Editing Gang of Five (section)

===Socialism===
The Social Democrats were socialist in orientation, with deep ties to the labor movement. Although the Gang of Five largely spurned affiliations with international socialist and Marxist movements and suppressed the Laeralian Communist Party, the SDP's leadership uniformly declared themselves as socialists. The Social Democrats promoted workers' rights, as well as nationalizing the radio, steel, railway, and telegraph industries during the extended economic downturn of the 1930s. The Social Democrats also expropriated land from Arrivée landowners to a limited scale and pursued extensive state-led development initiatives.