What’s New Updates Archive
March 2008
30 March 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive: A Remarkable Book (1931) Murphy reviews Prince D. S. Mirsky’s book Lenin. Mirsky was born into the Russian aristocracy, fought with the Whites during the Civil War and emigrated to Britain in 1921. In 1931 he joined the CPGB, and then returned to the Soviet Union the following year. He was arrested during the Great Purge and died in a labour camp in 1939. Murphy describes the book as “a political event of considerable importance. It is still further evidence of the disintegration in the ranks of the bourgeoisie when its honest intellectuals tell them plainly that their day is done and the day of the proletariat has arrived to lead mankind forward to new conquests in social evolution.” Editorial (1931) An editorial by Murphy for the Communist Review. Murphy summarises and defends the Party’s new (“Third Period”) orientation to international Social Democracy—i.e., in Britain, the Labour Party, I.L.P., trade union bureaucracy, S.D.F., etc.
29 March 2008: Added to the CPGB Documents Section: Class Against Class (1929) The Party’s famous “Third Period” programme.
28 March 2008: Introducing the Clemens Dutt Archive: India Past Present and Future (1922)
28 March 2008: Added to the Harry Pollitt Archive: The British Unions at Plymouth (1923)
12 March 2008: Added to the Emile Burns Archive: New Unions—Are We Afraid of Them? (1929)
12 March 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive:
Choosing Our Leadership: Revolutionary Theory and Clear Political Line (1929) Murphy discusses the Right Danger in the Party and the need to elect a leadership as close as possible to the outlook of the Sixth Congress of the Comintern and the Tenth Plenum of the E.C.C.I. He also elaborates on the difficulties he faced generating discussion of his draft programme, ultimately titled “Class Against Class”.
11 March 2008: Introducing the J. F. Horrabin Archive: In his book An Atlas of Current Affairs (1936), Horrabin writes “No one can read a newspaper intelligently today without some background knowledge of world geography. And the ordinary reference atlas, which perforce aims at crowding as many facts as possible into a minimum of space without regard to particular events, is not perhaps the ideal source for such knowlegdge.” This NEW archive displays some of the maps Horrabin drew for the Party’s first newspaper, The Communist.
11 March 2008: Added to the Albert Inkpin Archive: On the death of C. E. Ruthenberg (1927) Tribute to the General Secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of America.
8 March 2008: Added to the Ellen Wilkinson Archive: The Congress of 1921, Wilkinson’s article for The Communist recounting the events, and her impressions of, the Third Congress of the Comintern.
5 March 2008: Added to the J. T. Murphy Archive: Stalin: 1879-1944 (Book) Murphy’s sympathetic political-biography of Stalin. In it he covers a number of subjects, including the events leading up to the Russian Revolution, the Civil War, Lenin, Trotsky’s expulsion, collectivisation, and the dissolution of the Comintern.
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