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MIA Volunteers and Administrators
Editor of the Encyclopedia of Marxism
Hegel Archive Administrator
Deborin, Yudin, Malenkov, Secchia Archive Volunteer
David Merhav
[davidwalters (-@-) marxists.org] ETOL, Lenin Archive Administrator
Deniz Muratlı
Turkish Language Volunteer and Translator
D. Whitehead
Connolly, Draper, Cliff, Bax, Hallas, Kidron, Rakovsky, Serge, Tressell, Bernstein, Radek, ETOL Administrator
Proofreading Coordinator
Portuguese Language Section Translator Volunteer
Hausler Emil
French language section, Barta Administrator
Gary Wilson
Finnish Language Administrator, Volunteer Administrator
Jay Blackwood
Czech and Slovak Language Sections Administrator
Kaveh Boveiri
Romanian Language, Lenin X-Language index Administrator, Audiobooks volunteer
Logarito Nguyen
Swedish Language Trotsky Archive Administrator
Micah Muer
Left Communism Subject Archive Administrator
Proofreading coordinator
Greek Civil War; India Subject Archives
N. Sedova Trotsky, Bhagat Singh,
Zhou Enlai, Josip Tito Archives
Co-Admin: Greek Archive
Marxism in Japan Archive Volunteer
Mikita Tsikhanovich
French et al History, Anarchism, translations Volunteer
Maxwell Gorsky
Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line (EROL)
Pierre Marshall
Archives of CPGB and other British Marxists
Philip Davis
Archive of Henryk Grossman and other economists Administrator
Sylvestre
Urdu language Admin, and Volunteers, also for other languages in the region.
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 administrative pages .
Finance: (Juan Fajardo) This group pays our bills and keeps all our accounts in good order.
Janitors: (Andy Blunden & Jοnas Hοlmgren) 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 efficient methods of working on MIA.
Technical: (Jοnas Hοlmgren & Graham Seaman) 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 recruiting new volunteers/organisations/external websites into MIA.
MIA Admins: (Andy Blunden, Juan Fajardo, Jοnas Hοlmgren, Jοοnas Laine, Philip Mooney, Einde O’Callaghan, Graham Seaman, David Walters, Micah Muer, Zdravko Saveski) 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 responsible 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 a 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 Baggins: 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: Initiated our project 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 Grundisse, 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.
Hasan: (Feb. 2004 to January 2012) Created Urdu Section and stimulated expansion in South Asian languages, member of Admin. Ctee. until his death in 2012.
Robert Cymbala: (2001 to 2005). Worked extensively in organizing much of the transcription of the Lenin Collected Works for the V.I. Lenin Internet Archive. Worked as an Administrator for the Archive. Also contributed to the technical administration of the MIA.
Brian Reid: (2006 to 2010). Worked across all sections of the English language, creating new archives for scores of members of the various sections of the Comintern.
The following former volunteers have moved on from the M.I.A. since January 2007:
Ivan A. (Italian volunteer), Chandrika Adhikari (Sinhala), Ardhendu & Anuradha (Mishra Archive), H. Antonn (Greek Language), Alek Atevik (Macedonian Language), Aye Aye Soe Win (Burmese Language), Manuela Barz, Basu (Mazumdar Archive volunteer), Biswaroop Bhowmick (Bangla Language), Blossius (Greek Language Section), Jose Braz (Portuguese Language Section), Susan Campbell, Marcus Carlstedt (Swedish Language Section), Rong Chai (Chinese Section), Matthew Carson (Althusser Archive), Christian (Ho-Chi-Minh, Le Duan Reference Archives), Chris Clayton (Proofreader, miscellaneous writers in English language section), Chan Clovis (Chinese Archive), Jock Daborn (Damen Archive), Russell Dale (Philosophy Subject Section), Juliana Danielle (Portuguese Language Section), Rick Denkers (Assistant on Dutch language Archive), Jeppe Druedahl (Dansk Language Section), Arno Dusart (Dutch Archive), Anon. (Portuguese Language), Clare Fester (Yiddish), Rogerio Freitas (Portuguese Language), Dawn Gaitis, Emiliano Gentili (Italian Section), Kevin Goins (Proofreading, Lenin Archive), Burak Gönen (Turkish Language), Stevan Gostojić (Serbo-Croatian Section), Youzhong Guo (Chinese language Administrator), Mark Harris (Russian Language, Marx-Engels downloads), Franco Iacomella (Spanish Language Section), Jaragua (El Salvador), Behzad Javaheri (Farsi Language volunteer), Wajdi (Arabic Administrator), Jiang Hong Sheng (Chinese Volunteer), Stephane Julien (French Language Section), Amin Kazemi (Farsi Admin), Andrew Lannan (eBooks), Jon Knowles (EROL), Ben Lewis (German translation), Alexander Linares (Portuguese Language Section), Mahmoud (French Language Section), Ivan Menjivar (San Salvador History), Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha (Bangla Language Section), Nikos Loudos (Greek Language Section), Goran Maric (Macedonian Language Section), Rolf Martens (Swedish Language Maoist Writers), Alyx Mayer (Lenin Archive), Damon Maxwell (Dunayevskaya et al.), Anon. (Portuguese Language Section), Albero Mondragon (Spanish), Annes Muzaferija (Serbo-Croatian), Alex Nice (writer archive), Örn Ólafsson (Islenska), Patrik Olofsson (Swedish Language Section), Hüseyin Olgaç (Turkish section), Anon. (Portuguese Language Section), Orestes (Greek section), Philippe (French Language), Andy Pollack (ETOL Volunteer), Luka Pregelj (Slovenian Language Section), Salar Rasheed (Kurdish Language Section), Razmik (Armenian, Farsi Language Sections), Brian Reid (English Language section), Julio Rodriguez (Spanish Language Section), Miika Salo (Finnish Language), Sanjaya Jayasekera (Sinhala), Sanjeewa (Sinhala Language section), Thomas Schmidt (German Section), Decabrata Sen (Hindi translation), Sanjaya Jayasekera (Sinhala Language Section), Steve Painter (Bob Gould Archive), Devabrata Sen (Hindi Language), Sukla Sen (India Subject Section Volunteer), Umar Shahid (Indian Subject Section), Clara Statello (Italian Section), Frans-Arne Stylegar (Norsk Language), Konstantine Thoukydidis (eBooks), Candela Touza-Vidal (Galego Language), Emerson Tung (Australian Labour History Volunteer), Rafael Duarte Oliveira Venâncio (Portuguese Language Section), Erna Van der Walde (German Language section), Maarten V (Dutch language, Technical team), Emil (Ted Grant Archive), Lyndon White (EROL), Sameera Withanage (Sinhala Language Section), Yashar (Azeri Language Section), Julia Zakharova (Luria), Ziaul Abedin (Bangla Language volunteer).