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2 May 2010: Opened the Dolores Ibarruri archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:

A Luta do Povo Espanhol Contra o Franquismo
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

28 April 2010: Added to the Evgeny B. Pashukanis archive in the Portuguese Pashukanis Archive:

Teoria Geral do Direito e Marxismo, 1924
[Thanks to Vinicius Valentin Raduan Miguel and Fernando Araújo]

28 April 2010: Added to the Enclyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:

In the section on the United Kingdom

The following document has been added to early-1960s section.

Notes Towards A History: As It Was At The Beginning [1990] (An internal document of the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain looks at the beginnings of the anti-revisionist movement in the UK.)
The following documents have been added to the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, For Communist Unity:

Unity of the Left by Roy Grant [1965] (An article in the CDRFCU newspaper, The Vanguard, on the necessity of unity and how the CPGB cannot be considered a vehicle for revolution)
Unite Against Racism! [1965] (An article in the CDRFCU newspaper, The Vanguard condemning racism against immigrants to the UK from the West Indies and Asia, and calls for working class unity.)
CDRCU Policy Statement of September, 1966 [1967] (An announcement in The Vanguard that the organization is breaking relations with groups that have split from the CDRCU)
What’s New? [On The Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity] (A statement by the CDFCU on an upcoming conference to found the Marxist-Leninist Organization of Britain.)
A Question of Definition: Anti-Revisionists and Marxist-Leninists [1968] (An article in the CDRCU Bulletin that describes the difference between Marxist-Leninists who are building a new communist party and anti-revisionists who remain the CPGB to fight for change.)
The following documents have been added to FORUM for Marxist-Leninist Inner-Party Struggle section

Why Anonymity? [1964] (The Forum explains its policy of using unsigned articles)
On Unity of Marxist-Leninists [1964] (A plea for Marxist-Leninists to overcome sectarian differences and work together for the re-establishment of a Marxist-Leninist party)
On the Formation of a Marxist-Leninist Party [1964] (A discussion on the tactic of anti-revisionists remaining in the CPGB. Also, the present conditions for building a new party.)
The Party Can Be Transformed [1964] (A call to win current members of the CPGB to the anti-revisionist perspective rather than split and form a separate organization.)
Clarification [1964] (A further explanation of the above article)
FORUM – “Purpose”/a> [1964] (A brief explanation of the role of the Forum)
The following documents have been added to The Marxist section

China 1968 by Colin Penn [1968] (The Marxist looks at China during the Cultural Revolution.)
People’s War and the World Revolution by Mike Faulkner [1968] (A review of the struggles in Vietnam and Cuba against the theory of people's war)
Lessons of the Cultural Revolution: The working class must lead in everything by Jack Bradley [1969] (A look at the Cultural Revolution.)
The national question and the struggle for socialism in Britain – A statement by the Glasgow Communist Movement [1969] (A critical analysis of the arguments within the anti-revisionist movement for Scottish nationalism.)
Nationalism and the Proletarian Revolution by C. K. Maisels [1970] (A critical look at nationalism and its role in the working class struggle in the United Kingdom.)
The following document has been added to the Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity – Marxist-Leninist Organization of Britain section

A Call for Working class United Action [1968] (A leaflet aimed at the Labour government of Harold Wilson.)
The following documents have been added to the Workers Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) section

STATEMENT: The Committee To Defeat Revisionism For Communist Unity and the Workers Party of Scotland [1967] (The CDRCU denounces the formation of the Workers Party of Scotland.)
National Socialism: On the So-called “Workers’ Party of Scotland (M.L.)” [1968] (An article in Red Front denouncing the Workers' Party of Scotland as fascist organization.)
The 10th Anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) by Tom Murray [1976] (An article in the Scottish Vanguard that reviews the past decade of the WPS (ML).)
Democratic Defence [1979] (A leaflet calling for greater national defense against the threat of Soviet social-imperialism.)
In the section on Canada

The following documents have been added to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) section

The CPC (ML): A Revisionist Organization of Agent-Provocateurs [1978] (A pamphlet produced by In Struggle that critiques the political line and practice of CPC (ML). The appendices include a chronology of the party's history, and list of publications and front groups.)
The Destruction of On the line by Cathie Lauzon [1977] (An article from Alive magazine that describes the integration of local progressive paper into the CPC (ML) and life inside the party.)
Canadian Revisionists’ Shameless Self-Exposure [1973] (A response published in Mass Line to an article in the CP newspaper Canadian Tribune titled "Canadian Maoists – Agents of Imperialism".)
What Is the Issue? On Questions Concerning the Strategy and Tactics of the Canadian Revolution [1976] (A partial text of the speech delivered by Hardial Bains to the Fourth Consultative Conference of CPC(M-L) held in Montreal on May 15-16, 1976.)
Learn from the Teachers by Negative Example by Charles Boylan [1975] (A pamphlet of a speech by a former CP youth leader who joined CPC (ML). He uses his experiences during the 1960s to denounce political opponents such as Jack Scott and the PWM. The appendices include testimonies by CPC (ML) supporters who were associated with the PWM as well as articles from the CPC (ML) denouncing splitters in Quebec.)
The following documents have been added to the section on the Canadian Liberation Movement.

One Step Backwards, Two Steps Backwards: A Critique of the Canadian Liberation Movement by "Harry" [1977] (An analysis of the politics of CLM by a former member.)
The following documents have been added to the section on In Struggle!.

For the Proletarian Party by Charles Gagnon [1972] (A polemic against the strategy of struggling for Quebec independence as a pre-condition for the struggle for socialism. Gagnon calls on left-wing activists to bring socialism to working class and struggle for the formation of a Marxist-Leninist party.)
[Thanks to Malcolm N. and Paul C.]

26 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:

Jornal A Classe Operária.
[Thanks to Fundação Maurício Grabois and Fernando Araújo]

25 April 2010: Added to the Chris Harman Archive:

Women’s Liberation and Revolutionary Socialism (1984)
[Thanks to Christian Hogsbjerg]

23 April 2010: Added to the new French Trotskyists under the Occupation Archive:

Terrorism or the Organization of the Masses?, La Vérité, September 15, 1941.
A Hand Extended to the German Worker!, La Vérité, May 20, 1943.
Hitler is Collapsing, La Vérité, August 11, 1944.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

23 April 2010: Added to the Ted Grant Internet Archive:

Fight crisis with socialist policies 1971
The dis-United Nations 1971
Unemployment debate 1971
Miners’ fight is our fight 1972
Jan Sling arrest—“Communist” Party apologies 1972
Profits up—1,200,000 unemployed? Bring down the Tories 1972
Lasers—New weapons for annihilation 1972
LPYS housing rally gives lead to Labour 1972
Lessons of the docks strike 1972
[Thanks to Francesco Merli and tedgrant.org]

22 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:

A Propósito das Experiências com a Bomba Atômica na União Soviética, 1951
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

21 April 2010: Added to the new French Trotskyists under teh Occupation Archive:

At the Camp in Drancy, La Vérité, December 5, 1941.
The Fascist Labroue Booed, La Vérité, January 15, 1943.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

21 April 2010: Added to theRaya Dunyevskaya Archive:

Russian Regime Cannot Afford a Beria Show Trial
[Thanks to Kevin Michaels]

20 April 2010: Added to the Jean-Paul Sartre Archive:

To the Nutcase*, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1948
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]

19 April, 2010: Added to the Swedish Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:

The Role of the Individual in History: The Case of World War Two (1986)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

18 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Mattick Archive:

Biografia de Anton Pannekoek, 1960.
[Thanks to Antonio Oliveira and Fernando Araújo]

17 April 2010: Added to the Anton Pannekoek Internet Archive from 1917:

Anton Pannekoek Internet Archive from 1917:

The Third International
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]

14 April 2010: Added to the C.L.R. James Archive:

Black Hope of Brixton (1964) (Review of book about West Indian immigration to Britain – published in International Socialism in 1964)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy)

14 April 2010: Added to the Tony Cliff Archive:

Catalogue (1964) (book review – written as Y. Sakhry)
Splits (1964) (book review)
Useful Placidities (1964) (book review)
Little Profit (1964) (book review – written as M. Turov)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy]

14 April 2010: Added to the Chris Harman Archive:

Stalinist heroism (1986) (book review) (review of study of underground KPD resistance to the Nazis)
Knowing the enemy (1986) (on the theoretical education of members of teh party)
Men of metal (1986) (book review, written as Colin Humphries) (on the development of teh engineering industry)
The new opium? (1986) (article on culture)
The German Revolution (1986) (extended book review)
The trials of Danton (1986) (on the portrayal of Danton in film and drama)
A moral majority? (1986) (book review) (review of book on British social attitudes)
Student Power? (1985)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

14 April 2010: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):

14 April 2010: Added to the C.L.R. James Archive:

Black Hope of Brixton (1964) (Review of book about West Indian immigration to Britain – published in International Socialism in 1964)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & the late Will Fancy)

14 April 2010: Added to the Tony Cliff Archive:

14 April 2010: Added to the Chris Harman Archive:

13 April 2010: Added to the Gajo Petrović Archive:

I Confess, 1965
[Thanks to Zdravko Saveski]

13 April 2010: Added to the Swedish Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

A Letter to James P. Cannon, Leon Trotsky, December 1939
A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party, Leon Trotsky, December 1939
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

13 April 2010: Added to the Gajo Petrović Archive:

I Confess, 1993
[Thanks to Zdravko Saveski]

13 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Mattick Archive:

Biografia de Karl Korsch, 1960.
[Thanks to Antonio Oliveira and Fernando Araújo]

10 April 2010: Added a new History Archive on the Sino-Soviet Split, the debate between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China on the general political line of the International Communist Movement in the 1950s to the 1970s. The archive encompasses key texts issued by both parties in the context ofthat debate. [Thanks to Juan Fajardo]

9 April, 2010: Added to the Swedish Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:

On Workers' Democracy (1968)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

8 April 2010: Added to the new German Archiv Abraham Léon:

Judenfrage und Kapitalismus (The Jewish Question and Capitalism) (1946) (German translation of Abram Leons’ Marxism & the Jewish Question)
[Thanks to REDS – Die Roten & Rosemarie Nünning]

7 April 2010: Added to the Indonesian History Archive:

Analysis of Responsibility, Defence Speech of Sudisman, General Secretary of the PKI, at his trial in 1967, in English translation
[Thanks to Andy Blunden]

7 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Trotsky Archive:

História da Revolução Russa, 1930
[Thanks to Eduardo Velhinho and Fernando Araújo]

7 April 2010: Added to the Raya Dunayevskaya Archive:

Whither Paris?, 1958
[Thanks to Kevin Michaels]

6 April, 2010: Added to the Swedish Paul Mattick Archive:

Marx and Keynes, 1955
[Thanks to Adam Buick & Jonas Holmgren]

5 April 2010: Added to the Enclyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:

We have inaugurated the United Kingdom section of EROL, with introductions regarding Post World II antecedents, and the first waves of anti-revisionist activism during the 1960s.

The following documents have been added in the post-World War II section:
Truth Will Out – Against Modern Revisionism by A.H. Evans [1964] (A collection of letters sent between 1947 and 1953 by CPGB member Arthur Evans to the leadership concerning the direction of the party)
The Twentieth Congress and After by Neill Goold [1956] (A critique of the decisions by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made at the Twentieth Congress.)
Also external links to sites on the degeneration of Communist Party of Great Britain.

The UK section on the early 1960s includes the following documents:
The Attack Upon the Party From the So-called “Extreme Left” (Extract) [1964] (A response by the Communist Party of Great Britain to anti-revisionist dissenters both inside and outside the party’s ranks.)
A Short Guide to Maoists in Britain (An overview of Marxist-Leninist groups in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s published in the November 1978 issue of The Leveller.)
Michael McCreery, the WPPE and the break with Reformist 'Communism' by Paul Noone [1972] (An introduction to the pamphlet “The Way Forward. A Marxist-Leninist Analysis of the British State, the CPGB and the Tasks for Revolutionaries”)
The section also includes the following material from the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, For Communist Unity
An Appeal to All Communists [1963] (A call by the CDRCU to CPGB members to break with the revisionism of both the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the British party)
Destroy the Old to Build the New! by Micheal McCreery [1963] (A critique of the Communist Party's program "The British Road to Socialism" by the founder of the CDRCU.)
Against the Enemy by A. H. Evans [1963] (An analysis of the international communist movement in the early 1960s.)
The Way Forward – The need to establish a Communist Party in England, Scotland and Wales by Michael McCreery [1964] (An overview of the issues facing Marxist-Leninists in building a new communist party in the United Kingdom.)
Organise at the Place of Work by Michael McCreery [1964] (A suppressed 1962 speech that was to be given to London District of the CPGB on organizing party members in the workplace and the limitations placed by the party's program on doing this.)
Notes on the Lower Middle Class and the Semi-Proletariat in Britain by Michael McCreery [1964] (An analysis of the lower strata of the middle class as well as clerical and service workers in British society.)

The United Kingdom section on the late 1960s contains the following material from the Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and the Joint Committee of Communists:
The Marxist-Leninist Movement in Britain: Origins and Perspectives Joint Committee of Communists: Statement on the Question of Party Building (A 1969 document from Joint Committee of Communists, forerunner to the Communist Federation of Britain (M-L), on the current situation and building a new communist party.)
The section also has a link to external site containing the 1968 Manifesto of the Revolutionary Socialist Students' Federation.

In the section on Canada

The section on the First Wave Anti-Revisionism has been updated with the following material from the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist):
North American Conference of Anti-imperialist Youth (A 1969 flyer for an anti-imperialist youth conference in Regina, Saskatchewan.)
Press Communiqué on the formation of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (Announcement published in the April 5, 1970 of Mass Line.)
Press Communiqué on the formation of the Communist Party of Quebec (Marxist-Leninist) (Announcement published in the June 7, 1970 issue of Mass Line.)
Political Report of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) [April 1970]
Wage War of Annihilation on the Cultural Front! (Article from the February, 1971 issue of Canadian Student.)
Opening Remarks Made by Comrade Bains to the First National Consultative Conference of the Communist Party of Canada (M-L) (Article from the January 16, 1972 issue of North American News.)
First National Consultative Conference of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) Concludes in Victory for Proletarian Revolutionary Line (Article from the January 16, 1972 issue of North American News.)
The following documents also were added to the CPC (ML) section:
The Partisan Experience (An article from the Nov-Dec issue of the U.S. magazine Theoretical Review about the absorption of the Vancouver-based New Left group, the Partisan Party, into the CPC (ML).)
Canadian Maoists – Agents of Imperialism (Article by Communist Party leader, William Stewart, on the CPC (ML) that was initially published in Canadian Tribune and reprinted in the May 6, 1973 of Mass Line)
[Thanks to Malcolm N. and Paul C.]

5 April 2010: Added to the Lenin Archive:

V. I. Lenin - Rosa Luxemburg's Unsuccessful Addition to Marx's Theory
V. I. Lenin - Notes on Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
This work has never been freely available in English before and is not part of the historic Lenin Collected Works we have here on the MIA.
[Thanks to Steve Palmer]

5 April 2010: Added to the Chris Harman Archive:

The balance of class forces (1984) (overview of the political situations shortly before the start of the British miners’ strike)
Squaddism in Nazi Germany (1984) (book review) (brief analysis of the tactics used by the KOD in the run up to the Nazis taking power)
Bureaucratic strikes (1984) (letter) (response to criticism of his use of the concept of a “bureaucratic general strike”)
Class struggle hots up (1984) (the political situation after the start of teh miners’ strike)
Biting the hand (1984) (brief discussion of friction between the Soviet Union and the Geerman Democratic Republic)
The Origins of the Family (1980) (extended review article) (reappraisal of #engels’ work in the light of the latest anthropological studies)
Socialist detectives? (1984) (bookrk review)
Democrats are different (1984) (comparison of the American Democratic Party with the British labour Party)
Ireland – The Missing Key (1984) (extended book review)(evaluation of study of the history and role of communism in Ireland since the Russian Revolution)
A liberal apology (1980) (book review)
What do we mean by the General Strike? (1985)
Missed opportunities (1985) (book review) (short review on the German Revolution)
The impossible change (1985) (brief review on the German working class between 1914 and 1933)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

5 April, 2010: Added to the Swedish Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

A Letter to James P. Cannon, Leon Trotsky, October 1939
A Letter to Max Shachtman, Leon Trotsky, November 1939
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

5 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Andreu Nin Archive:

O Marxismo e a Questão Nacional, 1935.
[Thanks to Douglas Anfra and Fernando Araújo]

5 April 2010: Added to the Anatoly Lunacharsky Archive:

Heroes of Action in Meditation, 1909
Taneyev and Scriabin, 1925
Theses on the Problems of Marxist Criticism, 1928
Chernyshevsky’s Ethics and Aesthetics, 1928
Dostoyevsky’s “Plurality of Voices” (Re Bakhtin on Dostoyevsky), 1929
Jonathan Swift and A Tale of a Tub, 1930
George Bernard Shaw, 1931
Heine the Thinker, 1931
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Innovator, 1931
Alexander Blok, 1932
Richard Wagner, 1933
The Man Who Painted Happiness. Renoir, 1933
Bacon and the Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1934
[Thanks to Eugene Hirschfeld]

4 April, 2010: Added to the Swedish Edgar Hardcastle Archive:

Lenin's "What is to be Done?", 1970
Marxian Economics in the Modern World, 1973
[Thanks to Adam Buick & Jonas Holmgren]

4 April 2010: Added to the French History Section:

On The Emancipation of the Jews:
Opinion of Count Stanislas de Clermont-Tonerre on Persecution of the Jews of Alsace, 1789
For Thaelmann, André Gide and André Malraux 1936
Note: In these 1935 texts translated here for the first time, Andre Malraux and Andre Gide, two of France's greatest writers, speak out in defense of political prisoners held in Nazi Germany. Both writers were passing through a pro-communist phase, and these speeches provide us with a clear view of the importance and influence of the French Communist Party on the eve of the Popular Front.
On the Jews, from Proudhon's notebooks, 1847
Though some twentieth century writers have maintained that Proudhon was not an anti-Semite, we find in his notebooks proof of the contrary. In this selection from his notebooks Proudhon’s anti-Semitism goes far beyond that of Marx at approximately the same time, calling not for the end of what Jews represent, i.e., capitalism, but of the Jews as a people. Proudhon’s privately expressed thoughts were elaborated on in the same year as this entry by his follower Alphonse Toussenel in his “Les Juifs, Rois de l’Epoque,” The Jews, Kings of the Era. After reading the passage translated here it can come as no surprise that the founder of the royalist group Action Française, the Jew-hater Charles Maurras, drew inspiration from Proudhon.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor/מאיד אביךןד]

4 April 2010: Added to the Enver Hoxha Archive:

Speech to the Constituent Assembly on the Presentation of the Resignation of the Government (January 12, 1946)
Program of the First Government of the People's Republic1 of Albania Presented to the People's Assembly of the PRA (March 24, 1946)
Literature and Art Should Serve to Temper People with Class Consciousness for the Construction of Socialism (October 26, 1965)
For the Continuous Improvement of the Composition of the Party and its Growth — for the Protection of the Purity of its Ranks (November 1, 1966)
Letter to Comrade Hysni Kapo (July 30, 1978)
[Thanks to Ismail Badiou and Mike B.]

3 April 2010: Added to the Swedish Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

Discussion with a CIO offcial, Leon Trotsky, 1938
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

1 April 2010: Added to the Portuguese Mandel Archive:

Introdução: A Teoria do Fascismo Segundo Leão Trotski, 1974
[Thanks to José André Lôpez Gonçâlez and Fernando Araújo]

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