News Media of Istkalen
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Newspapers of Record
- Republic (left-wing)
- Nation (right-wing)
Party Newspapers
- People's Daily (left-wing, published by the Communist Party)
- Popular Appeal (syncretic or right-wing, published by the underground prewar Social Democratic Party)
Magazines
- Awakening (syncretic or right-wing, published by the Northern Radio/Republican Syndicalist Party)
- Fissure (radical reformism, incl. left, right, centrist, syncretic currents)
- Justice (left-wing, published by the Agrarian Union)
- New Light (left-wing, published by the Bloc of National Reform)
- Review of the Two Worlds (right-wing, published by the National Republican Party)
- Revolution (left-wing, published by the Communist Party)
- The Seer (left-wing)
- Voice (right-wing)
Radio
- The Messenger (centrist)
- the Northern Radio (right-wing)
- State Announcements (n/a)
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The National Times: Areai's tell-all memoir releases today!
Ever wanted to know what crucifixion feels like? What moved Areai, the famed State Elder of Eastern Haane, to do what she did? And, perhaps most mysteriously of all, how did she evade death without the world knowing at all?
All this, and more is revealed in Josephine Areai's new memoir, "The Voice of the People Rises," which details a horrific story of betrayal and the most lurid of depravities.
Ms. Areai's experience cannot be anything else but moving - she portrays herself not as a patriot, nor as some savior, but rather as a citizen who did, initially, what she believed was necessary - impose a dictatorship as to install a constitution which would create political stability in Eastern Haane - but was later betrayed by various elements of her government, kept drugged and used as a depraved puppet as to create a totalitarian monarchy.
"I have no memory of what I did in those few weeks, and that terrifies me," she writes. "I can only vaguely remember my crucifixion, and even only then its end. The survivors - they tell me of what I said, of what they said I released - it was all so horrifying. How could I have done such a thing; how could I have allowed it to happen? On my hands is the blood of so many of my countrymen; I will forever have guilt for that."
Some of what she writes is more disturbing:
"I remember waking from a long sleep; there were uniformed men and women around me. 'You are due to give a speech to the masses, to the people,' they said. I didn't know who any of them were, nor why I was to make a speech. I wrote it in but thirty minutes; I had to walk out, before a large grouping of tortured looking people looking at me in total fear. The landscape was burnt; tents dotted the horizon. Nothing was being done, or at least nothing obvious, to restore the city - I don't know what it was, actually, a city, a town, a village, they never told me. I was speechless; I did not know what had happened. I had commissioned a major project of reconstruction; why had nothing been done? I kept on, and began to speak. Whenever I stopped, they would clap and shout, but it was all forced. I will never forget that scene before me - of those fearful people looking at me, tears falling from their eyes, as they tried to force their screams into shouts of joy - of those who were forced into a little outbuilding -a shack, almost - by soldiers. After I finished, I asked them what had happened - why the people were so terrified, why so many had been led into the buildings - and they told me to eat. I refused; but they insisted. I was forced into it, and I don't remember anything after that."
Ms. Areai was not a tyrant; she was not an evil genocidaire; she appears instead to be a deeply humble person, a person who was firmly convinced that what she had done was write but also a person who was betrayed - a person who, now, because of the terror and murders committed in her name by those who betrayed her, feels the greatest guilt.
Purchase "The Voice of the People Rises" at your local bookstore for the low price of three ketselir.
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The Citizens' Voice: The Spanish People's Party - An Expose
The Spanish People's Party (Partido del Pueblo Español, unrelated to the People's Party in Spain) was registered as a "party of ethnic representation" within the Chamber of State in early 2019, with a membership of one. Theoretically, such parties exist to allow for the preservation of certain "foreign cultures," and for these purposes are allotted a stipend.
The Spanish People's Party, along with hundreds of other such "parties of ethnic representation," has not done this. It is not as though these parties are used for the siphoning of government funds for personal purposes - they are generally quite good at reporting their finances, and, from what can be seen, do serve some political purpose.
There are a number of ethnic parties - the famous League of Chinese Kaasians, for example - that, while not being particularly cultural focused, have specific and important political agendas - in the case of the LCK, paradoxically calling for a stemming of immigration and integration of immigrants themselves. The Spanish People's Party and its ilk should not be confused with these, for their political activities are beyond frivolous in nature.
Reporters of The Citizens' Voice visited the home of the sole member of the Spanish People's Party who expressed his wish to keep his name from the public, which, by law, was honored. They were allowed to conduct the following interview:
I: "[Sir] as I said - earlier - good morning to you. How are you doing?"
M: "Well, very well, very, very....he spoke to me again this morning. How wonderful, oh how wonderful! What an experience; it feels as though you have been touched, have been chosen! I want everyone to see!"
I: "Out of curiosity, who is this man - this boy - let's simply say this male - who you claim to have spoken to?"
M: "Oh, oh, oh, it is him! He, who brought my Spain, my glorious Spain, to true victory! Who led it into the shining light, into the heaven, who restored it! Who freed it from the chains of the international dominion, of the evil ideologies of the serpentine left; our Caudillo, who we listen and obey without fault, who glorified us all, our father, who made all Spain rejoice!"
I: "You are aware that - erm, Franco - Franco has been dead for quite some time."
M: "Dead? You are evidently a leftist swine, but I will answer, for we, our great movement, must triumph always. He, oh, how great he is, is not dead; no one is dead, no one can die! He is a saint in the bright Heaven, with our Lord; he looks down upon us and frowns at what you evil leftists have done to our Earth! And I, am one of the last followers of the Lord on this Earth! I hear the cries of the Saints in Heaven above! They help, but you, you devils, force the suffering people to reject them! Every day, I look into the sun, that point of pure light, of pure energy, and I see him, and he speaks to me! Me, a sinner, me, who was dirtied from birth! I see him, and he speaks to me, and I listen, I obey! It is enlightening, purifying! Oh, how great he is, who led Spain into glory!"
I: "Well then. Is this, then, the purpose of the Spanish People's Party?"
M: "Yes, yes! The Spanish People's Party is the instrument through which the voices of the Saints, of my Caudillo, are communicated! It is for that purpose and that purpose only; the holy body through which Spain and the whole of the world will be resurrected from the death that the leftists have put it into!"
I: "Well then, I think - that should be it. Thank you, and good day!"
Similar arrangements exist in other parties. Worst of these is the "Party for Inquista," a party whose sole member - not Inquistan, but rather an old woman unable to speak any other language except an obscure dialect of Irinel - claims to communicate with the spirit of Paul Craticus, who, according to her, inhabits a doll, which she can be seen speaking with from her balcony every morning. The doll is also said to levitate while its owner is sleeping, whispering into her ear; however, this is unlikely at best.
Others, less strange, is the "Party of Czech Liberation," a group of five individuals who hold crazed séances involving an elderly woman, all of which are livestreamed. From recordings that The Citizens' Voice was able to obtain, the elderly woman appears to be a medium, who screams random words in Czech before announcing a "result." To fully understand the activities of the "Party of Czech Liberation," one must understand that it considers all Czech states after the 20th of February 1948 illegitimate, and thus only considers the government and legislature existent before that date legitimate, save for those involved in the coup. As a result, it holds regular "sessions" of these bodies through the medium - the official explanation for the screaming of the random Czech words. These beliefs also result in the party releasing regular, often crazed or nonsensical, statements from individuals such as "President Edvard Beneš," among other long-dead Czech politicians involved in governance before 1948. A similar party is the "Party of Nicoleizian Renaissance," a one member-party, composed of a single, 103 year old ethnically Estonian man, which claims that the last king of Icholasen before the communist takeover in 1919 is the only legitimate ruler of Icholasen, and thus holds regular attempts to contact him, largely through an elderly woman who appears to be the same individual used in the activities of the Party of Czech Liberation. The Party has released a number of crazed edicts, allegedly from this king, since 1990; they have largely been unnoticed until now.
All of these parties have no other activities save from this of the supernatural; for this, the state gives them funds for these rituals and related purposes. Evidently, this is a travesty; yet the state has paid no attention to it. Something must be done.
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Iriten Layavisi, Postimees: Sudden crackdown on opposition upon attempt to initiate vote of no-confidence
We do not believe that we will be allowed to operate for much longer. The National Assembly - that is to say, the Social Democratic Party, has declared an "extraordinary state of national emergency," effectively centralizing all activities, social, cultural, political, and economic, beneath it and the eight "state chambers" that form it.
This repression was entirely unexpected, even by those of the Social Democratic Party. From what we can glean, it began with an attempt by the fractured opposition - of the Communist, Green, Liberal, Center, Anti-Fascist, and Agrarian-Green Parties, holding only 48 seats in total out of 700, the members of what was to be the "United Opposition" alliance - to initiate a vote of no confidence following the discovery of massive spending misallocations to minor extremist parties on the behalf of the Social Democatic administration.
What would occur after this was to be an event for the ages. The President of the National Assembly began to scream at Assembly-members from the six parties, calling them "swines and traitors who must be put to death," before loudly announcing that "this...this treason, this disgusting treason will not be considered! No, no! No consideration for these traitors! Death to them all, glory to Istkalen!"
Several members of the opposition attempted to object, alongside several clerks of the Assembly; at this, the President took from her pocket a gun and began to shoot at them wildly, as members of the Social Democratic Party applauded. She would then implore "patriots of the nation" to attempt to kill the members of the opposition as she was; many of the SDP did so.
The police of Velesz would soon arrive, before, in a wildly illegal action, beating and otherwise harming members of the opposition to death in often perverse ways, "aiding" the SDP members of the Assembly.
Thirty minutes later, the carnage would end, and the National Assembly immediately, without any form of debate, put to vote a hastily prepared bill that effectively banned all political opposition and, in accordance with constitutional provisions regarding the declaration of a "state of emergency," giving the National Assembly near if not entirely totalitarian power over all other aspects of society as a whole, and the Head of State what is effectively the ability to rule by decree.
The National Assembly would then dissolve itself, which, beneath their declaration of a state of emergency, compels the Head of State to take on all its powers indefinitely and appoint members to the eight chambers it would leave empty, which would not be allowed to meet together from that point on.
The Head of State did not appear publicly, instead opting to pass measures declaring martial law, dissolving all judicial bodies existing in Istkalen and giving their authority to military tribunals, suspending all political rights codified in the Constitution and in the law, prohibiting "obstruction of national unity, of general harmony, and of governance," instating a curfew, enforceable by death, integrating all law enforcement into the military, giving the military what is effectively free reign to arrest and punish citizens and residents of Istkalen for all existing offences, the strengthening of the existing Administration of State, Public, and Internal Security (ASPIS) into what is effectively a political secret police, the instatement of the exit visa, and, temporarily, a near-total ban on any attempt to leave or enter Istkalen with exceptions granted to foreigners who have not commited criminal acts in teh territory of Istkalen, the closure of all ports of entry, the authority of the ASPIS to arbitrarily arrest and detain whomsoever it wishes, an order for all foreigners to report to the ASPIS for short interrogation in the case that "spies and traitors are present in our Istkalen," and several other hellishly repressive measures.
Opposition politicians across the country are being arrested; the state has given one hour for all to return to their homes or to seek shelter, after which the military will have free license to kill.
Most oddly, however, the Labor Organization, a remnant of the short periods of Communist domination that mark Istkalen's history, has been effectively destroyed. Its members have been arrested or killed; it itself has been banned, and the infrastructure it has been allowed to own is being destroyed.
A list of one hundred significant cultural and political figures that are a threat to "the national integrity of Istkalen" has been allegedly circulating, prompting many to believe that the events were pre-planned years in advance; many of these, from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of the Anti-Fascist Party Kalju Ilves, to the Gertrude Echteran Children's Choir, have gone abroad or into hiding.
The reasoning for these events is unknown to all, and most regard them as being extremely sudden, disconcerting, and bizarre. However, some have already argued, while the internet remains accessible, that the repression is a pre-planned attempt to create a second "renaissance in Istkalen," recalling the 1946-1991 "period of national resurrection," during which the party maintained a dictatorship labeled as "social-fascist" by some.
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Iriten Layavisi: People's Committees form in 'liberated zone'
The retreat of the forces of the social-fascist forces of the Social Democratic Party has allowed for the creation of a presently demilitarized "liberated zone," in all areas south of the settlement of Kereva.
In the wake of the disappearance of municipal committees and any form of police as a result of the retreat, which took with it the vast majority of supporters and enforcers of the regime, new interim "people's committees," grassroots councils meant to govern the region until the restoration of democratic government to all Istkalen was restored, were formed. Elections were held to the municipal levels of producer's unions; in certain areas, tribunals were established as to try the few remaining individuals guilty of taking part of the abuses of the previous regime. These have caused some level of controversy, as many of the proclamations in regime propaganda appear to have been at least partially false in nature; acts of ordered cannibalism appear to not have taken place at all in the presently liberated zone, nor were the vast majority of bizarre proclamations, save for those placing mild restrictions on political activity, enforced, severely complicating attempts to find written or otherwise non-personal sources of information.
Efforts to return "evacuated" citizens to cities are underway and have been largely successful; it is expected that about half of all evacuees will be returned by Wednesday.
Several committees have also begun campaigns against corruption, involving the establishment of more localized anti-corruption agencies and attempts to separate local politics from party politics, which have been perceived as corrupt in themselves for some time, largely as a result of Social-Democratic bribery.
In certain areas, more radical reforms are underway. Specific municipalities, largely rural in nature, are attempting experiments in the abolition of money, and its replacement with a more "equitable" system of rationing; some urban regions are instating universal healthcare, considered a long-overdue and needed development by most.
Certain committee members have gone as far as to propose collectivization and the abolition of private property - unpopular concepts for the majority of Istkaleners, both in the liberated South and in the rest of the country, who are largely self-employed and in ownership of their own tools, instruments, and workplaces.
The People's Committees, however, are not intended to be a permanent replacement for governance in Istkalen. The basis behind their formation is solely the need to maintain some form of government in an area that would otherwise be without any; upon the restoration of democracy, they will most likely be dissolved. Some, however, argue that the present government has effectively voided the legitimacy of the present Constitution, and thus that the present Committees have the responsibility of creating a new state with them as their basis.
Their legitimacy has also been a question for some. There is no constitutional provision for their existence; they are nearly illegal. A restoration of democracy under them would also be illegal; the present state of emergency in effect is legal, leaving only the present Head of State able to end it. Some have proposed that a temporary restoration of the monarchy, through vaguely defined and barely constitutional processes, could allow for the Head of State to be deposed and replaced, and thus for elections; the likelihood of this, however, is low. It is most likely that elections, upon the liberation of the whole of Istkalen, will simply go ahead 'illegally,' as few have any desire to enforce the laws regarding them in this extraordinary case.
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STATEMENT FROM THE UNITED PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES OF THE DIVISION OF ELBING/TRUSO
We do not, as of now, trust the government of Ilest Kerel, and thus doubt the veracity of the statement issued by them. However, if the ultimatum released by them, allegedly from the Kingdom of Reitzmag, is revealed to be true, the People's Committees in the division of Elbing/Truso will integrate themselves, without coercion, into his government.
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The Citizens' Voice: In the south, major infrastructure project commences, much to residents' dismay; sudden appearance of multiple structurally unsound "bridges" puts People's Committees at work
In the south, a major infrastructure project has begun. The largest initiated since 1946, it plans to repair and replace aging roads, bridges, railways, power and telephone lines, as well as broadband.
The beginning comes as a respite to many in the South, who had previously suffered from poor infrastructure. The region, ignored by the previous Social-Democratic government, was effectively left to its own devices after the end of the National Resurrection in 1974, resulting in the degradation of basic infrastructure.
Roads became difficult to traverse as they wore down, leaving any form of transportation, especially of the important agricultural and mineral products that the South exports not just to the rest of Istkalen but to all Europe, difficult if not impossible. Crashes were common; in many places, the situation was exacerbated by local-government decisions to demolish paved roads in certain areas entirely as a result of the high costs of maintenance.
The bridges of the area, some of high architectural and engineering merit, after years of near-abandonment, declined severely in safety; several collapsed in high-profile cases, sometimes resulting in death.
Railways became extremely dangerous; services now are but an eighth of what they were before 1974 - demand, however, has not decreased, even in the modern day.
Telephone and other communication lines became derelict; much of the South was cut off entirely from communication with the North. Broadband came to the region quite late, in a 2005 effort by what was perhaps the last competent government of Istkalen; during this period, living conditions did improve, until, in 2016, the rise of the social-fascist government which has now, thankfully, fallen.
Sanitation itself decreased in quality; in 1974, an astounding 98% had access to all sanitation services, compared to in 1946, when it was but 38%; in 2019, only 53% continued to do so.
The present Council of Ministers has now approved legislation by the Chamber of Professions, having been previously debated for the previous five months, that would begin the efforts of the 2005-2016 period of development in the South again.
In a sweeping move, the government will fund major infrastructural projects in the South, repairing, reconstructing, and expanding the projects of the National Resurrection and the relatively unsuccessful "New Istkalen" movement of 2004-2009, over a period of 4 years. A national authority has been created as to oversee and plan the projects, as well as to investigate further expansion and other forms of development in the region.
The disturbance it will cause, however, worries some. In effect, what remains of communication will be cut off almost entirely by the project, with roads and other transportation made temporarily inaccessible by its sheer scope and rapidity.
The South will be detached from the remainder of the country, and even its regions from itself by the project. Individuals from neighboring municipalities may not even be able to visit each other for some time during its early implementation. The Urals will be entirely impassable; all roads, bridges, and railways across them will be entirely inaccessible for some time. The same is true of all crossing across the rivers of the region.
It is this issue which has attracted the ire of many residents; while most are overjoyed that the central government is finally addressing them and their issues, they are worried about the impact of the repairs; how long they will be inconvenienced in this way, how successful and long term the project will be, how the Reitzmic occupation will affect it, and so on and so forth. The Interim Director of the newly set-up Development Authority for South Istkalen has stated that they will schedule a general "town hall" of the whole nation tomorrow as to address the issues; the Chamber of Professions, in coordination with the Supervising Committee of the Development Authority, is also preparing a general report on the issue.
Some have called upon the Chambers of Labor and Trades, of Industry and Commerce, and of State, each of relevancy to the project, to object to the legislation; all had, however, released short statements on the issue in support of the Development Authority upon its approval by the Council of Ministers. Despite this, debate regarding the authority will be held beginning tomorrow in all three.
In other news, the sudden appearance of structurally unsound bridges throughout South Istkalen has pushed many People's Committees into overdrive. Previously having to deal with more important issues, such as that of facilitating the return of evacuees to the cities, of controlling previously rampant corruption, and of trying genocidaires and collaborationists with the social-fascists, they are now tasked with issuing almost comedically large numbers of condemnations. None of the bridges, per the Committees, were approved by any form of local authority, constructed in areas zoned for such uses, or even safe to traverse.
Police, assisted by the Popular Militia of Istkalen, have constructed fences around many of the bridges, placing large and easily visible signs clearly declaring that they have been condemned around them.
"It's not safe," said the Elder of the People's Committee in Liremer-East, a suburb of Liremer. "These bridges are liable to collapse at any time; they are death-traps. At the same time, several have been placed in ecologically sensitive areas and have already caused disruption; others simply put in areas not intended for roads of any purposes for economic and environmental reasons. Where they came from we do not know; but they are to be demolished within the week. All of them, every single one."
Demolition of some of the bridges has already begun; however, not all have as of yet been identified or even marked as condemned.
"It's an ongoing process," said a member of the Popular Militia. "There are too many of them; it is difficult to search for them. But mark my words, we will find them all, and get rid of them all."
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A Message from the Presidium of the Trade Confederation of Istkalen
The Reitzmics have declared a full occupation over our territory. They have removed our committees; imprisoned our people. We can now expect them to demand the annexation of ever more of our territory.
But so long as we refuse their law; so long as we assert ourselves as citizens of our Istkalen; they will never prevail. The law of the government must continue to stand; under no circumstances should any citizen betray themselves to Reitzmag.
If they torture us, if they kill us, the world will know.
We thus order a general strike. Until the Reitzmic forces will leave, no Istkalener should work; all should dedicate themselves to the removal of the occupiers through protest.
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The Citizens' Voice: Polling on important issues
- Do you support the establishment of the J-TAI in its present form?
- YES: 2,1%
- NO: 97,6%
- NO OPINION: 0,2%
- Do you support the presence of Reitzmic troops?
- YES: 1,0%
- NO: 98,9%
- NO OPINION: 0,1%
- Do you support the presence of Vardic troops?
- YES : 1,0%
- NO: 45,7%
- NO OPINION: 51,2%
- Would you support an extended joint-EU presence in Istkalen for peacekeeping purposes?
- YES: 43,1%
- NO: 37,5%
- NO OPINION: 19,4%
- Would you support the J-TAI if it collaborated with the present institutions of government which function democratically in Istkalen, even if it excludes the provisional government?
- YES: 45,3%
- NO: 42,1%
- NO OPINION: 12,6%
- Would you support an ERF deployment?
- YES: 49,0%
- NO: 43,2%
- NO OPINION: 7,8%
- Are you in support of the provisional government in Līresz?
- YES: 76,3%
- NO: 13,7%
- NO OPINION: 10,0%
- Are you in support of the People's Committees?
- YES: 93,2%
- NO: 5,8%
- NO OPINION: 1,0%
- Are you in support of the producers' unions, as a concept?
- YES: 94,8%
- NO: 3,2%
- NO OPINION: 2,0%
- Are you in support of the administration of the producers' unions?
- YES: 48,2%
- NO: 47,8%
- NO OPINION: 4,0%
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Revolution: Workers' uprising: the economy is socialized
25 April 2021, 23:11, GMT+3The forces of capital are being driven away, as the workers begin the revolution.
The bourgeoisie's tight control over our Istkalen had weakened as it revealed its insanity. Its machinations turned from simple trickery to the most evil of totalitarianisms. With poisoning religion as its crutch, it created a party as a prophet, a woman as God.
It screamed that the people were chosen by God to be redeemed, and would become like angels upon the purification. God had entered the body of Meinl-Reisinger, who would, through the party, purify the nation of Istkalen, removing all sin and "demonship" from the nation as to render it like heaven. All would be perfectly obedient, the people totally devoted to their God, the Party reduced to a simple instrument, merged entirely with the state, through which their energies would be transmitted, and the energy of their 'God' back to them.
Every act was an act of worship; not to worship was to be a demon, and to be a demon merited death. Thus was how the capitalists wanted to subjugate the people of Istkalen, by using religion to utterly blind them.
This was something that was barely hidden. It was used to taunt the people as to draw them into the total servitude. Meinl-Reisinger was the container of the light, reflected through the Party; when the time of purification was over, all would become light, and an Edenic paradise would be restored, the demons - everyone who was not an Istkalener totally devoted to Meinl-Reisinger - suffering in Hell.
A blinding light, they called it, a light which would blind people to all else other than Meinl-Reisinger, and kill those who were unable to look into her 'holy' eyes. The light would integrate all into it; all would become a part of the light, a great mass whose only thought would be of the existence of Meinl-Reisinger, a great mass which would exist solely through Meinl-Reisinger.
Everything was to be bound to her and thus to capitalism. It is our luck that this most horrific of plots, of total capitalism, was never realized.
But capitalism was to be intensified. Annexation became a threat; we would be subjugated to the demands of a new capital, from outside and one which would develop from the inside.
In the fear of the return of horrors of Meinl-Reisinger and her 'church,' her Social Democratic Party in a different but hidden form, of the worship and devotion to capital on a level not present in Istkalen before the manifestation of the horror of the regime, the people rose up.
In a mass and spontaneous uprising, guided by the worsening material conditions of Istkalen, they seized their workplaces fully from capital. In an instant, all was abolished.
The people had trampled upon the mechanisms of capitalism; the beginning of its removal - the great sun - began to rise, driving away the dark blanket of the night.
Everything became available to the people. The ability to truly enjoy their own labor, free not simply of the capitalist, which existed only in Istkalen for the days of the Meinl-Reisinger insanity, but of the dictates of capitalism.
To enjoy it in every way; to have control over it. To be redeemed, fully, as people rather than commodities, politically, economically, and socially.
The people seized full control over themselves on this day, the 25th of April, the anniversary of the fall of reaction in 1946 and 1973 after it, and thus were liberated, fully.
Enough of that, of course. Propaganda is tiring after mere days; we all know that quite intimately. Some of our comrades chose to print it; that, perhaps, is a bit unfortunate.
But many things will be made available now that the spontaneous revolution has completed itself, quickly and almost peacefully. As we stated, everything has been socialized. This does not mean that the artisans lose their individual autonomy, nor the agricultural laborers theirs. To steal that away would but be a capitalistic move against the people. We are the people; we cannot be against the people; and very few in Istkalen, after the regime of Meinl-Reisinger, after the occupation, are truly capitalists.
No, labor will be organized through the unions and the chambers, which have been restored to their natural state - of agriculture, of commerce, of the crafts and trades, of general labor, of the professions, of the arts, and of state - the chambers of the modernization, of the previous ascendancy of the Istkalener people.
The principle of duty, on which republicanism in Istkalen has been organized, will remain, for duty is the only way through which freedom can be maintained. In the West, people have the right to speak out, the right to do this and that. But they also may not do so. In Istkalen, it is the duty of the people to speak out about all policies; to voice their concerns. It is their duty, in fact, to dissent.
In this manner, each chamber and each union will have their duties. It is here that the new organization of labor lies. The chambers will be the participatory structure of people's power; through the unions, they shall participate in all matters, political, economic, and cultural.
Through this participation, they will also have their duty - of political participation, yes, but also of economic participation. Each union, again, shall have the duty of carrying out a specific activity; these will be delegated to the local unit. The worker may take the activity they are most pleased with, and may carry it out as they see fit, given that said way is truly safe. Their labor will be valued; they will be people. Their work will be for them to decide - it will, in fact, be their duty to decide and deliberate on their work - and it will be for them to execute, not as a machine but as a full person.
The products of labor will themselves be free. The person who made it will feel a connection to it; they will be responsible for distributing it. Many things, however, will be made without price. Housing will be collectivized; the distribution of food, through warehouses and canteens, shall be as well; the same shall go for information and activities cultural, through the unions of participation.
In essence, the new Istkalen will be a socialist society of total participation on the behalf of the people. All will be made and implemented directly through the participation of the people.
Eva van der Bijl has been named interim Head of State, until the Constituent Assembly is elected and convenes. Regarding that: the Communist Party is leading. If elections were held now, Communists would hold 351 seats, Centers 200, Labor 150, and Liberals 100.
