September 2006
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September 30, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 11 documents:
Karl Marx
De
Internationale Arbeidersvereniging - Algemene Regels
1864
Friedrich Engels
Over
sociale relaties in Rusland
1874
Leon Trotski
Geen arbeiders en
geen bourgeoisstaat? 1937
Oorlog of
vrede? 1917
Ernest Mandel
Op de
barricaden 1968
Louis Althusser
Schets van het
begrip historische tijd 1968
Pierre Vilar
Marxistische geschiedwetenschap, een wetenschap in opbouw 1973
Michel Foucault
De archeologie
van het weten 19XX
Ted Grant
De rede in
opstand 1995
De opgang en de
val van de Communistische Internationale 1943
Lenin en
Trotski: hun echte opvattingen 1969
[Arno Dusart, Marxisme.net, Valeer Vantyghem,
Vonk.org, Adrien Verlee]
28 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 PDF documents from the history of the Socialist Party of American during the start of World War I and a correction to a document uploaded last week:
A Veteran’s Appeal for Unity: Address to the Founding Convention of the Socialist Party of America, Indianapolis, IN—August 1, 1901, by Julius Vahlteich ** REPOST: THIRD EDITION—RESTORES NAME SPELLING AND ADDS BIOGRAPHICAL FOOTNOTE ** Karl Julius Vahlteich (1839-1915) was a founding member of the modern German Socialist movement, twice elected to the German Reichstag, and expelled from the country by the Bismarck regime in 1881.
American Socialist Forerunner of Powerful Revolutionary Press, by Eugene V. Debs [July 18, 1914] Socialist Party leader Gene Debs salutes the decision of the SP National Committee to break with tradition and establish the first mass circulation official organ in the history of the organization.
Proclamation of the Socialist Party of America on the Outbreak of War in Europe. [August 8, 1914] First statement by the Socialist Party of America on the eruption of hostilities in Europe, issued by the party’s “Committee on Immediate Action” over the signature of National Executive Secretary Walter Lanfersiek. In the declaration, the SPA “hereby reiterates its opposition to this and all other wars, waged upon any pretext whatsoever; war being a crude, savage, and unsatisfactory method of settling real or imaginary differences between nations, and destructive of the ideals of brotherhood and humanity to which the international Socialist movement is dedicated.”
Murderous War in Europe is the Inevitable Culmination of Murderous European Capitalism, by Morris Hillquit [Sept. 5, 1914] Analysis of the cause of the 1914 European bloodbath by a top leader of the Socialist Party of America. Hillquit firmly advances the Marxist position that the world war was a byproduct of imperialist rivalry and the standing armies of militaristic capitalist states.
Strangle the Beast! by A.M. Simons [Nov. 21, 1914] A red hot anti-militarist screed by Algie Simons, long time Chicago Socialist journalist, former member of the Socialist Labor Party, and founding member of the Socialist Party of America. Simons writes that "familiarity is breeding acquiescence. Some infection of the martial spirit has crossed the Atlantic.
Socialism, [excerpt] by Barney Berlyn [Nov. 28/Dec. 5, 1914] First two parts of a serialized exposition of the basic principles of socialism written by a founding member of the Socialist Party of America. Berlyn notes that for all the various books interpreting socialism, "there is one Socialism, the Socialism which has its foundation in the worldwide International Socialist Movement."
Disarmament and World Peace: Proposed Manifesto and Program of the Socialist Party of America. [December 26, 1914] The National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America determined at its Dec. 12-14, 1914, meeting to appoint a subcommittee to draft a manifesto and program to end the war in Europe and assure future peace.
Socialist Neutrality, by Morris Hillquit [Jan. 9, 1915] Socialist Party of America leader Morris Hillquit cautions party members to maintain emotional neutrality in the ongoing European bloodbath. "If any people can afford to take a sober and dispassionate view of the European catastrophe, it is > the people of this country, about 4,000 miles removed from the fields of battle; and if any section of our people should be free from hysteria in its attitude toward the war, it is the Socialists," he insists.
Peace on Earth, by Eugene V. Debs [Jan. 9, 1915] Short essay by Socialist Party orator Debs on a topic assigned to him by an American newspaper chain. Debs asserts that "there has never been "Peace on earth and goodwill toward men;" and we shall have to go forward and not backward to realize that ideal. Civilization is still in a primitive, rudimentary state. It has taken countless ages to bring us from the brute, the caveman, and the savage to where we are today.
The ‘Collapse” of the International, by Morris Hillquit [May 1, 1915] Morris Hillquit, arguably the top theoretician of the Debsian Socialist Party of America, takes aim at “the peculiar brand of Socialists who rejoice in Socialist mistakes, fatten on Socialist defeats, and are enthusiastic only when they can point out some alleged faults of the Socialist movement,” individuals who had lately been regaling themselves and their readers with the assertion that “the Socialist International has utterly collapsed in the face of the world war.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
28 September, 2006: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Theses on Industry 1923
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
28 September, 2006: The following documents
have been added to
French
language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the
specific documents can be seen at the
French What’s New section:
Lénine:
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)
P.O.U.M:
Résolution du C.E. sur les poursuites contre Trotsky (2.09.1936)
A. Nin:
Résolution du C.E. sur les poursuites contre Trotsky (2.09.1936)
L. Trotsky:
Le "Tu" et le "Vous dans l’Armée Rouge (10.07.1922) )
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
24 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 PDF documents from the early history of the US Young Communist League in 1922:
Constitution of the Young Communist League of America: Adopted by the First National Convention, early May 1922. Basic document of organizational law of the underground Communist youth section.
Program of the Young Communist League of America: Adopted by the First National Convention, early May 1922. Fundamental statement of organizational policy issued by the underground youth section of the Communist Party of America.
Relation Between the "Y" [underground YCL] and the "L" [overground YWL]: Resolution adopted by the First National Convention of the Young Communist League of America, early May 1922. Set of extraconstitutional guidelines governing the activities of underground Young Communist League members within the Branches of the Young Workers League—which was initially conceived of as being a less doctrinally pure, mass-oriented organization.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
21 September, 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. Nin:
Lettre au S.I. (21.07.1935)
J. Guesde:
La femme et son droit au travail (09.10.1898)
L. Trotsky:
Résolution du Soviet des Députés Ouvriers concernant la suspension de l’introduction de la journée de huit heures (12.11.1905)
Télégramme du Soviet des députés ouvriers aux sebastopoliens (16.11.1905)
Résolution du Comité Exécutif du Soviet concernant la lutte contre les lockouts (14.11.1905)
Lettre à Olminski (nov. 1921)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
21 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 4 Socialist Party of America PDF documents from 1919:
“A Message From Debs: Letter to the NEC of the Socialist Party of America, October 9, 1919,” by William Henry On the morning of Oct. 5, 1919, Socialist Party NEC member William Henry of Indianapolis visited fellow Hoosier Gene Debs in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
“In Defense of Representative Government: Speech to Congress,” by Victor L. Berger [Oct. 17, 1919] This is a lengthy defense speech made by Congressman Victor Berger before the House of Representatives, which was in the midst of proceedings to unseat him from the seat to which he had been elected..
“Rethinking the Labor Party,” by John M. Work [Oct. 20, 1919] Thinking in the Socialist Party about the possibility of active cooperation with the fledgling Labor Party movement began in 1919, as this column by former SPA National Executive Committee member John Work demonstrates.
“An Interview with Hillquit.” (article from the Reading Labor Advocate) [October 1919] This is said to have been the first interview granted by Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit in more than 14 months (Hillquit being stricken with tuberculosis and to have stepped back from vigorous political activity for the duration of his stay at a sanitarium in upstate New York).
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
21 September 2006: Added to the Anarchism Archive:
Ideologies, A
J Baker 1958
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 September 2006: Added to the Marceau Pivert Archive:
Everything is
Possible, 1936
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
21 September 2006: Added to the new Han Ryner Archive:
On Individualism,
1913
What an Individual
Is, 1919
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
19 September 2006: Added to the Basque Section’s Leon Trotsky Archive:
Nazioen Autodeterminaziorako
Eskubidea.
[Thanks to Gorka]
19 September, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist History Project in Canada has made the following additions
The full text of John Boyd’s memoir, A Noble Cause Betrayed . . . But Hope Lives On: Pages From A Political Life. John Boyd played a central role in the Communist Party of Canada and its associated organizations from 1930 until 1968. His reminiscences and insights about his experiences will be invaluable for anyone interested in the history of the Canadian left. His memoir, had limited circulation when it was first published, and has been out of print for some time. In addition to his reminiscences, it includes three important documents: his eyewitness report on the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968, his 1969 letter of resignation from the Communist Party, and his 1979 reply to the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians.
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of
Canada]
19 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 PDF documents:
“Minority Report of the Platform Committee Made to the Socialist Unity Convention, Indianapolis, IN—August 1, 1901,” by A.M. Simons Chicago journalist Algie Simons represented the Left Wing at the founding convention of the Socialist Party of America, reporting out of the Platform Committee as a committee of 1 and addressing the convention with his proposal to eliminate all planks calling for ameliorative reform from the platform of the new party.
“In Defense of ‘Immediate Demands’: A Reply to A.M. Simons at the Socialist Unity Convention, Indianapolis, IN—August 1, 1901,” by Gustav A. “Gus” Hoehn Veteran St. Louis Socialist Gus Hoehn takes on Algie Simons for proposing the deletion of all “immediate demands” from the platform of the new Socialist Party of America.
“A Veteran’s Appeal for Unity: Address to the Founding Convention of the Socialist Party of America, Indianapolis, IN—August 1, 1901,” by Julius Valteich ** REPOST: CORRECTS DATE OF SPEECH, SPELLING OF SURNAME, ONE FOOTNOTE.** Valteich, a 61 year old German-American with 44 years’ participation in the Socialist movement in Germany and America, delivered the first English-language speech in his life to the Socialist Unity Convention that established the Socialist Party of America.
“Enemy Outside, Not Inside: A Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, April 7, 1919,” by William M. Feigenbaum Socialist Party journalist William Feigenbaum writes to editor of the New York SP daily announcing that he had now taken a position in the “Left Wing” controversy that was sweeping the party—in support of the “Regular” faction.
“Civil Rights Dead in America; Labor Must Build Anew: Problem is to Change Conditions So That Under Workers’ Administration Free Speech and All Civil Liberties Will Be Guaranteed, American Freedom Convention is Told: Permanent Organization Planned.” by H. Austin Simons [Sept. 27, 1919] While the new American Communist Parties were attempting to perfect their organization, the Socialist Party regulars concentrated much of their time, money, and effort on attempting to build what might accurately albeit anachronistically be labeled a “United Front mass organization” with a view to uniting various labor, political, civil libertarian, and pacifist religious organizations to gain amnesty for those convicted for “crimes” related to their political, economic, or ethical views.
“Cheer Plea to Impeach Wilson: President Scored by Congressman at Freedom Meeting: Convention Elects Immediate Action Committee to Organize Machinery for Carrying Propaganda for Amnesty and Restoration of Civil Rights to All Parts of Nation: Statement of Principles is Adopted,” by H. Austin Simons [Sept. 29, 1919] Second report in the Milwaukee Leader by recently released conscription resister Austin Simons on the American Freedom Convention held in Chicago from Sept. 26 to 28, 1919. Simons notes that the convention decided to establish itself as the “American Freedom League,” with headquarters in Chicago, to be governed by a National Committee consisting of one representative from each state.
“Democracy and the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat,’” by Joseph Gollomb [Oct. 13, 1919] Socialist Party loyalist Joseph Gollomb takes on the main ideological concept advocated by the nascent Communist movement, the primary objective of establishing a “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” in the transition to Socialist society.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
18 September 2006: Added to the Dreyfus Affair Archive:
An Affair of
State, Charles Maurras, 1933
Memories of the Dreyfus
Affair, Leon Blum, 1935
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
17 September 2006: Added to the MN Roy Archive:
The Empire and the
Revolution
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
17 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Program
of the African Blood Brotherhood
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
17 September 2006: Added to the CLR James Archive:
On The
Vanguard
Speech at a Conference of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union in Trinidad, October
1965
[Thanks to Matthew Quest]
15 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Five
Years’ Struggle , Victor Serge
The
Labour Party Conference1905, J. T. Murphy
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
15 September, 2006: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added a series of digitized speeches to its audio section. Included in these tapes by leaders of the Trotskyist movement are: Marxist and feminist anthropologist Evelyn Reed; worker-educator Larry Trainor; Marxist economist Ernest Mandel; Maritime vertern Tom Kerry; Trotskyist organizer and writer on Malcom X George Breitman; and founder of American Communism and Trotskyism James P. Cannon. Special thanks goes to the Stephen Upjohn and Shannon Sheppard from the Holt Labor Library
15 September 2006: Added to the Anacharsis Cloots Archive:
Speech on
Behalf of the Committee of Foreigners, 1790
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 September 2006: Added to the Sydney Libertarianism Archive:
Futilitarianism - a
Libertarian Dilemma?, Libertarian 1960
[Thanks to Curtis Price]
15 September 2006: Added to the Victor Serge Archive:
The
Illegals, June 1908
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 September, 2006: Added to Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is the following 1923 essay, reprinted from the British journal Communist:
Man Does Not Live By Politics Alone
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
14 September, 2006: Added to Norwegian Marxists Internet Archive are the follwoing documents from the Writers and Reference Archive:
Clara Zetkin:
Hva kvinnene skylder Karl Marx–What women owes to Karl Marx
Georg Lukács:
Bolsjevismen som moralsk problem–Bolshevism as a moral problem
Hal Draper:
Fram mot en ny begynnelse–Towards a new beginning
New reference archives:
Jeanette Olsen:
Trotski—arbeiderklassens fiende?–Trotski—an enemy of the working class?
Åpne grensen for flyktningene!–Open the borders for the refugees! Jeanette Olsen (1873-1959) was an early leader of the Norwegian CP, and a member of its central committee from 1923 until 1928, as well as
editor of the CP women’s journal, Gnisten (The spark). Olsen was a
delegate at the third and fifth congresses of the Comintern. She was
exluded for ’trotskyism’ in 1936, and from then on became the central
figure in the short-lived Trotskyist organisation in Norway, the October
group, whose journal, Oktober, she edited from 1937-1939.
Ellisif Wessel:
Krigen renser–The war purifies. Ellisif Wessel (1866-1949) was a revolutionary marxist and a very central figure in the early workers’ movement in Arctic Norway. She joined the Labour party in 1904. Under the impression of the Russian revolution in 1905, she taught herself Russian. Because of the strategic situation of the Finnmark region of Norway for the exiled Bolsheviks in the period 1905-1917, she became Lenin’s contact in Norway. Wessel was also the first to introduce Trotsky’s ideas to a Norwegian readership, in a journal article in 1912. She played a major role in defending the Saami population’s rights in Northern Norway. During WWI she edited a journal, Klasse mot klasse (Class against class), that became central to introducing the ideas of the Zimmerwald left to the socialist milieu in Norway. Wessel never joined the CP, and arguably moved in a syndicalist direction in her later political life. In 1921, however, she wrote a principled defence of the Bolsheviks aimed at her syndicalist comrades.
Kathrine Bugge:
Kjøp en maiblomst–Kathrine Bugge (1877-1951) was a revolutionary socialist in Kirkenes in the Finnmark region of Norway, and worked closely with Ellisif Wessel.
She joined the Labour movement in 1912. Later on, she established
socialist ’sunday schools’ in Kirkenes, and cooperated with Wessel at
the journal Klasse mot klasse (Class against class). She joined the CP
when it split from the Labour party in 1923.
New texts added to existing archives:
Rosa Luxemburg:
Orden hersker i Berlin–Order reigns in Berlin
Marcus Thrane:
Nasjonalfølelsen –The feeling of nationality. About Thrane:
Thrane (1817-1890) was the most prominent leader and inspirator of the
first workers’ movement in Norway. His Workers’ Association was
established in 1848, inspired by the February events in France, in
Drammen, near Oslo, and at its highpoint, in 1851, counted an estimated
30.000 members—of a total population of 1,5 million, and not counting
women and underaged men. The organisation published a journal edited by
Thrane. At that time, he was influenced by various utopian socialist.
His Association organised industrial workers, agricultural labourers,
cottagers, and artisans. It was banned by the government in 1851, and
Thrane and other leaders were put in prison. After serving a four years
sentence Thrane was released, only to find that the the political
circumstances had changed. Somewhat bitter, and not being able to find
work, he emigrated to the US in 1863. He wrote extensively for different
Norwegian-American journals and newspapers in the years to come, and in
1871 he participated in the establishment of a chapter of the first
International in Chicago. Thrane was a strong defender of the Paris
commune, and in his later years argued that the socialist revolution
could not succeed without the use of force. He returned briefly to
Norway in 1883, but was denied the right to speak at the (then liberal)
Workers’ union in Kristiania (Oslo).
[Thanks to Frans-Arne Stylegar]
14 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Ourselves
and the Labour Party, Thomas Bell
A
Review of Leon Trotsky’s 1905, G. H. Allen
A
Great Marxian Party, Nikolai Bukharin
The
Forum: Trotsky on Darwin, W. E. Lyte
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
13 September 2006: Added to the Anarchism Subject Archive:
Sydney
Libertarianism, A J Baker 1960
Illegalism, Kenneth
Maddock 1970
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 September 2006: Added to the Jules Guesde Archive:
The Secularization
Yet to be Done, October 1887
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 September 2006: Added to the Libertad Archive:
The Cult of Carrion,
1925
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
13 September 2006: Added to the Harry Pollitt Archive:
The
Issues Before the Trades Union Congress
The Trades
Councils Conference
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
12 September 2006: Added to the R. Palme Dutt Archive:
The Issue in
Europe
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
11 September, 2006: To the Swedish Lenin Archive was added:
Pages From A
Diary, V.I. Lenin, 1923
On
Cooperation, V.I. Lenin, 1923
Our Revolution, V.I. Lenin,
1923
How We Should Reorganise
the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection, V.I. Lenin, 1923
Better Fewer, But Better, V.I.
Lenin, 1923
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
11 September 2006: Added to the R. Palme Dutt Archive:
The British
Empire
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
10 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 PDF documents from the various Marxist groups reactions to the Palmer Raids and Anti-Syndicalism Laws. Of noted the article on the trial of Irish revolutionary sociaist and SLP member Jim Larkin and the Communist repsonse to E.V. Deb’s plea for socialist unity:
History Repeats Itself, by Sam J. French [June 16, 1918] As was the case with the Socialist Party, the Russian Revolution exerted a strong influence upon the thinking of a certain section of the membership of the Socialist Labor Party, which sought to take a more assertive line in advancing the revolutionary Socialist cause with a view to great gains in the immediate future—a rebellion against the perceived dogmatic conservatism of Secretary Arnold Petersen, Henry Kuhn, and others on the SLP’s National Executive Committee.
Government Spies Wrote Planks in Communist Platform, also Laid Bombs, is Charge: Washington Stirred to Depths by Sensational Accusations Against Government Spies—Russian Republic Representative Demands Full Hearing Before Senate. [Jan. 14, 1920] Article from the pages of the CLP’s legal organ, The Toiler, detailing the charges made by Santeri Nuorteva of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau that “We have conclusive evidence that agents of the Department of Justice have actively participated in the organization of the Communist Party of America, and that those very planks in the program of the party which now form the basis of the persecution of thousands of people have been drafted and inserted into that platform by such government agents.”
Who is the Destroyer of Liberty? by Elmer T. Allison [Jan. 14, 1920] This front page statement by Elmer T. Allison, editor of The Toiler, proclaims the death of “Liberty” and “Freedom” in the United States. Allison cites political raids and arrests which rendered the constitutional right of assembly a hollow mockery, the crushing of the steel strike by the organized forces of capital which belied any supposed right to organization of labor, and the denial of Victor Berger his Congressional seat and 5 New York Socialists their Assembly seats which abrogated the right of voters to elect representatives of their choice.
The Lesson of Albany by Walter B. Dillon [April 16, 1920] This not an analysis of the Albany trial of the 5 Socialist Assemblymen but rather a discussion piece on how the Communist Labor Party should respond if special elections are held in the 5 New York legislative districts in question and when they are again held elsewhere in the future.
The Class War in Oregon by K.W. Oster [April 19, 1920] Department of Justice repression in Oregon is chronicled here by the Oregon state Secretary of the Communist Labor Party. Repression began on Nov. 11, 1919, Oster notes, with a raid upon the Portland Workers’, Soldiers’, and Sailors’ Council, which resulted in 58 arrests and the holding of 26 alleged members of the IWW for trial.
Larkin Conducts Own Case.” (News report from Voice of Labor) [events of April 5-27, 1920] During April 1920, Irish labor leader and Communist Labor Party adherent “Big Jim” Larkin battled for his freedom in a New York Courtroom.
Debs and Socialist Unity.” (editorial from Communist Labor) [May 7, 1920] This editorial from the official organ of the Communist Labor Party takes on the question of whether the communists would be able to conduct united front action with the Socialist Party around its Presidential candidate, the imprisoned Eugene V. Debs.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
10 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
The Political Mind of Ramsay
MacDonald, J. T. Murphy
The Party Conference, J. T.
Murphy
The General Election, 1923,
J. T. Murphy
The European Crisis and British
Labour, J. T. Murphy
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
10 September, 2006: We have added the
programmatic document, Nuestra
posición, written by Luis de la Puente Uceda for the
Peruvian MIR to the Spanish-language Section’s archive for that writer’s works.
[Thanks to Instituto
Luis de la Puente Uceda and Juan R. Fajardo.]
We have also
added Tengo un sueño, a
translation of the famous speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr.,
in Washington, DC, in 1963, to the new Spanish-language reference archive for
his works.
[Thanks to Wikisource.]
Furthermore, we have expanded the Spanish-language Salvador Allende reference archive with the texts of several of his speeches:
Exposición por radio y
televisión sobre la estatización del sistema bancario (1970)
Discurso en el Día del
Trabajador (1971)
Discurso
con motivo de la nacionalización del cobre (1971)
Discurso sobre la propiedad
agraria (1971).
[Thanks to Wikisource.]
10 September 2006: Added to the new Libertad Archive:
To the Electoral
Cattle, February 1906
Weak Meat, August
1906
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
The
Tasks of Communist Education, Leon Trotsky
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
9 September 2006: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive:
Infantile
Diseases of French Trade Unionism
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
9 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 PDF documents from the Socalist Labor Party:
Raids and Riot, by Olive M. Johnson [Nov. 15, 1919] In November 1919, a major offensive was launched by the Department of Justice and various law enforcement agencies against the Russian radical movement in America centered in the Union of Russian Workers, an anarchist organization.
The Labor Party Convention, by A.S. Carm [events of Nov. 22-24, 1919] In November of 1919, approximately 1,000 delegates representing trade unions from around the country gathered in Chicago to form the Labor Party of the United States.
Whippersnapper or Agent-Provocateur? by Arnold Petersen [Dec. 6, 1919] Socialist Labor Party Executive Secretary Arnold Petersen unleashes a torrent of nasty ad hominem invective against Louis C. Fraina in reply to a recent article in The Communist (CPA) which had “the temerity to point the finger of reproof at the SLP.” The 34 year old Petersen shamelessly plays the age card against the 27 year old “Master Fraina” calling him a “"precocious lad,” “little boy wonder of The Communist,” a “flippant whippersnapper,” “the male edition of Daisy Ashford (the girl wonder who wrote a book at 9 years of age),” the “boy wonder and Protean model,” and a “silly youngster.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
9 September, 2006: Added to the
Acerca do Orgulho Nacional dos Grão-Russos, 1914
[Thanks to Edições
"Avante!" and Fernando Araújo]
8 September, 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. Gramsci:
La crise italienne (1924)
L. Trotsky:
Vers le capitalisme ou vers le socialisme ? (nov. 1925)
Discours prononcé au deuxième Congrès des Soviets de Moscou (15.12.1920)
Du patriotique ! (14.06.1916)
Discours à la Conférence des transports (02.12.1920)
Discours lors du défilé sur la Place Rouge le 23 février 1922
Déclaration à propos de la conférence de Gênes (09.05.1922)
La Nouvelle Politique Economique (27.01.1923)
Laissez-nous en paix ! (14.10.1915)
Les tâches de l’éducation communiste (18.06.1923)
Le conflit italo-éthiopien (17.07.1935)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
8 September 2006:
Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is a short documentary on Leon Trotsky narrated by Ernest Mandel.
[Thanks to Adrien Verlee]
7 September 2006: Added to the Christian Rakovsky Internet Archive are 10 articles written on the Balkans before World War I. Special thanks to Revolutionary History magazine (London) for providing the material.
The Eastern Question and the International Socialist Party Part I—1897
The Eastern Question and the International Socialist Party Part II—1897
The Turkish Revolution—1908
The Eastern European Question and the Great Powers—1908
Towards a Balkan Entente—1908
Constitutional Turkey—1908
Between Two Thieves—Russia and Austria in Serbia—1909
Revolution and Counter Revolution in Turkey—1909
Second Day of the Balkan Workers Conference—1915
Bulletin Of The Social-Democratic Workers Federation Of The Balkans. No.1 1915—1915
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
4 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Communism
and the Co-Operative Societies, Karl Bittel
The
Betrayal, Wm. Paul
A
Reply to David S. Reiss, B. Tamarkin
Among
the Books, Wm. Paul
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
4 September 2006: Added to the Harry Pollitt Archive:
The Influence of
Socialist Construction in the U.S.S.R. on Workers in Capitalist
Countries
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
3 September, 2006: To the Swedish Marx-Engels Archive was added:
Capital, Volume I, Karl Marx, 1867
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
3 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 3 PDF documents from the Socialist Party of America in 1901:
Minutes of the State Executive Committee, Socialist Party of New York, Meeting of March 26, 1919. These minutes are most important for what is not included -- nary a word on the Left Wing Section or any hint the split which was to rupture the New York organization in a matter of months.
A Reply to Algernon Lee: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call by Moses Oppenheimer [April 3, 1919] Veteran Socialist Moses Oppenheimer responds to Algernon Lee’s critique of the “Basis for Discussion” Letter to the New York Call, of which Oppenheimer was a signatory.
Socialist Party Tactics and Policies: A Speech at Hunt’s Point Palace, Bronx, NY -- April 4, 1919, by Louis Waldman New York Assemblyman Louis Waldman, a staunch adherent of the SP Regular faction, shared a platform in the Bronx with Left Winger Benjamin Gitlow at a meeting called to moot the factional controversy in the party. A stenographer was present to preserve these speeches—Waldman’s later being reprinted a month later in the factional newspaper the New York Socialist, edited by David Berenberg. Waldman presents a well-ordered summary of the Party Regulars’ view of the controversy.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
3 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Our Freedom
and Justice, Wm. Paul
The
Contradictions of the Soviet Policy, Leon Trotsky
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
3 September 2006: Added to the R. Palme Dutt Archive:
The Question of
Fascism and Capitalist Decay
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
3 September, 2006: Added to the Christian Rakovsky Internet Archive are the following two documents:
Bulletin Of The Social-Democratic Workers Federation Of The Balkans. No.1 1915‘1915
Second Day of the Balkan Workers Conference‘1915
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Revolutonary History magazine]
2 September, 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:
F. Engels:
La décadence de la féodalité et l’essor de la bourgeoisie (1884)
Lénine:
La grande initiative (28 juin 1919):
Isaac Roubine:
Essais sur la théorie de la valeur de Marx (1928):
L. Trotsky:
Le rôle des mencheviks et des S.R. dans la conférence démocratique (04.10.1917):
Le militarisme mondial et l’Armée Rouge» (25.10.1924):
De zéro à cinq millions d’hommes (24.10.1921):
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
2 September, 2006: Added to The Communist Review section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Our
Birthday, Wm. Paul
Genoa,
Wm. Paul
Lenin’s
Wife, Henrietta Roland Holst
Bolshevism
& Church Property, D. Ivon Jones
Questions
to Vandervelde & the Second International, Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka
The
Real Conspiracy Against Labour, Wm. Paul
Review
of Max Beer’s Social Struggles in Antiquity
Review
of Trotsky’s Between Red and White, Wm. Paul
Review
of J. P. M. Millar’s More Production and More Poverty, Wm.
Paul
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
2 September 2006: Added to the Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Bangladesh Subject Section is the new Shamsur Rahman Internet Archive, which includes the following poems :
Asader shirt (Asad’s shirt)
Mask
Ode to Freedom
Roar, O Freedom
[Thanks to Sukla Sen, Mukto-Mona and Mike B.]
2 September 2006: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 20 editorials from The People [New York] from January of 1902:
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
2 September 2006: Added to the Georges Palante Archive:
The Secular Priestly
Spirit, 1909
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
2 September, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 9 PDF documents from the Socialist Party of America, focusing on the founding of the new Socialist party in 1901:
“Socialists Who Would Emasculate Socialism,” by Eugene V. Debs [April 20, 1901] In this column from the official organ of the Social Democratic Party of America, Eugene Debs takes aim at middle class reformers who deny the reality of the class struggle and thus “betray their trusting victims to the class that robs them without pity and riots in the proceeds without shame.
“The July Convention,” by Eugene V. Debs [June 15, 1901] With the July 1901 Socialist Unity Conference approaching, Social Democratic Party leader Eugene Debs shared the following thoughts with the party faithful in the organization’s official organ, the Social Democratic Herald.
“Some of the Theories of Party Organization: Before the Form of an Instrument is Decided There Must be a Clear Conception of the Use to be Made of It,” by Margaret Haile [June 22, 1901] Social Democratic Party National Executive Board member Margaret Haile published this rather lengthy article in the official organ of the party in an attempt to advance discussion in the ranks of the SDP as to what form of organization it desired in the forthcoming Socialist Party.
“’The Mission of Socialism is Wide as the World’: Speech at Chicago, Illinois,” by Eugene V. Debs [July 4, 1901] Lengthy Independence Day speech by Eugene Debs, never republished since its original appearance in the pages of the Social Democratic Herald.
“A Veteran’s Appeal for Unity: Address to the Founding Convention of the Socialist Party of America, Indianapolis, IN, July 30, 1901,” by Julius Vahlteich Vahlteich, a 61 year old German-American with 44 years’ participation in the Socialist movement in Germany and America, delivered the first English-language speech in his life to the Socialist Unity Convention that established the Socialist Party of America.
“The Socialist Party: Indianapolis Convention Effects Union of All Parties Represented in Response to Call of the Social Democratic Party: State Autonomy Guaranteed: Immediate Demands Adopted After Prolonged Debate—Headquarters Located in St. Louis—The New Constitution.” [events of July 29-Aug. 1, 1901] This is an extremely important document, the definitive newspaper account of the Joint Unity Convention which established the Socialist Party of America.
“Convention at Indianapolis: Delegates Execute the Mandate of the Rank and File and Secure a United Socialist Party—Synopsis of the Proceedings—Selection of Committees—“Immediate Demands”—Platform, Constitution, and Resolutions—Name “Socialist Party” Adopted—St. Louis Selected as Seat of National Committee with Greenbaum as National Secretary—Harmony Marks the Entire Proceedings...” by A.M. Simons [events of July 29-Aug. 1, 1901] Algie Simons, former member of the SLP, editor of the Chicago Workers’ Call and International Socialist Review, was one of the leading figures of the Left Wing at the founding convention of the Socialist Party of America in 1901—an advocate of the abolition of all “Immediate Demands” from the party platform.
“Constitution of the Socialist Party of America: Adopted by the Socialist Unity Convention, Indianapolis, IN—July 29 to Aug. 1, 1901.” Basic document of party law of the newly established Socialist Party of America.
“Letter to State, Territorial, and Local Organizations of the Socialist Party of America, August 10, 1901,” by Leon Greenbaum. Initial communication to the members of the newly established Socialist Party from first Executive Secretary of the organization, Leon Greenbaum.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
2 September 2006: Added to the Anarchism Subject Section:
The Sacred
Conspiracy, Georges Bataille 1936
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
2 September 2006: Added to the Sylvain Maréchal Archive:
Preliminary discourse, or
Answer to the question: What is an atheist?,
1799
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
1 September 2006: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:
Speech to the Italian
parliament, 16 May 1925
[Thanks to Michael Carley]