The British Road to Socialism (1958) This revised edition of The British Road to Socialism (first adopted in 1952) was printed in February 1958 after long, widespread discussion throughout the Communist Party. A Commission to prepare this revised draft was set up in 1956. It was submitted to the Party Congress in 1957, together with over 1,500 amendments from Party organisations; after the main principles had been decided by the Congress, the draft was remitted to the Executive Committee for a new text to be prepared and finalised after again consulting Party organisations. It was adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist Party in January 1958.

* Updates relating to the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive can also be found on the CPGB’s What’s New Page
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

29 January 2008: Added to the Harry Quelch Archive:
Three articles on militarism from The Social Democrat:

Reform and Revolution, June 1907.
Social Democracy, Nationalism and Imperialism, July 1907.
The Socialist International and the British Trade Unions, September 1907.
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

25 January 2008:Added to the Anti-Imperialism in the Arab World:

Modern History of the Arab Countries by Vladimir Borisovich Lutsky

[Thanks to Andy Blunden and Sam Berner]

24 January 2007: Added to the Daniel DeLeon Internet Archive are the following 19 documents finishing out the month of May of 1905:

1905, May 1—Is There a Crisis Impending?
1905, May 3—By the Way!
1905, May 5—Warsaw and Kamranh Bay
1905, May 6—What’s Amiss?
1905, May 7—“Stealing Thunder”
1905, May 9—East and West
1905, May 13—Sammy and Maxy
1905, May 14—A Dangerous Conclusion
1905, May 15—A Remarkable Editorial
1905, May 16—A Narrow Escape; or, Another Shot That Failed
1905, May 17—Some Sources of Business
1905, May 18—W.K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
1905, May 21—If You Fail, Try Again
1905, May 22—“Abolish the Sweatshop”
1905, May 26—“Giving Testimony”
1905, May 27—Watchers on the Tower
1905, May 28—An Open Letter Across the Pacific
1905, May 30—“Wages"—An Echo of "Wages, Marriage and the Church”
1905, May 31—Why Go to Europe?
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

24 January 2008: Added to the new Leon Trotsky Internet Archive:

Letter on Eastman’s Book [1925]
[Thanks to Martin Fahlgren]

24 January 2008: Added to the new The Clarion Archive:

Beware of Imperialism and Militarism, Wilhelm Liebknecht 21 March 1900
Militarism, Robert Blatchford 31 March 1900
To the Editor of The Clarion, Wilhelm Liebknecht 3 April 1900
To the Editor of The Clarion, J. A. Hobson 14 April 1900
On Militarism, Wilhelm Liebknecht 21 April 1900
Militarism Again: Nunquam’s reply to A. E. Flectcher and W. Liebknecht, Robert Blatchford 28 April 1900
Breakers Ahead, Wilhelm Liebknecht 21 July 1900

[Thanks to Ted Crawford]

23 January 2008: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:

Sterile and Negative Criticism (L’Unit� September 30, 1925)
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]

All the texts listed in the Antonio Gramsci Archive have been published with the kind permission of the translator/copyright holder. However, Lawrence & Wishart, who have published collections of the translations of Quintin Hoare, the most prolific Gramsci translator, claim that Hoare gave the MIA permission in contravention of his contract with them, and consequently, in January 2008, Lawrence & Wishart instructed the M.I.A. to withdraw the Hoare translations. The Marxists Internet Archive always strives to work in a spirit of cooperation with publishers, so as a result, only those translation done by Mitchell Abidor and M Carley under the Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) licence, for marxists.org are provided below.

23 January 2008: Opened the Clara Zetkin archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:

Lênin e o Movimento Feminino, 1920
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

21 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:

A Situação no Cáucaso (I), 1918;
A Situação no Cáucaso (II), 1918;
A Região do Dom e o Cáucaso Setentrional, 1918;
Telegrama a V. I. Lênin, 1918;
Carta a V. I. Lênin, 1918.
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário (Brazil) and Fernando Araújo]

20 January 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:

An Astonishing Speech: Zinoviev Attacks the Russian C.P. Central Committee (1927) A short communication from Murphy in Moscow saying that Zinoviev had levied an unprecedented attack against the CPSU’s Central Committee at a public meeting to celebrate “Press Day.”

Lenin’s Widow (1927) A short report from Murphy in Moscow saying that Krupskaya has broken with the Left Opposition.

How to Fight the War Danger: Comintern Executive Meets in Moscow (1927) A short report of the agenda of the upcoming Sixth Congress of the Comintern.

Tomsky’s Appeal to Workers: Anglo-Russian Questions That Are Being Asked (1927) An update on discussions between Tomsky and the British Trade Union General Council concerning the Anglo-Russian Committee.

Malicious Rumours: Russians Do NOT Wish to Break Up Anglo-Russian Committee (1927) Murphy denies rumours that the Soviet trade unions are intent on breaking up the Anglo-Russian Committee.

Communists in China: May Leave the Wuhan Government (1927) An update from Murphy announcing that Bukharin has called on Chinese Communists to leave the Nationalist Government of the Kuomintang because it has outlived its role as the organising-center of the revolution.

Miners’ Helpers Attacked: Disgraceful Outburst of I.F.T.U. Leader (1927) Soviet trade unions repond to the International Federation of Trade Union (Amsterdam) assertion that the Russians gave �1,000,000 to striking British miners for propaganda purposes only.

Bauer’s Pacifism: Communist International’s Manifesto (1927)

Menshevik Trial: Light Sentences for Anti-Soviet Plotters (1927) brief report on the sentences of Georgian Mensheviks tried and convicted of counter revolutionary activities.

“Sacco-Vanzettis” Everywhere: Dramatic Scenes in Moscow at Funeral Hour (1927) Murphy reports from Moscow on happenings in Russia following the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti in America.

A First Meeting With Comrade Lenin (1928) Murphy briefly recounts his first meeting with Lenin.

MacDonald—The Christian Tory (1928) Murphy criticizes MacDonald’s opposition to disarmament and argues that only a workers’ revolutionary State can ever be the custodian of real disarmament and the instrument for ending all war.

The Communist Party and the “Bloody” Revolution (1928) Murphy addresses charges that Communists advocate violent revolution. He says that Communists want Social Revolution, but the blood question is up to the capitalists.

Labour Completes Flight to Liberalism (1928) Murphy argues that the Labour Party’s 1928 platform is inspired, not by the demands of the ever-intensifying class war, but by the policy of “social peace” and class collaboration.

Co-Ops. and Empire: The Shame of a Great Working-Class Movement (1928) Murphy argues that the current co-operative movement is in the service of Imperialism and needs to have relations, trading and political, with independent co-operative movements of the colonial countries, help them to develop on the basis of independent movements and assist them in the struggle of national liberation.

* Updates relating to the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive can also be found on the CPGB’s What’s New Page
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

19 January 2008: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:

Newspapers and the Workers (Avanti!, 22 December 1916)
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]

19 January 2008: Added to the Lenin Internet Archive:

Conspectus of Hegel’s Book Lectures On the Philosophy of History, including the fragment "Hegel on World History", V.I. Lenin, 1915
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]

18 January 2008: Added to the Lenin Internet Archive:

Conspectus of Hegel’s Book Lectures On the History of Philosophy, V.I. Lenin, 1915
[Thanks to Kevin Goins]

16 January 2008: Opened the Mikhail Kalinin archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:

Sobre a Educação, 1940
[Thanks to Jornal "A Verdade" and Fernando Araújo]

15 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:

Uma Nova Mentira, 1918.
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário and Fernando Araújo]

15 January 2008: Added to the Marxism in Japan page:

Credit and Credit Money— This is one chapter of a lengthy 1932 book entitled Kin no keizai (Political Economy of Gold) by Tsunao Inomata (1889-1942), which dealt with both the essential theory of money and the financial system in its complexity, paying particular attention to the currency system and inflation. Inomata was a Japanese Marxist economist associated with the so-called Rō ō school of Marxism, which was in opposition to the Kōza school associated with the Japanese Communist Party and whose members would largely gravitate toward the Socialist Party after World War Two (although Inomata himself had died several years prior to that point). In the prewar period, Inomata wrote a number of books on the financial system, developing his own theory of "currency inflation." Kin no keizai sold extremely well, despite being heavily censored by the Japanese government (as can be seen in the final paragraph of "Credit and Credit Money"), reflecting the wide interest in theoretical questions regarding the currency system at a time when countries were quickly moving away from the gold standard in the midst of the global economic depression
[Thanks to M. Schauerte]

14 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:

Contra a Guerra e a Dominação Imperialista Ianque, em Defesa da Independência Nacional, 1949l. Wrote by Pedro Pomar.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

13 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:

Intervenções na Conferência Para a Convocação do Congresso Constituinte da República Soviética Tártaro-Bachkíria, 1918.
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário and Fernando Araújo]

12 January 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:

Labour’s “Peace” Policy (1934)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

12 January 2008: Added to the R. Page Arnot Archive:

The British Trade Union Congress (1936)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

12 January 2008: Added to the Harry Pollitt Archive:

In Memoriam—Comrade Shapurji Saklatvala (1936)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

12 January 2008: Added to the George Rawick Archive:

A Good ’Un (1966) (Review of a book about Marx’s Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

12 January 2008: Added to the Clara Zetkin Archive:

Organising Working Women (1922) (Extracts from Zetkin’s report to the 4th Congress of the Comintern on women’s organisation)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]

12 January 2008: Added to the International Socialism Archive (1958-1968):

Added to the International Socialism Archive (1969-1974):

Chris Harman: US Arms for Chile’s Generals (1973)
Eamonn McCann: Ireland – the Gathering Storm (1973)
Chris Harman: Russia in Crisis? (1970)
Reg Groves: Against the Stream – Some Recollections of a Revolutionary between the Wars (Part 1) (1973)
Nigel Harris: The Anarchist Argument (1973) (extended book review)
Colin Barker: Class and Society in Soviet Russia (1973) (book review)
Eamonn McCann: The Autobiography of Terence O’Neill (1973) (book review)
Icy Weather (1973) (editorial)
Another Goad – and the AUEW ‘Broad Left’ (1973) (editorial)
Editor: Letter to Readers (1973)
Roger Rosewall: The Seaman’s Struggle (1973)
Tirril Harris: WR – World Revolution or Wistful Revisionism? by (1973)
Jim Kincaid: Inequality and the Freeze (1973)
Liz Nash: Rosa Luxemburg (1973) (book review)
David Shonfield: 1905 (1973) (book review)
R. Muldoon: Young Soviet Film Makers (1973) (book review)
Books Received (1973)

Added to the International Socialism Archive (1974-1978):

11 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Amazonas Archive:

1935: Assim se Conta a História (A Verdade Sobre 35)
[Thanks to Diego Grossi Pacheco and Fernando Araújo]

10 January 2007: Added to the Daniel DeLeon Internet Archive are the following 25 documents finishing out the month of April of 1905:

1905, April 1—Dangerous!—Extremely So!
1905, April 2—A Grim Humorist
1905, April 3—"The Coming Slavery" Aleady Here
1905, April 5—Good for Berger!
1905, April 6—Two Letters
1905, April 8—Wash Out the Baby!
1905, April 9—Blurting the Truth
1905, April 10—Labor Organization, Past and Present
1905, April 11—Throwing Tubs to the Whale
1905, April 12—The Rule, Not the Exception
1905, April 13—The Grand Junction Scheme
1905, April 14—The Productivity of the Criminal
1905, April 15—Potato-Heads
1905, April 16—Open Letter to John F. O'Brien...
1905, April 17—Greater Combinations Coming?
1905, April 20—["A.M. Simons, Editor"]
1905, April 21—"Police Powers"
1905, April 22—A Development
1905, April 23—Jingoism
1905, April 23—An Address to the Members of the ST&LA
1905, April 25—A Chamber of Horrors
1905, April 26—"Wages"—An Echo of "Wages, Marriage and the Church"
1905, April 28—Refracting Information
1905, April 29—And Capitalism Is Not Paternal!
1905, April 30—The Trautmann Case
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the United States]

9 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:

Os Que Estão Assustados Com a Falência do Velho e os Que Lutam Pelo Novo, 1918
[Thanks to CECAC - Centro Cultural Antônio Carlos de Carvalho and Fernando Araújo]

9 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:

A Rada Burguesa de Kíev, 1918.
Teses Gerais Sobre a Constituição da República Socialista Federativa Soviética da Rússia, 1918;
Telegrama ao V Congresso dos Soviets do Turquestão, 1918;
Os Contra-Revolucionários da Transcaucásia Sob a Máscara do Socialismo, 1918.
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário and Fernando Araújo]

9 January 2008: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:

Maximalism and Extremism, 1925
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]

9 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Amazonas Archive:

70 Anos de um Partido que se Tempera na Luta, 1992
[Thanks to Diego Grossi Pacheco and Fernando Araújo]

9 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Prestes Archive:

Participemos Ativamente das Eleições Municipais, 1947
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

7 January 2008: Added to the William Gallacher Archive:

Marxism and the Working Class (1943)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]

7 January 2008: Added to the German Anton Pannekoek Archive:

Marxistische Theorie und revolutionäre Taktik (1913)
[Thanks to J.L. Wilm]

7 January 2008: Added to the Sezione italiano Marx-Engels Archive:

Spostamento del centro di gravit� mondiale, Marx 1850
[Thanks to Stella Rossa]

7 January 2008: Added to the Antonio Gramsci Archive:

Character (Grido del Popolo, 3 March 1917)
[Translated by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org]

MIA now has 3 Gramsci texts, translated into English from the original by MIA volunteers:
Character (Grido del Popolo, 3 March 1917)
Speech to the Italian parliament (16 May 1925)
Letter to Palmiro Togliatti (26 October 1926)
More are to follow.

7 January 2008: Added to the Paris May 1968 Archive:

CFDT Declaration of May 13

7 January 2008: Added to the French Revolution Archive:

Patriotic Song for the Inauguration of the Busts of Marat and Lepeletier, 1793

7 January 2008: Added to the Emile Pouget Archive:

Authority Kills Love, 1898

7 January 2008: Added to the Paul Nizan Archive:

Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Nausea”, 1938
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]

4 January 2008:Added to the Spanish Karl Radek Archive :

Los senderos de la Revoluci�n Rusa (1922).
[Thanks to Centro de Estudios, Investigaciones y Publicaciones "Leon Trotsky", Buenos Aires - Argentina]

Started: an archive for the Spanish-language versions of the works of Flora Trist�n, with initial entries of selections from her 1840 book, Paseos en Londres: Mujeres p�blicas, Las mujeres inglesas, and Asilos.

3 January 2008:Added to the German Ernest Belfort Bax Archive :

Die materialistische Geschichtsauffassung (11.07 1896).
[Thanks to J.L. Wilm]

2 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:

Cartas de Longe, 1917
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]

1 January 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:

Direito à Memória e à Verdade.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]

January 2008

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