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Workers of the World Unite!

A message and open letter from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kanendru (Maoist) to the revolutionary forces of the world

Today the fate of the workers of the world balances on the edge of a knife. The recent victory of the CPK against the repressive monarchy and Chinese imperialism has served to help tip the balance in the proletariat's favor, along with the support of the Igovian revolutionary forces of Beth Gellert against the reactionary monolith. The heroic resistance of the people of Dra-Pol against the Quinntonian crusaders and ROK reactionaries also serves as an inspiring beacon, and their support for our own revolutionary forces must not be forgotten. The CPK was a leading force in bringing revolutionary politics to the oppressed masses, but the Drapoel helped us bring them the machine gun as well.

Still, the imperialists threaten the worldwide proletariat at every turn. The ruling classes of Sino and Xiaguo are an ever present threat, who ravaged our country and will not rest until the revolutionary Kanendru forces are buried. And in northern Asia, the Quinntonians continue to cling to their imperialist foothold on the Korean peninsula, a possible staging ground for further imperial, Western aggression. To resolve this conflict, these forces must be combatted not only from without but from within, by the proletariat of the oppressor and oppressed nations who are no less victimized by capitalism than ourselves.

To this end we propose the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Group, a nascent Communist International of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties who uphold the armed struggle of the people against repression and reaction. Parties from all countries and all places are invited to participate: small or large, waging revolutionary warfare or preparing for it and building strength. To this end we hope to foster unity between genuine revolutionary forces who uphold the Communist line and further the steady march of the worldwide proletariat.

(OOC: The RIG will be a coalition and coordination center for various Maoist or generally Marxist-Leninist political parties across the Modern World. It is NOT an alliance of states; it is an alliance of parties within states.

What these parties would look like is up to the player. Are they mass movements preparing to wage People's War, small, nascent organizations or isolated sects of a few dozen or hundred propagandists? It's up to you! This would especially apply to Xiaguo and Sino, where close proximity to the Kanendru revolution might influence the start of MLM parties or revolutionary organizations. Even Quintonnia, a Western power, might have a weak Maoist party that isn't strong enough to start fighting but can act as a pro-Kanendru propaganda arm. Whatever, it's your call.

For more info on Marxist Leninist Maoism, go to www.rwor.org, enter the English version, and click on the MLM tab at the top. Alot of it is long as hell but you can get a pretty decent grasp from a quick skim, and its written by real life MLMers to boot. Note that the RIG would accept Marxist Leninists who are not exclusively Maoist, but generally they must reject bourgoisse elections as illegitimate and be prepared to take up armed struggle [i.e. not strict pacifists]

One more note: Loosely based on the real life Revolutionary Internationalist Movement)

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6th July Tiger Collective (Cinematic Film), Prasutagus Phalanstery, Porthmadog (Chennai/Madras), The Igovian Soviet Commonwealth of Beth Gellert

The Igovian Soviet Commonwealth was big, around a million square kilometres, housing some three hundred million comrades. Its economy was bigger, estimated in the order of fifteen trillion dollars already, and the world's fastest growing, by some reckonings. It was necessary to give lengthy answers such as the above when one was asked his location or craft. Comrades Eugene of Ricehill and Chattismandua Juko-Anwar worked making high quality film for Beth Gellert's lively cinema industry, and they did it from their workers' palace, their home shared with three thousand others in the increasingly beautiful and well arranged city of Porthmadog.

The pair were on a break. A six hour break. They were job-sharing with an old fellow and a new boy neither had seen since his family moved in from the recently demolished Principality-era towerblock down the road. They'd had tea, had sex, had some Marimaian opiates, napped, discussed the decision to save almost 40% of a local Church after its demolition, for historical and educational purposes, and watched the mysterious goings on down by the harbour -some sort of gigantic sea plane was being floated out from dry dock. There was a fair bit of time left before they had to get back to the workshop, which was only a few dozen metres away, and so discussion turned to politics, as it was prone to do.

"Well, I've read the phalanstery's copy of the Red Book..." Said Eugene in reply to Chattismandua's insistance that, really, as Igovians, they weren't bound to pay much notice to the CPK's latest venture.

"But I'm saying that Graeme hadn't even read Marx when he talked Sopworth [Igo- his son and one-time Beddgelen socialist dictator] down from the Green Tower [averting the need for the Worker's Militia to fight the Soviet Army], and Sopworth barely knew who Lenin was when he [Sopworth] interrupted the council meeting and declared revolution... Igovian revolution. So, Igovian theory is quite independent from the Marxist family tree."

Eugene sniffed a little and, slouched in his chair, feet on the table, rubbed an itch on his leg. "Wellll..." He re-started, "...I... think it's a case of... have you heard of convergent evolution? Bats and birds aren't related, but they both evolved wings from their forelegs and took to the sky..." Juko-Anwar was used to her friend's... unusual thought patterns, and just let him continue, knowing that he'd either come to a point worth hearing, or get confused and concede her the point. "...well, Igovian communism and Maoism aren't related, but they've both evolved -from more primitive economic and political forms- what we have in common."

"Potayto/potahto." Said Chattismandua with an accepting motion of her hands. "I suppose we'll support it when it comes up in the Local Senate, then."

"The international revolution is the international revolution."

And not very much later, the ISCBG was conveying to Kanendru's communist party its interest in the organisation suggested. Beth Gellert has no political parties and no chief of state or head of government, and will, presumably, be represented at any such forum by the Commonwealth Professional Civil Service and/or by the related Commonwealth Consular Co-operative. The former agency has at times been called the Beddgelen Communist Party, or simply [i]The Party, but the practice is officially discouraged as the CPCS is essentially a career into which voluntary speakers of note are popularly elected, and the Igovian revolution has not spoken well of political parties or exclusive representation, seeing them as just another tool through which one idea weilds power over others and as creating a gap between people and governance. Still, a belated and somewhat complicated show of interest from the Sub Continent.