For the Year 2002
January—February, 2002
MIA on CD: Order our “Marxists CD 2002”. Information on ordering, and screen shots of the CD is available at the link above.
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4 March, 2002:
The Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
Reference Archive, has added Lectures to
Parents. These texts are lectures that were given by Makarenko over Soviet
radio in 1937, and cover such topics as discipline, play, work, sex education
and development of cultural interests.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
27 February, 2002: The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added a series of documents via it’s Subject section on Youth. Here are but a few of the additions:
The Nationality of Pupils in Russian Schools 1913 (Volume 19 of the LCW)
What Can Be Done for Public Education
1913 (Volume 19 of the LCW)
The Nationalisation of Jewish Schools
1913 (Volume 19 of the LCW)
From The "Disarmament" Slogan 1916 (Volume 23 of the LCW)
From the Pamphlet Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme 1917 (Volume 23 of the LCW)
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
27 February, 2002: Added to German langauge Archiv Franz Mehring:
Die Vernunft
der Unvernunft (1892) (The Rationality of Irrationality), Die Unruhen in
China (1900) (The Unrest in China), Der
Russisch-Japanische Krieg (1904) (The Russo-Japanese War), and Die
Bolschewiki und Wir (1918) (The Bolsheviks and Us)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 February, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added On the “Negro Question” (1940).
[Einde O’Callaghan]
24 February, 2002: The Polish language Marxist Internet Archive has added a series of new documents:
Lenin: Imperialism 1916
Marx and Engels: Speeches Commemorating 2nd
Anniversary of the Krakow Uprising 1848
Marx and Engels: The Bourgeoisie and
the Counter-Revolution (second article) 1848
Marx and Engels: Speech at the Anniversary of the
People's Paper 1856
Marx and Engels: About the Question of Prestige
[Thanks to the MIA Polish Langauge group and especially Piotr Strebski who completed Imperialism in 2 days!]
21 February, 2002: Added to the Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Todeskampf
des Kapitalismus u. Aufgaben der 4. Internationale –
Übergangsprogramm (1938) (Transitional Programme)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
19 February, 2002: The Christian G. Rakovsky Internet
Archive has added The Five Year Plan in Crisis an essay Rakovsky wrote in 1930.
[Einde O’Callaghan, Ted Crawford
and David Walters]
18 February, 2002:
The
Antonio Gramsci Inernet Archive has added An Introduction to Gramsci’s Life and Thought by Frank Rosengarten. Rosengaren is the editor of Gramsci's prison letters. This essay will serve as the politcial-biography for the AGIA.
[Thanks to Marcus Green and Frank Rosengarten for allowing us to use his introduction here]
18 February, 2002: We have created a USA History Archive which
combines the histories of the Black Panther Party, GATT, and the U.S. Military under a
common archive. Further, this archive links to the reference archives of Malcolm X and
John F. Kennedy. On the latter, we've added his April 18, 1961 letter to Khrushchev, and
we've created a high quality mp3 file of his October 22, 1962, address to the nation on
the Soviet missile installations in Cuba.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
18 February, 2002: Added to the Referenzarchiv Ferdinand Lassalle:
Briefwechsel mit Bismarck (1863/64) (Correspondence with Bismarck) last
published in 1928
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
17 February, 2002: We are pleased to announce the
creation of the Maxim
Gorky Internet Archive which contains Gorky's famous work on the early Russian
Revolution of 1905: Mother
, V. I. Lenin, Gorky’s
tribute to Lenin and the story Creatures
That Once Were Men.
[Thanks to Project Gutenberg, Brian Baggins & David Walters]
12 February, 2002: The Polish language Marxist Internet Archive continues it’s tidal wave of new doucments and whole new sections!:
Lenin: The Historical
Destiny of The Doctrine of Karl Marx (1913)
We're inaugurating John Reed Polish Archive
with Karl Liebknecht’s Words
(1919)
We're also inaugurating Antonio Gramsci Polish Archive with Russian Maximalists (1917)
Marx: Inaugural Address of
the International Working Men’s Association (1864)
Engels: Ludwig Feuerbach and the
End of Classical German Philosophy
[Thanks to Jaroslaw
Grota]
12 February, 2002: With Los peligros profesionales del poder we have opened the new Spanish-language Archivo Christian Rakovski. [Thanks to Juan R. Fajardo]
10 February, 2002: Added to the Polish language Marxist Internet Archive are several new documents:
Trotsky: Soviet
state and the Question of Thermidore and Bonapartism
Trotsky: The Lessons of October
Rosa
Luxemburg: The Mass
Strike
[Thanks to the MIA Polish Langauge group: Piotr Strebski, Wojtek, Jaroslaw
Grota and Dariusz Nowak who prepared the 3
works above]
9 February, 2002: The Marxists Internet Archive is very proud to announce the Christian G. Rakovsky Internet Archive. Rakovsky was a founder of the Romanian Socialist Party, the Communist International, President of the Ukranain Soviet Socialist Republic and founder of the Russian Left Opposition. He was murdered in a Soviet gulag in 1942. Special thanks to Gus Fagan for allowing us to use his biography and book, a collection of Rakovsky’s writings. Included in the first set of his writings are:
An Old
Comrade’s Memories (1924)
Autobiography<
/a> (1926)
The Foreign Policy of Soviet
Russia (extracts) (JulyÊ1926)
Speech to the Fifteenth Party
Congress (Dec.Ê1927)
Statement on Expulsion from the
Party
(Dec.Ê1927)
The “Professional
Dangers” of Power (Aug. 1928)
Gus Fagen’ Biographical Introduction of
Christian Rakovsky
[Einde O’Callaghan, Ted Crawford
and David Walters]
9 February, 2002: Added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive
is his 1906 essay Revolutions, Past
and Present.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
9 February, 2002: Added to the Polish language Marxist Internet Archive are two important documents:
Lenin: The April
Theses
Engels:
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
[Thanks to the MIA
Polish Langauge group: Piotr Strebski, Wojtek and Jaroslaw
Grota]
8 February, 2002: Add to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive is his
1906 essay: Revolutions,
Past and Present.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford and David
Walters]
8 February, 2002: New editorial cartoons and
drawings added to the Visual Arts: Satire
section. Pages have been started for Boris Gorelick, Crockett Johnson, Jacob Burck, and Bolshevik cartoons.
[Thanks to Michael Shapiro and Sally Ryan]
5 February, 2002: All of us at MIA would like to extend our warm and hearty thanks to a great MIA volunteer, Robert Cymbala, who has worked so tirelessly and diligently to make underlying structures of MIA work, helping volunteers get their work done in a more effecient way, and doing this in a professional and inspiring way. Thanks so much for your great work Robert, you set an example.
February 4, 2002: We have added La Revolución de Octubre y los Balcanes to the Archivo de Referencia Jorge Dimitrov. [Thanks to Aritz]
1 February, 2002: The Women and Marxism Archive has added
social scientist Alice Withrow Field's Protection of Women and
Children in Soviet Russia. This is a report based on her observations of the
Russian Creche and parental training as it was transpiring in Moscow in 1929 and 1931. It
also covers laws and rights for women, abortion and birth control, and maternity care.
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
31 January, 2002: Added to the V. I. Lenin Internet Archive is the
monumental work by Lenin on Russian capitalism: the Development of Capitalism in
Russia, constituting all of Volume 3 of his Collected Writings.
[Thanks to Robert Cymbala]
29 January, 2002: Added to the Polish language Marxist Internet Archive:
Karl Marx: Class Struggle in France
(1850)
Leon Trotsky: Hands off the Rosa
Luxemburg! (1932)
Leon Trotsky: Transitional Programme
James P. Cannon: In memory of the Old
Man (reminiscences of Leon Trotsky) (1940)
[Thanks to the
MIA Polish Langauge group: Piotr Strebski, Wojtek and Jaroslaw
Grota]
28 January, 2002: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has
added the 1993 interview conducted by Susan Rosenthal of Genora (Johnson) Dollinger,
founder of the Women’s Auxillary of the fighting UAW local at Flint during the most
important strike in US history: the 1936 Flint Sit-Down Strike. Entitled Striking
Flint this interview recounts Dollinger’s personal and political
experience as a socialist union leader of this strike and her later activivism as a
Trotskyist unionist in building a class struggle left-wing in the UAW.
[Thanks to Susan Rosenthal and David Walters]
27 January, 2002: Added to Czech Language Trotsky Internet Archive are two documents:
Against
Individual Terrorism (1909)
The New Course (1923)
[Thank to Martin Mikula]
27 January, 2002: Added to Archiv W.I. Lenin:
Ein Vortrag
über die Revolution von 1905 (1917) (A Talk on the Revolution of 1905) and Die Aprilthesen (1917) (The April
Theses)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 January, 2002: Added to the Archiv Clara Zetkin:
Frauenarbeit
und gewerkschaftliche Organisation (1893) (Women’s Work and Trade Union
Organization)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
26 January, 2002: The Women & Marxism Archive has added the
classic feminist novel: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary
Wollstonecraft.
[Thanks to Project Gutenberg & Brian Baggins]
21 January, 2002: In Commeration of Martin Luther
King Jr. Day, as celebrated as a National Holiday in the U.S., we've uploaded four
piercing audio speeches by the great Malcom X! Further, be sure
to read the definition for the U.S.
Civil Rights movement, in the Encylcopedia of Marxism.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins & Oliver
Fleig]
The
Cure of White's Disease: Race War
The Black revolution
requires bloodshed
End Police
Brutality
Don't Sit-in, Stand up
21 January, 2002: New in the Children's Literature
section is the 1945 biography, Lenin, by
Nina Brown Baker. This book draws heavily on Krupskaya's recollections of her life with
Lenin, but for a middle-school reading level.
[Thanks to
Aileen]
21 January, 2002: New editorial cartoons and
drawings added to the Visual Arts: Satire
section. Pages have been started for Thomas Heine, Frederick Opper, and Albert Uderzo,
illustrator of anti-capitalist hero, Asterix.
[Thanks to Michael
Shapiro and Sally Ryan]
21 January, 2002: The Che Guevara Archive has been
overhauled, fixing bad cataloguing, html and links, and creating a new style.
Additionally, seven high quality photographs of Che have been uploaded (600 dpi quality
is available on request), taken by the photographers Osvaldo & Roberto Salas.
[Thanks to Brian
Baggins]
21 January, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has
added Trotsky’s First Five Years of the
Communist International—Volume 2. This work contains all the major
speeches, resolutions and manifestos authored by Trotsky for the Congresses of the
Comintern as well as correspondence with major leaders of the International during this
period.
[Thanks to Robert Barrois and David Walters]
20 January, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has
added Trotsky’s 1927 critique of the failed Second Chinese Revolution: Problems of the
Chinese Revolution
[Thanks to Robert Barrois and
David Walters]
19 January, 2002: An archive detailing U.S. Military
History has been created. At present, this archive details U.S. military
engagements around the world from 1945 to 1949. The overall goal of this project is to
detail all U.S. military engagements after WW II, counter-pose this with the Soviet
Union's military engagements, and build pages that contain links to Marxists works on the
respective conflicts.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
18 January, 2002: Added to the Lin Biao Reference Archive are two documents:
Foreword to the
Second Edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1966)
Introduction from Long Live the Victory
of People's War! (1965)
[Thanks to Roland
Fergurson]
16 January, 2002: Added to the new Archiv Georg Lukács:
Lenin
– Studie über den Zusammenhang seiner Gedanken (1924) (Lenin – A
Study in the Unity of His Thought)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
15 January, 2002: Added to Archiv Georg Lukács:
Methodisches zur Organisationsfrage (1922) (Towards a methodology of the problem of
organization)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 January, 2002: Added to the new Referenzarchiv Josef Stalin:
Marxismus und nationale Frage (1913) (Marxism & the national question)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 January, 2002: We are pleased to open the Anton Semyonovich Makarenko Reference Archive, with a biographical sketch and the first volume of his major work, The Road to Life (An Epic of Education). This tome is an absorbing chronicle of Makarenko's years as director of the Gorky Labour Colony, a compound for juvenile delinquents in the rural Ukraine in the 1920's. It is also an introduction to Makarenko's still-influential pedagogics.
14 January, 2002: The Women and Marxism: Poetry and fiction page has added the following:
Albert Edwards, excerpt from A Man's World
Albert
Edwards, excerpts from Comrade
Yetta
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Wolf at the Door
May Beals, Bound
May Beals, The Miner's Tale
James Oppenheim,
Bread and Roses
Florence Kiper
Frank, A Girl Strike-Leader
Elsa Barker, Breshkovskaya
Edward King, A Woman's Execution
[Thanks to Sally Ryan]
13 January, 2002: The Polish language Marxist Internet has added
Lenin’sThe Dual Power from the
9th of April 1917.
[Thanks to the MIA Polish Langauge group: Piotr Strebski, Wojtek and Jaroslaw
Grota]
12 January, 2002: The Polish language Marxist Internet has started an
Ernest Mandel Internet
Archive. The first work added is Socialistm on the Eve of 21st Century
[Thanks to the MIA Polish Langauge group: Piotr Strebski, Wojtek and Jaroslaw
Grota]
12 January, 2002: The Fidel Castro History
archive has been redesigned in light of heavy reader traffic, and two important speeches
have been transcribed.
[Thanks to Brian Baggins]
January 3, 1959: The Revolution Begins Now
May Day, 1980: Our
Criminals are Leaving to their Allies in the US
12 January, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has added the following documents:
Report of the
Siberian Delegation (1903)
The Intelligentsia and Socialism
(1910)
Class and Art: Culture
Under the Dictatorship (1924)
Through What Stage Are We Passing?
(1924)
Whither
France?
[Thanks to Robert Barrois]
11 January, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has
added Trotsky’s 1926 speech on science entitled Radio, Science, Technology and
Society
[Thanks to Robert Barrois]
11 January, 2002: The Anton Pannekoek Internet Archive has
added Pannekoek’s 1948 work Revolt of the Scientists
[Thanks to Greg Ardago]
10 January, 2002: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line is
proud to announce the complete set of issues of American
Socialist, newspaper of the American Soclialist Union from the 1950s,
on-line. Included are authors such as Bert Cochran, Harry Braverman & W.E.B.
Du Bois.
[Thanks to Louis Proyect & Andy
Lehrer]
9 January, 2002: We have added two texts—Argentina: Una revolución democrática triunfante and Intervenciones en la Escuela de Cuadros, Argentina - 1984— the Spanish-language Archivo Nahuel Moreno [Thanks to Grupo Socialista Guernica, Argentina]
We have also added the text of Engels' Revolución y contrarrevolución en
Alemania to the Archivo
Marx-Engels, with which we finish uploading the contents of volume one of
Editorial Progreso's Carlos Marx & Federico Engels (1974) Obras Escogidas en 3
tomos.
[Thanks to Juan R. Fajardo]
7 January, 2002: New in the Children's Literature
section is M. Mikhail Ilin's, New Russia's
Primer: The Story of the Five-Year Plan. This book was written for Soviet children
ages 12-14 to introduce them to the First Five-Year plan, (1928-32) and also to the
concepts of social and economic planning. Translated into English in 1931.
[Thanks to Aileen]
6 January, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has
added Trotsky’s 1936 article to the New Militant newspaper 20,000 Oppositionists Expelled
from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
[Thanks to
David Walters]
5 January, 2002: Added to the new Archiv Georg Lukács:
Lenin
– Studie über den Zusammenhang seiner Gedanken (1924) (Lenin – A
Study in the Unity of His Thought)
[Thanks to Einde
O’Callaghan]
2 January, 2002: The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive has
added Trotsky’s 1932 document The Soviet Economy in Danger.
[Thanks to David Walters]
1 January, 2002: Bringing in the New Year the Polish language Marxist Internet Archive has added 6 new works by the Marxist revolutionaries Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg:
Lenin: A Class Shift
(1917)
Trotsky: Their Morals
and Ours (1936)
Trotsky: On Democratic-Centralism & The
Regime (1937)
Rosa Luxemburg: Opportunism and the Art of the Possible
(1898)
Rosa Luxemburg: Burning
Questions (1917)
[Thanks to the MIA Polish Langauge group:
Piotr Strebski, Wojtek and Jaroslaw
Grota]
1 January, 2002:We begin a new year of the Spanish-Language Section with:
The addition of two new articles—El marco histórico de la Revolución Húngara and La Revolución Permanente en la posguerra—to the Archivo Nahuel Moreno [Thanks to Grupo Socialista Guernica, Argentina];
The launching of the Archivo Mijail Bajtin with a text on sobre Francois Rabelais [Thanks to Nacaveva Morales]; and,
The innauguration of Archivo de Referencia Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre for relevant works by that Peruvian populist who polemicized with J. C. Marítegui [Thanks to Juan R. Fajardo]
1 January, 2002: The MIA Children’s
Literature section is pleased to have the first-time published English
translation of Khagendra Sangraula’s short story Mangali’s
Unfinished 'Ka'. Translated from the Nepali original, ‘Mangaliko Adhuro
Ka’ by anthropologist Mary Des Chene.
[Thanks to Mary Des
Chene]
Also new in this section is selected poetry for younger readers by
Nicolás Guillén from the book Cuba
Libre, translated from spanish by Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers
in 1948.
31 December, 2001: We are proud to present the
creation of the Malcolm X archive. This
archive contains audio fragments of the following speeches:
[Thanks to Brian
Baggins]
Ballot or
the Bullet
The
Democrats are Dixicrats
Racist in Reverse?
Black Nationalism
can set us free.
31 December, 2001: Added to the Polish language Marxist Internet Archive:
Leon Trotsky: 90th
Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx: Civil War in France
J. P.
Cannon: About the decision to join the
Trotskyist camp (1928, delivered in 1959)
[Thanks to the MIA
Polish Langauge group: Piotr Strebski, Wojtek and Jaroslaw
Grota]
30 December, 2001: Added to the Eugene V. Debs Internet
Archive is Deb’s 1905 The Coming Union
[Thanks to John-Paul Catusco for the Socialist Labor Party On-Line Daniel De Leon PDF Collection & David
Walters]
30 December, 2001: The Daniel De Leon Internet Archive has added two documents:
Throwing Washington
Overboard (1898)
Clear the
Decks! (1908)
Syndicalism
(1909)
[Thanks to John-Paul Catusco for the Socialist Labor Party On-Line Daniel De Leon PDF
Collection & David Walters]
30 December, 2001: Added to the newly organized [several of these documents had resided on the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line, but were moved to this newly created Marxist Archive] Natalia-Sedova Trotsky Internet Archive:
Father and Son
(1941)
How it Happened
(1941)
Resignation from the Fourth
International (1951)
Corrections to France-Soir Interview
(1961)
[Thanks to Roland Furgerson]
30 December, 2001: Added to the new Zhou Enlai Reference Archive are the following documents:
On Taking
Prompt Punitive Action Against Chiang Kai-Shek (1927)
Frustrate the Enemy's Scheme for a
Sham Peace Campaign (1948)
[Thanks to Roland
Furgerson]
28 December, 2001: Added to the Polish language Marxist Internet Archive:
Appendix to the Leon Trotsky’s book Permanent
Revolution — What is the
Permanent Revolution? Basic Postulates
We've started the new James P. Cannon Internet
Archive in Polish by adding a biography and Cannon's 1939 Speech on the Russian Revolution
Lenin’s Right of Nations to
Self-Determination
[Thank to Piotr Strebski and Wojtek]