Socialist Republic of Canada

The **Socialist Republic of Canada**, also known commonly as the **Republic of Canada**. Officially founded in 1945 following the flight of the Government to British Columbia

## History

The Socialist Party of Canada, for a time was the most influential, was driven underground along with most other leftist parties and groups in Canada. However, it was reogranised under the patronage of the Socialist Party of America. The experiences of the general strikes changed the mentality of its leadership in regard to compromises and working with other labour groups, thus was the founding of the Labour Unity Party of Canada (LUP). The brutal suppression and radical agitation from south of the border assembled for them a strong labour network that would spring into action in the beginning of the Second American Civil War. As their fellow comrades in the south took up arms, so did the north, the various small scales shootouts, stand off and so-called insurrection became widespread across the country but to no significants until the Canadian military officially mobilized to intervene to the US. The Canadian military rapid success against the rabble-rousing paramilitary and militia of the PRG that only overwhelmed the local forces via popular insurrection was quickly defeated on battlefield, and soon the whole of New England was liberated from the Reds.

The economic failure of the dominion since the fall of Britain have became even more disastrous with the mobilisation to war, so even with the gains in America, the Canadian Army was forced to be recalled to deal with the draft riots, general strikes that now appearing more powerful and more organised, perhaps courtesy of the PRG in America that is now organizing itself into a proper government and military forces with its Red Marine Corps at the core. Limited military actions and supplies continue to the stream into America, fighting continue across the entire US-Canada border, with Chicago under raid and assault several time but domestic instability and the ongoing Atlantic conflict against Red Europe tied them from a major offensive like New England prior. The most catastrophic event would come in the form of the Great Pacific Revolt or known in America as the Seattle Republic. The massive uprising across several Northwest states and Canadian provinces organised by the Revolutionary Military Organisation of the West seized several cities and forced the military of the Pacific Coalition to abandon its plan to rescue the east, the Canadian military had to divert nearly a majority of its forces to the east to defeat the ongoing uprising, BC was pacified along with Seattle in Operation Wild Rose.

However, using the opportunity created by the western distraction, several maritime and eastern provinces entered a series of violent and paralysing strikes that eventually captured the city of Ottawa causing the flight of the Government, the LUP, the main organising force under American support for the revolutionary actions in Canada officially declared the independence of the Canadian Republic as a free and socialist state. The situation in Canada became a sort of phoney war and delegated to battlefronts for the American forces, as the fledging Red Canada have no military of its own but workers militias with no leadership capacities while the Royalist forces lacked resources nor popular support to conduct massive military offense when even their own areas is under severe instability. The most bloodied episode of the Canadian Revolution is the back-to-back PRG offensive in a pincer movement across the Canadian prairies that was stopped dead in its track by the RAF destruction of the trans-canada railways and the counter-offensive of the US forces later which also failed and as the result of two major offensives along the railways, it was permanently destroyed.

The New Years Peace came along to the end of the Canadian Revolution, securing the status quo, as the provinces borders were defined as ceasefire lines.

## Government

The Canadian government mimic much of the structures of their American counterpart, from the declaration of independence in 1945 to 47, its chairman was George Armstrong, the grandfather of Canadian socialism. As he resigned his office in 1947 to old age, and replaced by A.A MacLeod, it also signaled a fundamental change in the politics of the Republic.

### Westerners - Labour Unity

Forced into the Labour Unity experience, the Westerners are the original core of the Socialist Party of Canada, who retained its original view point of a truly uncompromising Marxist/Revolutionary socialist state without the moderate or other non-revolutionary labourite forces. They were more powerful originally but the pacification of BC destroyed much of their power base and influence.

### Easterners - Labour Unity

With its base in the branches in Manitoba and Ontario, the Easterners adhere to a more relaxed philosophy more closely resembled of George Armstrong in his later day as the leader of the LUP, a revolutionary popular front working closely with other progressive forces and more flexible in its politics. This faction became the dominant power in the LUP and the Canadian Republic as a whole after the pacification of BC.