December 2008
A R C H I V E
CURRENT ARCHIVE
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31 December 2008: Added to the New International Archive 1940-1946:
American Labor and Politics – II by David Coolidge (December, 1940)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
31 December 2008: Added to the Clara Zetkin Archive:
Social-Democracy & Woman Suffrage (1906)
A Greeting from Abroad (1913)
German Women to Their Sisters in Great Britain (1913)
The Women of Germany to the Women of Great Britain (1922) (Importantn message of solidarity in the struggle against World War I)
Karl Liebknecht (1919) (Short obituary)
Rosa Luxemburg (1919) (Short obituary)
Fascism (1923) (One of the earliest attempts to analyse fascism scientifically)
[Thanks to John Partington]
29 December 2008 : Added to the Collected Works Index, on-going project for the J. V Stalin Archive:
Volume 5 (Entire volume)
[Thanks to Salil Sen]
29 December 2008: Added to the Romanian Lenin Archive:
Cuvîntare rostită la consfătuirea pe ţară a comitetelor pentru educaţie politică ale secţiilor guberniale şi judeţene de învăţămînt. 3 noiembrie 1920 [Speech Delivered At An All-Russia Conference of Political Education Workers of Gubernia and Uyezd Education Departments, 1920]
Congresul al X-lea al P.C. (b) din Rusia. 8-16 martie 1921 [The Tenth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.), 1921]
Despre impozitul în natură [The Tax in Kind, 1921]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
29th December 2008: Added the Archivio Majakovskij [Thanks to Clara Statello]
29th December 2008: Added to the Dialettica Materialista e Materialismo Storico Archive:
Principi Elementari di Filosofia ,George Politzer (1935-36)
[Thanks to Vincenzo Fasano]
29 December 2008: Added to the German Archiv August Thalheimer:
Über die sogenannte Wirtschafts-Demokratie (On So-called Industrial Democracy) (1928) (Critique of demands for democratic participation in management within confines of capitalism)
[Thanks to Heinz Hackelberg]
29 December 2008: Added to the German Archiv Otto Rühle:
Die wirtschaftliche Lage der preussischen Volksschullehrer (The Economic Situation of the Prussian Primary School Teacher) (1903)
Die wirtschaftliche Lage der sächsischen Volksschullehrer (The Economic Situation of the Saxon Primary School Teacher) (1903)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
29 December 2008: Added to the German Archiv Tom Mann:
Arbeiterverhältnisse und Sozialismus in Australien (Labour Relations and Socialism in Australia) (1906)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
29th December 2008: Added to the Archivio Storico dell'URSS:
Costituzione della Repubblica Federativa Socialista Sovietica , 1918
[Thanks to Clara Statello]
28 December 2008: Added to the communist oppositionist and founder of the French Communist Party Boris Souvarine Internet Archive are the following to essays:
The Five Year Plan 1924 [1924]
The ‘New Course’ in the Bolshevik Party: The Discussion as Seen from France [1930]
[Thanks to Paul Flewers and David Walters]
28 December 2008: Added to the Raya Dunayevskaya Archive:
The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution, June 1965
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido, Damon Maxwell and News and Letters]
27 Dec 2008: Introducing the Left Book Club Subject Section, a Subject Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive. Although the Left Book Club was not under the direct publishing control of the Communist Party of Great Britain, the CPGB was influential during its Popular Front days in determining what was published. The LBC and the CPGB parted company after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939.
This Subject Archive will contain those distinctively orange color covered books published by the LBC during the CPGB’s involvement, from 1936 to 1939. The Administrator of this section is currently scanning A Textbook of Marxist Philosophy, prepared by the Leningrad Institute of Philosophy in 1937, edited and revised by John Lewis for a British audience.
* Updates related to the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive can also be found on the CPGB’s What’s New Page
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
27 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Cannon Archive:
A Revolução Russa e o Movimento Negro Norte-Americano, 1959.
[Thanks to Liga Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil, Alexandre Linares and Fernando Araújo]
26 December 2008: Into the archive for the Chinese Spanish-language weekly Pekín Informa, we add a second full issue in .pdf format: Vol. XII, No. 45 (13 November of 1974). [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
26 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
A Imprensa e os Déspotas Alemães, 1844.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
25 December 2008: Added to the Guy Debord Archive:
Order for a Boycott, 1956
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
25 December 2008: Added to the Algerian History Section:
Appeal of the FLN to Our Israelite Compatriots, 1 October 1956
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
24 December 2008: Added to the A. N. Leontyev Archive:
The Development of Mind (1981, PDF)
The most comprehensive selection of the works of Aleksei Nikolayevich Leontyev, the founder of Activity Theory, a book long out of print and unavailable even secondhand.
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]
24 December, 2008. An update from the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line. ETOL has added to the tables of contents of several dozen more issues of The Militant, the weekly organ of the Communist League of America for the years 1928 through 1934. Included in this latest round are all of headlines for the issues from July 1931 through the end of April of 1932.
[Thanks to Earl Gilman, David Walters and the Holt Labor Library]
24 December 2008: Added to the Peking Review subject archive are the following 8 articles from issues in 1966 and 1976:
China Resolutely Supports D.R.V.'s Just Stand
The Biggest Hypocrite and Butcher of Our Times
U.N. Has No Right Whatsoever to Discuss Vietnam Question
Whom Is the Soviet Leadership Taking United Action With?
President Ho Chi Minh Writes to Chairman Liu Shao-chi
The Brezhnev Renegade Clique Damages Soviet Agriculture
Developing Countries Combat Maritime Hegemony
Indo-Soviet Trade: Moscow's New Tricks
[Thanks to massline.org for allowing us to mirror these issues of Peking Review] and David Walters]
24 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Declaração Pública aos Editores da Imprensa Inglesa, 1852.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
23 December, 2008: We have added all the National Platforms of the Socialist Labor Party of the United States, from 1877 through 2005 to the SLP Document Downloads Page of the Early American Marxism History Section.
[Thanks to David Walters and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
23 December, 2008: We have added all several Education for Socialists Bulletins published by the National Education Department of the US Socialist Workers Party. These bulletins add new material to the MIA as well as drawing on a variaty of sources from within the MIA. Bulletins on following topics have been added:
Class, Party, and, State and The Eastern European Revolution Evolution or Discussion on Eastern European States, 1946-1951
The Fight Against Fascism in the USA SWP Education for Socialists Bulletin, 1976.
Counter-mobilization: A Strategy to Fight Racist and Fascist Attacks by Farrell Dobbs SWP Education for Socialists Bulletin, May 1976.
United Front VS. People’s Front SWP Education for Socialists Bulletin, December, 1972
[Thanks to John Leslie & David Walters]
23 December, 2008: Added to the Danish Paul Mattick Internet Archive:
Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory, Paul Mattick, 1974
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
23 December, 2008: Added to the Swedish Roman Rosdolsky Internet Archive:
The Making of Marx's Capital, Roman Rosdolsky, 1968
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
23 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Stálin e as Forças Armadas Soviéticas. Wrote by Nikolai Bulganin.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
22 December 2008: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 10 works from from various periods of his life:
1908 – “Impracticality” of Socialism Laid Out Flat
1909 – Woman's Suffrage
Abolition of Poverty
Anti-Semitism: Its Cause and Cure
Fifteen Questions About Socialism
Flashlights of the Amsterdam Congress
1887 – The General Committee's Most Excellent Work
1887 – To the People of New York of All Political Parties
1887 – Columbia College Men Discuss the Immigration Question
1890 – Nationalism. Aspirations That Gave It Birth and Forces That Give It Strength
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
22 December 2008: Added to the German Archiv Karl Kautsky:
Patriotismus und Sozialdemokratie (Patriotism and Social Democracy) (1907))
Demokratie oder Diktatur (Democracy or Dictatorship) (1918) (One of Kautsky’s earliest critiques of the Bolsheviks and the October Revolution))
Von der Demokratie zur Staatssklaverei (From Democracy to State Slavery) (1921) (A reply to Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism))
Grenzen der Gewalt (Limits of Violence) (1907) (Sharp criticism of Austrian Social Democracy for responding to the right-wing putsch by Dollfuss in 1934 by attempting an armed uprising)
[Thanks to J.L. Wilm]
22 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
As Pretensas Cisões na Internacional, 1872.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
22 December 2008: Some additions to the Spanish-language Section:
Into the Archivo Camilo Torres, the article La violecia y los cambios sociales (1967).
Into the newly-created archive for the Chinese weekly Pekín Informa, we add the first full issue in .pdf format: Vol. XII, No. 15 (7 April of 1974).
[Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
Pekín Informa was the Spanish-language edition of Beijing Zhoubao, which was also published concurrently in German, French, Japanese, and English language editions. In its time it was quite influential in Chinese-oriented left circles in Latin America.
[Thanks to Juan Fajardo]
21 December 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following article from the Sy Landy writers archive. Sy Landy was most closely associated with the League for a Revolutionary Party based in New York City:
Iran: Revolution, War and Counterrevolution (Winter, 1981)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell and The League for the Revolutionary Party]
21 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Althusser Archive:
Sobre Brecht e Marx, 1968
[Thanks to Revista Crítica Marxista, Danilo Martuscelli and Fernando Araújo]
20 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Declaração ao Editor do Neue Deutsche Zeitung, 1850.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
19 Dec 2008: Added to the Moissaye J. Olgin Archive:
Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise, (1935)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
19 December 2008: The Rosa Luxemburg Archive has been given a radical facelift to achieve a uniform format. In the course many errors have been corrected, links have been checked and many new ones have been added. The index of critiques has also been revamped and expanded. We hope that the improvements will make use of the archive easier.
[Thanks to the Einde O’Callaghan]
19 December 2008: Added to the Collected Works Index, on-going project for the J. V Stalin Archive:
Volume 3 (Entire volume)
[Thanks to Salil Sen]
19 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Mais Vigor e Audácia nas Lutas de Massas Pelo 1.° de Maio, Pela Interdição da Bomba Atômica, Pela Paz e a Independência Nacional. Wrote by Luiz Carlos Prestes, João Amazonas, Maurício Grabois, Carlos Marighella, Francisco Gomes, Agostinho Dias de Oliveira and José Maria Crispim.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
18 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Althusser Archive:
O Marxismo Como Teoria "Finita", 1978
[Thanks to Revista Crítica Marxista, Danilo Martuscelli and Fernando Araújo]
17 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Dos Refugiados Prussianos para o Editor do The Sun, 1850.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
16 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Althusser Archive:
A Querela do Humanismo, 1967
[Thanks to Revista Crítica Marxista, Danilo Martuscelli and Fernando Araújo]
15 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Espiões Prussianos em Londres, 1850.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
15 December 2008: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
The Sans-Culotte’s Alphabet, or The First Elements of Republican Education, 1792
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Para o Editor do Jornal L’Alba, 1848.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
13 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Demandas do Partido Comunista na Alemanha, 1848.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
12 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:
Entrevista ao Programa Roda Viva, 1986
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
11 December, 2008. The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added to the tables of contents of several dozen issues of The Militant, the weekly organ of the Communist League of America, for the years 1930 & 1931. As part of the process of adding these tables we have begun to link those writings of Leon Trotsky, James P. Cannon and other revolutionary writers that we have either already on their respective MIA writers archives or added them from their original publication in The Militant:
The James P. Cannon Internet Archive:
The Socialist Party and Radicalization of the Masses
Karl Marx, The Man
Character and Limits of Our Faction
The Union Square Meeting
They Overlooked the German Situation
Saving Germany From Whom?
Even A Browder Can Learn
Our Revolution
Silk Revolt Growing
A Reply To The Discussion (first contribution)
A Reply To The Discussion (second contribution)
Laying The Foundations
Hail, ‘Young Spartacus’!
An Apologist For Stalinism
[Thanks to Earl Gilman, David Walters and the Holt Labor Library]
11 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Perseguição de Estrangeiros em Bruxelas, 1848.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
10 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Trotsky Archive:
As Frações e a Quarta Internacional, 1935
[Thanks to Daniel Monteiro and Fernando Araújo]
10 December 2008: Added to the Peking Review subject archive are the following individual articles:
Excellent Opportunity for Restudy [May 7 Cadre Schools]
The Great Cultural Revolution Will Shine For Ever
Socialist Transformation of Handicrafts and Private Commerce in Tibet
Spring Export Fair Ends
Strong Protest to British Government
[Thanks to massline.org for allowing us to mirror these issues of Peking Review]
9 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Para o Editor do La Réforme, 1848.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
9 December 2008: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 31 editorials from The People [New York] from the year 1912:
1912, March 6—‘Recognition’
1912, April 3—An Anti-Socialist
1912, April 8—Skelton’s Ney and Sheridan
1912, April 19—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—I
1912, April 26—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—II
1912, May 2—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—III
1912, May 18—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—IV
1912, May 23—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—V
1912, June 1—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—VI
1912, June 8—Skelton on Marx’s Law of Value—VII
1912, June 13—Skelton on "Marx’s Contradiction"—Act I
1912, June 17—Skelton on "Marx’s Contradiction"—Act II
1912, June 29—Skelton on "Marx’s Contradiction"—Act III
1912, August 12—The Minimum Wage
1912, August 13—Stealings of Thunderings
1912, August 27—Thanks for the Reminder
1912, September 9—Debs on the Program of Socialism
1912, October 6—The ‘Rule of Reason’
1912, November 15—Socialism and Peace
1912, November 19—A Joke Anent the Balkans
1912, November 29—Who Are the Christians?
1912, November 30—What Would the S.L.P. Do?
1912, December 22—Mediocrity
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
8 December 2008: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 30 editorials from The People [New York] from the year 1911:
1911, January 17—‘Dual” and "Rival” Unions
1911, January 23—Things Getting Better
1911, January 25—’Socialism’ in Milwaukee
1911, February 22—Father Gassoniana (1)
1911, March 2—Father Gassoniana (2)
1911, March 12—Father Gassoniana (3)
1911, March 16—Father Gassoniana (4)
1911, March 21—Father Gassoniana (5)
1911, March 29—Clucking Them On
1911, March 31—Father Gassoniana (6)
1911, April 13—Father Gassoniana (7)
1911, April 19—Father Gassoniana (8)
1911, April 28—Father Gassoniana (9)
1911, May 6—Father Gassoniana (10)
1911, May 13—Father Gassoniana (11)
1911, May 27—Father Gassoniana (12)
1911, June 6—Father Gassoniana (13)
1911, June 20—Father Gassoniana (14)
1911, June 21—Demands—‘Immediate’ and ’Constant’
1911, June 30—‘Three Fundamental Principles of Government’
1911, July 6—Father Gassoniana (15)
1911, July 14—Father Gassoniana (16)
1911, July 21—Father Gassoniana (17)
1911, July 26—Father Gassoniana (18)
1911, August 4—Father Gassoniana (19)
1911, August 3—War in Europe?
1911, August 21—William R. Laidlaw
1911, September 17—The War Cloud in Europe
1911, October 3—Disarming the People—Licensing Sullivan’s Plug-Uglies
1911, October 19—Right at All Points
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
8 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
O Extraordinário Florescimento da Economia Soviética e a Crise Inexorável do Sistema Capitalista. Wrote by A. I. Mikoián.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
8 December 2008: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:
Gramsci’s Arrest: Letter by Tania Schucht, November 1926
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]
This important letter, recently discovered by Gramsci’s grandson, was written in Russian by Gramsci’s wife in the days after his arrest on the night of November 8-9, 1926. Accusations have been made that Gramsci had been intentionally prevented from attending a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Italy on the Trotsky-Stalin split, he being thought to be on the outs with the new Soviet leaders. Even more, some party leaders have been accused of having done nothing to hinder Gramsci’s arrest and have been accused of actively conspiring in it.
In the following letter we see instead that when he left Rome Gramsci was unaware of the assassination attempt on Mussolini carried out in Bologna on October 31; that he didn’t attend the Central Committee meeting because – as a result of the stepped-up police activity after Anteo Zamboni’s attack – he was told by his comrades to return to Rome in order to avoid the police in Milan; that he had nevertheless been cautious in the previous days and had “tidied up” his papers, having them hidden; and that party lawyers and the Soviet embassy worked for his release after his arrest.
The references in the letter to Tania’s work are to her position at the Soviet embassy, which she obtained thanks to her husband, and where her work was being cut back because of the ever increasing scrutiny on the part of the Fascist regime.
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
7 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
A Situação na França, 1848.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
6 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
A Aproximação de uma Nova Crise Econômica no Mundo Capitalista. Wrote by V. Tcheprakov.
Album de Imagens - Fotos de Lênin
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
5 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Mattick:
Espontaneidade e Organização, 1949.
[Thanks to Douglas Anfra and Fernando
Araújo]
4 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Lamartine e Comunismo, 1847.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
3 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Luxemburg Archive:
Assembléia Nacional ou Governo dos Conselhos? - 1918
[Thanks to Associação Política Socialista Revolucionária, Daniel Dominges Monteiro and Fernando Araújo]
3 December 2008: Added to the French Language Section of the MIA the following documents to the these writers archives:
J. Guesde :
Les autoritaires (janv. 1882)
Roman Rosdolsky:
La limite historique de la loi de la valeur. L'ordre social socialiste dans l'oeuvre de Marx (1959)
G. Politzer: La htmphilosophie des lumičres et la pensée moderne (juillet 1939)
Lénine: A propos des conseils de prud'hommes (fin 1899)
Les héros de l'Internationale de Berne (mai 1919)
Roman Rosdolsky: Les travailleurs et la patrie (fin 1965)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers of the MIA]
3 December 2008: Added to the Peking Review subject archive are 23 Full Issues in PDF format. This includes the very first issue from 1958. In addition, the following individual articles have been added in HTML:
Art Goes to the Villages
U.S. Economic Penetration of Latin America in 1965
World Trends: Franco-American Antagonism Deepens
Latin America: The People Fight Ahead
The Interrelation of Political and Economic Indepencence
Paintings by Workers, Peasants and Soldiers
[Thanks to massline.org for allowing us to mirror these issues of Peking Review]
2 December, 2008. The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has completed the tables of contents for The Militant, the weekly organ of the Communist League of America, for the year 1929 and the first issue in January of 1930. As part of the process of adding these tables we have begun to link those writings of Leon Trotsky and James P. Cannon that we have either already on their respective MIA writers archives or added them from their original publication in The Militant:
The James P. Cannon Internet Archive:
Concerning Our Expulsion 1928
The Party ‘Discussion’ Opens 1928
Gangsterism! 1928
A Burglary—Its Political Meaning! 1929
Where is the Left Wing Going? 1929
The Lost Leader 1929
Conference of the Opposition Communists 1929
Vincent St. John 1929
The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
8Who Is Leading The Comintern Today? 1929
Open Letter To The Workers Of The USSR 1929
Behind the Scenes in the Russian Party 1929
A Letter on the Capitulators 1929
First of August! What will “International Red Day” Bring? 1929
The Sino-Soviet Conflict and The Opposition 1929
Greetings Sent to the Weekly 1929
[Thanks to David Walters and the Holt Labor Library
2 December 2008: Added to the new Jean-Marie Guyau Archive:
The Morality of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines, 1878
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
2 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
A Coercion Bill para a Irlanda e para os Cartistas, 1848.
[Thanks to Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venancio and Fernando Araújo]
1 December 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has completed the entire February 1937 issue of Socialist Appeal [Chicago] theoretical journal of the US Trotskyist movement operating inside the Socialist Party of America:
The Appeal and the Left Wing, Editorial
Prospects for a Labor Party, by Max Shachtman
Should Socialists Build a Farmer-Labor Party?, by Glen Trimble
National Left Wing Conference , R.B. Whitten
Draft Resolution on the Spanish Situation, Resolution
Draft Resolution on Revolutionary Class Struggle vs. the People’s Front, Resolution
Toward Socialist Clarity, by Albert Goldman
Call for Socialist Appeal Institute
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
1 December 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Democracia Socialista e Ditadura do Proletariado.
[Thanks to Daniel Dominges Monteiro and Fernando Araújo]