January 2013
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Who We Are
31 January 2013: Added to the James P. Cannon Archive:
Assembling the Future Staff (1931)
Bolshevik Organization (1931)
Strike “Strategy” (1931)
The Struggle Against “Left” Reformism (1931)
What Is Socialism? (1931)
The Capitalist Offensive (1931)
Even A Browder Can Learn (1931)
Our Revolution (1931)
Reviving The Appeal to Reason (1931)
Saving Germany From Whom? (1931)
Stalinism and the German Crisis (1931)
They Overlooked the German Situation (1931)
The Union Square Meeting (1931)
Again the Union Square Meeting (1931)
Bernard Shaw on Russia (1931)
Debating the Dole (1931)
Field Organizers of the Opposition (1931)
Free Speech and the Labor Movement (1931)
Losovsky Unloads the Blame ... (1931)
Silk Revolt Growing (1931)
They Say It With Flowers (1931)
Wage Cuts and Strikes (1931)
A Welcome Reversal (1931)
What Is a Renegade? (1931)
Consolidate the Weekly! (1931)
The Return of Gerry Allard (1931)
Where Is the British Communist Party? (1931)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
31 January 2013: Added to the Chen Duxiu Archive:
The Unification of the Chinese Opposition (1931)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
31 January 2013: Added to the Hal Draper Archive:
The Cannonites and Defense of the Soviet Union – From Shamefacedness to Solid Brass (1941) (as Paul Temple)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
31 January 2013: Added to the C.L.R. James Archive:
From Jobs to the Struggle for Socialism (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
We Must Strike a Mighty Blow at Jim-Crow Now (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
All Out July 1 for the March on Washington (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
FDR’s Latest Trick Is So Old It’s Moth-Eaten (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
Beware of Those Pushing You Into the War (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
Negroes, We Can Depend Only on Ourselves! (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
Negro Protest Runs Too Deep to Be Squashed (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
We Must Force the Job Issue by Mass Action (1941) (as J.R. Johnson)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
31 January 2013: Added to the Andrés Nin Archive:
Andres Nin Calls for the Spanish Opposition Press (1931)
Mistakes of Comrade Maurin (1931)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
31 January 2013: Added to the Max Shachtman Archive:
America’s “Pacifism” in Europe and ... Litvinov’s (1931)
Stanley Disappoints Lovestone (1931)
Combine the Miners’ Struggles into a United Front! (1931)
Manuilsky Makes an Unintentional Admission (1931)
Paterson on Strike (1931)
The Revolver at the Head of France – The Hoover Reparations-Debts Scheme (1931)
Stalin’s “New Economic Policy” (1931)
The End of the Labor Cabinet (1931)
Mining and Textile Strikes in Danger (1931)
Stalin in 1921 (1931)
The Anonymous Factional Struggle in the Party (1931)
Credits for Soviet Union (1931)
The I.L.D. “Acts” on Mooney (1931)
Stop Making a Faction Football Out of the Mooney Case! (1931)
The War Today Is What It Was Yesterday – Imperialist! (1941)
“Mixed Wars” and the War Today (1941)
The Organizer of Victory and the Organizer of Defeat (1941)
The Cannonites and Iran – Silence Is Golden (1941)
On Some Aspects of the Russian Question (1941)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
31 January 2013: Added to the Leon Trotsky Archive:
Fragments of Truth From Under the Garbage of Slander (1931)
The Strangled Revolution (1931) (book review of Malraux’s Les Conquerants)
A New Slander Against D.B. Riazanov (1931)
Ten Commandments of the Spanish Communist (1931)
Trotsky Greets Weekly Militant (1931)
Trotsky’s Letter to the Pravda (1931)
Result of Spanish Elections (1931)
A Letter About the Spanish Revolution (1931)
A New Zig-zag and the New Dangers (1931)
A Slander! Blackguards and Assistants (1931)
Against National Communism! (1931) (alternative translation)
[Thanks to Marty Goodman and the Riazanov Library]
30 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Kalinin Archive:
Algumas Palavras Sobre a Propaganda e a Agitação, 1944.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
29 January 2013: We have added several statements from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to the Spanish Section's subject archive on Revolution in Nepal:
Comunicado de prensa sobre la masacre de la familia real de Nepal (2001)
Comunicado de prensa con motivo de la exitosa conclusión de la Sesión Plenaria del Comité Central (2004)
Comunicado de prensa anunciando campaña de acción de masas, resistencia militar, y huelga nacional (2005)
Convocatoria al paro nacional del 5 al 11 de febrero de 2006 (2005)
Comunicado de prensa sobre el cese al fuego (2006)
Por qué terminó el cese el fuego? (2006)
Comunicado de Prensa en relación a la protesta pacífica convocada para el 20 de enero en Katmandú (2006)
29 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Martens Archive:
À laia de introdução A esperança a Leste? from the book A URSS e a Contra-Revolução de Veludo.
[Thanks to Para a História do Socialismo and Fernando Araújo]
28 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Mao Zedong Archive:
Apresentação de O Operário Chinês, 1940
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
27 January 2013:Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Prefácios and Nota Preliminar of Miséria da Filosofia, 1847.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
26 January 2013: Added to the MIA's Chinese Section:
The History of German
Social Democracy by Franz Mehring
GARANTIEN DER
HARMONIE UND FREIHEIT by Wilhelm Weitling
A People's History
or England by A. L. Morton
History & Class
Consciousness by Georg Lukács
and a set of "Get Political"
slideshows in the Students Section
24 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
Do artigo: A Greve Política e a Luta de Rua em Moscou, 1905
[Thanks to Fernando Araujo]
24 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese August Thalheimer Archive:
Advertência aos Revolucionários, 1937
[Thanks to Centro de Estudos Victor Meyer, Sérgio Antão Paiva and Fernando Araújo]
23 January 2013: Added to the archive of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista/Workers Party of Marxist Unification a section of the Spanish Revolution History Archive is the complete run of the POUM’s Enlish Language publication edited in Barcelona by American revolutionary socialists Lois and Charles Orr: The Spanish Revolution. The POUM was a ”dissident” revolutionary communist party based in Catalonia and fought for workers revolution as well as against the Fascist army of Francisco Franco.
[Thanks to Marty Goodman of the Riazanov Library Project and D. Walters from the Holt Labor Library]
23 January 2013: Added to the Workers Age archive are the full years for 1934 & 1935. Workers Age was the organ of the Communist Party, USA (Opposition), a group lead at various times by Ben Gitlow and Jay Lovestone. Affiliated to the so-called "International Right Opposition" they aligned politically with old Bolshevik N. Bukharin in his fight with Joseph Stalin over the direction of the U.S.S.R.
[Thanks to Marty Goodman of the Riazanov Library Project and D. Walters from the Holt Labor Library]
23 January 2013: Added to the French Amédée Dunois archive :
L'horreur et la pitié au service de la Contre-Révolution [1922]
[Thanks to CERMTRI and the French language volunteers]
23 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Ruy Mauro Marini Archive:
Prólogo à A Revolução Cubana uma Reinterpretação, 1974
[Thanks to Centro de Estudos Victor Meyer, Diego Grossi and Fernando Araújo]
22 January 2013: Added to the French Leo Matthias archive :
Le théâtre en Russie soviétique [1921]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
22 January 2011: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Begun add Miséria da Filosofia, with: Introdução, 1847.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
20 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Mao Zedong Archive:
Contra as Atividades Capitulacionistas, 1939
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
20 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Leontiev Archive:
A Teoria Leninista do Imperialismo Desenvolvida pelo Camarada Stálin
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
19 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Érico Sachs Archive:
Qual é a Herança da Revolução Russa, 1981
[Thanks to Centro de Estudos Victor Myer, Pery Falcón and Fernando Araújo]
19 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Martens Archive:
Prefácio from the book A URSS e a Contra-Revolução de Veludo.
[Thanks to Para a História do Socialismo and Fernando Araújo]
18 January 2013: Added to the Surrealism Archive:
On the Proper Use of Dead Warriors, Paul Eluard 1926
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
18 January 2013: Added to the François Voltaire Archive:
To Catherine the Great: “I'll Never Love Another Empress” 1774
From original letter, and published for the first time.
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
15 January 2013: Added to the Spanish Archivo V. I. Lenin:
El
llamado problema de los mercados (1893)
[Thanks to Julio Rodríguez and Juan Fajardo]
15 January 2013: Added to the French Amédée Dunois archive :
Eugène Varlin, militant complet [1922]
[Thanks to the CERMTRI and the French language volunteers]
15 January 2013: 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:
Exchange on Homosexuality in Challenge-Desafio [1973-74]
Mao: The Two Sides of His Life [1976]
The following documents have been added to the Revolutionary Union – Revolutionary Communist Party section:
The Communist, 1976-1979
On the IWOs [n.d.]
On Other Aspects of Building the Workers’ Movement [n.d.]
On War and the International United Front [n.d.]
The following document has been added to the Split in The Revolutionary Communist Party section:
Lenin’s Struggle Against International Opportunism: 1914-1917 (in PDF) [1979]
The following document has been added to the Communist Workers Party, U.S.A. section:
A Year Since the Greensboro Massacre [1981]
The following document has been added to the “Background Materials and Polemics” section of The New Communist Movement: Anti-Dogmatists Unable to Unite, 1978-1980:
“Me Start a Vanguard Party to Lead the Working Class to Revolution? You Must Be Kidding!!” (by the Buffalo Workers Movement) [1978]
The following document has been added to The Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center and the Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee section:
Initial Overview of the OC [1979]
The following documents have been added to the Bay Area Workers’ Organizing Committee section:
Political Report by the BAWOC Majority [1980]
Political Report by the BAWOC Minority [1980]
The following document has been added to the “General Analyses and Postmortems” section of The New Communist Movement: Collapse and Aftermath:
The New Communist Movement: An Obituary (by The Movement for a Revolutionary Left) [1981]
The following document has been added to the U.S. League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist) section:
Peace Justice Equality and Socialism: From the Second Congress of the U.S. League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) April 1984 [1984]
The following document has been added to the Continuing Crisis and Collapse of the PWOC and the OCIC section:
“The OCIC’s White Chauvinism Campaign and its Lessons for U.S. Marxist-Leninists” (by Jim Jacobs) [1981]
In the section for the United Kingdom:
The following documents have been added to the “General Background Materials” section of The First Wave of Anti-Revisionism: The Early 1960s:
The Fight Against Monopolies (by Michael McCreery) [1962]
Philosophical Revisionism (by William Ash) [1963]
Problems of the International Communist Movement (by R. Palme Dutt) [1963]
Peaceful Coexistence – Burning Issue of Our Time (by James Klugmann) [1963]
National Liberation Today by R. Palme Dutt [1963]
Peaceful Coexistence (by Patricia Davies and David Crook) [1964]
A Rejoinder (by James Klugmann) [1964]
The following documents have been added to The Workers’ Party of Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) section:
Manifesto of the Workers’ Party Scotland (Marxist-Leninist) [1970]
Old Enemies – Old Mistakes [1971]
The following documents have been added to the “General Background Materials” section of The Second Wave: the Radical Youth Wants a Party: The Late 1960s
From Marx to Mao Tse-tung: A study in revolutionary dialectics (by George Thompson) [1971]
Capitalism and after: The rise and fall of commodity production (by George Thompson) [1973]
The following document has been added to the Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) section:
Peaceful Coexistence and Proletarian Internationalism [1972]
The following documents have been added to the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) section:
London meeting... Kampuchea Solidarity develops [1980]
Editorial: Solidarity Takes Power [1989]
The following documents have been added to the Nottingham Communist Group and Stockport Communist Group section:
Resolution on the joint communique (in PDF) [1981]
Resolution: The Present International Situation and the Tasks of the Proletariat. The Contribution of the British Proletariat to the World Proletarian Revolution [1979]
The following documents have been added to the “Mosquito Press – Communist Organization of Scotland and England – Communist Organization of Britain” section:
Ireland Solidarity: Towards a programme [n.d.]
Ireland and British revolutionary history: a new interpretation [n.d.]
Statement to November 20, 1982 Conference [on Irish Solidarity] [1982]
In the section on Canada:
The following documents have been added to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) section:
The Negative Lines in the Communist Movement of Canada on the Question of the International Communist Movement and the International [1975]
First annual national convention of the EIDC [1976]
On unity of Marxist-Leninists: Part one (by Robert Alexander) [1976]
Programme of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada [1979]
Election Issue of People’s Canada Daily News [February 16, 1980]
Election Issue of People’s Canada Daily News [February 18, 1980]
The following document has been added to the Canadian Party of Labour section:
Minutes of Toronto Cell Leaders’ Meeting, August 13, 1978
The following documents have been added to the The Canadian Communist League (Marxist-Leninist) – Workers Communist Party section:
Regional autonomy: Step towards equality of nationalities [1981]
Building the anti-racism movement in BC [1981]
China today: The Forge answers readers’ questions [1981]
Symposium on “The left after the referendum” urges return to spontaneous struggle [1981]
WCP campaign off to a good start across the province [1981]
WCP candidates get 5,000 votes [1981]
The following documents have been added to the The Marxist-Leninist Organization of Canada, In Struggle! section:
IN STRUGGLE! Central Committee decisions: The women’s movement [1980]
Documents for the criticism of revisionism: The working class seizes State power [1980]
International Forum: true forum for international debate [1981]
In Struggle!’s activities on the international scene [1981]
The unity of the international communist movement also involves many forces that we had overlooked [1981]
Responses to the conference proposal [1981]
[Thanks to Paul, Sam, Malcolm and others of the EROL team]
13 January 2013: We are pleased to announce the inclusion of a complete translation into Spanish of the first volume of the Military Writings of Leon Trotsky:
Cómo se armó la revolución. Tomo I: 1918 (1923)
[Thanks to Rodrigo Cisterna]
11 January 2013: Added to the The Militant newspaper archive are the complete tables of contents for every article in all the issues for:
1943
1944
[Thanks to the Riazanov Library Project and the Holt Labor Library]
11 January 2013: Added to the French Sen Katayama archive:
Le Congrès des révolutionnaires de l'Extrême-Orient [1922]
[Thanks to the CERMTRI and the French language volunteers]
11 January 2013: Added to the French VI Lenin archive:
Les tâches immédiates du pouvoir des Soviets [1918]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
10 January 2012: Added to the French Jacques Mesnil archive :
Ce que devrait être un quotidien communiste [1920]
Lénine.— La Maladie infantile du Communisme[1921]
Added to the French Alix Guillain archive :
L'échelle mobile des salaires [1922]
Added to the French Fernand Loriot archive :
Pour notre Parti [1922]
Added to the French Amédée Dunois archive :
La CLasse au-dessus du Parti [1922]
[Thanks to CERMTRI and the French language volunteers]
9 January 2013: Added to the French VI Lenin archive :
VIIe Conférence du Parti de la province de Moscova [1921]
[Thanks to RADAR and the French language volunteers]
8 January 2013: We start a Spanish section archive for the works of socialist French historian Albert Mathiez, with the text of:
El
bolchevismo y el jacobinismo (Bolchevism and Jocobinism, 1920)
[Thanks to Oscar David Reyes Medrano]
8 January 2013: Added to the The Daily Worker CARTOONS Archive are over 200 editorial cartoons from The Daily Worker’s editorial pages for 1926. Presented in optimized PDF format. Include in this collection is the art work of better known cartoonists, Robert Minor and Frank Ellis plus dozens more.
[Thanks to Marty Goodman of the Riazanov Library Project and the Holt Labor Library]
8 January 2013: Added to the French language "LDT Trotsky" archive:
Lettre du CE de l'IC au P.C.F. (26 07 1921)
Lettre à M. Paz (11 07 1929)
Lettre à la rédaction de "Lutte de Classe" (11 08 1929)
Lettre de Trotsky à Cannon (10 10 1937)
Discussion sur la Conférence Internationale (20 03 1938)
Discussion sur les revendications de transition (23 03 1938)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
8 January 2013: Added to the Swedish Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Trotsky on China, 1939-40 [in work]
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
6 January 2013: Added to the Spanish Archivo Isaac Deutscher:
El caso Beria
(1953)
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
4 January 2013: Added to the French VI Lenin archive :
La tâche principale de nos jours [1918]
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
4 January 2012: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
Sobre as Resoluções da Reunião do CC do POSDR com um Grupo de Militantes Responsáveis do Partido, Realizada no Verão de 1913, 1913
[Thanks to Fernando Araujo]
3 January 2013: Added to the Isaac Deutscher Internet Archive:
Marxism in Our Time, 1965
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
3 January 2013: Added to the François Voltaire Archive:
To Frederick the Great: “You Would Perfectly Resemble Apollo...” 1776
From original letter, and published for the first time.
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
3 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese August Thalheimer Archive:
Linhas e Conceitos Básicos da Política Internacional Após à II Guerra Mundial, 1946
[Thanks to Centro de Estudos Victor Meyer, Sérgio Antão Paiva and Fernando Araújo]
3 January 2013: Added to the August Comte Archive:
Founding of a Positivist Club, by Eugène Sémérie 1870
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
2 January 2013: Added to the Spanish Archivo V. I. Lenin:
Nuevos datos sobre las leyes del desarrollo del capitalismo en la agricultura (1915)
[Thanks to Julio Rodríguez and to Juan Fajardo]
2 January 2013: Added to the Swedish Daniel Bensaid Internet Archive:
"Black Book on Communism" - An answer from the left, 1998
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]
2 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
Sobre o Projeto da Constituição da União das Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, 1936.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
1 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Ruy Mauro Marini Archive:
Brasil: da Ditadura à Democracia, 1964-1990, 1991
[Thanks to Centro de Estudos Victor Meyer, Diego Grossi and Fernando Araújo]
1 January 2013: Added to the Portuguese Kalinin Archive:
Uma Unida Família Combativa, 1943.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
1 January 2013: We start 2013 in the Spanish Section with the addition of a text of a letter written by Peruvian historian and theoretician Alberto Flores Galindo to his friends and colleagues shortly before his death of cancer in 1990:
"Reencontremos
la dimensión utópica". Carta de despedida a los amigos (1989)
[Thanks to Juan Fajardo]