July 2006
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31 July, 2006: The Greek language Archive has added the following 6 documents:
Pantelis Pouliopoulos Greek Archive:
Rostov!
For the new
revolutionary party
Communism
and Archeiomarxism
Trotsky
and Archeiomarxism
Leon Trotsky Greek
Archive:
The
immigrant workers in France
[Thanks to Vassilis Fragkos]
Friedrich Engels Greek
Archive:
The 4th of MAy
in London (article)
[Thanks to Savvas Michael]
31 July, 2006: Added to the New International Archive (New York):
Where Is Stalinism Leading Russia?, by the
Editors
The Housing Question in America:
1. What
the Problem Looks Like, by Henry Stone
2.
How the Problem Is “Solved”, by Paul V.
McBride>
The
Political Situation in Spain, by L. Fersen
Why the
Saar Was Lost, by Oskar Fischer
In a
Billion Dollar Industry, by Jack Wilson
Marxism:
Science or Method? by Rubin Gotesky
The
Abolition of the Bread Cards in the Soviet Union, by Erich
Wollenberg
Neurotic
Society, by Bernard Wolfe
Briefer
Mention, by Florence Becker
A Picture of
the Socialist Party
A Note
to the Reader
The
Press
At
Home
All articles from New International, Volume 2 Number
2, March 1935 are now available on-line in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line
(ETOL).
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
31 July, 2006: Added to the Brian Pearce Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Marxists in
the Second World War, 1959 (writing as B. Farnborough)
Some
Past Rank-and-File Movements, 1959
Marxism
in Britain 1881-1920, 1959
1921 and
All That, 1960
Lenin
and Trotsky on Pacifism and Defeatism, 1961
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
31 July, 2006: Added to the New International Archive (New York>:
A New Nerve
Center of Imperialist Lust, by J.P. Martin
Marxism:
Science or Method? II, by Rubin Gotesky
The Native
Question in South Africa, by R. Lee
Toussaint’s
Era, by Florence Becker
“In Defense of Democracy”
In a
Billion Dollar Industry, by Jack Wilson
All Eyes on France! (Editorial)
At Home
Coming
Struggles on the Railroads, by A. Weaver
The Civil
War in Greece, by J.P. Martin
Toiler’s
Tale, by Jack Wilson
In
Search of Diana, by Harry Roskolenkier
THE
PRESS
“United Front in France Wavers”
(Editorial)
At Home
The
Anglo-German Naval Pact, by I. Jerukhimovich
A Labor
Lieutenant and Top-Sergeant, by Harry Strong
The
Anti-Calles Drive In Mexico, by Jean Mendez
England’s
Intellectuals, by Hans V.
Woman’s
Place, by Florence Becker
On Good Intentions (Editorial)
The Third International Is Dead – Long Live the
Fourth International! (Editorial)
The Press
Questions
of the Italo-Ethiopian War, by Parabellum
The
Situation in Cuba, by R.S. de la Torre
Philosophy
of Confusion, by Reuben Grote
An
American Germinal, by Gerry Allard
In One And
The Same Issue
At
Home
ILP and the
Fourth International, by Leon Trotsky
The
Comintern and Social Patriotism, by Feroci
Sanctions and the British Elections
(Editorial)
At
Home
All articles from New International, Vol.2 No.3,
May 1935, Vol.2 No.4,
July 1935, Vol.2 No.5,
August 1935, Vol.2 No.6,
October 1935, Vol.2 No.7,
December 1935 (i.e. all articles from Volume 2, 1935) are now available
on-line in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line
(ETOL).
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
30 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 8 PDF documents including some early writings by Eugene V. Debs:
Third International Events in America, by A.J. McGregor [March 1921] Commentary on the underground Communist Party of America and United Communist Party from the pages of the official organ of the Proletarian Party of America.
Berger's Convention, by John Keracher [July 1921] This is an interesting perspective of the 1921 Detroit Convention of the Socialist Party of America, written by the leader of the Proletarian Party of America (based in Detroit) and published in that organization's official organ.
The Third International Congress, by Dennis Batt [Nov. 1921] Proletarian Party of America representative to the 3rd Congress of the Comintern Dennis Batt (a guest rather than a delegate) outlines a number of policy positions of the CI—each of which is said to support the long-standing position of the PPA—in contrast to the contrary positions of the Communist Party of America.
Open Letter to the Conference Called by the Authorized Committee of the 16 Standard Railroad Labor Organizations from the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party of America. [c. Feb. 20, 1922] Published letter to the forthcoming first Conference for Progressive Political Action in Chicago, probably written by Workers Party of America Chairman James P. Cannon.
Exchange
of Cables between J.B. Matthews, Chief Investigator of the House Special Committee on
Unamerican Activities in Washington, DC and Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, October 12,
1939. On October 12, 1939, the chief investigator of the Dies Committee in
Washington, DC extended an invitation to Leon Trotsky to give testimony before HUAC
in Austin, Texas, “a city designed with a view to your personal
convenience.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
30 July, 2006: Added to the H.M. Hyndman Internet Archive:
The Record of an
Adventurous Life, 1911 (book) (autobiography down to 1889 with lots
of self-justification - reads a bit like “all the famous people I
have ever met plus a few I haven’t” – reveals that, in
general, he found Tories and other conservatives much more sympathetic
than Liberals or Radicals – particularly catty about Engels)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
29 July 2006: Added to the Hebert Archive:
The Great
Anger of Père Duchesne, 1791
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
29 July 2006: Added to the Georges Palante Archive:
Memories of Georges Palante,
1931
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
29 July, 2006: Added to the H.M. Hyndman Internet Archive:
England For All,
1881 (book) (fairly run-of-the-mill radical democratic programme of
teh late 19th century - which, however, has the distinction of
containing the first published presentation of Marx’s critique of
[capitalist] political economy in English, without acknowledgement of
Marx’s authorship of the analysis)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
28 July, 2006: Added to the new Brian Pearce Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL):
Inside
Russia Today, 1957 (writing as Leonard Hussey)
A
Comment, 1957 (Reply to R.W. Davies) (writing as Leonard Hussey)
British
Communist History, 1957 (writing as Joseph Redman)
From
‘Social-Fascism’ to ‘People’s Front’,
1957 (writing as Joseph Redman)
The Case
of André Marty, 1957 (writing as Joseph Redman)
The Early
Years of the CPGB, 1958 (writing as Joseph Redman)
The
British Stalinists and the Moscow Trials, 1958 (writing as Joseph
Redman)
Building
the Bolshevik Party – Some Organizational Aspects, 1960
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
29 July, 2006: Added to the new Labour Review Archive:
The Inadequacies of Russian Trotskyism, by R.W.
Davies (1957)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
29 July, 2006: The Urdu Language Section of the MIA:
The
Transitional Program —1938 InPage2000 needs to be
installed on your computer in order to read the script
[Thanks to Hasan]
29 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 8 PDF documents including some early writings by Eugene V. Debs:
Declaration of Principles of The Social Democracy of America: Adopted at the Special Convention Held Under the Auspices of the American Railway Union, June 15-21, 1897. On June 15, 1897, a final convention of Eugene Debs' American Railway Union was convened in Chicago, where it spent three days wrapping up the affairs of the union. On Friday, June 18, the organization officially changed its name to The Social Democracy in America and the convention threw open its doors to delegates from other organizations.
Milwaukee Enthused: Debs Speaks to Tremendous Meetings in the Cream City. [July 15, 1897] Unsigned report from the official organ of the Social Democracy of America reporting an organizing speech by Executive Board Chairman Eugene Debs.
A Call to the People, by Eugene V. Debs [Aug. 23, 1897] In the midst of a bitter coal mine strike, Eugene Debs issued this appeal on the front page of the official organ of the Social Democracy of America lending his support to an August 30 conclave in St. Louis in support of the miners' job action.
To the Hosts of the Social Democracy of America. [Labor Day Message -- 1897] by Eugene V. Debs [Aug. 30, 1897] The purple prose of Eugene Debs runneth over in this somewhat lengthy Labor Day essay to Labor and the members of the newly organized Social Democracy of America, published in the pages of the SDA's official organ.
A Basis for Discussion: A Letter to the Editor of The New York Call by 13 Members of the Socialist Party, March 23, 1919. With the internecine war heating up in the ranks of the Socialist Party, an effort was made by some members associated with the "Center-Left" to work out the programmatic differences between the Regulars and the insurgent Left Wing in an orderly manner.
Left, Right, and Center, by Dennis E. Batt [May 1919] Michigan Left Wing leader Dennis Batt analyses the ideological schism in the ranks of the Socialist Party of America.
Minutes of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of New York, Special Meeting of May 21, 1919. Special meeting of the New York SEC called for the purpose of canvassing the vote on pending party referenda.
The Parting of the Ways, by Dennis Batt [July 1919] Fundamental splits of Socialist parties are inevitable, writes Michigan Left Wing Section leader Dennis Batt in this article from The Proletarian: in some countries this takes place before the revolution and in others during the revolution itself.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
July 29, 2006: The Dutch Language Section has added 10 documents:
Leon Trotski
Mijn
Leven 1929
Joseph Dietzgen
De toekomst
van de Sociaaldemocratie 1878
Ernest Mandel
Een gedenksteen voor
Abram Léon,
Warschau 1918 - Auschwitz 1944 1946
Marx, Engels en
het probleem van de zogenaamde dubbele moraal 1983
George Novack
Positivisme
en marxisme in de sociologie 1967
Sociologie en
historisch materialisme 1967
V.I. Lenin
Over het
nationale program van de RSDAP 1913
Kritische
opmerkingen bij het nationale vraagstuk 1913
Over het recht der
naties op zelfbeschikking 1914
Over de
nationale trots van de Groot-Russen 1914
[Thomas Weyts, Valeer Vantyghem, Jasper Schaaf, Geert
Cool, Jan Vlegels en Adrien Verlee]
27 July 2006: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
War and the Fourth
International [1934]
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
28 July 2006: Added to the MN Roy Internet Archive:
On Intellectuals [November 10, 1922]
On Economic Determinism [November 10, 1922]
On Rallying the Masses [November 10, 1922]
[Thanks to Mike B and Ted Crawford.]
27 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 PDF documents from the Socialist Party in August of 1919, prior to the split of the communists from the SPA:
Left or Right? by Ludwig Lore [August 1919] In this lead article from Ludwig Lore’s theoretical quarterly, The Class Struggle, editor Lore states that it is “hardly accurate” to refer to the current controversy in the Socialist Party as a battle between “Left” and “Right,” since “the small group of bona-fide social-patriots that our movement harbored have either left it voluntary or been expelled” already.
Former National Executive Committee Thinks It Rules by Divine Right: Sits Like a King Upon the Throne and Calmly Votes to Expel Ohio, by Elmer T. Allison [Aug. 20, 1919] Opinion piece from the pages of the Ohio Socialist attributed to co-editor Elmer Allison on the pending expulsion of the Socialist Party of Ohio from the Socialist Party of America.
Open Letter ‘To All Party Members’ from Alfred Wagenknecht, Socialist Party Executive Secretary pro tempore. [pub. Aug. 20, 1919] The Executive Secretary of the dissident Left Wing Section claiming victory in the 1919 SP election published this communique “to all party members” in the pages of the friendly Socialist press. Wagenknecht points out the constitutional July 1, 1919, date of termination for the outgoing NEC and reemphasizes that State Secretaries should not transmit special convention assessment funds to the outgoing NEC and its Executive Secretary, Adolph Germer, but should rather send these monies with the delegates themselves to the convention.
Communique to the NEC of the Socialist Party of America Announcing the Result of Committee Motion No. 56 from Executive Secretary Adolph Germer, Aug. 20, 1919. Executive Secretary of the outgoing NEC Adolph Germer announces the result of NEC member Fred Krafft’s August 13 motion to expel the Socialist Party of Ohio from the Socialist Party of America.
Letter to Samuel Hankin in Chicago from Benjamin Gitlow in New York, Aug. 20, 1919. Letter from National Left Wing Council member Benjamin Gitlow to the head of the Left Wing Section of Local Cook County (IL), Socialist Party Samuel Hankin.
Letter to Patrick S. Nagle in Kingfisher, OK from Adolph Germer in Chicago, Aug. 21, 1919. This letter from Socialist Party Executive Secretary Adolph Germer to his factional ally Patrick Nagel in Oklahoma demonstrates that there was very little mystery with regards to the probable strategy of the Left Wing Section at the forthcoming SPA Emergency National Convention in Chicago.
Germer’s Grand March, by Jack Carney [Aug. 22, 1919] In the last weeks before the Socialist Party’s 1919 Emergency National Convention in Chicago both sides in the impending battle jockeyed for position, the outgoing NEC attempting to reorganize summarily various state organizations and the Left Wing attempting to elect solid delegate slates of their own.
Report on the Minnesota Organization to the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America from Adolph Germer, Executive Secretary, Aug. 22, 1919. Executive Secretary of the outgoing NEC of the Socialist Party relates his recent trip to Minneapolis at the behest of the Regulars on the State Executive Board of the Socialist Party of Minnesota.
The Left Wing Answers, by I.E. Ferguson [Aug. 22, 1919] National Left Wing Section leader I.E. Ferguson takes on 7 commonly leveled charges against adherents of the Left Wing. He states that the Left Wing does not seek to destroy Socialist Party unity -- rather that the organization has long existed on the basis of a “false unity.”
Notification to the Socialist Party of America of Changes to the State Executive Board of the Socialist Party of Minnesota by Charles Dirba, Secretary. [Aug. 25, 1919] On Sunday, August 24, 1919, an Emergency Convention of the Socialiist Party of Minnesota was held in Minneapolis at which it was decided to make the recent referendum vote recalling the State Executive Board (Regular faction) effective immediately.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
27 July 2006: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Learn to Think A Friendly Suggestion to Certain Ultra-Leftists
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 July, 2006: Added to the H.M. Hyndman Internet Archive:
The Evolution of
Revolution, 1921 (book)
[Thanks to Chris Clayton]
25 July, 2006: The following documents have been added to French language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the specific documents can be seen at the French What’s New section:
C. Zetkin:
V° congrès de l'Internationale Communiste (1924)
T. Grant:
Démocratie ou bonapartisme en Europe ? (1946)
S. Just:
La grève générale de mai-juin 1968 est venue de loin
Parvus:
Action parlementaire
C. Castoriadis:
Sur le programme socialiste
N. Moreno:
Un document scandaleux
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
25 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 9 PDF documents:
Sugarman Replies to Työmies: Says Finnish Machine is Menace to Party: Urges Election of Dirba as State Secretary, by A.L. Sugarman [Aug. 16, 1918] This testy letter from the outgoing State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Minnesota attacking the Finnish Socialist daily Työmies for a laundry list of alleged misdemeanors against the cause and touting the candidacy of Charles Dirba for new State Secretary may seem like an esoteric factional quibble—and perhaps it is.
Työmies Reply to Sugarman, by Eemeli Parras [Aug. 23, 1918] Työmies Editor Eemeli Parras takes umbrage to State Secretary A.L.Sugarman's claim that "Työmies advocated scabbery during the Mesaba strike."
Letter to Morris Hillquit at Saranac Lake, NY from Santeri Nuorteva in New York City, October 23, 1918. This document is useful as an illumination of the political perspective of Santeri Nuorteva—a translator of John Spargo and close personal friend of Morris Hillquit on the one hand; an opponent of the anti-Bolshevik stance of Raivaaja managing editor Frans Josef Syrjälä on the other.
Debs to the Socialist Party, by William M. Fiegenbaum [Oct. 7, 1920] Although he was prohibited from writing on party affairs, Federal prisoner Eugene Debs was allowed to meet with members of the Socialist Party's Campaign Committee at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary to coordinate his campaign for President of the United States in the November 1920 election.
The Workers' Council: An Organ for the Third International, by Benjamin Glassberg [April 1, 1921] Unsigned lead editorial announcing the formation of a new publication aiming to "become the expression of revolutionary Socialism" and to carry agitation for the Third International "into working class circles that have never been reached before."
Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Convention of the Socialist Party, Detroit, MI—June 25, 1921, by Otto Branstetter This is the organizational report of the Socialist Party delivered to the June 1921 Detroit Convention by Executive Secretary Otto Branstetter, published in the official organ of the party.
Platform of the Workers Party: Congressional Election 1922. [circa Oct. 1922] In 1920 the American Communist movement boycotted the elections, in 1921 there was a campaign in New York City under the umbrella of "the Workers League." It was not until the fall election of 1922 that the Communists entered the electoral fray at the Congressional level, this time under the auspices of their "Legal Political Party"—the Workers Party of America.
Proposed Statement of Principles of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. [Prepared by the Workers Party of America for the 2nd Conference, Dec. 11-12, 1922] The Workers Party of America made a concerted effort to gain admission as an affiliated political organization to the 2nd Conference for Progressive Political Action, held in Cleveland on Dec. 11-12, 1922.
Report of the Secretary of the Russian Federation to the Secretary of the Party, by "P. Ovod" [December 1922] Brief report of unified CPA's Russian Federation detailing the results of the "First Congress" of the Federation, an underground event held late in December 1922.
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
24July 2006: Added to the
1901, October 27—The True and the Supposititious Tillman
1901, October 29—The San Francisco Dromios
1901, October 30—Will the Fate of Devery's Head Affect These?
1901, October 31—The Railroad Moloch, II
1901, November 2—The Scab Social Democracy Up to Date
1901, November 7—The European "Anarchist" and the American Kangaroo
1901, November 8—Society Is No Barn Fowl
1901, November 10—Two Types—Sambuco and Hanford
1901, November 11—President Eliot's Confession
1901, November 12—The 'Frisco Performance
1901, November 13—A Knock-Out to the Archbishop
1901, November 14—Soldiers and Civilians
1901, November 17—The Socialist Camp Can Be No Adullamites' Cave
1901, November 18—Scourge the Scamp Scabs
1901, November 19—Hiding Their Own Crimes
1901, November 20—Ben Tillet as a Photographer
1901, November 21—De Tocqueville Supplemented
1901, November 22—The Patriot Show
1901, November 23—A Case in Point
1901, November 24—A Shot to the Foe in the Rear, and One to the Foe in Front
1901, November 27—A Farce or a Tragedy!
1901, November 28—Mopping the Ocean
1901, November 29—Paying a Dirt-Cheap Price
1901, November 30—Who but He, or They?
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
24 July, 2006: Opened Álvaro Cunhal in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Contribuiçã
o para o Estudo da Questão Agrária , 195?
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando
Araújo]
22 July 2006: A new section has been added to the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line
(ETOL) titled Trotskyism and Armed Struggle. This will be a review of the debate around guerilla warfare that ensued inside a section of Latin-American Trotskyism in the late 1960 and early 1970s. It will dovetail closely with the MIA’a history section of Marxism and War/Guerilla Warfare.
[Thanks to David Walters]
22 July 2006: Added to the MN Roy Internet Archive:
On Trade Unionism, November 20, 1922
On the Gaya Congress, February 15, 1923
On the Basis of a Revolutionary Party, March 8, 1923
[Thanks to Mike B. and Ted Crawford]
21 July, 2006: Added to the Discurso em Havana
na Conferência Sobre a Dívida Externa, 1985 21 July 2006:
Added to the new
Emile Pouget Archive:
Revolutionary
Bread, 1896 15 July, 2006: Added to the Ata de Havana - Conferência
Sindical dos Trabalhadores da América Latina e do Caribe sobre a Dívida
Externa, 1985 20 July 2006: Added to the
Marxism in Japan Section: Understanding "Labor
Certificates" on the Basis of the Theory of Value , 1956 20 July, 2006:
Added to the Felix Morrow Internet
Archive: Introduction to
Goldman’s In Defense of Socialism, 1944 20 July, 2006: Added to the new Albert Goldman
Archive in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line
(ETOL):
In Defense of
Socialism, 1941—Goldman’s classic closing speech at the Minneapolis Show trial of the SWP in 1941, published as a pamphlet in 1944. 20 July 2006: Added to the
1901, October 2—Parkhurst Pills 19 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism
Archive in the USA History
section of the MIA has added the following 2 PDF documents:
Lines of Division in American Socialism, by A.M. Simons [Aug. 1902] Editorial from the pages of the International Socialist Review by Editor Algie Simons. Simons notes the division of the American socialist movement between a Western-based, rural, agrarian element, largely native-born, which came to socialism through daily struggles and an Eastern-based, urban, trade union element, largely immigrant in ethnic origin, which came to socialism “quite largely through direct ideological propaganda.” Socialist Agitation Among Farmers in America, by Karl Kautsky (translated by Ernest Untermann) [Sept. 1902] The dean of European Marxism weighs in on American capitalism in the pages of Die Neue Zeit. Kautsky indicates that the torch has been passed in the capitalist world, that “while in the middle of the last [19th] century it was necessary to study England in order to understand the tendencies of modern capitalism, our knowledge on this subject today must be derived from America.” (PDFed from the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive) 18 July, 2006: Added to the O
Programa Militar da Revolu ção Proletária, 1916 18 July, 2006: The following documents
have been added to French
language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the
specific documents can be seen at the French What’s New section:
Parvus: 18 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism
Archive in the USA History
section of the MIA has added the following 8 documents:
Letter from Alfred Wagenknecht in New York to C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, April 26, 1920. Extremely short note from the Executive Secretary of the Communist Labor Party to the leader of a Chicago-based breakaway faction of the Communist Party of America. Letter to Leonid Belsky in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, April 28, 1920. Letter from CP factional leader C.E. Ruthenberg to Chicago District Organizer Leonid Belsky, leading instigator of the April 1920 split. Letter to C.E. Ruthenberg in New York from Leonid Belsky in Chicago, April 30, 1920. Chicago DO Belsky replies to factional leader Ruthenberg's April 28 letter . Letter to Leonid Belsky in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, May 1, 1920. This is CP breakaway "minority" factional leader Ruthenberg's reply to Chicago leader Leonid Belsky's letter of April 30. Letter to I.E. Ferguson in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, May 1, 1920. CPA "Minority" leader Ruthenberg writes his closest associate with information on ongoing factional turmoil. Circular Letter to All Members of the Latvian Federation of the CPA from Central Committee Member 'Zehkali,' circa May 1, 1920. Circular letter sent to CPA Latvian Federation at the time of the split of the "CEC Minority" faction headed by C.E. Ruthenberg. Latvian CC member "Zehkali" attacks Ruthenberg and the CLP (which would soon unite) as "ex-centrists" and "me-too communists" for whom electoral politics a la the Socialist Party was the ultimate objective.
Letter to Leonid Belsky in Chicago from C.E. Ruthenberg in New York, May 3, 1920 - morning. Short note from former Executive Secretary of the CPA Ruthenberg to head of the rebellious Chicago organization Leonid Belsky.
The Socialist Convention, by Harry W. Laidler [June 1920] Since no official stenographic report of the 1920 Socialist Party Convention in New York City was kept, due to the party's grim financial state, this lengthy and detailed article on the gathering prepared for the readers of the magazine of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society is of particular value to historians of 1920s radicalism. 18 July 2006: Added to the
1901, September 17—Lucy Parsons' Circular Reasoning July 17 2006:
Added to the
Paris Commune
Archive:
The
State ... is Abolished, September 25 1870 16
July, 2006: To the Swedish Language
Section of the Marxists Internet Archive in the Swedish Marx-Engels
Archive is added:
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, June, Marx/Engels, 1850 16 July, 2006: Added to the Fifth Congress of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores/Revolutionary Workers Party. This party was almost unique among Trotskyist parties in that they were avid practioners of urban guerrilla warefare. The documents contained in this section are their views on the relationship between their Party and Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo/Revolutionary Army of the People, their armed wing. Active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were eventually crushed by the Argentine military. 16 July 2006: Added to the
Moissaye J.
Olgin Archive:
Why Communism?
Plain Talks on Vital Problems 16 July 2006: Added to the
1901, September 1—Is Bryan "Going Guy"? 15 July, 2006: Added to the Dicionário
Político 15
July, 2006: To the Swedish Language
Section of the Marxists Internet Archive in the Swedish Marx-Engels
Archive is added:
The Divorce Bill, Karl Marx, 1842 15 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism
Archive in the USA History
section of the MIA has added the following 6 documents: Statement on the Unity Proceedings Between the Communist Party and the UCP of A, by Charles Dirba [Nov. 15, 1920] The first of four typeset leaflets prepared for the rank and file of the Communist Party of America detailing the status of unity negotiations with the rival United Communist Party. Further Statement on Unity Proceedings, by Charles Dirba" [circa Dec. 1, 1920] The second of four typeset leaflets prepared for the rank and file of the Communist Party of America detailing the status of unity negotiations with the rival United Communist Party. Largely a polemic rather than a document collection. Further Negotiations on Unity, by Charles Dirba [circa Dec. 5, 1920] Although written slightly after the publication of the 2nd of 4 CPA membership leaflets on the unity question, this material, published unsigned in the pages of the CPA's official organ, is transitional between the first two leaflets. Third Statement on the Unity Proceedings, by Charles Dirba [Dec. 16, 1920] The third of four typeset leaflets prepared for the rank and file of the Communist Party of America detailing the status of unity negotiations with the rival United Communist Party.
Fourth Statement on Unity Proceedings, by Charles Dirba [Jan. 5, 1921] The last of four typeset leaflets prepared for the rank and file of the Communist Party of America detailing the status of unity negotiations with the rival United Communist Party.
Minutes of the Lithuanian Bureau, CPA: Meeting of October 18, 1922, by "V. Grazys" This esoteric document provides important clues about the history of the underground Communist movement in 1922. 14 July 2006:
TO amrk Bastille Day, added to the
Barta Archive:
Long Live the Red Army of
Workers and Peasants!, June 1941 12 July 2006:
The Beta project of scanning the The Liberator magazine continues. Several new issues have been scanned, and rudimentary text recognition has occurred. Volunteers are needed to put these issues into html, and do basic proofreading.
January, 1919: Lenin's Letter to American Workingmen (PDF)
11 July 2006:
Added to the
Holbach Archive:
Essay on the art of
crawling, for the use of courtiers, 1776 9 July 2005: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line document section for the US Socialist Workers Party, are the first two documents from it’s 24th Convention in 1971:
Perspectives and Lessons of the New Radicalization 9 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism
Archive in the USA History
section of the MIA has added the following 10 documents: Work Among Women: A Progressive Woman Leaflet. [circa 1912] Short leaflet soliciting subscriptions to The Progressive Woman, a publication from J.A. Wayland’s Girard, Kansas Appeal to Reason Socialist stable. A Statement to Our Readers, by J. Louis Engdahl [July 7, 1917] The Wilson administration wasted no time in putting the so-called Espionage Law of June 15, 1917 into effect, using it to declare the June 16, 1917 issue of the Socialist Party’s official organ, The American Socialist, to have been non-mailable two weeks after the issue had been already delivered. Text of the Search Warrant Served During the Raid of Socialist Party Headquarters and The American Socialist, September 5, 1917. On September 5, 1917, a raid was launched on the Chicago headquarters of the Socialist Party of America and its official organ, The American Socialist.
The American Socialist Martyred in the Great Cause of World Democracy and Peace, by J. Louis Engdahl [Sept. 15, 1917] American Socialist editor J. Louis Engdahl recounts the last two months of existence of the former official organ of the Socialist Party of America. Banned from the mails, the final (Sept. 8, 1917) issue of The American Socialist had been dispatched via rail express in bundles to major cities for local distribution. Hillquit Scores Raids on Socialist Headquarters. [Sept. 22, 1917] Brief news story from the Socialist Party’s de facto official organ containing SP leader and attorney Morris Hillquit’s comments about the Sept. 5, 1917 raid of Socialist Party headquarters in Chicago.
The Trial of Eugene Debs, by Max Eastman [November 1918] Account of the Sept. 10-12, 1918 trial of “spiritual chief and hero of American socialism” Eugene Debs in Cleveland for alleged violation of the so-called Espionage Act. Eastman, editor of The Liberator, writes for his readers that due to postal regulations he would make no effort to quote Debs’ words concerning the war in Europe — the essence of the trial — but would rather limit himself to description of the proceedings and Debs’ general statements on Socialism.
Speech to the Court at the Time of Sentencing, by J. Louis Engdahl [Feb. 20, 1919] Socialist editor John Louis Engdahl was one of five top leaders of the Socialist Party tried by the federal government for alleged violation of the so-called Espionage Act during the first part of 1919 — the other defendants including National Executive Secretary Adolph Germer, former and future Socialist Congressman Victor Berger, youth section leader William F. Kruse, and Literature Department head Irwin Tucker.
A Proletarian Dictatorship vs. Parliamentarism, by Alexander Bilan [March 5, 1919] Article from the pages of The Ohio Socialist by future founding member of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Labor Party Alexander Bilan. Bilan states that “It is a mistake to believe that parliamentarism is a synonym for democracy. On the contrary, we find that where the parliamentary majority rules it is not democratic, and where it is approaching democracy parliamentary government becomes a weak institution.”
Toledo Crowd Compels Release of Socialist Speakers: Audience Aroused Because Denied Freedom of Speech Disarm Policeman and Marches on Police Station. [events of March 30, 1919] News report of a little-known event of the turbulent year 1919 — a near-riot in Toledo, Ohio, caused when the mayor arbitrarily decided to deny Eugene Debs uses of a city auditorium which had been rented out to a local union and transferred to the use of the Socialist Party.
Sidelights on Toledo Free Speech Fight, by Thomas Devine [events of March 30, 1919] Valuable participant’s memoir of the March 30, 1919 Debs Rally Gone Awry in Toledo, Ohio. City Councilman Devine provides a colorful description of the events of the afternoon and evening, which was apparently triggered when the police interpreted a ban on Debs’ use of a city auditorium as a ban on the constitutional right of Toledo Socialists to assemble and speak.
9 July, 2006: The following documents
have been added to French
language section of the Marxists Internet Archive. The links to the
specific documents can be seen at the French What’s New section:
Lénine: 9 July, 2006: The MIA’s mirror of the Socialist
History Project in Canada has made the following additions: Now on line: two documents that provide a unique picture of how women from the League for Socialist Action and Young Socialists took part in the new women’s liberation movement in the early 1970s—and how they developed as political leaders through that experience. The documents deal with the critical period when the women’s movement was evolving from "consciousness raising" into organizing for mass action. The LSA and the Toronto Women’s Caucus (1972) reviews the experiences of women from the LSA as founders and leaders of one of the largest and most influential of the new feminist groups. Our Line in Practice discusses practical experiences in building the movement to repeal Canada’s abortion laws, in 1973. And we’ve posted a new review of Canadian Bolsheviks, reprinted with permission from the latest issue of the UK-based journal Revolutionary History. 9 July 2006: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
Open Letter to Professor P. N. Miliukov 9 July 2006: Added to the
Marxism in Japan Subject Section: The Method of
Capital , 1974 9 July 2006: Added to the
V.I. Lenin Internet Archive:
Imperialism: The
Highest Stage of Capitalism 8 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism
Archive in the USA History
section of the MIA has added the following 7 documents:
Open Letter to Louis C. Fraina in Boston from Adolph Germer in Chicago, published April 2, 1919. Testy reply of Socialist Party Executive Secretary Adolph Germer to comments levied against him by Louis Fraina in the March 8, 1919 issue of The Revolutionary Age.
Speech to the Jury, by Benjamin Gitlow [Feb. 5, 1920] One of the first American Communists persecuted for his beliefs was Benjamin Gitlow, a New York CLP member and close associate of John Reed. Gitlow was arrested for violation of the New York Criminal Anarchism Law on November 8, 1919, for his role as business manager of The Revolutionary Age, in which the Left Wing Manifesto was published.
Resolution on the Debs Nomination: Adopted by the First Convention of the United Communist Party, Bridgman, MI — May 31, 1920. Resolution of the newly establish United Communist Party reaffirming the position taken by the two former organizations from which it was formed — that “neither respect and love for Debs, nor admiration for his long service in the militant labor movement of this country, can efface the fact that this nomination makes him the standard-bearer of the Right Wing remnant of the party which existed at the time he went into the Atlanta penitentiary.” Resolution on the 1920 Campaign: Adopted by the First Convention of the United Communist Party, Bridgman, MI — May 31, 1920. Statement of the Founding Convention of the UCP that it the organization “will not attempt to nominate candidates in the 1920 elections.” It Will Be Made Worthwhile, by Isaac E. Ferguson [July 3, 1920] Article from the UCP’s official organ by top Ruthenberg lieutenant I.E. Ferguson, of Chicago. Ferguson explains the recent split in the CPA A Farewell to Controversy, by C.E. Ruthenberg [July 3, 1920] Lengthy analysis of the April 1920 split of the CPA from the perspective of factional leader C.E. Ruthenberg. The Crisis in American Agriculture, by Henry C. Wallace [Nov. 15, 1921] During the fall of 1920 and into 1921, American farm commodity prices plummeted, pushing the nation’s agriculture into a state of severe crisis. 8 July, 2006:
Added to the New International
Archive: On the Eve
of the Spanish Uprising, by L. Fersen 7 July, 2006:
Added to the New International
Archive: The Defeat
of the Spanish October, by L. Fersen 7 July, 2006: The Early American Marxism
Archive in the USA History
section of the MIA has added the following 3 documents:
“The Iron Fist Tightens Its Grip on Nation,” by William F. Kruse [June 2, 1917] The head of the Socialist Party’s youth section, the Young People’s Socialist League, declares that “the powers of reaction, now triumphant in this country, are beginning to tighten their fast forming stranglehold upon the liberties of the American people” and details some of the Woodrow Wilson regime’s repressive actions. “What Will We Have, When We Have Enough?” by Irwin St. John Tucker [June 2, 1917] The Socialist Party’s head of the Literature Department needles the Wilson Administration for its failure to declare war aims. “Why You Should Fight,” by Irwin St. John Tucker [June 9, 1917] When an agent of the Bureau of Investigation with whom he consulted flippantly suggested to Socialist Party propaganda chief Irwin St. John Tucker that he should prepare a pamphlet explaining to American workers why they should fight in the European war, Tucker took up the challenge. 7 July 2005: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:
The Curve of Capitalist Development ,
1923 7 July 2005: Added to the Georges Palante Archive: Historical Pessimism,
1914 5 July 2006:
Added to the
Branko Probocevic
Archive:
Workers’
Participation and/or Self-Management, 1978 4 July 2006:
Added to the
Dreyfus Affair
Archive:
Dreyfus’
Brother Denounces Esterhazy, Matheiu Dreyfus, 1897
4 July, 2006: Added to the
As
Lições da Insurreição de Moscovo, 1906 3 July, 2006:
Added to the Joseph Hansen Internet
Archive: “But Why Did They Confess?” 1956 (book review about the Moscow Trials) 2 July 2006: Added to the
Swedish Language Section of the
Marxists Internet Archive is the opening a
Pierre Naville Archive. First work
in this archive is the 1945 debate between Pierre Naville and Jean-Paul Sartre
at Club Maintenant in Paris on Marxism vs Existentialism. Added to the swedish
Leon Trotsky Archive is an
original translation of the 1933 pamphlet 'The united front for defence - A
letter to a social democratic worker'.
Pierre Naville,
Existentialism eller marxism (1945) 2 July, 2006:
Added to the New International Archive: For the Right of Asylum for Leon Trotsky, Editorial 1 July 2006: Introducing the
Solomon
Abramovich (Alexandr) Lozovsky Archive:
Documents in this new archive include the following:
The Role of the
Labor Unions in the Russian Revolution 30 June 2006:
Added to the
Paris Commune
Archive:
The
Commune Day by Day, May 25 1871
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
Sabotage, 1898
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
[Thanks to Fernando
Araújo]
[Thanks to M. Schauerte ]
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
1901, October 4—A Retrospect
1901, October 5—Croker's Repartee
1901, October 6—A Stride by Tammany
1901, October 7—A Primary Lesson to the Seattle, Wash., "Post-Intelligencer"
1901, October 8—Empty-Sounding Cymbal
1901, October 9—A Type of the "Spoilation" Hater
1901, October 10—Work for Out-of-Work Parsons
1901, October 11—The Floor Granted to the Rev. McGrady
1901, October 13—Organized Scabbism
1901, October 14—Thoughts That Must Be Assailing Oom Paul
1901, October 15—Two Flies, Nay Three, at One Slap
1901, October 16—A Dead Give-Away
1901, October 17—The Railroad Moloch, I
1901, October 19—The Country's Foes
1901, October 20—Back to Normal
1901, October 21—The Carnegie Issue
1901, October 22—Impregnable Socialism
1901, October 23—The Saw-Dust Game in Jersey
1901, October 25—Cruelty to the Republicans
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
[Thanks to Edições"Avante!" and Fernando
Araújo]
Action parlementaire
C. Castoriadis:
Sur le programme socialiste
N. Moreno:
Un document scandaleux
P.O.U.M.:
Les journées de mai (J. Rebull, 29.05.1937)
L. Trotsky:
Manifeste de l'Internationale Communiste aux prolétaires du monde entier !
(06.03.1919)
Ledebour - Hoffmann (25.10.1915)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
1901, September 18—Children as Sources of Revenue
1901, September 19—Actions That a Man May Play
1901, September 20—Prof. Mosso Slipped
1901, September 21—Two Pictures; Nay Three
1901, September 22—All Honor to Virginia!
1901, September 23—Socialism and Anarchy
1901, September 24—Hearst and His 'Journal'
1901, September 25—A Dramatic Entrance
1901, September 26—In One Another's Hair
1901, September 27—The Homage That Vice Pays to Virtue
1901, September 28—The "Insect Anarchist"
1901, September 30—A Chance Muffed
1901, October 1—High Life Below Stairs
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels, 1880
Marx and the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung", Friedrich Engels, 1884
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Friedrich Engels, 1884
On the History of the Communist League, Friedrich Engels, 1885
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Friedrich Engels, 1886
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
[Thanks to David Walters]
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
1901, September 2—Piling It On
1901, September 3—"Anti-Trust Legislation"
1901, September 4—Applied Paternalism
1901, September 5—The "Strenuous Life"
1901, September 6—The Show in Wall Street
1901, September 7—Tammany's Broadness
1901, September 8—Most Shocking of It All
1901, September 9—Stray Lights
1901, September 10—Encouraging Signs
1901, September 11—Where Votes Count
1901, September 12—Exploiting Murder
1901, September 13—"Pauper Labor Made Profitable"
1901, September 14—Turning the Cycle
1901, September 15—At President McKinley's Bier
1901, September 16—The Case of Eichmann
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
The Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels, 1847
The Assembly at Frankfurt, Friedrich Engels, 1848
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, March, Marx/Engels, 1850
The Peasants' War in Germany, Friedrich Engels, 1850
XV: The Triumph of Prussia, Friedrich Engels, 1852
The British Rule in India, Karl Marx, 1853
Forms which precede capitalist production, Karl Marx, 1858
The North American Civil War, Karl Marx, 1861
Inaugural Address of the International Working Men's Association1864
The Housing Question, Friedrich Engels, 1872
On Social Relations in Russia, Friedrich Engels, 1874
The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Friedrich Engels, 1876
Trades Unions, Part 1-2, Friedrich Engels, 1881
Social Classes - Necessary and Superfluous, Friedrich Engels, 1881
The Frankish Period, Friedrich Engels, 1882
The Mark, Friedrich Engels, 1882
On the History of the Prussian Peasants, Friedrich Engels, 1885
Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, Friedrich Engels, 1890
The Peasant Question in France and Germany, Friedrich Engels, 1894
[Thanks to Jonas Holmgren]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
February: The Socialist Party on Trial (PDF)
March: Lenin and Wilson (PDF)
June: May Day in Ft. Leavenworth (PDF)
October: The Actor's Strike (PDF)
April, 1920: A Yankee Convention (PDF)
More issues to come...
[Thanks to Brian Basgen]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
Toward a Mass Feminist Movement
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido and David Walters]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
Comment organiser l’émulation ?
Au congrès général de l’armée sur la mobilisation (1918)
Ceux qui sont effrayés par la faillite de l’ancien et ceux qui luttent pour le nouveau (1917)
Résolution du Conseil des Commissaires du peuple sur les pourparlers avec la Rada d’Ukraine (1917)
Projet de résolution du Conseil des Commissaires du peuple (1917)
Questions posées aux délégués du congrès général de l’armée pour la démobilisation (1917)
Projet de décret sur la nationalisation des banques et les mesures qu’elle comporte (1917)
P.O.U.M.:
Les journées de mai (J. Rebull, 29.05.1937):
L. Trotsky:
Problèmes de la guerre civile (29.07.1924)
P. Lafargue:
La crise de l’Or aux états-Unis (25.11.1907)
IV° Internationale:
Dossier : l’"entrisme"
[Thanks to the French language volunteers]
[Thanks to the Socialist History Project of
Canada]
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
Discussion of Marx's Method
(part 2) , 1969
[Thanks to M. Schauerte ]
[Thanks to Farsi Language
volunteers on the MIA]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
The First
Letter from Spain, by X.
A Letter on
Russia, by Karl Marx
The
Opposition and the Wrangel Officer
The Appeal to the Party Members
Letter
to Bukharin, by Sergei Zorin
Man’s
Fate, by B. Spartack
Trade
Union Unity in France
Three Conventions, Editorial Comment
At
Home
All articles from New International, Volume 1 Number
4, November 1934 are now available on-line in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line
(ETOL).
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
The
Socialists’ Errors in Spain, by Juan Arenillos
The Struggle
for the Saar District, by O-R
A Letter
to the Independent Labour Party
The SLP, Editorial Comment
Outlook of
Science, by S.L. Solon
Art and
Action, by Thomas Cotton
Two
Poets, by Harry Roskolenkier
The Press:
Political Ribaldry
The New
New International, Editorial
At
Home
All articles from New International, Volume 1 Number
5, December 1934 are now available on-line in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line
(ETOL). All articles from Volume 1 are therefore now on-line.
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
[Thanks to Tim Davenport and Marxist History Website]
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
Eurocommunism and the
New Party, 1981
[Thanks to Patrick Olofsson]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
Added to the
Ravachol
Archive:
Liberté –
Egalité – Fraternité, (Song) 1888
Announcement of
Ravachol’s Execution, 1892
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
No Caminho,
1909
À
Memória de Herzen, 1912
[Thanks to Edições
"Avante!" and Fernando
Araújo]
How To Build An Anti-Monopoly Coalition, 1957
Three Programs for Peace, 1938 (critique of “peaceful coexistence”)
Proposed Roads to Soviet Democracy, 1958 (on the prospects of reform in the Soviet Union)
The First Four Congresses, 1958 (book review)
Corliss Lamont on Humanism, 1958 (book review)
John Gates Tells His Story, 1959 (on the degeneration of the CPUSA)
Schweitzer’s Appeals, 1958 (book review about Albert Schweitzer)
Trotsky “Psychoanalyzed”, 1959 (book review)
Deutscher on Trotsky, 1964 (extended book review)
Exchange of Views on Deutscher Biography, 1964 (Reply to George Breitman’s critique of the above review)
A Trotsky Anthology, 1965 (extended book review)
Vietnam and World Politics, 1966
The Case Against “Pacification” in Vietnam, 1966
Is Marxism-Leninism Obsolete? 1967
Report on the International Situation, 1968
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
[Thanks to Patrik Olofsson]
Leo
Trotskij, Enhetsfront för försvar - brev till en socialdemokratisk arbetare
(1933)
[Thanks to Hans Åkesson]
Prospects for a New Party in America, Editorial
Bolshevik-Leninists and the SFIO, by V.
Arms and Capitalism, by John Hart
Four Letters on Historical Materialism, by Friedrich Engels:
A Letter to Conrad Schmidt
A Letter to J. Bloch
A Letter to Hans Starkenburg
A Letter to Franz Mehring
Whither the NAP?
Russia, Japan and “Red Mongolia”, by Gatto Mammone
Announcement
Bolshevism, by F.K. v. Arnecke
The Press
At Home
All articles from New International, Volume 1 Number 3, September-October 1934 are now available on-line in the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
Lozovsky first joined
the Bolsheviks in 1901. During his lifetime he held several prominent positions
in the Party, the Soviet Union and the international communist movement
including General Secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions
(Profintern).
The World’s Trade Union
Movement
Lenin and the
Trade Union Movement
Preface to “Problems of Strike
Strategy”
Lenin: The
Great Strategist of Class War
[Thanks to Brian
Reid]
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
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