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Who We Are
2 June, 2012: We start an archive for the works of Iranian communist Mansoor Hekmat in the Spanish section, with:
Un mundo mejor: Programa del Partido Comunista Obrero (1994)
29 May 2012: Added to the French AmÃ(c)dÃ(c)e Dunois archive :
UnitÃ(c) malfaisante et scission salutaire [1921]
Added to the French Chicherin archive :
La situation internationale de la Russie soviÃ(c)tiste [1921]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
29 May 2012: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 31 new editorials by De Leon for the month of July 1911:
1911, July 1 – The Friar Lands and the Sugar Trust
1911, July 2 – An Enemy of Society
1911, July 3 – Under the Auto's Tail
1911, July 4 – Berger's Miss No. 10
1911, July 5 – We Are Coming, Father Abraham!
1911, July 6 – Father Gassoniana (15)
1911, July 7 – A Colonel's Half-Truths
1911, July 8 – Lo, a New Party
1911, July 9 – Did Marx Err?
1911, July 10 – Political Romanist Abrograting Civic Rights
1911, July 11 – Constitutional Amendments
1911, July 12 – Berger's Miss No. 11
1911, July 13 – The Prospect of Mob-Rule
1911, July 14 – Father Gassoniana (16)
1911, July 15 – The Law! The Law!! The Law!!!
1911, July 16 – Berger's Miss No. 12
1911, July 17 – The Cue to Take
1911, July 18 – Berger's Miss No. 13
1911, July 19 – Death Benefits
1911, July 20 – Profits on Woollens, for Instance
1911, July 21 – Father Gassoniana (17)
1911, July 22 – Berger's Miss No. 14
1911, July 23 – "The Consumers"
1911, July 24 – That Sixth Question
1911, July 25 – Berger's Miss No. 15
1911, July 26 – Father Gassoniana (18)
1911, July 27 – Bryan's Equestrianism
1911, July 28 – A Hold Up!
1911, July 29 – Berger's Miss No. 16
1911, July 30 – No Doubt!
1911, July 31 – Method in Idiocy
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
29 May 2012: Added to the Italian Language MIA section Archivio storico dell'URSS:
La storia segreta dei crimini di Stali , Orlov, 1953
[Thanks to Mario Erre]
28 May 2012: Added to the Early American Marxism part of the MIA’s History Section are the following 8 documents regarding the Socialist Party activity in 1919.
“A Basis for Discussion: Letter to Editor of the New York Call, signed by David P. Berenberg et al., March 23, 1919.” [NEW EDITION] With an organized Left Wing Section beginning to organize itself in the Socialist Party, a rather eclectic assemblage of 13 of the party’s leading lights attempted to stave off factionalism and a potential split by moving the party to the left in response to grassroots demands.
“Minutes of the Central Committee of the Socialist Party of New York County, Meeting of March 25, 1919” Minutes of a single meeting of the governing body of Local New York, Socialist Party. Resolutions honoring the Hungarian Soviet revolution and greeting and promising support of Soviet Russia’s new representative to the United States Ludwig C.A.K. Martens are passed.
“Assembly Votes to Spend $50,000 on Bolshevism Hunt: Socialists Ridicule Bill—Probe Sleeping Sickness, and Start with Legislature
Is Claessens’ Amendment — Save Money, We’ll Tell You, Says Solomon.” (NY Call) [March. 26, 1919] Unsigned news story in the Socialist New York Call marking the establishment of the Lusk Committee by the state legislature on March 26, 1919.
“Letter to the Editor of the New York Call by Evans Clark in New York City, March 27, 1919.” With his name used as a political football by adherents of the Regular and Left Wing factions of the Socialist Party in the party press, research director for the Socialist members of the New York State Assembly Evans Clark wrote this letter to the New York Call to clarify his views.
“Deportation — Where?” by John Reed [March 30, 1919] Deportation is “the most modern and most fashionable method employed by tyrants to get rid of their rebellious subjects,” John Reed declares in this article in the Sunday magazine section of the Socialist Party’s New York Call.
“Soviet Consul Again Greeted by Big Crowds: Martens Asserts that Soviet Russia is Now Supported by All Parties.” (NY Call) [event of March 31, 1919] Short news account of the second public appearance in New York City by Ludwig Martens, newly appointed Soviet Consul to the United States. Speaking before an enthusiastic overflow crowd, Martens spoke in Russian, and asserted that Right Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks had come over to support the Soviet government in the face of foreign intervention, owing to the “great dangers it involves to all liberty in Russia.”
“Service Men in Second Raid on People’s House: People Disperse Mob—Lee Blames Hyland for Trouble—Scab Herders in Crowd.” (NY Call) [event of April 7, 1919] Organized mob violence by returned American soldiers was not just a phenomenon of small towns and isolated places, this article from the New York Call indicates—it was used as a tool even in the urban mecca of New York City.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport of the Early American Marxism archive]
28 May 2012: Added to the Publication section of the USA History Archive is the complete run of :
The Workers Council a short run communist journal published in 1921.
[Thanks to the Riazanov Library Project]
27 May, 2012: Added to the Spanish Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Carta a A. V.
Lunacharski (1920)
Carta a M. A. Bonch-Bruievich
(1920)
Carta a V. V, Adoratski
(1920)
Carta a K. A. Timiriazev
(1920)
Al Comisario del Pueblo para los Correos y Telégrafos
(1921)
Al presidium del Soviet de
diputados de Petrogrado (1921)
Medidas para asegurar el trabajo científico del académico I. P. Pavlov y sus
colaboradores (1921)
Carta a J. Stalin sobre el desarrollo de la radiotecnia
(1922)
Carta a J. Stalin para los miembros del Buró Político del Comité Central del
PCR(b) sobre el desarrollo de la radiotecnia (1922)
A los obreros y empleados de la central eléctrica del Estado "Elektro-Pieredacha"
(1922)
[Thanks to Julio Rodríguez for the transcription and to Juan Fajardo for the html coding]
27 May 2012: Added to the Comintern History Section:
Appeal to Workers and Sailors, The Group of English Speaking Communists in Russia, 1919
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
27 May 2012: 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:
Progressive Labor Party Trade Union Program [1965]
A Program for Action: Worker-Student Alliance by Jeff Gordon [1967]
SDS: An Analysis by Jeff Gordon [1968]
The 7th Comintern Congress and The United front Against Fascism [1971]
Challenge Editorial: Workers Will Smash Nixon-Mao/Chou Axis [1971]
The following documents have been added to the “Revolutionary Union – Revolutionary Communist Party” section:
Forward to the Party! Struggle for the Party! Introduction [n.d.]
Build the Revolutionary Workers Movement! [n.d.]
Class Stand Key In Boston Busing Struggle [n.d.]
Summing Up A Defeated Wildcat [n.d]
Stand For and With the Workers – In Their Day to Day Struggles And In Making Revolution [n.d.]
Summing Up South African Coal Struggle [n.d.]
[Six articles] On Propaganda and Culture [n.d.]
In the section for Norway:
The following documents have been added to the “Workers’ Communist Party of Norway (M-L)” section:
Victory at Tyssedal [1984]
Norway: Building the Broad Front [1989]
The following documents have been added to the “Serve the People – Communist League of Norway”
Short presentation of Serve the People – Communist League of Norway [n.d.]
Greeting to the ICOR Foundation Conference [2010]
In the section for Belgium:
The following document has been added to the “Workers’ Party of Belgium” section:
Obituary: Ludo Martens (1946-2011) [2011]
In the section for Australia:
The following document has been added to the “Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
The Great Cause of Australian Independence by E.F. Hill [1977]
In the section for the United Kingdom:
The following document has been added to the “Action Centre for Marxist-Leninist Unity – Marxist-Leninist Organization of Britain” section:
Memorandum To Comrades VS & JM (India) From the Newly Formed Communist League Following the Expulsion of Mike Baker & the Split in the Then Marxist-Leninist Organisation of Britain [late 1976-early 1977]
The following document has been added to the “General Background Materials” section of “The Second Wave: the Radical Youth Wants a Party: The Late 1960s”
Second Wave Anti-Revisionism in the UK by Sam Richards [2012] (original contribution to EROL)
In the section for Canada:
A link to an external website with the article “Red Power and Socialist Study 1967-1975” by Ray Bobb has been added to the “General Background Materials” section for “The Second Wave of Anti-Revisionism, 1971-1983”
The following document has been added to the “Canadian Party of Labour” section:
Canadian Worker Editorial: Mao Betrays Revolution [1971]
The following document has been added to the “Conferences of Canadian Marxist-Leninist” section:
In Struggle’s 3rd conference clear evidence of opportunist betrayal by the Canadian Communist League (M-L) [1977]
The following documents have been added to the “Canadian Communist League (M-L) – Workers Communist Party (M-L)” section:
Self-Criticism of Regina Marxist-Leninist Collective on its Participation in Saskatchewan Waffle [1977]
Regina Marxist-Leninist Collective Rallies to the League [1977]
Black Study Group Rallies to the League [1977]
In Struggle Slipping Ever Faster into Right Opportunism [1977]
In Struggle Now Turns to Direct Attacks on Socialist China [1977]
In Struggle Has Sunk Completely into Revisionism! [1977]
The following documents have been added to the “Alive Magazine” section:
Writers and Artists Have Duty to Serve in the Worldwide Struggle Against Imperialism [1975]
Oppose Monopoly Capitalist Terrorism Against Individuals and Whole Segments of Society [1975]
Letter: Nothing Like Alive in England [1975]
The Progressive Cultural Club of the University of Guelph Sets a Good Example for Cultural Workers [1975]
The Shoe by John Burnley [1975]
The Execution of the Infant Mary T. Graham [1975]
Let Us Remember by Pat McLellan [1976]
Unravelling The Web [1976]
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
26 May, 2012: We start an archive in the Spanish section for the works of classical economist Adam Smith, with his master work:
Investigaciòn de la naturaleza y causas de la riqueza de las naciones (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776)
26 May 2012: Added to the Fascism and how to fight it Subject Section:
A Visit With Trotsky, Gérard Rosenthal, Avocat de Trotsky
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
25 May 2012: Added to the French Marx and Engels archive :
Lettre à F. Mehring [1893]
Lettre à N. Danielson [1893]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
24 May 2012: Added to the French Marx and Engels archive :
Lettre circulaire à A. Bebel, W. Liebknecht, W. Bracke et autres [1879]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
23 May, 2012: Added to the Spanish Archivo V. I. Lenin, a coleccion of speeches given in relation to anniversaries of the October Revolution:
Las tareas principales
de nuestros dias (1918)
Discurso sobre el
aniversario de la Revolucion pronunciado ante el VI Congreso Extraordinario de
los Soviets de Toda Rusia de Diputados Obreros, Campesinos, Cosacos y Soldados
Rojos (1918)
Qué es el Poder
soviético? (1919)
El poder sovietico
y la posicion de la mujer (1919)
Dos años de poder
soviético (1919)
Discurso en la
reunión conjunta del CEC de Toda Rusia, del Soviet de Diputados Obreros y
Soldados de Moscú, del Consejo de Toda Rusia y de los comités de fabrica,
consagrada al segundo aniversario de la Revolución de Octubre (1919)
Discurso en la
Sesion Solemne del Pleno del Soviet de Diputados Obreros, Campesinos y del
Ejercito Rojo de Moscu, el comite del PC(b)R de Moscú y el Consejo de
Sindicatos de Moscu, dedicada al tercer aniversario de la Revolución de
Octubre (920)
Con motivo del cuarto
aniversario de la Revolución de Octubre (1921)
Acerca de la
significacion del oro ahora y despues de la victoria completa del socialismo
(1921)
Cinco años de la
Revolución Rusa y perspectivas de la revolución mundial (1922)
Discurso
pronunciado en el Pleno del Soviet de Moscú (1922)
[Thanks to Julio Rodríguez for gathering and digitizing these, and to Juan Fajardo for the HTML]
22 May 2012: Added to the French Jean JaurÃ(r)s archive :
Premier discours au congrÃ(r)s socialiste international d'Amsterdam [1904]
DeuxiÃ(r)me discours au congrÃ(r)s socialiste international d'Amsterdam [1904]
Added to
the French Karl Marx archive :
Lettre à F. Bolte [1871]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
22 May 2012: Added to the Urdu Language Section is one document by Einstein in both PDF and INP format:
Why Socialism? PDF,
INP
[Thanks to the Urdu Language Volunteers]
21 May 2012: Added to the Chinese Section of the MIA:
The First Ten Years of American Communism by James P. Cannon, a founder of Communist Party of America.
[Thanks to the Chinese Langauge Volunteer Team in the People's Republic of China]
21 May 2012: Added to the Early American Marxism part of the MIA’s History Section are the following 15 documents dealing with C.E.Ruthenberg, a founder of the Communist Party.
“Ruthenberg Dead! Farewell Comrade Ruthenberg; Farewell Our Leader,” by Jay Lovestone [March 15, 1927];An exercise in hagiography and succession politics by the chief lieutenant of recently deceased Workers (Communist) Party leader C.E. Ruthenberg.
“Letter to Oakley C. Johnson in NYC from Alfred Wagenknecht in Chicago, March 18, 1940.” Letter from the former Executive Secretary of the Communist Labor Party about his CPA counterpart, written at the request of Oakley C. Johnson, who was engaged in research for a biography of C.E. Ruthenberg.
“Letter to Oakley C. Johnson in NYC from Alfred Wagenknecht in Chicago, April 5, 1940.” Second preparatory communication between former CLP Executive Secretary and Ruthenberg biographer Oakley C. Johnson. Wagenknecht deals with Socialist leader Gene Debs’s visit to the Canton workhouse on June 16, 1918, immediately prior to his famous “Canton Speech,” made as a keynote to the state convention of the Socialist Party of Ohio. Content is esoteric.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Israel Amter: Notes from an Interview Conducted by Oakley C. Johnson and Ann Rivington, 1940.” This short memoir, previously an unpublished mass of handwritten scrawl, adds substantially to the store of esoteric detail about the seminal August 1922 raid upon the secret convention of the Communist Party of America at Bridgman, Michigan.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by J.J. Ballam. Johnson and Ann Rivington, June 3, 1940.” Ballam relates details of Lenin’s famous “Letter to American Workers,” which he says was delivered to him, addressed to Boston’s Latvian Branch No. 1 — the nexus of the proto-Communist movement in America, with which the non-Latvian Ballam was associated. “Pages were lost,” Ballam notes.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Anna Damon.1940.” Short memoir of the C.E. Ruthenberg collected from his party comrade and common-law wife at the time of the Communist leader’s death.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Charles Dirba, 1940.” Brief memoir of C.E. Ruthenberg collected by Oakley C. Johnson in 1940 for a biography which was finally published only in 1957. Dirba, a former assistant to Ruthenberg, served as the Executive Secretary of the parallel organization calling itself the Central Caucus during the last part of 1921, remaining at that post until January 1922.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Bill Dunne, 1940.” This interview with William F. Dunne was collected for a biography of C.E. Ruthenberg. Dunne, a factional opponent of Ruthenberg, makes no pretense of having been an acolyte — Ruthenberg is called “uninspired” and “monstrously vain.” “He was no scholar, he couldn’t write — but he was a gentleman. His relations with the Party were always very formal.... He would become personally offended if he didn’t get the deference which he expected,” Dunne recalls.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by M. Golos, 1940.” Memoir of C.E. Ruthenberg by CPA Russian Federationist M. Golos — not to be confused with Jacob “Red” Golos of Soviet espionage fame.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Rachele Ragozin, 1940.” Memoir of C.E. Ruthenberg by his girlfriend of the 1920-1922 period, Rachele Ragozin. Ragozin provides outstanding esoteric detail about the first Bridgman Convention, held in 1920, at which she first met and fell in love with the Communist Party leader.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Alfred Wagenknecht, 1940.” This material was gathered for a biography of C.E. Ruthenberg in 1940, even though the book was published by International Publishers only in 1957.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by William W. Weinstone, 1940.” Short memoir of the Executive Secretary of the Workers Party of America by a man who was for a time his assistant.
“Memories of C.E. Ruthenberg by Morris Wolf, 1940.” Unflattering portrait of C.E. Ruthenberg by his attorney during his 1918 trial for undermining the American draft effort. Wolf — a leader of the Socialist Party of Ohio even before Ruthenberg joined — characterizes Ruthenberg as consumed by a strong messianic complex.
“Letter to Oakley C. Johnson and Ann Rivington in New York City from Rose Ruthenberg in Lakewood, Ohio, May 15, 1944.” [excerpt]Note from the first wife of C.E. Ruthenberg to his biographers. Mrs.Ruthenberg provides detail about her situation during the 1918 incarceration of her husband, during which she was able to make ends meet due to the Socialist Party of Ohio continuing to pay C.E.’s salary of $30 per week.
“Letter to Oakley C. Johnson in NYC from S.J. Rutgers in Amersfoort, Holland, April 21, 1958.” Congratulatory message from revolutionary socialist pioneer and Dutch Communist S.J. Rutgers to Oakley C. Johnson upon the publication of his biography of C.E. Ruthenberg.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport of the Early American Marxism archive]
21 May 2012: Added to the
Fascism and how to fight it Subject Section:
Fascism in Germany: How Hitler Destroyed the World's Most Powerful Labour Movement, Robin Blick 1975 (800 pp)
[Thanks to Paul Flewers and Ted Crawford]
20 May, 2012: Added to the Spanish-language Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Una crítica no
crítica (1890)
[Thanks to Julio Rodríguez and Juan Fajardo]
16 May 2012: Added to the Swedish Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
30 Questions and Answers on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1960)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
15 May 2012: Added to the U.S.A. History publications section is 1919-1920 short run of The Worker published by the very early Communist Party in the United States out of Boston, Ma.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport of the Early American Marxism archive, Marty Goodman of the Riazanov Project and David Walters from the Holt Labor Library]
14 May 2012: Added to the George Breitman Internet Archive are two articles from 2 1949 issues of The Militant:
Deutscher’s Biography of Stalin
Deutscher’s False View of Stalinism
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
14 May 2012: Added to the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line:
In the section for the United States:
The following document has been added to the “Split in The Revolutionary Communist Party – Formation of the Revolutionary Workers’ Headquarters” section:
On the Mensheviks’ Views of Crisis: “Capitalism Works After All” by R. Lotta [1978]
In the section for Norway:
A new section has been created for “ The Marxist-Leninist Group of Norway “Revolusjon” (Revolution).” The following documents have been added to this section:
About “Revolusjon!” [2005]
Political platform of the Marxist-Leninist Group of Norway “Revolusjon” (Revolution) [2000]
A central international organism [2001]
The fatal 20th congress of the CPSU by J. R. Steinholt [2006]
The true face of bourgeois democracy and its agent, social democracy [2006]
A new section has been created for “Communist Platform.” The following documents have been added to this section:
Norwegian communists to reorganize [2007]
First annual assembly of Communist Platform (Marxist-Leninist) convened [2008]
Report to the First Annual Assembly of Communist Platform (KPml), February 2008 [2008]
Communist Platform – Manifesto [2008]
The following documents have been added to the “Workers’ Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
Letter from the AKP (ML) to the Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania [1978]
Interview with Norway’s Pal Steigan [1978]
A Sad and Dangerous Situation: 5 Comments on the ’Zeri i Popullit’ Editorial, “Imperialists, Hands Off Vietnam” [1978]
In the section for the United Kingdom:
The following document has been added to “Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
Grasp Firmly the Mass Line in Base-Building [1977]
The following section has been added to the “Revolutionary Communist League of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
The Theory and Practice of Mao [1986]
The following document has been added to the “Communist Party of England (M-L) – Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (M-L)” section:
Report of Delegation of Central Committee of RCPB (ML) to North Korea: North Korea Forges Ahead on its Chosen Path [1997]
In the section for Australia:
The following documents have been added to the “Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
Imperialism in Australia The Menace of Soviet Social-Imperialism by E.F. Hill [1975]
Draft General Programme Adopted at the 7th National Congress [1989]
In the section for Canada:
The section for the “Progressive Workers Movement” contains a link to an online edition of the book “A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985” by Bryan Palmer.
The following documents have been added to the “Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)” section:
Combat This Growing Fascism [1970]
Herbert Marcuse: The Ideologue as Paid Agent of U.S. Imperialism by Eric Scheper [1970]
Fascist Ideology of the Self: Mailer, Rubin and Hoffman by Armand Barotti [1970]
Eldridge Cleaver the Counter-Revolutionary by Mary Ellen Brooks [1970]
Literature for an Independent Canada by J. Wilson Clark [1970]
Literature & Ideology Index 1969-1973
The following documents have been added to the “Alive Magazine” section:
Consolidation of Alive Magazine and Literature & Ideology Will Serve to Concentrate Struggle in the Cultural Superstructure [1975]
Revolutionary Culture is a Practical Struggle [1975]
CLM’s National Chauvinist Body Dead. Let’s Bury the Opportunist Spirit! [1976]
Dealing With the Question: Should We Retract Our Characterization of Milton Acorn [1976]
The One That Got Away by John Burnley [1976]
Six of One, Half a Dozen of Some Other by John Burnley [1976]
The following documents have been added to the “Canadian Communist League (M-L) – Workers Communist Party (M-L)” section:
In Struggle Embarks on Another Dead-End Path [1977]
A Great Ally of Reformists and the Best Defender of Economism [1977]
May First Collective, An Opportunist Group [1977]
Communist Work Developing in Acadia [1977]
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
13 May 2012: Added to the Early American Marxism are the following 16 documents, mirrored from the Marxist History web site. They deal mostly with the first few years of the U.S. Communist movement, 1919-1922:
“Circular Letter to All Ohio Locals and Branches from Alfred Wagenknecht, Executive Secretary, Communist Labor Party.” [circa Sept. 10, 1919] The failure of the two Communist conventions in Chicago to unite created an intense and bitter political situation — referred to in this circular letter by top CLP leader Alfred Wagenknecht as an “emergency.”
“Letter to Edward S. Smith in Warren, OH from C.E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, Communist Party of America in Chicago, Sept. 30, 1919.” Short note from Executive Secretary C.E. Ruthenberg to an activist in Warren, Ohio which notes the overwhelming decision of a delegated convention of Local Cuyahoga County [Cleveland] to affiliate with the Communist Party of America over the Communist Labor Party, by a vote of 178 to 3.
“Circular Letter to CPA Members from Charles Dirba, Acting Executive Secretary over the Signature of C.E. Ruthenberg, Dec. 31, 1919.” With the coordinated mass dragnet remembered as the “Palmer Raids” imminent, the Bureau of Investigation opened by raiding the Chicago headquarters of the Communist Party of America and seizing its mailing list.
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in New York from C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago, June 24, 1920.” In the middle of April 1920, the 37-year old C.E. Ruthenberg was despondent with the unending factional war in the Communist Party of America. Yet duty called, the April 1920 split of his faction from the CPA gave way to a May 1920 unity convention which established the United Communist Party.
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in New York from C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago, June 26, 1920.” [excerpt] In this follow-up to the letter of June 24, the love-smitten C.E. Ruthenberg offers party employment to his girlfriend, offering her work as a special “messenger” carrying out underground missions for UCP Technical Director L.E. Katterfeld.
“The Great Conspiracy.” (leaflet of the National Defense Committee) [c. June 28, 1920] Text of a rare four page leaflet of the National Defense Committee, a defense organization closely linked to the United Communist Party initially established circa June 1920 for the joint legal defense of 127 defendants indicted in Illinois for violation of state “criminal syndicalism” laws for having participated in the founding conventions of the Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party of America.
“Open Letter from the United Communist Party to the Executive Committee of the Third International on Unity.” [circa Nov. 20, 1920] This is an enormously long letter to ECCI outlining the United Communist Party’s official position on unification with their rivals of the Communist Party of America, set to type as a newspaper broadsheet for domestic informational purposes. The leadership of the CPA are called “unprincipled characters” who “have manifested their love for, and understanding of Communism solely by a struggle for control.” The document offers perhaps the most detailed critique extant of the CPA’s “federation of federations” structure.
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in Brooklyn from C.E. Ruthenberg at Sing Sing Penitentiary, Ossining, NY, Dec. 29 1920.” [excerpt] Imprisoned United Communist Party editor C.E. Ruthenberg recounts the recharging of his intellectual batteries for his girlfriend and muse, Rachele Ragozin.
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in Brooklyn from C.E. Ruthenberg at Sing Sing Penitentiary, Ossining, NY, July 17, 1921.” [excerpt] C.E. Ruthenberg’s prison writings will never be mistaken for those of Antonio Gramsci. Hundreds of pages of correspondence flowed back and forth between he and his beloved girlfriend, Rachele Ragozin, who visited him weekly. Both were smitten and their voluminous communications (limited in length and frequency by prison regulations) were almost eerily apolitical.
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in Brooklyn from C.E. Ruthenberg in St. Joseph, MI, August 29, 1922.” Freed on bail in April 1922 after more than 18 months behind bars, Workers Party of American Executive Secretary would remain free barely more than four more months before he was once again embroiled in the legal system — this time facing allegations of having violated the Michigan state “Criminal Syndicalism” law for having attended the convention of the underground Communist Party of America held at Bridgman, Michigan.
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in Brooklyn from C.E. Ruthenberg in St. Joseph, MI, Sept. 15-16, 1922.” Ruthenberg mentions the establishment of a new mass organization formed around the issue of legal defense of the Bridgman defendants, the Labor Defense Council, which he says includes participants from the Socialist, Workers, Farmer-Labor, and Proletarian Parties, as well as the Communists’ Trade Union Educational League and various unions. A national office is to be established September 18, Ruthenberg notes, adding: “I think it will be a big thing.”
“Letter to Rachele Ragozin in Brooklyn from C.E. Ruthenberg in Boston, Sept. 24, 1922.” This mundane correspondence between C.E. Ruthenberg and his girlfriend Rachele Ragozin is actually quite illuminating as a demonstration of the qualities that made him an effective Executive Secretary throughout his career in the Communist movement — with even his factional opponents attesting to his competence and ability and willing to leave him in place when they had control of the apparatus.
“The Menace of ’Criminal Syndicalism’: War Time Repression by the Federal Government is Continued Through the States.” [c. Dec. 1923] Full text of an extremely rare leaflet of the Labor Defense Council — a mass organization established by the Communist Party of America to provide funds for bail and legal defense of those embroiled in the August 1922 raid of Justice Department and Michigan law enforcement officials upon the secret convention of the CPA.
Ruthenberg, Red Radical Leader, Dies: Cleveland Bookkeeper in Two Famous Trials Here for Communist and Anti-War Activities.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). [March 3, 1927] Hatchet job obituary from the main Cleveland daily newspaper marking the sudden death of C.E. Ruthenberg at age 44. Ruthenberg is said to have died “shattered and disillusioned” — “He did not live to see the revolution, so his life’s work went for naught.”
“C.E. Ruthenberg,” by William Z. Foster [April 1927] On March 2, 1927, 44-year old General Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party C.E. Ruthenberg succumbed to a bacterial infection suffered in the aftermath of an appendectomy, giving the America Communist movement a new icon for which to burn a candle.
“Ruthenberg, the Fighter: The Passing of an American Pioneer,” by James P. Cannon [April 1927] Eulogy of the recently deceased leader of the Workers (Communist) Party C.E. Ruthenberg by a factional foe, published in the monthly magazine of International Labor Defense. Cannon recalls Ruthenberg’s personal interest in the general movement for workers’ legal defense and emphasizes his place as a founder of the ILD.
[Thanks to Marxist History web site and Tim Davenport]
13 May 2012: Added to the Chinese Lanugage MIA:
Karl Marx: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Karl Marx: The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
Frederick Engels: The Peasant War in Germany
Frederick Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Frederick Engels: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Frederick Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England
Georg Lukács: History and Class Consciousness is a 1923 book
Pierre Broué: The German Revolution 1917-1923
James P. Cannon: Intellectuals and Revolution
Bertell Ollman, James Lawler, Hillel Ticktin, David Schweickart: Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists
[Thanks to the Chinese language volunteers team]
13 May 2012: Added to the Jame P. Cannon Internet Archive:
Ruthenberg, the Fighter: The Passing of an American Pioneer [1927], [Thanks to Early American Marxism archive at marxisthistory.org]
12 May 2012: Added to the Onorato Damen Archive:
The Russia we Love and Defend, 1943
Bourgeois Violence and Proletarian Defence, 1946
[Thanks to Robert S.]
11 May 2012: Added to the French Leó Frankel archive :
Karl Marx, penseur et agitateur [1873]
Added to the French Karl Marx archive :
Lettre à Annenkov [1846]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
11 May 2012: Added to the Onorato Damen Archive:
Obituary of Amadeo Bordiga, 1970
[Thanks to Robert S.]
10 May 2012: Added to the French Karl Marx archive :
RÃ(c)vÃ(c)lations sur le procÃ(r)s des communistes de Cologne [1852]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
9 May 2012: Added to the
Dora Montefiore Archive:
The Girl Graduate, July 1905
A hint to women who like outdoor life, July 1905
Co-operative women in Congress, July 1905
The voice of the working women, July 1905
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
9 May 2012: Several new additions have been added to the U.S.A. History publication section:
The Washington Socialist, journal of the Everett, Wa. Local of the Socialist Party of America, 1914-1915
Red Cartoons, book collection of cartoons from the The Daily Worker, newspaper of the Communist Party of America (1929)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and David Walters]
8 May 2012: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:
Unions and councils * (L'Ordine Nuovo, 11 October 1919)
[Thanks to Michael Carley]
6 May 2012: Added to the U.S.A. History publication section are the 10 issues of New York Communist edited by John Reed. One of about 7 publications of the same name published by Left Wing Socialist Party of America and early Communist Party. There were more than half a dozen publications known as The Communist during the first 10 years of the American Communist movement, beginning with John Reed's short-lived New York Communist which launched in April 1919. The second, third, and fourth of these publications follow — all closely interrelated.
[Thanks to David Walters and Marty Goodman]
6 May 2012: Added to the U.S.A. History publication section were the remaining 3 issues of International Socialist Review:
1901 – 1902, Volume 2
1910 – 1911, Volume 11
1911 – 1912, Volume 12
[Thanks to David Walters and Marty Goodman]
6 May 2012: Added to the Encyclopedia of the Trotskyism On-Line’s joint initiative with the Riazinov Library, the Left Opposition Digitization Project are the following publications, complete runs, of journals associated with the Spartacist League/International Communist League:
Workers Vanguard [1973 – 1990]
Women and Revolution [1971 – 1996]
Young Spartacus [1973 – 1986]
All presented in high resolution PDFs.
[Thanks to Marty Goodman of the Riazinov Project]
5 May 2012: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:
The development of the revolution, (L'Ordine Nuovo, 13 September 1919)
[Thanks to Michael Carley]
5 May 2012: Added to the Swedish Pierre Frank Archive:
The Cronstadt Uprising 1921, Pierre Frank, 1976
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
5 May 2012: Added to the Jean Jaures Archive:
The 9 Thermidor, 1901
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
3 May, 2012: Another text is added to the Spanish-language Ernest Mandel archive:
El
fascismo (1969)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]