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Gadar! (Revolution!) was founded in the early 1980s as Iskra! (The Spark!), an underground newsletter sponsored by the banned Communist Party of India. After the 1982 Igovian Revolution which drove the government of Prince Llewellyn to exile on Sri Lanka (which he renamed Salvador) Iskra! became the organ of Party propaganda and primary state media outlet, its name being attached to radio and television news media as well as the newsletter that by now had expanded to become a newspaper in broadsheet and tabloid format.

The recent rise of the so-called Fourth Commonwealth, in which Soviet power dominates and all political parties are obsolete, has seen the renaming of Iskra!, a title deemed to have Bolshevist roots, something intollerable to any true Sovietist.

Gadar! is now the blanket name under which all state-level Soviet media is organised, and its content appears in broadsheet and tabloid newspaper format, a glossy magazine, radio and television broadcasts, and on both the Soviet intranet and the world-wide web.

Independent media in India remains lively, with many communes publishing their own newsletters, maintaining websites, and making local radio broadcasts.

Indian Soviets looks to resolve crowding with floating cities

With 4,301,140 square kilometres of land and water supporting more than eight and a quarter billion citizens, the Indian subcontinent is an increasingly difficult place from which to support a society with pretentions to communist superpower.

Most Indians live in so-called Pantisocratic Phalansteries, communes to the layman, typically housing around 1,600 comrades each. A standard phalanstery resembles one of two things: Maiden Castle with better plumbing, or Versailles... with better plumbing. These communes are ordinarily surrounded by farmland tended by the residents, and larger state-owned farms also exist between clusters of phalansteries. In addition to these things are university cities where in large factories and, as the name suggests, universities operate twenty-four hours a day but in which there are no permanent residents. Finally there are ancient sites that can not be disturbed, from Hindu temples to lakes with historic and spiritual significance to the Celtic population, and there are vast areas of natural beauty and ecological importance, all of which the Soviets wish to preserve.

New comrades are, according to a new plan agreed in the Final Soviet at Portmeirion, Raipur, to be housed not in new phalansteries but in communal apartment blocks... in the Gulf of Mannar!

A trial city is beginning construction there at an expense of several billions of shillings before serious habitation projects can be approved.

Chhattisgahri iron, some of the finest in the world, is being shaped into structural bars and screens and shaped into blocks towed into position in the gulf. Soviet engineers plan to run a current through these structures to encourage particles in the water to adhere to them, creating a concrete-like material.

Air is to be pumped in and water out through holes in the design as the Commonwealth creates a series of large floating bricks that shall become a city.

The engineering Soviet established to conduct the work intends to experiment with powerplant designs drawing seawater from deep, where it is under high pressure, and from the surface, to mix in a chamber that may end up leading to the turning of a turbine. This proposal was originally put to the Soviets several years ago by delegates from the once-great nation of Wazzu and is yet to be seriously investigated.

It is likely that much power generation will come from solar and wave plants, and the entire floating city, if it is a success, may well be skirted by wave-energy collectors.

Final Soviet Passes Historic Economic Legislation, Foreign Trade to Expand
Raipur

Word on the Soviet Intranet is that the decision was reached in closed session several weeks earlier, but the global declaration came today over the world-wide web. Soviet India is to begin conducting a new level of commercial relation with the world.

Until today, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Commonwealths have delt in raw materials and items of cultural curiosity, maintaining the view that it is proper only for societies to swap the resources that one has and the other does not, allowing for said curiosity in the interests of cultural exchange, understanding, and diversity. Military equipment and other finished goods were sometimes exported as aid or in particular exchange deals, but import of foreign manufactures was almost unheard of, Soviet India always building for its own needs.

Now the Soviets have agreed to allow Phalansteric communities and workers' Soviets to buy foreign manufactures, be they machine tools, air conditioning units, surface-to-air missiles, or buses.

A growing list of importable goods exists on the Soviet Intranet, and Soviets or citizens wishing to acquire goods not on said list may petition for an investigation and referendum on their inclusion.

It appears that the several week delay was partly undertaken so as to allow agreement to be reached on the matter of legitimate partners in this sort of trade.

In round one of on-going Soviet sessions dedicate to creating and maintaining this list of approved partners few states find themselves permitted to export goods to the fast-growing five trillion dollar Soviet economy. In fact the first and thus far only approved partner is little-known North Pacific resident Wyclyfe, once part of Iansisle's Shieldian Empire and now a communist hold-out on a moderate continent.

Many nations are likely to be approved on a conditional basis, which comrade Sopworth Igo describes as being designed to foster socialist practice in the developing economies of nations with socialist pretentions facing capitalist temptations. To be allowed into Soviet ports manufactures will require official approval as the produce of socialist labour, denying access to goods produced under the undemocratic or unequal oversight of managers, shareholders, and all sorts of capitalists and feudalists.

Foreign governments and worker-managed concerns will be able to advertise on the Soviet Intranet once their products and practices are approved by Soviet review, probably paying a nominal fee to cover the administration of what Sopworth calls the, "Socialist Cyber Market", while of course it is also true that Commonwealth citizens have access to the rather less regulated world wide web and to some foreign television and printed media.

"Indian advertising will inform and will not bribe or pressure, it will not intrude, and it will not be displayed to generate profit in itself. There will be no likeness of David Beckham projected on to the Green Tower, and no Golden Arches in Kolkata."
-Graeme Igo.

Raipur wishes to send investigative teams to leftist nations about whose economic practices relatively little is known. Hopes for increased trade with many societies remain based upon unstable ground, but Soviet India intends to pursue its radical reforms with full enthusiasm under the Fourth Commonwealth.

Jai Hind!

On Communism (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=532748), a compendium of the teachings and theorising of comrade Graeme Igo, popular Grandfather of the Indian Revolution, receives international attention, exemplified both in the derision of pre-socialist economic beings and the excitement of revolutionaries in numerous countries.

Igo's freely available work finally explains to the world just how Beth Gellert ticks. Tick, liberty; tock, equality.

Igovians to, 'weaponise communism'

Another historic address from the great chamber below Portmeirion's Green Tower as more than six million Soviets of the First Level reach quorum through the higher Soviets. Now, Sopworth Igo, Graeme's son and last-ever Indian Premier, is democratically empowered in his speech.

"Comrades! Friends in India, Zholatskya, Zintharia, Red brothers and sisters in arms abroad! We are trapped no more. Igovian Communism liberates billions from the mire of Marxism, which has until now co-opted and corrupted the communist's cause. My father's work, On Communism, and our association through The League of Communists, speak both to the work of the revolution. They are the workers' sweat.

"But to revolutionary soldiers the noble League is but a talking shop if it stands in this mad world for workers without soldiers. These workers can be taken in by Marxist Parties or bribed by capitalists. So, today, India's Igovians propose a new association of free nations. A military partner to the League of Communists, one that stands for communist principles and does not merely serve to perpetuate a political elite as has happened in The World Soviet Party, as is being fought in Zholatskya, and as menaces us all."

Soviet Consuls burst into applause. Of course they do, having already voted to approve the content of Igo's address.

Next, Raipur invites Igovian authorities around the world to send elected consuls to Chennai (AKA Madras) next month to forge a military pact and appeal to new potential Igovians.

There Sopworth says, "With reactionary and conservative eyes fixed on our new martial alliance, the League of Communists will become a delivery vector to their vile bodies for the bullet of revolutionary Igovianism! Today we must weaponise communism!.."