Socialist Industrial Unions (SIU) are a form of trade unions proposed by Daniel De Leon in the late 1890s / early 1900s as a means of engaging in class struggle within capitalism, of carrying out a revolution and of organizing socialism when it is achieved. This program is still advocated by De Leon's political party, the US Socialist Labor Party.
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“Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.”
—Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931)
“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”
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