When you understand the need for drastic change, a subsequent question emerges: what is required for an effective revolution? The responses to this question are hotly debated, and often break on the point of whether or not violence is the answer to our struggle.

“Bourgeois politicians, one and all, in all parliamentary countries, have always paid lip-service to democracy while betraying it." -VI Lenin

There is currently no “correct” answer of how to build militant unions in the 21st century, but we must continue to study the history of the labor movement and class struggle both in the US and abroad, and learn from its successes and failures.