Syndicalist States

The **United Socialist States of America**, colloquially referred to as the **Syndicalist States** or **East America**, is a country in North America, bordered by Canada to the north, the Pacific States to the west, and Mexico to the south. It is a member of the Third International.

## Key politicians (Reworked)

Main article: Syndicalist States/Politics
### Right-Syndicalists

#### American-Oriented Syndicalists

* William Z. Foster, President of the USSA
* Alexander Bittelman, the chief ideological lieutenant for Foster, controversial for rumors of "growing soft" after numerous failed attempts at interfactional unification.
* Gus Hall, a diehard syndicalist and rising Party star fiercely loyal to Foster's policies. Locked in a fierce rivalry with Bittelman for control over the faction.
* Henning A. Blomen, a young and charismatic war veteran from Massachusetts, campaigning on the expansion of veterans' rights.
	+ Bittelman's primary ally, besides Foster.
* Jack Stachel, the top propagandist to Foster and his camp, working as a technocrat. Neutral on the growing Bittelman-Hall struggle.

### Left-Syndicalists

#### Industrial Workers of the World

* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a women's rights activist from New York who has played a leading role in the IWW since the Second American Civil War.
* Harry Bridges, the Australian-born former president of the ILWU, who led the union's merger into the greater IWW and became a major union functionary.
	+ Major supporter of the suppressed Hawaiian Revolution of 1936.
* R. J. Thomas, the former president of the UAW, joined the IWW after his upset loss to pro-AFL moderate Walter Reuther in 1946.
	+ Now supports the merger of the UAW into the IWW.

#### Francophile Clique

* John Bernard, a French-American who served as the Socialist governor of Minnesota during the war, and an advocate for closer ties to French-style syndicalism within the country.
* A. Philip Randolph, the president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a predominantly black union.
	+ One of the main non-Fosterist champions of Reconstruction.
	+ Sympathetic to the IWW, but against merging the BSCP into it.
	+ Close friend of Maida S. Kemp, despite ideological differences.

### Centre Opposition (Marxists)

#### Leninists

* Eugene Dennis, the shrewd "kingmaker" of the Right Opposition, who has served in leftist politics since 1926 and
* Earl Browder,

### Moderates

#### American Federation of Labor

* David Dubinsky, the Belarusian-born president of the ILGWU, one of the few industrial unions within the craft-dominated AFL.
* Maida Springer Kemp, the Panamanian-born vice president of the ILGWU and a prominent internationalist, who helped to transform the AFL into one of the largest international benefactors of African labor.
	+ Has held substantial influence in Senegambia, where she befriended Léopold Sédar Senghor and became a prominent voice for the négritude movement.

#### Committee for Marxist Democracy

* Gil Green, a prolific Jewish-American war veteran from Chicago who led the Young Communist League through the Second American Civil War.

### Right Opposition (Totalists)

#### Lovestoneites

* Jay Lovestone, the kingpin of the "Right Opposition" and a bitter rival of William Z. Foster.
* Benjamin Gitlow, a contemporary of Jack Reed and current close ally of Jay Lovestone criticized as a "radical opportunist" by his contemporaries.
* Joseph Zack Kornfeder, an Austrian-born internationalist and a former Fosterite, who has taken a sharp turn to the Right Opposition as the muscle of Lovestone's movement.

## Key politicians (Old)

### Fosterists

#### Loyalist establishment

* William Z. Foster, the leader of the nation.
* Eugene Dennis, the shrewd "kingmaker" of the Party who has served in leftist politics since 1926.
* Gus Hall, a Fosterite hardliner and a vocal opponent of Eugene Dennis.
* Robert Klonsky, a Jewish-American from New York who volunteered for the Iberian Federation during the Spanish Civil War.
* Jack Stachel, the top propagandist to Foster and his camp, who has recently taken a backseat in his own department due to numerous heart issues.
* Alexander Bittelman, the chief ideological lieutenant for Foster who is increasingly taking a more independent approach to the party.

#### Black Fosterists

* Henry Winston, an African-American longtime communist from Missouri from who served in the Continental War, and went on to lead the reconstruction effort for the Black Belt.
* Benjamin J. Davis Jr, an African-American lawyer and close ally of William E. Foster who became mayor of New York during the Continental War.
* Claude Lightfoot, an African-American from Chicago and a veteran of the Second American Civil War.
* Claudia Jones, a Trinidadian-born Black nationalist from New York who has played a significant role among Black syndicalists.

### Right Opposition

#### Lovestoneites

* Jay Lovestone, the kingpin of the "Right Opposition" and a bitter rival of William Z. Foster.
* Benjamin Gitlow, a contemporary of Jack Reed and current close ally of Jay Lovestone criticized as a "radical opportunist" by his contemporaries.
* Joseph Zack Kornfeder, an Austrian-born internationalist and a former Fosterite, who has taken a sharp turn to the Right Opposition as the muscle of Lovestone's movement.
* Sidney Hook, a philosopher from New York and a former Fosterist hardliner turned moderate, working as a pragmatic and anti-radical democratic socialist.
* Max Eastman, a writer and activist focused on the cause of social radicalism and democratic socialism, becoming an independent thinker increasingly disillusioned with hardline syndicalism.
* Bayard Rustin, an African-American and homosexual trade unionist and pacifist socialist activism.
* David Dubinsky, the Belarusian-American president of the ILGWU.
* Charles S. Zimmerman, the Ukrainian-American right-hand man of David Dubinsky and a top official in the ILGWU, one of the most sympathetic Lovestoneites to the Liberal Socialists.
* John Pepper, the Hungarian-born functionary to the Third International and an opponent to James P. Cannon.

### Centre Opposition

#### Liberal Socialists

* **John Gates**, a Jewish-American from New York and a heavy critic of Mosley leading the effort to liberalize the Syndicate government.
* Howard Fast, a writer from New York and Spanish Civil War veteran who has become a prominent advocate of liberalization.
* Walter Reuther, the president of the UAW and co-founder of the AFL-CIO, and a devout supporter of the liberalization movement.
* Joseph Yablonski, a prominent figure of the UMW campaigning against Kennedy.
* Harold J. Gibbons, a liberal socialist organizer from Missouri who hold influence across multiple prominent unions.
* Jacob S. Potofsky, the president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and a prominent liberal socialist.

#### Thomasites

* Grace Carlson, a Catholic socialist from Minnesota who became the governor of the state in the 1950s.
* Darlington Hoopes, a politician from Pennsylvania and the christian socialist protégé of Norman Thomas.
* George Meany, the president and founder of the AFL-CIO.
* Frank Lausche, the governor of Ohio from 1945 to 1953, serving as a political moderate and independent.
* Sam DeWitt, a longtime member of the Centre Opposition and a close friend of Upton Sinclair.

### Left Opposition

#### Cannonites

* **James P. Cannon**, a New York protégé of "Big Bill" Haywood and former friend of Earl Browder who was expelled from his own party in the late 1940s after constant clashes with Foster. Despite being outside of the party, he remains an independent politician and domineering political figure.
* Max Shachtman, a reconciled former rival of James P. Cannon and one of the highest-ranking members of the loosely-united Left Opposition.
* James Burnham, an ally of Shachtman and an independent advocate for "technocratic Sorelianism".
* John Williamson, a Scottish-born radical and former Cannonite who played a key role in the Seattle Commune uprising.
* Dorothy Healy, a leading party figure from Colorado becoming increasingly disillusioned with party Anglophilia.
* Farrell Dobbs, a former Cannonite from Minnesota.
* Vincent R. Dunne, a former Cannonite from Minnesota who became the mayor of Minneapolis during the Continental War.
* Harry Haywood, a champion of black self-determination and militant who led the campaign against the Ku Klux Klan in the years between the Second American Civil War and the Continental War. A proponent of internationalism and pan-Africanism.

#### Old Syndicalists

* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a women's rights activist from New York who has played a leading role in the IWW since the Second American Civil War.
* John Bernard, a French-American who served as the governor of Minnesota from 1940 to 1948, who advocates for closer ties to French-style syndicalism within the country.
* Henning A. Blomen, a young and charismatic veteran of the Second American Civil War and Continental War from Massachusetts, campaigning on post-war optimism, expansion of industrial democracy, and veterans' rights.
* Harry Bridges, the Australian-born president of the ILWU and a major international supporter of the suppressed Hawaiian Revolution of 1936.
* Gil Green, a prolific Jewish-American from Chicago who led the Young Communist League through the Second American Civil War.
* R. J. Thomas, the former president of the UAW and the vice president of the AFL-CIO.
* Rose Pesotta, the former vice president of the ILGWU.
* A. Philip Randolph, an African-American labor unionist and the president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. One of the main non-Fosterist champions of Reconstruction and a close friend of Maida S. Kemp.
* Maida Springer Kemp, a labor organizer and internationalist who has represented the AFL-CIO in Africa since the start of the decade, becoming a significant delegate of Third International interests in the West African Union and Azania.

#### Johnson-Forest Tendency

* C.L.R. James (aka J.R. Johnson), a Trinidadian writer and socialist activist currently living in the USSA, advocating for syndicalist humanism and autonomist socialism.
* Raya Dunayevskaya (aka Freddie Forest), a Lithuanian Jewish syndicalist writer and social activist, one of the main advocates for syndicalist humanism.
* Grace Lee Boggs (aka Ria Stone), a Chinese-American philosopher, author, and activist focused on the plight of marginalized social groups, opposed to the nature of the vanguard party.
* James Boggs, an African-American activist from Michigan, husband of Grace Lee Boggs

### Other important figures

* Thomas Kennedy, the former Governor of Minnesota and current president of the UMW, who has continued John L. Lewis's authoritarian and centre-right tendencies.
* Jimmy Hoffa, the president of the IBT, who has moved his way into national prominence via close Mafia connections.

### Retired political figures

* John L. Lewis, the militant and authoritarian former president of the UMW who was purged following the Second American Civil War due to his anti-syndicalist and pro-Long tendencies.
* Arturo Giovannitti, an Italian-born Wobbly and Continental War veteran who became prominent as a politican and speaker for orthodox syndicalists following the war. Though heavily aging, he remains an active supporter.
* Alfred Wagenknecht, an early organizer for the CSA who was instrumental in spreading syndicalist sentiment thoughout Ohio during the Great Depression. Though retired, he has given his favor towards the liberal socialist bloc.

## Economics

The Syndicalist States will, in the coming years, become a powerhouse for the research and development of the computing industry, entering a deep rivalry with its Pacific counterparts for control of electronics. Bell-Russell Labs (formerly Bell Labs), a research and development institute in New York City, is at the forefront of this technological revolution, earning extensive research grants to compete with William Shockley and his exiles in the emerging Silicon Valley of California, while New Jersey, where most of Bell Labs has begun to migrate to, remains the Silicon Coast.

## National spirits

+15.00% Stability
-80.00% War Support
-5.00% Monthly Resistance Gain
-15.00% Factory Output
-15.00% Resource Gain Efficiency

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low
Over the field in clouded days,
The forest-field of Shiloh—
Over the field where April rain
Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain
Through the pause of night
That followed the Sunday fight
Around the church of Shiloh—
The church so lone, the log-built one,
That echoed to many a parting groan
And natural prayer
Of dying foemen mingled there—
Foemen at morn, but friends at eve—
Fame or country least their care:
(What like a bullet can undeceive!)
But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim,