28 April, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 18 original documents from the history of early American Marxism.:

Rand School of Social Science: Important Auxiliary for Socialist Movement: The Work of the School to Begin on Oct. 1 -- Systematic Instruction of Social Sciences and Training of Speakers and Writers the Objects in View [May 19, 1906] This first press announcement from the New York Worker details the forthcoming establishment of the Rand School of Social Science and Library in New York City.

The IWW and DeLeonism: Letter to the Editor of The Worker by A.M. Simons [May 22, 1906] At the end of 1905 and during the first half of 1906 there was a strong movement on the part of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party to forge organic unity with the rival Socialist Labor Party.

As to Unity with the SLP: Letter to the Editor of The Worker by Ben Hanford [July 21, 1906] Former and future Socialist Party Vice Presidential nominee Ben Hanford adds his voice to those in opposition to the drive for unity between his party and the Socialist Labor Party guided by party editor Daniel DeLeon.

The Socialist Party and the Trade Unions: Contribution to a Symposium in The Worker by Eugene V. Debs [July 28, 1906] Eugene Debs responds to a set of questions issued by the New York Worker on the question of industrial unionism with this lengthy definition and analysis.

John Reed Named Consul General to NY by Bolsheviki ((NY Call) [Jan. 30, 1918] The first effort of the Soviet Russian republic to establish a diplomatic presence in the United States apparently revolved around noted radical journalist John Reed, who is reported in this article to have been appointed Soviet "consul general" in New York on Jan. 30, 1918 -- less than 3 months after the Bolshevik Revolution.

John Reed, Bolshevik Envoy to the United States -- A Character Sketch by Max Eastman [Feb. 3, 1918] This article by John Reed's friend and employer, Max Eastman of The Liberator, provides a brief character sketch of the charismatic young journalist, who was appointed consul general of Soviet Russia to the United States on Jan. 30, 1918.

Bolsheviki Power Comes From Masses by Louis C. Fraina [Feb. 9, 1918] Louis Fraina, characterizing himself as the "Director" of "the American Bolshevist Bureau of Information," writes this extensive letter to the editor of the New York Call to challenge assertions made to the press by the representative of the Russian Provisional Government in New York, A.J. Sack.

Max Eastman -- A Portrait by Irwin Granich ["Mike Gold"] [Feb. 9, 1918] With Max Eastman's new radical magazine, The Liberator, due to launch in the coming week, the future Mike Gold offers this character sketch of the grey-haired editorial savant to the readers of the weekend magazine section of the New York Call. "Miners' Organizer Lynched by Illinois Mob of 'Best People.'" (NY Call) [Event of April 4, 1918] On the night of April 4/5, 1918, a crowd of about 350 "patriots" in Collinsville, Illinois, confronted German-American union organizer Robert Prager, active in an ongoing strike of mine workers in the neighboring town of Maryville.

Abraham Cahan by William M. Feigenbaum [April 6, 1918] This sympathetic short biography of one of the leading lights of the Jewish-American Socialist movement was written by the son of one of Cahan's close comrades. Feigenbaum characterizes Cahan as simultaneously "a successful editor, a Socialist agitator, a recognized novelist" -- a man who had produced significant works of literature in both the Yiddish and English languages.

The Strike That Should Have Won by Eugene V. Debs [April 13, 1918] This little-known article from the New York Call's magazine section about a failed strike in 1888 is very illuminating about the causes of Socialist leader Gene Debs' discontent with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen -- a deep dissatisfaction which caused him to leave his old organization and to establish a new industrial union, the American Railway Union.

Free Press Fight in America On As Masses Trial Opens: Eastman, Rogers, Young, Dell, and Miss Bell Appear as Defendants in Case Being Tried Before Judge Hand; Eight Jurors Chosen [April 16, 1918] On April 16, 1918, jury selection began in one of the landmark censorship cases of the World War I period, pitting the Woodrow Wilson regime against the New York radical artistic and political magazine, The Masses.

Prager Lynch Murder Trial Ends in Miscarriage of Justice ((St. Louis Labor) [event of June 1, 1918] On June 1, 1918, a jury in Collinsville, Illinois, took 39 minutes to acquit 11 nationalist "patriots" of the murder of German-American mine union organizer Robert Paul Prager.

Bolshevism in America by John Reed [Dec. 18, 1918] This article by Jack Reed in the leading weekly affiliated with the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party belies the claim that he was blinded by romantic revolutionary fantasies.

International Socialist Delegates by Louis C. Fraina [Jan. 11, 1919] This editorial by Louis Fraina in The Revolutionary Age sharply criticizes the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party for arbitrarily appointing Algernon Lee, James Oneal, and John M. Work as delegation to a forthcoming international convention called by Camille Huysmans, while it was Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, and Lee who had been elected delegates to an altogether different international gathering by party referendum a year previously.

The Background of Bolshevism by John Reed [Jan. 25, 1919] On Jan. 15, 1919, over 2 months after conclusion of the World War, Dr. Morris Zucker was convicted of 4 counts of violating the Espionage Act for comments made in a speech protesting soldier attacks on Socialist meetings.

Secret US Department of State Memorandum on Louis Fraina, March 5, 1920 (This unsigned secret memorandum of the State Department reviews the 1920 activities of Louis C. Fraina, International Secretary of the Communist Party of America, as he made his way to Europe.

Memorandum on British Secret Service Activities in This Country by W.W. Hicks [Nov. 2, 1920] This secret memo by Maj. W.W. HIcks of the Military Intelligence Division reviews British spy activity in America during the war and its aftermath.

British Espionage in the United States: A Secret Memorandum Prepared by the United States Dept. of Justice, Feb. 15, 1921 (This secret US Department of Justice memorandum, forwarded under a cover letter by J. Edgar Hoover, reviews the activities of the British Intelligence Service in America.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

28 April 2007: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive Images Section:

J. T. Murphy in Moscow for ten year anniversary of the Russian Revolution
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail

27 April 2007: Added to the Romanian Archive:

A. I. Ulianova - Elizarova, Amintiri despre Ilici [Reminiscences of Ilyich]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]

27 April, 2007: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:

A Reforma Agrária, 1946
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

26 April, 2007: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskysim On-Line to the Holt Labor Library Audio Collection, are 11 lectures given by Farrell Dobbs, a central leader of the 1934 Minneopolis Teamster Strikes, collectively titled The Minneapolis Strike & the Rise of the Revolutionary Party
[Thanks to Shannon Sheppard and the Holt Labor Library]

26 April, 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:

Discurso no Aniversário de "The People's Paper", 1856
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]

26 April 2007: Added to the Samezō Kuruma Internet Archive in the Japanese Marxism Section:

An Overview of Marx's Theory of Crisis (1936)
[Thanks to Michael Schauerte.]

26 April 2007: Added to the J.V. Stalin Reference Archive:

Defects in Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyite and Other Double Dealers (1937)
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Mike B.]

26 April 2007: Added to the Han Ryner Reference Archive:

Mini-Manual of Individualism, 1905
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

Added to the Errico Malatesta Reference Archive:

The Tragic Bandits, August 1913
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

24 April, 2007: Added to the Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese language Section:

IV Congresso do PCB - Relatório da Comissão de Mandatos, 1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

24 April, 2007: MIA is proud to introduce Tan Malaka Archive. Several writings have just been added:

1922 - Communism and Pan-Islamism by Tan Malaka
1945 - Philosophy of Life by Tan Malaka

[Thanks to Ted Sprague]

24 April, 2007: Added to the Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese language Section:

IV Congresso do PCB - O Trabalho de Finanças no PCB, 1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

24 April 2007: Added to the Edgar Hardcastle Archive are 16 articles from the Socialist Standard

The Nationalisation of the Railways
The Mystery of Rising Prices
“You've never had it so good”
The Falling Rate of Profit
Automation in Perspective No Mystery in Banking
Marx, Money and Prices
Keynes and the Russian Revolution
Can Banks Create Credit?
The ABC of Inflation
Marxian Economics in the Modern World
Inflation: The Theories and the Facts
The Crisis: Capitalism's Stranglehold on the Labour Government
Was Marx a Monetarist?
Markets, Monopoly and War
Inflation: The Endless Farce
[Thanks to Michael Schauerte]

22 April 2007: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:

Cu privire la istoria Ligii comuniştilor [History of the Communist League, 1885]
Problema ţărănească în Franţa şi în Germania [The Peasant Question in France and Germany, 1885]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]

22 April, 2007: Added to the Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese language Section:

IV Congresso do PCB - Seleção, Distribuição e Formação dos Quadros do Nosso Partido, 1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

21 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 17 editorials from The People [New York] from March of 1904:

1904, March 2—Shot No. 1
1904, March 3—A Back Number, and Proud of It
1904, March 4—Senator Bailey's Definition
1904, March 6—The News From Russia
1904, March 7—The Point That Walker Misses
1904, March 8—The Alabama Scheme on Foot
1904, March 9—A Necessary Amendment
1904, March 10—Dying at the Top
1904, March 11—Shot No. 2
1904, March 14—“What Has Followed the Coal Strike”#8212;A Lesson in Arbitration
1904, March 16—Trust-Matador Roosevelt
1904, March 18—Shot No. 3
1904, March 21—In the Field of Labor
1904, March 22—Since When Is Sauce for the Goose Not Sauce for the Gander?
1904, March 26—Ca Ira!
1904, March 27—The M'Carren Struggle
1904, March 30—The Bluff Called
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

21 April, 2007: Added to the Arquivo Temática in the Portuguese language Section:

New sub-section: Imprensa Proletária
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob and Fernando Araújo]

20 April, 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:

A Burguesia e a Contra-Revolução, 1848
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]

19 April 2007: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:

Critica Programului de la Gotha [Critique of the Gotha Programme, 1875]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]

18 April, 2007: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:

Símon Bolívar, 1858
[Thanks to Rafael L. W. Góes — Juventude do PSTU]

17 April 2007: Added to the Blanqui Reference Archive:

Speech before the Society of the Friends of the People, 1832

Added to the Toussaint Louverture Reference Archive:

Toussaint’s Final Proclamation, 1801
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

17 April, 2007: The Indonesian Language Section of MIA has added the following document to its History of Marxism in Indonesia :

1945 - Manifesto Jakarta by Tan Malaka
1945 - Politik by Tan Malaka
1954 - Rencana Ekonomi Berjuang by Tan Malaka
1945 - Muslihat by Tan Malaka
1948 - Jalan Baru Untuk Republik Indonesia by Musso
1952 - Kewajiban Front Persatuan Buruh by CC Partai Komunis Indonesia
1957 - Konfrontasi Peristiwa Madiun 1948 by D.N. Aidit
1958 - Apa Partai Komunis Itu by Departemen Agitasi dan Propaganda CC Partai Komunis Indonesia
1966 - Self-Criticism by the Indonesian Communist Party by CC Partai Komunis Indonesia
[Thanks to Ted Sprague]

16 April, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 15 original documents from the history of early American Marxism. This set of documents focuses on the Socialist Party of America's solidarity with the Russian Revolution and opposition to the first World War and the subsequent suppression of the Party by the State.:

Socialism as a Mental Disease by Bertram D. Wolfe [Dec.4, 1917] Occasional contributor to the New York Call Bert Wolfe offers this tongue-in-cheek description of the "disease" of Socialism, defined as "a disease of the political forgettory, a faculty very necessary to the absolute mental tranquility and mental quiescence of the political creature, man."

Hourwich Asks 'Precise Charge': Government Shrouds Case with Mystery, Says Speaker Jailed for Talk on Russia. (NY Call) [Dec. 6, 1917] On November 18, 1917, Russian Socialist Federation leader Nicholas Hourwich was arrested in Bridgeport, Connecticut, along with 3 others, charged with treason.

Fingerprint Each Person in America, Stevenson Demands. (NY Call) [Dec. 7, 1917] Elements of the American conservative movement have favored the adoption of national identity cards since the second decade of the 20th Century as a means for the state to isolate potential enemies of the state.

$50 and 20 Days for Pamphlet: Portland Judge Puts Heavy Sentence on Socialist for Mild War Literature. (NY Call) [Dec. 10, 1917] This short news item from the New York Call documents the hysterical limitations of free speech and free press imposed on the citizens of America during the first world war.

Girl Gets 10 Years for Anti-Draft Letters: Judge Pays Tribute to Her Intelligence as He Pronounces Sentence. (NY Call) [Dec. 13, 1917] News article noting the sentencing of Seattle philosophical anarchist Louise Olivereau to 75 years in prison for multiple counts of passing anti-draft material through the mails.

Great Open Air Demonstration Tonight! (advertisement) [Dec. 21, 1917] Machine readable pdf approximation of an ad which ran in the Dec. 21, 1917 edition of the New York Call advertising a "Great Open Air Demonstration" to support "the Bolsheviki demand for a GENERAL ARMISTICE and IMMEDIATE GENERAL PEACE."

The Bolsheviki -- Socialism in Action! by Louis C. Fraina [Dec. 30, 1917] This lengthy letter to the editor of the Evening Call by New York Socialist Louis C. Fraina is fascinating on two counts: first, as an extremely early expression of the Bolshevik Revolution (which took place just 7 weeks previously) as the fulfillment of American revolutionary Socialist aspirations; second, as a very first emphasis in the New York Socialist press of an ideological division within the Socialist Party of America paralleling the split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks in Russia.

Seattle Labor Paper Wrecked by Sailor Mob: Men in Naval Militia Uniform Destroy Part of Plant, Burning Nearby Hotel. (NY Call) [Jan. 6, 1918] Yet another in a seemingly endless series of incidents of Right Wing thuggery which took place during and immediately after World War I. On Jan. 6, 1918, "Armed men in naval militia uniforms held up the printing plant of the Seattle Daily Call, a Socialist and labor newspaper, endangering the lives of hundreds and causing a fire which burned out a nearby hotel. A job for the Red Cross society was on the machines when the raid was made. Three linotypes and 4 presses were ruined but enough was left in the wreck so that the paper, which has antagonized the big shipbuilding interests, was issued today."

Letter to the Editor of the New York Evening Call by Morris Zucker [Jan. 10, 1918] This letter to the editor of The Call by future Left Winger Morris Zucker expresses his personal sense of growing apathy towards the national Socialist Party of America.

Cleveland Socialists Go to Jail for Cause. [Statement by C.E. Ruthenberg] [Jan. 17, 1918] On Jan. 17, 1918, Ohio Socialist Party leaders C.E. Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Charles Baker were informed of the US Supreme Court's decision to uphold the 1 year prison terms imposed upon the trio for violation of the Espionage Act by a Federal Court.

Socialist Party Offices Raided in Cleveland. (NY Call) [Jan. 23, 1918] On January 23, 1918, less than a week after the sentences of Socialist Party of Ohio leaders C.E. Ruthenberg, Alfred Wagenknecht, and Charles Baker to 1 year jail terms under the Espionage Law for their outspoken opposition of the European war had been upheld by the US Supreme Court, authorities conducted a raid against the SP's Cleveland headquarters.

Keynote Address to the Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party of America: Chicago, IL -- August 30, 1919 by Seymour Stedman The first order of business of the seminal 1919 Emergency National Convention was the election of a chairman of the day, a post handily won by Regular Seymour Stedman over Left Winger Joseph Coldwell of Rhode Island, by a vote of 88-37.

Debate on Seating the Minnesota Delegation at the Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party of America: Chicago, IL -- August 31, 1919. From the opening gavel there was little, if any, drama about the outcome of the 1919 Emergency National Convention.

Current Phases of the Class Struggle in the United States by William D. Haywood [July 1922] A brief summary of American labor events for a British Communist readership by expatriate Yank William D. "Big Bill" Haywood.

An Anarchist on Russia: A Reply to Emma Goldman by William D. Haywood [August 1922] "Big Bill" Haywood takes aim at Anarchist Emma Goldman, writing for the New York World from exile in Soviet Russia.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

15 April 2007: Added to the Georges Palante Archive:

The Future of Pessimism and Individualism, 1914
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

15 April 2007: Added to the Sydney Libertarianism Archive:

Arbitration and the New Seamen’s Accord, R. Smilde 1960
Is There a New Left?, David Iverson 1960
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

15 April, 2007: Added to The Communist Section, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain:

Cartoons Page
Milner Becomes Irritable, J. T. Murphy
Trotsky and Terror, T. A. Jackson
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

14 April 2007: Added to the new J. T. Walton Newbold Archive:

Communism & the Labour Party
The Political Situation in Great Britain
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

14 April 2007: Added to the A. Lozovsky Archive:

What is the Red International of Labour Unions
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

13 April, 2007: The Indonesian Language Section of MIA has added the following document to its Lenin Archive :

1905 - Sosialisme dan Kaum Tani [1905 - Socialism and The Peasantry]
1906 - Kebebasan Mengkritik dan Kesatuan Tindakan [1906 - Freedom To Criticize and Unity of Action]
1906 - Perang Gerilya [1906 - Guerilla Warfare]
1906 - VIII. Kongres Telah Menyimpulkan [1906 - The Congress Summed Up]
1907 - Kekuatan dan Kelemahan Revolusi Rusia [1907 - The Strength and Weakness of the Russian Revolution]
1908 - Materialisme dan Empiriokritisme [1908 - Materialism and Empirio-Criticism]
1908 - Tentang Penilaian Revolusi Rusia [1908 - The Assesment of the Russian Revolution]
1910 - Pelajaran Dari Revolusi [1910 - The Lessons of the Revolution
1917 - Aliansi Antara Kelas Buruh dan Petani Terhisap [1917 - Alliance Between The Workers and Exploited Peasants]
1917 - Apakah Kekuasaan Rangkap Telah Lenyap? [1917 - Has Dual Power Disappeared?]
1917 - Bolshevisme dan "Demoralisasi" Tentara [1917 - and “Demoralisation” of the Army]
1917 - Keruntuhan Ekonomi dan Perjuangan Proletariat Melawannya [1917 - Economic Dislocation and The Proletarian’s Struggle Against It]
1917 - Sifat Merugikan Omong Kosong [1917 - The Harm of Phrase-Mongering]
1917 - Suatu Pemerintah Revolusioner yang Kuat [1917 - A Strong Revolutionary Government]
1917 - Sumber Kelas Para Cavaignac Masa Ini dan "Masa Yang Akan Datang" [1917 - The Class Origins of Present-Day and “Future” Cavaignacs]
1917 - Tentang Kekuasaan Rangkap [1917 - The Dual Power]
1917 - Tentang Kompromi [1917 - On Commpromises]
1917 - Titik Balik [1917 - The Turning Point]
1920 - Komunisme "Sayap Kiri" – Suatu Penyakit Kanak-Kanak [1920 - "Left Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder]
[Thanks to Ted Sprague]

13 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 26 editorials from The People [New York] from February of 1904:

1904, February 2—From Far Japan
1904, February 4—A Bryan Slogan
1904, February 5—A Hoary-Headed—What?
1904, February 7—"Albany, 1901"
1904, February 9—Parry Once More
1904, February 10—The War in the Far East
1904, February 11—Erastus Wiman
1904, February 12—One More Rip
1904, February 14—The Guarantee
1904, February 16—Hearst, the Nemesis
1904, February 17—Mark Hanna
1904, February 18—Labor as "Consumer"
1904, February 19—Once More, the Referendum
1904, February 20—The Age of Hypocrisy
1904, February 22—Wealth Diffusion Through Stocks
1904, February 23—Futile Fidget
1904, February 26—Our Appropriations for Repression
1904, February 28—The Far East and Other Wars
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

13 April, 2007: 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:

Kropotkine:
Aux jeunes gens (1904)

E. Reclu:
La peine de mort (1879)

A. Bordiga:
Rapport au IVe Congrès de l'IC (1922)
Lettre à Dangeville (28.08.1965)
Agression à l'Europe (1949)
Appel pour la réorganisation internationale du mouvement révolutionnaire marxiste (1958)

IV° Internationale:
Une lettre sur la révolution bolivienne - 01.06.1952 - (S. Ryan. Discussion sur la Bolivie dans le SWP)
Une nouvelle recrue pour la collaboration de classe (S. Ryan) 04.08.1953
La révolution bolivienne et la lutte contre le révisionnisme (S. Ryan) oct.1954
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]

13 April, 2007: Added to Indonesian Language Section of MIA, Indonesian archive of Che Guevara :

Apa Yang Harus Kita Pelajari dan Apa Yang Harus Kita Kerjakan - 1958
Esensi Perang Gerilya - 1960
Tanggung Jawab Kelas Buruh Dalam Revolusi Kita - 1960
Kader: Tulang Punggung Revolusi - 1962
Sosialisme dan Manusia di Kuba - 1965
Surat Che Kepada Anak-Anaknya - 1965
Surat Che Kepada Orang Tuanya - 1965
Surat Selamat Tinggal Che Kepada Fidel Castro -1965
Surat Che Kepada Hildita - 1966
[Thanks to Ted Sprague]

13 April, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 25 original documents from the history of early American Marxism. This set of documents focuses on the expulsion of the various components of the Left-Wing of the Socialist Party of America including its foreign language federations:

The Task of the Convention: An Unparalleled Opportunity to Organize the Socialist Forces for Future Progress, by Morris Hillquit [July 28, 1901] Leader of the Springfield SDP (former SLP Right) Morris Hillquit offers his perspective on the forthcoming founding convention of the Socialist Party of America, to be held in Indianapolis in a matter of days.

Secretary’s Full Report: Doings of the National Organization Since Unity Convention Set Forth: Numerous Issues Have Been Raised, by Leon Greenbaum [Jan. 24, 1902] This is a seminal document, the extremely lengthy status report of Executive Secretary Leon Greenbaum about the status and affairs of the Socialist Party during its first 5 months of operation (Aug. 1 to Dec. 31, 1901).

Good Work Well Done: National Committee Holds 3 Days’ Session and Accomplishes Much Work: Minutes of Meeting Show What Was Done. [Jan. 24-26, 1902] Despite the self-congratulatory headline in St. Louis Labor, the first annual gathering of the National Committee of the Socialist Party of America much hot air and little sweat was generated by the meeting.

Jersey Socialist Convention Names Farr for Governor; Harwood Offers Resignation: Resolution Introduced to Condemn Expulsion of Slavic Language Federations—New International of Left Wing European Parties Endorsed. [May 30, 1919] This is a news account of the 19th Annual Convention of the Socialist Party of New Jersey, held May 30, 1919 in Newark.

Debs on Prisons and Prisoners, by David Karsner [event of June 7, 1919] New York Call journalist and future Debs biographer David Karsner provides an account of his 4th and final visit to the imprisoned Socialist leader at Moundsville penitentiary in West Virginia.

Stevenson’s ‘Personally Conducted’ Raid: An Editorial in the New York Call, June 15, 1919.” This editorial from the New York City Socialist Party daily declares that “responsibility for the raid on the Soviet Bureau rests squarely on the shoulders of just one man”—Archibald Stevenson.

Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Irvin D. Cline [June 17, 1919] This letter to the New York Socialist Party daily expresses strong indignation over the National Executive Committee’s decision to expel the Michigan state organization and to suspend 7 language federations from the party

The Crisis Within the Party, by Jack Carney [June 19, 1919] Carney, the Editor of Truth, a radical weekly from Duluth, Minnesota, believes he has isolated a problem in the Socialist Party—lawyers and intellectuals.

Minutes of the New York State Executive Committee, SPA: New York City—June 21, 1919.” Official published record of the June meeting of the governing body of the Socialist Party of New York.

Frameup of Radicals Laid to Lusk Probers by Resigning Aide: Official Translator Quits Post, Asserting Committee Does Not Seek Truth But Tries to Influence and Arouse Public Opinion—British Secret Service Chief Examined Papers, Is Charge. [June 22, 1919] This article will be of interest to specialists in espionage and counter-intelligence—a news report from the Socialist Party’s New York Call reprinting the press release of Feliciu Vexler, a Romanian-born linguist who abruptly resigned his post as a translator for Lusk Committee over what he characterized the “methods of the former Tsars of Russia” being pursued by the committee in their self-proclaimed attempt to “bust up the whole Socialist and radical gang."

British Provost Marshal Aided Lusk Probers with Documents: Nathan, Who Took Leading Part in Raid, Just a ‘Junior’ Officer: Head of Organization Says He Furnished Record of Martens but Didn’t ‘Butt In.’ [June 25, 1919] This article from the New York Call follows up on linguist Feliciu Vexler’s charge that British intelligence was working with Archibald Stevenson and the Lusk Committee in their raid on the Russian Soviet Government Bureau and their attempt to link various liberal and radical persons and institutions in a grand conspiracy plot.

Duncan Brands Hanson as Liar and Impostor: Strikebreaking Mayor Stripped of Patriotic Veneer by Seattle Union Leader. [event of June 25, 1919] This is a New York Call report of a public speech by Seattle trade unionist James Duncan, who takes aim at the city’s self-promoting king of the red baiters, former Mayor Ole Hanson.

Letter to the New York Call ... including Full Text of Letter to NY State Secretary Walter Cook, dated June 12, 1919, by Nicholas Aleinikoff [June 27, 1919] Perhaps the most vocal supporter of the besieged Left Wing section of the Socialist Party sitting on the New York State Executive Committee was Nicholas Aleinikoff.

Answers Aleinikoff: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Walter M. Cook [June 28, 1919] New York Socialist Party State Secretary Walter Cook is quick to answer the charges of State Executive Committee member Nicholas Aleinikoff that the SEC had engaged in unconstitutional practices in its May 21 move against Locals Kings, Queens, and Bronx.

Minor Ordered Released by US Army Officer: All Charges Against Him Understood to Have Been Dropped—May Return to Paris.” (New York Call) [July 7, 1919] After over a month in detention to answer charges leveled by the British that he had spread radical propaganda among British and American troops.

Minnesota Socialists Expel Van Lear for War Stand: State Referendum by 1,500 to 800 Also Reads His Local Out of the Party.” (New York Call) [July 8, 1919] This news report details the expulsion from the Socialist Party of former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Thomas Van Lear by referendum vote of the Socialist Party of Minnesota by a margin of approximately 1,500 to 800.

Ruthenberg is Jailed Under New Ohio Law: Socialist Locked Up on Charge of “Criminal Syndicalism”—Called War “Mass Murder.” (New York Call) [July 18, 1919] In the evening of July 18, Cleveland Socialist leader C.E. Ruthenberg was addressing a local crowd, making his first speech of the 1919 mayoral campaign.

Socialist Party of St. Louis Makes Appeal for Unity in Organization: Party War Record Does Not Justify ‘Wing’ Row, is Plea. [July 19, 1919] A lengthy and thoughtful summary of the case against the factional war launched by the Socialist Party’s insurgent Left Wing made by Local St. Louis, an organization comprised of SPA Regulars.

Statement on the Situation of the Socialist Party in Philadelphia, by Charles Sehl [July 20, 1919] Brief account of the Left-Right factional war which took place in the Socialist Party of Pennsylvania by a SPA Regular active in reorganized Local Philadelphia.

Introductory Remarks to the 1919 Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party of America: Chicago, IL—August 30, 1919, by Adolph Germer The 1919 Emergency National Convention was a landmark in the history of American radicalism—the event at which the split of the Socialist Party of America into “Socialist” and “Communist” organizations was finalized.

Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood (Formulated by 1920 Convention) [circa June 1920] While there is some doubt as to whether Cyril Briggs’ African Blood Brotherhood ever held a convocation that can be accurately characterized as a “convention” in 1920, there is no doubt that a leaflet was published including a “summary of the program and aims” of the organization said to have been adopted at such a gathering.

Revive Bridgman Case, Try to Jail Communist Workers. (Daily Worker) [March 26, 1931] In March of 1931, the all-but-forgotten 1922 Bridgman raid was suddenly vaulted back into the news, the long-delayed case apparently seen by the American state security apparatus as a means of decapitating the troublesome Communist Party USA.

After 8 Years, the Michigan Cases Come to Life Again Through Ham Fish’s Attacks: Capitalists Insist on Trial of Foster, Browder, Bedacht, Minor, Weinstone, and Others. (Daily Worker) [March 31, 1931] This article provides additional information about the miraculously revitalized case revolving around the 1922 raid of the Communist Party of America’s convention at Bridgman, Michigan.

The First Convention of the International Workers’ Order, Inc. by R. Saltzman [May 30, 1931] One of the Communist Party’s most successful affiliated “mass organizations” was the International Workers’ Order, formed by the separation of Left Wing branches from the Workmen’s Circle, a Jewish fraternal and benefit society with a Socialist orientation.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

11 April, 2007: Added to The Communist Section, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain:

The Great Red Drive: Miners’ Minority Movement, J. T. Murphy
Zinovieff’s Letter, Gergory Zinoviev
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

11 April 2007: Added to the the MIA Greek Language L.D. Trotsky Archive

Γράμμα του Τρότσκι στην Οργάνωση Μπολσεβίκων – Λενινιστών (Αρχειομαρξιστών) στην Ελλάδα!
[Thanks to vngelis and Mike B.]

11 April 2007: Added to the the Fascism Subject Archive Archive:

Racism in the Service of Fascism, Empire-Building and War
[Thanks to Richard Pankhurst and Mike B.]

11 April, 2007: The Indonesian Langauge section of the MIA has added the following documents to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

On Optimism and Pessimism—1901
The Bankruptcy of Individual Terrorism—1909
Why Marxists Opposse Individual Terrorism—1911
What is Proletarian Culture, and is it possible?—1923
The Social Roots and The Social Function of Literature—1923
Communist Policy Toward Art—1923
In Defence of The Russian Revolution—1932
If America Should Go Communist—1935
On Democratic Centralism and The Regime—1937
Hue and Cry Over Kronstadt—1938
The ABC of Materialist Dialectics—1939
[Thanks to Ted Sprague]

10 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 26 editorials from The People [New York] from January of 1904:

1904, January 1—Happy New Year!
1904, January 2—The Chicago Fire
1904, January 3—Here and There
1904, January 3—The Dresden Congress
1904, January 4—Is the Trust Here to Stay?
1904, January 5—It Is Coming!
1904, January 6—"We Bully the Weak!"
1904, January 7—"Has the Non-Unionist a Right to Work How, When and Where He Pleases?"
1904, January 8—Australia, Old and New
1904, January 9—Parke Godwin
1904, January 10—"Going Higher"
1904, January 11—The Steel Trust Wage Cut
1904, January 12—Setting the Pace
1904, January 13—Breweries on Top
1904, January 14—On the March to the Poor House
1904, January 16—Gompers Falls in Line
1904, January 18—The Immorality of a Moral Simile
1904, January 19—The Pickpocket Trick
1904, January 20—Truce and Treaties
1904, January 21—Too Much or Too Little
1904, January 22—Self-Strangulation
1904, January 24—Two Candles, to See Each Other By
1904, January 25—Unprecedented Exports Minus "Prosperity"
1904, January 26—There Goes a Pillar!
1904, January 29—Whitaker Wright
1904, January 30—Modern Knipperdolings
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

9 April, 2007: Introducing the new The Communist Section, newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

9 April, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 18 original documents from the history of early American Marxism. This set of documents focuses on the expulsion of the various components of the Left-Wing of the Socialist Party of America:

Origin and Growth of the Hungarian Socialist Movement in the United States by A. Loewy [1916] Short history of the origin and development of the Hungarian socialist movement in America by the Translator-Secretary of Socialist Party of its Hungarian Federation.

The Lithuanian Socialist Federation by C.A. Herman [1916] Brief history of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation written by a leading participant for a Socialist Party yearbook in 1916.

The Polish Socialist Federation [an excerpt from a pamphlet published by the Polish Alliance, SPA] [1916] Brief excerpt from a pamphlet published by the Polish Alliance detailing the group's organizational origins.

The South Slavic Socialist Activities in the United States by Frank Petrich [1916] Short history of the Yugoslav socialist movement in America by the Translator-Secretary of that Federation for the Socialist Party, Frank Petrich. Petrich indicates that there were 4 nationalities included in the South Slavic Federation: Croats, Slovenes, Serbs, and Bulgars.

Introductory Editorial of The Socialist by David P. Berenberg [April 29, 1919] Rand School instructor David Berenberg announces the launch of a new publication, issued in response to the New York Communist issued by John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow, and the Left Wing Section of Local Greater New York.

Who is Splitting the Party? An Editorial in the New York Communist by John Reed [May 1, 1919] In this editorial published in the New York Communist, editor John Reed asserts that the revolutionary Socialist Left Wing of the SPA had long endured the epithets of the ruling faction of the party.

Berenberg Resolution is Socialist Espionage Act: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call by Charles W. Gasser [May 2, 1919] This brief letter to the New York Call by a New York Left Winger sharply criticizes David Berenberg's resolution to the New York State Committee (passed 24-17) which banned the Left Wing Section and began a purge of the Socialist Party of New York.

Fight Capitalism: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call by J. Lederer [May 2, 1919] J. Lederer, a 30 year veteran of the socialist movement in America, writes to the New York Call with a sanguine view of the factional war within the Socialist Party.

The Emergency Convention: An Editorial in the New York Communist by John Reed [May 8, 1919] John Reed acknowledges the launch of the "organ of the reactionary machine in Local New York," David Berenberg's The Socialist, and observes that this publication had urged sympathetic members to support the call for an Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party.

Minutes of the Borough Committee of Local Kings Co., New York, SPA, Meeting of May 11, 1919. May 1919 was a month of heated factional activity in the Socialist Party of New York.

Chicago Turns to the Left! by I.E. Ferguson [events of May 17-18, 1919] Participant's account of the Socialist Party convention of Local Cook Co., Illinois by a prominent leader of the Left Wing Section.

Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Workmen's Cooperative Publishing Association: New York City -- May 22, 1919 The Workmen's Cooperative Publishing Association was the legally mandated corporate ownership entity behind the New York Call, the daily organ of the Socialist Party of Greater New York.

Letter to the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America preferring charges against Alfred Wagenknecht from Victor L. Berger, Member of the NEC, May 22, 1919 With this letter, Socialist NEC member Victor Berger officially prefers charges against his fellow NEC member, Left Wing leader Alfred Wagenknecht.

Discussing Hillquit's Article: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call by John J. Kallen [May 26, 1919] This rather temperate letter by a supporter of the Left Wing Section to the editor of the New York Call demonstrates that within the radical wing of the Socialist Party there were those who sought to avoid the catastrophe of an acrimonious split.

Michigan Charter Voided by NEC: Socialist Committee Charges Members Have Violate National Constitution (New York Call) [event of May 26, 1919] This unsigned news account from the pages of the New York Call notes the May 26th decision of the Socialist Party's National Executive Committee to expel the entire membership of the state of Michigan from the party in a single stroke by revoking the charter granted by the NEC to the State Committee.

NEC Suspends Defiant Groups of Foreign Born: Seven Language Federations Cut Off from Party Affiliation for Violation (New York Call) [May 28, 1919] This unsigned news account from the pages of the New York Call notes the May 28th decision of the Socialist Party's National Executive Committee to unilaterally suspend 7 Language Federations of the Socialist Party.

Working Class Sport Organizations vs. Bourgeois Sport Organizations" [Leaflet of the Workers' Sport Alliance of America, 1924] This leaflet announces the formation of a proletarian sports organization in opposition to such institutions as the YMCA, the YWCA, and the American Amateur Athletic Union -- groups which were said to be funded and supervised by rich industrialists and other bosses of the ruling class.

To All Members of the Communist Party in the Cleveland Area from P. Margetic in Cleveland, circa April 1, 1936 This esoteric mimeographed document provides clues about the nature of party life in the non-English speaking section of the Communist Party USA, specifically the organization's Yugoslav component.

To All Members of the Communist Party in the Cleveland Area from P. Margetic in Cleveland, circa April 1, 1936" **IN CROATIAN** Same as the above. Non-machine readable pdf of the original Croatian language document, announcing a forthcoming conference of Yugoslav members of CPUSA in Cleveland, at which "special bureaus" for the Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian nationalities were to be established.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

9 April 2007: Added to the new Theodore Rothstein Archive:

Articles from Justice, weekly newspaper of British Social Democracy:

Parliamentarism and the Working Class
Russian Elections
The New Duma
Social Democrats and Their Tactics In The Russian Duma
The Russian Duma and Liberal Treachery
The Russian Coup d’état
Revisionist Misrepresentation
The Third Duma—a Retrospect and a Prospect
The Socialist Annual (Letter)
The Socialist Annual
The Debate on Unemployment
The Communist Club
His Majesty’s Opposition
That Yellow Book
Peace or Revolution
The Debacle
Fraternal Democracy
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

9 April 2007: Added to the new Dora Montefiore Archive:

Bourgeois Education and Proletarian Realities, (1901)
Vision of Judgment, (1902)
The Voice of the Outcast in Literature, (1902)
Wagner as a Revolutionary, (1902)
Some Words to Socialist Women, Pamphlet, 1907
Red Banners, Poem (1909)
Anti-Militarism: from the Workers’ Point of View, Pamphlet (1913)
Mrs. Swanwick on Women, Book Review (1921)
Pink Pills, Book Review (1922)
From a Victorian to a Modern, Autobiography (1925)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Brian Reid]

9 April 2007: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:

Dezvoltarea socialismului de la utopie la ştiinţă [Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, 1880]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]

7 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 24 editorials from The People [New York] from December of 1903:

1903, December 2—Fated Moths
1903, December 3—"Conscience"
1903, December 4—Headed for Washington
1903, December 7—Bebel and the Cotton Crisis
1903, December 8—All Hail, S.T.&L.A. Convention!
1903, December 9—Serving the Devil in God's Livery
1903, December 10—"Bossism," "Autocracy," Etc.
1903, December 11—The Parallel Is Good
1903, December 12—A Puzzle Solved
1903, December 13—Timothy M. Healy, Unconscious Sociologist
1903, December 15—"Immutable Laws"
1903, December 17—The Grand Retreat
1903, December 18—Justice Brown's Pregnancy
1903, December 19—The Postal Scandals
1903, December 21—"The Foreign Trade Movement"
1903, December 22—Where Wright Is Wrong
1903, December 23—A Whitened Sepulchre
1903, December 24—The Frogs and the Bull
1903, December 25—Small Favors Thankfully Received, Large Ones in Proportion
1903, December 27—Panama in Embryo, and Vice Versa
1903, December 28—Nordau and Imperialism
1903, December 29—Trying to "Stick" Each Other
1903, December 30—Lo, an Invention!
1903, December 31—Good for the Negroes! [Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

09 April, 2007: Opened Albert Einstein in the Portuguese-language section, with:

Por Que Socialismo?
[Thanks to Rodrigo Jurucê Mattos Gonçalves and Fernando Araújo]

8 April 2007: Added to the new Louis Althusser Reference Archive:

Feuerbach’s ‘Philosophical Manifestoes’, December 1960
On the Young Marx, March 1961
Marx vs. Engels, 1962
Notes on a Materialist Theatre, December 1962
The ‘1844 Manuscripts’ of Karl Marx, February 1963
On the Materialist Dialectic, August 1963
Marxism and Humanism, October 1963
Introduction to “For Marx”, March 1965
Preface to “For Marx”, October 1967
Lenin and Philosophy, February 1968
Appendix to “Lenin and Philosophy”, 1968
Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon, Interview 1968
Preface to Capital Volume One, March 1969
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, January-April 1969 / April 1970
Lenin before Hegel, April 1969
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

7 April, 2007: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 17 original documents from the history of early American Marxism:

Advertisement Announcing The Liberator by Max Eastman [Feb. 16, 1918] Machine-readable pdf recreating an advertisement in The New Republic magazine which announced the creation of The Liberator by Max Eastman, former editor of the banned monthly,The Masses.

Buck Niggers and Politics by Seth McCallen ["Col. Dick Maple"] [May 1908] This article was one of the most vile manifestations of white supremacy in the Socialist Party of America.

Raymond Robins by William Hard [Aug. 10, 1918] Magazine article by the future author of the book, Raymond Robins’ Own Story, attempting to explain the controversial public figure of the day to a propagandized public.

Robert Minor Misrepresented: Letter to the Editor of The New Republic by Robert Minor [June 14, 1919] Radical cartoonist and journalist Robert Minor attempts to use the pages of the liberal weekly The New Republic to clear the air about an interview which he conducted with Lenin that was appearing in the press so as to undermine Western peace efforts.

Legislation Against Anarchy by Zechariah Chafee, Jr. [July 23, 1919] Zechariah Chafee, Jr., an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School and member of the Rhode Island bar, reviews the current spate of anti-radical legislation that was sweeping the country, concentrating his attention on the Overman bill pending in the United States Senate.

Pittsburgh—Is It Revolution? by Charles Merz [Oct. 8, 1919] The great steel strike of 1919 was accompanied by a shrill media frenzy claiming the conflict was the first shot in a revolutionary upsurge aimed at overthrowing the American system of government, led by an subterranean syndicalist, William Z. Foster, and making use of ignorant and blindly compliant foreign-born workers.

William Z. Foster by William Hard [Jan. 7, 1920] Mill owners shamelessly red-baited Steel strike leader William Z. Foster as part of their effort to win the battle of public opinion and thus the strike.

Burleson and The Call: An Editorial in The New Republic, January 7, 1920. This piece from the liberal weekly news magazine, The New Republic, charges that "Even the conservative press has been unable to stomach the sweeping claim of arbitrary and unreviewable power of censorship" which Postmaster General Albert Burleson had exhibited in response to mandamus proceedings brought by the Socialist daily, The New York Call.

Deporting a Political Party: An Editorial in The New Republic, January 14, 1920. This editorial in the liberal weekly The New Republic argues that anti-socialist legislation had been spectacularly unsuccessful in Bismarck’s Germany, that it had failed; that political repression had been practiced in Japan, and that Americans had been shocked at the practice.

Criticism About the Practical Activities of the Party: Statement unanimously approved by the Editorial staff of Eteenpain [Worcester, MA], Dec. 3, 1924. In 1924, nearly 41% of the membership of the Workers Party of America were members of branches affiliated with the party’s Finnish Federation.

Young Workers League of New York Endorses Minority, 76 to 45. (Daily Worker) [event of Dec. 18, 1924] On Dec. 18, 1924, a membership meeting of the Young Workers League’s New York District was held. Reports were delivered on behalf of the (Foster-Cannon) majority thesis on the farmer-labor party tactic by Oliver Carlson, representing the CEC of the YWL, which endorsed the majority thesis.

Additional Instructions for the Party’s Membership Meetings. (Daily Worker) [Dec. 26, 1924] Anticipating the 4th convention of the organization in the first months of 1925, the Workers Party of America at the end of 1924 initiated a series of open "membership meetings" to debate the future course of the party, centered around the so-called (Foster-Cannon) "majority" and (Pepper-Ruthenberg) "minority" theses on the farmer-labor party tactic.

Instructions to CEC Members [re: mass membership meetings of the Workers Party of America] (Daily Worker) [Dec. 27, 1924] Brief notice in The Daily Worker adding further procedural details for the conduct of the forthcoming 10 open "membership meetings" to debate the competing theses of the Foster-Cannon majority and Pepper-Ruthenberg minority groups on the labor-party question.

New York Experiences by Charles Krumbein [Dec. 29, 1924] This article published in The Daily Worker by New York District Organizer and Bill Foster partisan Charles Krumbein attempts to demonstrate the ineffectual nature of the farmer-labor party tactic and the improvements in efficacy generate by the Workers Party running candidates in its own name.

Finnish Federation Bureau Supports CEC Majority Thesis. (Daily Worker) [Dec. 30, 1924] In 1924, nearly 41% of the membership of the Workers Party of America were members of branches affiliated with the party’s Finnish Federation.

As to the ‘Marxian Trunk’ of the Party by William Z. Foster [Dec. 30, 1924] CEC majority faction leader Bill Foster weighs in on the debate over the farmer-labor party tactic which dominated the party press at the end of 1924. Foster notes feeling a "gentle pain" (presumably in his lower regions) over the "high and lofty air of intellectual superiority assumed by the leading comrades of the minority."

Ruthenberg’s ‘Farmer-Labor Audit,’ by Joseph Manley [Dec. 30, 1924] Former head of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party Joseph Manley—a former adherent of the Pepper-Ruthenberg faction despite being the son-in-law of William Z. Foster—fires back at the Executive Secretary of the WPA in this Daily Worker article.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

7 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 23 editorials from The People [New York] from November of 1903:

1903, November 1—New Conditions Create a New Literature
1903, November 6—Bloodshed in Panama
1903, November 7—The Buffer Punctured
1903, November 9—The German Invasion
1903, November 10—“Just for a Handful of Silver”
1903, November 11—A.F.ofL., A.L.U. and S.T.&L.A.
1903, November 12—Un-Monotonous Capitalism
1903, November 13—Partial Truth—lRobustest Falsehood
1903, November 15—The Seidenberg Spectre
1903, November 16—Wisdom, Proverbial and Otherwise
1903, November 17—Setting Precedents
1903, November 18—Two Instances—A Third Coming
1903, November 19—Modern Metamorphoses
1903, November 20—Much Sense and As Much Nonsense From Col. W.A. Taylor
1903, November 21—Turn on the Light!
1903, November 22—The Flaming Sword of Tactics
1903, November 23—“The Pursuit of Luxuries”
1903, November 24—A Word to the Sensible
1903, November 25—Gompers in Charge
1903, November 26—Thanksgiving, 1903
1903, November 27—For Whom Did She Speak?
1903, November 28—Arrum-in-Arrum
1903, November 30—What Are “Normal Times”?
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

7 April 2007: Added to the new Auguste Blanqui Reference Archive:

Central Republican Society to the Provisional Government, 1848
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

7 April 2007: Added to the new Victor Serge Archive:

Our Anti-Syndicalism, 1910
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

5 April, 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:

Problems of American Socialism by Louis C. Fraina [Feb. 1919] Lengthy theoretical article by one of the leading lights of the early American Communist movement, Louis Fraina.

The National Convention by Ludwig Lore [Aug. 1919] With the Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party due to start at the end of the month, Ludwig Lore holds little hope for a successful victory for an insurgent Left Wing in this editorial in his theoretical quarterly, The Class Struggle.

To the Striking Longshoremen: Proclamation Issued by the Communist Party of America, Local Greater New York." [leaflet circa Oct. 20, 1919] Full text of one of the very first leaflets of the American Communist movement, a proclamation to striking New York longshoremen by the New York Communist Party.

The Communist Labor Party by Ludwig Lore [Nov. 1919] This editorial from the final issue of The Class Struggle announces the transference of this publication to the fledgling Communist Labor Party.

‘Break Back of Radicalism’ Was Palmer’s Order: 800 Aliens Arrested in Cossack Raid Held Foodless in ‘Black Hole’ for 20 Hours, Reporter Testifies: 12 Found Deserving of Deportation. by Laurence Todd [aftermath of Jan. 2/3, 1920 raids] This Federated Press article documents one of the local atrocities committed by the forces of so-called "law and order" during the mass raids of Jan. 2/3, 1920.

Letter to Frank B. O’Connell, Department Adjutant, The American Legion, in Lincoln, Nebraska, from Harrison Fuller, Commander, Department of Minnesota, American Legion, in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 15, 1920 This letter from the head of the Minnesota American Legion in Minnesota to his counterpart in Nebraska provides information about the Minneapolis-based World War Veterans, a Left Wing ex-servicemen’s organization formed in opposition to the ultra-nationalist and anti-organized labor American Legion.

Roger Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union: Excerpt of a Report by a Former Special Agent of the Bureau of Investigation, US Dept. of Justice. by Edgar B. Speer [May 3, 1920] Section of a report by a former Bureau of Investigation agent which was circulated internally by the Department of Justice.

Note to Allan J. Carter of the Dept. of State in Washington, DC, from J. Edgar Hoover, Special Assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, DC, Oct. 1, 1920. Short note from Special Assistant to the Attorney General J. Edgar Hoover to the State Department seeking clarification of an intercepted cable to the American Communist Party.

Circular Letter to Trade Union Locals from the National Executive Committee of the World War Veterans, circa Jan. 25, 1921. This widely circulated fundraising letter from the Left Wing ex-soldiers organization, the World War Veterans, gives new meaning to the term "doughboys."

Letter to Henry J. Ryan, National Director, Americanism Commission, the American Legion in Indianapolis, IN, from J. Edgar Hoover, Special Assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, DC, January 31, 1921. This short letter from J. Edgar Hoover to the head of the American Legion’s "Americanism Commission" emphasizes the way that the ultra-nationalist organization of former soldiers worked hand-in-glove with the anti-radical contingent of the Justice Department.

The American Legion and Civil Service ‘Preference’ for Soldiers by Victor D. Berger [Feb. 24, 1921] This front page editorial by Congressman Victor Berger from the front page of his Milwaukee Leader takes on a local American Legion proposal to establish near-monopolistic preferences for veterans of the European war in Milwaukee civil service hiring.

Branstetter in Interview With Eugene V. Debs: Wilson Gag on Socialist Prisoner. [Milwaukee Leader] [March 19, 1921] Following the November 1920 election, Atlanta prison authorities, apparently acting on directions of officials in the Wilson administration, seem to have cracked down on imprisoned Socialist leader Gene Debs, taking away his privilege to send or receive mail or to receive visitors.

L.A.K. Martens Not Deported; Allowed to Go: Former Labor Secretary Now Gives New Explanation by Laurence Todd [March 22, 1921] This article distributed by the Federated Press notes that former Soviet representative in the United States Ludwig Martens had not been deported, as was implied in the press, but rather had been permitted to depart under his own volition and at his own expense.

Daugherty Acts on Debs Monday: Gene Returns to Cell from Capital Without Guards: Leaves Washington After Secret Conference with Attorney General on Case - Trial Judge Also Called: Prisoner Came and Left in Silence by Paul Hanna [March 25, 1921] This article distributed by the Federated Press details a surprising and largely unknown episode from the life of Eugene Debs -- that in March 1921 he was permitted to leave the federal penitentiary in Atlanta without escort to travel by train to meet with new Attorney General Daugherty.

Debs Tried Out One Big Union of Railroads: Plan Weakened Craft Bodies, Says Foster by William Z. Foster [April 6, 1921] This article distributed by the Federated Press by the former syndicalist and future Communist leader emphasizes Foster’s anti-dual union perspective.

Soviet Russia Called by Communist Worst Tyranny in World [Milwaukee Leader on Morris Zucker] [April 8, 1921] This short article from the pages of the Milwaukee Leader sheds a bit of additional light on the strange case of Morris Zucker, an active member of the Left Wing Section of Local New York who upon being released from prison left for Soviet Russia without passport or papers, becoming quickly entangled with the Soviet Secret Police upon arrival.

W.D. Haywood Now in Russia, Chicago Rumor [Milwaukee Leader] [April 21, 1921] Official history of the life of William D. "Big Bill" Haywood emphasizes the fact that he was driven from the country by arbitrary and draconian judicial fiat.

Haywood Joins Communists; Quits IWW." [Milwaukee Leader] [April 23, 1921] This Federated Press news account quotes unnamed friends of bail jumper Bill Haywood to the effect that Haywood "has joined the Communist Party and has definitely severed all connection with the IWW."

Roger Baldwin Raps Haywood’s ‘Desertion.’ [Milwaukee Leader] [April 29, 1921] Roger Baldwin, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, issued a sharp critique of Bill Haywood’s decision to jump bail and flee to Soviet Russia rather than return to Leavenworth Penitentiary in the Spring of 1921, following loss of his appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Ripening of Revolution in the United States by Max Bedacht [circa May 20, 1921] This article was first prepared for publication in Pravda by the United Communist Party’s representative to the Comintern, Max Bedacht; later reprinted in the pages the unified CPA’s legal English weekly, The toiler.

American Labor Alliance is Launched in New York: Independent Labor Organizations Form a United Body to Abolish Capitalism and Establish a Workers’ Soviet Republic: Sentiment Against Reaction is Crystallized. [The toiler] [Aug. 6, 1921] Announcement in The toiler about the formation of the Communist Party’s new legal mass organization, the American Labor Alliance.

Brutal Officer Attacks Workers’ Meeting by P.S. Kerr [event of Aug. 7, 1921] On Sunday, Aug. 7, 1921, the International Workers’ Association held a picnic in a park near Buffalo, New York.

Friends of Soviet Russia Launched: Unions and Other Working Class Organizations United to Relieve Famine in Russia. [The toiler] [Aug. 9, 1921] This news story in The toiler announces the formation of the Friends of Soviet Russia, a mass organization started by the Communist Party of America in accord with general instructions of the Communist International to member parties around the world.

Letter to William J. Burns, Director of the Bureau of Investigation, US Dept. of Justice in Washington, DC from T.L. Felts, Baldwin-Felts Detectives, in Bluefield, West Virginia, Sept. 29, 1921. This unpublished letter to Justice Department by T.L. Felts of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency reiterates Felts’ previous public statement that the company was not responsible for the provision of violent armed guards to the coal companies in Mingo and Logan Counties of West Virginia.

William D. Haywood -- Soldier to the Last by James P. Cannon [May 22, 1928] A lengthy and heartfelt obituary of the IWW leader William "Big Bill" Haywood" by a friend and comrade, James P. Cannon, a Communist Party leader who was also a former member of the IWW.

Stand By the Miners of Mingo! [leaflet of the unified CPA - circa Sept. 25 1921] ** MINOR UPDATE: FILLS IN ONE ILLEGIBLE WORD. ** This agitational leaflet of the Communist Party of America demands that the American working class stand by the striking mineworkers of West Virginia in their hour of need in their long-running and violent strike.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

5 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 18 editorials from The People [New York] from October of 1903:

1903, October 1—The Irrepressible Conflict
1903, October 2—Sanitary Injunctions, Now
1903, October 4—The Cloven Hoof Peeps Out
1903, October 5—Catchin’ ’Em a-Comin’, and Catchin’ ’Em a-Gwin’
1903, October 6—The Carnegie Discussion
1903, October 7—Disgracing Unionism
1903, October 10—“Patriotic Neighbors”
1903, October 11—Lo, the Revolutionists!
1903, October 13—Foreshadowings and Warnings
1903, October 14—The Blind and the Seeing Samson
1903, October 15—Anarchists in Thought and Act
1903, October 17—The Cripple Creek Strike
1903, October 20—Elijah III
1903, October 23—The Poor Prostitute
1903, October 24—“Raw Material” and “Ash-Barrel Refuse”
1903, October 25—A New Application of “Graft”
1903, October 26—A Ghastly Exhibit
1903, October 28—Is History Repeating Itself?
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

5 April 2007: Added to the Samezō Kuruma Internet Archive is the following article translated from the Sep. 1930 issue of the Journal of the Ohara Institute for Social Research

An Inquiry into Marx’s Theory of Crisis
[Thanks to Michael Schauerte]

4 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 14 editorials from The People [New York] from September of 1903:

1903, September 8—The Genesis of the Trust
1903, September 9—An Idle Hope
1903, September 10—An “Infamous” Fact
1903, September 11—“Livewood” Against “Deadwood”
1903, September 12—Political Astronomy
1903, September 13—Sense and Nonsense of Father Baart
1903, September 14—Boning the Fish
1903, September 16—The New Would-Be Priesthood
1903, September 17—Sense and Nonsense of Bebel
1903, September 18—Improving Upon the “Average” Saw-Dust Game
1903, September 20—The Party Press
1903, September 21—The Danbury Move
1903, September 24—Booker T. Washington
1903, September 26—The Sam Parks Development
1903, September 27—Referred to Neal Dow and Ananias
1903, September 28—The Miller Case
1903, September 29—The New Food for Workingmen
1903, September 30—Which Is It?
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

4 April, 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:

An Answer to Moses Oppenheimer: Letter to the Editor of the New York Call, by Israel Amter [April 25, 1919] In this letter to the New York Call, Left Winger Israel Amter takes on Centrist Moses Oppenheimer and his associates for bolting a recent meeting of Local Bronx, Socialist Party.

On the Charge That the Department of Justice Has in its Service Provocateur Agents: Statement by a Top-Level DoJ Official to Congress Answering Specific Charges Leveled against the Department of Justice, circa May 24, 1920.

Martens Files Libel Suit Against the Washington Post. [event of March 2, 1921] Around the first of March, 1921, claims were made in the Washington Post against head of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, Ludwig Martens, charging that he he was a member of the American Communist Party, had directed secret organizations aiming at the overthrow of the American government, had associated with and incited criminal anarchists, and that he was himself a German revolutionist.

Account of the Executive Committee’s Work: Meetings of June 25-26, 1921 in the Kremlin. This is a State Department translation from the Soviet press detailing the activities of the Executive Committee of the Communist International at the body’s final June session. .

BoI Informant’s Report on the Cleveland District Conference of the unified CPA, by “Ryan”—“Hill” [July 3-4, 1921] An invaluable participant’s account of the first Cleveland District Conference of the newly unified Communist Party of America by the Bureau of Investigation’s top informant inside the organization, the Pittsburgh Sub-District Organizer hailing from the former UCP who used the pseudonyms “Ryan”—“Hill.”

Report of the Executive Secretary to the Meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America: New York—June 29, 1922, by C.E. Ruthenberg Executive Secretary of the WPA C.E. Ruthenberg was not a spellbinding orator or an original Marxist theoretician, but he did possess a skill set that made uniquely suited for the job.

Minutes of the Meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America: New York City—October 7, 1922. These minutes of the governing CEC of the Workers Party give a further taste of C.E. Ruthenberg’s administrative expertise, in addition to filling in important detail about that WPA affairs.

Minutes of the Meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America: New York City—Oct. 21, 1922. The Oct. 21, 1922 session of the CEC of the Workers Party of America saw an important move to restructure the organization’s administrative apparatus.

Political Romancing Must Give Way to Realism, by Alfred Wagenknecht [Dec. 24, 1924] At the end of 1924 and into the first month of 1925 there was an open discussion in the party press on the strategy and tactics of the Workers Party of America—a period of frank debate that quickly degenerated into finger-pointing and personal denigration that emphasized the bitterly fractured state of the organization.

What the Communist International Thinks of the Different Groups in the Party, by Jay Lovestone [Dec. 26, 1924] Jay Lovestone has long had the reputation of having been a particularly unprincipled and vicious faction fighter on behalf of the Pepper-Lovestone "minority" faction of the Workers Party of America.

My Position Toward the Farmer-Labor Movement, by Ludwig Lore [Dec. 29, 1924] Odd man out in the inner party war of 1924-25 was Ludwig Lore, editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung and leader of a New York-based section of the party in opposition to the New York-based Pepper-Ruthenberg-Lovestone group.

May Day Labor’s International Holiday. (leaflet of the CPA) [circa April 25, 1921] ** NEW EDITION - U P D A T E Fills in previously illegible words ** Another in a series of CPA leaflets intended to agitate for insurrection. "The bosses - the capitalist class—have organized to crush you. They openly declare that they intend to smash your unions - destroy your resistance—reduce your wages and bring you to the level of serfs.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]

April 4, 2007: The Dutch Language Section has added 6 documents:

Ernest Mandel
Accidenteel, Conjunctureel, Structureel — 1960
Toekomstvisie op het socialisme — “Waarvan we moeten dromen!” — 1980
Marcel Liebman is niet meer — 1986
De Europese bourgeoisie in crisis — 1988
De politieke revolutie en contrarevolutie in de marxistische theorie — 1989
Maastricht: Autopsie van een mislukking — 1993
[Fréderic Lehembre]

3 April 2007: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 24 editorials from The People [New York] from August of 1903:

1903, August 1—“On the Roaring Billows,” or “Talking It Over” [The Return Trip]
1903, August 2—St. Bernstein
1903, August 3—A Scab-Smiting Document
1903, August 4—The Successors of Arthur and Youngson
1903, August 5—Clambake Financiering
1903, August 6—Screening the Bleeders of the Workers
1903, August 7—Suggestions
1903, August 13—When Rogues Fall Out, Etc.
1903, August 14—Frying the Fish
1903, August 16—Mob Spirit
1903, August 18—Solidifying the Labor Vote in Labor’s Interests
1903, August 19—There Is Progress
1903, August 20—A Russian Martyr
1903, August 21—“Surprises”
1903, August 22—Listen to the Thimble-Rigging Hypocrite
1903, August 23—“Agents Conservateurs”
1903, August 24—The Function of the Intellect
1903, August 25—Socialist vs. Anti-Socialist Claims
1903, August 26—A Russian Martyr
1903, August 27—Political Plumbing
1903, August 28—The School of Journalism
1903, August 29—Good for the Irish!
1903, August 30—Bishop McFaul’s Admission
1903, August 31—Party Tactics
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

April 3, 2007: The Dutch Language Section has added 17 documents:

Karl Marx
Het Kapitaal — 1867

De burgeroorlog in Frankrijk — 1871

Henriette Roland Holst - van der Schalk
De revolutionaire massa-actie — 1918

Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
De libertaire opvoeding — 1899

Patrice Lumumba
Laatste brief aan zijn vrouw — 1960

V.I. Lenin
De proletarische revolutie en de renegaat Kautsky — 1918

Josip Broz Tito
Het trotskisme en zijn helpers — 1939

Henk Sneevliet
Een lichtstraal uit het Zuiden — 1935

Walter Ulbricht
Het betrekken van alle mensen bij de socialistische opbouw — 1961

Tan Malaka
Brief uit timor — 1926
Brief uit Singapore — 1925
Antwoord van Tan Malaka aan de gouverneur-generaal — 1925
Brief — 1924
Toespraak van Tan Malaka op 12 november 1922 voor het Komintern — 1922

Ernest Mandel Over het fascisme — 1969

Hendrik De Man
Voor een Plan van Actie — 1934

De Internationale

[Luc van Buynder, Koen Dille, Simon Degraeve, Rick Denkers, Arno Dusart, Fréderic Lehembre, Adrien Verlee]

April 1, 2007: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line’s section on the International Communist League/Spartacist League are the following documents:

Stalinism and Trotskyism in Vietnam by John Sharpe
The SWP—A Strangled Party
Healyism Implodes
Trotskyism, What It Isn’t and What It Is!
The Origins of Chinese Trotsyism
[Thanks to John Heckman and the Spartacist League]

March 30, 2007: Added to the Catalan Marx-Engels Archive:

De la qüestió de l’habitatge [Zur Wohnungsfrage], de Friedrich Engels (1872)
[Thanks to Jaume López]

March 29, 2007: To the Swedish Marx-Engels Archive was added:

The Class Struggle in France, 1848 to 1850 , Karl Marx, 1850
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx, 1857
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx, 1859
Capital, Volume I, First Edition: Commodities, Karl Marx, 1867
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]

March—April 2007

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