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The rank and file strategy is a socialist strategy of union organizing that entails socialists gaining employment in key industrial sectors as a means of developing the class consciousness of workers and building a broader socialist coalition through working class solidarity. The strategy has its roots in the organizing efforts of the United States International Socialists in the 1960s and 1970s. First described by labor writer and former International Socialist member Kim Moody in a 2000 pamphlet entitled The Rank and File Strategy: Building a Socialist Movement in the U.S, the strategy has since been adopted by the Democratic Socialists of America. The strategy has largely been employed in primary, secondary, and higher education unions in the United States in the 2010s and 2020s. The strategy has been criticized for its association with party politics and from a feminist perspective.