Communist Party of Sereniérre

Communist Party of SereniérreParti Communiste de Sereniérre 	Communist Party of SereniérreParti Communiste de Sereniérre
 	
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General Secretary 	Alexandre Renaudière
Standing Committee 	Auguste N. ValsanoisJean-Jacques RogérePhilippe MazarinElisabeth MercelierreJulienne Sant-CarcierreJean-Charles AôuterreEduard Sant-Lôsois
Founded 	October 19, 1918 (1st Party Congress)March 1903 (de facto)
Headquarters 	Villesen
Youth Wing 	Youth League of Sereniérre
Membership (2010) 	3,416,199
Ideology 	General:- Marxist-Sérazinism- Sereniérrese nationalismInternal factions- TBD- TBD- TBD- TBD
Newspaper 	The Daily Tribune
Website 	Website
http://www.cps.org 	http://www.cps.org
 	
Politics of SereniérreElections 	Politics of SereniérreElections
The Communist Party of Sereniérre (CPS), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of Sereniérre. Sereniérre is a single-party state, as such, the CPS is the dominant entity within the government. Under the federative system, the Party maintains subdivisions at the state and municipal levels. The legal power of the Communist Party is guaranteed by the constitution.
The party was founded in April 1903, when the Student Marxist League managed to unify various leftist organizations under one organization. After a seven year civil war with forces of Second Republic, the Party defeated them in 1932 and consolidated its control over the country. The Republican government fled into exile and on 12 October 1932, the Party established the People's Republic.
Political power of the party itself has seen decline over time as successive generations of leadership have granted a greater role for the government and with the passage of the 2011 Constitution, the Party, itself, has adopted a background role in matters of state. The party has three internal blocs which have been recognized officially by the party leadership and are encouraged to "present diverse views and opinions to the proceedings within confines of our ideology."
The party has almost 3.5 million members, and is considered to be one of the largest political parties in the world. The party's official publication, The Daily Tribune is published daily and receives international circulation.
==History==
The Party has its origins in the Revolution of 1881, during which the monarchy was overthrown, when Marxist ideas first gained traction within Sereniérrese intellectual circles. The Communist Party of Sereniérre was initially founded by students at the University of Villesen as a study society and an informal network in 1886, though called the Student's Marxist League at the time. Other such informal groups also came into being in the last decades of the 19th century. At the same time, up to sixteen political parties were extant in the country with Marxist ideology or leanings, but were relegated to the fringes of national politics.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the dominance of the SML in student politics had enabled it to bring together the other university based groups under its umbrella, starting the consolidation of leftist organizations. During the Student Protests of 1900 - 1901, the SML led the opposition against the Republican Government's plan to cut subsidies to the public sector universities, which would impact severely on middle class students, who made a majority of the SML's support base. After seven months of protests, the Government caved in and the policy was dropped. Soon afterwards, SML membership doubled tenfold and its clout increased.
In 1903, the SML held its first leadership elections, ones in which Nicolas Sérazin and his faction within the SML gained majority of the vote, bringing a new generation into the senior positions. The victory alienated some of the original members of the SML, but due to the Sérazin bloc's popularity among the new membership and its pro-religion leanings, made it impossible for any attempt to topple them to go without repercussions. That year, seeing the successes of the organization, the Sérazin-led SML invited members of the various leftist political parties in the country to its annual Marxist-Conference. There, the SML announced its intentions to unify the left in a national political party. Though after some hesitation, the political parties agreed to merge with the SML and in April 1903 the Communist Party of Sereniérre was established.
Soon after, elections were held for the leadership positions of the newly established political party, and Sérazin was made the Chairman, and others of his bloc won senior positions in the CPS' Central Committee. After being barred from taking part in the 1904 general elections due to legal requirements, the CPS focused its attention on building a larger support base. Throughout the period between 1904 to 1909, the party slowly gained support in rural areas and among workers and membership rose from 4,500 in 1903 to 35,000 by 1908.
===National prominence (1908 - 1920)===
By the time the 1909 general elections came around, the economy has taken a nosedive and serious drought had left the country perilously close to a famine. Under these circumstances, the CPS published the first edition of the Daily Tribune, which became a controversial, yet highly successful endeavor. The Government reacted by raiding the Daily Tribune's headquarters and set fire to the building. The move prompted the Party to announce a peaceful demonstration against the government in Villesen. The demonstration soon received support from other opposition groups and saw a crowd numbering close to 80,000 arrive in the main square of Villesen. Under pressure, the Government was forced to issue an apology to the CPS.
Yet the Party was again blocked from contesting in the elections by the Government and its senior leadership was arrested during the campaigning phase of the elections, to be released after the ruling party had clinched a narrow majority. Though still blocked from entering Parliament, the Party continued holding rallies in the rural areas and in university campuses, which had seen steady increase in size. In the 1910 leadership election, Sérazin stepped down and took a seat in the Central Committee. He would use the time to compile and publish a series of books and other literature which would define Marxist-Sérazinism in later years. In 1913, the first volume of his books was published.
The published works of Sérazin revitalized the CPS and saw its ideology and philosophy gaining support even among some Church leaders, who spoke in favor of the writings. Confronted by public pressure, the Government relented in 1917 and allowed the Election Commission to register the CPS as an official party, clearing the way for the party to compete in the 1920 general elections.
====Legitimacy and elections====
After gaining legitimacy, the CPS found universal support from labor unions, something which had eluded them up till that point, and saw their membership become increasingly active in disseminating the party's message, to a point where the party was able to command crowds equally as large as those of the main opposition party. By the time of the 1920 election, the party was already in control of some city governments and planned on contesting 40 of the 500 seats, out of which it won 30. Its MPs, in the Parliament of Sereniérre, pursued land reform and social equality policies, much to the consternation of the establishment.
===Road to power===
In 1925, alarmed by its continuing popularity, supported by the opposition, the Government banned the Party, expelled its members from the Parliament and ordered the military to move against the leadership. Segments of the military refused to carry out the order and mutinied, joining the ranks of the Party. Though the support bolstered the morale of the remaining leadership, it was thought wise to pull back and move to the south, where the party enjoyed the greatest support. With majority of its senior elected leadership either imprisoned, exiled or dead, the Party's leadership went into the hands of Sérazin - for the second time.
The following year, in 1926, the Party launched an armed struggle against the government, bombing government buildings and attacking law enforcement authorities. The CPS' armed wing saw its strength increase as rural communities began rebelling against their feudal masters. During the next five years, Republican and Communist forces were involved serious fighting in the countryside. The total casualties of the civil war are estimated to be 430,000. By 1932, the Republican government had faced several mutinies in its military, due to communist infiltration and sympathies in that institution. Coupled with civilian agitation led by the labor unions, the economy was brought to a standstill, causing the Republican government to flee the capital, leaving the road open for the CPS to seize power.
===Ruling party (1932 - present)===
On 12 October 1932, the CPS announced the end of hostilities and established the People's Republic of Sereniérre, with Nicolas Sérazin as its leader.
==Organization==
The governing body of the CPS is the Central Executive Committee, which is elected by delegates attending the Party Conferences, held every five years. The CEC, in turn, elects the Politburo, separate from the parliamentary body, which in turn elects the General-Secretary and is the leader of the party. The party is organized in the following manner:
* Central Executive Committee
** The General Secretary, which is the highest ranking official within the Party and the de-facto leader of the country.
** The Politburo, consisting of 24 full members (including the members of the Politburo Standing Committee) and one alternate.
** The Secretariat, the principal administrative mechanism of the CPS, headed by the General Secretary of the Central Committee;
*The Central Disciplinary Action Commission, which is directly under the Central Executive Committee and on the same level with the Politburo, charged with rooting out corruption and among party cadres.
Other central organizations include:
*General Office
*Press Office
*Party Liaison Department
*National Financial & Economic Department
*National Rural Infrastructural Affairs Department
*Party History Research Center
*Party Research Center
===Headquarters===
The Old Parliament building was built in 1823 and till 1932 served as the meeting place of the Parliament of Sereniérre. It was built by Royal Proclamation issued by King Nicolas VI after the constitutional reforms initiated after the 1817 uprising. In 1932, after the Communist Party declared victory over Republican forces, the building was requisitioned by the Politburo to be used as the new ruling party's national headquarters.
The building was besieged during the 1979, during which students seeking reform and economic liberalization began protesting around it. Since then, the headquarters have seen tightened security and tight controls over entry points into the Government quarter.
The following offices are present in the building:
* Secretariat of the General Secretary
* Secretariat of the Politburo
* Directorate of the Central Executive Committee
* Press Office
While other offices of the national party are located at a new compound just across the road, connected to the main building through an underground tunnel.
==Political ideology and stances==
The official ideology of the CPS, and of Sereniérre, is Marxist-Sérazinism – a strand of communism, that developed from the original writings of Nicolas Sérazin that were published between 1913 - 1956, that built upon certain aspects of original Marxism and deviated on certain points. Sérazin's teachings have developed a position second only to the Bible.
===Relationship with competing ideologies===
* http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k480/imadaqu93/Serenierre/e5077f4c.png Republican Government in Exile – Having fought the Republican Government, there is severe animosity between the Party and the one formed in exile. Since the 1960s, the R.G. in exile has provoked peaceful demonstrations outside Embassy of the People's Republic in Arendaal. The R.G. in exile also continues to adversely influence the bilateral relationship between Arendaal and Sereniérre.
===Internal factions===
There are a total of three internal factions which have formed in the Party over time. Prior to 1982, the Party forbade members from factionalism and the Central Committee retained the maximum control of the party. In 1982, as part of the reformative spirit ushered in by the 1979 protests, the party conference held that year pushed through a series of reforms, which allowed the creation of blocs to allow for greater discourse in party policy.
====The Red Society====
 	
The Red SocietyLe Société de Rouge	The Red SocietyLe Société de Rouge
 	
Formed 	1983
Chairman 	Pierre Marcelierre
Members 	Senate- 32National Assembly- 121
Ideology 	Vanguardism
The Red Society (officially called, The Elders Council) was formed in 1983 by many of the senior leaders of the Communist Party who had been swept aside amidst the popular protests in 1979 which breathed in new life to the leadership of the Party.
The Society propagates policies considered even more conservative than the national ideology of Marxist-Sérazinism and is closer ideologically to the strand of communism in existence in Batavië during the de-Graaf regime. The Society, while not atheist, remains skeptical of the power wielded by the clergy of the Catholic Church in Sereniérre; having urged numerous times for the government to strip priests and monastic orders of the state stipends disbursed annually. The Society disfavors the pro-business policies that have been initiated by the Government since 1979 and seeks a return to a completely planned economic model.
The Society is associated with the Revolutionary Defense Treaty Organization and sends delegations to its member states often. The Society, due to its long reaching ties with the De-Graaf regime, opposes the democratic government of Batavië and continues to hinder the government in building ties with that country. The Society has sought numerous times to limit the country's involvement in foreign bodies such as the Council of Nations. The establishment of the Northwestern Collective Security Coalition led to intense tension between the Red Society and the ruling Orange Society, a matter eventually settled by a vote in the National Assembly.
In defense matters, the Society is regarded as hawkish by foreign analysts and continues to support conscription schemes – support which has enabled efforts to axe those schemes to fail. The Society favors the policy of state subsidies for the domestic arms and ammunition industry and argues for increased budgetary allocations for the Republican Military Forces.
====The Orange Society====
 	
The Orange SocietyLe Société de Orange	The Orange SocietyLe Société de Orange
 	
Formed 	1983
Chairman 	Pierre Marceller
Members 	Senate- 44National Assembly- 201
Ideology 	Democratic Socialism
The Orange Society (officially called, The 1979 Volunteers Movement) was formed, at least officially, in 1983 by the leaders of the reform movement that removed much of the senior party members from power during the 1979 protests. Since then, the Orange Society has maintained dominance over the party's internal politics – and by default to those of the country.
When first formed, political analysts and members of the party viewed the group to be far too liberal. But through the passage of time, the Society has continued the evolution of the Marxist-Sérazinist ideology and has gone on to absorb many members of the CPS who originally opposed the society. The Society urges for the upholding of central tenants of the national ideology. The Society seeks to continue the trend of decentralizing power and has succeeded in pushing through a federalist system.
The Society has broken with traditional Marxist ideals in economic matters and has initiated pro-business and private enterprise policies. The Society has gradually decreased the state's shares of numerous companies and now maintains minority shares in most of the previously state-owned companies. The Society was successful in scrapping the planned economy system and introduced a guideline based system in 1993, a system which allows for immense flexibility in economy, while ensuring certain rights for workers.
The Society's foreign policy outlook calls for a "pragmatic, involved and dignified" approach to diplomatic dealings. Since its creation, the Society has supported initiatives to join the Northern Council – all which have remained unsuccessful so far, due to the adversarial hostility with Suionia and faltering bilateral ties with Arendaal & Batavië, for various reasons. The establishment of the Northwestern Collective Security Coalition is considered the brainchild of the Chairman of the Orange Society. The Society's defensive policy outlook suggests introducing a capping of percentage of GDP spent of the military and revamping the military's doctrine to reflect changing circumstances.
====The Yellow Society====
 	
The Yellow SocietyLe Société de Jaune	The Yellow SocietyLe Société de Jaune
 	
Formed 	1999
Chairman 	TBD
Members 	Senate- 12National Assembly- 78
Ideology 	TBD
==Current leadership==
Order	Name 	Image 	Party position(s) 	State position(s)
1 	Alexandre Renaudière 	http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k480/imadaqu93/900918a4.jpg 	General Secretary of the CPS Central Executive Committee	President of the People's Republic
2 	Auguste N. Valsanois 	http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k480/imadaqu93/Serenierre/c3574460.jpg	Member of the CPS Central Executive Committee 	Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of Sereniérre
3 	Jean-Jacques Rogére 	s 	Chief, CEC Committee on Foreign Affairs 	State Councillor for Foreign Affairs
4 	Philippe Mazarin 	s 	Chief, CEC Committee on Finance 	State Councillor for Finance
5 	Elisabeth Mercelierre 	s 	Head of propaganda and media relations 	Director, Press Office of the CPS
6 	Julienne Sant-Carcierre	http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k480/imadaqu93/Serenierre/d3a50065.jpg	Chief, CEC Committee on Defense 	State Councillor for Defense
7 	Jean-Charles Aôuterre 	s 	Member of the CPS Central Executive Committee 	Director, Bureau pour l'Sécurité Intérieure
8 	Eduard Sant-Lôsois 	s 	Member of the CPS Central Executive Committee 	Director, State Reserve Bank of Sereniérre
===Details of past leaders of the CPS===
 	Name 	Time in office	Party position(s)State position(s) 	Details
1	Nicolas Sérazin1871 - 1947 (76) 	1932 - 1947 	Chairman of Sereniérre 	The founding father of the People's Republic.
2	Claude Renault1875 - 1958 (83) 	1947 - 1958 	First Secretary of the CPSChairman of the State Council 	Born to a family with very humble rural origins. He attended Villesen University, thanks in part to a scholarship he earned from the Ministry of Education, from 1894 to 1899 and was involved in the Student Marxist League, working his way up the organization to eventually become the Comptroller of the organization in 1902. Upon the forming of the CPS, he remained involved in the new party's administrative and organizational matters, and is credited with ensuring the party remained strong internally during the hardships of the initial years.
During the Civil War, he handled matters of logistics and his friendship with Sérazin grew stronger, to a point where his son married Sérazin's daughter. After victory, Sérazin installed Renault as the Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party and appointed him the Chief of the Financial Committee – a position which served to show he had been picked to be the next leader.
Upon assuming the leadership after the death of Sérazin, he took great interest in advancing the Marxist-Sérazinist ideology, publishing several books on the subject himself and gathering some of the correspondences between himself and the namesake of the ideology. The latter half of his tenure was marked by a series of political embarrassments and worsening of his health. He died on August 12, 1958 of a stroke and was buried in the State Mausoleum with complete honors.
3	Philippe Xavier1895 - 1961 (66) 	1958 - 1961 	Chairman of the Presidium of the CPSChairman of the State Council 	Born to second generation immigrants, tracing their roots back to Lorraine, the family was poor yet great emphasis was put on education and Xavier was sent to the Sant-Athéne College for Medine and graduated as a certified Doctor in 1918. During his early medical career, he dealt heavily with the wounded protestors of the CPS. He joined the Party in 1921 and was inducted into the Party's Health Department. During his time in the Health Department, his relationship with his family suffered and he was disowned by his father in his will.As a doctor, he was dispatched to be with the Party leadership during the Civil War – a posting that would prove to be fateful. In 1928, after series shelling on their positions, Sérazin's son was injured seriously and was thought to be dying but Xavier's quick thinking and skill as a medical practitioner saved him his life and earned him a place in Sérazin's inner circle. Upon the creation of the People's Republic, Sérazin made him his personal physician and inducted him into his group of disciples – where he schooled "the next generation".
Upon winning the party election and ascending to the leadership, an example of nepotistic voting done to appease the Sérazin family, Xavier was seen as a weak leader, since his government was prone to destabilizing arguments between ministers, his displeasure at public appearances and his reserved nature. Though in retrospect, analysts claim, these were exaggerated claims and his government achieved a compromise in the borderlands with the Celtic tribes and broke the isolation imposed upon the country by the international community. But his tenure was short-lived – he was deposed in a coup on September 19, 1961 and killed shortly afterwards.
4	Henri Vissoisette1901 - 1975 (74) 	1961 - 1975 	Vanguard of the RevolutionFirst Minister of the State Presidium Council 	Gaining entry into the CPS at the start of the Civil War, in the organization's armed wing, where he saw action in many of the battles with the Republican forces. By the end of the war, he had assumed the rank of Colonel within the armed wing and commanded a unit of 5,500 men. Upon the creation of the People's Republic, he, along with the CPS's armed wing, was absorbed into the RMF, where he continued to rise up the ranks. In 1959, he was appointed the Director for Military Intelligence and relocated to the RMF High Command in Villesen.In that position, he quietly removed enemies from consideration for high-ranking posts and passed along favorable, yet fabricated, information about allies within the RMF to the Government. By 1960, out of the twelve military districts operating in the country, nine were headed by his direct subordinates from his unit in the Civil War – including the vital XXI Corps, headquartered in Villesen. In 1961, utilizing his vast intelligence apparatus and decades old connections with the Corps commanders, he led a coup against the Xavier government, with thousands of CPS members being imprisoned and opponents within the military being executed.
His tenure saw the imposition of an oppressive security regime on the country, which saw excessive wiretapping of phones and routine inspections by intelligence officers, which occurred sporadically throughout the day. During the 14 year period, reports of human rights abuses was common in foreign news journals. His tenure also saw the unprecedented assault upon the Catholic Church – going so far as to ban it in 1967, though he pulled back the year after. He died under suspicious circumstances in the Sant-Auêtte retreat and his body was cremated.
5	Claude Cocteau1917 - 2008 (91) 	1975 - 1979 	Comrade of the RevolutionFirst Comrade of the State Council 	The handpicked successor of Vissoisette, he is rumored to have been involved in a long romantic affair with the brutal dictator, a matter made worse by the fact neither man ever married or was associated with any woman. Throughout the tenure of Vissoisette, Cocteau served as his Deputy and was often seen in state propaganda. Little is known about his younger years, but it is alleged that he met Vissoisette as a youth when he had taken shelter from Republican forces in his family's farmyard.
He continued the policies of his mentor, though eased the security regime and allowed the release of many politicians in prison. He was violently removed from office after a series of protests which resulted in the mutiny of the Republican Military Forces against him and his government. He was arrested and served time in prison from 1980 to 2006; released due to health concerns expressed by his doctors. He died in 2008, at the age of 91, in his sleep at the Villesen State Hospital.
6	Stéphan Sant-Carciérre1914 - 1996 (82) 	1979 - 1985 	Secretary of the Central Committee of the PartyChairman of the State Executive Council 	The son of Auguste Sant-Carciérre, one of the original members of the SML and a close Sérazin associate, who was thrust into politics after his father was brutally murdered by agents of the Vissoisette regime. During the 1979 protests, he assumed the leadership of the movement and rallied against the Cocteau government, urging for a return to the progressive virtues of Marxist-Sérazinism, he won the support and respect of the younger cadres, which allowed him to assume the leadership of the Party.
His tenure saw the beginning of the reform policies, which continue to date, and the liberalization of the economy. His government moved to repair damage that had occurred domestically and internationally during the Vissoisette-Cocteau era, going so far as to issue a formal apology to the victims of the human rights abuses that occurred and introducing legislation and creating counter-coup organizations that would prevent coups to occur again. He was also the first leader of the Party to step down from his office.
After leaving politics, he devoted a significant amount of time lobbying for greater state investment in the education and health sector and traveled the world, speaking at various international forums. In 1990, he was present to see his daughter Julienne Sant-Carciérre, the current defense minister, being inducted into the National Assembly. He died in 1996 of pneumonia. He remains a popular figure domestically and portrait is present on the 500 livre note.
7	Guillaume Honerre1929 - present (82) 	1985 - 1999 	Chairman of the Communist Party of SereniérreFirst Minister of the State Council 	The first leader elected according to the 1984 system.
8	Leopold Settiérre1938 - present (73) 	1999 - 2010 	Secretary General of the Central Committee of the PartyChief Executive of the State Council	
9	Alexandre Renaudiére1946 - present (65)	2010 - 	General Secretary of Communist Party of SereniérrePresident of the People's Republic 	
==External Links==
*Official website of the Communist Party of Sereniérre
*Official newspaper
*Join the Party – Slideshow by the Daily Tribune
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