Industrial Concentration
April 19, 2006During its first several years of existence, STO followed a straightforward strategy that it called “Industrial Concentration.” When I first encountered this notion many years before I ever heard of STO, it was introduced to me as a movement within the North American New Left “back to the factories” (as opposed to the tendency that went “back to the land”). Another common phrasing was “production work,” as in “point-of-production.” Regardless of the terminology, the general proposition was that members of STO (with a few exceptions) were expected to obtain factory jobs as a central part of their political work. (more…)
