Kim moody biography wikipedia

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Contribute today. Kim Moody is one of the most influential left-wing labor activists of the last forty years. He was among the founders of the International Socialists , Labor Notes , and Solidarity , and is the author of a number of important books on the labor movement including An Injury to All , Workers in a Lean World , and the recently published On New Terrain as well as a contributor to Jacobin and Catalyst.

He was also one of the leaders of an SDS community organizing project in Baltimore from to Here, Moody speaks with Jacobin contributing editor Chris Maisano about his time in SDS, the possibilities and limitations of community organizing, and why radicals should prioritize working within the labor movement. When I went to university in at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, when it was basically a segregated city, I was involved in the civil rights movement.

So I picked up those politics. It was a narrow, one-issue organization. My experience in the civil rights movement was with both the student side of it — there was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC chapter in Baltimore at an historically black university there, Morgan State, that supplied the bulk of the movement — but also with the Congress of Racial Equality CORE , kind of the adult side of the movement, you might say.

At the time, almost all of the people active in CORE were black trade unionists.