The Rank and File Strategy: The Socialist Approach to Rebuilding the Unions with Kim Moody

Haymarket Books Live

Kim Moody and Kate Doyle Griffiths in conversation about updating the rank and file strategy and how it applies to labor organizing today. With the growth of the new socialist movement, a debate has emerged over strategy in the union movement. Kim Moody, author of On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War, will join Spectre editor Kate Doyle Griffiths to explain, discuss, and update the classic rank and file strategy and contrast it with the various alternatives on the contemporary left. Speakers: Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes in the US and is the author of several books on labour and politics, including On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster in London, and a member of the University and College Union and the National Union of Journalists. Kate Doyle Griffiths is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the department of Anthropology. They write about work, women and queers, strikes and social reproduction in the USA and South Africa. —————————————————————————————————————————— This event is sponsored by Spectre Journal and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/uPO2Pp5ftIA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks