Socialist Republic of America

**The Socialist Republic of America** or **Eastern American Government** (for the nations that recognise the United States of America) is a nation located in North America. Created officially in 1946 by the adoption of the 1946 Constitution of the United States by the PRG, its also sometimes known as the "*Second American Republic*" by this constitutional act.

## Politics

The political scene of East America in 1950 is cutthroat and sectarian Despite the empathetic nature of their aspirations, the political figures of the East hardly have any love for each other. A new constitutional convention looms on the horizon. There can be only one victor. The best the losers can hope for is to be a middling opposition amongst the ruins.

Officially, there are two major American political parties. However, both parties are split internally. Thus American politics can be be described via tendencies and factions within each. In addition, some minor parties exist which are mentioned below.

## The American Social Revolution

The process known as the "Second American Revolution" began in 1940 after the coup in Washington D.C and the subsequent collapse of the Government of the United States. The anarchy created after the situation, as well as several political forces began to rally their forces in the ensuring weeks. President Reed made his first public annoucement after discussion with the SPA Central Committee when 3 days after the events in D.C, survived after reaching Pensylvania under a SPA government. The proclaimation stated that a militarist, treasonous rebellion is now occuring in America, that the all military forces and civilian of the US have the duty to crush this rebellion, he stated the formation of the Government for the Defense of Democracy and Consitution in Chicago, a Consitutional Front consiting of all political parties and organisations in America to oppose the rebels, where the US Congress would be relocated and all members of government must report to the new seat of power lest they be considered neglecting their duty or treason and sedition.

However, despite this, the loyalty of police forces, and governmental offices as well as the unreliablity of the Armed Forces now that their Generals are in rebellion led to the secret resolution of the CC SPA to immidietly begins the process of the disarming police forces, raising and arming its own militia as well as liquidation of unreliable government offices like the FBI or local governments held by non-socialist or anti-socialist parties, this effective triggered the period known as the "Second American Revolution" as widespread workers rebellions and insurrections started across America seizing powers, a large number of times were out of the SPA control under its rival organisations like the IWW or SDP.

### The Spring of Revolts

The first phrase of the Revolution accompanying the proclaimation, Workers Councils and General Defense Commitees were formed out of the unions to directly take over public services, food and transportations, in some areas amouries were opened peacefully for the distribution of arms, in other areas, resistance from National Guards and police led to bloody fighting and riots in the area around New England, the Red belt and New York. A large part of the military sided against MacArthur's coup regime at first and resisted his attempt to take control of their units, having failed in the coup to eliminate the Government creating a dual-power situation, MacArthur declared a state of emergency and insurrection ordered the liquidation of the Consitutionalist Government in Chicago. This period is led by widepread workers uprising, street fights and paramilitary violences as partisans loyal to either side attempts to seize power or defend their power in the their area, negotiations efforts were also attempted but came to no avail as the neither side is willing to. The situation of uncertainly led to several so-called "autonomous republics" and "communes" sprung up during this period, led by anarchists, syndicalists or SPA cadres. The peak of "Red" and "White" violences of the war also occured with the mass killings of socialist sympathisers or police, government offices, businessmen and their families as the police force are now ineffective.

### The Triple Power

From 1941 to 1947, in the territory of the Consitutionalists consits of 3 form of governments, the Government of the United States as it was, the SPA's Party Committees, the Workers Councils (Syndicates) in certain areas some form control the other and in some areas, these are hostile elements. As the war progress the SPA realises its precarious position if this does not end, while the militias were the only thing they could rely on at the start of the conflict, it could not be sustainable or able to demonstrate any capacity in a prolonged conflict as well as inherently wanting to get rid of its opposition and detractors realising a socialist America. Secretary of the Interior Jay Lovestone was tasked with liquidations of non-SPA elements within the Workers Councils and reinforce the US Government offices, which to be controlled by the SPA, this was put into practice along with the forced merger of the GDCs into combat units of the Constitutionalist Army, this left the IWW and SDP without much of their backbone to oppose the RSB known as the "Lovestone's Intelligence Service" carried out a systematic liquidation of IWW, unreliable elements of CIO and SDP/AFL cells in control of Workers Councils and expulsions by decrees, the same proccess applied on government offices held by non-socialist or SDP members. Tense hostility plague the home front as Lovestone's agents ransacked the homes of political opponents in search of sabotage and reactionary crime evidences.

In 1942, the IWW majority faction staged an uprising of syndicalists after orders from the Rump Congress that its members were to be expelled from its last stronghold, the Detroit General Workers Congress, citing further reasons like extreme centralisation, opposition to the creation of the Industrial Demoracy and a Industrial Congress and further anti-democratic and authoritarian actions. With limited forces in their control as well as questionable loyalty and quality, it was repelled across the Red Belt with little causalities, however most of the IWW Old Guards were arrested and removed from power, leaving the union mostly in the hand of sympathetic pro-SPA leaders. Similar purges occured in the ALF and CIO as well to a lesser violent extends as the Fosterite syndicalists actively participated in undermining its capacity to resist the SPA.

### The Mutiny

However, as the threat of the extremist syndicalists now subdued, the forces of the reformists is still at large due to its large entanglement with the US Insitutions and the Military. This situation was tolerated for a time as the main concern of Chicago now spend in consolidating its power in the home region and military matters at the front, in New York however, the heartland of the Reformists is ill at ease, once lost to the radicals after the New York Uprising as the SDP government refused to arm the people and resist the coup, the SDP regained control after the military recaptured the city after the Canadian-Macarthurite brief capture of the New York State. With the increasing centralisation, many in the SPA thought that the time is right for a transformation of the US Consitutionalist cause into a Revolutionary Socialist cause as the party have decided at the start of the conflict to use the civil war as a pretext to social and political revolution. The Rump Congress now fully in control of the President and stuffed with SPA-lackeys showed clear signs of leftward turn, moving forward with a large numbers of consitutional amendments to create a "workers republic" and the end of "private property", at this point a large number of US high ranking officers have deflected to the united anti-socialist front of Long and MacArthur or the increasingly anti-Chicago west but there are still many non-socialist officers in the rank. Tension between the professional officers corps and the "partisan officers" coming from the rank of the SPA functionaries or syndicalist militant have been building up from the first day with a clash of goal clearly present in that the professional officers stayed loyal for the defend of the status quo of the US while the new commanders carry out their own revolutionary goals. Disillusioned by the "Constitutionalist" cause and with the new constituional amendments for the so-called "Socialist Republic of America", General Joeseph Stillwells made contact with New York, where the SDP headquarter share the same fear as the jails start getting more stuffed with SDP politicans expelled by kangaroo courts or extrajuridical decrees from Chicago now pushing the SDP to the wall as Chicago demanded liquidation of the People's Minutemens (the SDP's own militias) and seizing control the local RSB forces and the restoration of the Workers Council of New York.

Finally, the conspiracy began to materialise in late 1947, but the goal of the Stillwellite and the SDP reformists were not on the same page. The massive scale of the revolt in both the 9th and the 12th Army directly on the front dramatically changed the tide of battle, the mutineers also created a lasting damage on the SPA infrastructure as its destroyed most of the party's paramilitaries as well as "revolutionary" bodies like the RSB, the ABCs, Political Officers and Workers Syndicates in the Great Plains and the South. Stillwell did not have any intention to bother with Chicago but to join force with the anti-socialist forces while the Reformists were planning a coup against Chicago. Thus, while Stillwell's forces entered negotiation with the west, unsupported by the military, outgunned and overwhelmingly outmanned, the People's Minutesmen were decimated, New York fell to the control of the SDP as soon as the pro-SPA regiments converged on the city, its defenders fled and the city hall soon found themselves turned into a quick and brutal military tribunal. Only a skeleton of a party remains, of those who did not participate in the coup and swore loyal to the SDP Chicago faction. A Marxist Communist Party-State, like those of the Jacobins of France now emerge in America.

### Unification

Now standing as the sole power in revolutionary America, cleansed of both reformists and extremists, the party however realise full well that it can not stand in a soild position especially after the castatrophe of Stillwell's Mutiny, A discussion among high ranking SPA leaders and its allies showed that a consensus exists for the precarious situation in America, Reed reminds well the participants that if they would not act with an iron will, the American Socialist revolution can fall to the labourist-syndicalists like with France after the civil war or ending in the doom of the revolution like in Russia, this opinion was shared by Foster, representing the orthodox syndicalists outside of the party of a need of the "iron battalions of the proletariat", Jay Lovestone however have another opinion that while authoriatarian measures is absolute needed, what they need as well is a popular front working in unity with proper democratic principles to avoid the conspiracies and factionalism. In 1948 as the front now being pushed back as battered socialist forces weather Operation Tacoma. In Milwaukee, another former stronghold of the SPD showing the vision of Lovestone being put into practice of a grand reconcilation and union, but he was to be disappointed as the harshly organised and chaotic conference of unification attended with only the Fosterite Syndicalists and Musterite Americanists as meaningful participant, the rump IWW and SPD presents only token participation. The Conference ended with a treaty for a total merger of all socialist and revolutionary forces in America to form a single organ, therefore to be known as the United Socialist Party of America