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15 September 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Resolution of the Secretariat of the CI on the Policies of the French
Party, 1930
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
15 September 2005: Added to the Zo d'Axa Archive:
Little Girls, 1895
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
14 September, 2005: Added to the Chinese Section of the MIA is Rosa
Luxemburg's:
Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy
[Thanks to Lam of Chinese language volunteers of the MIA]
13 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA
History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents
from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early
years of the Communist Party:
The Split in the Socialist Party by Joseph B. Stilson [July 30, 1919]
The Translator-Secretary of the Lithuanian Socialist Federation, one of
the leading players in the 1919 crisis in the SPA, provides a lengthy
perspective on the history of the party split. Stilson saw the war as
an important turning point in the radicalization of the SP rank and
file, one that tipped the majority of the party against its centrist
office holders. Faced with electoral defeat in the party election of
1919, the SP leadership began acting in a manner befitting of Tammany
Hall, expelling and suspending its opponents without trial, backed by
the flimsiest of excuses, hypocritically framed.
Letter of John Reed, et al. in New York to C.E. Ruthenberg in
Cleveland, August 11, 1919. Archival letter attributed to the
typewriter of John Reed attempting to bring Left Wing National Council
member C.E. Ruthenberg of Cleveland up to speed as to the rapid
developments of August 1919.
Letter of John Reed and Ben Gitlow in New York to the Labor Committee
of the Left Wing National Conference, August 11, 1919. Letter written
by Reed with Gitlow sent out to the other 7 members of the Labor
Committee established by the June 1919 National Conference of the Left
Wing. Reed outlines the factional politics in the National Council of
the Left Wing, pitting Secretary Isaac Ferguson, Revolutionary Age
editor Louis Fraina, and their allies on the Council (John Ballam, Max
Cohen, and Bertram Wolfe) against the National Council minority of
Gitlow and Jim Larkin, along with their allies Reed and Eadmonn
MacAlpine.
Minutes and Executive Motions of the Left Wing National Council, August
4-12, 1919. The Left Wing National Council was the executive committee
established by the National Conference of the Left Wing held in New
York, June 21-24, 1919. Originally a 9 member board, by August the
Council had evolved into a 7 member group, headed by Secretary Isaac E.
Ferguson and including John Ballam, Max Cohen, Benjamin Gitlow, Jim
Larkin, C.E. Ruthenberg, and Bert Wolfe.
The Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement by William Z. Foster
[Oct. 1922] Full text of a pamphlet published by the Trade Union
Educational League as No. 4 in its "Labor Herald Library" series,
authored by the founder and secretary of the TUEL organization, William
Z. Foster. Foster depicts the weak position of American unionism as a
by-product of the dual unionist tradition of the countries radical
labor militants, who anathmetized the American Federation of Labor in
favor of a series of ineffectual attempts to build an explicitly
radical alternative. This pamphlet includes a useful chapter in which
Foster recounts his previous organizational activities as founder of
the Syndicalist League of North America, the International Trade Union
Educational League, and the TUEL itself.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
13 September, 2005: Added to the Workers' International News Archive:
What Next for the ILP? (1939)
Danzig and the Coming War (1939)
Tientsin (1939)
Whither the PSOP? by H.R. (1939)
Slave Camps in Britain (1938)
Ferment in India, by Ajit Roy (1939)
Diplomacy Hides War Plans (1939)
The Irish Revolution has Begun (1939)
Stalinists Turn Back Refugees (1939)
Congress Socialism, by Ajit Roy (1939)
PSOP in Conference, by H.R. (1939)
Anglo-American Relations, by Andrew Scott (1943)
Fascism or Socialism in Post-War Britain, by Andrew Scott (1943)
WIL Thesis on Indian Revolution (1943)
Guerrilla Movements in Greece, by G.D. (1939)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 September, 2005: Added to the Chinese Section of the MIA is Rosa
Luxemburg's:
Reform or Revolution introduction and ch.1,2,3,4
[Thanks to Lam of Chinese language volunteers of the MIA]
12 September, 2005: Added to the Arabic Section of the MIA is the
opening of the new archive for Alexandra Kollontai with the following
works:
Who is Alexandra Kollontai? (a biography)
History of the Socialist Women Workers Movement in Europe
The Development of the Working Women's Socialist Movement
Organization of Women Workers in the West
Communism and the Family
Kollontai's Report
Additionally we have added to the Arabic language Lenin Archive:
Lecture On The 1905 Revolution
[Thanks to the Arabic language volunteers of the MIA]
12 September, 2005: Added to the Swedish Language Section of the
Marxists Internet Archive is the opening of a Nikita Khrushchev
Archive.
Tal till Sovjetunionens kommunistiska partis XX :e kongress, Nikita
Chrusjtjov, 1956
Till det socialistiska paradisets försvar, Nikita Chrusjtjov, 1970
[Thanks to Patrik Olofsson]
12 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA
History section of the MIA has added the following 2 original documents
from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early
years of the Communist Party:
The National Left Wing Conference by Louis C. Fraina. [Published July
5, 1919] Originally an unsigned report from the pages of The
Revolutionay Age, attributed to Fraina based upon his editorship and
content. This article details the First (and only) National Conference
of the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party, held in New York City
from June 21-24, 1919. The session was attended over 90 delegates
hailing from about 20 different states. The opening address was given
by Fraina, who said that "the proletarian revolution in action has
modified the old tactical concepts of Socialism; and the inspiration of
the Bolshevik conquests, joining with the original minority Socialism
in the Socialist Party, has produced the Left Wing."
The National Left Wing by Isaac E. Ferguson [published July 25, 1919]
An open letter from the Secretary of the National Council of the Left
Wing Section, established by the June 1919 National Conference of the
Left Wing held in New York. Ferguson announces that the National
Council is to conduct "the work of publicity and preparation on a
national scale" for the August 30 Emergency National Convention of
the Socialist Party, to be held in Chicago. "The Left Wing triumph in
the party elections makes emphatically clear what the membership
wants.... It must not be annulled by the brazen dictation of a
repudiated National Executive Committee which insists upon ruling the
party in spite of the ending of its term on July 1st."
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
12 September, 2005: Added to the new Workers' International News
Archive:
More Arms? (1938)
Imperial Prelude to War (1938)
Hacks of the GPU (1938)
The Lesson of Aylesbury (1938)
Slump (1938)
Jingo-Communism (1938)
A Century of Freedom (1938)
The Social Patriots Face War (1938)
Profit and Loss (1938)
Voluntary Conscription (1938)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
12 September 2005: Added to the Chinese Communism Subject Archive:
Apologists Of Neo-Colonialism (October 22, 1963)
Peaceful Coexistence - Two Diametrically Opposed Policies (December
12, 1963)
[Thanks to Basu and Mike B.]
11 September 2005: Added to the Greek Civil War Subject Archive:
The Guerilla Struggle in Greece (June 1948)
[Thanks to Anthony Megremis, Ted Crawford, and Mike B.]
11 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA
History section of the MIA has added the following 3 original documents
from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early
years of the Communist Party and its split from the Socialist Party of
America:
Letter from Adolph Germer in Chicago to Morris Hillquit at Saranac
Lake, New York, June 2, 1919 Very illuminating letter from the National
Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party to leading luminary
Hillquit, then convalescing from tuberculosis at a sanitarium in
upstate New York.
The National Committee Meeting by James Oneal. [June 4, 1919] The
Socialist Party's most aggressive anti-Communist member of the NEC
explains the actions of that body at its seminal May 26-30 plenary
session, a riotous meeting which saw the expulsion of the entire
Socialist Party of Michigan and the suspension of the party's Russian,
Ukrainian, Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, and South Slavic
Language Federations -- a majority of the members of the entire
organization.
The Counterrevolution in the Party: Report of the NEC Sessions in
Chicago by I.E. Ferguson [June 7, 1919] The definitive account of the
seminal May 24-30 plenum of the Socialist Party's National Executive
Committee which expelled the Socialist Party of Michigan and suspended
the entire memberships of the Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian,
Latvian, Hungarian, and South Slavic Socialist Federations. Ferguson,
one of the principles of the Left Wing movement, is scathing in his
review of the machinations of the outgoing SP NEC.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
10 September 2005: Added to the French Revolution Archive:
Report On the Incarcerated, Saint-Just 1793.
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 September 2005: Added to the Maurice Thorez Archive:
For the Organization of the United Front of Anti-Fascist Struggle, 1934
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 September, 2005: Added to the Victor Serge Internet Archive:
Letter to Andres Nin, 1936
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
8 September, 2005: Added to the Irving Howe Internet Archive:
Intellectuals' Flight From Politics, 1947
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
8 September, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet
Archive:
Behind the British Social Crisis, 1947 (written as Henry Judd)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
7 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1947-1958):
The Marshall Plan vs. the Stalin Plan, Notes of the Month (1947)
SWP and the UAW, Notes of the Month (1947)
James Burnham, A Modern Cato, by Jack Weber (1947)
Political Program for South Africa, by Robert Stone (1947)
The Nature of the General Strike, by Leon Trotsky (1935)
The Fourth International and the Saar, League of Communist
Internationalists (Bolshevik-Leninist) (1934)
Colonial Questions Today, Resolution of the Chinese Trotskyists (1946)
The Anti-Hitler Plotters, by Oscar Williams (1946)
All articles from New International, Vol.13 No.8, October 1947 are now
on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
7 September, 2005: As part of the continuing and rapid expansion of the
Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) a brand new History index
page has been started established as part of this project: Toward A
History Of The Fourth International. This page groups together
previously uploaded documents on the history of Trotskyism with new
additions from recently acquired bulletins. The documentation will take
the reader from the founding of the Fourth International in 1938
through the early 1980s. Almost all the documents are original
documents produced as part of the creation of this legacy of Leon
Trotsky and the International Left Opposition. Added to this collection
are:
An Introduction to the Toward A History Of The Fourth International
from one of the sources for this collection, the The Education for
Socialists Bulletins, by Fred Feldman
Some Comments on the "Contribution to the Discussion" by George
Clarke
[Thanks to David Walters & Andy Blunden for providing the Education for
Socialist Bulletins]
7 September 2005: Added to the Paris Commune Archive:
Appeal to Working Women, May 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
6 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA
History section of the MIA has added the following 3 original documents
from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the
Communist Party:
Rules of Order of the 3rd National Convention of the Workers Party of
America. Held in Chicago, Dec. 30, 1923 - Jan. 2, 1924 The
predetermined rules for the 3rd Convention of the WPA and agenda for
that same gathering. Reports were delievered to the gathering by
Ruthenberg (keynote), Foster, Engdahl, Lovestone, Minor, Lore, Ballam,
Jakira, Bedacht, Manley, Abern, and Cannon.
The Zinoviev-Kamenev Trial by Alexander Bittelman [Sept. 1936] From
August 19-24, 1936, was held in Moscow the first of three sensational
public "show trials" featuring prominent former members of the
Soviet elite accused of complicity in counterrevolutionary conspiracies
to commit murder and overthrow the Soviet state.
Advance in Chicago: An Analysis of the March 1937 Special Convention by
Samuel Romer & Hal Siegel. Factionalism remained one of the central
concerns of the organization, however, particularly the working
alliance between the historic small group of "single plankers" (who
advocated no ameloriative reforms in the party program, only the
agitation for revolutionary socialism) and the new cohort of former
members of the Trotskyist "Workers Party," who shared this
perspective and gave the position critical mass from a factional
standpoint. [Thanks to Tim Davenport]
4 September, 2005: Announcement from the Polish Language Section of the
Marxists Internet Archive: It is with great pleasure and satisfaction
that we announce the commencement of the work on the transcription of
the First Volume of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution which
was not avaliable in print since the 1930's. While making
transcription we put an extraordinary effort as to preserve both the
form and the content of the original version, this includes also
leaving intact the orthographical rules that were the norm more than 70
years ago in Polish in order to give to the readership not only the
complete content of Trotsky's work but also to preserve the
authorised translation by Stanislaw Lukomski. It should also be a
source of inspiration for us that even in times of military
dictatorship of Pilsudski in Poland the ideas of Trotsky had an echo.
In the coming period we shall conclude the first volume and start the
work on the second. It should be also acknowledged that digitalising a
text that has more than 70 years and survived war and Stalinism is a
very difficult task. At present we have transcribed all the chapters
until "The Bolsheviks and Lenin".
[Special thanks to Kinga Wyszynska, who has dedicated innumerable
amount of time to proof-read and correct any mistakes in the text, and
Wojciech Figiel, who found and scanned the printed version]
4 September, 2005: Added to the Swedish Language Section of the
Marxists Internet Archive is the opening of a Karl Kautsky Archive. New
works added in the Swedish Marx & Engels Archive are:
Kritiska randanmärkningar till artikeln »Kungen av Preussen och
socialreformen», Karl Marx, 1844
[Thanks to Riff-Raff]
Juristsocialism, Friedrich Engels & Karl Kautsky, 1887
[Thanks to Riff-Raff]
4 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
Blitzkrieg and Revolution, An Editorial (1940)
Mass and Class in Soviet Society, by M. Lebrun (1940)
Where Is the Petty Bourgeois Opposition?, by SWP Minority (1940)
(Partial reply to Trotsky' From a Scratch to the Danger of Gangrene)
All articles from New International, Vol.6 No.4, May 1940 (the second
issue after the 1940 split in the Socialist Workers Party) are now
on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
4 September, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1940-1946):
The Republican Sweep (1946)
Trieste - City Between Two Worlds (1946)
France's "No Exit" Sign (1946)
Resolution on "Pakistan", Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India (1946)
The Politics of the Indian Bourgeoisie, by Suren Morarji (1946)
A Note on The Open City, by Meyer Schapiro (1946)
Our Threatened Values, by Richard Stoker (1946) (book review)
Correspondence ..., from Peter Lomos (1946) (on Arthur Koestler)
All articles from New International, Vol.12 No.10, December 1946 are
now on-line.
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
4 September, 2005: Added to the J.T. Farrell Internet Archive:
Cain's Movietone Realism, 1945
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
4 September, 2005: Added to the Albert Goldman Archive in the
Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
The Basis of Workers' Democracy, 1946
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
3 September, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet
Archive:
Behind the Hindu-Moslem Strife, 1946 (written as Henry Judd)
Politics of the International Working Class, 1946 (written as H.J.)
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
2 September, 2005: Added to the C.L.R. James Internet Archive:
Native Son and Revolution, 1940
[Thanks to David Walters & Einde O'Callaghan]
2 September 2005: Added to the Henri Rochefort Archive:
Selections from La Lanterne, 1868
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
1 September, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA
History section of the MIA has added the following 5 original documents
from the history of early American Marxism focusing mostly on the early
years of the Communist Party:
Force and Violence by Israel Amter. [Oct. 31, 1922] Amter, long a
fixture on the far left wing of the Communist Party of America,
launches an attack on American hypocrisy as to "force and
violence." When practiced by foreign states in the service of
capital, as in Italy, Hungary, South Africa, Poland, or
Finland-"force and violence" is ignored or quietly applauded.
When practiced by the American version of the Italian Fascisti, such as
the Ku Klux Klan, sections of the American Legion, or the American
Defense Society-"force and violence" is allowed to be practiced
without fetters. When practiced by state and municipal
authorities-"force and violence" is allowed "without regard to
law or constitution."
Cable to the Workers Party of America in New York from Grigorii
Zinoviev in Moscow, December 1922. In 1922 the Jewish Federation of the
Workers Party of America was racked by an internal split, pitting the
historic leadership of the Jewish Federation dating back to Socialist
Party days, headed by Alexander Bittelman against the Jewish component
of the Workers' Council group, headed by Moissaye Olgin.
Letter to the Workers Party of America and all its Language Federations
from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, January
25, 1923 The ECCI salutes the seeming unity of action coming from the
WPA's Dec. 1922 Second Convention and congratulates it for solving
the question of Language Federations in a "satisfactory way, in that
it regards the Federations merely as propaganda sections of the
Party."
Letter from Edgar Owens and C.E. Ruthenberg in Chicago to Vasil Kolarov
in Moscow, Feb. 17, 1923 This is an informative review of the status of
"political" cases in the United States, in response to a request
from Moscow for information in conjunction with the formation of a new
international legal defense organization.
The Nucleus in America: A Secret Memo on Party Organization from the
Executive Committee of the Communist International to the Central
Executive Committee of the WPA, July 11, 1923. The underground
Communist Party of America was formally liquidated at a convention
starting April 7, 1923, in New York City. This secret memo, probably
written by Grigorii Zinoviev, reminds the WPA that despite the complete
move to an "open" party, "American comrades would be greatly
mistaken if they cherished the illusion that henceforward they will be
in a position to carry on their work unhindered exclusively in a legal
organization."
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
1 September 2005: Added to the Jules Vallès Archive:
A Choice Must Be Made, Le Cri du Peuple, April 6, 1871
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
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