Archives
Writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin, as well as hundreds of others, and a history and encyclopedia of the international workers movement
Marx-Engels Complete Works. In German, as downloadable PDFs
Writings of Marcuse, Adorno, Benjamin, Horkheimer and others. For the full on-line text of Marcuse’s ‘One-Dimensional Man.’ click HERE
Rosa Luxemburg Resources Online
‘Red Rosa’s’ writings, biography, photos and links to more.
Hundreds of films on politics, economics, science and other topics, suitable for classes and study groups.
Peking/Beijing Review Archives
From 1951 to the late 1990s. Some issues are missing, but the Mao years are fairly complete. All in the form of downloadable PDF files. Invaluable for research on China.
1971 Film: The Black Panther Party and the Murder of Fred Hampton
This 90-minute black-and-white film has remarkable footage capturing the revolutionary spirit of the BPP. Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 — December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Party. His family won a civil suit against the City of Chicago, but his killers remain free. Good for the discussion of insurgent Black youth and revolutionary politics in the 1960s.
Biography of Ho Chi Minh in 45 minute video. Ho Chi Minh was not only the founder of Vietnamese communism, he was the very soul of the revolution and of Vietnam’s struggle for independence. His personal qualities of simplicity, integrity, and determination were widely admired, not only within Vietnam but elsewhere as well.
SNCC and the Black Panther Party Archives. Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Fred Hampton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rap Brown, Stolely Carmichael Angela Davis and other Black leaders from the 1960s and 1970s. Some Videos, and dozens of mp3 files.
Who Speaks for the Negro? Robert Penn Warren’s 1965 collection of interviews with the rising generation of Black leaders, including Bob Moses of SNCC, in both audio files and searchable text.
The Young Lords in Chicago Archives. The remarkable collection grows out of the ongoing struggle for fair housing, self-determination, and human rights that was launched by Mr. José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords Movement. This project is dedicated to documenting the history of the displacement of Puerto Ricans, Mejicanos, other Latinos, and the poor from Lincoln Park, as well as the history of the Young Lords nationwide. Highlights include a rich collection of more than 80 oral histories, some as video and audio files, and historical photographs, papers, and clippings.
The cyRev Archives. For a period of about five years in the 1990s, a periodic journal was published, edited by Carl Davidson, that forecast many of the ideas of 21st century socialism, cybernation, computers, social networks and the impact of globalization. The full text of all the issues, in about 100 articles, are preserved at this site. The original manifesto of the group’s views, ‘ The Promise and Peril of the Third Wave,’ by Carl Davidson, Jerry Harris and Ivan Handler, is in the first issue.
The ‘Continental Philosophy’ Archives. Hundreds of links from dozens of schools of thought from Nietzsche to Existentialism, Pragmatism and the Frankfurt School
LibCom’s ‘Revolutionary Reading Guide’ According to the author, the “latest version of this guide has a distinctly different structure and includes many different types of Marxism and finally accords Anarchism its rightful place as a revolutionary tradition, rather than just another utopianism or “petty bourgeois individualism”. I have also tried to help resurrect a subterranean tradition within Marxism that gets obscured by the power and prominence of Leninist organizations (whether Stalinist, Trotskyist, Maoist or others). This tradition includes people who may be more or less faithful, who may or may not have been activists, and whose ideas need not have been consistent. Just to give some sense, I include in this list Bloch, Adorno, Dunayevskaya, CLR James, Selma James, Luxemburg, Agnoli, Tronti, Debord, the early Lukacs, Korsch, Castoriadas, Pannekoek, Mattick, Gorter, Rubin, Serge, early Negri, and Pashukanis, to name some of the most prominent names.”
The Situationist International (SI) was a group of revolutionaries based mainly in Europe with very restricted membership. Founded in 1957, it reached its peak of influence in the May 1968 protests in France. With their ideas rooted in Marxism and the 20th-century European artistic avant-gardes, they advocated experiences of life alternative to those admitted by advanced capitalism, for the fulfillment of human desires. Their theoretical work peaked with the highly influential book ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ in which Guy Debord argued that the spectacle is a fake reality which masks capitalist degradation of human life. To overthrow this system, the SI supported the May ’68 revolts, and called for workers to occupy their factories and to run them through workers’ councils. Here are many of their writings in English
Film Archives of the Communist Party of France
The audio-visual collections of the French Communist Party and of the democratic and labor movements have been put together this precious data base of over 1200 French-language films. Do you want to learn about the Second World War? About the Popular Front, the Resistance, the Spanish Civil War, the May 1968 events? It’s all here, and much more. Brush up on your French, and enjoy…
The PLOS mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything that we publish is open-access – freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing research encourages progress, from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.
A portal to the video and mp3 files from all the ‘Socialism’ conferences put together by the International Socialist Organization–as well as related study materials, including a fascinating Scottish film of the life and times of Antonio Gramsci.
Links to the entire Collected Works of J.V. Stalin
Links to the selected works of Leon Trotsky, as well as an encyclopedia of the Trotskyist movement
Links to the writings if major anarchism theoreticians, pas and present, and assorted documents.
Links to the five volumes of Mao’s Collected Works, the Red Book and a few others.
Online e-book access to Deng’s Collected Works
Selected documents by Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen, leaders in China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’
Hundred of audio recordings of historical speeches and debates on social, culture and political themes
The classic selection for schools teaching the ‘Great Books’ curriculum, but it includes links to the complete online texts for all of them
The Harry Haywood Archives. Contains links to online version of some of his books, and lesser-known writings.
