Success Beyond Our Grasp, by Xavier Mourre
(1961)
Letter to Readers, by the Editor (1961)
144
Excitable Persons (Algeria), by Theo Melville (1961)
(poem)
The Young Nationalist, by Jacques Egyptian Compton
(1961) (short story)
Socialism and
Capitalism, by Paul Cardan (1961)
The State of
Peace, by Peter Cadogan (1961)
Export of
Reformism, by John Lane (1961)
Political
Platform, by Peter Cadogan (1961)
Cook’s
Tour of the Thirties, by Peter Mansell (1961)
Operation
Cover-Up, by Peter Cadogan (1961)
Spluttering
Taper, by Ken Coates (1961)
Art –
Index to Life, by Theo Melville (1961)
Brecht and
Socialism, by Ioan Davies (1961)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
28 October, 2006: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):
Unemployment, (Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
The Young
Socialists, (Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
Rebuffed,
(Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
The Ism Not the
Man, (Notes of the Quarter) (1963)
The Impasse of
CND, by Dave Peers (1963)
Letter to
Readers, by the Editor (1963)
After Oxford
What? by Barry Gorden (1963)
Letter on
YS from Gavin Kennedy (1963)
Letter on
YS from John Philips (1963)
Letter on the
NCLC from Sid Bidwell (1963)
The Common
Market, by John Palmer (1963)
Chalk
Farm, by Peter Ibbotson (1963)
Illusions from
Italy, by Tirril Harris (1963)
Africa
Mined, by David Cairns (1963)
God and
Spain, by P. Mansell (1963)
Jewel of
Empire, by Tirril Harris (1963)
More, by David Breen (1963)
Eurocrats,
by Henry Collins (1963)
Inadequate, by David Cairns (1963)
Dual
Revolution, by David Cairns (1963)
Our Great
Dreamer, by Ken Coates (1963)
Congo,
by Theo Melville (1963)
Il
Politechnico, by G. Facetti (1963)
Shorter
Reviews (1963)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
28 October, 2006: Added to the new Eamonn McCann Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
After
5 October 1968, 1972
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
28 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 4 PDF documents from the Socialist Party of America and the expulusion of the Party’s Left-Wing Faction, which later went on to form the Communist Labor Party and Communist Party of America:
The Pink Terror, Part 1: The Rape of the 17th Assembly District Branch, by John Reed [events of April 17-23, 1919] With the April 13 decision of the New York State Executive Committee behind them, the Regular faction set about purging the Socialist Party of New York of Left Wing Locals and Branches. First on the list was the 17th Assembly District Branch of Manhattan -- the largest branch of Local New York, with about 400 members in good standing..
The Situation in Local New York, by David P. Berenberg [event of April 22, 1919] Participant’s account of the April 22 meeting of the Central Committee of Local New York. The first test of strength came with the election of the chairman, with Regular U. Solomon defeating Left Winger Max Cohen, 39 to 19.
The Pink Terror, Part 2: The Pillage of the 18th-20th Assembly District Branch, by John Reed [event of April 25, 1919] Having purged and reorganized the 17th AD Branch, the reorganizers in New York set their sites on the 18th-20th AD Branch, located in Harlem.
Circular Letter
to the Members of Local New York, SPA, from the Executive Committee of Local New York,
SPA. [May 8, 1919] This is an official communication from the Executive Committee of
Local New York about the purge it was engaged in against branches and individuals
endorsing the manifesto of the Left Wing Section.
[Thanks to
Tim Davenport]
28 October 2006: Added to the Libertad Archive:
To the
Resigned, April 1905
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
28 October 2006: Added to the Mikhail Tomsky Archive:
The
Trade Unions, the Party and the State
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
27 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 PDF documents from the Socialist Party of America:
Two Resolutions of Local St. Louis, Socialist Party, January 4, 1903. The early Socialist Party was structured as a federation of semi-autonomous state organizations, governed by a strong National Committee of state representatives, with operations coordinated by a weak National Office.
Proceedings of the National Committee, SPA: St. Louis—Jan. 29-31, 1903, by George E. Boomer Washington state’s National Committeeman George Boomer provides this account of the annual meeting of the SPA’s governing National Committee (approximating a Central Committee in function), which voted to move party headquarters from St. Louis to Omaha, effective immediately, and replaced Executive Secretary Leon Greenbaum of St. Louis with William Mailly of Massachusetts, and elected a new 5 member National Quorum (approximating the SPA’s later National Executive Committee in form and function).
The ABC of Socialism, by Hermon F. Titus [Jan. 3, 1904] A brief agitational outline of the principles of socialism written for a special propaganda issue of The Socialist (Seattle) by Left Wing leader Hermon Titus.
Constitution of the Socialist Party of America: Adopted in National Convention at Indianapolis, Ind., August 1, 1901—as revised. This is the version of the SPA’s constitution in effect on the eve of the 1904 Party Convention, with editorial footnotes indicating the specific alterations made to the document over the party’s first 2-1/2 years.
The Working Class Convention: National Convention of Socialist Party at Chicago, May 1 to May 6, 1904, by Hermon F. Titus Eyewitness account of the 2nd Convention of the Socialist Party of America by Washington delegate Hermon F. Titus—Socialist publisher, medical doctor, and for over a decade a former Baptist preacher.
The Chicago Convention: National Socialist Party Convention Held at Chicago, Ill., May 1-6, 1904: Official Report of H.F. Titus, Delegate-at-Large from State of Washington. Delegate Hermon Titus details for the membership of the Socialist Party of Washington his actions on their behalf at the 2nd Convention of the Socialist Party of America.
To The
Socialist and Its Readers, by Eugene V. Debs [July 10, 1904] When Hermon
Titus’ Left Wing weekly The Socialist ran into financial trouble in the summer of
1904, SPA Presidential hopeful Eugene V. Debs immediately contributed a full-length
article expressing his support for the publication and upbraiding Socialists for lack of
support of the party press.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
26 October 2006: Added to the C L R James Archive:
Indomitable
Rebel, Review of The Prophet Outcast, Trotsky: 1929-40 by Isaac Deutscher,
1963
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
26 October, 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:
L.
Trotsky:
Aux Masses laborieuses de France, d’Angleterre,
d’Amérique et d’Italie (Oct.1918)
Ordre à
l’Armée Rouge n° 140, Konotop (07.08.1919)
La révolution
bolchévique s’est accomplie à date fixe (25.10.1921)
La situation
économique mondiale (13.06.1921)
Lettre au Congrès de Marseille
(19.12.1921)
Nouvelle période, nouveaux problèmes (19.12.1920)
Sur la route de la construction du socialisme ! (08.12.1920)
Résolution sur
le Parti Communiste Français (04.03.1922)
Lettre aux camarades Yougo-Slaves
(10.10.1920)
Lénine:
Les ultras du 3
juin veulent l’offensive immédiate
Le mille et unième mensonge
des capitalistes
La débâcle économique et la façon prolétarienne
de la combattre
Conversation avec le Soviet de Moscou par le fil direct le 20
février 1918
Discours au comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)R.18 février
1918, séance du soir
Interventions au comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)R.18
février 1918, séance du matin
Discours prononcé à la
séance du congrès des comités agraires et de la section paysanne du IIIe
congrès des Soviets
Discours devant les propagandistes envoyés en
province
Radiogramme à tous, à tous
Par radio, à tous,
à la délégation de paix à Brest-Litovsk, en particulier
Interventions au Comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)R. 19 janvier (1er février)
1918
C.G.T.:
Les rapports (Paul-Marius André)
La représentation
proportionnelle dans les syndicats (Paul-Marius André)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
25 October 2006: Added to the Romanian Lenin Archive:
Imperialismul,
stadiul cel mai înalt al capitalismului [Imperialism, the Highest Stage of
Capitalism, 1916].
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
25 October, 2006: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1969-1974):
Prospects
for British Capitalism, by Hugo Radice (1972)
Measured Day
Work, Piecework and British Leyland, by Dave Lyddon (1972)
The Programme of
the Socialist Workers’ Movement, by SWM (1972)
The Gombeen
Republic, by John Palmer (1972)
The Two Nations
Fallacy, by Brian Trench (1972)
Antonio
Gramsci: Prison Notebooks, by Colin Humphreys (1972)
Lenin’s
Moscow, by Christopher Hitchens (1972) (Yes, that Hitchens!!!)
The Greening of
America, by Michael Dillon (1972)
The Prisoner of
Sex, by VC (1972)
Workers’ Self Management in Algeria, by Christopher
Hitchens (1972)
Peasant War in
the Twentieth Century, by Jairus Banaji (1972)
Books
Received (1972)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
24 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 13 editorials from The People [New York] from January of 1903:
1903, January 1—Contented
Delaware
1903, January 3 —A Specimen
From the Quarry
1903, January 5 —"The
Warring Sects of Socialism"
1903, January 6
—Self-Paralleled
1903, January 7
—The Pulverizer Pulverized
1903, January
8 —Harmony Possible?—Sure!
1903,
January 9 —"Individuality"
1903, January
10 —Plasters on Wooden Legs,—and Further Off
1903, January 11 —Sic Semper
1903, January 12 —It Is Coming!
1903, January 14 —Light Breaking From Another
Quarter
1903, January 18 —An Erroneous
Trust View
1903, January 26
—"Socialist," Alias Social Democratic, Theory vs. SLP Practice
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United
States]
24 October, 2006: Added to the
Congresso
Continental Americano pela Paz — Golpe Decisivo Contra os Planos
Estratégicos dos Incendiários de Guerra, 1949
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
21 October, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Lenin, Karl Radek
Unemployment: The Responsibility of the
Labour Party, J. T. Walton Newbold
The Political Situation in Great Britain,
J. T. Walton Newbold
The Reaction in Bulgaria, Ch. Kabakchiev
Communism & the Labour Party, J. T.
W. Newbold
The Work of the Public Health Authorities in
Soviet Russia, N. A. Semashko
Under Kemalist Rule, Eric Verney
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
21 October 2006: Added to the Evelyn Roy Archive:
Mahatma Gandhi
Revolutionary or Counter-Revolutionary?
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
21 October 2006: Added to the Harry Pollitt Archive:
The
Conference of Executives
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
21 October 2006: Added to the R. Palme Dutt Archive:
Back to
Plotinus
Psycho-Analysing the
Bolshevik
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
21 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 28 editorials from The People [New York] from December of 1902:
1902,
December 1—Are the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Poorer?
1902, December 2—Modern Plebs
Leaderism
1902,
December 3—The Phelps Dodge
1902, December 6—“The
Public Good”
1902, December 7—The Haverhill
Campaign
1902,
December 8—Is It Approaching?
1902, December 9—Many Points
in One
1902, December
10—“Genosse Taenzer”
1902, December 11—The Phelps
Dodge
1902, December
12—Typical Hearst
1902, December 13—Score One
More for Class Instinct
1902, December
14—“Good!” Says Jenks
1902, December 15—A Reverend
Falsifier and Social Menace
1902, December 16—The
Christmas Heathen Chinee
1902, December 17—Light
Turned On
1902,
December 18—Political Tight-Ropers
1902, December
20—“Carnegie Veterans”
1902, December 21—Evolution
in Journalism
1902,
December 22—Are Socialists Failures?
1902, December 23—Answer,
Mamie!
1902, December
24—Turn to Your “Eighteenth Brumaire”
1902, December 25—Their
Opportunity
1902,
December 26—S.L.P. Perverseness
1902, December 27—St. Anthony
of Capital
1902,
December 28—In Token
1902, December 29—Real
Prosperity: January Dividends
1902, December 30—All Roads
Lead to Rome
1902,
December 31—Tossing ’Em on a Blanket
[Thanks
to Robert Bills and the Socialist
Labor Party of the United States]
20 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party of America discussion over World War I. Inlcuded at are some never-before-published letters by Eugene V. Debs:
Letter to Eugene V. Debs in New York City from Ludwig Lore in New York City, March 9, 1917. Letter from Ludwig Lore of the New Yorker Volkszeitung to Debs attempting to win his cooperation in the launching of a new theoretical magazine, The Class Struggle.
Letter to Adolph Germer in Chicago from Eugene V. Debs in Terre Haute, April 8, 1918. In this letter to Executive Secretary of the SPA Germer, Gene Debs urges the convocation of a special convention of the Socialist Party to refine its position on the war.
Letter to Eugene V. Debs in Terre Haute from Adolph Germer in Chicago, April 18, 1918. In the tendentious mythology of the wartime Socialist Party, Eugene V. Debs was a faultless anti-militarist and Adolph Germer a bureaucratic frontman for the duplicitous SPA Right.
A Convention to Restate, Not Apologize, by Eugene V. Debs [June 21, 1918] Somehow Gene Debs ambiguous statements about the necessity of reworking the SPA’s 1917 St. Louis platform in the face of changed war conditions and his unconditioned support for the proceedings of the Inter-Allied Socialist and Labor Conference (which supported the war effort) leaked to the press, prompting Debs to issue this angry denunciation.
Letter to Morris
Hillquit at Saranac Lake, NY, from Adolph Germer in Chicago, August 3, 1918. With
the constitutionally mandated "Conference of State Secretaries and Party Officials"
around the corner, Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party Adolph Germer sent this
note to Morris Hillquit expressing disappointment that he would not be on hand to assist
with the delicate task of formulating a new party program on the war.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and
Marxist History Website]
19 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party of America May and June of 1916:
“A Necessary Protest: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, May 6, 1916,” by Ludwig Lore Translator-Secretary Lore of the German Federation of the Socialist Party protests against what he sees as a coordinated effort to fan the flames of prejudice against the Language Federations.
“Fair Play: Joint Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, May 6, 1916,” by the Translator-Secretaries of 10 Socialist Party Language Federations Ten of the 15 Translator-Secretaries of the Socialist Party of America join in a protest of the Milwaukee Leader’s allegation that the federations made use of the unit rule and cast their ballots unanimously in party referenda.
“Russell and Teddy Agree: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist,” by Alfred Wagenknecht [May 20, 1916] This letter from Left Wing Socialist Alfred Wagenknecht—home again in Ohio after the better part of a decade as a leading member of the radical Washington state organization—takes a shot at Victor Berger by linking him with the “Preparedness” campaign bally-hooed by Theodore Roosevelt.
“Result of Referendum: Germer is Chosen National Secretary; Berger, Hillquit, Maley, Work, and Spargo Members of National Executive Committee.” [May 27, 1916] Complete state-by-state returns for the run-off election for 3 open slots on the Socialist Party’s NEC and for the position of Executive Secretary.
“Chicago ‘Prepares’ to Live; Fights ‘Preparedness’ to Die,” by J. Louis Engdahl [June 10, 1916] On Saturday, June 3, 1916, Chicago’s employers declared a paid holiday so that their workers could march in an official “Preparedness” parade through the city’s streets, patterned after an earlier event held in New York City.
“The Party Finances: Report of the Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party,” by Walter Lanfersiek [June 17, 1916] Final report of outgoing National Secretary of the SPA Walter Lanfersiek, of Kentucky.
“Politicians and Preachers,” by Eugene V. Debs [June 24, 1916] This
brief election year article by SPA orator Gene Debs written for the party’s
official organ.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
19 October 2006: Added to the Marx-Engels Archive:
Notes and Fragments for The Dialectics of Nature, Engels
1883
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
18 October, 2006: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1969-1974):
Their Election
and Us, (Editorial) (1970)
Policy Statement, by
IS Industrial Militants (1971)
The Election Bogey,
(Notes of the Month) (1973)
Two Conferences,
(Notes of the Month) (1973)
Middle East, (Notes
of the Month) (1973)
Nationalisation,
Workers’ Control and Workers’ Management, by International
Socialists National Committee (1974)
Added to the International
Socialism Archive (1975-1978):
Right Wing
Ascendant, (Notes of the Month) (1975)
Flawed Heroes,
by Raymond Challinor (1976)
[Thanks to Mike
Pearn]
17 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 22 editorials from The People [New York] from November of 1902:
1902, November
1—A “Shkandal”
1902, November 2—Impregnable
S.L.P.
1902, November
4—The “Passing of the S.L.P.” ?
1902, November 5—“Labor
Represented” ?
1902, November 7—One More
Preliminary
1902,
November 8—Holding Out the Old Lure
1902, November 9—Hailing Their
Own Death Dirge
1902,
November 10—The Republican Fix
1902, November 11—No Commune
Disaster!
1902,
November 13—First Moan of the Lassoed
1902, November 15—Pity of the
Energy!
1902, November
17—He Illustrates the Point
1902, November 19—“The
Public”
1902,
November 20—Their “Education”
1902, November 21—The Crop of
the Dragon’s Tooth
1902, November 22—A Kink
Unkinked
1902,
November 24—The Latest Count in the Indictment
1902, November 26—The Truth in
It
1902, November
27—Shoemaker, Stick to Your Last!
1902, November 28—On the
Breach for “the Public”
1902, November 29—Boy-Labor
1902, November
30—He Illustrates the Point
[Thanks to Robert Bills
and the Socialist Labor Party of
the United States]
17 October, 2006: Added to the G.V. Plekhanov Internet Archive:
Our
Differences, 1885
[Thanks to Omar Pie & Robert
Cymbala]
17 October 2006: Added to the Vinod Mishra Archive:
"It is time
to rebuild the third force" (June 1996)
Dynamic of National Political
Situation and The Tactics of the Left (October 1996)
[Thanks to Mike B and CPI-ML(L).]
15 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 4 PDF documents covering the Communist Party in May of 1920:
Letter to Leonid Belsky in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, May 6, 1920. CPA minority group leader C.E. Ruthenberg announces to the head of the faction’s Chicago organization that an agreement has been reached in New York with the leadership of the Communist Labor Party for a joint unity convention.
15 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 11 editorials from The People [New York] from October of 1902:
1902, October
1 -- A Natural Delusion and Confusion of Thought 1902, October 2—Outdoing
Itself
1902, October
4—American Labor as Manure for European Aristocracy
1902, October 5—The
Hanna-Roosevelt Duel
1902, October 6—Self-Convicted
Capitalism
1902,
October 8—Cause for Working Class Reflection!
1902, October 9—The Newspaper
Efforts to Declare Trusts Illegal
1902, October
10—“Nationalization” Again
1902, October 12—An Admirable
Working Class Spirit
1902, October 13—Root’s
Conference with Morgan
1902, October 31—“The
Decision”
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United
States]
15 October 2006: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive:
The
Struggle for the Masses in Britain
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
14 October, 2006: Added to the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Three indexes for International Socialism (London) for the period 1958–1978:
1958 –
1968
1969 –
1974
1975 –
1978
[Thanks to Mike Pearn]
14 October, 2006: Added to the David Widgery Internet Archive:
AIDS and the New
Puritanism, 1986
Sex and
Socialism, 1987 (transcript of a talk)
Notes on engels’ Ludwig
Feuerbach ..., 1892
Bourgeois of Days Gone By, 1893
[Thanks to Ramsey Margolis & Einde
O’Callaghan]
14 October 2006: The project of scanning the The Liberator magazine has completed its first phase: all issues in our possesion have been scanned and uploaded. The next phase requires help from volunteers to put the texts into HTML format.
July, 1919: IWW Convention (PDF)
September, 1919: Revolutionary Action in England ( PDF)
September, 1922: Engaged ( PDF)
January, 1923: The Skirmish in Cleveland ( PDF)
September, 1923: The Third American Revolution ( PDF)
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
13 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 22 editorials from The People [New York] from September of 1902:
1902,
September 3—“The Labor Combine” as a Menace
1902, September 4—Wasteful
Radiation
1902,
September 6—Companion Pictures
1902, September 7—The
Millennium Is Here
1902, September 8—A Comic
Predicament
1902,
September 9—Modern Paradoxes
1902, September 10—The Comedy
of Chattanooga
1902,
September 11—The Scrawny Cat Let Out
1902, September 13—Sen.
Beveridge Opens the Campaign to the SLP
1902, September 17—The
“Riot Committee’s” Report
1902, September 18—“The
Labor Combine” as a Menace
1902, September 19—The
“Strenuous Life” Leaped Forth
1902, September 20—“The
Labor Combine” as a Menace
1902, September 21—Tariff
Reform vs. Trust Development
1902, September
23—“Non-Partisan” Political and Economic Questions
1902, September 24—The Really
Responsible Agency
1902, September 25—Getting
Ready for the Circus
1902, September 26—The Phrase
That Kills
1902,
September 27—The Rampant Jerome and His Work!
1902, September 28—The
“E and E Union” an “N.G. Union”
1902, September 29—The
Epidemic of Murder
1902, September 30—We Should
Stutter!
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United
States]
13 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 20 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party of America, focusing on the coming split with the Left Wing, soon to be declared Communist Party:
The Necessity of an Emergency Convention, by Louis C. Fraina [Jan. 18, 1919] Left Wing theoretician Louis Fraina argues that during the recently complete world war, "contradictory elements" had been forced to make alliances; now that the war was over, "the real alignment of the conflicting forces of the world" began to emerge, the struggle between capitalism and socialism.
New York State Committee, Socialist Party Holds Annual Meeting: Walter Cook Elected State Secretary -- Locals Affiliating with Left Wing Have Charters Revoked -- Asks National Convention. [held April 13, 1919] Account of the seminal April 1919 annual meeting of the New York State Committee, which effectively made affiliation with the Left Wing Section a party crime meriting expulsion.
New York State Committee, Socialist Party Resolution on the Left Wing Section, Adopted April 13, 1919. On April 13, 1919, the State Committee of the Socialist Party of New York gathered in Albany for its annual meeting. A resolution was proposed by David Berenberg of Local Kings County which denounced and effectively banned the Left Wing Section as an organization "in violation of the spirit of the constitution."
Revolutionary Romanticists: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Ralph Korngold [April 14, 1919] This letter to the New York Call by well-known SPA Regular Ralph Korngold attacks "certain literary gentlemen in New York, Boston, and elsewhere" for their impatient desire to immediately conduct a revolution in America: "They want it right away. They are tired of voting. They are tired of teaching the masses how to vote. They sneer at ballot box victories, laugh at ballot box defeats, speak with disdain of ’parliamentarianism’ and parliamentary methods. They find education too slow a process, so they propose as a substitute Billy Sunday’s method -- hysteria."
Socialist Tactics? by John Reed [April 19, 1919] In the debut issue of The New York Communist, Left Wing Socialist John Reed editorializes about the fact that Secretary of Local New York Julius Gerber had spoken against the Left Wing Section by reading from an original copy of the Left Wing City Committee’s meeting minutes.
The Party Situation in New York, by John Reed [April 19, 1919] The April 13, 1919, annual session of the New York State Committee effectively banned the Left Wing Section in the party, instructing the State Executive Committee to revoke the charters of all locals and branches supporting the Left Wing manifesto.
One Reason for an Organization Within an Organization: A circular letter to factional allies from Julius Gerber in New York, April 19, 1919. With the decision made for factional war to the knives in the Socialist Party at New York by decision of the State Executive Committee at its seminal meeting of April 13, 1919, the Regular faction of the Socialist Party commenced to organize itself.
State Committee Proposition: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by L. Basky [pub. April 23, 1919] Left Wing Hungarian Socialist Federation member L. Basky writes to the New York Call about the April 13, 1919, ruling of the New York State Committee finding the Left Wing Section to violate "the spirit of the constitution" and instruct its Executive Committee on that basis to revoke the charter of any local that affiliates with the Left Wing Section or which permits its subdivisions or members to be affiliated.
Clearing the Decks: An Editorial in the New York Communist, May 24, 1919. Editorial reply to Morris Hillquit’s "The Socialist Task and Outlook" from pages of the New York Communist, edited by John Reed. The "clever politician" Hillquit is said to have "emerged from his long retirement" to issue this "semi-official declaration" in the New York Call.
Clear the Decks! An Editorial in The Revolutionary Age, May 31, 1919. by Louis C. Fraina Left Wing leader Louis Fraina offers his perspective on the party controversy and Morris Hillquit’s seminal article, "The Socialist Task and Outlook." Fraina observes that "Branch after branch of Local New York, affiliated with the Left Wing, has been expelled; and now the National Executive Committee, in session in Chicago, expels the whole Socialist Party of the state of Michigan, with threats of other expulsions."
Call for a National Convention for the Purpose of Organizing a Communist Party in America. [July 19, 1919] This is the text of the extensive "Federations-Michigan Convention Call" for the formation of an American Communist Party. The call states that "the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America has evidenced by its expulsion of nearly half of the membership that they will not hesitate at wrecking the organization in order to maintain their control."
On the Party Horizon, by Alexander Stoklitsky [July 19, 1919] Translator-Secretary of the Russian Federation Alexander Stoklitsky takes aim at the "Centrists" who continue to follow the strategy of "capturing the Socialist Party for revolutionary socialism."
Adolph the Truth Seeker, by John Keracher [July 19, 1919] In contrast to the barrage of ultra-Left hostility vented by Alexander Stoklitsky in the same issue of the official organ of the faction of the Federation-Michigan alliance, Michigan leader John Keracher is surprisingly temperate in his criticism of SPA Executive Secretary Adolph Germer and his cohorts. Germer is said to be a man of honest opinions and sincere convictions -- albeit one willing to engage in a campaign of half-truths and distortions to bolster his cause.
The New NEC Meets: Report of the Meeting of the National Executive Committee, Socialist Party -- Chicago, July 26-27, 1919, by Louis C. Fraina The constitution of the Socialist Party of America called for a new term of office of its governing National Executive Committee to begin July 1, 1919.
NEC Declaration to the Party: Issued by the [new] National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party - An American Communist Party Urged. [adopted July 27, 1919] Official declaration made by the "new" NEC elected in the abrogated SPA election of 1919 to the membership of the party, detailing their actions and issuing a call for the forthcoming Emergency National Convention in Chicago.
Letter to Adolph Germer in Chicago from Alfred Wagenknecht in Chicago, July 29, 1919. The constitution of the Socialist Party of America called for a new term of office of its governing National Executive Committee to begin July 1, 1919.
Circular to All Locals, Branches, and Young People’s Socialist Leagues from Alfred Wagenknecht, July 29, 1919. Official communique of the New National Executive Committee and Executive Secretary pro tem Alfred Wagenknecht mailed to all units of the Socialist Party of America and its youth section.
Why the New Party? by Oakley C. Johnson [Aug. 2, 1919] Elected State Secretary of the expelled Socialist Party of Michigan emphasizes the depth of the split that had developed within the Left Wing movement between the Majority "Left Wing" still working to win control of the Socialist Party and the Minority Federation-Michigan group intent on the immediate formation of a distinct Communist Party of America at the Sept. 1 convention which it had called in Chicago.
Letter to Adolph Germer in Chicago from Morris Hillquit at Saranac Lake, New York, August 9, 1919. This short and relatively mundane letter reveals that Socialist Party Executive Secretary Adolph Germer was in contact with staunch SP Regulars and attorneys Morris Hillquit and Seymour Stedman about technical issues surrounding the forthcoming Emergency National Convention in Chicago.
Letter to
Alfred Wagenknecht in Cleveland from Julius Gerber in New York City, August 12,
1919. A blistering response by the Secretary of the Socialist Party of New York
County to Alfred Wagenknecht’s first circular letter to all branches, locals, and
YPSL groups in the name of the "New National Executive Committee" -- those who would
have emerged victorious if the 1919 party referendum had not been abrogated by the
outgoing party NEC. Gerber states that both Wagenknecht and his associate Ludwig
Katterfeld had been present at the meeting of the NEC at which an Emergency National
Convention was scheduled for August 30, 1919.
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport and Marxist History
Website]
13 October, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
The Message of March: The Commune—and
After, T. A. Jackson
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
October 14, 2006: To the Swedish Marx-Engels Archive was added:
Synopsis of Volume One
of Marx’s Capital, Friedrich Engels, 1868
Review of Volume One of Capital for the
"Rheinische Zeitung", Friedrich Engels, 1867
[Thanks to
Jonas Holmgren]
12 October, 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:
L.
Trotsky : Lettre aux camarades Yougo-Slaves (10.10.1920):
Lénine:
Conversation avec le Soviet de Moscou par le fil
direct le 20 février 1918
Discours au comité central du
P.O.S.D.(b)R.18 février 1918, séance du soir
Interventions au
comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)R.18 février 1918, séance du matin
Discours prononcé à la séance du congr s des comités agraires
et de la section paysanne du IIIe congr s des Soviets
Discours devant les
propagandistes envoyés en province
Radiogramme à tous, à tous
Par radio, à tous, à la délégation de paix à
Brest-Litovsk, en particulier Interventions au Comité central du P.O.S.D.(b)R. 19
janvier (1er février) 1918
C.G.T.:
Les rapports
(Paul-Marius André)
La représentation proportionnelle dans les
syndicats (Paul-Marius André)
[Thanks to the French
language volunteers]
11 October, 2006: Added to the
A
Organização Econômica e o Socialismo, 1918
[Thanks to Pablo de Freitas Lopes]
12 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 5 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party of America and Communist Party:
Sound Socialist Tactics, by Eugene V. Debs [Feb. 1913] Popular Socialist leader Gene Debs weighs in on the controversy over syndicalism and sabotage that was sweeping the Socialist Party in this lengthy article from the pages of the Left Wing theoretical journal The International Socialist Review. Debs declares that the disagreements and dissensions among Socialists relate almost wholly to tactics.
The 1915 National Committee Meeting: Reports of National Committeemen L.E. Katterfeld and James P. Reid. [held May 9-14, 1915] ** REVISED EDITION ** Report of the annual meeting of the Socialist Party’s National Committee, held in Chicago May 9-14, 1915 by two Left Wing members of the NC, Washington State Secretary L.E. Katterfeld and Rhode Islander James P. Reid.
Bi-Weekly Newsletter #4 of the National Office, CP of A (Section of the CI), April 3, 1922. Internal party communication produced by CPA Executive Secretary Jay Lovestone. Lovestone spends the bulk of this issues space on discussion of the ongoing factional struggle with the Central Caucus faction.
Bi-Weekly Newsletter #7 of the National Office, CP of A, May 15, 1922. Internal party communication produced by CPA Executive Secretary Jay Lovestone. Lovestone notes the return of John Ballam from Moscow and his presentation of the decision of the Executive Committee of the Comintern on the factional situation in America.
Notes on the
United Front Problem, by Haim Kantorovitch [May 1936] Kantorovitch, an intellectual
leader of the Socialist Party’s “Militant” faction, takes aim both at
the “Old Guard” defectors such as Louis Waldman, who after being soundly
defeated by the SP majority in National Convention, in a party referendum, in the NEC,
and in the New York SP primaries, are presumptuous enough to dictate terms under which
they will return to the party fold.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport
and Marxist History Website]
12 October 2006: Added to the Libertad Archive:
Down With
the Law!, February 1906
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
12 October 2006: Added to the Kropotkin Archive:
The Effects of
Persecution, 1895
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
12 October 2006:Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
The
Revolutionary Federation of Communes, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
12 October 2006: Added to the Sydney Libertarianism Archive:
Authoritarianism and
Anti-Authoritarianism, David Makinson 1961
On Authoritarianism
– A Reply, R. Smilde 1961
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
10 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party of America during January of 1916:
The Truth About ‘Preparedness,’ by John Spargo [Jan. 8, 1916] The content of this article by John Spargo is largely forgettable, save as a curiosity—conspiracy-theory alleging mutual manipulations of an owned press by the armaments makers of the main European antagonists.
Publishing Statements: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, by I.T. Barron [Jan. 8, 1916] This letter to the editor of the Socialist Party’s official organ from a long-time New Hampshire rank-and-filer calls on editor Louis Engdahl to publish more verbatim statements by leading party figures, so that the party membership may be better informed.
Executive Secretary Candidates in Party Referendum Voice Views on Militarism and Preparedness. [Jan. 15, 1916] "Do You Favor the Policy of Military Preparedness?" Asking early 20th Century American Socialists this question is about as provocative as asking early 21st century Democrats whether they favor a woman’s right to reproductive choice or Republicans of the same era whether they favor lower income taxes. Virtually all members of the Socialist Party—Left, Right, and Center—were vehemently opposed to the European war and Woodrow Wilson’s campaign to militarize America under the slogan of "Preparedness."
Election of Party Officials: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist in Support of Santeri Nuorteva for SPA NEC, by J.F. Maki [Jan. 22, 1916] Translator-Secretary of the Finnish Socialist Federation J.F. Maki here endorses Santeri Nuorteva of Massachusetts in the coming election for the 5 members of the SPA’s governing National Executive Committee.
Adolph Germer for Executive Secretary: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, by U. Solomon [Jan. 29, 1916] While the campaign for NEC of the Socialist Party was polite, the battle for the Executive Secretary position got a bit nasty, with proxies for the 4 candidates (and candidates themselves) chipping at one another. New York State Secretary U. Solomon here goes after Rev. Carl Thompson, who had previously went after sitting Executive Secretary Walter Lanfersiek, a man who was also attacked by the 4th candidate, future CLP/UCP/CPA leader Ludwig Katterfeld, Washington State Secretary.
Russell and His War Views: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, by Eugene V. Debs [Jan. 29, 1916] In November 1915, Socialist Party touring organizer Charles Edward Russell came out for Woodrow Wilson’s program of military "Preparedness."
Choose
Hillquit and Berger on First Ballot: Tally of the First Round of Voting for the
National Executive Committee of the SPA. [March 18, 1916] Results of the first
round of balloting for the 5 member National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party
showed only two candidates receiving a majority of the ballots cast—New York City
lawyer Morris Hillquit and Milwaukee publisher Victor L. Berger.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and
Marxist History Website]
20 October, 2006: Opened J. P. Cannon in the Portuguese-language section, with:
A
História do Trotskismo Norte-Americano, 1942
[Thanks
to Anísio G. Homem and Fernando Araújo]
10 October 2006: Added to the Victor Serge Archive:
The Revolutionary Illusion, 1910
Added to the Georges Palante Archive:
Jean Grenier on
Palante, 1925
9 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 12 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party during the first full year of World War one (and one by Debs in 1910):
Working Class Politics: Extracts of a Campaign Speech for Local Cook Co. SPA at Riverview Park, Chicago, Sept. 18, 1910, by Eugene V. Debs Debs launches the 1910 fall campaign for Local Cook County, Socialist Party with a rousing speech to the faithful. Debs declares that the millions of wage workers have common economic interests, regardless of nationality, race, or sex, and that it is only the “ignorance” of the working class majority which enables the ruling capitalist minority to keep them in subjugation.
Open Letter to President Wilson, by Kate Richards O’Hare [Feb. 1915] Socialist Party orator Kate Richards O’Hare delivers a stinging rebuke to the pious hypocrite in the White House with this open letter published in the radical monthly, The National Rip-Saw.
I Denounce, by Kate Richards O’Hare [March 1915] “Never in all the history of the United States has the thoughtful intelligent citizenship of our nation had such cause to blush for the petty, sordid, groveling character of our so-called statesmen, declares Socialist Party agitator Kate O’Hare.
Why Hold a National Convention?” Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, by Otto Pauls [Sept. 11, 1915] St. Louis rank-and-filer Otto Pauls points out to the membership of the Socialist Party of America that since the organization had recently changed its constitution to provide for nomination of the party’s Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates by referendum vote, there was now no significant function for the next quadrennial convention of the party, slated for June 1916.
The School for the Masses: The People’s College of Fort Scott, Kansas, by Eugene V. Debs [Sept. 18, 1915] The People’s College was a private venture closely associated with the Socialist Party—an attempt to create a working class institution of higher education, somewhat reminiscent of early utopian colonization schemes.
Organization, by Dan Hogan [October 18, 1915] High rates of membership turnover were by no means limited to the Communist Party of later days—all political organizations show a similar sort of rapid membership turnover.
Comrades of the Revolution: Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist from the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Washington, Oct. 23, 1915.” This letter to the Socialists of Washington state reprinted in the official organ of the Socialist Party of America illustrates the very limited tactical vision of the unorganized Left Wing of the Socialist Party in 1915.
The War Censor Arrives in America: United States Postal Officials Deny Mails to Jack London’s Article ‘The Good Soldier,’” by J. Louis Engdahl [Nov. 20, 1915] The Woodrow Wilson regime did not begin its offensive on freedom of speech and freedom of the press in 1917 after American entry into the European war, but rather in 1915, during the first days of the “preparedness” campaign.
Eugene V. Debs Declines Presidential Nomination, by J. Louis Engdahl [Nov. 27, 1915] Short news article from The American Socialist announcing that 4-time Socialist Party Presidential standard bearer Eugene V. Debs had sent in a form to the national office of the SPA declining the party’s nomination for President in the 1916 campaign.
The Zimmerwald Conference and its Endorsement by the Party NEC, by Arthur LeSueur [Nov. 27, 1915] Member of the Socialist Party’s governing National Executive Committee Arthur LeSueur offers this explanation to the party for the NEC’s recent endorsement of the manifesto of the Zimmerwald Conference.
Duty of the Working Class Today, by Adolph Germer [Dec. 4, 1915] Socialist Party National Executive Committee member Adolph Germer declares that “the paramount duty of the American working class today is to counteract the pernicious doctrine of pro-Militarism that is spread throughout the land.”.
The Social
Spirit, by Eugene V. Debs [Dec. 11, 1915] Socialist Party leading light Gene Debs
briefly upbraids many Socialists for their overdeveloped individualism and their
underdeveloped “social spirit.” .
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport and Marxist History
Website]
7 October 2006: Added to the Slovenian language section of the MIA are the following works:
Karl Marx:
Marx o Feuerbachu (Theses on Feuerbach)
Kritika gothskega programa
(Critique of the Gotha programme)
Edvard
Kardelj::
Politični sistem
socialističnega samoupravljanja (Political system of
socialist self-management, 1979)
[Thanks to A.M.]
7 October 2006: Added to the Jack London Internet Archive 2 novels from this American socialist and literary icon:
Seawolf 1904
Adventure 1911
[Thanks to David Walters and Project
Gutenberg]
7 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 PDF documents covering the Communist Party of America during May of 1920:
Letter to Leonid Belsky in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, May 3, 1920 - afternoon. A second May 3, 1920 letter from CPA dissident factional leader C.E. Ruthenberg to the leading figure of the dissidents in Chicago.
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg in New York from Charles Dirba in New York, May 4, 1920. CPA Majority faction Executive Secretary Charles Dirba writes to Minority faction leader C.E. Ruthenberg in reply to Ruthenberg’s April 22, 1920, letter.
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg in New York from I.E. Ferguson in Chicago, May 4, 1920. Communication to CPA dissident Minority leader Ruthenberg from his closest ally in Chicago.
Letter to Leonid Belsky in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, May 4, 1920. Cover letter from acting Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg of the CPA Minority to the head of the dissident Chicago organization, Leonid Belsky, noting that the attached draft convention call for a joint unity convention with the CLP represents the only basis on which we can achieve unity with the CLP and it seems to me that under the existing circumstances we must work toward that end."
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg in New York from Leonid Belsky in Chicago, May 5, 1920. Head of the Chicago District organization Leonid Belsky informs Minority faction leader C.E. Ruthenberg that he had arranged with Karl Wolfskeel to move back the time for which his resort was reserved for the unity convention with the CLP to June 15.
Bulletin To All
District Organizers and Federation Executives from C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive
Secretary, May 5, 1920. Short summary of the factional situation from Executive
Secretary of the CPA Minority faction, C.E. Ruthenberg.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and
Marxist History Website]
6 October 2006: Added to the Sydney Libertarianism Archive:
John
Don Passos, Ian Bedford 1960
Why I am not an
Anarchist, David Ivison 1972
In Defense of
Anarchism, Jack Taylor 1972
The Experiences Of A
“Pommie” Migrant (1955-69), Jack Taylor
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 October 2006: Added to the new Benjamin Tucker Archive:
Letter to Two
Worlds Publishing, 1927
Letter to the American Journal of
Sociology, 1936
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
2 October 2006: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:
The
“Reds” in Congress: Preliminary Report of the First World Congress of the Red
International of Trade and Industrial Unions
[Thanks to
Brian Reid]
2 October, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 9 PDF documents covering the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Proletarian Party:
Restoring Confidence: A Letter to the Editor of The American Socialist, July 3, 1915, by John M. Work After peaking in size in 1912, the Socialist Party entered a period of significant membership decline, with the organization losing nearly a third of its numbers by 1915.
Party Membership Endorses Constitutional Amendments Proposed by National Committee: Report on Referendum A, 1915. [Aug. 28, 1915] The year 1915 saw a significant overhaul of the constitution of the Socialist Party of America. Aiming to stave off the attrition of the organization’s membership, a set of changes were proposed to the membership aiming at streamlining the party organization and bringing elected officials under party discipline on the issue of spending on the military.
Ludwig C.A.K. Martens, by Arturo Giovannitti [Feb. 18, 1921] Lengthy and politically-charged prose poem in honor of the deportation of unrecognized Soviet ambassador Ludwig Christian Alexander Karlovich Martens, written by the noted radical Italian-American labor activist and poet.
Memorandum to the CEC of the CPA on the Proletarian Party, by H.M. Wicks [circa Dec. 1922] This memo from former member of the Proletarian Party Harry M. Wicks notes that "since the fact that the Comintern has so far ignored [the Proletarian Party] is the only excuse they now have for remaining out of the Communist Party of this country I suggest that a communication be sent direct to [the PPA] requesting them to work in harmony with other Communist groups in the United States. Such a communication would undoubtedly force the leaders of that party to act or would alienate their membership from them, with the result that all the better elements of the Proletarian Party would join the recognized party of the Comintern [the CPA] and proceed to work under the discipline of that party."
Letter to O.W. Kuusinen, Secretary, Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow from John Keracher, National Secretary, Proletarian Party of America in Chicago, May 26, 1923. Formal reply of the Proletarian Party of America to the Feb. 19, 1923, request of Otto Kuusinen on behalf the Communist International that the PPA liquidate its organization and join the ranks of the Workers Party of America.
** New HTML document ** List of Delegates to the 1885 Convention of the Socialist Labor Party of North America. The convention was held in Cincinnati, OH, from October 5-8, 1885, and was attended by 31 delegates, representing 41 Sections of the SLP and the NEC.
** New HTML document ** List of National Committee Members of the Socialist Party of America, 1914. Most intriguing names on the list are Santeri Nuorteva (MA) and Duncan McDonald (IL).
** New HTML document ** List of National Committee Members of the Socialist Party of America, as of March 1915. Most interesting names on the list are those of C.E. Ruthenberg (OH) and W.H. Johnston (DC). Santtu Nuorteva remained on the National Committee in 1915.
** New HTML document ** List of State Secretaries of
the Socialist Party of America, as of March 1915. Most interesting name on the list
is that of Ludwig E. Katterfeld of Everett, State Secretary of Washington.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and
Marxist History Website]
2 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 14 editorials from The People [New York] from March of 1902:
1902, March
19—Let the Workers Hustle!
1902, March 20—They Now Call
It “Winnetka”
1902, March 21—Shadows of
Each Other
1902, March
24—Anti-Running Amuck Legislation
1902, March 25—Is It a Mere
Coincidence?
1902,
March 26—Not Straws but Beams
1902, March 29—Peace in
Warsaw
1902, March
30—Cecil Rhodes
1902, March 31—The Age of Hypocrisy
1902, April 1—Hannaism Sprung
a Leak
1902, April
3—No Flies on Tammany
1902, April 4—Chicago
Simians 1902, April 5—A
“Recognition of Labor”
1902, April 6—The Pity of
It
1902, April
8—Is It a New Convert?
1902, April 13—Art There
TruePenny?
1902, April
14—A Triple “Daily People Lie”
1902, April 16—Which Is
It?
1902, April
17—Let the Ulcer Be Exposed
1902, April 18—The Wonderful
Capitalist Tar-Baby
1902, April 19—Text and Commentary
1902, April 20—The Belgian
Turmoil
1902, April
20—Ship-Wrecked Mariners
1902, April 21—And Yet a
Batch of “Daily People Lies”
1902, April 23—The
“Water Cure” and Others
1902, April 24—Bounce
Him!
1902, April
26—The Asininity of “H’Organized” Labor
1902, April 27—A Bastille on
Paper
1902, April
28—Cowardly for Freedom, Insolent for Crumbs
1902, April 29—A “Daily
People Lie” Underscored
1902, April
30—“Trick-Windows” and “Faces”
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United
States]
2 October 2006: Added to the Kamenev Archive:
The Literary Legacy
and Collected Works of Ilyitch
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
2 October 2006: Added to the Sydney Libertarianism Archive:
A
Reading List for Libertarians, David Iverson 1956
Deadlock in Little
Rock, David Iverson 1956
Integration
Issues, George Molnar 1956
Libertarianism
and Philosophy, George Molnar 1965
Meliorism – A
Contribution to a Libertarian Symposium, George Molnar 1967
Meliorism, Ross Poole
1967
Social
Theory as a Positive Science, F W Fowler 1988
Anderson’s and
Pareto’s social theories, A J Baker 1999
Anderson on Marx and
Marxism, notes on lectures by John Anderson (2002)
[Thanks
to Mitch Abidor]
October 1, 2006: To the Swedish Marx-Engels Archive was added:
Capital, Volume II,
Karl Marx, 1885
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
1 October, 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:
Ordures staliniennes
Lénine:
Conférence du présidium du Soviet de Pétrograd avec les
représentants des organes du ravitaillement 14 (27) janvier 1918:
Projet de
décret sur la nationalisation de la marine marchande maritime et fluviale
(1918)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
1 October 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 14 editorials from The People [New York] from March of 1902:
1902, March
1—Boycott and Counter-Boycott
1902, March 2—The Workman
Made Scape-Goat
1902,
March 3—Revolt, Not Evolt, Mind You!
1902, March 4—“Giving
Men Work”
1902,
March 5—Descend? Yes! Let’s Descend and Learn
1902, March 6—The Precious
Jewel on the Toad’s Head
1902, March 7—And Yet People
Wonder!
1902, March
9—Two More Lessons
1902, March 10—Two
Performances, Worth a Thousand
1902, March 12—A Path-Finding
Michigander
1902,
March 14—John P. Altgeld
1902, March 15—Fraudulent
Arithmetic
1902, March
16—A Sermon Over-Head
1902, March 17—A Comical
Distress
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
1 October, 2006: To the Arnold Ljungdal Archive was added:
Marxismens
världsbild, Arnold Ljungdal, 1947
[Thanks to Jonas
Holmgren]
1 October, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Lessons of Plymouth it’s challenge to our
Party, Harry Pollitt
The Empire Conference and the
Workers, J. T. Murphy
Nikolai Lenin: A Biographical Sketch of a
Great Leader, Thomas Bell
The Crisis of Agriculture, William
Joss
Pacifism and Communism: An Appeal to
Pacifists, J. Epstein
The United States of Europe A Reply to
Trotsky’s “The United States of Europe”, S. Muscovitch
(Y.C.L.—Stepney Branch.)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]