The CNT was in these respects much different from the comparatively rigid socialist unions.

For instance, the Catholic clergy set up confessional unions to prevent Catholic workers from joining socialist unions.

Instead, the party sought to establish a network of explicitly socialist unions which would do battle with the so-called "labour fakirs" of the existing union movement.

Brandon insisted that a socialist industrial union had to be created before a party could be established.

No2EU takes a socialist, trade union and alter-globalisation Eurosceptic stance from a workers' perspective.

In Germany a division into socialist, Liberal and Christian unions remained until the end of the Weimar Republic in 1933.

This creates tensions between the socialist unions and Spain's strongest union, the anarchist CNT.

Alexander was active in the socialist and trade union movements.

Unrest and repression did not stop with the new political regime, and large-scale industrial action was taken several times by the growing anarchist, communist and socialist unions.

"If the authorities really want to maintain the union, why then are they talking about a socialist union?"