Socialist Worker's Party (NASC)
Socialist Worker's Party | |
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| English name | Socialist Worker's Party |
| Spanish name | Partido Socialista de Trabajadores |
| Verde name | Partido Socialista de Campesinos |
| Keld Neterlingua name | Partidad Sozialista de Prolez |
| Founder | Micah Wright |
| Founded | 28. September. 2032 |
| Dissolved | 25. November. 2066 (abosrobed into Socialist Worker's Front |
| Merged into | Socialist Worker's Front |
| Ideology | |
| Slogan | "The Voice of the Revolution" |
The Socialist Worker's Party is a Democratic Socialist Commonwealther political party. The Party was founded in 2032 out of the core elements of the Young Socialist Movement that were the primary force behind the Revolution.
The current party chair, as well as it's leader is April Lundergreen, who is also the chair of the Congress of Soviets. Currently, the Socialist Worker's Party is the second largest party in the Commonwealth. It holds 255 seats in the Parliament, 50 in the Congress of Soviets, and several of the Ministries. It is currently part of the Democratic Socialist Alliance.
The Socialist Worker's Party is part of the leftist faction of the Democratic Socialist Alliance, which is the left most part of the Commonwealth's core body politic (Soc-Lib-Con). The Socialist Worker's Party uses Royal Blue as it's color, unusual in that is politically the color of Conservatism.
The Socialist Worker's Party has 47,000,000 members, making it the second largest party by registration. The Socialist Worker's is, as part of the Democratic Socialist Alliance part of the minority government of the Commonwealth, and of the governments o several districts.
History
Foundation and Early History
The Socialist Worker's Party was an early party to join the Commonwealther body politic, being formed while the Constitution was being ratified. The Socialist Worker's Party was formed by The Young Socialists to legitimize their political positions following the Revolution. Being the "Party of Revolution", the SWP held onto the most radical proposals put forward during and shortly following the Revolution.
The Socialist Worker's Party had a hard time being successful in the elections. In spite of the weakness of the opposition, the SWP only managed to gain 250 seats in Parliament, and 53 in the Congress. It formed a Majority government with the more moderate Social Democrats, which was, and still is the largest bilateral majority government seen in Commonwealther history.
During the first term of the Commonwealth Parliament, the Social Democrats and the Socialists managed to push through several key elements of Commonwealther law and society, such as the codification of Three Squares and a Roof, and the establishment of State Higher Education and Trust for research. The Socialist Worker's Party in this term managed to keep at least some of its promises to its Revolutionary base, in spite of joining with moderates.
The Formation of the Democratic Socialist Alliance
The second election cycle saw more serious opposition to the government. The 2034 Parliamentary elections saw a significant shift away from the Revolutionary position and towards the opposition. The Center-Right Alliance of the Liberal Democrats and the Progressive formed in late 2033 pooled their collective resources in a powerful campaign against the Socialist government and against the Social Democrats in particular. As a result both parties in government saw seats lost to the opposition, though the Socialist Workers Party fared much better than the Social Democrats.
Seeing a threat to their rule of government, the Social Democrats made an accord with the SWP to follow the suit of the Liberal Democrats and pool party resources in an attempt to stop the loss of seats. The new alliance, the Democratic Socialist Alliance pushed the Liberal Democrats back and set up the basis for politics in the Commonwealth, by demonstrating the efficacy of the Alliance system.
The 2030s and 2040s
In spite of the formation of the Democratic Socialist Alliance, both the Socialists and the Social Democrats saw continued eating away of their government throughout the 2030s. The foundation of further rival parties, and the increasing organization of existing ones culminated in the Liberal Democratic takeover of government in the 2042 elections, in coalition with the Market Conservatives. Many leading socialists in the SWP viewed this as a serious threat to the Revolution. Of those who did, several began to radicalize, claiming that the Revolution must be protected at all cost. The more moderate members of the party found themselves politically besieged by the radicals, despite the fact that the party had been highly successful establishing a base in the Northeast. In late 2043, the radicalized faction broke off from the Socialist Worker's Party and formed the Communist Revolutionary Party with other left wing radicals.
The Socialist Worker's Party was still however, able to maintain much of the massive propaganda network it had built up during the revolution, allowing it greater resiliency in the face of this blow. However, another more nationalist faction of the SWP broke away from the party as well, forming the Militarist Party. Continued weakening of the Democratic Socialist Alliance saw its majority disappear, though it still maintained a plurality.
Rise of the Militarist Party and the Coup
During the early phases of the 2050s, the Militarist Party, utilizing many of the same propaganda techniques as its parent party managed to be extraordinarily successful, rapidly gaining a major portion of the seats, and forming a spoiler effect for the Socialist Worker's Party, causing them, and the whole of the Democratic Socialist Alliance to lose its control of government, and then to become a Secondary opposition party to the Revolutionary Left. However, in the 2056 election cycle the Liberal Democrats suffered a huge defeat, allowing the Social Democrats with a young president to seize power once again.
Certain factions in the Militarist Party, desiring control over the government began to form in this election cycle. The leader of the faction, the War Minister opted to stage a coup sometime in the middle of the parliamentary cycle, using the Phonencian Conflict as a convenient means of removing loyalist units of the Commonwealth Defense Force. The Socialist Worker's Party leadership was also assassinated in the parliamentary killings along with their fellow parliamentarians. However, when the coup was eventually crushed with foreign assistance, the SWP accepted back into their fold the members of the Militarist Party that were not conspirators in the coup, a controversial move.
2060s
The Socialist Worker's Party has been seeing itself growing in influence, thanks to the rise of the DSA as a whole during the "Valinova Golden Age", and the decline of the Social Democrats in the past few election cycles. A growing rift between members of the Democratic Socialist Alliance, is seeing the SWP as major kingmakers ever since the end of the Arthuristan Civil War. With it's decision to remain in the DSA increasingly being seen as the salvation of the Social Democrats. However, the increasingly pro-privatization measures of the Social Democrats has infuriated important members of the SWP, and it has recently announced that it will no longer participate in the Democratic Socialist Alliance with the Social Democrats instead forming closer relations with the Communist People's Party. In 2066 this announcement was made official with the Socialists officially leaving the DSA and joining with the Communist People's Party to form the Socialist Worker's Front (NASC)Socialist Worker's Front
