the port huron statement expressed the views of the new left.
the port huron statement expressed the views of?
the new left
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the port huron statement is a 1962 political manifesto of the american student activist movement students for a democratic society (sds). it was written primarily by tom hayden, a university of michigan student and then the field secretary of sds, with help from 58 other sds members, and completed on june 15, 1962, at a united auto workers retreat in port huron, michigan (now lakeport state park), for the group's first national convention a few years later, however, the sds shifted away from labor unions and more towards the student non-violent coordinating committee (sncc).
port huron statement
hayden drafted sds's manifesto, the "port huron statement". the objective of the "port huron statement" was the creation of a "radically new democratic political movement" in the united states that rejected hierarchy and bureaucracy. the statement represented the emergence of a "new left" in the united states. the new left often worked with, but was no longer part of, the remains of the american left after concerted government efforts to destroy it. at its annual convention, the old student league for industrial democracy, the "young people's division" of the "old left's" league for industrial democracy, representatives followed hayden, adopted his manifesto, and changed its name and some of its major goals.
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