March 2008
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30 March 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:
A Remarkable Book (1931) Murphy reviews Prince D. S. Mirsky’s book Lenin. Mirsky was born into the Russian aristocracy, fought with the Whites during the Civil War and emigrated to Britain in 1921. In 1931 he joined the CPGB, and then returned to the Soviet Union the following year. He was arrested during the Great Purge and died in a labour camp in 1939. Murphy describes the book as “a political event of considerable importance. It is still further evidence of the disintegration in the ranks of the bourgeoisie when its honest intellectuals tell them plainly that their day is done and the day of the proletariat has arrived to lead mankind forward to new conquests in social evolution.”
Editorial (1931) An editorial by Murphy for the Communist Review. Murphy summarises and defends the Party’s new (“Third Period”) orientation to international Social Democracy—i.e., in Britain, the Labour Party, I.L.P., trade union bureaucracy, S.D.F., etc.
* Updates relating 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]
30 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Fourth International, Volume 3, Number 5, May 1942:
Labor’s Fight Against Inflation, Editorial Comment
Washington in Latin America, by Terence Phelan
The Murder of Bob Harte, by Walter Rourke
The Crisis in Agriculture, by C. Charles
The Program for Peace, by Leon Trotsky
Underground Austria and the Soviet Union
Manager’s Column
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
30 March, 2008: We've opened Serbo-Croatian Živojin Pavlović archive with the following work:
Bilans sovjetskog termidora
[Thanks to Stevan Gostojić]
30 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
A Propósito das Palavras de Ordem, 1917
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
29 March 2008: Added to the Communist Party of Great Britain Documents Section:
Class Against Class (1929) The Party’s famous “Third Period” programme.
* Updates relating 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]
29 March 2008: Added to the Lenin Internet Archive:
Remarks on Books: G. V. Plekhanov. Fundamental Questions of Marxism. St. Ptsbrg, 1908, V.I. Lenin, 1908
Remarks on Books: A. Deborin. Dialectical Materialism, V.I. Lenin, 1909
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
29 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Fourth International, Volume 6, Number 4, April 1945:
Stalinist Betrayal in Greece
British Labor Leaders and Greece
A Monstrous War Lie
French Imperialism and World War II, by N. Marc
Modern Welding and the Welder, by V. Grey
Socialism Reaffirmed – I, by Lily Roy
The Red Army in Eastern Europe (Resolution)
Manager’s Column
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
29 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Maurício Grabois Archive:
Nossa Política, 1949
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
28 March 2008: Added to the
The British Unions at Plymouth (1923)
* Updates relating 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]
28 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Fourth International, Volume 5, Number 12, December 1944:
Lessons of the 1944 Presidential Campaign Under the Two-Party System
The Eleventh Convention of The American Trotskyist Movement, by the Editors
Resolution of the Socialist Workers Party on The European Revolution and the Tasks of the Revolutionary Party
Manager’s Note
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 5, May 1945:
“Peace” in Europe
May Day, 1945
Two SWP Statements
Stalinist Policy During the War, by Spero
Socialism Reaffirmed – III, by Lily Roy
International Notes
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
28 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Leontiev Archive:
O Plano Marshall à Luz dos Fatos;
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
27 March 2008: Added to the Russian Social-Democracy History section is the entire, stenographically reported 1903—Second Congress of the Russian Social-democratic Labour Party. This is one of the most important Congresses in the history of Marxism because it set the course for both the reformist and revolutionary wings of the Russian Social Democracy that only became finalized with the victory of the October Revolution in 1917.
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren for trascription of this tome and David Walters for formatting the document. Special thanks to Index Books for having the document translated into English from the Russian by Brian Pearce and permission for us to put it on the MIA]
26 March 2008: Added to the Sezione italiano Pannekoek Archive:
Partito e Classe, Pannekoek 1936
[Thanks to Communard]
25 March 2008: Added to the Music archive translations of the lyrics of the famous revolutionary Italian songs Bandiera rossa, Bella ciao and Fischia il vento.
[Thanks to Clara Statello and Mitchell Abidor]
25 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 1, January 1945
The Heritage of Lenin
Resolution of the Socialist Workers Party on The US and the Second World War
Leninism in Practice, by George Collins A review of the History of American Trotskyism
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 1, February 1945
The Minneapolis Labor Case, An Editorial
Civil War in Greece, by The Editors:
Greece Up to the Metaxas Dictatorship
The Greek Civil War
The Lesson of Greece
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
25 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
A Frente de Petrogrado, 1919;
Carta a V. I. Lênin: A Situação na Frente Ocidental 1919;
Carta da Frente Meridional a V. I. Lênin, 1919;
Telegrama a V. I. Lênin, 1919;
Discurso Pronunciado na Abertura do II Congresso das Organizações Comunistas dos Povos Orientais de Toda a Rússia, 1919.
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário (Brazil) and Fernando Araújo]
25 March 2008: Added to the Benjamin R Tucker Archive:
My Reasons for Favoring the Allies, 1914
On William Morris, 1935
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
23 March 2008: Added to the C.L.R. James Archive:
The Destruction
of a Workers Paper, Pamphlet published with Martin Glaberman, 1962
Lenin and the Vanguard
Party, Controversy, Vol. 1, No. 3, Spring 1963
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
22 March 2008: Added to the C.L.R. James Archive:
Trotskyism in the United States, 1940-1947. Balance Sheet., published by the Workers Party and the Johnson-Forest tendency
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
22 March 2008: Added to the Pannekoek Internet Archive:
Individual Acts, Anton Pannekoek, 1933
Workers Councils, Anton Pannekoek, 1941-42
[Thanks to John Gray]
22 March 2008:Added to the German Marx/Engels Archive:
Über F. Lists Buch „Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie“ (1845).
[Thanks to J.L. Wilm]
22 March 2008: Added to the Josef Stalin Internet Archive:
A Letter To Comrade Demyan Bedny (1924)
On The Contradictions In The Young Communist League (April 3, 1924)
[Thanks to Victor Barraza and Mike B.]
22 March 2008: The following works on Literary Criticism:
Historical Materialism and the Arts, by Plekhanov 1899
French Drama and Painting of the 18th Century, by Plekhanov 1905
Vladimar Mayakovsky, Innovator, by Lunacharsky 1931
[Thanks to Harrison Fluss]
21 March 2008: The following work by Karl Radek:
Felix Dzerzhinski, 1935
[Thanks to Harrison Fluss]
20 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Fourth International, Volume III, Number 1, January 1942
The USSR in War, by John G. Wright
Capitalist Economy Under Fascism, by L. Howard
Naval Power Today, by James Cadman
Fourth International, Volume III, Number 2, February 1942
Editorial Comment
A Letter from Mexico, by Piocho
The Evasions of a Scientist, by Larissa Reed
The End of Auto Production, by Joe Andrews
Manager’s Column
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 3, March 1945
The Fight Against Stalinism
The Yalta Conference
Canadian Anti-War Struggles
World Trade Union Conference
Forced Labor in US
Socialism Reaffirmed, by Lily Roy
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 4, April 1945
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 6, June 1945
American Stalinists Execute New Shift
Interview With a Soviet Citizen
Fourth International, Volume VI, Number 8), August 1945
Order Of The Day Number 83 To The Red Army And Navy By Leon Trotsky
The Red Army To The General Staff Of The Revolution By Leon Trotsky
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
20 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Figuras do Movimento Operário: Jean Jaurés, wrote by Roger Garaudy.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
19 March 2008: Added to the V. I. Lenin Internet Archive:
Notes On Books— A small collection of notes Lenin made on various philosophical works., V.I. Lenin, 1912-16
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]
March 19, 2008: Added to the Pannekoek Internet Archive:
Marxism as Action, Anton Pannekoek, 1915
The New Blanquism, Anton Pannekoek, 1920
Social Democracy and Communism, Anton Pannekoek, 1927
A Life of Struggle, Anton Pannekoek, 1927
[Thanks to Collective Action Notes]
19 March 2008: Added to the new Subject Section: History of Anti-Imperalism and Workers Struggle in the Arab World:
Moral Economy and Labor Protest, from Labor and the State in Egypt Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring, by Marsha Pripstein Posusney 1997
[Thanks to Sam Berner]
18 March 2008:Added to the Lenin Works (Arabic Section)::
The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats
[Thanks to Sam Berner]
18 March 2008:Added to the Marx and Engels Works (Arabic Section)::
Letter from Fredrich Engels to Bebel
Outlines of a Critique of
Political Economy by Fredrich Engels
[Thanks to Sam Berner]
18 March 2008: Introducing the re-designed J. V. Stalin Archive:
Contains the following NEW texts from Volume 8 of J. V. Stalin’s Works (1926):
The Peasantry as an Ally of the Working Class
The Possibility of Building Socialism in our Country
Comrade Kotovsky
Speech Delivered at the French Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
Speech Delivered in the German Commission of the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I.
The Economic Situation of the Soviet Union and the Policy of the Party
To Comrade Kaganovich
and the Other Members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, Ukraine C.P.(B.)
Reply to the Greetings of the Workers of the Chief Railway Workshops in Tiflis
In Memory of F. Dzerzhinsky
To the Editorial Board of the Daily Worker
Letter to Slepkov
Measures for Mitigating the Inner-Party Struggle
The Opposition Bloc in the C.P.S.U.(B.)
The Prospects of the Revolution in China
From Volume 6:
A Letter To Comrade Demyan Bedny
Also includes a section containing biographies and tributes to Stalin as well as a Subject Section that contains collections of Stalin’s writings on women and the Great Patriotic War.
[Thanks to Mike B, Victor Barraza and Brian Reid]
18 March 2008: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:
Stăpînirea britanică în India [The British Rule in India, 1853]
Rezultatele viitoare ale stăpînirii britanice în India [The Future Results of British Rule in India, 1853]
Despre Proudhon [On Proudhon, 1865]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
18 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
Carta à Redação do Proletárskoe Delo, 1917
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
17 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Fourth International, August 1941 Volume 2 No. 12:
Inside Front Cover: Manager’s Column
Death-Rattle of French Democracy (Book Review), by Larissa Reed
Editorial Comment (Biggest Murder Machine in History, Whitewashing Stalin’s Crimes, The Liberals Follow Their Masters, etc.)
Fourth International, August 1945 Volume 6 No. 8:
The Transformation of Morals, by Leon Trotsky
For the Fourth International
There Is No Peace! (Manifesto of SWP National Committee)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
17 March 2008: Added to the Marxist Philosophy Section:
Philosophy and Ideology, The Development of Philosophy and Marxism-Leninism in Poland since the Second World War. 1963
The Logical Influence of Hegel on Marx, Rebecca Cooper 1925
[Thanks to Sam Berner]
17 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
Telegrama ao Inspetor Extraordinário do Controle Estatal em Chtchígryo, 1919;
Nota de Petrogrado, por fio direto, a V. I. Lênin, Maio 1919;
Telegrama a V. I. Lênin, 1919
Nota de Petrogrado, Por Fio Direto a V. I. Lênin, Junho 1919;
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário (Brazil) and Fernando Araújo]
March 15, 2008: Added to the Swedish Braverman Archive:
Labor and Monopoly Capital, Harry Braverman, 1974
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
March 15, 2008: Added to the Swedish Mattick Archive:
Marx and Keynes, Paul Mattick, 1969
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
March 15, 2008: Added to the Gorter Internet Archive:
Imperialism, the World War and Social Democracy, Hermann Gorter, 1914
[Thanks to Collective Action Notes]
15 March 2008: Added to the Lenin Internet Archive:
The Soviets At Work, V.I. Lenin, 1918—This translation dates from 1919 and thus predates the 1963 version published by Progress Publishers, entitled “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government,” which differs in content.
Includes an introduction by Roland Sheppard.
[Special thanks to Roland Sheppard, & to Kevin Goins]
15 March 2008: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:
On the Operations of the Central Committee of the Party (L’Unità December 20, 1925)
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]
All the texts listed in the Antonio Gramsci Archive have been published with the kind permission of the translator/copyright holder. However, Lawrence & Wishart, who have published collections of the translations of Quintin Hoare, the most prolific Gramsci translator, claim that Hoare gave the MIA permission in contravention of his contract with them, and consequently, in January 2008, Lawrence & Wishart instructed the M.I.A. to withdraw the Hoare translations. The Marxists Internet Archive always strives to work in a spirit of cooperation with publishers, so as a result, only those translation done by Mitchell Abidor and M Carley under the Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) licence, for marxists.org are provided below.
15 March 2008: Added to the Romanian Marx-Engels Archive:
Burghezia şi contrarevoluţia [The Bourgeoisie and the Counter-Revolution, 1848]
Cuvîntare rostită la aniversarea gazetei „The People's Paper“ [Speech at anniversary of "The People's Paper", 1856]
Prefaţă la ediţia a doua a „Războiului ţărănesc german“ [The Peasant War in Germany. Preface to the Second Edition, 1870]
Prefaţă la ediţia a treia a „Războiului ţărănesc german“ [The Peasant War in Germany. Preface to the Third Edition, 1874]
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
15 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
A Situação Política (Quatro Teses), 1917
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
14 March 2008: Opened the Joaquim Câmara Ferreira archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Marighella: Vida e Ação Criadoras, 1969
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
14 March 2008: Added to the Political Economy after Marx Section:
Guide to Marx's Capital (1978) [Thanks to Michael Eldred and Mike Roth]
13 March 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following 4 articles and editorials from Fourth International theoretical journal of the US Socialist Workers Party for the July 1945 issue of the magazine:
Leninism vs. Stalinism
The Recent Strike Wave
Ministry-Makers and “Leftist” Fakers, by Hemu Kalani
Evolution of the Communist International (A Historical Review)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David Walters]
13 March 2008: Added to the Portuguese Ho Chi Minh Archive:
Lênin e os Povos Colonizados!, 1924
[Thanks to Vinícius Valentin Raduan Miguel and Fernando Araújo]
12 March 2008: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1969-1974):
Chris Harman: Bother on the Baltic (1971) (survey)
Ian H. Birchall: Sartre and the Myth of Practice (Part 2) (1971)
Ian H. Birchall: The Economics of the Common Market, (1971) (book review)
Industrial Relations Bill (1971) (editorial)
The Economy (1971) (survey)
Anton Garcia: Spain (1971) (survey)
Pakistani Correspondent: Pakistan – the Elections, by a (1971) (survey)
Jim Kincaid: Taxing the Poor (1971)
Lucien Goldman (1971) (obituary)
Letter to Readers (1969) (editorial)
Granville Williams: Victor Serge (1971) (book review)
Chris Gray: The Republic of Ireland (1971) (book review)
John Palmer: Economic Prospects (1973) (editorial)
Rob Clay & Chris Harman: British Steel in Crisis (1973)
Ian Birchall: Gaullism in Retrospect (1973)
Reg Groves: Against the Stream (Part 5) (1973)
Colin Barker: In Red and Black (1973) (book review)
Colin Barker: In Brief (1973) (book review)
A New Six County Regime? (1973) (editorial)
Letter to Readers (1973) (editorial)
Steve Jefferys : The Communist Party and the Left (1973)
Brian Trench: To Take Arms (1973) (book review)
Anna Paczuska: Women, Resistance and Revolution (1973) (book review)
Terry Eagleton: Understanding Brecht (1973) (book review)
Granville Williams: Russian Literature Under Lenin and Stalin (1973) (book review)
Nigel Harris: Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia (1974) (book review)
Ian H. Birchall: The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx (1974) (book review)
Danger Tory Crisis (1974) (editorial)
Note to Readers (1974) (editorial)
Andreas Nagliati: Towards a Rank and File Movement (1974)
Frank Roberts: The Tupamaros – Rise and Fall (1974) (extended book review)
Luis Angel Fernandez Hermana: Chile – Workers’s Struggle Under Allende (1974)
George Johnston: James Connolly (1974) (book review)
Sandy Irvine: Hermanos! (1974) (book review)
Eric Cameron: Red Square at Noon (1974) (book review)
Arthur Affleck: Hazards at Work (1974) (book review)
Chanie Rosenberg: The New Season (1974) (book review)
Nigel Harris: The Autumn of Central Paris (1974) (book review)
Colin Barker: In Brief (1974) (book review)
Labour Government (1974) (editorial)
Students (1974) (editorial)
Scottish Nationalism (1974) (editorial)
Bill Message: Miners – A Special Strike (1971)
Mike Miller: Ireland – Latest Stage in the Struggle (1974)
Kathy Ennis: Women’s Consciousness (1974) (book review)
Peter Housden: Safety or Profit (1974) (book review)
Julian Harber: The Russian Revolution of February 1917 (1974) (book review)
Anna Paczuska: Women’s Rights (1974) (book review)
Hugo Radice: Multinationals (1974) (book review)
Sarah Cox: Tinker, Tailor ... (1974) (book review)
George Johnston: The Ulster Unionist Party (1974) (book review)
Added to the International Socialism Archive (1974-1978):
Chris Harman: Portugal (1975)
Nigel Harris: China and World Revolution (1975)
Paul O’Flinn: Mayakovsky and His Circle (1975) (book review)
Colin Barker: Lenin’s Last Struggle (1975) (book review)
Peter Binns: Marx and Engels – Early Writings (1975) (book review)
Paul O’Flinn: Myths of Power (1975) (book review)
Colin Barker: Big Business and Government (1976) (book review)
Alex Callinicos: In the Eye of the Storm (1976) (book review)
Sean Treacy: The Budget and After (1975) (editorial)
The Six County Deadlock and the Army (1975) (editorial)
Vietnam (1975) (editorial)
Bryan Rees: Oil – The Biggest Business (1975) (book review)
Sue Clegg: The Second Great Crash (1975) (book review)
Paul Harrison & Ian H. Birchall: Spain – The Prospects (1976)
Jim Kincaid: ‘The City was Delighted’ – Healey’s Budget (1976) (editorial)
Paul Ginsborg: Italy – The PDUP Congress (1976) (editorial)
‘Beat Back the Right Deviationist Attempt to Reverse Correct Verdicts’ (1976) (correspondence))
Steve Jeffreys: EETPU – The Decline of the Narrow Left (1976)
John Bowman: Argentina – The End of the Peronist Road (1976)
Mike Haynes: The USSR and the Crisis (1976)
Glenn Wolfe: Third Note on the USA (1976)
Alex Callinicos: The Socialist Register 1976 (1977) (book review)
Chris Harman: Poland – The Crisis of State Capitalism (Part 2) (1976)
Whatever Happened to the Boom (1977) (editorial)
The Fall of the Shanghai Left (1977) (editorial)
Southern Africa (1977) (editorial)
Exporting the Social Contract (1977) (editorial)
Note to Readers (1977) (editorial)
Colin Sparks: Fighting the Beast – Fascism – The Lessons of Cable Street (1977)
Briefing: Equal Pay (1977)
Edmund Baluka & Ewa Barker: Workers Struggles in Poland (1977)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
1 March 2008: Added to the Alfred Rosmer Archive:
Two Books by Lenin (1953)
[Thanks to the Einde O’Callaghan]