John Thomas Murphy
Archive
1888-1965
“The problem before society to-day is not a financial problem. It is a property problem. The banks belong to the superstructure of capitalism. Private property is the foundation. The financial crises, consumption crises, credit crises and the like are nothing more than the reflections of the fundamental economic crisis arising from the fact that the private ownership of the means of production has become an anachronism in a society where social methods of production have superseded individual methods of production. No amount of credit supply to manufacturers, no amount of currency manipulation which leaves the question of property ownership untouched, can do other than aggravate the crisis of capitalism.”—Review of Dyson’s An Artist Among the Bankers
“I am a Marxist, a member of the Labour Party, and a sympathizer with the U.S.S.R.”—Russia on the March
1932: J. T. Murphy’s resignation letter from the CPGB
1932: J. T. Murphy’s Desertion to the Class Enemy, CPGB comment on Murphy’s departure from the Party
1932: Another Communist Leader Walks the Plank, SPGB comment on Murphy’s departure from the CPGB
Works by Year
1917
The Workers’ Committee: An Outline of its Principles and Structure
1918
1920
On the Question of Parliamentarism
1921
1922
The Road to Power
On Leading the Masses
Control Your Job
Stop the Lot
End the Confusion
Stand by the Boilermakers
Untitled Book Review, Review of “Left Wing Trade Unionism in France”
After the Retreat, What?
American Coal War
Trade Union Congress
The Great Red Drive: Miners’ Minority Movement
1923
Viscount Milner’s Dilema
Milner Becomes Irritable
Milner’s Ghost
The 4th Congress: A Special Report on the Recent World Congress of the Comintern
Ireland and the International Working Class
The Labour Party Conference
The European Crisis and British Labour
The Empire Conference of the Workers
The General Election, 1923
1924
The Party Conference
Ten Years Ago and After
They Betrayed the Workers with a Lie
Programme Making
The Labour Government—What We Must Do
The Political Mind of Ramsay MacDonald
On the International Programme
The European Crisis and British Labour
1925
Introduction to Lenin on Co-operatives
Where is Labour’s Opposition?
How a Mass Communist Party will come in Britain
The Coming of the Mass Communist Party in Britain
The Prospects at May 1, 1925
Introduction to The Errors of Trotskyism
The Drive into the Factories: How to Begin
Straight from the Dock
1926
The British Trades Union Congress at Bournemouth, (written with R. Page Arnot)
Socialism by Kind Permission, Review of I.L.P. pamphlets
An Angel’s Dilema, Review of Angell’s Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road?
The Political Meaning of the Great Strike
1927
After the British Empire Conference
The Reformists’ Report on the Strike
On the Death of Arthur MacManus
Celebrating Tenth Year of Revolution
Stop the Troops
An Astonishing Speech: Zinoviev Attacks the Russian C.P. Central Committee
Lenin’s Widow
How to Fight the War Danger: Comintern Executive Meets in Moscow
Tomsky’s Appeal to Workers: Anglo-Russian Questions That Are Being Asked
Malicious Rumours: Russians Do NOT Wish to Break Up Anglo-Russian Committee
Communists in China: May Leave the Wuhan Government
Miners’ Helpers Attacked: Disgraceful Outburst of I.F.T.U. Leader
Bauer’s Pacifism: Communist International’s Manifesto
Menshevik Trial: Light Sentences for Anti-Soviet Plotters
“Sacco-Vanzettis” Everywhere: Dramatic Scenes in Moscow at Funeral Hour
1928
A First Meeting With Comrade Lenin
Introduction to Russian Prisons
Yellow Politics in a Yellow Book
Workers’ Challenge in London
MacDonald—The Christian Tory
The Communist Party and the “Bloody” Revolution
A Budget for the Bosses: “Concessions” Add to Workers’ Load
The Rationalisation Budget
J. T. Murphy’s Reply to Gutter Attack: “Forward,” MacDonald, Scotland Yard, and “Mr. Brown”
Labour Completes Flight to Liberalism
Co-Ops. and Empire: The Shame of a Great Working-Class Movement
1929
A Revolutionary Workers’ Government
There is a Right Danger
Towards the Tenth Communist Conference
Do Communists Want Reforms?
Trotsky the Temporary Bolshevik Exposed
What a Revolutionary Workers’ Government Would Do
The World Campaign for Communism
The Outlook
Choosing Our Leadership: Revolutionary Theory and Clear Political Line
The Fight against the Right Danger
1930
New Unions and their place in the Revolutionary Struggle
Growth of Social-Fascism in Britain
The Right Danger in New Clothes
Editorial
Significance of Llandudno Conference
1931
A Remarkable Book, Review of Mirsky’s Lenin
Editorial
1932
Resignation Letter from the Communist Party
The Significance of the Bradford Conference of the I.L.P.
1933
The Future of the Labour Party
The Conference of the Socialist League
Review of Jeans’ The New Background of Science and Worrall’s The Outlook of Science
Socialism and the Public Corporation
1934
Review of Dyson’s An Artist Among the Bankers
Review of Benjamin’s Distribution in the Transition Stage to Socialism
Labour’s “Peace” Policy
1935
Review of Scott’s Self-Subsistence for the Unemployed
Modern Trade Unionism: A Study of the present tendencies and the future of Trade Unions in Britain
Fascism! The Socialist Answer
1936
1941
Russia on the March: a study of Soviet Foreign Policy
1945
1956
Tom Mann: ‘Courageous man of vision’
1958
Images
1921: With Tomsky preparing for the first R.I.L.U. World Congress
1927: 10th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Moscow
1927: With the Seventh Samara Cavalry
1928: Portrait
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