Asalewan Section of the Workers' International
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Asalewan Section of the Workers' International Dɔwɔlawo ƒe Dukɔwo Dome Habɔbɔ ƒe Asaselewatɔwo ƒe Akpa | |
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| General Secretary | Kwassi Kodjo |
| Presidium | Presidium of the Asalewan Section of the Workers' International |
| "Eternal Chairman" | Edudzi Agyeman |
| Founder | Adelaja Ifedapo |
| Founded | 10 July 1912 |
| Preceded by | Pan-Bahian Section of the Workers' Internatinal |
| Headquarters | Palace of the Workers |
| Newspaper | Red Horizon |
| Student wing | Adelaja Ifedapo Student Workers' League |
| Youth wing | Junior Workers' League |
| Women's wing | All-Asase Lewa Women's Federation |
| Pioneer wing | Pioneer Workers' League |
| Mass wing | Revolutionary Councilist Defence Committees |
| Membership (2023) | 4,591,359 |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Democratic Front (1949-1958) |
| Regional affiliation | All-Bahian Workers' Congress |
| International affiliation | Congress of the Workers' International |
| Colors | Red |
| Slogan | Serve the People |
| Anthem | The Internationale |
The Asalewan Section of the Workers' International (Asalewan: Dɔwɔlawo ƒe Dukɔwo Dome Habɔbɔ ƒe Asaselewatɔwo ƒe Akpa) is the founding party in the Bahian Council Republic of Asase Lewa. Considered by most scholars to be the most influential institution over Asalewan society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Asalewan Section of the Workers' International led the Asalewan Revolution and founded the modern Asalewan state in the 1950s and 1960s. Nearly 4.6 million people, approximately 10% of Asase Lewa's adult population, are full members of the organization, which the Asalewan public and media usually refer to simply as "the Section."
The Asalewan Section of the Workers' International traces it roots to the Pan-Bahian Section of the Workers' International, founded by members of the left-wing minority present at the 1907 Conference for the Promotion of the Pan-Bahian Idea and which split in accordance with the divisions of various colonial territories in 1912. The Section grew rapidly in the 1910s and 1920s, its membership and support base expanding from the intelligentsia to the working-class and eventually the peasantry. Under the leadership of Adelaja Ifedapo and Edudzi Agyeman, subsequently successfully waged the Asalewan Revolution for over thirty years. After the Revolution's victory in 1953, the Section governed as the senior partner in a powersharing agreement and united front from 1953 to 1958, and then as the sole legal party from 1958 to 1969. The Protective-Corrective Revolution eroded the Section's influence, leading to the end of direct Section rule and the establishment of a multi-party system. The Section now no longer contests elections, but retains considerable influence over the country's politics and society. The Section retains the right to veto candidates in the country's elections, has de facto control over Asalewan foreign policy, and counts over 90% of Asase Lewa's population as members of its mass organizations, a virtual requirement to participate in Asalewan civic and social life.
Organizationally, the Section synthesizes a democratic centralist structure on most levels, under which open discussion is allowed on the basis of complete unity among members, with a corporatist system of representation in the Section's Presidium and Central Committee, as certain proportions of Presidium and Central Committee seats are reserved for leaders of allied segments of Asalewan society, namely the military, intelligentsia, the Section's mass organizations, and elected officials. The Presidium retains power over Asalewan foreign policy and Section affairs in-between sessions of the Section Congress, the supreme decisionmaking body on Section affairs elected by Section members, in accordance with the Three Ups, Three Downs system. The Section enjoys especially close links with the country's politically-powerful military, the People's Revolutionary Army; both institutions have considerable influence over one another and the People's Revolutionary Army was instrumental in the success over Section leaders' de facto self-coups in 1979 and 2014, which led to mass expulsions of Section members and the temporary re-imposition of direct Section rule over the country, a legally-formalized state of exception ideologically justified through the doctrine of Perpetual-Cyclical Revolution.