Communist Liberation Army of Alconbria

The **Communist Liberation Army of Alconbria** (**CLA**) is a left-wing guerrilla movement active in Alconbria. Initially founded as a far-left communist movement, the movement gradually merged with several other socialist, anarchists and Trotskyists; and became the largest guerrilla movement active in Alconbria by 2008. The CLA also mains an alliance with the Metsarbarros Communist Party and despite ideological differences, an alliance with Free Alconbria Group and the Alconbrian Democratic Alliance.

It's roots lie at the CALM, a paramilitary which fought in the Alconbrian War of Independence from 1966 till its merger with the Arporleber in 1970. As international communists supported Altivebrio, the CALM was unable to find suppliers and was forced to merge with the politically neutral Arporleber. However, beginning from the late 1970s, the National Front for Alconbrian Liberation began a massive shift to the right-wing. The CALM, which had 300,000 members at that point, threatened to quit the NFAL, resulting in the 1984 Los Guez conference between the right-wing, moderate and left-wing factions of the NFAL. The conference ended with the left-wing faction exiting the NFAL. The CALM's exit resulted in skirmishes between the NFAL and CALM, and the CALM clandestinely asking for Altivebrian support. When the talks between the CALM and the Altivebrians was made public, massive public unrest resulted in the massive dip in popularity of communism in the NFAL, and the rise of centre-left politics planted by Paul del Santé. The CALM was disbanded in 1985, with most of the CALM members being granted clemency by the government, despite heavy opposition from the right-wing faction.

The CLA was created after the resurgence of radical left thought after Alconbria gained independence in 1988, but were still a shadow of the CALM. Membership rose in the late 1990s, thanks to right-wing propaganda efforts against the centre-left governmenth headed by Paul del Santé. The CLA rose to prominence as a result of the political violence following the 2000 Alconbrian general election. The Alconbria People's Party victory in the 2001 election resulted in CLA membership reaching to 100,000. With the help of several Malpuro nationalist organizations, the CLA began their revolutionary struggle in October 2001, and were immediately banned by the APP-led government. After a series of violence in late 2001 and early 2002, the APP government controversially authorized the Anti-Communist Task Force led by several right-wing paramilitaries, including the APP's armed wing People's Security Force. The A-CTF, aided by the Alconbrian police and the army, committed several human rights violations while fighting the communists, and contributed to the Alconbrian Crisis. Despite this, membership continued to grow, peaking at 400,000 during the start of the 2005 Alconbrian constitutional crisis. The controversially elected Constituent Assembly adopted Alconacioism and anti-communism as the state ideology, resulting in the Operation Swordfish targeting the CLA. Despite the ubiquitous human rights violence, the campaign received significant public approval thanks to propaganda efforts by the Sise Garantii to portray the communists being financed by Altivebrio. It is widely believed that the anti-communist campaign was extensively used by the authorities to keep the approval ratings of Ernesto Titeriez and Augustin Voimer high during the Alconbrian economic crisis.

In 2010, the size of the organization reduced to 40,000 active fighters when high-ranking member Fernando Posro Gomez surrendered to the Opker-SPT. In his speech, Posro Gomez noted that he had lost the battle of ideologies, and credited communism for causing the economic crisis, and Alconacioism for curing it. His speech was dismissed by other high-ranking CLA leaders, who claimed that it was a propaganda piece made under extreme duress. The government still continued to increase the anti-communist activities, and declared victory over communism in 2012, when the organization was reduced to a 300 active soldiers and collaborators numbering in the thousands.