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Elwynnese Workers' Party

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This article is about the former party; for the party's legal successor in Hurmu, see Communist Workers' Party.

The Elwynnese Workers' Party (EWP) (Elw: Парти Заруериаи Адурељион; Parti Zarueriai Adurellion, PZA) is an Elwynnese democratic socialist party active in Hurmu, and historically also in Elwynn, Cimmeria and Raikoth, and Shireroth. In Elwynn, it is banned, and it was active and legal in Cimmeria and Raikoth until its incorporation into the Benacian Union. The Elwynnese Workers' Party led a one-party communist government in Elwynn for five years (1612–1618) before its collapse initiated the restoration of an Elwynnese monarchy in 1618. Since then, it has moderated its policies. It remains nevertheless an overtly republican, patriotic and socialist party. Prior to the end of the Second Elwynnese Civil War, it was a member of the Democratic Socialist Workers' Coalition. It was, 1696–1705, headquartered in Wolfraven, Cimmeria. In the years 1705–1708, it was headquartered in Port Esther in exile, and continued in exile but in Transprinitica, catering for secular and socialist Elwynnese Umraists fleeing the Benacian Union.

Policies

While traditionally affiliated with communist symbolism, rhetoric and policies, it accepted today the private market albeit in a regulated fashion. It strived for an Elwynnese society where education, health care, pensions, unemployment and incapacity insurances, and welfare would be available for all, funded by the public purse. The EWP also wished to reduce the income gap between the various sectors in society. It had sizeable support from one half of the the trade-union movement – the other half was generally associated with the Nationalist and Humanist Party, and, in the South, also with Behsaz-Eluin. In terms of property rights, the EWP accepted both private and personal property (and makes a distinction between these two), but held that land and natural resources cannot be considered property – rather it would all owned by the people acting through the Elwynnese Republic, and cannot be sold or traded, only exploited in accordance with the workers' and people's interests.

It saw the Auspicious Occasion as the workers' and patriots' revolution against monarchism, feudalism and imperialism, which was only finalized with the achievement of Elwynnese independence in 1672 after the Kalirion Fracture. With regard to the constitution of the Elwynnese Republic, the EWP supported it as the guarantee for the stability of the Republic. However, if amendments were to be made, it would have supported the ending of all autonomous republics and the establishment of a unitary state in order to provide for equality among all Elwynnese. As a democratic party, it wished for an elected legislature on the all-Elwynnese (federal) level.

Although supporting the Raspur Pact for defensive and cultural purposes, the EWP was openly skeptical to the free-trade aspects of it. It opposed the perceived salary dumping across RP member states, but supported the free movement of workers, provided workers received fair working conditions and salaries.

The EWP abhorred the feudal vestiges within the RP such as loyal subjecthood and community servitude.

With regard to foreign affairs, the EWP had a pragmatic view. Trade agreements should be made in the interests of Elwynnese workers.

It supported relations with Francia in order to provide for the Amokolian reunification and intra-Amokolian relations. However, the EWP was is highly skeptical of the Frankish monarchism (which to the EWP mimics the worst aspects of both the Vanic and Shirerithian monarchies). As such, the EWP did not call for an alliance or free trade with Francia but would prefer a slower process of normalization and relationship building.

Hurmu

Having moved into exile in Hurmu in 1705, the party participated in elections in Hurmu for the first time in the 1710 Hurmu by-elections in Transprinitica, receiving votes from socialist secular refugee Umraists from Elwynn.

The party there represented socialist policies, but with emphasis on the cultural rights of the Umraists and Elwynnese expatriates in Hurmu. The party puts weight on Hurmu's and Elwynn's historical relationships between each other.

The party was attacked and suppressed by the government of the District of Transprinitica for organising hostile actions against Benacian guests assisting in the security of the district during the Great Vanic Revolt. The Commissioner of the District subsequently agreed to requested the extradition of the detained EWP delegate to the Benacian Union.

During the 1710 Hurmu government crisis, the party agreed to change its name to the Communist Workers' Party in return for its extradited leader, Arman Qureishi.

The party was ultimately suppressed for its party in the 1719–1720 Hurmu civil conflict. It remained prohibited in the Benacian Union.

Factions

  • Socialist libertarian wing
  • Working-class trade-union wing
  • Middle-class idealists
  • Precariat wing
  • Association of Former Loyal Subjects and Community Servants in Elwynn (AFLOSCOS)
  • Elwynnese Socialist Youth, the youth organization
  • Elwynnese Working Women's Association (EWWA)

History prior to the Second Elwynnese Civil War

A long established communist party, the EWP reacted to its failure to win power through the ballot box in 1603 by implementing an entryist policy which saw its cadres attempt to infiltrate rival parties and the organs of state in order to expand their influence and introduce their ideas and programmes into the enemy camp. Gaining a foothold in the rank and file of the then anti-capitalist Nationalist and Humanist Party, it gradually managed to take over the security apparatus of the Coordinated State, focusing specifically on the Panopticon. This strategy culminated in the moment when Aasmund Vigeland, whose public persona had been assiduously built up by the unwitting Coordinated State's propaganda machine, was made Steward in 1613. Along with the eminent legal scholar and fellow communist, Malliki Nur Pinito, he announced the completion of the workers' revolution, and the coordinated state's guild structure was transformed, with a certain amount of aggravation and bloodshed, into that of a communist organisation of workers' councils.

During the communist era in Elwynn, the EWP, faced with stagnating productivity, a balance of trade crisis, and an increasingly apathetic and resentful Elw proletariat, slowly opened up for democratic reforms. The popular response, however, was one that the EWP had not considered, and the party was overwhelmed with popular demands, not for mere reform but for revolution. In the end, the EWP attempted to head off popular anger by setting up a constituting assembly for a new constitution. The party had ensured that it would receive most seats in the election – but a small and very diverse majority of anti-communist parties allied themselves and "hijacked" the constitutional debate.

Following this, a group of hardliners split from the EWP and founded the first Communist Party of Elwynn. This party, however, quickly faltered when a reform group broke away to form the Communist Party of Elwynn (Reformists). None of these break-away parties survived long.

In the Shirerithian Folksraad, it allied itself with other socialist parties, but withdrew from the Folksraad after Elwynnese statehood was declared in 1672.

Suffered yet another split in 1675 when the third instalment of the Communist Party of Elwynn was proclaimed.

Famous members

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