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31 October 2011:
Added to the Early American Marxism Archive the following set of 15 documents from Socialist Labor Party, Socialist Party of Amercia and the Communist Party:
“Platform of the Social Democratic Workingmen’s Party of North America.” [1876] Platform of one of the earliest international socialist organizations in the United States, the Social Democratic Workingmen’s Party of North America (established in 1874) — later one of the constituents of the Workingmen’s Party of the United States, which became the Socialist Labor Party.
“Constitution for the Social Labor Party: Adopted at Pittsburgh, April 1876.” In April 1876 the Social Democratic Workingmen’s Party of North America changed its name to the Social Labor Party. Three months later, it would join at a “Union Congress” as one of the constituent organizations back of the new Workingmen’s Party of the United States — which would in turn change its name to the Socialistic Labor Party at the end of 1877. This is the constitution of that constituent pre-SLP organization.
“The Tour of the Red Special,” by Charles Lapworth [Dec. 1908] Large graphic pdf file, 9.2 megs. This is a copiously illustrated participant’s memoir of Eugene V. Debs’ memorable 1908 Presidential campaign, during which a special train was chartered and toured coast-to-coast in support of the Socialist Party of America’s electoral program and ticket.
“On Killing Us Dead: Unsigned Editorial in Communist Labor, March 25, 1920.” Still reeling from J. Edgar Hoover’s coordinated anti-communist police raids of January 2, 1920 (the so-called “Palmer Raids"), the Communist Labor Party trumpets the fact of its survival with this snide editorial advising the adoption of the full fledged Tsarist model for repression of political dissent.
“Debs Does Not Know: Unsigned Editorial in Communist Labor, March 25, 1920.” In March 1920 came news from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary that imprisoned radical leader Gene Debs had agreed to stand as the Presidential nominee of the Socialist Party for the fifth time. This was most unwelcome information to the rival Communist Labor Party, including among its ranks many longtime allies of Debs in the left wing of the SPA.
“Casualties: Unsigned News Report in Communist Labor, March 25, 1920.” Across America the forces of law and order put a full court press on the nascent American communist movement in late 1919 and early 1920. This repressive effort was not limited to non-citizens, as this unsigned article from the official organ of the Communist Labor Party demonstrates.
“Letter to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America in New York from the National Executive Committee of the Communist Labor Party in New York, March 28, 1920.” In the last days before the April split of the Ruthenberg faction, unity negotiations between the CPA and the CLP were edging towards agreement on agenda with regards to the bitterly divisive question of the role of federations as well as delegate composition.
“Letter to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America in New York from Alfred Wagenknecht, Executive Secretary of the Communist Labor Party of America in New York, March 31, 1920.” Having capitulated on the big issue of the relationship of the language federations to the central organization of the new party and the question of organizational parity at a forthcoming joint unity convention, the National Executive Committee of the Communist Labor Party squabbles over one last delegate, refusing the CPA’s proposed split of 12 (CLP) to 23 (CPA) in favor of a “final” decision of 13 (CLP) to 22 (CPA). The Joint Convention Committee is authorized to proceed with arrangements for a unity convention only if the CPA caves in on this point, CLP Executive Secretary Alfred Wagenknecht notes.
“Letter to National Executive Committee of the Communist Labor Party of America in New York from C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary of the Communist Party of America in New York, April 7, 1920.” As the Communist Party of America was quietly sliding towards a factional split within two weeks, the sectarian bidding war between the CPA and the rival CLP over the apportionment of delegates to a Joint Unity Convention continued.
“Joint Call for the Communist Convention.” [composed by the CPA, transmitted to the CLP on April 7, 1920] In addition to a five day ultimatum regarding the size and composition of the delegations to a forthcoming Joint Unity Convention to unite the rival Communist Party of America with the rival Communist Labor Party, the CPA included the following language for a joint call.
“Letter to the Central Executive Committee and Joint Convention Committee of the Communist Party of America in New York from Alfred Wagenknecht, Executive Secretary of the Communist Labor Party in New York, April 9, 1920.” CLP Executive Secretary Alfred Wagenknecht takes umbrage at the five day ultimatum regarding a forthcoming Joint Unity Convention delivered to him by the rival Communist Party of America. “You presume to dictate a new representation for the convention to us,” Wagenknecht complains.
“No Unity with Anti-Revolutionary Party: Declaration of the NEC of the CLP, Adopted May 1, 1920.” With this published statement the governing National Executive Committee of the Communist Labor Party rejects in no uncertain terms any prospect of electoral cooperation with the Socialist Party of America in its 1920 Presidential campaign on behalf of imprisoned radical publicist Eugene V. Debs.
“Call for a Unity Conference between the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party.” [circa May 7, 1920] While another version of this convention call has been up on this website for six years, this new file includes a bit of marginalia from the CLP press indicating that it went into unity negotiations with the Ruthenberg minority of the CPA with open eyes, met “several times”.
“The Winds of Reaction: News of the Socialist Party Convention.” [events of May 8-14, 1920] With its own organization shattered by police repression — thousands of members driven off, meetings forced underground, dues payments and publication subscriptions disrupted, leaders and non-citizen members arrested, multiple thousands of dollars in bail and legal fees added to organizational expenses — the Communist Labor Party makes itself feel better for a moment here by laughing at the misfortune of others.
“Party Discipline: Unsigned editorial in Communist Labor." [May 15, 1920] A heavily idealized discussion of the notion of party discipline in the Communist movement. The editorialist declares party discipline to be “indispensable,” in that it enables “the application of concentrated action.”
[Thanks to the Early American Marxism Archive]
30 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:
In the section for the United States:
The following document has been added to the “Unification Efforts of Pro-Albania Groups” section:
Communique of the Founding Congress of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the USA [1980]
In the section for the United Kingdom:
The following document has been added to the “Forum for Marxist-Leninist Unity” section:
Three Contributions of Mao Tse-Tung to Marxism seen in relation to the situation in Britain 1965 [1965] (Mao’s views on the leading role of peasantry, his practical approach to socialist revolution, and his theory on proletarian dictatorship hold lessons for Marxist-Leninists in the UK.)
The following document has been added to the “Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity – Marxist-Leninist Organization of Britain” section:
Classes in Modern Britain [1966] (ACMLU member, Bill Bland, argues that a class analysis published by the Finsbury Communist Association is an exercise in bourgeois sociology because of its emphasis on a large labour aristocracy in the UK.)
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
30 October 2011:Added to the Portuguese Béria Archive:
Discurso no XIX Congresso do PC (b) da URSS, 1952;
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
30 October, 2011: Added to the French Mattick Archive:
Otto Rühle et le mouvement ouvrier allemand, 1945
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren & La Bataille socialiste]
30 October, 2011: Added to the Spanish Paul Mattick Archive:
Las masas y la vanguardia, 1938
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren & Grupo de Comunistas de Conselhos da Galiza (Estado espanhol)]
30 October, 2011: Added to the Spanish Paul Mattick Archive:
Las barricadas deben ser retiradas: El fascismo de Moscú en España, 1937
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren & Revista Balance]
29 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
A Futura Revolução Italiana e o Partido Socialista, 1894.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
28 October 2011: Added to the Early American Marxism Archive has added the following set of documents from 1906, 1911 and 1920:
“The Meaning of May Day: Address Delivered in Grand Central Palace, New York City — May 1, 1906,” by Morris Hillquit Among other things, Socialist Party leader Morris Hillquit was a pioneer American historian of the socialist movement. In this May Day speech in New York City Hillquit recounts the origin of the workers’ holiday just 17 years previously at the founding Congress of the Second International in Paris.
“Socialism and the Race Problem: A Speech to Black Workers,” by Peter Kinnear [Sept. 4, 1911] The Socialist Party is sometimes regarded as having taken a position of benign neglect towards non-white members of the working class, with the Communist Party’s position on the race question mythologized as a massive break from past practice.
“Boycott the Elections!” [Leaflet of the Communist Party of America, October 1920] The 1920 electoral campaign placed the Communist movement in a difficult position. While still interested in winning imprisoned Socialist leader Eugene Debs to the Communist cause, the illegal and repressed organizations were in no position to run candidates of their own. Nor did they wish to boost their electorally-oriented factional foes, the Socialist Party of America, with its ticket headed by Presidential candidate Eugene Debs. The Communist Party of America’s stance was clear: “It is the duty of every class-conscious worker in America to boycott the coming elections. A worker’s vote cast for any of the parties or their candidates standing for election — is a vote for reaction or reform!
“Boycott the Election! Proclamation by the United Communist Party of America." [October 1920] The United Communist Party, characterized as electorally-oriented “Centrists” by the rival Communist Party of America, came to an identical position as the CPA regarding the question of whether to support Eugene Debs and the Socialist Party electoral slate in 1920, this leaflet reveals.
“UCP Financial Report for September 1920." [October 7, 1920] Average actual paid membership for the UCP for the organization’s first quarter of existence was 3,448, although the organization is optimistically estimated at 4,200 members in October 1920.
“Special Convention Call — United Communist Party (Call for the Special 2nd Convention, Dec. 1920)." [circa late November 1920] Formal convention call for an extraordinary 2nd Convention of the United Communist Party, the self-described “main section of the Third (Communist) International in America.”
“Workers! What is Coming? Proclamation by the United Communist Party." [circa Nov. 6, 1920] Leaflet of the United Communist Party, apparently issued in conjunction with the 3rd anniversary of the Russian October Revolution.
“Report Estimating Radical Group Membership in New York Submitted to J. Edgar Hoover by Charles J. Scully, Head of Radical Division in the name of T.M. Reddy, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NY District, Nov. 8, 1920." As the end of 1920 drew to a close chief federal Red hunter J. Edgar Hoover sought an assessment as to how the year old effort to break up the radical movement was affecting membership levels of target organizations. Charles Scully, head of the anti-radical division of Bureau of Investigation’s New York office provided this report in reply. Scully comically inflates the estimated memberships of the Socialist Party ("150,000"), Socialist Labor Party ("50,000"), Rand School of Social Science ("30,000"), and Young People’s Socialist League ("25,000").
“U.S. v. Albert Bailin, Violation of Section 215, Criminal Code,” by C.J. Scully [Nov. 11, 1920] Report dealing with an investigation by the US Attorney’s office of the head of the Thiel Detective Agency regarding the activities of its employee, Albert Bailin. Bailin, who worked for the Department of Justice as a confidential undercover informant, seems to have made a career by fabricating the existence of a radical secret society called the “Knights of the Red Star.”
“The United Communist Party: A Bureau of Investigation Report,” by Emil A. Solanka [Dec. 6, 1920] This is an extensive report by Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Emil Solanka detailing the activities of the United Communist Party of America.
[Thanks to the Early American Marxism Archive]
28 October 2011: Opened the Ossip Piatnitsky archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Como Forjar um Partido Bolchevique. É Preciso arrancar as Massas aos Social-Democratas, 1930
[Thanks to Marcelo Ribeiro Siqueira and Fernando Araújo,]
27 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Os Ensinamentos de J. V. Stálin Sobre a Produção Mercantil e a Lei do Valor no Socialismo. Wrote by G. Kozlov and published in Problemas Revista Mensal de Cultura Política, nº 44, Jan-Fev 1953.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
26 October 2011: Added to the Early American Marxism Archive has added the following 21 documents:
“Calm Review of the Seattle Situation,” by John Downie [Oct. 6, 1907] A factional salvo fired by a supporter of the Socialist Party of Washington’s Left Wing majority against a pamphlet published by an adherent of the party’s dissident Right Wing.
“Walter Thomas Mills -- His Record,” by Thomas J. Morgan [Nov. 2, 1907] One of the most bitterly divided state organizations of the Socialist Party of America was that of Washington state, which was more or less continuously controlled by Left Wing elements throughout the decades of the 1900s and 1910s, over bitter opposition. One of the key leaders of the Right Wing during the party’s first decade was Walter Thomas Mills, regarded by his radical opponents as both an extreme factionalist and a socialist huckster.
“Able Talent in Array of Lyceum Course Speakers: Forceful Organizers and Entertainers Sure to Please All,” by L.E. Katterfeld [Jan. 4, 1911] One of the leading leaders of the Communist Labor Party and its successor, the United Communist Party, was Ludwig E. “Dutch” Katterfeld, a veteran Socialist Party functionary.
“Join the Party” (Editorial in the Columbus Socialist) [April 29, 1911] Perhaps the moment of greatest optimism in the history of the Socialist Party is documented in this front page editorial from The Socialist, published in Columbus, Ohio. Congressman Victor Berger was installed in office and the groundswell of popular support for the Socialist cause was palpable.
“Negro Resolution: Passed by the Ohio State Convention of the Socialist Party of Ohio, April 27-30, 1911." The early Socialist Party of America is frequently viewed as ambivalent to the question of race, at best, including as it did among its ranks at least a few virulent racists.
“Comrade Bloor at Nelsonville,” by W.W. Green [events of June 21-22, 1911] An excellent little snippet of Socialist social history here -- an account of two speeches by firebrand orator “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor. Her June 21, 1911 speech in Nelsonville, Ohio drew a counterdemonstration in the other end of the town square, featuring a sermon by a preacher.
“Debs on the Socialist Movement,” by Elias Tobenkin [July 29, 1911] Extensive interview with copious direct quotations of Socialist Party leader Gene Debs, on the road in Newark, New Jersey, presumably lifted by the Columbus, Ohio Socialist from the New York Call.
“The Rising Tide of Socialism,” by Carl D. Thompson [Aug. 8, 1911] This is a snapshot of the electorally-oriented Socialist Party at its most self-satisfied. Carl D. Thompson, head of the SPA’s Literature Department, reviews the growth of the socialist movement in America and around the world -- using the dubious benchmark of electoral results to happily pronounce the Socialist movement worthy of “inspiration and wonder.
“Mob Wrecks Socialist Newspaper: Editor Ordered to Leave Town, but He Decides to Stick." [event of Aug. 24, 1911] Short article from the Columbus, Ohio Socialist documenting an act of mob violence committed by anti-Socialists in Garden City, Kansas.
“The Socialist Labor Party and the Socialist Party: The Fundamental Differences Between the Two Organizations,” by Mary Rantz [Sept. 25 1911] While the American radical movement in the decade of the 1910s was dominated by the electorally-oriented Socialist Party of America, that organization never had a monopoly on the political field. The rival Socialist Labor Party maintained a radical critique.
“Stand by Soviet Russia: Proclamation of the United Communist Party of America." [circa Aug. 1, 1920] Annotated machine-readable pdf of a rare leaflet of the newly-launched United Communist Party of America. The leaflet argues that the World War was a result of the struggle of capitalist governments for markets and profits and had never really ended, with attention turned Eastward following the German collapse.
“Summary of District Organizer Reports of the United Communist Party." [August 8, 1920] Internal document relating district-by-district membership status and organizational structure of the fledgling United Communist Party of America. Worthy of mention is the fact that the UCP -- unlike the rival (old) CPA -- had districts west of Chicago (St. Louis, Denver, San Francisco, Portland). Unfortunately no report on membership for the all-important New York district appears, but one can roughly extrapolate a paid membership in the ballpark of 6,000 from the numbers showing. Similarly, one can conclude from the cash receipt and expenditure figures showing that the party’s financial situation was not strong.
“Statement of the CEC of the United Communist Party Regarding the Charges Against Louis C. Fraina." [Aug. 15, 1920] The very first plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the United Communist Party appointed an investigating committee to examine the charge being bandied about that Louis C. Fraina of the rival Communist Party of America, one of three members of the Pan-American Bureau of the Comintern, was actually a police spy.
“The Letter from the International: UCP Reply to the ECCI Letter to America of June 1920." [Aug. 15, 1920] During the Russian Civil War and the Western blockade of Soviet Russia, communication between the Communist International in Moscow and the American Communist movement in New York was slow and haphazard. A June 1920 letter from ECCI only found print in the United Communist Party’s Press in the middle of August. This document reprints the official reply of the governing Central Executive Committee to ECCI’s categorical demand that the UCP and its rival, the Communist Party of America, immediately unite.
“United Communist Party Membership Bulletin #2." [c. Sept. 1, 1920] The United Communist Party was an underground organization that took its secrecy seriously. Membership bulletins were hand-delivered via district organizers and subdistrict organizers down to group leaders, one copy to each group with instructions to destroy the mimeographed document after it had been read at the group meeting.
“United Communist Party Membership Bulletin #3." [c. Sept. 15, 1920] This third confidential membership bulletin of the United Communist Party includes district-by-district reports for the party’s 9 territorial subdivisions.
“Leaflet of the American Defense Society." [circa October 1920] Propaganda leaflet of the nationalist American Defense Society, which declares: “The Radicals have not yet declared open warfare. Government officials state that their information is that the revolution has been planned to follow the Presidential Election.
“Fundraising Circular of the American Defense Society, Robert Appleton, Treasurer, November 3, 1920." Fighting radicalism was a costly endeavor, treasurer Robert Appleton of the nationalist American Defense Society intimates.
“United Communist Party Membership Bulletin #4." [c. Nov. 1, 1920] This semi-monthly confidential bulletin read to members of the United Communist Party at underground group meetings details the actions of the organization’s governing Central Executive Committee at its recent meeting.
“United Communist Party Membership Bulletin #5." [c. Nov. 20, 1920] A valuable official membership count of the United Communist Party appears in this fifth bulletin to the group’s underground membership.
“Speeches to the 4th World Congress of the Comintern on the Negro Question,” by Otto Huiswoud and Claude MacKay [Nov. 25, 1922] The 4th World Congress of the Comintern of 1922 marked the first time a plenary session of that organization dealt with the so-called “Negro Problem.” The report of the CI’s Negro Commission and its proposed resolution was delivered in a speech by American Communist Party delegate Otto Huiswoud, to which was added additional commentary by fraternal delegate Claude McKay of the African Blood Brotherhood.
[Thanks to the Early American Marxism Archive]
26 October, 2011: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 6 new editorials by De Leon from rest
of the month of September 1910:
1910, September 25 – Is Socialism a Prophecy?
1910, September 26 – Labor's Share
1910, September 27 – Frank Darkcloud's Paradox
1910, September 28 – The "Call's" Preelection Colic
1910, September 29 – Congressional Gleanings—The Railroad Bill
1910, September 30 – There's Hope for the AF of L
[Thanks to Robert
Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
26 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
As Resoluções de Viena, Instrumento de Luta pela Paz e a Independência Nacional. Wrote by André Silva Paraguassu and published in Problemas Revista Mensal de Cultura Política, nº 44, Jan-Fev 1953.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
25 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Pietr Lavrovitch Lavrov, 1875.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
24 October 2011: Added to the Early American Marxism Archive has added the following set of documents from 1900 through 1920:
"Socialist Party of Washington State Constitution." [as amended July 1903] Beginning in 1903 the National Office of the Socialist Party of America began to be regularized, selling dues stamps and tracking the number of paid memberships in its state affiliates. The state parties themselves, however, remained largely autonomous — joined as a loose federation under the aegis of the national party.
"An Object Lesson in Referendums,” Hermon F. Titus [May 4, 1905] Although controlled by adherents of the ideology of the Socialist Party's Left Wing from its earliest days, the Socialist Party of Washington was the scene of a non-stop factional war, driven by the Center-Right minority that controlled Seattle's King County organization. Godfather of Washington's majority Left Wing was former Baptist preacher turned Seattle newspaper publisher Hermon F. Titus.
"Fraina to Discuss New Party Policies." [article in Cleveland Socialist News, March 1, 1919] This brief news article in the organ of Local Cuyahoga County SPA documents the touring efforts of Louis C. Fraina on behalf of the program of the newly organized Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party.
"Packed Meeting Holds Up Action on Left Wing Program." [event of March 16, 1919] News account from the Cleveland Socialist News of a March 16, 1919 meeting of Local Cuyahoga County addressed by Louis C. Fraina. Fraina sought the Local — the largest unit of the Socialist Party of Ohio — to endorse the Manifesto and Program of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party.
"Eugene V. Debs’ Speech at West Side Turn Hall, Cleveland, Wednesday, March 19, 1919." Stenographic news account of the March 19, 1919, farewell speech of Socialist orator and publicist Eugene V. Debs before an audience of 3,000 in Cleveland, Ohio. Debs declares that the working class paid the economic and physical costs of the recently concluded European war but that it was the master class making the terms of peace. “Russia is making a beginning; the Soviet is just an example,” Debs states, allowing that the Bolsheviks “have shed some blood, they have made some mistakes, and I am glad they have. When you consider for a moment that the ruling class press of the world has been vilifying Lenin and Trotsky, you can make up your mind that they are the greatest statesmen in the modern world.” He deems his forthcoming imprisonment to be a necessary tribute to be paid to the revolutionary cause.
"Socialists for Constitutional Methods: In Fighting Spirit... Socialist Convention Arouses General Interest... Splendid Speeches by Hillquit, Stedman, and Others..." [events of May 8-12, 1920] Unsigned news account of the 1920 National Convention of the Socialist Party of America published in the Buffalo, New York weekly, The New Age — a paper loyal to the SPA's Regular wing. The article claims that while the SPA's membership had fallen to just 24,000 in September 1919, it had subsequently rebounded to 40,000 (an outright fabrication, internal party documents have subsequently revealed).
"Debs and the Socialist Party.” (commentary in The Toiler) [July 2, 1920] This article from the front page of the United Communist Party's “legal" labor weekly attempts to gauge the mindset of Gene Debs, fiery orator and icon of American Socialism. In the inner-party conflict of 1919, the “Right Wing leaders of the party in control of the party machinery overrode all the constitutional provisions and rules of the party and expelled the Left Wing,” in the summary view of the unnamed writer, adding “Either one group or the other had to leave the party.
"Letter to Eugene V. Debs at Atlanta Federal Prison from Morris Hillquit at Saranac Lake, NY, June 30, 1920." At its most critical juncture, fighting a two front war between government repression and factional strife, the Socialist Party of America found its two top factional peacemakers out of action, with Morris Hillquit at a sanitarium in upstate New York attempting to recover from tuberculosis while fiery orator Gene Debs continued his prison stay in Atlanta.
"Seymour Stedman: Socialist Candidate for Vice-President,” by William M. Feigenbaum [June 17, 1920] Campaign biography of the Socialist Party of America's 1920 candidate for Vice President of the United States by prominent Socialist Party journalist William Morris Feigenbaum. Although Stedman was a prominent lawyer in this period, his working class background and activity as a pioneer member of the Social Democracy of America is emphasized here, with nary a word about Stedman's activity after being elected a member of the Illinois State Legislature in 1912.
"Communists Unite: An Appeal to the Rank and File of the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party,” by Elmer T. Allison [October 29, 1919] Front page editorial from the October 29, 1919 issue of The Ohio Socialist.
Miners of America! Resist the Terrors of Your Masters! [March 1920] Full text of a rare leaflet directed at coal miners ahead of a scheduled April 1 strike, published by the Communist Party of America. The leaflet demands: “You must fight these organizations of the state and national governments for they are your mortal enemies. You cannot resist the power of the army by armed force for the simple reason that you haven’t the equipment to fight with, but you can prevent them entering the coal fields if you CAN REACH THE RAILROAD WORKERS WITH YOUR MESSAGE AND CONVINCE THEM THAT TO RUN TRAINS CARRYING CONSTABULARY OR MILITIAMEN OR SOLDIERS IS AN ACT OF TREACHERY TO THE WORKING CLASS."
"To the Russian Workers in America Relative to Recent Raids and Arrests: Proclamation of the Chicago District Committee of Russian Branches, CLP." [published March 11, 1920] The early American Communist movement is sometimes simplistically viewed as divided between the “Foreign Federations” of the Communist Party of America and the “American and English-speaking” Communist Labor Party. In reality, the latter organization included substantial foreign language contingents, including in particular Russian and Croatian speakers from the Midwest.
"Partial Minutes of the Meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America." [April 15-19, 1920] Official "majority faction” account of the April 1920 split by C.E. Ruthenberg, Leonid Belsky, and Croatian Federation leader “Wood” from the Communist Party of America. Since Ruthenberg kept the original minutes and removed them when he bolted the organization, the version here was reconstituted from memory by his successor as Executive Secretary of the CPA, Charles Dirba.
"Partial Minutes of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America." [May 21-23, 1920] Full minutes, sans a missing page or two, of the May 1920 plenary session of the governing Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America. Six meetings of the Executive Council had been held between this May session of the CEC and the April session at which C.E. Ruthenberg and his followers had split the organization. The actions of that subcommittee were ratified by the full CEC here.
"Letter to the Executive Committees of the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America from the Executive Committee of the Communist International." [June 1920] The relations between the Communist International and the American Communist movement during its first decade of existence may very nearly be reduced to a simple theme: the Comintern sought party unity and an end to factionalism; the American Communist factions each sought to use the Comintern as a cudgel to annihilate their factional opponents.
"Published Summary of the Meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the United Communist Party." [events of July 1-3, 1920] Rather than official minutes, this is the published summary of the July 1-3, 1920 plenum of the CEC of the United Communist Party, as published in its underground official organ, The Communist. No names (or pseudonyms) are provided, limiting the value of the information here. With respect to the ultra-rare non-English variants of this official organ, it is stated that German, Polish, Russian, Croatian, and Yiddish variants of Issue No. 1 had been published, with similar editions of No. 2 in preparation, following the recently released English edition of No. 2.
"Motions and Resolutions Adopted at the 2nd Convention of the Communist Party of America: New York — July 13 to 18, 1920." Complete set of resolutions passed by the 2nd National Convention of the (old) Communist Party of America. Included are official greetings to the Comintern and the government of Soviet Russia, as well as resolutions on Soviets, Unity with the United Communist Party, legal workers groups, youth groups, and legal defense.
"Program of the Communist Party of America Adopted at its Second Convention." [adopted July 18, 1920] Adoption of a new party program was considered by its participants to be one of the most important actions of the 2nd Convention of the (old) Communist Party of America in July 1920. The CPA saw the proletariat's tasks as universal rather than subject to national specificity, declaring “the problems of the American working class are identical with the problems of the workers of the world.”
"Letter to Walter H. Evans, District Attorney of Multnomah County, Oregon, in Portland from J. Edgar Hoover, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, in Washington, March 24, 1920." This letter from the young chief of Anti-Radical operations in the United States to the Multnomah County, Oregon District Attorney follows up on a January communication by Evans with a member of Congress, in which he provided a copy of an IWW resolution endorsing the 3rd International.
"What is Attorney General Palmer Doing? Letter to an Unnamed NYC Magazine Editor." [Jan. 27, 1920] This article publishes in full a letter sent out by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to the editor of an unnamed major American magazines, attempting to shape coverage of the Justice Department's recent mass arrests of non-citizen members of the Communist Party of America.
"Principles and Decisions of Individual Cases of Alleged Membership in the Communist Party of America,” by Louis F. Post [circa March 1920] The 1919 to 1920 frenzy of raids and deportations launched by J. Edgar Hoover and A. Mitchell Palmer was effectively stymied by the principled action of one man, Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post.
[Thanks to the Early American Marxism Archive]
23 oct. 2011: French language "Fourth International documents" archive, section on the 1966 London conference of the C.I.:
"Les problèmes du parti mondial de la révolution et la reconstruction de la IVème Internationale" feb.28.1966 public meeting of the "Voix Ouvrière" group (avril 1939)
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
24 October, 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line Audio Section are a series of lectures given by the veteran Trotskyist of the US Socialist Workers Party, Tom Kerry:
The Anatomy of Stalinism Part 1
The Anatomy of Stalinism Part 2
The Anatomy of Stalinism Part 3
[Thanks to Gary Bills and the Holt Labor Library's Audio Collection]
24 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Samora Machel Archive:
Mensagem aos Militantes da FRELIMO e ao Povo Moçambicano por Ocasião do Golpe de Estado em Portugal, 1974
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
23 October 2011: Opened the Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Discurso no XIX Congresso do PC (b) da URSS, 1952
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo,]
23 October, 2011: Another inclusion to our Spanish-language Archivo Paul Mattick:
Las masas y la
vanguardia (1938)
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
23 October 2011: Added to the Early American Marxism Archive has added the following set of documents from 1900 and 1919:
Open Letter to Theodore Debs of the Social Democratic Party in Chicago from William Butscher of the Social Democratic Party in Springfield, Dec. 15, 1900. The road to unity between the two organizations calling themselves the Social Democratic Party of America was neither simple nor the road straight. Despite fielding a joint ticket of Debs (Chicago SDP) and Harriman (Springfield SDP) in the November 1900 Presidential campaign, obstacles remained to the achievement of organic unity of the two parties.
An Address to Populists Setting Forth the Difference between the Populist Movement and the Socialist Movement — Populists Should Join the SDP, but They Must Realize What It Means," by "Wage Earner" [Jan. 5, 1901] A lengthy appeal from the Springfield Social Democratic Party paper St. Louis Labor, calling for disaffected left wing members of the faltering People's Party to join the Social Democratic Party of America.
Letter to Theodore Debs, National Secretary of the "Chicago" Social Democratic Party from William Butscher, National Secretary of the "Springfield" Social Democratic Party, April 18, 1901. Further correspondence between the head of the ex-SLP "Springfield" Social Democratic Party and his counterpart atop the ex-SDA "Chicago" organization.
Constitution of the Socialist Party of Washington." [as adopted by referendum vote, Nov. 15, 1901]. The early Socialist Party of America was a federation of state organizations, with a loose and delimited central organization. This is the first state constitution adopted by what would emerge as one of the strongest state organizations of the Debsian era, the Socialist Party of Washington.
Introduction to the Official Report of the Chicago Convention," by John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow [circa Sept. 15, 1919] Close political associates Reed and Gitlow, hardline anti-Russian Federation folk, provide here an introduction to an official publication of the Communist Labor Party detailing the events of its founding convention for its members. The pair call for an end to the six months of "ceaseless bickering" between Right and Left which dominated discourse in the old Socialist Party and which now seemed to be continuing between the CLP and the rival Communist Party of America.
The Capitalists Challenge You, Workingmen! Proclamation of the Communist Party of America." [Oct. 1919] This is one of the first agitational leaflets produced and circulated by the Communist Party of America, directed at striking steel workers in Gary, Indiana.
The German-Speaking Branches in New York: Most of the German-Speaking Comrades True to the Socialist Party are Reorganizing — Others Divide Up Between Communist and Communist Labor Parties," by G.A. Hoehn [Oct. 1, 1919] Socialist Party Regular G.A. "Gus" Hoehn, editor of St. Louis Labor, gets his German-American readership up to date with affairs in the Socialist Party's German-language branches in New York in the aftermath of the September 1919 party split. Hoehn details the story of Ludwig Lore, formerly an IWW organizer who became Herman Schlueter's successor as editor of the daily newspaper of the German Federation, the New Yorker Volkszeitung. "When John Reed, Fraina, and others decided to put the Socialist Party on wings, Lore joined the 'Left Wing,' which was his privilege.
Confidential Circular Letter of the CPA’s “Proletarian Club” Minority to its Supporters. [circa Oct. 15, 1919] A split of the Communist Party of America between its rather incongruous "Federationist" and "Marxian Educationalist" factions seems to have been in the cards from the date of the organization's establishment, owing in large measure to the latter group's certainty of its ideological correctness and revulsion for the idea of compromise.
Letter to Johnson H. Meek in Yarrow, MO from William L. Garver, State Secretary of the SP of Missouri in Springfield, MO, October 16, 1919." The State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Missouri William Garver justifies the Socialist Party of America's decision to proceed to a split at its 1919 Emergency National Convention in this letter to a party member elsewhere in the state. "
U.S. Senate Resolution No. 213." [adopted Oct. 17, 1919] J. Edgar Hoover's campaign for the arrest and deportation of alien radicals did not occur in a political vacuum, this resolution of the United States Senate makes clear.
Letter to E.M. Wormley in St. Joseph, MO from William L. Garver, State Secretary, Socialist Party of Missouri in Springfield, October 18, 1919." Open letter from the State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Missouri, William Garver, to a member of Local St. Joseph explaining the causes of the 1919 Left Wing split as he understood them.
Confidential Letter to Anthony Caminetti in Washington, DC from J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC, Oct. 30, 1919." With political and popular pressure growing for the federal government to take action against alien radicals, J. Edgar Hoover, a young Special Assistant to Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, was eager to accommodate.
Telegram to Special Agents in Charge of Offices of the Bureau of Investigation from J. Edgar Hoover in Washington in the name of BoI Chief Frank Burke, November 6, 1919." While the so-called "Palmer Raids" of January 2/3, 1920 are best remembered by historians and in the public mind, this was actually the second of J. Edgar Hoover's mass dragnets against the non-citizen radicals in America.
Statistics of the Nov. 7, 1919 Operation Against the Union of Russian Workers: A Memorandum by J. Edgar Hoover." In January 1920, Special Assistant to the Attorney General J. Edgar Hoover, chief figure in the Wilson Administration's repressive activity against the non-citizen radical movement in the United States, was able to tally the statistics for the mass operation conducted against the anarchist political organization the Union of Russian Workers.
Speech Honoring the 2nd Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution: Brownsville Labor Lyceum, NYC — Nov. 7, 1919," by James Oneal There are a number of reasons that the Socialist Party split in 1919. Not included on this list was any difference in viewpoint between Socialist Party Regulars and Left Wing Socialists over the nature and fundamental justice of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
Department of Justice Press Release on the Mass Arrest Campaign Against the Union of Russian Workers, Nov. 8, 1919." J. Edgar Hoover was never one to miss an opportunity to publicize his activities. This is the press release prepared by the Department of Justice for American newspapers explaining their coordinated mass raids against the anarchist Union of Russian Workers which took place in the evening of November 7.
Statement of the Experience of George A. Evans, a Former Teacher at the People’s House, 133 East 15th Street, Telling of the Brutal Treatment of the Police in the Raid Made There Nov. 7, 1919." This is the account of a victim of the November 7, 1919 Department of Justice coordinated mass raids against the Union of Russian Workers -- testimony taken by friends of the URW about a week after the fact and preserved in the archives of the DoJ's Bureau of Investigation. George A. Evans had been conducting an English language class at the "People's House," headquarters of the URW in New York City.
"Report to the United States Senate in Response to Senate Res. No. 213 from Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, Nov. 14, 1919." With the US Senate breathing down his neck to take repressive action against the radical movement in America, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer was forced to show progress by reporting to Congress in accord with Senate Resolution 213.
Confidential Letter to Anthony Caminetti in Washington, DC from J. Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC, Nov. 19, 1919." Concerned that lawyers for accused anarchists had been advising those arrested to "under no condition make any statement concerning their affiliations or their connections or activities," the Department of Justice's chief of anti-Red operations, Edgar Hoover sent this confidential inquiry to Immigration chief Anthony Caminetti seeking advice as to whether the practice of advising arrested suspects of their right to counsel at the beginning of hearings was a formal rule of the immigration service, an act of Congress, or simply a common practice initiated by the Department of Labor.
Resolution of the 5th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI on the American Question." [adopted April 6, 1925] The 5th Enlarged Plenum of ECCI included a special American Commission, per usual, to attempt to mediate and resolve the ongoing factional war in the American Communist movement, per usual.
[Thanks to the Early American Marxism Archive]
22 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Franz Mehring, 1893.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
22 October 2011: Added to the French Zinoviev Archive:
Qu'est-ce que l'impérialisme ? [1916]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
22 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:
In the section for the United States:
The following documents have been added to the “Communist Workers Party” section:
N.Y. May Day: 1000 Strong, Workers March Led by WVO. Major Speech from Central Committee of WVO [1979]
1980 Elections: The Real Choice is Fascism/World War or Revolutionary Socialism [1980]
Just One Cop Is Not Enough, We Have To Kill The Whole System [1980] (The Communist Workers Party celebrates the killing of a New York policeman.)
21 Officers Hurt Battling Communist Worker Groups [1980] (The New York Times reports on an attempt by the CWP to crash the Democratic National Convention.)
Payback: “The Communist Workers Party Stormed the Democratic Convention” [1980] (The CWP offers its version of events at the Democratic National Convention.)
Capitalism Destablized – How Do We Prepare To Overthrow the U.S. Government by Irene Blankenship [1980] (A CWP member argues that the U.S. is in a pre-revolutionary situation.)
Presentation to the Central Committee, November 1980 by Jerry Tung [1980] (A chapter from The Socialist Road written by Jerry Tung.)
Presentation to the Party Leadership, December 1980 by Jerry Tung [1980] (Another chapter from The Socialist Road.)
Questions and Answers by Jerry Tung [1980] (Tung challenges the theory that capitalism has been restored in the Soviet Union.).
The following document has been added to the “Split in The Revolutionary Communist Party – Formation of the Revolutionary Workers’ Headquarters” section:
On the Question of So-Called “National Nihilism”: You Can’t Beat the Enemy While Raising His Flag [1981] (The RCP deepens its position against those who suggest that the international situation requires Marxist-Leninists to unite with their own bourgeoisie to defend national independence.)
The following documents have been added to the “Unification Efforts of Pro-Albania Groups” section:
U.S. Marxist-Leninists, Unite in Struggle Against Social-Chauvinism! Proletarian Revolution in the U.S. Is Our Sacred Internationalist Duty [1977] (The Central Organization of US Marxist-Leninists reprints two articles from its paper, The Workers’ Advocate, on party building and the struggle against social-chauvinism.)
Build the Marxist-Leninist Party Without the Social-Chauvinists and Against the Social-Chauvinists [1979] (The Central Organization of US Marxist-Leninists celebrates the tenth anniversary of the founding of the American Communist Workers Movement (M-L) with a call to fight social chauvinism within the Marxist-Leninist movement.)
“You Can’t Beat The Enemy While Raising His Flag”: MLPUSA Tries It [1981] (The RCP replies to the accusation made by the Marxist-Leninist Party that it is going down the same as PL and declaring “all nationalism is reactionary.”)
The following document has been added to the Background Materials section for “The New Communist Movement: Party Building Efforts Continue, 1975-1977:”
Strategy and Tactics: OL & RCP Revise Marxism on the International Situation [1977] (The Workers Viewpoint Organization takes to task both the October League and the Revolutionary Communist Party for their positions on the struggle against the two superpowers.)
The following documents have been added to “Revolutionary Wing” section:
Dying Screams of the PRRWO/RWL Clique and Responding Echoes from Assorted Opportunists [1976] (The Workers Viewpoint Organization takes aim against its former comrades in the Revolutionary Wing.)
Two Roads to Party Building [1976] (The Bolshevik Organizing Committee and the Communist Workers Collective (M-L), both of North Carolina, announce their support for the Workers Viewpoint Organization.)
Presentation on Party Building: Expose the Anarcho-Socialism of PRRWO/RWL! [1976] (The Union for Working Class Emancipation, a Texas-based group, supports the Workers Viewpoint Organization.)
An Open Letter to a District and all Revolutionary Workers League Comrades [1976] (The Bolshevik Organizing Committee directs an appeal to its former comrades in the Revolutionary Workers League.)
WVO: Undaunted Dogma from Puffed-Up Charlatans [1977] (The RCP argues that the WVO’s dogmatism blinds it to the correct relationship between theory and practice.)
Harriet Tubman-Nat Turner Collective (ML) Liquidating itself to the WVO [1977] (A Boston-based Marxist-Leninist collective announces it is joining the ranks of the Workers Viewpoint Organization.)
WVO’s Opportunism in Theory and Practice [1977] (The RCP launches another polemic against the Workers Viewpoint Organization.)
Auto workers on the move against capitalism! [1977] (A Workers Viewpoint Organization leaflet directed at auto workers.)
The following document has been added to the “October League (Marxist-Leninist) – Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party – Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
Nicholaus vs OL: A Menshevik’s Criticism of Menshevism [1977] (The Workers Viewpoint Organization comments on the expulsion of Martin Nicholaus from the October League (ML).)
In the section for the United Kingdom:
The following document has been added to the “Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) ” section:
Report of the Special General Meeting, December 1973/February 1974 [1974] (An internal document reports on developments within the CFB (M-L).)
The following document has been added to the “Revolutionary Communist League of Britain (M-L) ” section:
China and Vietnam: What Is The Truth? [1979] (The RCLB supports China’s incursion into Vietnam as a response to Vietnam’s provocations against China.)
In the section for Canada:
The following documents have been added to the “Canadian Liberation Movement” section:
We Confronted Nixon! [1972] (The CLM reports on demonstrations in Ottawa, Toronto, Thunder Bay, and Saskatoon against the visit to Canada by U.S. president, Richard Nixon.)
CLM Statement Regarding the Withdrawal of the Ottawa Waffle Group From the Committee Against The Nixon Visit [1972] (The CLM holds that the Ottawa Waffle withdrew from coordinated activities around the Nixon visit because of CLM’s support for Canadian unions.)
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
21 October 2011:Added to the Portuguese Molotov Archive:
Discurso de Abertura no XIX Congresso do PC (b) da URSS, 1952
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
20 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line as part of the Left Opposition Publications Digitization Project:
1939 Socialist Appeal [Newspaper of the US Socialist Workers Party. These are very high resolution scans in PDF format. They average about 30mb in size.] There are 95 issues of this paper included here as Socialist Appeal went to a twice-a-week print run in 1939.
[Thanks to Robin Palmer and Marty Goodman of the Riazinov Library project, the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, CA which kindly provided the original print versions of the paper and David Walters for the ETOL]
20 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Samora Machel Archive:
Estabelecer o Poder Popular para Servir as Massas, 1974
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
19 October 2011:Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Nikolai Frantsevitch Danielson, 1893.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
18 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:
Saudação, em nome do PCB, ao XIX
Congresso do Partido Bolchevique, 1952.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
18 October 2011: Added to the French Lenin Archive:
John Reed [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
18 October 2011: Added to the French Lenin Archive:
Discours à la séance solennelle du Soviet de Moscou, consacrée au premier anniversaire de la fondation de la 3e Internationale [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
18 October 2011: Added to the Dreyfus Affair History Archive:
Proust and the Dreyfus Affair, 1890
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
18 October 2011: Added to the Turkish History Archive:
The Foundations of Turkish Unity, by Falih Rifki Atav 1939
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
18 October 2011: Added to the Anarchism Subject Archive:
The Honest Man, 1890
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]
18 October 2011: Added to the
The Vanguard Archive:
International Socialism
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
18 October, 2011: A new addition to the Spanish-language Section, this time into the Archivo Paul Mattick:
Las barricadas deben
ser retiradas: El fascismo de Moscú en España (1937)
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
18 October 2011: Added to the French Lenin Archive:
John Reed [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
18 October, 2011: We are pleased to announce the addition of a pdf copy of vol. 1 of Marx's Das Kapital into the Estonian Section:
Kapital, Poliitilise okonoomia kriitika. Esimene koide. (1867)
[Thanks to Aleksander Kanter]
17 October 2011: Added to the French Rosa Luxemburg archive:
A
quoi sert la politique coloniale ? (1898)
Intervention
au congrès de l'Internationale (1900)
Tolstoï,
comme penseur social (1908)
Suffrage
féminin et lutte de classes (1912)
[Thanks to Lieb, Collectf Smolny and Solidarités]
17 October 2011: Added to the Early American Marxism Archive are 3 documents from the founding convention of the Communist Labour Party in 1919:
Statement to the Delegates of the Communist Party Conventions by the Delegates of Local Kings Co., NY, by Edward Lindgren and Morris Zucker. [Sept. 3, 1919] With three radical conventions taking place simultaneously in Chicago during the first week of September 1919, a certain amount of shuffling of a few delegates who found themselves in the wrong place was inevitable.
Constitution of the Communist Labor Party of America [adopted Sept. 5, 1919] Complete published edition of the organizational law of the Communist Labor Party of America, passed by its founding convention on September 5, 1919.
Proclamation to the Delegates and Members of the Communist Party by the National Executive Committee of the Communist Labor Party. [Sept. 6, 1919] First of many unity appeals by the leaders of the Communist Labor Party to the rival Communist Party of America. The CLP's NEC declares: "As far as we can discover, there is no fundamental difference of principle between us. The platform, program, and resolutions that our convention has adopted are uncompromisingly revolutionary.
[Thanks to Carrite from the Early Amercian Marxism Website]
17 October 2011: Added to the
The Vanguard Archive:
Rent Victories
The Munitions Act
“Justice,” Irving and The B.S.P.
Resolution on Zimmerwald for B.S.P. Branches to Support
‘Justice,’ Irving and The B.S.P.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
17 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Conrad Schmidt, 1890.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
17 October 2011: Added to the Raya Dunayevskaya Archive:
A Letter to Natalia Trotsky on the Theory of State Capitalism, 1947
[Thanks to Kevin Michaels]
17 October 2011: Added to the
John Maclean Archive:
Notes from the North, Justice May 7, 1911
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
16 October, 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line Audio Section are a series of lectures given by the veteran Trotskyists of the US Socialist Workers Party:
Peter Camejo (on independent politics and the history of the CIO)
Theodore Edwards (on Maoism and the Chinese Revolution)
Bob Chester (on the History of the SWP)
Asher Harer (on the History of the ILWU given to new members of the union)
James P. Cannon (on Regroupment and speeches to the SWP conventions and meetings).
[Thanks to Gary Bills]
16 October 2011: Opened the Jean Van Heijenoort archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Lev Davidovich, 1941
[Thanks to Liga Comunista, Alexandre Linares and Fernando Araújo,]
15 October, 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line Audio Section are a series of lectures given by the veteran Trotskyists of the US Socialist Workers Party:
James P. Cannon on the Cockran Fight
Farrell Dobbs, a series of 5 lectures on the Minneapolis Teamster Struggles of 1934
Asher Harer on the history of the SWP in the 1940s
[Thanks to Gary Bills]
October 15, 2011: Added to the Vere Gordon Childe Archive:
The Bronze Age
1944 The story of tools
1949 Magic, craftsmanship and science
[Thanks to Steve Painter]
15 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta Circular a A. Bebel, W. Liebknecht, W. Bracke e Outros, 1879.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
14 October, 2011: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 12 new editorials by De Leon from all of September 1910:
1910, September 3 – Our Pigmy Colossi
1910, September 7 – "Second Chambers"
1910, September 9 – Significance of the Goff Decision
1910, September 10 – What "Conservation" Really Means
1910, September 14 – SLP on Top; Report From the Copenhagen Int'l Congress
1910, September 15 – The Happy Farmer
1910, September 17 – The Class Struggle
1910, September 18 – As to Immigration
1910, September 20 – Wall Street as a Promoter of Revolutions
1910, September 21 – Wanted: Robustness
1910, September 22 – The Risks of San Pietro
1910, September 24 – "For Both"
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
14 October, 2011: Added to the Chinese Language MIA is the following essay by Leon Trotsky:
A Program of Action for France
[Thanks the Chinese Language Volunteers]
14 October, 2011: Added to the Bob Gould Archive:
The republic referendum. A view from the left
The life and times of George Petersen, MLA, 1921-2000
Dumbing down Australian history and its teaching
Deconstructing the 1960s and 1970s. An open letter to Keith and Liz Windschuttle
Fabricating history on the British colonial frontier in Australia
Local government boundaries in Sydney
[Thanks to Steve Painter]
13 October, 2011: Added to the Spanish Archivo Pierre Broué:
España 1931-1939: la revolución perdida (1973)
Trotsky
y la guerra civil en España (1975)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
13 October, 2011: Added to the Spanish-language Archivo Otto Rühle de:
La organización del proletariado y el balance en Alemania (1924)
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
13 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:
In the section for the United States:
A new section for the “Communist Workers Party” has been included in “The New Communist Movement: Crises, Splits and More New Parties, 1977-1980.” The following documents have been added to this section:
They Defied Automatic Weapons with Bare Fists and Sticks: Long Live the Invincible Communist Spirit of the Communist Workers Party 5! [1979] (The CWP argues that the death of five members at the hands of a KKK/Nazi death squad in Greensboro was a deliberate government-sponsored assassination.)
Greensboro Massacre: Premeditated Gov’t Assassination of Communist Workers Party Leaders [1979] (The CWP offers evidence that the death of five members in Greensboro was part of a government plot to target the CWP.)
Turn Grief Into Strength! Avenge the CWP 5! [1979] (A leaflet released by the CWP after the death of five members in Greensboro at the hands of KKK/Nazi death squad.)
Death to the Klan! [1979] (A leaflet by the CWP that was released just prior to the rally in Greensboro.)
An Open Letter to Joe Grady, Gorrell Pierce, and All KKK Members and Sympathizers [1979] (A leaflet released by the Workers Viewpoint Organization, predecessor organization of the CWP, taunts the Klan as cowards and call on them to show their faces to the masses.)
Communist Workers Party 5 Died Fighting the KKK/Nazis Rather than Live as Slaves [1979] (Another leaflet released by the CWP on the Greensboro massacre.)
1,000 March to Bury Our Fallen Comrades: “..Hold Up the Bloodstained Banner, New Fighters Joining Us to Seize the Time...” [1979] (Workers Viewpoint reports on the funeral in Greensboro for five slain comrades.)
The Lessons of the Greensboro Massacre [1979] (The Ray O. Light group holds that the ultra-left line of the CWP led to a slaughter of its members in Greensboro.)
The Greensboro Massacre: Critical Lessons for the 1980’s [1980] (The Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective and the Greensboro Collective examine the events leading up to Greensboro massacre and conclude that the CWP’s ultra-leftism and sectarianism left it isolated and open to attack by the Klan.)
Greensboro: Political Suicide With No Condolences [1979] (The Bolshevik League claims that the CWP deaths in Greensboro has actually assisted fascists by portraying communists as fanatics who will send cadre to their deaths for publicity.)
May Day Speech, 1978 [1978] (Jerry Tung addresses a WVO rally.)
Long Live the Communist Workers Party, U.S.A.! [1979] (The Workers Viewpoint Organization announces its transformation into the Communist Workers Party.)
Forged In 5-Years Of Glorious Struggle, CWP Charges Forward To Break The Bourgeoisie [1979]
On the Founding of the Communist Workers Party, U.S.A. [1979] (Poem celebrating the formation of the CWP.)
Build the Communist Workers Party Prepare for the D. of P.! [1979] (Another poem celebrates the formation of the CWP.)
The section also includes links to the following video clips of the Greensboro massacre:
“Greensboro Massacre”
“1979: Gov’t & KKK Murder Five Communists”
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
13 October 2011: Added to the French N.A. Semashko Archive:
La conservation de la santé en Russie Soviétiste [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
13 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Werner Sombart, 1895.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
12 October, 2011: Into the Archivo Joaquín Maurín de:
Hacia la
segunda revolución (1935)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
12 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Samora Machel Archive:
A Luta Armada Começou em Manica e Sofala, 1972
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
12 October 2011: Added to the French Friedrich Engels Archive:
Karl Marx [1877]
[Thanks to Encyclopédie de l'Agora]
11 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:
Em Marcha Para um Grande Partido Comunista de Massa, 1946.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
10 October 2011: Added to the new Swedish George Breitman Internet Archive:
The Rocky Road to the Fourth International, 1933-38, George Breitman, 1979
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
10 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a W. Borgius, 1894.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
09 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:
In the section for the United States:
The following documents have been added to the “Progressive Labor Movement – Progressive Labor Party” section:
Here We Stand: A Statement of Principles by the Editors [1963] (Milton Rosen and Mort Scheer introduce the first issue of the Progressive Labor Movement’s theoretical journal, Marxist-Leninist Quarterly)
William Z. Foster by Fred Carlisle [1964] (Progressive Labor celebrates the life and contributions of veteran communist, William Z. Foster.)
On The Marxist-Leninist Method of Reaching Decisions by Lee Coe [1964] (An article discusses how to apply the democratic centralist method.)
Call For A National Founding Convention [1964] (The Progressive Labor Movement issues call to found a new party.)
Statement of Principles and Strategic Concepts [1964]
The following documents have been added to the “Unification Efforts of Pro-Albania Groups” section:
“ML”OC vs. Leninism [1979] (Demarcation denounces the Marxist-Leninist Organizing committee’s formation of the CPUSA/ML.)
From Circles to the Party The Tasks of Communists Outside the Existing Parties [1979] (The Pacific Collective (M-L) issues a lengthy polemic against the haphazard approach on party-building.)
The following documents have been added to the “Black Workers Congress Splits” section:
MLOC: Intriguing and Conspiring for a Revisionist Clique [1976] (The Bolshevik Organizing Collective/Communist Workers Committee (M-L) accuses the MLOC of engaging in formalism, careerism and unscrupulous behavior by publishing a secret document.)
MLOC’S “CREDO” PROGRAM: Concentrate a Superior Force to Destroy Genuine Marxist-Leninists One by One [1976] (Workers Viewpoint reprints the secret document of the MLOC, referred to in the above article.)
The following documents have been added to the “Revolutionary Wing” section:
Philistinism of the PRRWO & RWL Exposed! [1976] (The Workers Viewpoint Organization reports on a fracas at Brooklyn College between it and former participants in the Revolutionary Wing.)
Two Roads to Party Building: The Organization for Bolshevik Unity (OBU-ML) Defeats Centrism and Prepares to Liquidate to the WVO! [1977] (The OBU-ML dissolves itself into the Workers Viewpoint Organization.)
In the section for Canada:
The following documents have been added to the “Canadian Liberation Movement” section:
Revive the Spirit of ’37 [1973] (The Canadian Liberation Movement ties the struggle against US imperialism to the 1837 rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada by declaring the Saturday closest to December 4 as “Anti-Imperialist Day”.)
Anti-Imperialist Day, 1972 [1973] (Reports on Anti-Imperialist Day events in Toronto and Thunder Bay.)
Canadian Workers Union Founding Congress June 8, 9 [1974] (The CLM assists in the formation of the Canadian Workers Union as an alternative to U.S. unions in the industrial sector.)
Canadian Workers Union wins first victory! [1974] (The CWU manages to get a worker re-hired at the Canron plant in Toronto.)
Anti-Imperialist Day 1974, Ottawa [1974]
Yankee Go Home! [1975] (The CLM targets U.S. citizens in Canada as witting or unwitting agents of US imperialism.)
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
9 October, 2011: Added to the Cornelius Castoriadis Internet Archive:
The Fate of Marxism, 1965
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren and For Workers' Power]
9 October 2011: Added to the Josip Broz Tito Internet Archive:
Speech Delivered at the Mass Meeting of Cairo Citizens (February 1959)
[Thanks to Mike B.]
8 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
O Papel da Violência na História, 1888.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
7 October 2011: Added to the French Karl Marx Archive:
Préface à la thèse de doctorat [1841]
[Thanks to Claude Ovtcharenko]
6 October 2011: Added to the French David Riazanov Archive:
La fondation de la première Internationale [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
6 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Otto von Boenigk, 1890.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
5 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line as part of the Left Opposition Publications Digitization Project:
1938 Socialist Appeal [Newspaper of the US Socialist Workers Party. These are very high resolution scans in PDF format. They average about 30mb in size.]
[Thanks to Robin Palmer and Marty Goodman of the Riazinov Library project, the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, CA and David Walters for the ETOL]
5 October 2011: Added to the French Communist International Archive:
Aux syndicats de tous les pays [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
5 October 2011:Added to the French Henri-Louis Tolain Archive:
Manifeste des soixante [1864]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
5 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Samora Machel Archive:
No Trabalho Sanitário Materializemos o Princípio de que a Revolução Liberta o Povo, 1971
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
4 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:
O Problema da Terra e a Constituição de 1946.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
4 October 2011: Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:
A new section has been added to EROL containing articles by the Communist Party of China from 1960 to 1977 on revisionism and the Soviet Union. See Representative Anti-Revisionist Materials from China
A new section has been added to EROL containing articles and polemics by the Party of Labour of Albania from 1960 to 1979 on revisionism, the Soviet Union and China. See Representative Anti-Revisionist Materials from Albania
In the section for the United States:
A chart representing the development of the anti-revisionist movement in the United States is now available throughout U.S. section of EROL. The chart was created by the Communist Workers Group. See Family Tree Chart of U.S. Anti-Revisionism, 1956-1977
The following documents have been added to the section on “ Unification Efforts of Pro-Albania Groups:”
The Party of the Working Class and the Small Circles of the Petit-Bourgeoisie [1978] (The Committee for a Proletarian Party challenges the party-building positions of other small groups and supports the party-building efforts of the MLOC.)
Party-Building Statement of the Committee for a Proletarian Party [1980] (The members of the Committee for a Proletarian Party announce their departure from the CPUSA (M-L) and their support for Mao Zedong.)
Announcement of the Formation of the Committee of U.S. Bolsheviks [1979]
On the Founding of the Bolshevik League and the Establishment of Bolshevik Revolution [1979]
Report to the Founding Conference of the Bolshevik League of the United States [1979]
Faction Purged From B.L. On The Road To a Bolshevik Party [1980] (by the Bolshevik League of the United States.)
The following document has been added to the section on “U.S. Marxist-Leninists Take Sides: the China-Albania Split:”
In Defense of Marxism-Leninism on the International Situation [1979] (A forum in Denver, Colorado, denounces the Theory of Three Worlds and Chinese revisionism.)
The following document has been added to the section, “Split in The Revolutionary Communist Party – Formation of the Revolutionary Workers’ Headquarters:”
Satirical issue of The Call [1979] (The RCP mocks the international positions of the Communist Party (M-L) by printing a bogus issue of its newspaper.)
In the section for Canada:
The following document has been added to the section, “Progressive Workers Movement:”
Letter To Canadian Comrades [1964] (Milt Rosen, leader of the Progressive Labor Movement, sends a solidarity message to the newly formed Progressive Workers Movement.)
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
3 October, 2011: Added to the Political Economy Subject Archive:
Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, 1930
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
3 October 2011: Added to the The Vanguard Archive:
Our Freedom is Going – John Maclean
“German Gold” – James D. MacDougall
The Railway Shops Settlement – Industrial Unionist
Appeal to the Clyde Munitions Workers – James D. MacDougall
The Threat of Conscription – John D. MacDougall
Notes from Aberdeen – G.D.C. p. 10
“Justice,” Irving and The B.S.P. – James D. MacDougall
Letter to the Editor
Workers Deputation to the Sheriff
Free Speech Fight in Glasgow – Arthur McManus
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
3 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Conrad Schmidt, 1890.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
2 October 2011: Added to the new Turkish History Archive:
Mustapha Kemal Atatürk and Kemalism, by Mitchell Abidor
From Atatürk to Inönü, by Burhan Bilge 1938
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
2 October 2011: Added to the new P.C.F. History Archive:
The Fascist Riot, 6 February 1934
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
2 October 2011: Added to the Swedish Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International and why they remain valid today (1988)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
2 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Mao Zedong Archive:
Sobre a Prática, 1937
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
October 2 , 2011: The Indonesian Language Section of MIA has added the following writing:
Trotsky: Pasifisme Sebagai Pelayan Imperialisme (1917)
Tan Malaka: Hukum Revolusi (1948)
Tan Malaka: Sambutan Murba (1948)
Trotsky: Tugas-Tugas Pendidikan Komunis (1923)
Trotsky: Manusia Tidak Hidup Dari Politik Saja (1923)
Tan Malaka: Pandangan dan Langkah Partai Rakyat (1948)
Tan Malaka: Getrennt Marschieren Vereint Schlagen (Berpisah Kita Berjuang, Bersama Kita Memukul) (1948)
D.N. Aidit: Indonesian Society and the Indonesian Revolution (1957)
Tan Malaka: Keterangan Ringkas Tentang Program Maksimum (1948)
D.N. Aidit: Daring, Daring, Once Again Daring (1963)
D.N. Aidit: The Birth and Growth of the Indonesian Communist Party (1956)
[Thanks toT.S. and our Basahra Indonesian Volunteers]
1 October 2011: Added to the French Boris Souvarine Archive:
Légalité et illégalité [1920]
[Thanks to the French Language Volunteers]
1 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Revista Divulgação Marxista, ano I, nº 6, 1946,
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
1 October 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Carta a Florence Kelley-Wischnewetzky, 1886.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]