marxists.org ordered to delete Marx/Engels Collected Works

I believe Barbra Streisand is personally gonna mail these files out.

you might want grab the html of the stuff that's disappearing on 30. April, without hammering their server too hard:
wget -w 5 -mk –limit-rate=100k https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/

Marxists.org - full English language archive is at thepiratebay.se

http://www.mediafire.com/download/8ucud101l6kfmra/MECW+1-47.pdf

Download with unix at: wget-m
http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/index.htm

The wget command is also available for Windows as part of the Unix utilities from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Just because they're available at the Pirate Bay, it doesn't mean that we can't annoy the fuck out of Lawrence and Wishart on twitter @LW_Books or by email or phone -
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/contact.html

They describe themselves as independent radical publishing so perhaps radicals should let them know how they feel.

(deleted - not a good idea)

Lawrence and Wishart's statement. They are apparently feeling that they're at the receiving end of sectarian online abuse and also a lack of appreciation for their historic role in radical publishing.
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/collected_works_statement.html
I guess they've packed up for the weekend now, so any further sectarian abuse and baseless slander can probably wait until Monday.

edit: it's getting picked up by the media
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/25/dont_you_dare_try_to_liberate_karl_marxs_private_intellectual_property/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/04/capitalism-fells-communism-in-marx-engels-copyright-flap/

Isn't the use of 'sectarian' incorrect here? Sort of the kneejerk way the swp use it whenever they're criticised. Wanting marxist texts to remain part of the digital commons is sectarian now?!

They also accused their critics of not understanding Marx analysis of the capitalist mode of production. Quite hilarious.

Well since they used to be part of the old CPGB and got most of there books published thanks to the assistance, cough money cough, I think crying sectarianism is just them dusting off the old blame our failures of false saboteurs line.

I don't know about sectarian, I think that Lawrence & Wishart managed to unite communists pretty solidly over this.
Also, I would have thought that someone at L&W must have realized the response this would elicit and would have pre-prepared a better statement than this everyone's being mean to us whimpering one.

I'm too lazy to look this up but hasn't the copyright on Marx's work expired and part of the public domain now?

according to bourgeois copyright law, not for the original texts but for specific editions and translations, whose editors and translators are still alive or have died after 1943

So I'm a little unclear about this. How much of what is in these books is available only through them? I've seen people saying the Grundrisse will now be unavailable online, but I thought that was translated into English long ago and is put out by other companies? I'm anti-copyright as much as anyone, but its no secret that libcom has had take down requests (mostly informal) from authors/companies over material on here, guess I'm wondering why this situation is getting a different reaction.

Response by the Marxist internet Archive to L & W
http://marxists.org/admin/legal/lw-response.html

as I understand it, the translations in these collected works are generally recognised as the best translations, so these translations will no longer be available on Marxists.org

btw., aren't Anarchist Studies published via L&W?

Dear Artesian thank you very much for your help

Have any other publishers said anything about this? Like AK or PM?

Description of Recently Founded Communist Colonies Still in Existence by Frederick Engels

perhaps one of the earliest explicit descriptions of communism seems to no longer exist on MIA and seems to be an early casualty.

Although it appears to be on another site