Communist Workers' Party (Blackhelm Confederacy)

The Communist Works Party (CWP) are a Marxist–Leninist organization involved in the continuing Confederate Backlands conflict since the mid 1990's. The CWP claim to be a peasant army with a political platform of agrarianism and anti-imperialism the intends to topple the current Confederate government and redistribute the wealth to the people of the nation. The operations of the CWP are funded by kidnapping and ransom, gold mining, and the production and distribution of illegal drugs. The CWP was not initially involved in direct drug cultivation, trafficking, or trans-shipment prior to or during the 1990s. Instead, it maintained a system of taxation on the production that took place in the territories that they controlled, in exchange for protecting the growers and establishing law and order in these regions by implementing its own rules and regulations. During the early 2000's, however, the CWP expanded its operations in some areas to include trafficking and production, which has provided a significant portion of its funding

The strength of CWP forces is difficult to determine exactly. In 2007, the CWP said they were an armed force of 230,000 men and women, of which more than half are armed guerrillas. Confederate intelligence estimates also report that anywhere from 15-30% of CWP members are minors, many of whom have been taken from their villages and towns and pressed int the movement. The CWP has been classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of the Blackhelm Confederacy, Bungussi, Jafala, Polarus, and Cote d'Cuivre, and mant CWP operations will spill over the border into the neighbors of the Confederacy, where CWP forces feel they are safer as these countries have a less powerful military presence.