Sojourner Truth Organization
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Sojourner Truth Organization was a new communist organization, which came into existence in the winter of 1969-70. Throughout its fifteen year existence (1969-1983), it existed mainly in the Midwest and oriented towards organization in the workplace. However, it distinguished itself from other New Left groups in its critical approach to the role of race in the formation of the American working class. This perspective is perhaps best expressed in Noel Ignatiev's Preface to Workplace Papers, a 1980 publication of the STO:
- Briefly stated, this perspective was as follows: in modern industrial societies, bourgeois rule depends on the development of a variety of "systems" that channel the outbreaks of the exploited class and allow their absorption by capital; that the specifically American framework for this process is the white-skin privilege system — the conferring of a favored status on the white sector of the proletariat; and that the trade unions cannot be understood apart from this framework.
Noel Ignatiev, a former leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, and a prominent member of the STO, would later contribute to the formulation of critical race theory, and edit Race Traitor magazine.
[edit] External links
- The STO: Notes Toward a History a blog of STO history and politics
- Sojourner Truth Organization (1969-1983) - Digital Archive a digital archive for STO's work.
- Marx On American Slavery by Ken Lawrence
- Mass Organization at the Workplace by Sojourner Truth Organization
- Workplace Papers a collection
- Fascism in the U.S.? Current Debates on Fascism
- Urgent Tasks - Number 12 C.L.R. James: His Life and Work
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