January 17, 2007: The MIA server has recently been attacked, which caused severe downtime and hardware failure. Furthermore, our service provider is abruptly closing down on February 1st. Therefore, the MIA server will not be highly available over the course of the next three weeks, and we recommend you use a mirror. Also note that e-mail to MIA volunteers will not be reliable, or may not even be functional, so important e-mails should be held until mid-February, when we are up and running with a new server. You can read the full details of these incidents here.
January 2007
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See Also: Daily list of files updated
16 January 2006: Added to the Social Democrat Archive:
The
Social Democratic Party of Russia and Its Recent Congress – Elia.
Levin
On
the Road to Liquidation – W.
Kossowsky
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
15 January, 2007: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the Ralph Fox Archive:
The Commune of
Canton
Communism’s Fight on
the Cultural Front
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
14 January, 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. Included is a fascinating document by John Reed on the Black Question in the US, based on his speech to the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, in 1920, where he was representing the Communist Labor Party.
Fred Warren Convicted by a Packed Jury, by Eugene V. Debs [May 15, 1909] Radical journalism by Socialist publicist Eugene Debs of the Appeal to Reason editorial staff.
Trial and Conviction of Fred D. Warren: Summary of the Celebrated Case -- Liberty of the Press the Issue -- Two Years in the Federal Courts and the Motive Behind It, by Eugene V. Debs [May 22, 1909] This follow-up article on the sensational May 1909 trial of Appeal to Reason editor Fred Warren emphasizes the central issue of the affair -- freedom of the press.
Letter to Fred D. Warren in Girard, KS from Eugene V. Debs in Terre Haute, IN, circa June 8, 1909. This letter from Debs to Appeal to Reason Editor Fred Warren (not published in the 3 volume collection of Debs' letters) offers Debs' views on the sensational assertion made in the paper the previous week that federal authorities were planning a lawsuit against Debs and publisher Julius Wayland for libel for charging that the jury pool in the Warren trial had been hand-picked by the federal marshal to include all Republicans.
Who is the Destroyer of Liberty? by Elmer T. Allison [Jan. 14, 1920] ***REVISED EDITION*** Corrects error in the biographical footnote. This front page statement by Elmer T. Allison, editor of The Toiler, proclaims the death of "Liberty" and "Freedom" in the United States.
The Party Organization - 1: The Group and its Functions, by the United Communist Party [July 3, 1920] First of a three part series by the newly organized United Communist Party from its official organ explaining details of organizational structure to the party membership.
The Party Organization - 2: The Group Organizer, by the United Communist Party [July 17, 1920] Second of a three part series by the newly organized United Communist Party from its official organ explaining details of organizational structure to the party membership.
The Negro Question in America: Speech at the 2nd World Congress of the Communist International, by John Reed [July 25, 1920] Speech by the Communist Labor Party's man in Moscow, John Reed, to the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in Moscow on the so-called Negro Question in America.
The Party Organization - 3: Other Party Officials and Committees, by the United Communist Party [July 31, 1920] Third of a three part series by the newly organized United Communist Party from its official organ explaining details of organizational structure to the party membership.
Letter from the Central Executive Committee of the United Communist Party in New York to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow, August 12, 1920. This letter to the Comintern from the governing Central Executive Committee of the United Communist Party of America acknowledges the receipt of a mandate for unity between the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America and presents the case that the formation of the UCP represents the fulfillment of this instruction. However "a minority faction of the Communist Party still stands outside this unity.
The World Congress of the Communist International, by John Reed [circa Sept. 1, 1920] This article from the official organ of the United Communist Party would seem to be the last piece of authentic journalism written by the Communist Labor Party's Moscow representative, John Reed (Reed dying of typhus about 7 weeks after these words were written).
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
14 January 2007: Added to the
Indonesian
Section: Leon Trotsky's 1937 article,
Tentang Demokratik Sentralisme dan Sistem Pemerintahan (Rezim) Sebuah
Partai (On Democratic Centralism and the Regime).
[Thanks to MS]
14 January, 2007: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the R. Palme Dutt Archive:
Trotsky and His English
Critics
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
13 January 2007: The Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) has added to the International Communist League section:
cuba/index.htm Detailing the positions of the International Communist League on the Cuban Revolution
13 January 2007: Added to the Basque Language Lenin Archive:
Herriaren Komisarioen Kontseiluaren Erradiograma
[Thanks to Gorka]
13 January 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 10 editorials from The People [New York] from June of 1903:
1903 July 14—Women in Industry
1903 July 16—The Case of Corregan
1903 July 17—Wall Street Preachers of Socialism
1903 July 18—At the Bier of Chief Arthur
1903 July 19—The Telegraphers' Convention
1903 July 20—The “Miller Syndicate” Legalized
1903 July 21—At the Bier of Leo XIII
1903 July 24—"On the Roaring Billows,” or “Talking It Over"
1903 July 29—Talking Out of School
1903 July 30—The Case of Minnesota
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
13 January, 2007: Added to the
Preparação,
Formação e Educação dos Quadros do
Partido,1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
13 January, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 original documents from the history of early American Marxism.
Shall the Two Parties Unite? by Carl D. Thompson [Feb. 15, 1908] The years 1907 and 1908 saw an effort by the Left Wing of the Socialist Party to bring about unity between that organization and the Socialist Labor Party.
The Party Referendum, by E.E. Carr [Jan. 1, 1909] This article by Rev. E.E. Carr, editor of The Christian Socialist, demonstrates that there was a tradition of inner-party factional campaigning within the Socialist Party years before the abrogated National Executive Committee election of 1919—which was set aside by the outgoing NEC on the various pretexts of factional membership organization within the party, existence of slates and bloc voting, and purported election fraud.
Constitution of the Christian Socialist Fellowship: Adopted at the 4th General Conference, Toledo, OH—May 29, 1909. The controversial 4th General Conference of the Christian Socialist Fellowship attempted to ameliorate a growing factional controversy between its feuding New York and Chicago affiliates.
The Crisis and the Socialist Party, by Louis C. Fraina [Nov. 30, 1918] This article from an early issue of The Revolutionary Age by editor Louis Fraina moves the focus of the publication from European events to the situation in America.
Constitution of the United Communist Party of America. [May 31, 1920] Basic document of organizational law of the United Communist Party, formed during the last week of May 1920 through the amalgamation of the Communist Labor Party of America with the Chicago-based Ruthenberg faction of the Communist Party of America.
Program of the United Communist Party of America. [May 31, 1920] The founding convention of the United Communist Party adopted this extremely lengthy “program,” restating the international situation and the role of the Communists in it.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
12 January, 2007: Added to the
Duas
Revoluções, 1920
[Thanks to Thiago Chagas Oliveira and
Fernando Araújo]
11 January 2007: Added to the Spanish Language Rosa Luxemburg Archive:
Reforma o revolución
La crisis socialista en Francia
Estancamiento y progreso del marxismo
Problemas organizativos de la Socialdemocracia
El socialismo y las iglesias
Huelga de masas, partido y sindicatos
Qué es la economía?
Utopías pacifistas
El Folleto Junius: La crisis de la socialdemocracia alemana
El espíritu de la literatura rusa: La vida de Korolenko
La Revolución Rusa
Contra la pena capital
Discurso ante el Congreso de Fundación del Partido Comunista
Alemán
all in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. [Thanks to www.marxismo.org]
11 January 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 10 editorials from The People [New York] from June of 1903:
1903, July 3—Is This Funny or Is It Serious?
1903 July 4—"Independence,” or “Individuality,” a la Capitalism
1903 July 5—Anti-Semitism
1903 July 6—Nonsense on the Labor Question
1903 July 7—The Fish Is Landed
1903 July 8—The Case of Congressman Littauer
1903 July 9—That “Socialistic” Postoffice
1903 July 10—Three Greenes and None Green
1903 July 12—Free Speech
1903 July 13—The Poor Manufacturer!
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
11 January 2007: Added to the Basque Language Lenin Archive:
Langile Kontrolari buruzko dekretu proiektua
Apirileko Tesiak
[Thanks to Gorka]
10 January, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 original documents from the history of early American Marxism.
My Interview with Debs in his Prison, by James H. Maurer [event of Sept. 1, 1921] First-hand account of a Sept. 1, 1921 visit by Socialist Party leader James Maurer to Gene Debs at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, quoting an extensive letter written to Socialist Party Executive Secretary Otto Branstetter at the time.
Railroads Try New Tack in Laying Wreck Blame. [news report in Milwaukee Leader, Aug. 22, 1922] One of the contemporary factors driving the anti-communist frenzy in the North Central United States in 1922 was the sensational wreck of the “million dollar express” of the Michigan Central Railroad in August.
Rotten Engine, Not Propaganda Caused Wreck, Men Reply. [news report in Milwaukee Leader, Aug. 23, 1922] Follow-up article in Victor Berger’s Milwaukee Leader on the sensation crash of the Michigan Central Railroad’s “million dollar express,” blamed by the railroad on sabotage.
W.Z. Foster, ‘Pursued in Michigan,’ Wasn’t There: ‘Truckload of Literature’ Proves Two Small Record Files and Thus Capitalist Journalism Scores Twice, by Carl Haessler [Aug. 25, 1922] This Federated Press news report mocks the assertion of Michigan authorities that union leader William Z. Foster had attended and addressed the underground convention of the Communist Party of America, held Aug.17-22, 1922 near Bridgman.
The Sad Tale of Tomsky Sawyerovich, by William M. Fiegenbaum [Sept. 12, 1922] This mocking article by William Feigenbaum, distributed by the Socialist Party’s press service, likens the behavior of the American Communist movement to the farcical and melodramatic shenanigans of Mark Twain’s fictional character, Tom Sawyer.
The Secret is Out, by Otto Branstetter [March 1923] This article by Socialist Party Executive Secretary Otto Branstetter attempts to make political hay out of the Workers Party’s attempt to gain admittance in the Conference for Progressive Political Action.
Rebuilding the Socialist Party, by James Oneal [Oct. 1923] This article by Socialist Party leader James Oneal attempts to spin the SPA’s precipitous decline in membership as a normal aspect of a labor movement in retreat across the country.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
9 January 2007: Added to the Social Democrat Archive [Britain]:
A Bundle of
Fallacies – Dora B. Montefiore
Feminine
Idiosyncracies – Evacustes A. Phipson
Social-Democracy and Ladies’
Suffrage – Harry Quelch
[Thanks to Dawn Gaitis]
9 January 2007: Added to the Thai Language Tony Cliff Archive:
On the Family
[Thanks to Giles Ungpakorn]
9 January 2007: The Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) has added to the several new documents to the International Communist League section:
Marxist Politics or Unprincipled Combinationism? Internal Problems of the Workers Party by Max Shactmen, editing and notes by the Prometheus Research Library
Defense of a Revolutionary Perspective Presented to the June 1962 plenary meeting of the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.)
Defense of a Cuba and Marxist Theory This is an updated and revised version of similiar documents previously on the ETOL
[Thanks to John Heckman and the Prometheus Research Library
8 January 2007: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:
Karl Marx.
"Contribuţii la critica economiei politice" [Karl
Marx. "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", 1859]
Karl Marx [1877]
Funeraliile lui Karl Marx
[Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx, 1883]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
8 January 2007: Added to the Evelyn Roy Archive:
Some Facts About the
Bombay strike (1924)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
8 January, 2007: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the Ralph Fox Archive:
Ireland
To-day
Fascist
Imperialism
The People’s
Republic of Mongolia
Added to the William Paul Archive:
What is
Crime?
A Revolutionary
Epic
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
7 January 2007: Added to the Jack Fitzgerald Archive in the Britain Subject Archive :
Review of
Home Rule in a Nutshell
Review of
Labour in Irish History
[Thanks to the Socialist Party of Great Britain and M.
Schauerte]
7 January 2007: Added to the Edgar Hardcastle Archive in the Britain Subject Archive :
Marx and Keynes
on Unemployment
Marxian
Economics in the Modern World
[Thanks to the Socialist Party of Great Britain and M.
Schauerte]
7 January , 2007: To the Swedish Marx-Engels Archive was added:
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx, 1852
Introduction to Contribution to Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx, 1857
Karl Marx. "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", Friedrich Engels, 1859
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
6 January, 2007: Added to the Subject Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the National Minority Movement Section:
Is
Trade Unionism Played Out?
One
Mineworkers’ Union—Why?
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
6 January, 2007: Added to the
Melhoremos
os Métodos de Trabalho de Direção no Nosso
Partido,1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
5 January 2006: Added to the Thai Language Section:
The Two Souls of Socialism, by Hal Draper
[Thanks to Ji Ungpakorn]
5 January 2007:
Marx’s Capital Volume
I has been amended
All foreign language quotes and expressions have been
translated
All quotes have been put in an appropriate style in new paragraphs and better
delineated with curly quote marks
Table and equation layout has been improved
Some errors have been corrected.
4 January, 2007: Added to the
Ganhar
Milhões de Mulheres Para o Programa do Partido,1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
4 January, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 7 original documents from the history of early American Marxism.
Plans and Resolutions Adopted at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Christian Socialist Fellowship, Chicago, Ill.—June 1-4, 1907. The Right Wing of the Socialist Party of America were a group of individuals clustered around a non-party propaganda organization called the Christian Socialist Fellowship (CSF). The CSF was established in June of 1906 by the editor of The Christian Socialist.
The Christian Socialist Fellowship: A Brief Account of its Origin and Progress, by E.E. Carr [Aug. 15, 1907] This thumbnail history of the Christian Socialist movement in America by founding spirit of the Christian Socialist Fellowship Edward Ellis Carr provides a set of names and details for further exploration by any scholar seeking to do original work in this relatively unplowed field of American radical history.
The Fellowship and the Parties, by E.E. Carr [Sept. 1, 1907] This reply by Christian Socialist Editor Edward Ellis Carr to an unspecified article asserts positively that there was complete unanimity at the founding conference of the Christian Socialist Fellowship with regards to its endorsement of the Socialist Party.
Letter to the Left Wing Section of Greater New York from Amy Colyer, Assistant Secretary pro tempore of Local Boston, Socialist Party regarding The Revolutionary Age, April 1, 1919. Esoteric letter from a responsible authority of Local Boston, Socialist Party—publishers of the main organ of the Left Wing Section, The Revolutionary Age—to the Left Wing Section of New York, which sought the move of the publication to that more important center.
Speech at a Mass Meeting: Madison Square Garden—June 10, 1919, by Dennis Batt The Lusk Committee of the New York legislature was immediately active in building a case against radical political and labor organizations with a nexus in that state.
Excerpt of Testimony Before Executive Session of the Lusk Committee of the New York Legislature by Archibald E. Stevenson, Associate Counsel, New York City—July 31, 1919. Archibald Stevenson was the chief researcher of the radical movement employed by the Lusk Committee of the New York legislature in 1919-20 (and author of the committee's massive 4 volume final report).
Minutes of the Meeting of the Joint Legislative Committee of the State of New York to Investigate Seditious Activities (Clayton R. Lusk, Chairman), November 15, 1919. Minutes of a special Saturday session of the Lusk Committee to review the subpoena issued and served by the committee on the previous day to Ludwig Martens of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau and documenting his refusal to appear with the papers demanded of him.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
3 January, 2007: Added to the
Duas Tácticas da Social-Democracia
na Revolução Democrática, 1905
[Thanks to
Editorial Avante! e Fernando Araújo]
3 January 2007: Added to the the Zhang Chunqiao (Chang Chun-chiao) Reference Archive:
A new, original transcription of Zhang’s influential Cultural Revolution-era work,
On Exercising All-Round Dictatorship Over the Bourgeoisie (1975)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
2 January, 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:
P. Monatte:
L'exil de Trotsky (1929)
F. Engels:
La Marche (1883)
Sur l'histoire des anciens Germains (1882)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
2 January, 2007: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line section of for Trotskyist newspapers and magazines is an addition to The Fourth International [NY] on the Fall of France:
The Fall of French Democracy by Terence Phelan, 1941
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
2 January, 2007: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the Thomas Bell Archive:
Open Letter to the Rank and File of the
I.L.P.
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
2 January, 2007: Added to the
Discurso na
Assembléia Legislativa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 1985
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
2 January, 2007: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the R. Palme Dutt Archive:
The Sabotage of
Europe
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
2 January 2007: Added to the Greek Section's Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Αντιπολεμικό
Μανιφέστο
του
Τσίμερβαλντ (1914)
[Thanks to Mike B. and Vngelis]
2 January 2007: Added to the Josip Broz Tito Reference Archive:
Trotskyism and Its Helpers (1939)
[Thanks to Zdravko Saveski and Mike Bessler]
2 January 2007: Introducing the Zhang Chunqiao (Chang Chun-chiao) Reference Archive featuring the following document:
Report on the Revision of the Constitution (January 13, 1975)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
2 January, 2007: Added to the
Carta ao Comitê Central do PC da URSS, 1926
[Thanks to Editora Civilização Brasileira and
Pablo de Freitas Lopes]
1 January 2007: Added to the Evelyn Roy:
The Crisis in
Indian Nationalism (1922)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
1 January, 2007: Added to the Writers Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Added to the T. A. Jackson Archive:
The Puritan Revolution (1922)
Added to the Arthur MacManus Archive:
Stand by the Miners!
(1920)
The Spectre at the Feast!
(1920)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]