July 2007
—A R C H I V E—
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See Also: Daily list of files updated
31 July 2007:Added to the Tom Mann Archive:
Reply to “The Age” Article on the War of the Classes, Tom Mann 1905
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
31 July 2007:Added to the new Iraq History Section:
Revolutionary Iraq 1968-1973
The Political Report adopted by the Eight Regional Congress of the
Arab Ba'th Socialist Party - Iraq
[Thanks to cku]
30 July 2007: Added to the J.A. Hobson Archive:
Collectivism in Industry (1896) (Unknown to Hobson this text played an important role in teh Revisionism debate within the SPD in the late
1890s)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
30 July, 2007: The Dutch Language Section has added 6 documents:
Leon Trotski
Open brief van L. D. Trotski — 1938
Willem van Ravesteyn
De wording van het communisme in Nederland 1907-1925 — 1948
Henk Sneevliet
Voor de Vierde Internationale — 1938
De banvloek uit Coyoacan — 1938
Simon De Graeve
De Vlaamse sociaal-democratie — 2007
Wim Bot
Tegen fascisme, kapitalisme en oorlog — 1983
[Wim Bot, Thomas Weyts, Simon De Graeve, Rick Denkers, Adrien Verlee]
30 July 2007: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:
Optsprezece brumar al lui Ludovic Bonaparte [The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
30 July 2007:Added to the George Padmore Archive:
The Life and Struggles of Negro Toilers, 1931
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
29 July 2007: Added to the H.M. Hyndman Archive:
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century (1892)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
29 july 2007: Added to the J.A. Hobson Archive:
Mr. Kidd’s “Social Evolution” (1895), Socialistic Imperialism (1901), The Scientific Basis of Imperialism (1902), The Dynamics of the Wages Question (1903), Marginal Units in the Theory of Distribution (1904), The Marginal theory of Distribution (1905), Why the War Came as a Surprise (1920), Britain’s Economic Outlook on Europe (1922), Neo-classical Economics in Britain (1925), Underconsumption: An Exposition and a Reply (1933) and The Economics of Thorstein Veblen (1937)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
29 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Como Estudar o Marxismo wrote by William Weinstone.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
28 July 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 26 editorials from The People from July of 1904:
1904—Democrats, Republicans, Prohibitionists, Socialists! Which Is Right?
1904, July 8—Flag Laws and Desecration
1904, August 6—The Fundamental Doctrine of Socialism
1904, August 28—Millerandism Repudiated
1904, September 25—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, September 27—Does Socialism Take Too Long to Come?
1904, October 2—Smite ’Em, Hip and Thigh
1904, October 2—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, October 9—Knives Up Their Sleeves, Both
1904, October 9—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, October 11—‘Tis So Everywhere
1904, October 12—Republican Electoral Swindles
1904, October 13—An Open Letter
1904, October 15—The Time for Twaddle Is at End
1904, October 16—The Indecency of Muddleheadism
1904, October 16—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, October 17—The Slaughter of the Workers
1904, October 19—The Fifth Avenue Duel
1904, October 22—Lawson’s Standard Oil Expose
1904, October 23—Cause for Laughter
1904, October 23—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
1904, October 24—A Muzzle Needed
1904, October 25—East and West
1904, October 25—The Russians’ "Terrible Mistake"
1904, October 27—Distribution of Wealth
1904, October 28—No Compromise!
1904, October 30—Flash-Lights of the Amsterdam Congress
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
28 July 2007: Added to the British Trotskyism Document Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Go Fourth and Muiltiply, As Soon As This Pub Closes and Rolling Your Own: A Guide to Forming
Your Own Political Group by John Sullivan (Three satirical works on the British left written in the 1980s)
[Thanks to Paul Flewers]
28 July 2007: Added to the Middle East Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Tony Greenstein (2006) (Summary of the evidence for collaboration between the Zionists and the Nazis before and during World War II drawing on the latest sources)
[Thanks to Tony Greenstein]
Plus an external link to Alex Callinicos: Plumbing the Depths – Marxism & the Holocaust (2001) (This is major attempt to analyse the Holocaust from a Marxist perspective)
28 July 2007:Added to the George Padmore Archive:
Labour Unrest in Jamaica, July 1938
Hands Off the Soviet Union, February 1940
Imperialism: The Basis of Labour Party Crisis, June 1944
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
28 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Lenin e a Democracia wrote by Raul Calas.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
27 July 2007:Added to the George Padmore Archive:
Blue-Print of Post-War Anglo-American Imperialism, October 1943
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
28 July 2007: Added to the German Archiv Otto Bauer:
Der Weg zum Sozialismus (The Road to Socialism) (1919) (The Austro-Marxist “alternative” to socialist revolution)
[Thanks to Hannes Prater]
23 July 2007:Added to the new George Padmore Archive:
Fascism in the Colonies, February 1938
An Outrageous Report,
March 1938
White Workers and Black, May 1938
The
Government’s Betrayal of the Protectorates, June 1938
Manifesto Against War, 25 September 1938
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
25 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Figuras do Movimento Operário Enver Hoxha wrote by Secretariado do Conselho Geral da Juventude
Popular da Albânia.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
24 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Seis
Meses de Ações e Lutas de Guerrilhas na Espanha wrote by Juan Modesto and Dolores Ibarruri.
[Thanks to Fernando
Araújo]
23 July 2007: Added to the Karl Radek Archive:
The Paths of the Russian Revolution (1922) (polemic against Kautsky)
November: A Page
of Recollections (1926) (reminiscences of the German Revolution)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
23 July, 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. These batch is devoted exclusively to activities inside the Socialist Party of America in 1917:
Farewell to the Eleven: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Algernon Lee [March 24, 1917] Rand School of Social Science head Algernon Lee issues a quick response to the pro-war declaration of Graham Phelps Stokes, C.E. Russell, William English Walling, Upton Sinclair, and 7 other leading Socialists (published in the edition of the New York Call that same day).
Who Says "Farewell"? Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by A.M. Simons [April 5, 1917] Socialist Party founding member and former editor of the International Socialist Review Algie Simons comes to the defense of the social-patriots Stokes, Russell, Walling, Ghent, Sinclair & Co. against the criticism of Algernon Lee.
Fighting Big Capital: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by S.J. Rutgers [April 8, 1917] Left Wing Socialist Seybold Rutgers again raises his voice for "mass action" to advance the Socialist cause, citing the February Revolution in Russia as indicative, even if not a direct model for activity in America.
'Have We a Country to Defend?' Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by William M. Feigenbaum [April 10, 1917] Prominent Socialist journalist William Feigenbaum writes in answer to the Left Wing "dogmatists" Edward Lindgren and M.D. Graubard in arguing that the working class does in actual fact have a country to defend. "The poor worker -- no matter how poor -- HAS a home.
Corridor Convention Chat, by Charles W. Ervin [April 11, 1917] This is a folksy, Appeal to Reason-style smorgasbord of short profiles of delegates to the St. Louis Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party.
Socialists Abolish National Committee: Convention Marked by Stirring Scenes Over Question of Constitutional Revisions, by Charles W. Erwin [April 13, 1917] While the question of the Socialist Party's position towards the European war assumed the greatest place on the agenda of the 1917 Emergency National Convention, organizational restructuring was also an object of attention.
Reorganizing the International: Resolution of Socialist Party, Boston Lettish Branch No.
2, by Karlis Janson & J. Kreitz [pub. April 15, 1917] This resolution of Lettish Branch #2 of Boston, Socialist Party, while commending the efforts of the NEC to rejuvenate an
international Socialist organization, took issue with the effort to revive the moribund 2nd International, rendered inoperative by the social-patriotism of its leading parties with regards to
the European war.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
23 July 2007: Added to the New International Archive:
Willie Gorman: Agrarian Struggles in the United States (1945) (article about the Populist Movement)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
23 July 2007: Added to the Jean van Heijenoort Archive:
Jean Vannier: A Century’s Balance Sheet (1948) (Vannier was a pseiudonym of Jean van Heijenoort
–in this article he takes his leave from Marxism, which he sees as having failed to deliver its promise)
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
23 July 2007:Added to the Paris May 1968 Archive:
Solidarity With the Greek People, General assembly of the Sorbonne
Demonstration
of May 24, Strike Committee of the Science Faculty, May 24
Declaration of the Communist Representatives of the Paris Region
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
23 july 2007: Added to the Paul Foot Archive:
The question lingers on (1989) (short article about CLR James)
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]
22 July 2007: Added to the John Maclean Archive:
The Trade Union Congress and After
High Prices and Low Wages
Points About the Strike
The Miners’ Next Move
The Coal Situation
Coal and Cotton
The Coal Compromise
Demand Petroff’s Release
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Chris Clayton]
22 July 2007: Added to the German Archiv August Bebel:
Aus meinem Leben, Zweiter Teil (From My Life, Part 2) (1911) (Second part of Bebel’s
autobiography)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
22 July 2007: Added to the Boris Souvarine Archive:
The French Syndicalist Movement
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
22 July 2007: Added to the Clara Zetkin Archive:
A May-Day Message from Germany
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
22 July 2007: Added to the Nikolai Bukharin Archive:
The Organisation of the Army and the Structure of Society
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
22 July 2007:Added to the New Wilfred Burchett Archive:
The Furtive War, 1946
[Thanks to Emerson Tung]
22 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
O Excepcionalismo Norte-Americano wrote by William Z.
Foster.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
22 July 2007: Added to the The Communist Archive, (Weekly Newspaper of the CPGB):
Mercenary Murderers, William Paul
French Communists in Congress, Thomas Bell
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
22 July 2007:Added to the Communist Party of Australian Archive:
Art and the Struggle, by D. Diamond, November 1943
First Anniversary of our Communist University, by S. Moston, March 1944
Art and the Individual, by Kathleen Watson, March 1944
A Further Reply to John Reed’s Views, by H.M., July 1944
Signs of an “Infantile Disorder” on the Cultural Front..., by John Reed, July 1944
Hoax Renders Service to Literature, by Katherine Susannah Prichard, March 1945
Art for the People, by J. B. Miles, August 1948
22 July 2007:Added to the Australian History Archive:
The Value of Literature to a Young Nation, by Bernard O’Dowd 1918
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
21 July 2007: Added to the Sylvia Pankhurst Internet Archive:
From the book Ethiopia: A Cultural History:
Chapter XIV: The Christian Romance of Alexander the Great
In this chapter, the author presents synopses and commentary on the Ethiopic versions of the story of Alexander the Great. Summaries of Budge's translations of six Ethiopic manuscripts are outlined
in short summaries and the author presents a detailed overview of the story of the Christian Romance of Alexander the Great.
[Thanks to Mike B and Richard Pankhurst.]
21 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Atividades do Partido Comunista da Tchecoslováquia, Depois
da Libertação do País wrote by R. Slansky.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
21 July 2007: Added to the M.N. Roy Archive:
The Awakening of the East
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
21 July 2007: Added to the Nikolai Bukharin Archive:
The Secret of the League (part I)
The Secret of the League (part II)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
20 July 2007: Added to the Theo. Rothstein Archive:
Democracy and the Proletarian Revolution
Our Martyred Dead
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
20 July 2007:Added to the new Australian History Section:
The Story of J. T. Lang, by Ralph Dixon, 1943
The Aims and Early History of the Victorian Labor College, A. T. Brodney, 1967
The Need For Independent Working Class Education, Ted Tripp, 1967
[Thanks to Chris Clayton and Andy
Blunden]
20 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Contribuição Para a História do Cristianismo Primitivo, 1895
[Thanks to Partido da Causa Operária, Rodrigo Jacob and Fernando Araújo]
19 July 2007:Added to the new Australian History Section:
Unionist or Non-Unionist, The Worker, Brisbane, 1890
The Future of Australian Literature, Vance Palmer, 1935
Why Arena?,
September 1963
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
19 July 2007: Recent additions to the French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive:
J. van Heijenoort::
L’algèbre de la révolution (fev. 1940)
Alberto Véga:
Signification de la révolte de Juin 1953 en Allemagne Orientale (1953)
Lénine:
A quoi pouvaient s’attendre les cadets en se retirant du ministère ?
Qui est responsable ?
Comment et pourquoi a-t-on trompé les paysans ?
Comment s’y prendre ?
La crise approche, le marasme grandit
Comment MM. les capitalistes dissimulent leurs bénéfices (à propos du contrôle)
Les phrases et les faits
Des prodiges d’énergie révolutionnaire
Une révolution en déliquescence
Changements dans la situation des classes
De la nécessité de fonder un syndicat des ouvriers agricoles de Russie
T. Cliff:
Les satellites européens de Staline
(extraits)
Le capitalisme d’état en Russie (2000)
Trotsky:
Œuvres - avril 1936
A. Labriola:
L’état fétiche
R. Luxemburg:
Congrès de Stuttgart du SPD
(1898)
[Thanks to the MIA’s French Language
collective]
19 July, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 33 original documents from the history of early American Marxism.
Socialists of City Will Fight War Measures. (NY Call) [event of March 4, 1917] With the 1916 election successfully completed, Woodrow Wilson threw his pseudo-pacifistic election year pose into the nearest dumpster like a bankrobber's cheap disguise and began hurriedly pushing America into the European war.
The Minority Report: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call. by Louis C. Fraina [event of March 4, 1917] Although the Trotsky-Fraina minority resolution was defeated at the March 4, 1917 meeting of Manhattan Socialists by a vote of 107 to 79, the lack of a quorum at the physical meeting meant that the issue would be referred to mail vote of the membership for ratification.
Principles of Socialist Propaganda League: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call,; by S.J. Rutgers [March 4, 1917] In this letter to the New York Call, the Dutch engineer Seybold Rutgers (a resident of the United States during the war) steps forward to defend the Left Wing Socialist Propaganda League against its critics, here in the form of New York Call editorial writer James Oneal.
Socialists Call National Convention: War Crisis to Be Dealt With April 7. [March 12, 1917] With war in the wind and a membership referendum calling for an Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party on the war question headed toward passage by an overwhelming majority, the National Executive Committee greatly accelerated the pace for the meeting's convocation by passing a similar resolution at its quarterly physical meeting and setting a date.
Rose Pastor Stokes Leaves the Pacifists: Believes in Peace, She Says, and Is 'Not a Patriot,' but Would Serve County. [March 19, 1917] With America's entry into the European war clearly in the offing and the Socialist Party showing no signs of vacating its time-honored position of anti-militarism, social-patriots began leaping from the train.
The Question of War: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by J.G. Phelps Stokes, Charles Edward Russell, William English Walling, W.J. Ghent, Upton Sinclair, et al. [March 25, 1917] The parade of defections on the Socialist Party's Right Wing began in earnest in March 1917 as irresistible force of Woodrow Wilson's policy and Congressional opinion moved towards war and while the immovable object of the Socialist Party reaffirmed its unshakable commitment to anti-militarism and its opposition to the USA's intervention in the European Imperialist bloodbath.
‘Russia is Free!’ by Morris Hillquit [March 25, 1917] The February Revolution which overthrew the brutal dynasty of Nikolai Romanov and established for the first time the makings of a constitutional republic in Russia was greeted with joyous exaltation by tens of millions of Americans, including no small few who were born within the borders of the tsarist “prison house of nationalities.
As to Disrupters: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by William M. Feigenbaum [March 25, 1917] Prominent Socialist Party journalist cracks back at the criticism of Left Winger (and future Communist Labor Party founder) Jack Carney, who took exception to Feigenbaum's claim that virtually all the critics of official Socialist Party policy during the two periods of party controversy—1912-13 (syndicalist) and 1916-17 (Left Wing)—"have been disrupters, consciously or unconsciously.”
National Defense vs. Socialist Principle: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Edward Lindgren [March 26, 1917] In this letter to the editor of the New York Call, future CLP founder Edward Lindgren aims coiled leather at the posterior of favored whipping boy of the Left Wing, the Kautskian Marxist Morris Hillquit.
On Stokes, Russell & Co.: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Morris Hillquit [March 27, 1917] His words used as a protective blanket by the social-patriots, for which he was skewered by Edward Lindgren and the Socialist Party Left Wing, Morris Hillquit eloquently sets the record straight.
Declaration to the Members of the Socialist Party of America of the Communist Propaganda League: With comments by Alexander Stoklitsky, Feb. 6, 1919. While the nascent Left Wing of the Socialist Party of America in the years 1915 and 1916 was grouped around an organization called the Socialist Propaganda League, the Left-Right conflict was submerged under a panoply of greater issues during the years of American participation in the European war.
Division That Weakens: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Charles Hardy [May 9, 1919] This letter to the editor of the New York Call is presented as a bit of a horror story, the tale of a paper member of the 3rd Assembly District Branch, Bronx, attending a meeting of his organization and being met with a $100 assessment towards new headquarters, which Hardy states he was able “through hard bargaining” to reduce to $25.
The Conference of Russian Branches of the American Socialist Party in Chicago: Organization, Representation, and Activities, by Jacob Spolansky [events of March 24 to Aug. 9, 1919] This Bureau of Investigation intelligence report by Special Agent Jacob Spolansky reviews the history of the awkwardly named creation of Alexander Stoklitsky, the “Conference of the Russian Branches of the American Socialist Party in Chicago who share the Program of the Communist Party”
The Martens Affair: Report of CEC Representative Gurin to the 5th Regular Convention of the Federation of Russian Branches, Communist Party of America: Detroit, MI—Aug. 22, 1919. The published historiographical literature indicates there was bad blood between the Russian Socialist Federation headed by Translator-Secretary Alexander Stoklitsky and Secretary Oscar Tyverovsky and the Soviet Russian Government Bureau in New York headed by Ludwig Martens.
Preparations for the National Convention to Organize the Communist Party of America, by Louis Loebl [events of Aug. 27, 1919] This Bureau of Investigation report was written by Louis Loebl, a Special Agent who worked undercover in St. Louis, attending various meetings under the guise of a radical.
Communist Labor Party Convention: Day 2, by L. Loebl [Sept. 1, 1919] This report was written by Louis Loebl, an undercover Bureau of Investigation based in St. Louis who attended the founding convention of the Communist Labor Party as a guest.
Communist Party Convention: Day 1, by James O. Peyronnin [Sept. 1, 1919] In addition to having a “confidential informant” as a delegate on the floor of the founding convention of the Communist Party of America (N. Nagorowe, Gary, IN), the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation had one of its Special Agents sitting at the press table, taking notes in shorthand, and other agents mingling in the guest area.
Communist Party Convention: Day 1, by August H. Loula [Sept. 1, 1919] August Loula was a Special Agent of the Bureau of Investigation who attended the first day of the founding convention of the Communist Party of America as a “visitor,” using an IWW card to gain admission. Loula reassures his superiors that “Our Confidential Informant No. 121 [N. Nagorowe], who has been directed by Division Superintendent Edward J.
Communist Party Convention: Day 2, by Jacob Spolansky [Sept. 2, 1919] Report of the proceedings at the the 2nd day of the founding convention of the Communist Party of America by Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Jacob Spolansky. Spolansky sees the convention as being “ruled” by a Russian Federation clique including Alex Stoklitsky, Nick Hourwich, Oscar Tyverovsky, George Ashkenuzi, and Alex Bittelman.
'Bulletin No. 1' to Local Units of the SPA and SLP from C.E. Ruthenberg, Exec. Sec. of the CPA in Chicago. [Sept. 18, 1919] Immediately after formally organizing itself at its founding convention, Sept. 1-7, 1919, the Communist Party of America attempted to win adherents en masse to the CPA banner.
The Martens Controversy in the Russian Federation of the CPA: Undercover Report of a Meeting in Chicago, by Jacob Spolansky [events of Nov. 26-27, 1919] BoI Special Agent Spolansky passes on information generated by “Confidential Informant #3” about a meeting of the Federation of the Russian Branches of the Communist Party of America .
Report on the New York City Communist Movement, by M.J. Davis [Dec. 4, 1919] Beginning with an order issued by J. Edgar Hoover on Nov. 18, 1919, and throughout the month of December, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation gathered data on targets for a massive operation against non-citizen members of the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party.
Letter to Anthony Caminetti, Commissioner General of Immigration from J. Edgar Hoover, Special Assistant to the Attorney General in Washington. [Dec. 16, 1919] As Special Agents of the Bureau of Investigation gathered information about non-citizen members of the Communist movement in their locales, J. Edgar Hoover set the table for a mass operation to round up and deport the alien members of the organization, with a view to its annihilation in the same way that the anarchist Union of Russian Workers had been effectively liquidated in November and early December 1919.
Executive Motions of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America. [submitted Dec. 17, 1919] During its few short months of legal existence, the early Communist Party of America conducted its executive business in the same manner as its predecessor, the Socialist Party of America—by mail through use of executive motions.
Cable to Bliss Morton, BoI Special Agent in Cleveland, from Frank Burke, Assistant Director and Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC. [Dec. 30, 1919] Interesting cable sent to Agent in Charge of the Cleveland office of the Bureau of Investigation, Bliss Morton, answering a query as to whether the Bureau should make use of members of the Loyal American League, an ultra-nationalist vigilante organization, in conjunction with the forthcoming mass operation against the Communist Party of America and Communist Labor Party.
First Telegram to Agents in Charge of Offices of the Bureau of Investigation, from J. Edgar Hoover in the name of Frank Burke, Assistant Director and Chief. [Dec. 31, 1919] One of the great misnomers of early 20th Century American history is the designation of the coordinated anti-Communist raids of Jan. 2/3, 1920 as the “Palmer Raids,” after Attorney General Mitchell Palmer.
Second Telegram to Agents in Charge of Offices of the Bureau of Investigation, from J. Edgar Hoover in the name of Frank Burke, Assistant Director and Chief. [Dec. 31, 1919] This is the text of the second long telegram sent by J. Edgar Hoover to the various Special Agents in Charge of local offices of the Bureau of Investigation, issuing further instructions on the forthcoming January 2, 1920, raids targeting non-citizen members of the Communist Party of America and Communist Labor Party.
Military Intelligence Department Undercover Surveillance Report of the Communist Labor Party. [events of Dec. 30, 1919 to Jan. 3, 1920] Jacob Spolansky's Sept. 2, 1919 report indicated that the US Military Intelligence Department had a mole (employee or informer not specified) on the floor as a delegate to the founding convention of the Communist Labor Party.
First Telegram to Agents in Charge of Offices of the Bureau of Investigation, from J. Edgar Hoover in the name of Frank Burke, Assistant Director and Chief. [Jan. 2, 1920] First set of final instructions to Special Agents in charge of the 33 offices of the Bureau of Investigation wired by the chief planner of the operation, J. Edgar Hoover.
Second Telegram to Agents in Charge of Offices of the Bureau of Investigation, from J. Edgar Hoover in the name of Frank Burke, Assistant Director and Chief. [Jan. 2, 1920] This cable is apparently the last communication sent by J. Edgar Hoover to the Agents in Charge of offices of the Bureau of Investigation—instructions to the agents on issuing statements to the press.
Circular Letter to All Federation Secretaries from C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary of the Communist Party of America Regarding Revision of District Territories. [Feb. 2, 1920] This is a missing link of sorts, a message from Executive Secretary Ruthenberg specifying an adjustment of the territories of the newly established underground “districts” of the Communist Party of America—material in the Comintern Archive does not seem to include news of this change.
To All Sections of the Russian Communist Federation: A leaflet from the Executive Committee of the Russian Communist Federation of the CPA. [mailed Feb. 24, 1920] The so-called Palmer Raids of Jan. 2/3, 1920, was intended as a massive kill shot of the Russian Communist organization in America—an attempt to obliterate the various “Russian Federations” just as the anarchist Union of Russian Workers had been annihilated a mere 6 weeks earlier.
Letter to George E. Kelleher, Bureau of Investigation Agent in Boston from J. Edgar Hoover in the name
of Frank J. Burke in Washington. [April 21, 1920] J. Edgar Hoover attempts to set the record straight by providing what might anachronistically described as “talking points” to
Special Agent in Charge of the Boston office of the Bureau of Investigation, George E. Kelleher.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
19 July 2007:Added to the Communist Party of Australia Archive:
Australia’s Guilty Men and their conspiracy against the
Labor Government, by Len Fox, 1943
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
19 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
O Marxismo é a Revolução na Filosofia wrote
by A. Zhdanov.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
19 July 2007:Added to the Social Democracy in Australia Archive:
Poetry Militant, by by Bernard O’Dowd 1909
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
19 July 2007: Added to the Theo. Rothstein Archive:
The Two May Days
A Bandit’s Peace
A Revolutionary Municipal Policy
The Fate of the German Revolution
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
19 July 2007:Added to the Social Democracy in Australia Archive:
The Ethics of New Unionism, by W. G. Spence 1892
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
19 July 2007:Added to the Anton Pannekoek Archive:
The Universal Crisis 1920
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
17 July 2007:Added to the Social Democracy in Australia Archive:
The Social Question, by J. A. Andrews 1894
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
17 July 2007:Added to the The Call Archive:
British Troops in the Caucasus, 4 September 1919
Appeal from the Hungarian Communist Party, 7 December 1919
[Thanks to Ted
Crawford]
17 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Figuras do Movimento Operário: Pedro Checa wrote by Angel Alvarez.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
17 July 2007:Added to the Haiti History Archive:
Proclamation, In the name of the Republic, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax August 1794
[Thanks
to Mitch Abidor]
17 July 2007:Added to the Zo D’Axa Archive:
The Honest Worker, 1898
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
17 July 2007:Added to the Pierre Monatte Archive:
Let Us Thank Stalin, 1935
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
17 July 2007:Added to the Social Democracy in Australia Archive:
Nihilism, by J. A. Andrews 1888
Communist-Anarchism v. Individualist Proprietism, 1889
[Thanks to Chris
Clayton]
16 July 2007:Added to the New Wilfred Burchett Archive:
Democracy with a Tommygun, 1946
[Thanks to Emerson Tung]
16 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:
Carta a Agildo Barata , 1942
[Thanks to Fernando
Araújo]
16 July 2007:Added to the New Social Democracy in Australia Archive:
Report of the Australian Socialist League to the International
Socialist Congress at Amsterdam 1904
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
15 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Figuras do Movimento Operário Stálin, José
Visarionovich wrote by Rosenthal and Yudin.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
15 July 2007:Added to the Australian Communist Party Archive:
A Criticism of Adelaide’s “Angry Penguins” by
Vic O’Connor, August 1944
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
14 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
O Socialismo e a Religião, 1905
[Thanks to Rodrigo
Jacob and Fernando Araújo]
13 July 2007: Added to the German Archiv August Bebel:
Aus meinem Leben, Erster Teil (From My Life, Part 1) (1910) (First part of Bebel’s autobiography)
[Thanks to
Einde O’Callaghan]
12 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:
Problemas Atuais da Democracia , 1947
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
11 July 2007: Added to the MN Roy Internet Archive:
Hunger and Revolution in India (September 18, 1919)
Hunger and Revolution in
India II (September 25, 1919)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and Mike B..]
10 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
O
Existencialismo, Filosofia Antidemocrática wrote by Cecile Angrand.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
8 July 2007: Added to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Archive:
Defend the Civil Rights of Communists!
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
9 July, 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. Most of these documents have to do with the intense factionalism that dominated the internal life of the early communist movement in the US. Many of these documents are from early FBI undercover agents reporting from events sponsored by the CP. These were from Freedom of Information Act spools of microfilm:
State Constitution of the Socialist Party of the State of New York. [1918] Perhaps the most bitter war zone during the 1919 factional struggle between the Regular and Left Wing factions of the Socialist Party of America was the state of New York, where Left Wing branches and locals were “reorganized” wholesale by the Regular-dominated State Executive Committee.
A Pledge of Americanism. (Constitutional Government League—Spokane Centre) [1919] Given the exhaustive examination given to 20th Century Socialism in its various ideological permutations, it seems remarkable that so little scholarly attention has been paid to the primary concrete conservative ideology that was launched in direct opposition—so-called “Americanism.”
Summary Results of Voting for Candidates to Membership in the Executive Committee and for Secretary of the Russian Socialist Federation. [Jan. 15, 1919] Extract of an interesting (albeit highly esoteric) document seized by the Bureau of Investigation during the Palmer Raids of Jan. 1920—the tally sheet for the Russian Socialist Federation’s election which closed Jan. 15, 1919.
First Convention of the Communist Party of America: Day 2, by James O. Peyronnin [Sept. 2, 1919] The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Investigation had no fewer than 8, and perhaps a dozen or more, of its agents, operatives, and confidential informers in Chicago in Aug.-Sept.
Report on CLP Mass Meeting, West Side Auditorium, Chicago, by P.P. Mindak [Sept. 2, 1919] On the evening of Sept. 2, 1919, the fledgling Communist Labor Party held its first public meeting in Chicago. Undercover Bureau of Investigation Agent Peter P. Mindak was in attendance to make a report on the proceedings.
Communist Party of America Convention: Day 3, by Jacob Spolansky [Sept. 3, 1919] While he is the best-known of the Bureau of Investigation’s undercover operatives by virtue of his melodramatic 1951 memoir, The Communist Trail in America, Jacob Spolansky was by no means the most important (or the most accurate) of the bevy of agents put into the field at the 1919 Chicago radical conventions.
First Convention of the Communist Party of America: Day 4, by James O. Peyronnin [Sept. 4, 1919] Undercover Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Peyronnin recounts the affairs of the 4th day of the 7 day Founding Convention of the CPA.
Polish Communist Meeting, Walsh’s Hall, Chicago, by P.P. Mindak [Sept. 4, 1919] In contrast to the tepid mass meeting of the CLP held the evening of Sept. 2, Bureau of Investigation undercover agent Peter Mindak indicates that the mass meeting of Polish CPA members and supporters held 2 nights later was a rousing and enthusiastic affair, attended by 700 or 800.
First Convention of the Communist Party of America: Day 6, by James O. Peyronnin [Sept. 6, 1919] In this Bureau of Investigation report, Special Agent James Peyronnin notes that the morning of the 6th day of the Founding Convention of the CPA was occupied with paragraph-by-paragraph consideration of the proposed program of the organization—based upon the draft prepared by Louis Fraina and the Left Wing National Council faction rather than the alternative prepared by the Socialist Party of Michigan.
Communist Party Mass Meeting: Douglas Park Auditorium, Chicago, by Louis Loebl [Sept. 6, 1919] Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Louis Loebl briefly reports to his superiors in Washington on the mass meeting of the CPA held in Chicago the evening of September 6.
First Convention of the Communist Party of America: Day 7, by James O. Peyronnin [Sept. 7, 1919] Bureau of Investigation Special Agent James Peyronnin reports on the 7th and final day of the Founding Convention of the CPA. The report of the Resolutions Committee was presented by S.A. Kopnagel and was approved by the convention without discussion. P. Sparer reported for the Committee on the Young Peoples Communist League, the proposed youth organization of the CPA (never launched).
In Re: Communist Party Convention, by N. Nagorowe [events of Sept. 1-7, 1919] In its first great anti-Communist intelligence coup, the Department of Justice successfully placed one of its “Confidential Employees” on the floor as a delegate at the Founding Convention of the Communist Party of America.
Circular Letter to All Russian Branches of the Communist Party of America from Alexander Stoklitsky in Chicago, Sept. 8, 1919. Immediately after the conclusion of the Founding Convention of the CPA, Translator-Secretary of the Russian Federation Alexander Stoklitsky dispatched the following circular letter to the various branches of the Russian Communist Federation detailing the activities of the convention.
In Re: Communist Meeting at West Side Auditorium, Chicago, Reports by Peter P. Mindak and Jacob Spolansky [Sept. 21, 1919] Two Bureau of Investigation reports on the mass meeting held in Chicago in the afternoon of September 21, 1919, by the Communist Party of America. According to Special Agent Mindak, about 800 or 900 persons were in attendance, “most of whom appeared to be Russians,” to hear speeches by Harry Wicks and C.E. Ruthenberg (in English), J. Kaminski (in Polish), and Alexander Stoklitsky (in Russian).
Letter to William J. Flynn and J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC, from Frank R. Stone in Newark, NY. [Jan. 12, 1920] This letter from Bureau Investigation Special Agent Frank Stone to the two top chiefs of the organization in Washington, DC, notes “since the formation of the Communist Party (September 1st, 1919) that many of the members who formerly belonged to the Socialist Party retained their Socialist books [party cards], instead of obtaining Communist books and consequently the spaces in the Socialist books for the dues stamps for the months of September, October, November, and December [1919] have stamps affixed thereon of the Communist Party, instead of the Socialist Party.”
The Communist Parties of America. (Pravda, Petrograd) [events of Sept. 20, 1920] This Pravda article, the translation of which was made for the US State Department, notes the attendance of Nicholas Hourwich [Nikolai Gurvich], newly arrived representative of the Communist Party of America.
Report on the United Communist Party, by BoI Undercover Employee “P-140” [Feb. 15, 1921] This report of a Hungarian employee of the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Investigation paints the United Communist Party of America in most alarming tones: “I beg to report that I established the fact that it is the intention of the United Communist Party to try to establish within this year the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.”
What Shall We Do in the Unions? by Joseph Zack Kornfeder [circa Sept. 1, 1921] Lengthy statement of proposed policy for the unified Communist Party of America by Joseph Zack, active in the industrial organizing arm of the party.
Circular Letter to All District Organizers of the Workers Party of America from James P. Cannon, Chairman. [March 4, 1922] Short snippet illustrating the organizational incompetence of the Workers Party of America first few months of existence, under the organizational administration of James P. Cannon and Caleb Harrison.
Report of the International Delegate to the Conference of the CP of A, by John J. Ballam [delivered circa May 8, 1922] This is the text of an extensive and quite detailed report by the International Delegate of the Central Caucus-CPA Opposition, John Ballam, on his efforts to advance the faction’s agenda in Moscow.
Decision of the CEC [of the Central Caucus-CPA Opposition], by “J. Davis” [Mrs. A.S. Edwards] [circa May 12, 1922] This article by the Executive Secretary of the CPA Opposition (former Central Caucus faction) relates the decision of the group’s Central Executive Committee to the Report of International Delegate John Ballam.
The Task of the Hour, by Alfred S. Edwards [circa June 1, 1922] With ECCI coming down on the side of the regular CPA against the Central Caucus-CPA Opposition, there were some who refused to submit to discipline, as indicated by this hardline call to arms in the factional war by A.S. Edwards (“Sullivan”).
The Second Round at St. Joseph, by C.E. Ruthenberg [June 1923] While the trial of William Z. Foster for participation in the convention of the underground Communist Party of America at Bridgman, Michigan, in August 1923 resulted in a hung jury, the prosecution’s second attempt to break the leadership of the Communist Party met with success, when Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg was convicted of having violated Michigan’s Criminal Syndicalism statute.
Letter to the Workers Party of America from Vasil Kolarov, General Secretary of ECCI, December 7,
1923. This rather lengthy letter was addressed to the 3rd Convention of the Workers Party of America, held in New York at the tail end of 1923. In this rather general “state of the
union” type message, Kolarov notes that “American Imperialism is in the heyday of its expansionist policies” and that “New, fearful wars menace the whole world as a result of
the machinations of American Imperialism.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
9 July 2007: Added to the Romanian Archive:
P. I. Kuleabko. Întîlnirile mele cu Vladimir Ilici
R. Zemleacika. Despre Ilici
Ţ. S. Bobrovskaia
(Zelikson). Pagini din trecutul revoluţionar
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
9 July 2007:Added to the Australian Communist Party Archive:
Summary of the “New Masses” Controversy on “What
Shall We Ask of Writers?”, by Max Brown 1946
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
9 July 2007:Added to the Paris May 1968 Archive:
Workers! Students!, Jeunesse Communiste Revolutionnaire. May 21
No to
the Plebiscitary referendum. Yes to popular revolutionary power, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. May 25
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
O Problema Colonial Depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial wrote by E.
Zhukov.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
8 July 2007: Added to the William Z. Foster Archive:
Lenin and Stalin as Mass Leaders
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
08 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
A Frente
Popular na Iugoslávia, 1947 wrote by Marechal Tito.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
7 July 2007: Added to the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
Britain’s Road to Socialism, (2001)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
7 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Pela Paz, a Democracia e a Independência dos Povos wrote
by Andrei Zhdanov.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
6 July 2007: Added to the Dora Montefiore Archive:
What Every Socialist Woman Should Know
Two
Finnish Women Who Speak for Adult Suffrage
The Party and Adult Suffrage
Politics and Prayers
Adult Suffrage Report
A Russian Woman Comrade
Women’s Circle Column
The Anti-Sweating Bill
The Sublime Slanderer
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws
The Children’s
Charter
Spring Musings
LADIES and the Suffrage
Items of Interest
Socialist Women’s International
Bureau
The International Social-Democrats Greetings to the Russian Czar
Socialist Women in Russia
Blackburn S.D.P.
The London Congress of the International Alliance for Women Suffrage
Items of Interest from Other Countries
The Latest Play of the Stage
Society
Municipal Laundries
Socialist
“Help”
The Central Branch Dinner
“The
Englishwoman”
“Women’s Work and Wages”
The National Service League
Czardom, and What It Means to the
World
Professor Lester P. Ward
Universal Suffrage
The Evolution of Sex
The Future of Woman
The Ten Disciples
The Plot Thickens
Report of Women’s Socialist Bureau (British)
Franchise
Fancies
“A Dismal Warren of Social Wretchedness”
The Feeding of School Children
The Wiles of the Anti-Socialist
Report of Socialist Women’s Bureau (British)
Report of
Adult Suffrage Society
Untitled Letter
The Political
Comedy
Adult Suffrage
To Men and Women Comrades
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
6 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
As Tarefas da Juventude, 1947 wrote by Klement Gottwald
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
4 July 2007:Added to the Communist Party of Australia Archive:
The Fascist Mentality in Australian Art and Criticism, July
1946
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
4 July 2007: Added to the Theo Rothstein:
Dictatorship and Democracy
The German Revolution
What is Our Position?
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 July 2007: Added to the Harry Quelch:
Social-Democracy and Political Action
The Present Position of the Socialist
Movement in England
The European War Cloud
The Election and its
Lessons
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Manuela Barz]
4 July 2007: Added to the Theo Rothstein Archive:
Cotton Iron and Imperialism
The League of Nations
The Austro-German Peace Terms
Prince Lichnowsky’s Memorandum
Marx as a Revolutionary Thinker
The Bankruptcy of the Second International
The Reconstruction of the International
Parliamentarism and
Trade Unionism
Parliamentarism and Trade Unionism II
Lackeys of the Master Class
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 July 2007: Added to the R. Palme Dutt:
Stalin and the Future
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
4 July 2007: Added to the Maxim Gorky Archive:
An Appeal to the World, February 1919
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
3 July 2007:Added to the new Independent Labour Party Archive:
Persia, Finland, and our Russian Alliance, ILP 1915
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
3 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Problemas da Economia Norte-Americana e Seus Reflexos no Brasil,
1947 wrote by José Maria Crispim
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
3 July 2007: Added to the British Social Democracy Archive and the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
The International: Will the Allies Throw Away the Last Chance?, Lon Trotsky 10 January 1918
[Thanks to
Ted Crawford]
3 July 2007:
Added to the British Social Democracy
Archive:
Koltchak Outlawed, Lenin and Kalinin 4 September 1919
[Thanks to Ted
Crawford]
3 July 2007:
Added to the Algeria History Archive:
To the Israelites of Algeria, Mohamed Harbi and Benjamin Stora 1962
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
3 July 2007:
Added to the Jean-Paul Sartre
Archive:
Introduction to “It is Right to Rebel”, February 26, 1974
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
3 July, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 23 original documents from the history of early American Marxism. Most of these documents have to do with the intense factionalism that dominated the internal life of the early communist movement in the US:
Imprisoned at McNeil’s Island, by Floyd C. Ramp [March 6, 1918] Floyd C. Ramp, son of radical Oregon farmer named Benjamin Ramp, was one of the state’s leading Communists, maintaining an unswerving allegiance to the party from 1919 until his death in 1984 at the age of 102.
Sunday Night Lectures by H.M. Wicks, Socialist Candidate for Congress, Third District of Oregon. [August 1918] Text of a rare leaflet produced by Local Portland Oregon, Socialist Party, touting the “second season of the lecture courses with H.M. Wicks as permanent lecturer.”
Workers, Free Yourselves! by Floyd C. Ramp [circa November 1919] Apparently a speech delivered by early member of the Communist Labor Party Floyd Ramp upon his release from Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Letter to Floyd Ramp in Leavenworth Penitentiary, Leavenworth, KS, from L.E. Katterfeld in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1919. Letter from the Organization Director of the newly formed Communist Labor Party to the soon-to-be-released Oregon Socialist Floyd Ramp, seeking his affiliation with the CLP.
Letter to Marguerite Browder in Kansas City, MO, from L.E. Katterfeld in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1919. Letter to the sister of Earl Browder, Marguerite, from the Organization Director of the CLP, Ludwig Katterfeld.
Letter from Everett Marshall to Rose Pastor Stokes in New York, Nov. 27, 1919. This poison pen letter from 100% American Everett Marshall to indicted radical Rose Pastor Stokes is a lovely specimen of the vicious, mean-spirited, racist ultra-nationalism from whence Cold War anti-communism sprang.
Crime, Violence, Terrorism and YOU! [Defense leaflet of the Communist Labor Party] [Dec. 1919] From virtually the first day of their existence, the two American Communist Parties were subjected to a withering attack by the forces of so-called “law and order,” forcing the organizations to move to the defensive to aid their imprisoned comrades.
The First Month’s Activity of the New Executive Committee: A Brief Report, by “M.K.” [events of Aug. 7-25, 1920] The 2nd World Congress of the Communist International, held in Soviet Russia from July 19 through Aug. 7, 1920, was in many respects the first regular conclave -- the founding convention of 1919 being an ad hoc assemblage of various individuals, mostly without organizational mandates, who happened to be present in the country at a fortuitous moment.
Bibliography: Press of the Communist International (Till February 1st, 1921). There was an explosion of interest and activity in the revolutionary socialist movement around the world during the first 2 years of the Communist International which resulted in a vast literature emerging.
Letter to Louis C. Fraina from William Weinstone in New York. [Jan. 10, 1922] This short note to representative of the American Agency Louis Fraina repeats and reiterates the text of a cable sent to him that same day, notifying Fraina of the Comintern’s decision to liquidate the American Agency and to turn over its remaining funds to the (nearly bankrupt) Communist Party of America.
Letter to L.E. Katterfeld in Moscow from Jay Lovestone in New York [fragment] [Feb. 11, 1922] An intriguing (albeit esoteric) section of a communication from Executive Secretary Jay Lovestone to the CPA’s Rep on ECCI, Ludwig Katterfeld (last page missing).
Memorandum to All Groups of the CPA from Jay Lovestone, Executive Secretary. [July 25, 1922] This breathless memorandum by CPA Executive Secretary Jay Lovestone announces (falsely, in accordance with a erroneous anticipatory cable dispatched from Moscow by Jim Cannon).
Circular Letter #20 to All CPA District Organizers from Abram Jakira, Executive Secretary. [Dec. 20, 1922] This weekly circular to DOs by Executive Secretary of the underground CPA Abram Jakira notes that the CEC is analyzing the Labor Party question in the aftermath of the recently concluded Cleveland Conference for Progressive Political Action, from which the Communists were excluded.
Report to the Executive Committee of the Communist International on the Labor Party Campaign, by Abram Jakira [Dec. 27, 1922] The second half of December 1922 was a period of introspection and theoretical planning for the underground Communist Party of America.
Party Statement: Issued by the Central Executive Committee as a Result of the First Party Council Assembled in December. [circa Dec. 31, 1922] It was not the fiat of the Comintern which liquidated the underground CPA, but rather the logic of the internal development of parallel organizations -- the WPA growing in size and influence, the CPA atrophying, with a tight budget and the political needs of the day forcing the issue.
Letter to the CEC of the WPA from Jeannette D. Pearl in Long Island, NY Preferring Charges Against Rose Pastor Stokes. [Nov. 10, 1924] An entertaining soap opera scene from the history of American Communism. This letter by Jeannette Pearl (first wife of Louis Fraina, whom he deserted) prefers charges to the CEC of the Workers Party of America against Rose Pastor Stokes.
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago from Rose Pastor Stokes in New York. [Nov. 22, 1924] Upon receiving Jeannette Pearl’s Nov. 10 complaint against Rose Pastor Stokes, Executive Secretary of the WPA C.E. Ruthenberg drafted a letter to the accused, passing along the specifics of Pearl’s complaint.
Letter to Rose Pastor Stokes in New York from C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago. [Nov. 25, 1924] In this letter, WPA Executive Secretary Ruthenberg answers Rose Pastor Stokes’ letter of Nov. 22.
Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago from Rose Pastor Stokes in New York. [Nov. 28, 1924] Rose Stokes replies to C.E. Ruthenberg’s letter of Nov. 25, stating that if Jeannette Pearl’s allegations are to be taken literally then “I doubt if they have any basis in fact. To the best of my recollection I have at no time ’publicly declared’ that Jeannette Pearl ’is a spy.’
Expulsion of Trotsky and Zinoviev: Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. [Nov. 20, 1927] Two words that absolutely do not exist in the literature of American Communism for the 1919-1923 period are “Leninism” and “Trotskyism.”
Circular Letter to All District Organizers of the unified CPA, from Max Bedacht, Acting Secretary, June 20, 1922. ** modified version, replaces defective earlier version. ** Circular letter from the acting Executive Secretary of the unified CPA Max Bedacht to all DOs of the organization detailing the approaching end of the campaign to reintegrate adherents of the Central Caucus faction into the CPA.
Letter No. 4b to Abram Jakira and the Central Executive Committee of the CPA from Ludwig Katterfeld in Moscow, Oct. 22, 1922. ** 2nd Edition, adds identifications, removes one footnote and adds another, alters typography. ** Second of two letters from Moscow written on this date by the Communist Party of America’s representative to the Comintern, Ludwig Katterfeld, to the American party in New York.
First Day’s Proceedings of the Cleveland Conference of the CPPA, December 11, 1922. ** 2nd
Edition, alters typography. ** Unsigned journalism from the pages of The Worker recounting the activities of the first day’s sessions of the 2nd gathering of the Conference for
Progressive Political Action, held in Cleveland.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
2 July 2007: Added to the Romanian Archive:
P. Lepeşinski. La răscruce de veacuri
D.
Ulianov. Întoarcerea din deportare. Întîmplarea cu ispravnicul Perfiliev
N. L.
Meşcereakov. Din amintirile mele despre Lenin
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
July 2, 2007: To the Swedish Pannekoek Archive was added:
The Tactical Differences in the Labour Movement, Anton Pannekoek, 1909
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
1 July, 2007: To the Swedish Korsch Archive was added:
The Materialistic Conception of History, Karl Korsch, 1922
The Marxian dialectic, Karl Korsch, 1923
Marxism and Philosophy, Karl Korsch, 1923
On Dialectical Materialism, Karl Korsch,
1924
Marxism and Philosophy: An Anti-critique, Karl Korsch, 1930
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
1 July 2007: Added to the Portuguese Ho Chi Minh Archive:
Doze Recomendações, 1948
[Thanks toThanks to Gabriel Zerbetto Vera and Fernando Araújo]