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The Bitter Spring was a revolt of workers and students in the Raspur Khanate of Constancia and the Suren Confederacy pushing for democratisation and improved living standards.
Background
A number of factors brought the workers and students within the provinces of the Raspur Khanate and the Suren Confederacy to the edge of revolt.
The closing of the frontiers following the conquest of central Eura (Operation Paramount and Operation Landslide) effectively ended the continuous supply of captives which maintained the kul system of contractually obligated servitude. The decline in unfree labour, as the surviving kuls aged out of the labour-market, had resulted in nearly full employment levels in the majority cities of Constancia during the rebound after the end of the recession of 1726 AN, meaning that the workforce in Aqaba, Nivardom, Petropolis, and Raspur now had the leverage to start exercising its influence.
On top of this was the frenzy of investor excitement occasioned by the discovery of Alexandrium, which saw intense interest shown in those cities which had endured the worst effects of the Babkhan Holocaust. Nivardom, Raspur, and Zinjibar were placed in the epicentre of this sudden spike in inward investment – with dramatic spike in the wages of employees in key sectors, real estate prices, and commodity goods. The inflationary pressures ensuing from these changes were a further driving factor for discontent.
Finally, the abrupt electoral defeat of the Federal Humanist Party in Nouvelle Alexandrie in the 1729 general election allowed the student body of Constancia and Suren to draw an unfavourable comparison, between the constitutional monarchy which allowed for such managed changes in government and the corrupt Humanist dominated oligarchies which prevailed in their own countries. Still more worryingly for the State Protection Authority, the number of students detected and brought in for attitude adjustment as a consequence of espousing the ideology of the Nouveau Wave had begun to increase precipitously.
Timeline
- 1730.II:
- 1: Wildcat strikes halt production at the Balísta Ergostásio Synarmológisis in Nivardom.
- 2:
- Students stage an occupation of faculty buildings in the Nivardom campus of the Euran University.
- Babkhan Restoration Movement supporters riot in Raspur.
- 3: Protests in Surenshahr, against the issuance of life service bonds to debtors. Protesters were dispersed by the arrival of armoured cars, agents of SAVAS, and the 2nd Directorate's provost regiment.
- 4: Demonstrations outside the offices of the Zinjibar Alexandrium Company saw placards displayed carrying demands that companies involved in the exploitation of Alexandrium should have a quota system for guaranteeing the representation of Eurani Surenid subjects at every level of the enterprises, including management positions.
