What’s New Updates Archive

September 2008

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28 Sep 2008: Added to the Mark Starr Archive:

Seeing is Believing: From Cook to Commissar, (1926) After returning from a trip to the U.S.S.R., Starr reports on the positive changes for women taking place there.

27 Sep 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:

Ten Years and After, (1924) A short article from The Communist International in which Murphy comments on the rash of memoirs from leaders who conducted WWI.

They Betrayed the Workers with a Lie, (1924) Similar to the above article, Murphy disputes the arguments for, and assessments of, WWI by those leaders who prosecuted the war.

Introduction to Lenin on Co-operatives, (1925) Murphy’s introduction to a pamphlet, published by the CPGB, of extracts of Lenin’s writings on Co-operatives.

Celebrating Tenth Year of Revolution, (1927) A very brief report to Workers’ Life on the celebrations in Moscow commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Included is a link to a photograph of Murphy on this occasion in the company of Rykov, Bukharin, Kalinin, Uglanov, Stalin and Tomsky.

Introduction to Russian Prisons, (1928) Murphy’s introduction to a pamphlet written by E. G. Shirvindt, leading Soviet legal specialist who headed the Main Administration of Places of Confinement (GUMZ) until 1930.

Towards the Tenth Communist Conference, (1929) Murphy argues for advancing independent Party candidates; rejection of membership in and detachment of membership from the Labour Party; direct recruiting to the CPGB, and the harnessing of trade union support to the CPGB. Also included is the critical response from Workers’ Life to this article.

26 Sep 2008: Added to the James Klugmann Archive:

Communists and Socialists, (1956) An explanation of the programmatic differences between Communists and Socialists. Klugmann concludes, “The more these long-term problems of principle and attitude are worked over and discussed between Communists and Socialists, the more I believe we will discover that we have much in common, not only of an immediate nature but also on deeper and long-term issues. The more we delve in a fraternal and comradely way into points of difference, the more easily we shall learn from one another.”

22 Sep 2008: Added to the Andrew Rothstein Archive:

Trotsky on the Russian Revolution, (1933) A critique of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution

21 Sep 2008: Added to the William Gallacher Archive:

An Intimate Appreciation of Lenin, (1930) A review of Krupskaya’s Memories of Lenin

21 Sep 2008: Added to the National Minority Movement Subject Archive:

Economic Struggles and the Minority Movement, G. Allison (1930) Allison details the the NMM’s main tasks decided at the its Sixth Congress, namely struggle against: rationalisation; the fetish of adhering to Trade Union agreements and acceptance of arbitration; Social Fascism; the Trade Union Bureaucracy; and the Labour Government.

21 Sep 2008: Added to the Thomas Bell Archive:

The Situation in Ireland, (1930) A class analysis of the political situation in Ireland and an evaluation of its dominant political parties.

21 Sep 2008: Added to the Clemens Dutt Archive:

Building Socialism In Soviet Turkestan, (1930) A review of Anna Louise Strong’s book Red Star in Samarkand

11 Sep 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:

A Revolutionary Workers’ Government (Pamphlet)

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September 2008

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