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Welcome to the Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive. The Sojourner Truth Organization, according to historian Michael Staudenmaier, was an American "revolutionary group based largely in Chicago during the 1970’s and 1980’s. STO, as it is commonly known, created a small but vibrant political tendency around the concepts of challenging dual consciousness, opposing white supremacy, supporting extra-union organizing in factory settings, defending anti-imperialist and national liberation struggles, and building an internal culture of intellectual rigor and sophistication." [STO: Notes Toward a History] This archive will serve as a resource for STO's articles like those contributed to Collective Works, pamphlets, leaflets, collections, and periodicals such as Urgent Tasks, and Insurgent Worker. We will be making their works available in both PDF and HTML formats. The PDFs offer a view of what the original material looked like, pictures and all, for those who wish to print copies for themselves or for distribution, while the HTMLs provide a more web-friendly version. |
All of our PDFs have been scanned using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology with the intent of digitally restoring them as well as to make them easier to reference and copy to any word processing program. The only exceptions to this rule are the Insurgent Worker series and the shop leaflets included with the Workplace Papers collection. These were assembled by hand and makes OCR difficult and unnecessary. Thus they will be rendered in JPEG format. We add materials as they are made available to us in no systematic fashion, so if anyone would like to see anything in particular or has any constructive criticism or suggestions, please contact us at info@sojournertruth.net. For those of you who have original prints of any STO material that you would like to donate either to the digital or physical archive, please let us know. If there are former STO folks who would like their names to be withheld from these once-publically distributed materials, use the contact email address. We will simply remove your name from the digital archive documents. Thank you. -STO Digital Archive |
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PAMPHLETS
signed organizationally and individually |
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 Towards a Revolutionary Party by Sojourner Truth Organization PDF | HTML 1971 from the 1976 Reprint |
 Thirty Years of Selective Service Racism by Ken Lawrence PDF | HTML 1971 from the 1981 Reprint |
The Anti-War Movement & Elections '72 by Sojourner Truth Organization PDF | HTML 1972 |
Organizing Working Class Women by Sojourner Truth Organization PDF | HTML 1972 |
The United Front Against Imperialism? by Sojourner Truth Organization PDF | HTML 1972 |
 Mass Organization at the Workplace by Sojourner Truth Organization PDF | HTML 1972 |
 General Strike France 1968 a factory by factory account by Andree Hoyles with an introduction by the Sojourner Truth Organization PDF | HTML 1973 |
Fighting Racism: An Exchange by Staughton Lynd Noel Ignatin Ken Lawrence PDF | HTML 1975 |
 Marx on American Slavery by Ken Lawrence PDF | HTML 1975 |
 "...no condescending saviors," by Noel Ignatin PDF | HTML 1976 |
 Rape, Racism, and the White Women's Movement: An Answer to Susan Brownmiller by Alison Edwards PDF | HTML 1976 from the 1979 Reprint |
 White Supremacy and the Afro-American National Question by Don Hamerquist PDF | HTML 1976 from the 1978 Reprint |
Since When Has Working Been A Crime? The Deportation of Mexicans Without Papers by South Chicago Workers' Rights Center PDF | HTML 1977 |
 In Partial Payment: Class Struggle, Sexuality and the Gay Movement by A. Rausch PDF | HTML 1980 from the 1981 Reprint |
 Introduction to the United States An Autonomist Political History by Noel Ignatin PDF | HTML 1980 from the 1992 Reprint |
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COLLECTIONS
signed organizationally and individually |
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 Fascism In The U.S.? Current Debates On Fascism 1976 partial issue |
 Understanding and Fighting White Supremacy 1976 |
 Workplace Papers 1980 |
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INSURGENT WORKER
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 Insurgent Worker July, 1973 *NOW AVAILABLE!!!* |
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URGENT TASKS
Journal of the Revolutionary Left |
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 No. 3 Spring 1978 not yet available |
 No. 4 Summer 1978 partial issue |
No. 6 Fall 1979 |
 No. 7 Winter 1980 |
 No. 8 Spring 1980 partial issue |
 No. 9 Summer 1980 partial issue |
 No. 10 Fall 1980 |
 No. 11 Spring 1981 partial issue |
No. 12 Summer 1981 |
 No. 13 Spring 1982 partial issue |
 No. 14 Fall/Winter 1982 partial issue |
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STO: Notes Toward a History is a blog established by Michael Staudenmaier of Chicago, IL, and is a partner site to document his many hours of study and interviews with former STO members. It is, more or less, a basis for a book to be published at a later date, but for now it will help to acquaint those who are not that familiar with the group's politics and history. |
If nothing else, it is an interesting look into the personalities which composed STO as well as their 15-year (give or take) history as a revolutionary organization. The blog will hopefully give a better context as to why we are taking the time to archive a relatively marginal group like the Sojourner Truth Organization. Click here to visit the blog. |
