J. T. Murphy
Archive
1888–1965
“The problem before society to-day is not a financial problem. It is a property problem. The banks belong to the superstructure of capitalism. Private property is the foundation. The financial crises, consumption crises, credit crises and the like are nothing more than the reflections of the fundamental economic crisis arising from the fact that the private ownership of the means of production has become an anachronism in a society where social methods of production have superseded individual methods of production. No amount of credit supply to manufacturers, no amount of currency manipulation which leaves the question of property ownership untouched, can do other than aggravate the crisis of capitalism.” – Review of Dyson’s An Artist Among the Bankers
“I am a Marxist, a member of the Labour Party, and a sympathizer with the U.S.S.R.” – Russia on the March
1932: J. T. Murphy’s resignation letter from the CPGB
1932: J. T. Murphy’s Desertion to the Class Enemy, CPGB comment on Murphy’s departure from the Party
1932: Another Communist Leader Walks the Plank, SPGB comment on Murphy’s departure from the CPGB
Works by Year
1917
Industrial Organization, The Plebs, February 1917
The Workers’ Committee: An Outline of its Principles and Structure
1918
The Embargo. An Open Letter to Skilled Workers
The Issue
1919
Industrial Unionism and the Social Revolution, Workers' Dreadnought, Vol. 6, No. 7, May 10, 1919
Preparing the Way, Workers' Dreadnought, Vol. 6, No. 9, May 24, 1919
An Appeal for a United Socialist Effort, An Open Letter to Socialists, Workers' Dreadnought, Vol. 6, No. 11, June 7, 1919
Reform and Revolution, The Plebs, October 1919
The Need for a National Programme, Workers' Dreadnought, Vol. 6, No. 38, December 13, 1919
1920
On the Question of Parliamentarism
The I.W.W.: An American Export. Its Relation to Certain Ideas in the British Labor Movement
1921
Who Shall Conquer? The Battle of the Internationals, The Worker, January 15, 1921
Rallying the Workers to Moscow. What It Means, The Worker, January 29, 1921
The “Reds” in Congress: Preliminary Report of the First World Congress of the Red International of Trade and Industrial Unions
Report of Red Trade Union Congress
1922
The Road to Power
On Leading the Masses
Control Your Job
The Single Front
The Engineering Crisis and the United Front, Communist Review, April 1922
Stop the Lot
Cut Off the Juice
End the Confusion
Stand by the Boilermakers
“De Profundis”: The Return of the Engineers
Untitled Book Review, Review of “Left Wing Trade Unionism in France”
After the Retreat, What?
The Miners at the Cross Roads
American Coal War
The Workers Committees in Great Britain
The Optimistic Note, The Communist, August 12, 1922
The Great Red Drive into the Miners Federation of Great Britain
British Trade Union Blacklegs [with A.B. Elsbury and V. Brodsky]
A Reply to Comrade Brodsky
Trade Union Congress
The Great Red Drive: Miners’ Minority Movement
The Critics Answered
Discussion on the Report of the Executive
1923
Viscount Milner’s Dilema
Milner Becomes Irritable
Milner’s Ghost
The Unemployed Movement in England
The 4th Congress: A Special Report on the Recent World Congress of the Comintern
Ireland and the International Working Class
Wanted: the Marxism of Marx!, The Plebs, April 1923
British Labor Party Conference
The English Dock Strike
The Labour Party Conference
Still Wanted: the Marxism of Marx, The Plebs, August 1923
The European Crisis and British Labour
The Empire Conference of the Workers
The General Election, 1923
The Origin and Growth of the British Labor Party
1924
The Party Conference
Labour Struggles in Britain, International Press Correspondence, January 31, 1924
Programme Making
The Labour Government – What We Must Do
The Political Mind of Ramsay MacDonald
The Pacifist as Imperialist, Daily Worker, [US] March 26, 1924
The Labour Government in Deep Waters
Poplarism - A Fight for the Unemployed, Daily Worker, [US] April 7, 1924
MacDonald Following the Old Traditions, Daily Worker, [US] April 8, 1924
Reformism in Full Swing, Part I; Part II, Daily Worker, [US] April 9 and 10, 1924
Ten Years Ago and After
They Betrayed the Workers with a Lie
The Struggle of the Labour Government for the Stabilization of Capitalism
The Position of the Parties in England, Daily Worker, [US] May 30, 1924
On the International Programme, Speech at the Sixth Conference of the Communist Party of Great Britain
James Connolly
"All Classes Are Satisfied!", Daily Worker, [US] June 4, 1924
An Eventful Year in British Trade Unionism, Daily Worker, [US] August 22, 1924
The Pressure from Below, Daily Worker, [US] August 29, 1924
Unemployment Changes, Daily Worker, [US] September 4, 1924
The Trade Union Congress, Communist Review, September 1924
The European Crisis and British Labour
Significance of the 1924 British Election, Daily Worker, [US] November 7, 1924
1925
Introduction to Lenin on Co-operatives
Where is Labour's Opposition?, Communist Review, January 1925
The Co-ops and the Trade Unions
Where is Labour’s Opposition?
Trade Unionism and the Co-operatives: Need for United Action
Leninism in Britain
The Protocol, Arbitration and Disarmament, Communist Review, April 1925
The Prospects at May 1, 1925
Mr. Churchill's Bankers' Budget, International Press Correspondence, May 14, 1925
Introduction to The Errors of Trotskyism
The Politics of the Co-Operative Congress, Communist Review, July 1925
John Wheatley and Civil War
Splitters: In International Co-op. Alliance
The Nine Months' Truce, The Tasks Before the Coming Labour Conferences, Communist Review, September 1925
The Left Wing Movement: Its History and Significance, The Plebs, September 1925
A Dangerous Situation: Confusion About Councils of Action
The Drive into the Factories: How to Begin
How a Mass Communist Party will come in Britain
The Coming of the Mass Communist Party in Britain
The October Revolution and British Labour, Communist Review, November 1925
Straight from the Dock
1926
The British Trades Union Congress at Bournemouth, (written with R. Page Arnot)
Socialism by Kind Permission, Review of I.L.P. pamphlets
An Angel’s Dilema, Review of Angell’s Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road?
The Political Meaning of the Great Strike
1927
British Communist Calls on Workers to Repudiate McDonald's China Stand, Daily Worker, [US] February 4, 1927
After the British Empire Conference
The Reformists’ Report on the Strike
On the Death of Arthur MacManus
Celebrating Tenth Year of Revolution
The British Working Class and the War on China
Arthur McManus
Stop the Troops
The Chinese Revolution and India
The Struggle in England, The Tory Government, the Labour Party and the Proletariat, International Press Correspondence, May 12, 1927
An Astonishing Speech: Zinoviev Attacks the Russian C.P. Central Committee
Lenin’s Widow
How to Fight the War Danger: Comintern Executive Meets in Moscow
Scab Legislation of the British Tories
The I.L.P. Conference
Tomsky’s Appeal to Workers: Anglo-Russian Questions That Are Being Asked
Malicious Rumours: Russians Do NOT Wish to Break Up Anglo-Russian Committee
Communist Aims in the International Co-Operative Movement, International Press Correspondence, July 14, 1927
Communists in China: May Leave the Wuhan Government
Miners’ Helpers Attacked: Disgraceful Outburst of I.F.T.U. Leader
Bauer’s Pacifism: Communist International’s Manifesto
Menshevik Trial: Light Sentences for Anti-Soviet Plotters
“Sacco-Vanzettis” Everywhere: Dramatic Scenes in Moscow at Funeral Hour
Reflections on our Party Congress at Manchester
1928
A First Meeting With Comrade Lenin
Introduction to Russian Prisons
Yellow Politics in a Yellow Book
Workers’ Challenge in London
MacDonald – The Christian Tory
The Communist Party and the “Bloody” Revolution
A Budget for the Bosses: “Concessions” Add to Workers’ Load
The Rationalisation Budget
J. T. Murphy’s Reply to Gutter Attack: “Forward,” MacDonald, Scotland Yard, and “Mr. Brown”
Labour Completes Flight to Liberalism
Co-Ops. and Empire: The Shame of a Great Working-Class Movement
Is There a “Right” Danger in Our Party?
1929
A Revolutionary Workers’ Government
There is a Right Danger
Towards the Tenth Communist Conference
Do Communists Want Reforms?
Trotsky the Temporary Bolshevik Exposed
What a Revolutionary Workers’ Government Would Do
The World Campaign for Communism
After the General Election, Communist International, August 1, 1929
The Outlook
What Next for Cotton?: The Way Ahead
Against Cops. and Bosses: “Red” Struggle Supported by Cotton Workers
Choosing Our Leadership: Revolutionary Theory and Clear Political Line
The Fight against the Right Danger
1930
The Political Situation of the British Empire at the Commencement of the New Year, International Press Correspondence, January 30, 1930
New Unions and their place in the Revolutionary Struggle
Growth of Social-Fascism in Britain
The Right Danger in New Clothes
Editorial
Significance of Llandudno Conference
1931
A Remarkable Book, Review of Mirsky’s Lenin
Editorial
1932
Resignation Letter from the Communist Party
JT Murphy is Expelled from British Party, Daily Worker, [US] May 11, 1932
J.T. Murphy Expelled from the C.P. of Great Britain, International Press Correspondence, May 12, 1932
Why I Left the Communist Party
The Significance of the Bradford Conference of the I.L.P.
1933
The Future of the Labour Party
The Conference of the Socialist League
Review of Jeans’ The New Background of Science and Worrall’s The Outlook of Science
Socialism and the Public Corporation
1934
Preparing for Power
Review of Dyson’s An Artist Among the Bankers
The Moral Roots of the Crisis
Review of Benjamin’s Distribution in the Transition Stage to Socialism
Labour’s “Peace” Policy
1935
Review of Scott’s Self-Subsistence for the Unemployed
Modern Trade Unionism: A Study of the present tendencies and the future of Trade Unions in Britain
Fascism! The Socialist Answer
1936
Trade Unions and Socialism
Why I Am for a People’s Front
1939
1941
Russia on the March: a study of Soviet Foreign Policy
1943
The Communist Party of Great Britain
1945
1948
The Last Great Split in World Communism
Labour's Big Three [Atlee, Morrison and Bevin]
1956
Twilight or Dawn?
Tom Mann: ‘Courageous man of vision’
1958
Images
1921: With Tomsky preparing for the first R.I.L.U. World Congress
1927: 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Moscow
1927: With the Seventh Samara Cavalry
1928: Portrait