The British Civil War

The British Civil war lasted from 2nd September 1919 to 1929 it was part of the rise of Syndacalism in Western Europe.It started exactley when World War 1 ended in a German victory. The United Kingdom was also fightning in Ireland which helped the Syndacalist win.

## Prelude and beginning

The government of France fell in May 1919, when the Germans succesfully captured the city of Paris. Massive popular unrest among the sailors, soldiers, coal mine and industrial workers shattered the British establishment. Under the leadership of labor organizers, on 2nd September the Industrial Workers London Syndicate stormed Westminster and connected with nearby syndicates. The syndicates had armed themselvesb by seizing important military logistics and infrastructure under the leadership of the Chairman Albert Inkpin.

The toppled establishment of the United Kingdom had immediately formed an emergency "All-British Government in Edinburgh as a directory accompanied by top-figures of the British war effort, namely Field Marshals and navy admirals, including the Russian interventionist Edmund Ironside who retreated byck to Britain. With the backing of land-owners and industrialists, a royalist White Army had been organized to stop the revolution.

Rebels started an offensive in all the direction. In the west, they fully conquered the Cornwall Peninsula in 23rd of September, in the eastern direction they struck the army of Southern England in Kent, while many cities and countryside rebelled in Wales. The northern rebellions were brutally suppressed by the Monarchists, but their southern comrades managed to meet with the English ones.

## Maneuver war phase

In October 1919, a counteroffensive was launched from both the Kent and East Midlands, which managed to meet northeast of London and cut off the East England, but the Great battle of London ended in a decisive victory of the Syndicalists, retaking most of the lost land back and also capturing the northern Wales for a short time, before being pushed back by the White Army.

In November 1919, the Royalists launched another offensive in all fronts, capturing Southern Wales, but in 26th of November, a large uprising broke out in Ireland while the Syndicalist England counterattacked the Whites in the eastern part of the front, putting whole the Wales Peninsula on a siege in the middle of December.

Meanwhile, the Irish nationalists captured the southern half of Ireland while the North was stabilized in British hands. In January 1920, they attacked the Irish south, but this allowed the Syndicalists capture Southern Wales and advance in the Northern Front. Syndicalists withdrawd some troops from Kent, so the local White leader Field Marshal Douglas Haig made an attack, reaching the outskirts of London and then meeting with the North Welsh army. But in March 1920, they were completly destroyed with Haig captured and executed, ending the last Monarchist chance to win the war. The Irish nationalists captured Dublin and established the Republic of Ireland on 18th of March. In April 1920, they controlled all the island except for the Northern Ireland region.

## Trench and guerilla war phase

This ended the bloodiest early stage of war. Syndicalists continued to expand their territori further and further north, putting Edinburgh on siege from October 1920 and capturing Glasgow in March 1921. In November 1920, with major conflict coming to an end, a legitimate government was created. All the nationwide workers syndicates had united into a single centralized state, London as its capital. As the chairman of a revolutionary organization and a war-time leader, Inkpin resigned and paved his way for Tom Mann's election as the chairman of the Supreme House.

Mann's goverment's goals were the following:

1) Organize and build the new syndicalist state

2) Defeat the White Army

3) Increase the productivity of the syndicates.

4) Land reforms and incorporation with the syndicate system

In the following years, the young Socialist Union of Britain established economic relations with the syndicalist France and Italy.

In March 1922, Ireland tried to invade the Northern Ireland, but they were defeated, which sparked the monarchist uprising in southwest of the country, which lasted until August. Their second offensive in 1923 was successfull, completing the ocnquest of the island and ending the Irish War of Independence.

In 1925, new Syndicalist British leader, militant James Larkin was elected, committing series of purges against the Aristocrats and other enemies of the revolution. Laterthat year, Edinburg had fallen to Syndicalists that executed the leader of it's garrison Field Marshal John French. Britain also renewed it's navy, resisting the German blockade. In 1928, the last stand of the White Army in Scotland fell, the next year folowed by the Orkney archipelago, which allowed the Syndicalists to completely break the German blockade. The final Monarchist bastion in the Isle of Man was defeated in July 1919, which concluded the ten years of brutal fighting of the Weltkrieg's aftermatch.