Luthori

[Ligbruderkrieg]

Banned Communist Party sends "congratulatory" letter to Bae socialists after successful overthrow of monarchy.
August 5648 (backdated - thanks to Iltam)



The Communist Party of Luthori, normally illegal under the provisions of the Democratic Process Stabilization Act, has once again succeded at making itself heard even with the heavy restrictions being imposed on it. While no Communist party leader tried to talk on national media, it was an action from the party that raised eyebrows or concern. As many of you would know, the Kingdom of Great Bae, also known as Baeguk internationally, has seen its internationally-recognised royalist government being overthrown from power by communist and socialist forces, who then promptly proclaimed the formation of the "Democratic People's Republic of Drania", under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Drania, a socialist-aligned organisation.

In Luthori, while trade with Baeguk declined over recent years amid economic hardships and uncertainty surrounding the nation, the news still was received with panic in financial markets, the Fort William Stock Exchange recording net losses for corporations index such as Ward Financial Holdings and the Martwick-Alchester Banking Corporation, among others. The instability and uncertainty in the markets has only been made worse by the Luthorian Government's overall unwillingness to react to the events in Western Dovani, as, as shown numerous times before, the Cabinet is split between a hawkish line and a moderate line, with the Prime Minister, although leaning on the moderate side, seemingly unwilling to act.

The Communist Party recently sent a letter signed by most members of its "Politburo", the highest-ranking members of the Communist Party of Luthori, with the General-Secretary, Deputy General Secretary and other high figures within the party signing this letter. In this, the high-ranking members of the Communist Party extended their "warmest" congratulations to the "proletariat of Baeguk" to have "broke the chains of reaction and repression", stating that the "overthrow of all tyrants should be the highest priority of all communist movements around the world". Moreover, the letter included qualifications of the Kingdom of Great Bae's government as being "authoritarian" and "tyrannical". These qualifications, while being true for the recent decades of the Kingdom, which have been marked by severe economic decline and democratic backsliding, aren't holding on for most of the Kingdom's existence, where an genuine democratic state existed until recent events.

"...The assassination of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess, turned regent, assumption of emergency powers, coupled with a genuine distrust of the imperial family in Baeguk after years of scandals and with an economy in freefall, basically created the seeds for a republican revolution and assumption of power, but that said republican assumption of power has been more radical could have first thought...", stated foreign political and historical professor, Dr. Oliver Cramm, officiating at the University of Fort William. Furthermore, he stated, that the "collapse in such a bloodless fashion of the Kingdom was [...] the least likely outcome, most indicator either pointed towards a military takeover of the government or, in a far worse case scenario, the outbreak of an all-out civil war..."

The CPL's General Secretary, Peter Duce, stated that the Communist Party "only recognised the struggle against a tyrannical regime" and moreover, hadn't made any implications hinting towards the Luthorian situation, stating that the Communist Party "hoped" to be "finally allowed" to represent the "voices of millions of Luthorians who aren't heard" in the ballot box. Dr. Cramm for his part, stated that the Communist Party of Luthori's reaction was "merely normal", as the Home Secretary's condemnation of the Democratic Process Stabilization Act earlier this year opened debate about the potential repeal of the law, and that "letting know vocally that what happened in Baeguk should happen is just going to phase studies of the Bill for the foreseeable future, harming and crippling the Communist Party's chances at legalisation..."

In reaction to the events in Baeguk, a Conservative peer, Lord James Brooke, pushed forward a motion to suspend the Committee tasked with the repeal of the Democratic Process Stabilization Act, at least, according to him, "until the international and domestic political situation allows for such a move", the motion has been defeated in the upper house, with most Conservatives even voting against.