August 2008
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4 August 2008: Added to the German Archiv Otto Bauer:
Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (The Nationalisty Question and Social Democracy) (1907) (The position of Otto Bauer and teh Austromarxists on the national question is largely known today because of Lenin’ critique of some of its aspects – now it is possible to read the original and compare it with Lenin’ critique or the presentation in Stalin’ pamphlet on the national question)
Die österreichische Revolution (The Austrian Revolution) (1923) (Report on the Austrian revolution, about which very little information is available, from a leading participant – after reading it I felt I understood for the first time why Trotsky and Lenin were so contemptuous of the Austromarxists)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
4 August 2008: Added to the German Archiv Wladimir Lenin:
Die Aufgaben der revolutionären Jugend (The tasks of revolutionary youth –: September 1903)
Marxismus und Revisionismus (Marxism and revisionism – April 1908)
Die sozialistische Revolution und das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Nationen (The socialist revolution and the right of nations to self-determination – January/February 1916)
Der Imperialismus und die Spaltung des Sozialismus (Imperialism and the split in socialism – October 1916)
Eine der Kernfragen der Revolution (One of the central questions of the revolution – September 1917)
[Thanks to Marxistische Bibliothek (now defunct)]
Sozialismus und Religion (Socialism and Religion – December 1905)
Über das Verhältnis der Arbeiterpartei zur Religion (On the relationship of the workers’ party to religion – May 1909)
Über die Bedeutung des streitbaren Materialismus (On the meaning of militant materialism – March 1922)
[Thanks to www.payer.de]
4 August 2008: Added to the German Archiv Leo Trotzki:
Ein Sieg Hitlers bedeutet: Krieg gegen die UdSSR (I see war with Germany –: December 1931)
Die Tragödie des deutschen Proletariats (The Tragedy of the German Proletariat – March 1933)
Über das „jüdische Problem“ (On the Jewish Question – February 1934)
Lenin und der imperialistische Krieg (Lenin and the imperialist war – December 1938)
[Thanks to Marxistische Bibliothek (now defunct)]
4 August 2008: Added to the German Archiv Clara Zetkin:
Bürgerlicher und proletarischer Patriotismus (Bourgeois and proletarian patriotism – September 1907)
Über die internationale Bedeutung der russischen Revolution (On the internaional significance of the Russian Revolution – November 1922)
Der genialste revolutionäre Realpolitiker (The most brilliant practitioner of revolutionary Realpolitik – January 1924 1928)
Rede zu Ehren Lenins (Speech in memory of Lenin – January 1924))
Lenin – Schwert und Flamme des Weltproletariats (Lenin – sword and flame of the world proletariat) (February 1924)
Erinnerungen an Lenin (Memories of Lenin – January 1925) (1929)
Zum Tode Felix Dzierzynskis (On the Death of Felix Dzherzhinsky) (July 1926)
Die geistige Krise der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft und der ideologische Kampf der Kommunistischen Partei (The intellectual crisis of bourgeois society and the ideological struggle of the Communist Party – November 1926)
Brief an Nikolai Bucharin (Letter to Nikolai Bukharin – September 1927)
Brief an das ZK der KPD (Letter to the CC of the KPD) (October 1927)
Schützt den einzigen Friedensstaat! (Defend the only peace state!– November 1927)
Lenins Werk (Lenin’s Work January 1928)
Brief an Jossif Pjatnitzki (Letter to Josef Piatnitsky – June 1929)
Für den Sozialismus, gegen Krieg und Intervention! (For socialism, against war and intervention! – March 1932)
Brief an den antifaschistischen Einheitskongreß in Berlin (Letter to the anti-fascist unity congress in Berlin – July 1932)
Rede als Alterspräsidentin bei der Eröffnung des Reichstags (Speech as Motehr of the House at the opening of the Reichstag – August 1932)
[Thanks to Marxistische Bibliothek (now defunct)]
3 August 2008: Added to the new C L R James Archive:
Capitalist Society and the War, New International, July 1940
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
2 August 2008: Introducing the NEW Tom Wintringham Archive:
The End of an Experiment
The Road to Caporetto
Comrades of Jarama
* 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 Phyll Smith]
August 2, 2008: The Dutch Language Section has added 18 documents:
Leo Michielsen
Klassenstrijd
Antoon Roosens
Diensten, waarde en meerwaarde
Paul Verbraeken
Mexico: anatomie van een crisis
Een Europese puinhoop
Nadia De Beule
Met de loupe op zoek naar de Belgische trotskisten in de Spaanse arena
Ernest Mandel
De crisis van het Midden-Oosten — Van de Irakese revolutie tot de westerse interventie
Proef op de som in Canada: federalisme en structuurhervormingen
Leve socialistisch Cuba!
De monopolies
Cuba 1967 en de eerste conferentie van de OLAS
Leon Trotski
Belgische perspectieven
Arbeiders en Theorie
De vakbondskwestie
Over driestheid
De fouten van de ASR
Murray Bookchin
Radicale politiek in een tijdperk van voortdurend kapitalisme
De betekenis van het confederalisme
Libertair municipalisme: een overzicht
[BTNG, Piet Andries, Valeer Vantyghem, Rafa Grinfeld, DACOB, Adrien Verlee]
2 August 2008: Added to the Portuguese Stalin Archive:
À "Krestianskaia Gazeta", 1924;
[Thanks to Partido Comunista Revolucionário (Brazil) and Fernando Araújo]
2 August 2008: Added to the Amadeo Bordiga Archive:
Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi, Amadeo Bordiga, 1960
If all there was to this article was its mechanistic reduction of Marxism, its denial of human agency in the most horrific of acts, its diminution of the person to a mere conduit for class interests, “Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi” would be merely another betrayal of the richness of Marx’s thought. When we add its callous and cold treatment of the Holocaust as a simple “ejection from the productive process” of millions of humans, its foreshadowing of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s dismissal of the event as a “point of detail” of the Second World War, it attains to odium. And finally, when we take into account its posterity, its use as a basis for the small current of the (primarily French) left that indulged in Holocaust denial, its true horror is laid bare.
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]
1 August 2008 The Canadian Socialist History Project has added the following documents:
A Canadian at the Comintern First Publication in English! OBU leader Joe Knight spoke in Moscow in 1921 on the lessons of the Winnipeg General Strike.
Red Patch A book-length account of political imprisonment in Hull, Quebec, during World War II. (PDF: 466 kb)
Wages for Housework? From a 1970 discussion in the LSA/LSO
[Thanks to the Canadian Socialist History Project]
1 August 2008 The French Language Section of the MIA has added the following documents by V.I.Lenin:
La guerre et le Gouvernement provisoire
Un mensonge éhonté des capitalistes
Discours aux soldats prononcé au meeting du régiment Izmailovski. Le 10 (23) avril 1917.
Les partis politiques en Russie et les tâches du prolétariat
Lettres sur la tactique
Lettres de loin
Sur la dualité du pouvoir
A la manière de Louis Blanc
Projet d'article ou de discours à l'appui des thèses d'avril
Deux mondes
Comment nous sommes venus
Les soldats et la terre
Une voix honnête dans le chœur des calomniateurs
«Accord à l'amiable» entre propriétaires fonciers et paysans ?
Citoyens ! Apprenez en quoi consistent les procédés des capitalistes de tous les pays !
Contre les fauteurs de violences
Aux soldats et aux marins
Une révélation importante
Banques et ministres
Le cartel du mensonge
Sur les traces de la Rousskaïa Volia
Comment ils se sont livrés pieds et poings liés aux capitalistes
Notre position
A propos du retour des émigrés
Liberté de critique et unité d'action (mai 1906)
Le congrès des députés paysans
La conférence de Pétrograd-ville du P.O.S.D.(b)R., 14-22 avril (27 avril-5 mai) 1917
[Thanks to our French language volunteers]
31 July 2008: Added to the Montoneros History Section:
Spilled Blood Will Not be Negotiated, August 22 1973
[Thanks to Mitchell Abidor]