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- ↑ Kim Moody, Fred Eppsteiner, and Mike Flug, Toward the Working Class: An SDS Convention Position Paper (n.p.: Independent Socialist Committee, 1966); Kim Moody, "The American Working Class in Transition," International Socialism, No. 40 (Old Series), Oct/Nov 1969; Kim Moody, Struggle in the Coal Fields (Detroit: Sun Press, 1974); Kim Moody, Don't Buy 'Buy American' (Detroit: Sun Press, 1975); Kim Moody, Battle Line: The Coal Strike of 1978 (Detroit: Sun Press, 1978).
- ↑ The Nation
