Texan United Front.

### History

Initially founded as a broad leftist Governmental front, the organization quickly grew into that of a wide social movement with many groups fanning out to create branch movements which spearheaded the renewal of public works projects throughout the state. More recently the TUF has been the forefront in establishing International brigades in the defense of groups which were at the time persecuted by any of many means.

##### Battle of Austin, Sept. 23-24, 2198

Early in the morning of the 23rd, a general strike was declared for many industrial workers in the city of Austin, this was met with an uncharacteristically intimidating response from the Anti-left citizens of nearby counties and the immediate areas surrounding the city and by mid day, over 2,000 anti-protesters arrived and began clashing violently with the Strikers. This was met was intense anger from the locals which turned out in high numbers to strike back at the agitators, and within three hours the Metropolitan police erected barriers between the Protesters and outside agitators. Sometime during the night a radical agitator fired a shotgun into a crowd of students after pushing past metropolitan police and killed seven students and injured many more, sparking the beginnings of the battle. Within two hours the three main militias of the city independently called to arms their members and began their march to South Guadeloupe street whilst the agitators smashed the bare police lines and engaged in combat against the students and police.

The Austin Civilian guard was the first to arrive at South Guadeloupe and quickly began sweeping across the wide Boulevards to attack at the now entrenched Agitators, driving them into a retreat up into the large Rowling hall building and up two stories of the building before they were halted, shorty thereafter a contingent of Metropolitan police arrived from northern areas of the city and hastily deputized the Militiamen before assisting them in the siege. About fifty minutes later a contingent of fifty national guardsmen hauling a canon and wearing black-red shoulder ties (likely to symbolize their sympathies towards the Black guards and other socialist militias,) and quickly set up the cannon to fire into the Rowling Hall.

Meanwhile: a group of University students which belonged to the "Black Guard" militia heard early word that a group of Agitators were on their way towards the campus with the intention of reinforcing their positions in the south, with only a half hour to spare; the students quickly organized a defense and fired on the enemies as soon as they entered sight, opening a bloody and desperate defense on behalf of the students of the University's campus. The battle saw the slow retreat of Campus students until about halfway down the campus at which point they rallied a counterattack and crushed the remaining opposition, although not without heavy casualties from the assault.

###### Victoria Stat pro Augustino, Sed Cruenta.

less than a day after the bloodshed had begun: it ended, the police and national guard had reorganized and joined with the militias to descend on the remaining agitators and began to make a series of arrests.

Nothing can undo the broken windows, cracked bricks, and burned Facades, but Austin stands a city of damaged streets, not of damaged resolve.