A Thousand Shades of RedBy Major Crimson,
A Wikibox Compendium from the Shades of Red world
Prologue
Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation
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The International is a global organisation and worker's association, consisting of some 68 members from across the world. These members are represented by states, popular associations or free territories and vary in their forms and mandates. As revolution swept the globe from the 1920s through to the 1940s, not a single country was left outside the shade of the red flag. Organised by the British, French and Eurasian governments in 1935, the International was supposed to unite the increasingly disparate Socialist world and encourage ideological unity. The International served as one of the two major alliances in the Wars of Liberation or the Third Great War, as some historians still insist on naming the conflict. Opposed to the League for Armed Neutrality, spearheaded by the Chinese and American governments, the International won out in the 15 year, on and off conflict and when it finally came to a close in 1949, it ended in a total victory; won by the Anglo-Californian Damoclese Project and the dropping of Nuclear Bombs on Shanghai and New York. Following the capitulation and reorganisation of the remaining capitalistic states, the world fell in line. Before long however, the Anglo-French-Eurasian Coalition collapsed. Ideological differences had bubbled under the surface throughout the wars and came to bear once the Bourgeoisie menace had been vanquished. A three way war seemed imminent, particularly on the European and Chinese fronts however extensive mediation from the Nihonjin and the Black Legion led to the signing of the Post-Revolutionary Charter, which established the Parliaments of the International and a world-wide political structure to represent the interests of all parties. The formal powers of the Parliaments were and still are extremely limited, but it allows disagreements to be played out in a peaceful setting. So far only a few conflicts have emerged in the post-Revolutionary age; proxy wars in Ireland, India and the former-United States pitted the 5 alliances of the International against each other and the insurgencies in the Appalachians and the Indus Valley still rage.
Within the World Parliament, the division lines have been drawn; the two most powerful alliances are the British-led Cooperative Commonwealth Union (often called the CCU or simply the Cooperatives) and the Eurasian-dominated Alliance for International Communism (usually the AIC or AlCom), although the Sorelian/Strasserist Vanguard Communion punch far above their weight and could give either of the two larger alliances a run for their money in a military confrontation. The two smaller factions are the United Holy International, which is perhaps the militarily weakest but under the protection of the Cooperatives and the Global Anarchist Combine. Largely, votes in the World Parliament are points of ideology, although sometimes certain nations or groups have been censured or denounced, and almost always fall on partisan lines. Their names used only by their opponents and always as insults, being the "Liberal" coalition of the Cooperatives and the UHI and the "Fascist" Coalition of AlCom and the Vanguard. The Anarchists often act as a tie breaker and tend to vote depending on whatever random council their leadership has rotated to, a system which is no small cause of frustration to the rest of the world.
The two chambers of the World Parliament, the Council of Peoples and the Council of Persons, are populated by five alliances, most citizens of the international are far more focused on world politics than on domestic ones which tend to be unitary, with a few notable exceptions from the CCU and GAC. Organsied in the impressive World Worker's Palace, the International hostly 4 meetings of the World Parliament (an outdated term to be sure but one that has slipped through the cracks of modernisation) per year and operates from London, chosen due to it being the home of Marx at the time of his most important work, the Headquaters of the original Communist League and (perhaps most importantly) a safer spot than anywhere in France or Eurasia, which were both battlegrounds at the time of founding.
Despite its flaws, the international has kept a tense peace across the world and shows no signs of weakening. It's greatest achievement is the United Space Agency of Man and the USAM has controlled, in name at least, all extra-planetary affairs since the 1990s, including the People's Space Station and the RedStar Mars Landings. You can read more about these projects here, more on the history of the International here, more on its current status and operations here and further details on the party system can be found here *click*.
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