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August 31, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 15 documents:
Leon Trotski
Handen af van Rosa Luxemburg! — 1932
Het karakter van de Duitse Socialistische Arbeiderspartij (SAP) — 1932
Open Brief aan het Centraal Uitvoerend Comité van de USSR — 1932
De Spaanse
revolutie en de taak der communisten — 1931
Het geval Rjazanov — 1931
Eenheidsfront tegen het fascisme — 1931
Nieuwe zigzag en nieuwe
gevaren — 1931
De successen van het socialisme en de gevaren van het avonturisme — 193X
De koersverandering van de communistische Internationale en de toestand in Duitsland — 1930
Naar het kapitalisme of naar het socialisme? — 1930
Het
vijfjarenplan en de internationale werkloosheid — 1930
Ernest Mandel
Het laatkapitalisme — 1972
Socialistische
perspectieven voor de Vlaamse kwestie — 1958
De Grote Staking: vijf jaar later — 1965
Ben Bella en de socialistische linkerzijde — 1965
[Karel ten Haaf, Valeer Vantyghem, Adrien Verlee]
31 August 2007:
Added to the Romanian Archive:
V. Karpinski. Lenin redactor
M. Vasiliev-Iujin. În focul primei revoluţii
V. Losev. De la Veatka la Londra, la Congresul al III-lea al partidului
M. Ţhakaia. Întîlniri cu Lenin
A. V. Lunacearski. Amintiri despre Lenin din 1905
E. Stasova. Dascăl şi prieten
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
29 August 2007: Added to the Australian History Section, Victorian Labor College:
Victorian Labor College Syllabus, 1950.
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
28 August 2007: Added to the MN Roy Internet
Archive:
Anti-Imperialist Struggle in India (1923)
The 2nd International & the Doctrine of Self–Determination (1924)
Who Will Lead? Class Differentiation in the Indian Revolutionary Movement (1925)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford, Brian Reid and Mike B.]
28 August 2007: Added to the Shibdas Ghosh Internet Archive:
The Ninth Congress of the Communist Party of China (August 30, 1969)
[Thanks to SUCI, Salil Sen and Mike B.]
27 August 2007: Added to the Australian History Section, Victorian Labor College:
Victorian Labor College Syllabus, 1946.
Victorian Labor College Constitution, 1947.
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
26 August 2007: Added to the Wilhelm Pieck Archive:
Ernst Thaelmann: Fifty Years Old
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
26 August 2007: Added to the Karl Radek Archive:
Eve of Fusion of the Second and Two-and-a-Half International
[Thanks to Ted
Crawford]
26 August 2007: Added to the Theo. Rothstein Archive:
The Edinburgh Conference of the Labour Party
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
26 August 2007: Added to the Clara Zetkin Archive:
From the International of Word to the International of Deed
To the Congress of the German Communist Party
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
26 August 2007: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive:
Fundamental Problems of the World Trade Union Movement and the Fifth Congress of the Comintern
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
26 August 2007: Added to the Evelyn Trent-Roy Archive:
Politics in Gaya
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
25 August 2007: Added to the George Padmore Archive:
Answers to a Questionnaire on the War, November 1941
Madagascar Fights for
Freedom, October 1947
[Thanks to Chritian Hogsbjerg]
25 August 2007: Added to the
Daniel De Leon Internet
Archive are 23 editorials from The People [New York] from November of 1904:
1904, November 1—Corrupt, and Proud of It!
1904, November 5—Parker and Machinery
1904, November 6—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, November 7—The Strike Breaker
1904, November 10—The Lamb and the Fox
1904, November 11—Brush Up on Your Roman History!
1904, November 13—Taft-Bell
1904, November 13—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, November 15—And Then—?
1904, November 16—“Modern Heresy-Hunters”;
1904, November 17—Good-Bye, Bryan!
1904, November 18—Threatening Events
1904, November 19—Serviceable, to Whom?
1904, November 20—A New Term—"Exterminated”
1904, November 20—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, November 22—A Thunder Cloud
1904, November 23—A Sample of “Sanity”
1904, November 24—The Thanks That Are Due
1904, November 27—Where Righteousness Fails
1904, November 27—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, November 28—It Has Started!!!
1904, November 29—Tolderolloll, Father Van Aken!
1904, November 30—A Test of Soundness
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
25 August, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
The Socialist Party in Oklahoma, by J.O. Welday [Feb. 1915] This brief general introduction to the Socialist Party of Oklahoma was written for a general, politically-oriented readership.
Circular Letter to All Locals of the Socialist Party of Ohio from Alfred Wagenknecht, State Secretary. [April 21, 1917] “LET’ S ALL ENLIST!!” declares Socialist Party of Ohio State Secretary Alfred Wagenknecht in this mimeographed letter to the rank and file of the state organization, sent immediately after America’ s entry into the European bloodbath.
UCP Membership Bulletin #1. [Aug. 14, 1920] In addition to a biweekly official organ, the United Communist Party began issuing a periodic mimeographed membership bulletin, of which this August 14, 1920 issue was the first.
Circular Letter on the Closing of the Chicago Office of the Soviet Russia Medical Relief Committee from Charles L. Drake. [Jan. 15, 1921] The Soviet Russia Medical Relief Committee was the medical relief arm of the Communist-directed Friends of Soviet Russia organization.
The American Red Star League: First Aid to the Working Class. [circa Feb. 1, 1921] “The ghastly failure of the present organized relief forces to be of any real service to the working class and their official refusal in many cases to help the workers where help is most needed has made necessary the organization of a relief force that will be of, by, and for the working class, and for the working class alone,” declares this leaflet of the newly-organized American Red Star League.
The American Red Star League $10,000,000 Relief Fund to Save the Women and Children of Soviet Russia: A leaflet of the American Red Star League. [leaflet, circa Feb. 1921] This leaflet by the new American Red Star League, a left wing rival medical relief organization to the American Red Cross, presents much of the case made by Irwin St. John Tucker in a longer pamphlet published by the Red Star League at about the same time.
30,000 Babies Starving!! A leaflet of the American Red Star League, by Charles L. Drake [circa Feb. 1921] This leaflet of the new American Red Star League makes use of a cable of the American Friends’ Service Committee from Moscow highlighting the shortage of milk, cod liver oil, and soap in Moscow which had resulted in an infant mortality rate estimated at an astronomical 40%.
In the Matter of Abraham Zanan, Under Telegraphic Warrant of Arrest: Philadelphia -- Feb. 11, 1921. (Interview of Abraham Zanan of the CPA by A.G. Benkhart, Immigrant Inspector.) Attempting a social history of the early American Communist movement is problematic.
Letter to Attorney General of the US Harry Daugherty in Washington, DC from Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover in Washington, DC. [March 16, 1921] New Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover lost little time in preferring charges against the American Red Star League, which he did with this letter to new Attorney General Harry Daugherty a short time after the installation of the new Republican administration of which he was a part.
Circular Fundraising Letter of the American Red Star League by Charles L. Drake, Secretary. [April 15, 1921] This fundraising letter from the head of the American Red Star League notes that “Conditions in the Russian Republic are far from satisfactory to those who have an interest in their fellow men.
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport]
24 August 2007:Added to the Portuguese Ahmed Messali Hadj Archive:
Programa da l'Etoile Nord-Africaine, 1933
[Thanks to Gabriel Zerbetto Vera and Fernando Araújo]
23 August 2007: Added to the Australian History Section, Victorian Labor College:
Speedy introduction of shorter hours; direct action, arbitration or legislation, by May Brodney, 1946.
Why a Labor College is a Necessity, by May Brodney, 1946.
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
23 August 2007: Added to Clara Zetkin Archive:
World Wide Field of Activity of the Comintern
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
23 August 2007: Added to the Christian Rakovsky Archive:
The Communist Movement in Roumania
The Soul of Victory
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
23 August 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels
Archive:
Revolução e Contra-Revolução na Alemanha,
1852
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
23 August 2007: Added to the Australian History Section, Women's Movement
Archive:
Are Women Paid Men's Rates?, Council of Action for Equal Pay, 1942.
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
21 August, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 13 original documents from the history of early American Marxism:
Memorandum on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany, by Robert Lansing [events of Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 1917] Memorandum about backstage affairs at the White House at the pivotal moment of the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany written by pro-war Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
Letter of Acceptance to Woodrow Wilson in Washington, DC from Charles Edward Russell in Washington, DC. [May 11, 1917] Most of the leading social-patriotic defectors from the Socialist Party in 1917 were happy to make new pen pals of leading old party politicians and to fill the pages of the mainstream press with words of warning about the insidious activities of their erstwhile comrades.
Spargo Resigns: Letter to Adolph Germer in Chicago from John Spargo. [circa June 7, 1917] One of 5 members of the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, John Spargo resigns his position and his party membership with this letter to Executive Secretary Adolph Germer.
Letter to S.J. Rutgers in Moscow from unknown New York correspondent 'F.' with note from Ludwig Martens in New York, March 21 & 24, 1919. This is a fascinating handwritten archival document rescued from illegibility, written by an adherent of the Left Wing Section with a name initial “F.” (not Fraina) to Seybold Rutgers, in Moscow for the founding of the Communist International.
Strength of the Two Left Wing Parties. (Communist Labor Party News) [circa Sept. 15, 1919] This short article pronounces the Communist Labor Party's view of the membership status of the CPA and CLP at the time of their formation.
CLP Officials Arrested. (Communist Labor Party News) [event of Oct. 16, 1919] This short news article notes the arrest of a number of CLP leaders when attempting to organize the party organization in Cleveland.
CLP National Executive Committee Minutes: Jan. 3 to 23, 1920. While this esoteric document regrettably picks up immediately after the Jan. 2 session attended by an undercover informer of the Military Intelligence Division, it does fill in detail about the Communist Labor Party's unity negotiations with the rival Communist Party of America as well as its reshuffling of officials in the aftermath of the repression of the so-called “Palmer Raids” directed by J. Edgar Hoover.
Maximum Unity Demands of CLP as Decided Upon by the NEC. [adopted prior to Jan. 24, 1920] This document details the strategy to be pursued by the Communist Labor Party in negotiations for unity with the rival Communist Party of America at the meeting between Wagenknecht and Katterfeld (CLP) and Ruthenberg and Ferguson (CPA) on Jan. 24 in New York.
Capitalism -- Your Days Are Numbered. [CLP leaflet, circa Feb. 25, 1920] This is a defiant leaflet of the Communist Labor Party from the days immediately following the mass government repression of January 1920.
Circular Letter on Unity Negotiations to All Groups of the Communist Labor Party from the CLP National Office in New York. [April 23, 1920] This mimeographed memo updates the membership of the Communist Labor Party on the progress of discussions with the rival Communist Party of America. The first unity discussion took place on Jan. 24, 1920 in New York.
Down Tools On May First! Workers Awaken! Workers Unite! [CLP leaflet, late April 1920] This typeset leaflet was produced by the underground Communist Labor Party for May Day 1920. There is no modesty in the 3,000 or so member CLP's self-image: “The revolutionary advance guard of the Proletariat calls upon the workers everywhere to break the bondage of economic and political slavery and demonstrate on that day for the cause of real freedom.”
The Winds of Reaction: News of the Socialist Party Convention. (Communist Labor Party News) [events of May 8 to 14, 1920] This hostile analysis of the 1920 convention of the Socialist Party by an unnamed Communist Labor Party member seems to have been written from press accounts rather than on the basis of actual attendance, which limits its utility as a primary document of the SP. Nevertheless, the piece does offer an interesting view of CLP doctrine and the group's political horizons.
Report to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow from the Central Executive Committee of the United Communist Party in New York. [Sept. 14, 1920] This is an extremely important archival document, summarizing the activity of the United Communist Party during its first 3 months of activity. While running the gamut of UCP activities, of immediate importance to scholars is -- once again -- confirmation that the Comintern funding figures cited in Messrs. Haynes and Klehr's 1995 document collection are exaggerated to the point of absurdity.
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport]
21 August 2007: Added to Communist Review Archive: [Newspaper of The Communist Party of Great Britain]
The Fall of the Commune of Paris, R. W. Postgate
Egypt & the Entente, J. T. Walton Newbold
Untitled Book Review, Review of “Left Wing Trade Unionism in France”, J. T. Murphy
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
21 August 2007: Added to the NEW R. W. Postgate Archive:
Four Years: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Miss Pankhurst and Russia
The Fall of the Commune of Paris
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
21 August 2007: Added to Communist Review Archive: [Newspaper of The Communist Party of Great Britain]
Untitled Review of The A.B.C. of Communism, William Paul
Untitled Review of “The British Empire”
The Famine in Russia: How the Capitalist States Helped, Evelyn Roy
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
19 August 2007: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive:
Trade Unions in the Epoch of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
20 August 2007: Added to the Paris, May 1968 Archive:
Towards a Mass Leftism?, Jeunesse Communiste Revolutionnaire
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
20 August 2007: Added to the Communist Party of Australia HistorySection:
The Proletarian – table of contents June 1920 toFebruary 1922
Unity Statements – February 1922
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
20 August 2007: Added to the Social Democracy in Australia History Section:
Our Social System, by David Andrade 1889
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
20 August 2007: Added to the Australian HistorySection, Victorian Labor College Archive:
Victorian Labor College Syllabus, 1933
Victorian Labor College Syllabus, 1936
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
18 August 2007: Added to Henryk Grossmann Internet Archive:
Marx, Classical Political Economy
[Thanks to Steve Palmer]
18 August 2007: Added to Slovenian Language section of the MIA:
Marx - Pripombe k Millu (Comments on James Mill)
[Thanks to A.M.]
18 August 2007: Added to The Call Archive: (Newspaper of British Social Democracy)
The BSP Conference
The Latest Phase of the German Revolution
Manifesto of the German Spartacists
Socialist Unity
German Spartacists’ Call for Russia
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
18 August 2007: Added to the Karl Radek
Archive:
Foundation of the Two and a Half International
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
18 August 2007: Added to the Tom Quelch
Archive:
Opposition to the Social Revolution in Britain
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
17 August 2007: Added to the Karl Radek
Archive:
England and the East
The Downfall of Levi
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
17 August 2007: Introducing the NEW Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko Archive:
The Work of the Public Health Authorities in Soviet Russia
Dr. N. A. Semashko: The Commissar of Health (biography)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
16 August 2007: Added to the
Victorian Labor College Archive:
Victorian Labor College Syllabus, 1927
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
15 August 2007: Added to the George Padmore Archive:
A Political Review of the Colonies, February 1945
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
15 August 2007: Added to the
Libertad Archive:
May Day, May 1905
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 August 2007: Added to the
Australian History Archive:
The Proletariat and Education: The Necessity for Labor Colleges, by W. P. Earsman, 1920
Victorian Labor College Syllabus, 1925
— all by the pioneering Melbourne feminist, Vida Goldstein et al.
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
15 August 2006: Added to the Shibdas Ghosh Internet Archive:
Marxism and Development of Human Society (June 18, 1960)
[Thanks to SUCI and Mike B.]
14 August 2007: Added to the Australian History Archive:
Women’s Political Association (Non-Party), 1912
The Social Evil – Women’s Convention, 1916
Manifesto: Special Appeal by Women to Women, 1916
— all by the pioeering Melbourne feminist, Vida Goldstein et al.
The feminist movement in Australia and New Zealand dates from the 1890s and it was a vibrant and powerful movement, winning the vote for women decades before anywhere else, and forcing and winning plebiscites on Conscription for the first time in history, anywhere; they were also active in abstinence, health, peace, anti-poverty, free speech, anti-conscription and trade union struggles.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
14 August 2007: Added to the Duncan Hallas Archive:
The Significance of Nationalisation (1951)
The Permanent Crisis (1952)
[Thanks to the Mike Pearn]
14 August 2007: Added to the Peter Sedgwick Archive:
NATO, the Bomb and Socialism (1959)
[Thanks to the Einde O’Callaghan]
14 August 2007: Added to the David Widgery Archive:
The Left in Britain – A Reply (1977)
[Thanks to the Mike Pearn]
13 August 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Friedrich Engels (em Ryde), 1857
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
12 August 2007: Added to the Communist Party of Australia History Archive:
Prohibitions on Communist Party of Australia Lifted, speech by Attorney-General, H V Evatt, December 1942.
Communism is in the best interests of the Australian people, by Edgar Ross, September 1948.
The Story Of The Sharkey Trial, by Harold Rich, 1949.
The Party, the Class Enemy and the mass movement, by W. Smith, 1950.
The Peace Charter and Anti-Conscription, by W. Johns, 1951.
Ballot Riggers at Work!, 1953.
Why I am a communist, by Katherine Susannah Prichard, 1956.
Socialism In Australia: Communist View on Democratic Socialism, Lance Sharkey, June 1957.
Penal Powers: Menzies' weapon against unions and wages, by Jack McPhillips, August 1958.
The Communist Party and You, by Ernie Thornton, October 1958.
Education in Crisis, by W.E. Gollan, August 1959.
The Trade Unions: Communist Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, Lance Shrkey, 1961.
Warmongers Unmasked: History of Cold War in Germany, Wilfred Burchett 1950
The above pamphlets, leaflets and books cover the range of social issues and struggles of post-World War Two Australia, as the Communist Party struggled to survive the MacCarthyite witchhunts, the Cold War raged across the world, and the political terrain began to change forever.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
12 August 2007: Added to the New George Rawick Archive:
The American Negro Movement (1964)
the Historical Roots of Black Liberation
(1968)
Working Class Self-Activity (1969)
[Thanks to the Einde O’Callaghan and the Class Against Class
Website]
12 August 2007: Added to the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
The Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1932)
J. T. Murphy’s Desertion to the Class Enemy (1932)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
11 August 2007: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive and the Profintern History Archive:
Program of Action of the Red International of Labour Unions (1921)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
11 August 2007: Added to the Communist Party of Australia History Archive:
The Story of Government Enterprise in Australia, Lance Sharkey and Ernie Campbell 1945.
History of the Australian Labor Movement. A Marxist Interpretation, E W Campbell October 1945.
Following its “united front” with the Labor Party during the Second World War, with 22,000 members, in control of the trade unions and with the support of the country's intelligentsia, the CPA was in a very powerful position. It was more militant than its British or US sister parties. These two booklets are part of an effort to lead policy in the post-war period.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
11 August 2007: Added to the Romanian Archive:
M. Essen. Întîlniri cu Lenin
A. V. Lunacearski. Întîlniri cu Vladimir Ilici în emigraţie
V. Adoratski. În decurs de optsprezece ani
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
11 August 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marighella Archive:
Nossa Política,
Editorial da Revista Problemas nº 12, 1948
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
11 August 2007: Added to the Australian History Archive:
In Moscow in the 1930s: How the Comintern was Stalinised, Ted Tripp, 1978.
This interview tells how the first Trotskyist in Australia was “turned” by his trip to Moscow in 1929. When the upsurge of militancy came in the 1960s, Tripp educated hundreds of militants at the Victorian Labor College, founded in 1912.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
11 August 2007: Added to the Communist Party of Australia Archive:
18th National Congress of the Communist Party of Australia, April 1958
Draft Party Program
Draft Agrarian Program
Draft Constitution of the Communist Party of Australia
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
10 August 2007:
Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Karl Marx, "Para a Crítica da Economia Política", 1859
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
10 August 2007: Added to the
Communist Party of Australia Archive:
20th Congress And The Stalin Issue, Lance Sharkey June/July 1956
C.P.S.U. 20th Congress An Epoch-making Event
Lessons Of The Cult Of The Individual
Historical Experience Concerning Dictatorship Of Proletariat
This is the response of the Communist Party of Australia to Khrushchev's revelations at the 20th Congress in 1956. The blame was largely shifted on to Beria, leaving Stalin a few “mistakes”.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
10 August 2007:Added to the
Writers Section:
What is Marxism?, by Emile Burns, 1939
This is the little book which “converted” me to Marxism, on a Greek island back in 1968. First published in 1939, it must have been printed in literally millions of copies.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
9 August 2007: Added to the Tony Cliff Archive:
Kremlinology (1963) (book review)
1925-7 (1963) (book review) (written as M. Turov)
[Thanks to the Einde O’Callaghan]
9 August 2007: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):
Ian H. Birchall: Left-over Reformist (1963) (book review)
Ian H. Birchall, A Study in Inevitables (1963) (book review)
Labour’s Technocratic Lapse (1963) (editorial)
Against Robbins (1963) (editorial)
South Africa (1963) (editorial)
Alasdair MacIntyre: Labour Policy & Capitalist Planning (1963)
H. Orlando Patterson: A Very Funny Man: A Tale in Two Moods (1963) (short story)
Note on Contributors (1963)
André Giacometti: Spain (1963)
Dennis Anderson: Letter from a Reader (1963)
André Giacometti: Revolutionary at Large (1963) (book review)
Dave Peers: Once Upon A Time ... (1963) (book review)
Andrew Miller: Mongol Europe (1963) (book review)
Barry Hindess: Central Africa (1963) (book review)
Terry Martin: NUR Story (1963) (book review)
David Cairns: Heritage? (1963) (book review)
Peter Ibbotson: Platonic Leavisite (1963) (book review)
Peter Ibbotson: Our Children’s Cross (1963) (book review)
Constance Lever: Unclear (1963) (book review)
Chris Gray: In Defence of Shareholders (1963) (book review)
Hilary Rose: Titled Sterility (1963) (book review)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
The complete contents of International Socialism (1st series), No.15 are now on-line.
9 August 2007: Added to the Trotskyism & the Middle East Archive:
Index of Articles from International Socialism (1st Series – 1958-1978))
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
9 August 2007: Added to the Dolores Ibárruri Internet
Archive:
Our Battle-Cry Has Been Heard by the Whole World! (September 15, 1936)
Letter to Her Son (October 2, 1936)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
10 August 2007:Added to the Australian History History Section:
Dawn to Dusk, Ernest Lane, 1939, reminiscences of an Australian rebel 1889-1917. (330pp.)
This memoir by the Australian Marxist covers the whole period of the Second International. Like other Australian Marxists of this time, he lived in the world, and has plenty to say about the leading Marxists in the U.S.A., Britain, Russia and Germany, as well as commenting on all the tendencies of Marxism active in Australia. The book includes a list of recommended reading, an interesting snapshot of the ideas of that time, many of which, of course, are to be found on the M.I.A.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
9 August 2007:Opened Ahmed Messali Hadj in the Portuguese-language section:
Lutemos Contra o Imperialismo Francês!, 1928
[Thanks to Gabriel Zerbetto Vera and Fernando Araújo]
9 August 2007: Added to the Karl Radek Archive:
Anti-Parliamentarism
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
9 August 2007: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
May Day 1920 (poem)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
9 August 2007:Added to the Independent Labour Party History Section:
Oil and Finance In Turkey, Persia and Mesopotamia, ILP pamphlet 1921.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
9 August 2007:Added to the Revolution of 1848, France History Section:
Creation of the Government Commission for Workers, Paris February 1848.
To Arms!, Paris June 1848.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 August 2007: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:
Contribuţii la problema locuinţelor [The Housing Question, 1872]
[Thanks to Liviu
Iacob]
8 August 2007: Added to the New International Archive 1947-1958:
ISL Resolution: The Jewish Question and Israel (1951)
Al Findley: Israel on Its Fourth Anniversary (1952)
Al
Findley: Israel’s Laboristic economy (1956)
(Resolution and articles about Zionism and Palestine – very soft line on Zionism)
[Thanks to Ted
Crawford]
8 August 2007: Added to the New International Archive 1940-1946:
Karl Minter: Jewish Colonization in Palestine (1942)
Karl Minter: Whither Zionism? Whither Jewry? (1943)
Karl Minter:Whither Zionism? Whither Jewry? – II (1943)
Karl Minter: Whither Zionism? Whither Jewry? – III (1943) (seriesof articles about Zionism and Palestine – very soft on Zionism)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
8 August 2007: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):
Tamed, by Nigel Harris (1961) (book review)
TheRoad Back, by Nigel Harris (1961) (book review)
Labour and the Bomb, by Nigel Harris et al. (1962) (forum)
Muddy Boots and Pressure Groups, by Nigel Harris (1962) (book review)
Old Tortoise, by Raymond Challinor (1962) (book review)
TheSociology of Knowledge, by Nigel Harris (1963) (book review)
Tories and Trade Unions, by Nigel Harris (1963)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
The complete contents of International Socialism (1st series), Nos.4, 10, 12 and 13 are nowon-line.
8 August 2007: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1969-1974):
Shipwreck of a Generation, by Ian H. Birchall (1972) (book review)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
7 August 2007: Added to the Theo Rothstein Archive:
The Meaning of Social Revolution
Let us Understand the Pioneers
Labour’s Impotence and Its Strength
Man Has Arisen!
The Call of May Day
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Chris Clayton]
7 August 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Figuras do Movimento Operário: Prestes, 1948 wrote by Armenio Guedes.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
6 August, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 24 original documents from the history of early American Marxism, mostly focusing on the
important 1917 discussion in the Socialist Party of America around the issue of opposition to U.S. entry into the First World War:
“Real Patriotism: Letter to the Editor of the Milwaukee
Leader,” by James H. Dolsen [April 7, 1917] This letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Socialist daily published by Victor Berger was written by one of the founders of
the Communist Labor Party in California, the 31 year old James Dolsen.
“Socialists Plan Delegates’ Poll on War Question: Attitude of Speakers
Indicates Party Convention Will Not Approve Conflict,” by J. Louis Engdahl [events of April 7, 1917] First of 4 first-hand reports of the activities of the St. Louis
Emergency National Convention published in the pages of the Milwaukee Leader by American Socialist editor J. Louis Engdahl.
“Socialists Have Big Opportunity on War Question: Hillquit at Convention
Declares Party is Not Made Up of Pacifists,” by J. Louis Engdahl [events of April 8, 1917] Second of 4 first-hand reports of the activities of the St. Louis Emergency
National Convention published in the pages of the Milwaukee Leader by American Socialist editor J. Louis Engdahl.
“Hillquit Starts Debate on Party War Resolutions: Declares Report of Majority
Takes Absolute Position Against Conflict: Scores Minority’s Views.” (report in Milwaukee Leader) [events of April 11, 1917] After a lull while the various
committees of the St. Louis Convention conducted their work, activity on the convention floor again became fierce on April 11, when the Committee on War and Militarism made its report.
“First Minority Report of the Committee on War and
Militarism,” by Louis Boudin [April 11, 1917] Full text of the “Left Wing” minority report of the Committee on War and Militarism authored by Louis Boudin and
signed by committee members Kate Sadler of Washington and Walter Dillon of New Mexico.
“Second Minority Report of the Committee on War and
Militarism,” by John Spargo [April 11, 1917] Full text of the minority report authored and signed by John Spargo of the St. Louis Convention’s Committee on War and
Militarism, the position statement of a pro-war Right Wing faction which accounted for only 5 of the nearly 200 delegates to the gathering.
“Party Demands Capitalists Pay Expense of Conflict,” by J.
Louis Engdahl [events of April 12, 1917] Third of 4 first-hand reports of the activities of the St. Louis Emergency National Convention published in the pages of the Milwaukee Leader
by American Socialist editor J. Louis Engdahl.
“Socialists Avert Radical Changes in Party’s Policy: Convention Ballots Down
Suggestion of Compromise with Other Groups,” by J. Louis Engdahl [events of April 13, 1917] Fourth of 4 first-hand reports of the activities of the St. Louis Emergency
National Convention published in the pages of the Milwaukee Leader by American Socialist editor J. Louis Engdahl.
“The Emergency Convention: Unsigned Editorial of the Milwaukee Leader,
April 16, 1917.” While this editorial from Victor Berger’s Milwaukee Leader may not have been written by Berger himself, the unknown editorialist certainly
dusts off a couple of Berger’s well-worn aphorisms: “The Milwaukee Leader recognizes only two schools of Socialism -- the historical school and the hysterical
school," he declares, adding “And only two classes of Socialists -- the Revolutionary Socialists and the Resolutionary Socialists.”
“Radicals Join Pro-Germans: Platform Action of Socialists: Old Principles Discarded
for ‘Mass Action,’” by A.M. Simons [April 17, 1917] As soon as the train from St. Louis pulled into the station in Milwaukee, pro-war convention delegate Algie
Simons apparently rushed to his typewriter to prepare this condemnatory article for the Milwaukee Journal, a conservative daily.
“Socialists Play Berlin’s Game: Take Pacifist Stand in America -- Refused to
Do Same Thing at Meeting in Germany,” by A.M. Simons [April 29, 1917] This breathlessly melodramatic article by Algie Simons, inserted by Senator Paul Husting into The
Congressional Record, pretends to spill the beans on a “whispered” story “hotly denied by German nationalists” in the Socialist Party.
“After the War Ends,” by Anton Pannekoek [circa May 1, 1917]
In this article from Ludwig Lore’s journal, The Class Struggle, the Left Wing Dutch astronomer Anton Pannekoek advises his readers to prepare for post-war economic dislocation
when the various economies move from uniform, controlled war production, based upon a large single buyer, to chaotic private peacetime production.
“Letter to Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson in Washington, DC, from William
English Walling in Greenwich, Connecticut.” [May 2, 1917] Winfield Gaylord and Algie Simons were not the only individuals from the Socialist Party orbit who engaged in
duplicitous correspondence with authority figures from the old parties, this letter from author William English Walling reveals.
“Our ‘Party Killers’: Unsigned Editorial in the Milwaukee
Leader, May 3, 1917.” This editorial from the Milwaukee Socialist Party daily ridicules the ham-handed amateur espionage efforts of such self-appointed “party
killers” as Winfield Gaylord and Algie Simons.
“What Happened in St. Louis: Socialist Comments on Berger Defense: Sees a New
World Republic Rising,” by W.R. Gaylord [May 6, 1917] Former Wisconsin Socialist State Senator Winfield Gaylord explains his flip on the question of the European war in
this article written for the conservative Milwaukee Journal.
“Russian-American Feels Hand of U.S. Tsardom.” [re: Boris Reinstein]
[May 11, 1917] Brief and unsigned news account about the repression meted out to Boris Reinstein of the Socialist Labor Party, in March 1919 a founding delegate of the Communist
International.
“A Dastardly Attack: Unsigned Editorial in the Milwaukee Leader, May 17,
1917.” This Milwaukee Leader article presciently charges that while a provision for the censorship of war news had been stricken from the pending Espionage Act, “an
infinitely more dangerous and dastardly attempt against freedom and democracy...was put into the bill on motion of Senator P.O. Husting of Wisconsin .
“Socialists Urge Russell to Leave Commission Post: Letter Tells Writer He Can Not
Represent Party with His War Views.” [May 17, 1917] As the addition of a representative of the American working class to the Root Commission to Russia was deemed politic, a
brief search was held by the Wilson administration. Progressive author C.E. Russell, one of the first and most outspoken critics of the Socialist Party’s anti-militarist line, was
tapped for the honor.
“Open Letter to Winfield R. Gaylord,” by John M. Work [May 19, 1917]
This letter of Socialist Party NEC member John Work to Winfield Gaylord responds to a recent protest letter by Gaylord sent to the SPA National Office.
“Simons, Gaylord, and Others,” by Oliver C. Wilson [May 19,
1917] This article by the State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Illinois takes aim at the Milwaukee pro-war renegades Algie Simons and Winfield Gaylord, along with other pro-war
individuals from in or around the party, such as C.E. Russell, William English Walling, Ernest Poole, Max Eastman, and Graham Phelps Stokes.
“Socialists Expel Simons, Gaylord: County Central Committee Vote Stands 63 For and 3
Against.” [event of May 23, 1917] On May 23, 1917, the final gong was rung on the Socialist Party memberships of Algie Simons and Winfield Gaylord, as the expulsions of
both were approved by the Milwaukee County Central Committee by the overwhelming vote of 63 to 3.
“Unemployment.” (leaflet of the Communist Party of America)
[circa Feb. 1921] This leaflet of the “illegal" underground CPA observes that “a terrific industrial slump has hit this country.
“Stalin, ‘The Voice of the Party,’ Breaks Trotsky: The Rubberstamp
Secretary vs. The Fiery Idealist: Sidelights on the Russian Revolution,” by Anna Louise Strong [circa Dec. 15, 1925] In this article from the English Left Wing press,
American Communist Anna Louise Strong explains the political situation evolving in the Russian Communist Party.
“Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders,” by William Z. Foster [Dec.
1939] This literary genuflection by The Great Foster was part of a special 60th Birthday issue in honor of The Great Stalin in the theoretical monthly of the CPUSA. Foster waxes lengthily and
passionately on the “unmatched ability” of the “masters of Marxian theory, Lenin and Stalin.” Lenin was “bold, resourceful and flexible in his political
strategy,” writes Foster, while Stalin, “’the best pupil of Lenin,’ also displays a high genius of political strategy.”
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport]
5 August 2007:Added to the Australian History Section:
Protection as Wanted. Manifesto of the Social Democratic Federation of Victoria,
1895.
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
5 August 2007: Added to the Dolores Ibárruri Archive:
Reply to the Enemies, Slanderers and Wavering Elements
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
5 August 2007: Added to the Pierre Broué Archive:
Germany 1921: The March Action
TROTSKY and the Spanish Revolution
The Parti Socialiste Révolutionnaire
Bolivia, 9 April 1952: A Forgotten ‘February Revolution’?
[Thanks to Ted Crawford
& Chris Clayton]
5 August 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Problemas de Organização do Partido Comunista da Iugoslávia
wrote by M. Djilas.
O Que é a Democracia de Novo Tipo wrote by Eugène Varga.
A Crise Britânica e a Crise Mundial wrote by Palme Dutt.
A Queda da Produção Agrícola no Brasil wrote by Miguel Almeida.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
5 August 2007: Added to the Ernest Mandel Archive:
Ernest Mandel and Gregor Gysi Debate in East Berlin! (1990), A Mild Case of Blind Factionalism (1990), The Trotskyite View of Soviet
Reforms (1990), “Don’t push porridge down our throats” (1992), The Irresistible Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev (1992), Why Keynes Isn’t the
Answer (1992) and Willy Brandt and Petra Kelly (1992)
The Laws
of Motion of the Soviet Economy (1981), Mandel on Althusser, Party and Class (1982), The Role of the Proletariat (1982), Social Democracy and Social Movements
(1983), Pierre Frank is Dead (1984) and “The US doesn’t control the
historical process” (1985)
[Thanks to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive]
4 August 2007: Added to the Ernest Mandel Archive:
A Tribute to George Breitman (1986)
Message to the Nahuel
Moreno Funeral Ceremony (1987)
Three-Phase Stalinism (1989)
For the
Beijing Commune – For the Political Revolution in China (1989)
Making Revolution: The Rebirth of East German
Socialism (1989) and Fifteen Years of Inprecor (1989)
[Thanks to the Ernest Mandel Internet
Archive]
Mandel on Broué: Understanding Trotsky (1989)
[Thanks to the Andy
Pollack]
4 August 2007: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
My Tribute to Jim Larkin
British Imperialism and
Persia
A Call to Our Women Comrades
The Devil’s
Charter
A Labour Party in Power or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The “Modern” Methods of Warfare of the Allies
“The
Call”
Dr. E. J. Dillon on the Peace Conference
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 August 2007: Added to the Anna Louise Strong:
Stalin ‘The Voice of the Party’ Breaks Trotsky
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 August 2007: Added to the The Call Archive
[Newspaper of British Social Democracy]:
Bolshevism v. Democracy in Education
Jewish Social-Democrats and Zionism
The
Crux of Alsace-Lorraine
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Chris Clayton]
4 August 2007: Added to the Maxim Gorky Archive:
Revolt of the Slaves
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 August 2007: Added to the Boris Souvarine Archive:
The Congress of the French Party Socialist Party
The Communist First of May
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 August 2007: Added to the Anton Pannekoek Archive:
Socialisation (part I)
Socialisation (part II)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 August 2007: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
Women in Finland
Socialist Women’s Bureau
(letter)
Adult Suffrage (letter)
Adult Suffrage (letter)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 August 2007: Added to the Ernest Mandel Archive:
The Cultural Revolution (1967), The debate on
Workers’ Control (1968), Peaceful Coexistence and World Revolution (1970)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
Morrow on Spain (1974), The Imperialist Defeat in
Vietnam (1975), Revolutionary Strategy in Europe (1976) and East German
Communist Denounces Bureaucracy (1977)
[Thanks to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive]
4 August 2007: Added to the Ernest Mandel Archive:
A New Stage of Struggle in Italy (1949)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
The Crisis of the International Monetary System (1968)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
Brief Analysis of teh Czech Crisis (1968)
The Centenary of Marx’s
Capital (1968)
First Anniversary Statement to Black Dwarf (1969)
The Changing Role of teh Bourgeois University (1970)
Intellectuals and
the Third World (1970)
World Revolution – Trotskyism or Stalinism (1970)
[Thanks to the
Ernest Mandel Internet Archive]
3 August 2007:Added to the Australian History Section:
Victorian Labour College, by L.F. Wilson & B. Davies, 1917.
Ten Reasons why you should join the College, 1937.
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
3 August 2007:Added to the Independent Labour Party Archive:
Where Goes This New Communism?, Christopher Pallis, Left, No. 95, Sep 1944.
“State Capitalism – a New Order”, Raymond Challinor, Left, No. 140, Jun 1948.
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
3 August, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 27 original documents from the history of early American Marxism, focusing on the important
1917 discussion in the Socialist Party of America around the issue of opposition to U.S. entry into the First World War:
Anti-Draft Meeting is Prevented by Police: Squad of Patrolmen Sent to New Star Casino to
Disperse Crowds: ’Democracy vs. Conscription’ was to be Discussed -- Capt. Brady Takes Initiative.” [Events of April 16-17, 1917] The lack of repressive federal
legislation to impinge the constitutional rights of speech, press, and assembly of “radicals” opposed to militarism was no obstacle for enterprising professionals in the
Law and Order industry, as this article from the New York Call demonstrates
Letter to Sen. Paul O. Husting in Washington, DC from Winfield R. Gaylord and A.M. Simons in
Milwaukee, WI.” [April 17, 1917] Three days after the close of the St. Louis Emergency National Convention, soon-to-be-former members of the Socialist Party Winfield Gaylord
and Algie Simons were scurrying to their mailbox with a secret letter of denunciation of the “pro-German” actions of their party, addressed to conservative US Senator
Paul Husting of Wisconsin.
Why the Majority Report Should Be Defeated,” by Allan L. Benson [April 22, 1917]
The Joe Lieberman of American Socialism, Allan Benson (1916 SPA Presidential candidate, soon to be out of the party), takes a swipe at the majority report on War and Militarism
adopted by the St. Louis Emergency National Convention.
Dishonesty and Treason,” by A.M. Simons [April 25, 1917] Writing on a topic in which
by his own recent actions he had demonstrated a savant’s expertise, paid state organizer of the Wisconsin Defense League and frequent Milwaukee Journal contributor
Algie Simons starts swinging at Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit, one of the primary authors of the St. Louis Resolution against War and Militarism, and Victor Berger,
publisher of the Milwaukee Leader.
As to Treason,” by Morris Hillquit [April 26, 1917] Having been called out in
his hometown party press by former Socialist Presidential candidate Allan Benson and fellow party founder Algie Simons for having co-authored a “treasonable” majority
report on War and Militarism at the recently completed St. Louis Convention, Morris Hillquit responds.
The Russian Revolution and Finland,” by George Halonen [April 27, 1917]
Current Finnish Socialist Federation member and editor of Säkeniä and future member of the Workers Party of America George Halonen describes for an English
language readership the exciting political situation of the socialist movement in Finland.
As to Treason,” by Allan L. Benson [April 28, 1917] Round 2 begins with Socialist
author Allan Benson answering Morris Hillquit’s April 26 letter to the New York Call.
Shall We Commit Suicide? Letter to the Editor of the New York Call,” by Job
Harriman [May 2, 1917] California lawyer and socialist commune patriarch Job Harriman offers free legal advice in this letter to the New York Call.
Benson on Majority Report: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call,” by C.E.
Ruthenberg [May 6, 1917] Cleveland Left Wing Socialist C.E. Ruthenberg, one of the three primary authors of the St. Louis Resolution on War and Militarism, responds to the
ongoing discussion in the pages of the New York Call over the position and tactics of the Socialist Party towards the European war.
The St. Louis Convention and Its Anti-War Program,” by Morris Hillquit [May 6,
1917] New York Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit takes some time to review the April 1917 St. Louis Emergency National Convention and its Resolution on War and Militarism in
this article written for the Sunday magazine supplement of the New York Call.
The Provisional Government of Russia and Separate Peace: As Viewed by Socialists,” by
Morris Hillquit [May 13, 1917] Socialist leader Morris Hillquit attempts to help curb the right wing’s vilification of post-tsarist Russia on the ground that it sought a
separate peace with Germany.
An Erroneous Impression: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call,” by Patrick
Quinlan [May 13, 1917] Irish-born Left Wing Socialist from Passaic New Jersey Patrick Quinlan, a delegate to the recent St. Louis Emergency National Convention, takes issue
with the characterization of the alternative resolution on War and Militarism being put to a referendum vote as a “minority report.”
A Change of Front: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call,” by Jack
Carney [May 13, 1917] The Left Wing movement in the Socialist Party of America was far from homogeneous. This letter to The Call by Irish-born Left Winger Jack Carney
illustrates the point, being directed not at the pro-war Right Wing of the SPA, but rather at the ideological views of Dutch-born Left Winger Seybold Rutgers.
Worse Than Treason: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call,” by A.M.
Simons [May 13, 1917] Two days after his treacherous collaboration with conservative Wisconsin Senator Paul Husting came to light in a belligerent anti-Socialist rant by the
later on the floor of the US Senate and two days prior to the US Government’s declaration of war on the Socialist Party with the raid and literature seizure at Indiana State
Headquarters, Algie Simons makes an unrepentant curtain call in the pages of the New York Call. Simons makes no pretense about his position, the polite appellation
“Comrade” does not pass his lips.
The ’Majority Report’ -- A Criticism,” by John Spargo [May 14, 1917] The
social-patriotic Right Wing of the Socialist Party -- soon to depart en masse -- were not ideologically monochrome.
US Raids Socialist Headquarters: Tsarism Reigns in Indianapolis: State Secretary
Henry’s Wife Held Incommunicado by United States Officers, Who Seek Distributors of the Party’s Majority Report on War.” [events of May 15, 1917] The crows
came home to roost for the Socialist Party of America on May 15, 1917, when a raid was launched on the state headquarters of the Socialist Party of Indiana.
The Majority Report Should Be Carried Overwhelmingly: Letter to the Editor of the New
York Call,” by Jacob Panken [May 16, 1917] On May 15, 1917, state headquarters of the Socialist Party of Indiana were raided and fisticuffs began in earnest between the
Woodrow Wilson regime and the Socialist Party of America.
Example of Democracy,” by Adolph Germer [May 19, 1917] Executive Secretary of the
Socialist Party Adolph Germer denounces the raid of Indiana State headquarters of the Socialist Party by federal authorities as “a splendid example of the ’democracy and
human rights’ for which, we are told, this country has joined in war. If that is their idea of democracy, I want none of it.”
Out-Scheidemanning Scheidemann,” by Morris Hillquit [May 19, 1917] Whatever his
infractions against the International Socialist movement committed for Kaiser and country by German social-patriot Philipp Scheidemann, Morris Hillquit calls him “at best a
bungling amateur compared with our own accomplished masters in the art of party treachery” like Algie Simons, Graham Phelps Stokes, and William English Walling:
“Scheidemann has not libeled his party in the capitalist press.
Warns Against ’Cold Feet,’” by James M. Reilly [May 20, 1917] New Jersey
Left Winger James Reilly, a delegate to the recent St. Louis Emergency National Convention, begs to differ with Allan Benson’s characterization of the convention.
Lee and Spargo Debate Party’s Report on War: Thousand Socialists at New Star Casino Hear
Arguments Pro and Con.” [event of May 20, 1917] In New York City on evening of May 20, 1917, a much heralded face-off took place between co-author of the St. Louis
Resolution on War and Militarism Algernon Lee and perhaps the most intelligent of the Resolution’s critics in the SPA, John Spargo.
Hillquit, Berger, and Lee Can’t Sail: State Department Bars Party from Sending
Delegates to Stockholm Conference.” [May 23, 1917] The constitutional freedoms of speech, press, and assembly weren’t the only American civil rights under assault
during World War I -- so, too, was the right of travel.
Jewish Socialist Federation Endorses Majority War Resolution: Calls for Expulsion of
Russell, Walling, & Stokes -- To Establish Socialist Schools.” [May 31, 1917] For 30 days after the closing of the St. Louis Convention, the Socialist Party’s
position towards the war in Europe was hotly debated in party ranks.
Report of Executive Secretary to the National Executive Committee: Chicago, Illinois,”
by Adolph Germer [Aug. 8, 1918] This exhaustive and lengthy (20 pp. in this format) report was delivered by Socialist Party Executive Secretary Adolph Germer to the August 1918
convention of State Secretaries and Elected Officials, a conclave mandated by the constitutional revision of 1917 in lieu of meetings of the national committee in non-convention
years.
Minutes of the National Left Wing Conference: New York City,” by Fannie Horowitz
[events of June 21-24, 1919] These rather skeletal minutes only hint at the great controversy that gripped the June National Conference of the Left Wing in New York City, but
still managed to provide a rough outline of the factional conflict.
Debate on the Press and the Society for Medical Aid to Soviet Russia at the 3rd
Russian All-Colonial Congress: New York City,” by Bureau of Investigation Undercover Agent “P-132” [March 8, 1921] The Russian All-Colonial Congresses were
ostensibly non-partisan biannual gatherings of the “Russian colony in the United States and Canada” sponsored by the anarchist Union of Russian Workers.
Brief Report on the 1st World Congress of RILU: Moscow,” by Evan E. Young
[events of July 3-19, 1921] Session-by-session outline of the principle activities of the first World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, held in Moscow from
July 3 to 19, 1921. Note particularly the concluding date of this gathering, which rather surprisingly does not seem to exist elsewhere in the English-language literature.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
2 August 2007:Added to the Paris May 1968 Archive:
Down with the Plebiscitary Referendum, Le Parti Communiste Internationaliste, May 15.
Address To All Workers, Comite enrages - internationale situationiste, May 31.
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
2 August 2006: Introducing the Shibdas Ghosh Internet Archive. Shibdas
Ghosh founded the Marxist-Leninist party Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) in 1948.
Documents in this new archive include the following:
Self-Criticism of the Communist Camp (September 15, 1948)
On the Recent Incidents in Hungary (November 15, 1956)
A Few Economic
Problems (September 1962)
[Thanks to SUCI, Sukla Sen and Mike B.]
1 August 2007:Added to the C.L.R. James Archive:
Trotskyism, Controversy, October 1937.
“Civilising” the “Blacks”; Why Britain needs to Maintain Her African Possessions, New
Leader, May 1936.
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
1 August 2007:Added to the George Padmore Archive:
West Africans, Watch Your Land, September 1938
[Thanks to Christian
Hogsbjerg]
1 August 2007:Added to the Nepali Section:
नेपाल
कम्युनिष्ट पार्टीको
घोषणापत्र (सेप्टेम्बर, १९४९)
[Thanks to cku]
1 August 2007:Added to the Nepali Section:
तुलसीलाल अमात्य -
किसान संघ पत्र [Thanks to cku]
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