Raymond W. Postgate, ed. Revolution from 1789 to 1906.

Contents

Preface to the Torchbook Edition

Preface

I – THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1789

SECTION I. PROLOGUE

Introduction

1 – The American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

SECTION II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1789-1796

Introduction

2 – Oath of the National Assembly, June 20, 1789

3 – J. P. Marat: Ami du Peuple, No. xi, September 21, on the Decree of August 4, 1789

4 – Resolution of the Cordeliers, October 4, 1789

5 – Declaration of the Rights of Man, signed October 5, 1789

6 – Decree Confiscating Church Lands, November 2, 1789

7 – J. P. Marat: C’en est fait de nous, July 26, 1790

8 – Comte de Mirabeau: Speech on Émigrés, February 28, 1791

9 – Law on Associations: June 14, 1791

10 – Declaration of the Cordeliers Club, June 22, 1791

11 – Manifesto Signed in the Champs de Mars, July 16, 1791

12 – Declaration of Pillnitz, August 27, 1791

13 – Address of the Forty-Seven Sections, August 3, 1792

14 – (Girondin) Law on Communal Lands, August 14, 1792

15 – G. J. Danton: Speech (on Property), September 21, 1792

16 – Address of the Jacobins Club, dated April 13, 1793

17 – M. M. I. Robespierre: Speech (on Property), April 24, 1793

18 – M. E. Guadet: Speech Moving the Suppression of the Commune, May 18, 1793

19 – (Jacobin) Law on Communal Lands, June 10, 1793

20 – J. R. Hebert: Père Duchesne on Marat’s death, July 15, 1793

21 – Decree on Feudal Rights, July 17, 1793

22 – J. R. Hebert: Père Duchense on Business Men, September 1, 1793

23 – B. C. Desmoulins: Last Number of the Vieux Cordelier, March, 1794

24 – S. Maréchal: Manifesto of the Equals, May, 1796

25 – F. N. Babeuf: «Analysis of his Doctrine,» May, 1796

26 – «Soldier, Stop and Read,» May, 1796

27 – F. N. Babeuf: Draft of Decree, May, 1796

II – INTERMEDIATE

SECTION I. IRELAND, 1786

Introductiony

28 – Letter addressed to the Munster Peasantry, July 1, 1786

29 – Declaration of the Belfast Volunteers, July 14, 1791

30 – Oath of the United Irishmen (first form), 1792

31 – Oath of the United Irishmen (later form), 1795

32 – Proclamation by John Sheares, intended for May 24, 1798

33 – Proclamation by Robert Emmet, July 23, 1803

SECTION II. THE MUTINY AT THE NORE, 1797

Introduction

34 – Nore Seamen’s Oath

35 – Nore Seamen’s Song, No. 13

36 – Manifesto of the Delegates to their Countrymen, June 6, 1797

37 – Resolution of the Sandwich Committee, June 7, 1797

SECTION III. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1830

Introduction

38 – Summary of the Republican Programme, July, 1830

39 – Declaration of the Lyons Chiefs of Sections, November 23, 1831

III – THE REVOLUTIONARY BRITISH WORKING CLASS, 1832-1854

SECTION I. THE TRADES UNIONS, 1832-1834

Introduction

40 – R. Owen: Address to the Operative Builders, August 26, 1833

41 – R. Owen: Lecture, September 8, 1833

42 – Proposals for a Builders’ Guild, September 21, 1833

43 – Derby Committee Report, December 30, 1833

44 – J. E. Smith: Second Letter on Associated Labour, March 22, 1834

45 – The Legacy of Robert Owen to the World, March 29, 1834

46 – J. E. Smith: «On the Prospects of Society,» March 30, 1834

47 – The Herald of the Rights of Industry on an 8-hours day, April 5, 1834

48 – Grand National Consolidated Trades Union Programme and Manifesto, April 15, 1834

49 – R. Owen: Lecture (on the Pioneer), April 27, 1834

50 – The Crisis: Leader Deprecating Strikes, May 3, 1834

51 – The «Document» (London Tailors), May 23, 1834

SECTION II. CHARTISM, 1837-1854

Introduction

52 – Bronterre’s National Reformer, No. 1, Statement of Aims, January 7, 1837

53 – London Working-men’s Association, Petition of February 18, 1837

54 – P. Bussey: Speech on Arming, October 15, 1838

55 – Feargus O’Connor: Speech on Physical Force, November 6, 1838

56 – Rev. J. R. Stephens: The Political Preacher, January 6, 1839

57 – J. C. Coombe: «What is the Object of the Charter?» April 27, 1839

58 – The Eight Questions of the Convention, May 13, 1839

59 – Insurrectionary Leaflet of May 23, 1839

60 – Convention’s Resolutions on the Birmingham Riot, July 4, 1839

61 – The First National Petition, July 12, 1839

62 – Extracts from the Second National Petition, May 2, 1842

63 – Resolution and Placard Calling the General Strike, August 12, 1842

64 – Feargus O’Connor on Communism, 1847

65 – Resolutions of the Convention, April 5, 1848

66 – Ernest Jones: Song of the Lower Classes, 1854

IV – THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848

Prologue: The Communist Manifesto

Introduction

67 – The Communist Manifesto, 1847

SECTION I. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1848-1851

Introduction

68 – Louis Blanc: Organisation of Labour, Conclusion, 1839

69 – Ledru-Rollin: Election Address, July, 1841

70-72 – Proclamations of Provisional Governments, February 24, 1848

73-76 – Decrees of February 25, 1848

77 – L. A. Blanqui: Speech on February 26, 1848

78 – Decree Instituting National Workshops, February 28, 1848

79 – Gloveworkers’ Election Placard to the Luxembourg, March, 1848

80 – A. de Lamartine: Manifesto to Europe, March 2, 1848

81 – Decree Abolishing Sub-Contracting, March 2, 1848

82 – E. Thomas: Proposals on National Workshops to the Government on March 5, 1848

83 – Committee of the Luxembourg Assembly, March 10, 1848

84 – Louis Blanc: Programme Outlined on March 20, 1848

85 – E. Thomas: Conversations with M. Marie, March 20-28, 1848

86-87 – Conciliation Awards of the Luxembourg (Plumbers and Paviors), 1848

88 – Election Placard of the Luxembourg, April, 1848

89 – E. Thomas: Workshop Regulations, April, 1848

90 – A. Barbès: Placard Concerning the Rouen Massacres, April 29, 1848

91 – Documents Prepared for Issue on May 15, 1848: (a), Provisional Government; (b), Seven Decrees

92 – Decrees Actually Issued on May 15, 1848

93 – Decree on the Workshops Prepared for May 24, Issued June 21, 1848

94 – Louis Pujol: Prophecy of Days of Blood, June, 1848

95 – Luxembourg and Workshops: Joint Placard, June 18, 1848

96 – Insurgents’ Proclamations, June 26, 1848

97-100 – Proclamations and Facts of the June Revolt, 1848

101 – Ledru-Rollin: On Family and Property, August 25, 1848

102 – L. A. Blanqui: Extracts from the Critique Sociale, 1849

SECTION II. THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION, 1848-1849

Introduction

103 – Summary of the Bill on the Magyar Tongue, February 29, 1848

104 – Six Points Moved by Kossuth, March 18, 1848

105 – The Hungarian Declaration of Independence, April 19, 1849

106 – Abdication of the Provisional Government, August 11, 1849

SECTION III. THE ITALIAN REVOLUTION, 1848-1849

Introduction

107 – «Manifesto to the European Peoples» after the Expulsion of the Austrians from Milan, March 23, 1848

108 – Letter of Manin on Socialism, January 14, 1849

109 – Decree of the Roman Republic on Necessitous Citizens, April 4, 1849

110 – Roman Republic Decree on Peasant Proprietorship and on Division of Church Lands, April, 1849

111 – Last Proclamation of the Venetian Ministry of Marine, August 9, 1849

SECTION IV. THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1848-1849

Introduction

112 – Programme of the Offenburg Conference, Winter, 1847

113 – Anonymous Republican Poster, March, 1848

114 – Hanau People’s Commission, Instructions to the Elector, March 9, 1848

115 – Austrian Emperor’s Proclamation, March 14, 1848

116 – «The Democrats to the Soldiers»: Pamphlet of March, 1848

117 – King of Prussia: Proclamation «To My Beloved Berliners,» March 18, 1848

118 – L. Feuerbach: Letter on Economic Conditions, April 3, 1848

119 – Minutes of the First Meeting of the Berlin Arbeiter Club, April 6, 1848

120 – Fr. Hecker on the First Baden Revolt, April, 1848

121 – G. Struve: The Republican Official Gazette, No. 1, September 22, 1848

122 – Austrian Diet: Proceedings on October 7 and 8, 1848

123 – Resolutions of the Revolutionary Assembly, May 13, 1849

SECTION V. THE IRISH REVOLUTIONARIES OF 1848

Introduction

124 – Resolutions Moved by W. Smith O’Brien, February 3, 1848

125 – From John Mitche’s Letters to Ulstermen, April and May, 1848

126 – The Irish Felon on the Suppression of the June Revolt in Paris, July 1, 1848

127 – From J. Fintan Lalor’s The Faith of a Felon, July 8, 1848

EPILOGUE

Introduction

128 – The Republican Manifesto of Kossuth, Mazzini, and Ledru-Rollm Issued on the Fall of Sebastopol, September, 1855

V – THE COMMUNE OF PARIS

Introduction

129 – La Patrie en Danger, No. 50, by L. A. Blanqui, October 30, 1870

130 – Manifesto of the Central Committee, March 20, 1871

131 – First Proclamations of the Commune, March 29, 1871

132 – J. B. Millière: «The Revolution of 1871» in La Commune, April 3, 1871

133 – The Commune: «To the Departments,» April 6, 1871

134 – Decree on the Vendôme Column, April 12, 1871

135 – Decree on Co-operative Workshops, April 16, 1871

136 – Jules Nostag: «Country-Humanity» in La Révolution, April 16, 1871

137 – Programme of the Commune, April 19, 1871

138 – Mme. A. Léo: «Revolution Without Women» in La Sociale, May 8, 1871

139 – P. Grousset: Official Manifesto «To the Great Towns, May 15, 1871

140 – Declaration of the Minority, May 15, 1871

141 – Ch. Delescluze’s Last Proclamation, May 22, 1871

142 – Manifesto of the General Council of the International, called «The Civil War in France,» May 30, 1871

VI – THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1905

Introduction

143 – Petition of the Workers to the Tsar, January 22, 1905

144 – Gapon’s Letter After the Massacre, January 22, 1905

145 – Resolution of the Social Democratic Party, January 23, 1905

146 – Resolution of the St. Petersburg Advocates, January 23, 1905

147 – Resolution of the Novgorod Zemstvo, January, 1905

148 – Message of the Holy Synod, January 27, 1905

149 – Message of the Tsar, February 1, 1905

150 – L. Trotsky: The Events in St. Petersburg, February 2, 1905

151A – Announcement of the Execution of the Grand Duke Sergius by the Organisation of Combat, February 18, 1905

151B – Defence of the Act by the Moscow Social Revolutionaries, February 18, 1905

152 – From the Tsar’s Manifestoes of March 3, 1905

153 – Black Hundred Manifestoes of April and May, 1905

154 – First Programme of the Peasants’ Union, May, 1905

155 – Resolution of the June Congress of Lettish Social Democrats, 1905

156 – Manifesto of the Rebel Sailors in the Black Sea, June 27, 1905

157 – Resolution at the Foundation of the Petrovsk Branch of the Peasants’ Union, July, 1905

158 – Reports to the Congress of the Peasants’ Union, July 31, 1905

159 – Resolution of the All-Russia Zemstvo Congress, September 25, 1905

160 – Orthodox Pogrom Circular, October, 1905

161 – Minutes of the St. Petersburg Soviet during the Second General Strike, November 14 to 19, 1905

162 – Resolution passed simultaneously all over Lettonia, November, 1905

163 – Declaration of the Khvalinshin Peasants upon the Terror, November, 18, 1905

164 – First Common Manifesto ofthe Russian Socialist Parties, December 13, 1905

165 – «Appeal to the Civilised World» by the Lettish Social Democratic Union, May, 1906

166 – The Viborg Manifesto, July 23, 1906

APPENDIX

167 – Debates of the First International on Workers’ Control