Coalition for Peace

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The Coalition for Peace is a loose Elwynnese coalition of political parties, religious organisations, some trade unions, and independents against the Verionian–Raspur War. The end goal of the coalition is to have Elwynn leave the war.

Members

Criticism and opposition

The coalition has been widely criticised in Elwynnese media, particularly on talkshows hosted by the Benacian Data Network and in the columns of the Daily Mail & Telegraph of Eliria for taking an anti-war stance that has been characterised as "naive and wilfully out of step with international opinion" in the wake of the Verionist use of a biological weapon of mass destruction and resultant mass casualties in Port Farrar.

The Student Union Federation of Normark was an active party to the Coalition until 11.II.1681 when the presidency of the federation was replaced in a procedural coup led by the Fencing Club of the University of Riddersborg and various patriotic student associations supported by affiliated hunting lodges and veterans associations for the alumni of the Normarker universities.

The Communist Party of Elwynn, Elwynnese Workers' Party, and the Mishalanski Party of Democratic Socialism meanwhile found themselves fiercely assailed by the trade unions movement, the rank and file membership of which, upon whose subscriptions and contributions these parties heavily depended, demanded to know why the parties had opportunistically embraced the Ayreonist-Verionist alliance without any regard for the necessity of solidarity with the workers of Floria at a time when they were being sorely assailed by a war of naked capitalist aggression inaugurated by the wantonly destructive actions of the Iron Company, an arch exploiter of the workers if ever there was one. The trade unions that had supported the Coalition for Peace tended towards being those concerning the white collar and higher salary professions, whilst that portion of organised labour more in tune with the concerns of the working class had, as indicated, shown themselves to be ambivalent if not outright hostile to the aims of the Coalition for Peace.