List Political Parties of Alternate Countries

The Republic of Québec is the newest country in North America, and one of the newest states in the world. Encompassing the entirety of the former Canadian province of Québec, the Republic is a middle-income country of just under eight million people. Significantly poorer than either the United States or the remaining Canadian provinces due to both historical underdevelopment and economic dislocation created by Québec's secession from Canada, Québec is a major exporter of natural resources, hydro-power, and migrant workers. It is a semi-presidential republic, with a constitution modeled on the French Fifth Republic, and a 121-member unicameral legislature, the National Assembly. The current President is Dominic Bissonnet, of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).

History

Québec's path towards independence began with the Quiet Revolution in 1960, with the rapid secularization of Québecois society and the emergence of a strong welfare state and state-led economic development under Québec Liberal Party governance. Québecois nationalism began to take root, principally conceiving of the Québecois as a marginalized, proletarianized population, suppressed as workers and French-speakers by Anglo-Canadian business interests. In 1968, René Lévesque and others formed the Parti Québécois (PQ) as a vehicle for achieving independence from Canada. More radical factions, such as the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), sought to achieve an independent workers' Québec through armed struggle, mounting a campaign of bombings and robberies throughout the 1960s.

The Quiet Revolution ended in 1971, with the beginning of Le Cauchemar (the Nightmare). The previous year, an attempt by the FLQ to kidnap a British diplomat, James Cross, went awry, leading to his accidental death following a car chase. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government, reliant on French Canadian votes, initiated a crackdown - in a raid on a suspected FLQ safehouse, several of its members were killed. In response, on June 24, 1971 - the holiday of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, a Québecois national day - Trudeau, while gladhanding at a rally, was shot to death by Francis Simard, a member of the Chenier Cell of the FLQ.

The Acting Prime Minister, Alan MacEachan, swore that he would "take the white gloves off," and declared martial law. Sweeps soon arrests more than a hundred suspected FLQ members, many of whom were tried and given long prison sentences or even executed, with staunch support for the Liberal government from the Canadian Parliament. MacEachen also pushed through a law forcing all voters to renounce violence and swear an oath of allegiance to Canada if they wanted access to the ballot. While opposed by the New Democrats and some Quebec Liberals, the new law went into effect. In response, the PQ called for a boycott of national elections, which saw a landslide for the Progressive Conservatives under Robert Stanfield.

Over the next seventeen years, escalation met escalation, with the Canadian federal government cracking down further on Québecois nationalist activity and controlling the provincial government, and Québecois citizens responding by withdrawing from formal politics, attempting to reconcile themselves to the regime, or fighting for independence. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) largely took over law enforcement in the province, and became known for their brutal tactics aimed at "agitators." Provincial prisons became a site of nationalist radicalization, and with the help of Soviet supplies and training, bombings spread from Montreal and Québec to other Canadian cities, and from letter bombs to car bombs. Gerrymandering and disenfranchisement kept a bare-majority federalist government in place, one which struggled to reduce the level of violence while remaining in Canada.

Finally, in 1988, a coalition of PQ-aligned independents and a pro-independence faction of the provincial Liberals swept the provincial elections on a mandate of seeking independence. When the Canadian federal government sought to suspend the legislature, a massive wave of demonstrators, wearing white felt badges, occupied city centers and vital infrastructure. The so-called White Square Revolution forced the RCMP and Canadian military to withdraw, and the new government unilaterally declared the independence of the Républic du Québec.


Parties in the National Assembly

The Parti Québécois is a big-tent nationalist party, which embraces traditionally left-wing rhetoric but which is increasingly aligned with Québec's business community, particularly its "national champion" industries. In power from 1988 through 2015, their 27-year reign saw the construction of an independent Québec. They managed the dislocations in the wake of the White Square Revolution, as investors withdrew their money and people associated with Canadian loyalism - particularly Anglophones and Jews - migrated or were sometimes forced to flee to other parts of Canada, the Eastern Townships refused to recognize the new government, and Indigenous nations sought to negotiate a better deal, balancing between Canada and Québec. Their policies during their early governments - with a near-monopoly on power - focused on building a working relationship with Canada and creating a "popular and national" Québecois economy. They oversaw widespread nationalizations of industry (often with only partial compensation), government coordination of business and labour, and other economic interventionism focused on promoting exports. While the country's economic shrank by nearly one-quarter in the first two years of independence, it began to recover afterwards, and picked up steam beginning in 1996 upon the normalization of relations with Canada and the United States.

Permanent government, however, led to corruption and the growth of a state-connected "tenderprenuer" class. PQ leaders, in response to discontent, engaged in their own repressive tactics, harassing the political opposition and leaning on state power for support. In 2015, facing the assassination of investigative reporter Jean Laurier by organized crime figures with links to several government ministers accused of corruption, the PQ fell from power. It maintains its strength primarily in Québec's smaller cities and rural areas.

Current seats: 35/121

The Coalition Avenir Québec is a multi-party, center-left liberal coalition which currently governs Québec. Its members include the liberal-center Parti Démocratique du Québec (PDQ); the longstanding but largely discredited Parti Libéral du Québec (PLQ); the dissident labour union-backed Parti Ouvrier (PO); the green-socialist Rassemblement Pour L'Alternative Socialiste-écologique; and the Indigenous-autonomist Notre Terre/Our Land. The alliance was solidified in 2013 after negotiations between the parties, convened by now-President Dominic Bissonnet. They agreed to a common big-tent platform to challenge the PQ, and settled on Bissonnet, Montreal mayor and PDQ-aligned independent, as their leader. Now governing following their surprise landslide victory in 2015, the CAQ has substantial internal divisions, but has stuck together thus far in implementing an aggressive anti-corruption platform and investing in creaking infrastructure. Its divisions may not be bridgeable anymore though, leaving an opening for other parties. Its strength principally comes from Montreal, Ville de Québec, heavily Indigenous districts in the North, and the Eastern Townships (where the Liberal Party retains support). Juliette Desmeules, a former nurse from Laval and leader of the Parti Ouvrier, serves as Prime Minister.

Current seats: 75/121

The Union Nationale is a right-wing party, which focuses primarily on issues of cultural conservatism, support for family farms, and full privatization of Québec's "national champions." Founded in 2005, the party has ridden the revival of Catholic religiosity among some Quebecois to some national power: their presidential candidate, pig farmer and businessman Stéphane Gauthier, came in third in the first round of the 2015 presidential elections, with 18.1% of the vote. The party has worked closely with the CAQ on some issues, but has retained its distance on others. Gauthier, who recently won a by-election for a seat centered on his native Saint-Léon-de-Standon, has pledged to run again and "build a nation worthy of the people of Québec and for God."

Current seats: 7/121

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Front de Libération du Québec is a far-left nationalist party, which advocates for a largely state-run economy, a cradle-to-grave welfare state, extreme secularism, and the removal of citizenship from non-ethnic Quebecois in the country. Formed by members of the FLQ's armed organization following Québec's independence, the FLQ functioned primarily as a "loyal opposition" party to the PQ, with a certain number of seats uncontested by the PQ to allow the "heroes of the national revolution" to sit in the legislature, and foreign governments to get a taste of the potential government-in-waiting, making the PQ's public sabre-rattling more tolerable. Running only in their "reserved" seats, the party was shocked to lose several of them to CAQ candidates. The party is currently undergoing a factional struggle, between moderates who seek a formal coalition with the PQ, and radicals who, believing that the people of Québec demand a third way free of the bourgeois liberalism of the CAQ or the corrupt corporatism of the PQ, will sweep the FLQ into power and allow them to build a utopic pure laine workers' state.

Current seats: 4/121
 
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Parties for an alternative Austro-Hungarian Empire:
Largest party is The Conservative League (CL) with 25% of the vote and the two houses of parliament (100 and 1000 member two houses (the Senate and the Grand Assembly)) (25 and 250 seats), who support the status quo of the Danubian Empire
Second largest single party is
The Liberal League (LL) with 24% (24 and 240 seats), they are socially liberal while not having much other agenda.
Third largest single party is
The Monarchist League (ML) with 15% (15 and 150 seats), who are simply monarchists who are closer to the CL.
Remaining parties are all coalitions of several parties.

Holy League (HL) is the smallest overall group with 1 and 10 seats, which is the alliance of a group of christian parties.
Catholic League (CaL) is the largest member of the HL with (0.79%) the 1 Senate seat and 7 of the GA seats (despite being entitled to 8 seats), very christian conservative.
Catholic Liberal League (CaLL) with only 1 GA seat (0.01%) being the smallest party in the parliaments, they only have their seat thanks to CaL giving up their seat under the HL, liberal and religious.
Orthodox League of Danubia (OLD) with 0.1% and a GA seat, who do not have much policy other than supporting Orthodox interests.
Christian Democrat League (CDL) with 0.1% and a GA seat, supporting more democracy (slightly republican but not fully.)

Independence League (IL) has 11% (with 11 Senate seats and 110 GA seats.), which is an alliance of different national independence parties, All of which want independence for their chosen Nation with only the LoH supporting maybe keeping the monarchy after independence.
League of Hungary (LoH) has 4 Senators and 40 assemblyman.
League of Poles (LoP) has 1 Senator and 10 GA seats.
Czech Liberation League (CLL) has the same numbers as LoH.
Free League of Croats (FLC) has 2 Senators and 20 GA seats.

Democratic League (DL) has 24% vote (24 Senate seats and 240 Grand Assembly seats). It is a very wide-umbrella alliance of (mostly left wing) parties, who all support more democracy with some being republican.
Democracy for Danubia (DfD) has 5 senators and 50 Assembly members and is mostly liberal but their main policy is making Danubia more democratic. Still monarchists by and large.
Republican League (RL) same numbers as the DfD, their policies are basically "we want a republic as soon as possible".
League of Labour (LoL) 4% (4 Senators and 40 GA seats) are social-democrats who have left the RRA and are very moderate outside of the call for a social-democratic economy and more democracy.
Peoples League (PL) has 3 Senate and 30 GA seats (3%) and are ideologically Syndicalists who have much animosity with the RRA despite agreeing with them on most accounts.
Revolutionary Radical Alliance (RRA) (7%) has 7 Senators and 70 GA seats and are (as the name suggest) radically republican and heavily left leaning. Most people are surprised that they aren't banned yet.
Anarchists (An) has 0.05% (no Senate seats, granted 1 GA seat under the RRA) are as the name suggest Anarchists, since not a lot of Anarchists actually vote (participating in the state) they are doomed to irrelevancy.
Communist League (ComL) has 0.85% (a Senate seat and 8 GA seats) and are not very popular being the most radical people around (sans the Anarchists), traditionalist Marxists.
Socialist League (SL) has 3% (3 in senate and 30 in GA) and are staunchly republican but also much more moderate than the ComL.
Social-Democrats (SD) has 3.1% (3 Senators and 31 GA) and are the social-democrats who have remained within RRA. Has been dividing the social-democrat vote between themselves and the LoL. At-least they are together under the DL.

Current government is a CL-ML-HL-IL (52%) alliance that promises the IL more autonomy with the core being CL-ML-HL. Both the LL and the DL are the opposition.

Edit: Accidentally posted too early. Will complete later.
Edit2: Finished it.
Edit3: If it isn't clear the RRA is a part of the DL. While all parties written in black are part of the coloured party that camme before it
 
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The Republic of Texas is a country in south-central and southwest North America. It is one of the greater powers in the Americas and the world, with around 38 million people living in its borders, and the seventh largest economy in the world, only passed by countries such as the Republic of California, the Republic of China, and the United States. It stretches from the Sabine River, all the way to the Greater Colorado River. While stereotyped as a land of cowboys and oilmen ("roughnecks"), it has a diverse economy, made up of, of course, ranching and oil and energy production, but also manufacturing, mining, especially in the western portions of the Republic, tech, mainly in Houston (OTL Dallas), steel, tourism (gotta play off that legendary reputation of freedom fighters and cowboys somehow), and aeronautics, thanks to NASA's headquarters in Crockett (OTL Houston). The current President of Texas is Kay Bailey Hutchison (C-TR).

History:

Texas was formed on March 2nd, 1836, when delegates to the San Antonio Convention, then the territorial government of Mexican Tejas, unanimously approved and signed the Texan Declaration of Independence. Texas was already in rebellion, thanks to Santa Anna centralizing the government, something that was unpopular with both the Tejanos who had lived in Texas before it was opened up to American immigration, and the American immigrants, many of whom came to Texas only a few years prior. This only confirmed the intentions of Texas, and enraged Santa Anna, who was determined to bring Texas under Mexico's heel. After the DoI was signed, Texas would start a major mobilization of whatever manpower it could muster, also accepting many volunteers, the majority of whom coming from the Southern United States. It wasn't the best army in the world, and General Sam Houston, who was the commander-in-chief of Texan forces, knew this, but everyone was determined to make it through.

In around mid-march, Santa Anna's men crossed the Rio Grande, en route to San Antonio, the capital of Texas (a title San Antonio continues to have), so to nip Texas in the bud, with his subordinates, Generals Urrea and Filisola taking forces further east to the more populated regions of eastern Texas. When the Convention learned of Santa Anna's plan to conquer San Antonio, they nixed the Matamoros Campaign they were planning, which would send 800 men down to Matamoros, in an attempt to conquer the Rio Grande region. They pooled all they could into San Antonio, while leaving General Houston to skirmish with Urrea and Filisola. In around early April, Santa Anna reached San Antonio, where he began a siege of the Alamo, an old mission re-purposed into a makeshift fort. There were roughly a thousand Texan men at the Alamo, led by James Fannin, William B. Travis, and Davy Crockett, that faced down a Mexican army twice their size. Santa Anna, during a parley with the Texans, made it clear that if Texas chose to fight, they wouldn't be given mercy, and any survivors of the battle, should Mexico win, would be executed as pirates, per international law regarding pirates at the time. The defenders, despite the odds, chose to fight. Santa Anna continued his siege for about two weeks, before launching a final assault upon the Alamo, in hopes of using his army's superior numbers to overwhelm the Texans. The Texans fought the assaulting Mexicans with a tenacity and ferocity nigh-unmatched, and the Mexicans took heavy casualties before even reaching the Alamo's walls. When the Mexicans did reach the walls, they were nearly pushed back by the Texans' rough fighting styles. Later into the battle, the Mexicans were able to push back the Texan defenders, but Davy Crockett did the near-impossible: kill Santa Anna in the heat of the battle, by shooting him when Santa Anna didn't expect it. Santa Anna's death would produce shock waves throughout the Mexican force. Most would drop their weapons and flee the Alamo, while some would continue to stay and fight, to be killed by the Texans. The day had been won, and San Antonio was safe. Also helped that Santa Anna was dead.

Santa Anna's death would leave lasting marks on Texas, with Mexico falling into civil war afterwards, and Texas securing its independence after the Battle of San Jacinto, where Houston and his men ambushed and defeated Urrea's army, and signed the Treaty of Velasco, which granted Texas its independence, and all its land claims, something that wouldn't sit well with Mexico for years. Texas after the war would campaign hard for other nations to recognize it, gaining recognition by Britain, France, and the US early on, which helped it stay afloat, as loans from France, and to a lesser extent, Britain, stabilized the economy, allowing Texas to focus on other issues. America would offer Texas annexation, but Texas refused, having been able to become a stable and sovereign nation, and many in Texas losing interest in American annexation. After the Mexican Civil War ended, the Mexicans focused on trying to reconquer Texas. Fueled by money from Alta California's gold rush, something that would cause California to revolt, in the vein of Texas, they launched an invasion of Texas, starting the First Mexican-Texan War (the Revolution doesn't count, as Texas technically didn't exist). Texas would win, again, as Mexico was much more disorganized. California was also released as an independent nation, though they would sell land east of the Greater Colorado River to Texas in return for Texan support, as well as an independent Republic of the Rio Grande and Republic of Yucatan, though they both would collapse before the 20th century.

Modern Texas has gone through many highs and lows, another war with Mexico in the early 20th century, and a global war in the mid-20th century. Currently, they are fighting against criminal cartels running amok in Mexico, which have bled over into Texas, and to a lesser extent, California.

Parties in the Republic of Texas:

Constitution Party: The current party of the government, they're the youngest party in Texas, formed as a breakaway from the Democratic Party in the 1920's, when the Democrats started to go left-wing. As can be expected, they are generally center-right to right-wing party, generally supporting fiscal conservatism, paleoconservatism, deregulation, and minor protectionism, along with many other socially and economically conservative platforms, as well as support for the Cartel War. Most of their support comes from rural and working-class Texans (races aren't a solid voting bloc for any party in Texas), especially farmers, ranchers, miners, and roughnecks. Though they had a slow start, starting off as a minor party in Texas, they've been the party of the government many times, as Texas generally has a conservative bent, though they've been beaten out many times, especially with scandals against the party. Incumbent President Kay Hutchison is a part of this party.

Democratic Party: The opposition party, as of right now, they're one of the two original parties in Texas. They were originally a right-wing party, with roughly a same platform as the current Constitution Party, they started going left-wing around the 1920s, when a left-wing faction gained traction in the party. This caused the Constitution Party to form, and over time, it would draw away the conservative Democrats, completing the Democratic Party's change to the left. The current party supports social democracy, social and fiscal liberalism, free trade, and a multitude of other left-wing platforms. They've also expressed criticism of the Cartel War, and have made notions of scaling back Texas' involvement in it, should they gain power. The modern party is generally popular with those in Texas' urban areas, and in some of the suburbs of Texas, where it draws most of its power. The current leader of the party is Julian Castro of San Antonio, and the last Democratic president was Ann Richards, who left office in 2009.

Whig Party: The other original political party in Texas, they were originally the more left-wing party in Texas, but have now taken on a more centrist role, to avoid directly competing with the Democrats. They currently caucus with the Constitution Party, and have been for a few election cycles now, but have had a history of siding with the Democrats. They're the smallest party of Texas, as centrists and libertarians aren't all that common in Texas, but they currently draw most of their support from the Texas suburbs, who generally go for the more moderate politicians. They generally support centrism and libertarianism in most forms, fiscal conservatism, social liberalism, free trade, and usually sit on the fence on many issues, preferring popular sovereignty over all. They also are mildly supportive of the Cartel War, though have made questions over whether we should or shouldn't increase the number of troops in Mexico. They've hardly been the party of the government since the 19th century, but they made a shocking wave in the late '90s when businessman Ross Perot won the presidency, preceding Ann Richards.

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The Imperial Federation's national scale parties in 2003.

Rightful Land : First a movement against the Decree of Equality of 1997, they have organized as a party for the elections of 2002 but have received only 1.1% of votes. The core of this party is made of angry nobles, who protest against the abolition of nobility title and the moderate land reform that were decreted in 1997. As anger isn't a program on it's own, the most reactionnary members of the Democrats have joined the party and turned it into a parody of itself.

The Democrats : The second most conservative party, and the one who receives the most votes individually, with 27.4% of the votes. They have been the ruling party only once since 1930, in 1974, under the presidency of Carla Pollen, because the are too ideologically far from the other parties to form coalitions. They serve as an opposition party and are also the oldest party still in existence. They are economically liberal, but support involvement of regional administrations in economy. They are firmly against the Rightful Lands movement.

Federal Union of the Ecologists : A center-left party, that makes environment it's priority. They have received 15.6% at the elections of 2002, and are in a platform with the Workers and the Left List. Their voting base is mostly in Slovakia and Istria. Many memners are scientists or members of clergies, the Secretary of the party being a Catholic nun from the Magdalenian Order. They support urban densification, fight against urban sprawl, and help to organic agriculture and permaculture. They are socially progressive, and pretty liberal economically, apart from environmental protection.

The Republican-Democrats : The only party that talks about an abolition of the Empresse's powers, and maybe the monarchy, they consider that, as the Imperial family is Austrian, the equality between the people isn't complete. They only receive 1.8% of the votes, and are not expected to receive more support in any foreseable future. They are firmly leftists, even though a liberal faction exists.

The Workers : A socialist party, supporting strong control of the state over the market, and some mild progressive reforms. They were the government party before 2002, and are members of the Coalition of the Lefts. They receive 12.3% of the votes in 2002, and their candidate as a Prime Minister was chosen as Minister of Family and Youth.

Left List : A broad coalition of democrat-communists and local socialist parties. It is the leader of the Coalition of the Lefts, with 21.9% of the votes. They received more support from the rural areas as they were closer to the people,being a collection of local parties. The diversity of the party makes it difficult to summarize the ideologies, but it is economically liberal, but more in favor of tiny businesses, and public regional industries for things that must be mass produced. They are the ones who supported the Empresse's proposed "New Law on Gender, Parenting and Marriage" of 2001 that legalized same sex marriage, civil identity change for trans people and made adoption easier. The Prime Minister comes from this Party, it is Josef Mencik. The party has more support out of Austria, when the Workers are more successful in Austria.

Labor's Strength : A communist party, that accepts to keep the current form of government and respects the Empress as "an ally of the workers". They come from the Workers, and have split from the party they found too moderate. They support a further land reform and moderate collectivization. They gained 19.9% of the votes.
 
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The Republic of Texas Senate and Assembly which is one of the 4 member Republics of the United States (others being Vermont, Cuba and Hawaii). US also includes 10 Confederations (which are made out of a total of 44 states with Confederations having anywhere from 2 to 8 member states) and 7 Federal Districts (DC, Puerto Rico, Northern Alaska, Pacific Isles and Indian Territories in Southwest). Two principal Parties of Texas are a part of Federal Parties/Coalitions. They are parts of the two largest federal parties.

The Lone Star Party is the current largest party in Texas and is part of the Conservative Democratic Union which itself is the current largest party on federal level (though only slightly larger than the "Red-Green" Socialist Front). The CDU (lol, just realized this coincidence) is one of the most right wing group that is mainstream. It and the Lone Star Party are pretty similar to the current OTL Republican Party of USA. CDU has member parties in all the Republics and Confederations expect for the New England Confederation (where the Centrist Coalition member Neo-Federalist Party is the most right wing with the Liberal Progressive Alliance being considered more left wing then the CC). While the Lone Star Party includes some secessionist and Texan Nationalist members but are mostly fine with remaining a part of the United States. LSP is pro-business and also supports expanding the Texan military (that consists of the Army of Texas and the Texan Airforce since the member republics of the US are only allowed to have two of the three branches of the military).

The Social Democratic Party is a member of the Socialist Front and are the current opposition in Texas and on a federal level. They are one of the three parties calling themselves the Social Democratic Party (the other ones being the SDP of Pacifica and New Mexico Confederations) all of which belonging the Socialist Front. Of the three other republics two are currently run by a SF (Vermont and Hawaii, in cooperation with the Vermont Progressive Party (which adds to the Vermont Labor's Majority) and the Hawaii Unionists (who help the Popular Labor Party get the majority even with the smallness of the HU)) and one was only recently lost to the CDU (Cuba, a combination of natural growth of the Christian Democrats (who nonetheless still lead a minority government, even if one very close to majority) and the split of the Democratic Workers Party that led to the creation of the New Labor Party of Cuba) which strengthens the resolve of the SF. Just like New England doesn't have a CDU member party neither does Carolina Confederation have a SF party (leftmost party being the Centrist Coalition member National Union, with the party calling itself the Republican Party in Carolina being an independent party to the right of the CC, despite Republican Party of the Southern Confederation being full members of the SF). The SDP supports closer integration with the United States along with general workers rights and welfare expected of Social Democrats.

Will probably post the Party Systems of other Republics and then the Confederations later. Do tell me if this is confusing or something.
 
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The Republics of the United States other than Texas in the same Timeline as my parties of Texas post.
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Republic of Vermont (or the Green Mountain Republic) is the oldest Republic in the United States outside of the United States itself. Vermont is currently an unicameral parliamentary republic (the Vermont General Assembly) with a mostly powerless President and a Prime Minister doing the actual government.

Vermont Labor is the largest party and have a majority on their own but have entered in a coalition with the Vermont Progressive Party. VL is a part of the federal Red-Green Socialist Front. Vermont Labor is one of the leftier parties in the US. They want to be less integrated into the US but mostly have no problem with staying part of it.

Vermont Progressive Party is part of the federal Liberal-Progressive Alliance. They are currently the smallest party but entered in a coalition with VL. Thanks to this they hold a third of the Vermont Cabinet. The LPA is the third largest federal party despite having only a quarter of the US senate seats that the RGSF and CDU. They are socially closer to VL but economically closer to GMCs. They have agreed with VL to meet in the middle economically speaking.

Green Mountain Conservatives are like the Lone Star Party of Texas part of the Conservative Democratic Union that is the current largest federal party. They have the weird position of both wanting independence from the US (being Vermont nationalists) and also supporting USA more than Vermont Labor.
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The Parliament of the Republic of Cuba is currently governed by the Christian Democrats who are CDU members who take religion more seriously then other CDU members. Their current government is a result of the divide within socialist parties that divided the socialist vote and led to a loss of confidence in the socialists along with a currently more charismatic leader. Liberal Party is one of the four Liberal Parties in the US (there is also a Liberal Democratic Party and the Northwestern Liberals) and a part of the LPA. They are the third largest party because the socialist split up. the New Labor Party of Cuba is the party that left the DWP who would love to join the Socialist Front but thanks to the DWP aren't able to. They are to the right of the DWP but wouldn't actually be rightmost party in the Front should they join. the Democratic Workers Party is the Socialist Front member in Cuba. They had several scandals happen recently and so lost more than half of their seats to the NLPC.
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The Hawaii Legislature is an unicameral body of 51 members called legislators.
Popular Labor Party is the Front's representative in Hawaii who currently run the government. They only lack a single seat to a majority and agreed to a coalition with the Hawaii Unionists despite the Independence Party being closer in most issues to them due to PLP wanting to remain a part of the United States.
Independence Party is a left wing party, who are only slightly to the right of PLP and are mostly a one issue party of full independence from the United States.
Hawaii Unionists are members of the Centrist Coalition and basically loyalist members National Union of Hawaii who remained centrist. Currently part of the Hawaii government. As understandable from their name their main point is remaining a part of the US.
Reform Party is the Liberal Progressive Alliance member in Hawaii and their policy can be explained with their names.
National Union has a relationship with with the other three National Unions like the relationship of the Republicans of Carolina and the South. They share the same name and were originally the same party. But as with the Carolina Republican Party's change from a Socialist Front member to a federally independent party to the right of the centrist National Union. Speaking of the National Union, this party was originally a Centrist Coalition member with the single issue of keeping Hawaii a part of the United States. While the National Union of Hawaii still considers staying part of the USA a central issue but have shifted much to the right and now support a socially conservative viewpoint.
 
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The American Antifascist Legion was founded after the takeover of the United States by the Silver Legion and the Ku Klux Klan in 1934 and the creation of the National American Republic.

Factions in the American Antifascist Legion
Left Opposition
Free Communist League
- Left-Communists. They want to establish a non-Marxist-Leninist Communist state in the United States.
American Red Army - Nationwide militia. Marxist-Leninist Communists. Want to establish a Communist Republic ala the USSR in the United States.
American Worker's Collective Army - Nationwide militia. Left-wing socialists to communists. Want to improve worker's rights in the United States after they help take it back.
Native American Resistance - Nationwide. A loose collective of Native Americans from across the United States defending their homes. They've been promised that by siding with the opposition, they'll be granted greater autonomy, reparations, and representation in government. They have doubts, but the government of the NAR would rather exterminate them so they'll take their chances.
Black Panthers - Nationwide. African American resistance to the government. Hoping to get more rights after the revolution.

Central to Right Opposition
Rough Riders
- Nationwide militia. Social Democrats+Democratic Socialists. Based around Teddy Roosevelt's 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.
American Freedom Association - Nationwide militia. Led by former members of the US federal government. No real ideology other than restoring the Constitution of 1789.
Sons of Liberty/Minutemen - Nationwide militia. No real ideology other than restoring the Constitution of 1789.

The Opposition
Anarchist Collective
- Anarchists. You know. Really hate the state. Only technically on the side of the rebellion, they don't want any new state to come from this.

Regional Opposition
Green Mountain Boys
- New England Militia. Hiding out in Vermont the strongest. No real ideology other than restoring the Constitution of 1789.
Nauvoo Legion - Holding strong in the region around the state of Utah. Hopes to maybe gain a slight amount of autonomy out of their support.
Texan Republican Army - The Republic of Texas lives again! Wants an independent Texas out of this deal if possible.
Bear Flag Militia - The Californian Republic lives again! Just holding down the fort best they can in California. Aren't really thinking about after the war.
 
Political Parties of the Workers' Republic of America (Part 1 : A New Chapter Dawns!)

By all reasonable accounts, it should have been impossible for the Confederate States of America to win a war with the United States following its secession from the Union in 1861. It simply didn't have the industry, manpower or material to match its Northern counterpart. Throw in numerous slave revolts, a broken rail system with numerous conflicting gauges and a seeming lack of international support and you had the recipe for nothing less than a complete victory for the United States and if the Radical Republicans had their way, harsh conditions of surrender for the former Confederate states.

And yet that was not to be.

The United Kingdom had not forgotten the attempts by the United States to "liberate" British-held territories in what remained of British North America, nor did it forget the numerous skirmishes along the frontier of the Oregon Country before it was settled with a compromise to cut the territory across the 49th parallel. But all that paled in the face of the Trent Affair, when the United States illegally captured 2 Confederate diplomats from the RMS Trent. After months of fruitless negotiations and weeks of threats from both Washington and London, the British government ultimately decided to recognise the Confederacy as the legitimate government of the territory it controlled and that while it wouldn't be directly involved, it would be more than happy to assist in supplying and arming the Confederate military.

That, arguably, proved to be the turning point of the war. The Confederacy was able to break through Union blockade and largely held their own, even briefly occupying Washington DC before being repelled by Union troops. The war ended with the United States begrudgingly agreeing to recognise the sovereignty of the Confederacy as a free and independent state, with the ability to form its own domestic and foreign policy and to be recognised as a independent state. The Confederacy didn't win in a technical sense because it didn't gain any territory or treasure from the war, but they did win recognition, which President Jefferson Davis was more than happy to brag about, especially to any Northern dignitary that would listen.

However, independence for the Confederacy just proved to the start of its problems.

Industrialisation through the late-19th and early-20th century proved to be a slog with the the Confederate government getting little progress in incentivising its large land-holding gentry to move away from plantation slavery to industrial manufacturing. Even worse was that the new manufacturing plants were notoriously unsafe for their slave workforces. Why bother with workplace safety when you can just replace your unpaid workforce en masse? That only made slave revolts larger, more frequent and more organised. Taking a cue from organised labour movements in the United States and Western Europe, slave groups began forming underground unions to organise the slaves into a formidable force to be reckoned with. The slave movement and organised unions might have stayed largely underground, rejected even by the poor and rural whites who thought they had something to gain from the Confederate hierarchy if not for one thing.

The Great War. The Seminal Catastrophe. The waves of war hit North America as hard as it did in Europe with the Confederacy and United States once again locked in war. The differences now were even more staggering. The Union had grown much since their last war and was firmly seated as one of the Great Powers of the world, with the industrial might and armies to match Great Britain or the newly unified Germany. Meanwhile, the Confederacy had largely stagnated, it's economy still beholden to agrarian interests and those of the land-holding gentry. The war proved catastrophic for the Confederacy on all accounts. Whatever talk of states rights evaporated. The Confederate government assumed many of the same responsibilities as wartime governments elsewhere including in enforcing conscription, rationing of supplies necessary for the war effort and direct Confederate government involvement in manufacturing, which involved the whole scale transfer of ill-equipped, ill-trained slaves from agricultural to industrial manufacturing jobs. While this made the barons and landlords grumble (After all, they were promised a return to normalcy after the War, including hefty compensations by the Confederate and State governments), the slaves were furious, knowing the deadly conditions in most confederation industrial centres, this was practically a death sentence. However, with the ruling political and economic class blissfully unaware of their organising efforts, largely believing the Scientific Racism that defined their slaves as inherently docile automatons with little capability of higher-level thinking, the slaves were able to stockpile arms and munitions in hidden caches and to secretly train and prepare themselves for the greatest slave revolt yet. Clandestine operations were also being made to co-operate with those poor whites who had nothing left to gain from the Confederacy's racial hierarchy. The small farmer that had everything seized by the government for the war effort, families who had sent off their sons to die in the battlefields of the North, young soldiers and veterans demoralised and disgusted by the War, small time producers muscled out by the new factories and white workers who suffered with little pay and poor working conditions. These connections would prove vital for that day when the great slave revolution would strike.

That day came on the 10th of November. News of the October Revolution 3 days earlier had now trickled into the slave populace and that's when they decided that in tandem with the Russians, they too would have their own revolution. The slaves, joined by their allies began an orchestrated revolution across the entire country. Entire military units, sometimes led by their commanding officers, began mutinying en masse. The armies posted around Richmond, once protecting the Confederate ruling class now encircled it. Within months, the landed gentry and aristocracy of the Confederacy along with the entire rotten racial hierarchy was overthrown. Those who had owned slaves, land and capital that remained in the former Confederacy were mercilessly lynched, shot or put into forced labour. The rest fled, mainly to the United States, Canada or Central America. Anywhere to escape the reprisals back home.

In Atlanta, the proclamation of the Workers' Republic of America was made, greeted by great cheers and celebration from the crowd surrounding City Hall. All slaves were immediately emancipated and were to be properly compensated for the decades of unpaid labour that they had provided, using the proceeds from the seized properties and capitals of the now long gone barons and aristocrats. The old white-only political parties were likewise abolished, swept into the ash heap of history by a new political party, one that would open its doors to members of all ethnicities so long as they fought for socialism, democracy and the cause of the workers. That new party was the Workers' Party of America.

Workers' Party of America

Born from the union of organised slave groups, poverty advocacy groups, unions of free workers and farmers organisations, the Workers's Party of America is by and large the most dominant party in the fledgling Workers' Republic. Its guiding principles are that of Marx and Lenin, basing much of its organisational structure on that of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), including the implementation of Democratic Centralism and the adoption of Marxism-Leninism as the main party ideology. The main goals of the Party are currently to ensure that the living standards and standards of healthcare of the newly freed slaves, industrialisation of the economy and in building up long-neglected national infrastructure including realigning the railway gauges to standard gauge, electrifying the country and providing the basic necessities of life to all citizens while building up the country's defence capabilities to defend the gains of the Revolution. They advocate for a more centralised economy, with a greater role for the state over collectives and workers co-operatives while also pushing to spread the revolution to every corner of North America.

The Workers' Party holds 170 of 255 seats in the Popular Assembly

Revolutionary Farmers Party

Formed by those who were skeptical that the mainly urban Workers' Party could decently solve rural issues, the Revolutionary Farmers Party is based mainly in the agricultural heartland of the Workers' Republic, organised by former sharecroppers, plantation workers and agricultural slaves. They posit that a more decentralised form of planning, with the input from all factors of production and the protection of rural areas from undue burden and pressure is vital to ensure to truly achieve Socialism. The part supports more caring collectives and agricultural syndicates and opposes any attempt to forcibly collectivise agriculture, opting for a gentler, more voluntary approach. They're more skeptical of world revolution, hoping to build Socialism in the Workers' Republic before spreading it abroad. However, they also push for the Socialist reunification of the USA with the Workers' Republic.

The Revolutionary Farmers' Party holds 49 of 255 seats in the Popular Assembly

Alliance for the Liberation of Colored People

Formed by former slaves who thought that the Workers' Party talked too much and did too little to actually advance the material conditions, political literacy and social liberation of those who had been until very recently, literal property, the Alliance for the Liberation of Coloured People was established to represent all those who were enslaved by the Confederacy and fights for the interests of non-white (Mainly Black) peoples in the Workers' Republic. While it supports the Workers' Party on certain measures, it is vocal that more can and should be done to ensure that the stain of slavery is truly erased from the Workers' Republic and that radical measures must be taken to level the differences between black and white citizens as well as to ensure that reactionary thought on race is truly eradicated among the white populace.

The Alliance for the Liberation of Colored People holds 27 of 255 seats in the Popular Assembly

Independents

Individuals who were popular in their local area or had some form of national recognition were allowed to run in the Popular Assembly and a few did win. A motley crew of abolitionists, liberals and other political shades. They don't formally co-operate but they are on speaking terms, which is something.

There are currently 9 independents in the Popular Assembly
 
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Political Parties of the Workers' Republic of America (Part 1 : A New Chapter Dawns!)

Political Parties of the United States of America (Part 2 : We Must Put Up A Fight!)

Following the Revolution in the South, the United States has been watching the rebuilding of the Workers Republic warily. The damn Reds managed to beat them to a stalemate and now were rapid industrialising, rebuilding their shattered cities and worse yet, building up industry and a strong army. American intelligence services watched on as revolutionary governments following the lead of the Workers' Party seized power in Cuba and Hispianola while the Mexican Revolution overthrew the corrupt regime of Porfirio Diaz and installed a new government led by the new Revolutionary People's Party helmed by Emilio Zapata and Pancho Villa. With the spread of this revolutionary ideology seemingly unstoppable, the United States begrudgingly allied itself with the major European powers to halt its advance, both in the Americas and in Europe, where successful revolutions in now Soviet Russia, Spartacist Germany and Laborist Hungary created a new Revolutionary bloc in Eastern Europe. The United Kingdom, France and the United States established the Concord of Democracies as an alternative to the Soviet-led Workers' International and to defend the interests of her new allies, especially as Revolutions inspired, and increasingly supplied and armed, by the new Revolutionary powers have begun erupting in European colonial possessions. It seems that the Terrible Twenties will be an era of unmatched upheaval and revolt throughout the globe.

Domestically, the United States was relatively at peace. Following the War of Southern Secession, the Republican Party emerged as the Natural Governing Party of the country. Tainted by its association with the South and it's secession, the Democratic Party slowly but surely lost much of its support, becoming an increasingly ineffectual opposition to the Republican Party machinery. What remained of its machinery in urban areas like Chicago and New York split themselves off to become powerful municipal political parties that continue to dominate local politics to this day, aligning themselves with whichever political faction is more powerful or opportune. Regional parties such as the Populist Party proved to be able to hold their own against the Republican juggernaut in their strongholds but were unable to provide a truly national opposition. Between 1868 and 1928, the Republicans held the Presidency for 46 out of 60 years, with the only candidate successfully winning 2 consecutive terms being the Populist's William Jennings Bryan (P-NE) who won following the devastating Panic of 1896-1897 and as voters were desperate for a change in government voted for the most viable opposition and even then, the Republicans held solid majorities in Congress throughout his Presidency. However, following the conclusion of the 1928 General Election, it seemed that the Republican Party was once again unquestionably dominant. Outside of New England, where a few states were won by the new upstart Progressive Party and the Great Plains which were the domain of the Populist Party, the Republicans swept virtually every state and secured a supermajority in both houses of Congress. It seemed that the Republican Party's complete dominance of American political life would carry on unabated and uninterrupted.

Or at least that was the assumption most made. Before the Crash.

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 put an end to the rapid economic growth and prosperity of the Roaring Twenties and brought forth a nightmare of soaring unemployment, a sharp decline in the economy and reductions in wages, especially for the working class. Shuttered factories, closed businesses and a drought ravaging the Great Plains contributed to a huge spike in poverty and as the homeless population surged, many built ramshackle housing with whatever materials they had on had. These materials could barely stand up to the elements and as an especially harsh winter swept the Northeast and Great Lakes, thousands froze to death, lacking any form of heating or warmth. The generally pro-business Republican administration refused to do more than token programs to address the quickly deteriorating economy, insisting that the market would eventually self-correct and that further government action would only make the situation worse. A general loathing of deficits had led the government to launch targeted public works and relief programs. An attempt to raise tariffs to encourage domestic industry served only to anger American allies abroad, who retaliated with tariff hikes of their own, constricting global trade and worsening the effects of the Depression worldwide. The Republicans were rewarded for this course of action with huge losses in the 1930 Midterms. A loose coalition of Socialists, Progressives and Populists, banding together under the umbrella of the Progressive Alliance, had won 153 out of 325 seats in the House and 10 of 28 Senate races, bringing their total number in the Senate to 35, along with governor's races up and down the country that were once Republican strongholds just 4 years ago. Whispers and rumours abound that this is the probably the only chance of unseating the Republican Party for a long while and that the people should take the chance to do just that. The Conventions of both parties seemed to reflect this, with the Republican Convention in Philadelphia being a somber affair with the Republican candidate reaffirming their commitment to markets, good governance and smart, swift action to tackle this Depression without hurting the American pocketbook. Meanwhile, the Progressive Convention in Detroit was damn near a celebration of what they felt was their inevitable victory in the upcoming election and a change to rewrite the course of American politics. The three parties agreed on nominating the Socialist Party's Norman Thomas, a Presbyterian minister and Christian socialist who had recently won his race for re-election to New York's 6th Congressional District, as their candidate for the Presidency. Now as the nation gears up for the 1932 General Election, the people must decide on who they should elect to the highest office in the land. Would it be Charles Curtis and the continued stability of another term for the Republicans or would they choose change with New York Congressman Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party running under the Progressive Alliance?

Of course, domestic political observers weren't the only ones interested in how the polls of 1932 would turn out. Observers in Atlanta were keeping a close eye too. A change in government could result in an administration that was friendlier, or if they were really lucky, even sympathetic to the cause of the Workers' Party. The WPA had branches in the North, of course, but they had to operate largely underground, with many members also being card-carrying Socialists in hopes of pushing the party to a more revolutionary direction.

As the American people cast their ballots in the most competitive General Election in decades and soon after, with the counting of the vote, the nation hold it's breath at what could be the greatest political upset in contemporary American political history.

Republican Party

The long dominant party of the United States since the conclusion of the Civil War, the Republican Party is a broad ideological and regional tent, holding on to power through a balance of fiscally responsible policies, moderation on social and racial issues and tweaking policies with changes in public opinion. With a coalition stretching from middle class voters in the suburbs of major cities The Grand Old Party has been unchallenged since the end of the Great War since it presided over a period of peace and prosperity since the end of the Great War, it seemed that they were going to cruise to another easy victory. The Great Depression has but a wrench in their plans and it seems that the party's popularity has evaporated since the economy collapsed

Progressive Alliance

A rag-tag group of progressives, populists and socialists who all agree on one thing: Taking down the Republican Party. Ever since their narrow defeat in the last midterms, the Progressives have felt that now is their time to take the White House and gain their well-deserved majority in both houses of Congress. The Alliance is running on a unified platform of increased aid to the farmers, protection of workers rights and benefits and increased state intervention through public works programs and new infrastructure construction. They represent the first truly national opposition to the Republican Party in decades

The Alliance is made up of 3 main parties which are the Populist, Progressive and Socialist parties

Populist Party

The Populist Party promotes itself as the true voice of the farmers and of rural America. They support increased aid for farmers, increased federal spending on rural infrastructure and more democratic control of land. Their ideology can be broadly described as Christian agrarian socialism and they are most popular in the rural, agrarian states such as Nebraska and Kansas.

Progressive Party

After the Progressive wing of the Republican Party lost out to the dominant conservative pro-business faction, they split to form the Progressive Party. Aiming to find a suitable middle ground between reckless lawless capitalism and full-socialism, the party backs new social welfare programs, urban infrastructure programs and regulations on finance and the titans of industry. They're strongest in the Northeast and the West Coast

Socialist Party of America

The party of the worker. The Socialist party fights for workers rights, increased power of the workers unions, democratic workers control of the economy, state investment in vital infrastructure and social programs as well as a democratic transition to Socialism. They distinguish themselves as a more democratic alternative to the more revolutionary Workers' Party. They're the strongest Socialist Party and are strongest in the Midwest and Appalachia as well as in major cities and industrial centres

National People's Party

A self-described Patriotic party, the National People's Party declares that it is by, of and for patriots. It decries what it sees as Bolsheviks in the Progressive Alliance and weak liberals in the Republican Party, arguing that they alone can save American and implement a system that adheres to traditional beliefs while upholding the rule of law and public order.

Workers' Party of America

The Northern branch of the Workers' Party that currently governs the Workers' Republic of America. The party promotes a revolutionary path to Socialism and espouses the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism, full liberation for all oppressed and exploited groups and workers seizing control from the bosses and landlords. Right now, they are working underground as a result of legal restrictions placed on the party by the current authorities. Their main strongholds are in the cities of the Rust Belt and in major metropolitan centres. They have also begun infiltrating most unions, agitation for more direct and revolutionary action as well as Socialist Party. Rumours abound that a good number of the current Central Committee of the Socialist Party are card-carrying members of the Workers' Party.
 
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