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ownership of the means of production has become an anachronism in a society where social methods of production have superseded individual methods of production.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

Biography

1932: J. T. Murphy’s resignation letter
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

Works:

Books

1925: Introduction to The Errors of Trotskyism
1926: The Political Meaning of the Great Strike
1935: Modern Trade Unionism: A Study of the present tendencies and the future of Trade Unions in Britain
1941: Russia on the March: a study of Soviet Foreign Policy
1945: Stalin: 1879-1944

Sheffield Workers’ Committee Pamphlets

1917: The Workers’ Committee: An Outline of its Principles and Structure

From The Socialist

Nov 1918: The Issue

From Labour Monthly

Jan 1922: The Road to Power
Jul 1922: After the Retreat, What?

Mar 1923: Ireland and the International Working Class

Nov 1925: The Drive into the Factories: How to Begin

From Communist Review

Feb 1922: On Leading the Masses
Jun 1922: Untitled Book Review, Review of “Left Wing Trade Unionism in France”

Mar 1923: The 4th Congress: A Special Report on the Recent World Congress of the Comintern
Aug 1923: The Labour Party Conference
Oct 1923: The European Crisis and British Labour
Nov 1923: The Empire Conference of the Workers
Dec 1923: The General Election, 1923

Jan 1924: The Party Conference
Mar 1924: The Political Mind of Ramsay MacDonald
Oct 1924: The European Crisis and British Labour

Jan 1925: Where is Labour’s Opposition?

Jan 1929: There is a Right Danger
Aug 1929: The Outlook
Nov 1929: The Fight against the Right Danger

Aug 1930: New Unions and their place in the Revolutionary Struggle
Jan 1930: Growth of Social-Fascism in Britain
Jun 1930: The Right Danger in New Clothes
Nov 1930: Editorial
Nov 1930: Significance of Llandudno Conference

May 1931: A Remarkable Book, Review of Mirsky’s Lenin
Jul 1931: Editorial

From The Communist

Mar 1922: Control Your Job
May 1922: Stop the Lot
May 1922: End the Confusion
Jun 1922: Stand by the Boilermakers
Aug 1922: American Coal War
Sep 1922: Trade Union Congress
Sep 1922: The Great Red Drive: Miners’ Minority Movement

Jan 1923: Viscount Milner’s Dilema
Jan 1923: Milner Becomes Irritable
Feb 1923: Milner’s Ghost

From Workers’ Life

Mar 1927: On the Death of Arthur MacManus
May 1927: An Astonishing Speech: Zinoviev Attacks the Russian C.P. Central Committee
May 1927: Lenin’s Widow
May 1927: How to Fight the War Danger: Comintern Executive Meets in Moscow
Jul 1927: Tomsky’s Appeal to Workers: Anglo-Russian Questions That Are Being Asked
Jul 1927: Malicious Rumours: Russians Do NOT Wish to Break Up Anglo-Russian Committee
Jul 1927: Communists in China: May Leave the Wuhan Government
Jul 1927: Miners’ Helpers Attacked: Disgraceful Outburst of I.F.T.U. Leader
Jul 1927: Bauer’s Pacifism: Communist International’s Manifesto
Aug 1927: Menshevik Trial: Light Sentences for Anti-Soviet Plotters
Sep 1927: “Sacco-Vanzettis” Everywhere: Dramatic Scenes in Moscow at Funeral Hour

Jan 1928: A First Meeting With Comrade Lenin
Feb 1928: Yellow Politics in a Yellow Book
Mar 1928: Workers’ Challenge in London
Apr 1928: MacDonald—The Christian Tory
May 1928: The Communist Party and the “Bloody” Revolution
May 1928: A Budget for the Bosses: “Concessions” Add to Workers’ Load
May 1928: The Rationalisation Budget
May 1928: J. T. Murphy’s Reply to Gutter Attack: “Forward,” MacDonald, Scotland Yard, and “Mr. Brown”
Jun 1928: Labour Completes Flight to Liberalism
Jul 1928: Co-Ops. and Empire: The Shame of a Great Working-Class Movement

Mar 1929: Do Communists Want Reforms?
Mar 1929: Trotsky the Temporary Bolshevik Exposed
Mar 1929: What a Revolutionary Workers’ Government Would Do
Mar 1929: The World Campaign for Communism

Oct 1929: Choosing Our Leadership: Revolutionary Theory and Clear Political Line

From The Workers’ Weekly

Jan 1924: Programme Making
Feb 1924: The Labour Government—What We Must Do

May 1925: The Prospects at May 1, 1925
Dec 1925: Straight from the Dock

From The Communist International

1925: How a Mass Communist Party will come in Britain

Oct 1926: The British Trades Union Congress at Bournemouth, (written with R. Page Arnot)
Oct 1926: Socialism by Kind Permission, Review of I.L.P. pamphlets
Nov 1926: An Angel’s Dilema, Review of Angell’s Must Britain Travel the Moscow Road?

Feb 1927: After the British Empire Conference
Feb 1927: The Reformists’ Report on the Strike

RILU Pamphlets

1921: The “Reds” in Congress: Preliminary Report of the First World Congress of the Red International of Trade and Industrial Unions

Speeches

1920: On the Question of Parliamentarism, at Second Congress of the Communist International

1924: On the International Programme

Socialist League Pamphlets

1935: Fascism! The Socialist Answer

1936: Trade Unions and Socialism

From The Adelphi

1932: The Significance of the Bradford Conference of the I.L.P.

1933: The Future of the Labour Party
1933: The Conference of the Socialist League
1933: Review of Jeans’ The New Background of Science and Worrall’s The Outlook of Science
1933: Socialism and the Public Corporation