Contact Us:
If you have a general question for MIA, you can mail the Admin. Ctee. at march-admins@marxists.org
If you came here wondering who we are, you may want to visit our Introduction page instead.
If you have a question for a particular volunteer or section of the site, click on their name below to send them a mail. Please note that we are an active organisation – any mail you send should get a respond within acouple of days at most. If you have problems hearing from us, it could be that your mail was mistakenly classified as spam.
MIA Volunteers and Administrators
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Mitch Abidor (Biography)
Chandrika Adhikari
Fernando Araújo
Victor Barraza
Mike B. (Biography)
Sam Berner (Biography)
Biswaroop Bhowmick
Andy Blunden (Biography)
Kaveh Boveiri
Ted Crawford (Biography)
Marcus Carlstedt
Lam Chi
Rong Chai
Tim Davenport
Paul Dillon
Emil
Juan Fajardo (Biography)
Ferreiro Daponte
Franco Iacomella (Biography)
Frank
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Kevin Goins
Stevan Gostojić:
Hasan
Kaj Henriksson
Jonas Holmgren
Liviu Iacob
Behzad Javaheri
Stephane Julien
Amin Kazemi
Fréderic Lehembre
Juhani Lohikoski |
Nikos Loudos
Jaume López
Rob Lucas
Mahmoud
Rolf Martens
Vinícius Valentin Raduan Miguel
Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha
Adi Moretti
Einde O’Callaghan (Biography)
Patrik Olofsson
Philippe
Steve Palmer
Diego Grossi Pacheco
Brian Reid (Biography)
Miika Salo
Sanjeewa
Michael Schauerte
Trevor Schroeder
Graham Seaman
Ted Sprague
Salil Sen
Sukla Sen
Clara Statello
Frans-Arne Stylegar (Biography)
TOTAL group (Biography)
Emerson Tung
Maarten Vanheuverswyn (Biography)
Gabriel Araré Zerbetto Vera
Adrien Verlee (Biography)
David Walters (Biography)
Sameera Withanage
Zdravko
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Administrative Committees
While the Steering Committee consists of every volunteer and administrator of MIA, there are several committees on MIA that fufill the many administrative tasks necessary for keeping this organisation in good order. The committees we have fufilling these functions are not complete, we’d both like more volunteers in each committee, and the formation of new committees in areas we are not addressing here. For example, an organising committee (for getting more volunteers, merging with other online projects, etc), a legal committee (for securing rights from publishers, ensuring compliance, etc.), and others. Please write to the MIA Admins with your ideas—any MIA volunteer can form a committee. You can find the information and work these committees produce in our admininstrative pages.
Art: (Clara Statello) Volunteers with a knack for graphic art are welcome. This type of work is primarily needed for making the CD, creating our index pages, and other creative duties.
DVD: (David Walters) Every year MIA produces and distributes a DVD to pay our bills. We presently have regional distributors in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Turkey.
Finance: (Juan Fajardo) This group pays our bills and keeps all our accounts in good order.
Janitors: (Andy Blunden & Jonas Holmgren) This committee is a catch-all 'clean-up' committee which performs System Administration, directory and HTML architecture, diagnosing and correcting link problems, maintaining administrative pages, and creating new effecient methods of working on MIA.
Technical: (Jonas Holmgren, Graham Seaman, & others) This group looks after server admin, email services and technical matters in general.
Languages: (Juan Fajardo) The development of MIA language sections is critical to building a truly international library useful to all people. This Committee helps bring together the efforts of multiple languages, whether in cross-indexing authors, sharing resources and recruting new volunteers/organisations/external websites into MIA. Ibne Hasan assists with the Asian languages.
MIA Admins: (Mike Bessler, Andy Blunden, Juan Fajardo, Jonas Holmgren, Hasan Ibne, Einde O’Callaghan, Graham Seaman and David Walters) These administrators have been volunteers of MIA for several years and administrate multiple different sections in broad collaborative efforts. When some archive needs work done but doesn’t have any volunteer reponsible for it, one of these administrators will do the work. These administrators are considered representatives of MIA, and answer and/or redirect all general mail that comes into MIA. At times this committee will discuss minor administrative matters that are not significant enough to bring up to the steering committee, but this is fairly rare thing.
News: (David Walters) that all updates to the archive are made known to all of our volunteers and readers who subscribe to our newsletter.
Secretary: (Andy Blunden) This role is the only elected position at MIA. The Secretary manages the debates, agenda, and voting of the steering committee.
Emeritus
Brian Basgen: Brian joined in 1997 and with five other volunteers, he laid the cornerstones of today’s MIA. In addition to his many technical contributions behind the scenes, Brian developed many prominent sections for MIA, including the History Archive.
Zodiac: Initated our purpose in 1991. For 6 years built up an archive of Marxism on the internet. Main contributions were building a digital movement of Marxism, transcribing the classics of Marx and Engels, along with later initiating archives for other writers including Lenin, Mao, and others, and transcribing some of their main works.
Sally Ryan: (1996 to 2003) Kept marx.org thriving in difficult circumstances during 1997-1999; assisted in the creation and collaboration between marx.org and marxists.org. Supported women’s rights in MIA like no other volunteer by transcribing a tremendous amount of women’s writings and dealing with Marxist subjects traditionally considered ‘unimportant’ by men – e.g. the family, children, and literature. Played a very important role in the Subject Archives, including the creation of the essential “Women and Marxism Section” and initiated early massive contributions to the Encyclopedia of Marxism, contributing hundreds of political biographies and more. Created and ran archives for Eleanor Marx, Kollontai, and Shachtman. Regular contributor to the ETOL, Kautsky, and the Art and Marxism archives.
Tim Delaney: (Mar. 1998 to Feb. 2000) Administered the Marx/Engels and Lenin Archive’s with dedication and consistent effort. Spent three years volunteering on MIA, completing the transcription of the difficult Grundise, and leading the efforts to transcribe Capital Volumes 2 and 3. Provided critical assistance when transitioning from marx.org to marxists.org in the summer of 1998, and served as one of our few main contributors for years.
Jørn Andersen: (Nov 1998 to Nov 2001) Created the MIA “Non-English Archives”. Contributed vast amounts of materials in many languages. Built ties with non-MIA organisations, and convinced many to mirror or migrate their works into our archives. Jorn’s contribution was absolutely critical to our development as an international and multi-lingual organisation.
Wojtek: Polish Section. Contact the Admin. Ctee.
The following former volunteers have moved on from the M.I.A. since January 2007:
Ardhendu & Anuradha (Mishra Archive), Alek Atevik (Macedonian Language), Manuela Barz, Basu (Mazumdar Archive volunteer), Jose Braz (Portuguese Archive), Christian (Ho-Chi-Minh, Le Duan Reference Archives), Chris Clayton (Proofreader, miscellaneous writers in Engish language section), Chan Clovis (Chinese Archive), Rick Denkers (Assistant on Dutch language Archive), Arno Dusart (Dutch Archive), Dawn Gaitis, Youzhong Guo (Chinese language Administrator), Wajdi (Arabic Administrator), Jiang Hong Sheng (Chinese Volunteer), Goran Maric (Macedonian Language Section), Anthony Megremis (Greek and Pouliopoulos Archives), Andy Pollack (USA History volunteer), Luka Pregelj (Slovenian Language Section), Salar Rasheed (Kurdish Language Section), Razmik (Armenian, Farsi Language Sections), Umar Shahid (Indian Subject Section), Erna Van der Walde, Yashar (Azeri Language Section).