l_russian:

 WCA_focus: "$WCA_ACW$ Focus Tree"

### Country Names ###
 WCA: "Америка"
 WCA_ADJ: "Американск"
 WCA_DEF: "Америка"

 WCA_totalist: "$WCA_syndicalist$"
 WCA_totalist_DEF: "$WCA_syndicalist_DEF$"
 WCA_syndicalist: "Рабочее Содружество Америки"
 WCA_syndicalist_DEF: "Рабочее Содружество Америки"
 WCA_radical_socialist: "$WCA_syndicalist$"
 WCA_radical_socialist_DEF: "$WCA_syndicalist_DEF$"

 WCA_ACW: "Рабочий Конгресс Америки"
 WCA_ACW_ADJ: "Социалистическ"
 WCA_ACW_DEF: "Рабочий Конгресс Америки"

 WCA_united_socialist_states_totalist: "Соединенные Социалистические Штаты Америки"
 WCA_united_socialist_states_totalist_DEF: "Соединенные Социалистические Штаты Америки"
 WCA_united_socialist_states_syndicalist: "$WCA_united_socialist_states_totalist$"
 WCA_united_socialist_states_syndicalist_DEF: "$WCA_united_socialist_states_totalist_DEF$"
 WCA_united_socialist_states_radical_socialist: "$WCA_united_socialist_states_totalist$"
 WCA_united_socialist_states_radical_socialist_DEF: "$WCA_united_socialist_states_totalist_DEF$"

### Factions ###
 WCA_socialist_league_of_the_americas: "Социалистическая Лига обоих Америк"

### Parties ###
 WCA_totalist_party: "TUEL"
 WCA_totalist_party_long: "Trade Union Educational League\n§LThe latest and longest lasting of several Syndicalist labour organisations founded by William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League was founded in 1920 from the remnants of Foster’s Syndicalist League of North America and International Trade Union Educational League. Opposed to the Socialist Party’s policies of electoral participation and the IWW’s strategy of dual unionism, the TUEL instead maintains an anti-political ultra-syndicalist approach of \"boring from within\" the Congress of Industrial Organizations, a strategy which has seen some success, particularly in Chicago, where the Chicago Federation of Labor led by John Fitzpatrick has become closely aligned with Foster. Ideologically meanwhile, the TUEL has diverged somewhat from mainstream socialism in America, promoting a form of \"Patriotic Syndicalism\" that borrows from Sorelian ideas emerging across the Atlantic.§!\n"

 WCA_syndicalist_party: "Socialists (Ind. Unionists)"
 WCA_syndicalist_party_long: "Socialist Party of America - Industrial Unionist Faction\n§LFounded in 1901, the Socialist Party of America quickly gained traction as the premier socialist political force in the United States. First drawing support from workers, farmers, immigrants, and social reformers, among others, it was soon faced with crisis, as the revolutionary wave of the late 1910s sparked a large factional struggle within the party, between the moderate \"Regulars\" and the \"Radicals\", who supported revolutionary action.\n\nUltimately, it was the Radicals who emerged victorious to shape the future of the party. Membership in the Third International was followed by calls for a \"workers’ and farmers’ government\", albeit of ambiguous form. The SPA nonetheless eventually chose to work from within Farmer-Labor, a move which allowed it to see significant electoral gains in the 1930s.\n\nNow that the revolution has reached the United States, the SPA is faced with the task of stewarding it. Though the Radicals were victorious in the ‘20s, questions remain regarding the form of any post-revolution government. While the more radical elements of the party support an explicitly syndicalist government, moderates envision a republican commonwealth of labour.§!\n"

 WCA_radical_socialist_party: "Socialists (Progressives)"
 WCA_radical_socialist_party_long: "Socialist Party of America - Progressive Caucus\n§LFounded in 1901, the Socialist Party of America quickly gained traction as the premier socialist political force in the United States. First drawing support from workers, farmers, immigrants, and social reformers, among others, it was soon faced with crisis, as the revolutionary wave of the late 1910s sparked a large factional struggle within the party, between the moderate \"Regulars\" and the \"Radicals\", who supported revolutionary action.\n\nUltimately, it was the Radicals who emerged victorious to shape the future of the party. Membership in the Third International was followed by calls for a \"workers’ and farmers’ government\", albeit of ambiguous form. The SPA nonetheless eventually chose to work from within Farmer-Labor, a move which allowed it to see significant electoral gains in the 1930s.\n\nNow that the revolution has reached the United States, the SPA is faced with the task of stewarding it. Though the Radicals were victorious in the ‘20s, questions remain regarding the form of any post-revolution government. While the more radical elements of the party support an explicitly syndicalist government, moderates envision a republican commonwealth of labour.§!\n"

 WCA_social_democrat_party: "Farmer-Labor"
 WCA_social_democrat_party_long: "Farmer-Labor Party\n§LWith the collapse of the old Farmer-Labor Party and the abrupt exit of the SPA from legal politics, those Farmer-Labor politicians who had sided with the revolution yet had still not joined the SPA reconstituted their party in Red territory. Though they remain independent of the SPA, they too have been radicalised by the revolution, now acting more as a progressive farmers’ pressure group than as a political party seriously contesting the rule of the socialists.§!\n"

 WCA_social_liberal_party: "Democrats (Lib.)"
 WCA_social_liberal_party_long: "Democratic Party - Liberal Faction\n§LThe oldest continually active political party in the world, the Democratic Party was founded over 100 years ago in 1828 by Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren. Originally an agrarian populist party upholding Jeffersonian principles, it transformed first into a (generally) pro-slavery party, then into agrarian and southern opposition to the Republicans, and then into a western, southern, and increasingly urban party with liberal inclinations.\n\nThe liberal wing of the Democrats, usually associated with the north, follows largely in the legacy of Woodrow Wilson. It is generally supported by urban \"ethnic\" catholic voters, as well as liberals opposed to Farmer-Labor, and supports modest government intervention to support the economy, as well as greater participation on the world stage.§!\n"

 WCA_market_liberal_party: "Republicans"
 WCA_market_liberal_party_long: "Republican Party\n§LFounded in 1854 as a broad tent party opposed to Slave Power, the Republican Party has generally been regarded as the United States’ \"natural governing party\" since the end of the First American Civil War. Representing the industrial interests which came to predominate in the country after the defeat of Slave Power, as well as northeastern old stock protestants and wealthier western farmers, the Republican coalition has until recently generally maintained a long-term stranglehold on US politics.\n\nDivided between progressive, liberal, and conservative wings, the ideological divides of the \"Grand Old Party\" are generally more mild than that of the Democrats or Progressives. Conservative Republicans generally support higher tariffs and laissez-faire economics, while liberal or progressive Republicans are inclined towards tariff reform and economic interventionism, though to a less centralised degree than other liberals. They also differ on foreign policy, where liberals favour more foreign involvement, in contrast to isolationist progressives and conservatives.§!\n"

 WCA_social_conservative_party: "Democrats (Con.)"
 WCA_social_conservative_party_long: "Democratic Party - Conservative Faction\n§LThe oldest continually active political party in the world, the Democratic Party was founded over 100 years ago in 1828 by Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren. Originally an agrarian populist party upholding Jeffersonian principles, it transformed first into a (generally) pro-slavery party, then into agrarian and southern opposition to the Republicans, and then into a western, southern, and increasingly urban party with liberal inclinations.\n\nThe conservative wing of the Democrats, usually associated with the south, has been dominant in that region since the end of reconstruction. It is the natural ruling party in most of the south, with nomination tantamount to election. Divided between agrarian reactionaries and more reform-minded moderate conservatives, they are generally opposed to Civil Rights reform and cartelisation of the economy, supporting smaller businesses and landowners.§!\n"

 WCA_authoritarian_democrat_party: "Union (Reactionaries)"
 WCA_authoritarian_democrat_party_long: "Union Party - Reactionary Faction\n§LThe newest major party in US politics, the Union Party was recently formed primarily as a vehicle for Huey Long’s bid for the Presidency, when it became clear he would not be able to attain the Democratic nomination. A broad-tent alliance comprising Democrats, reactionaries, and anti-syndicalist Progressives, they are united by little more than their shared opposition to the Smith Administration, and at least a temporary unity behind Long as their leader.\n\nThough traditionally Long’s base of support has been in the midwestern farm states, reactionary and populist southern Democratic leaders such as Eugene Talmadge and Theodore Bilbo have rallied behind Long out of their opposition to Smith. These southern Democrats are united primarily by their belief in white supremacy and disdain for Smith’s particular brand of liberalism. Their unity behind Long however is clearly conditional, and unlikely to last if push comes to shove.§!\n"

 WCA_paternal_autocrat_party: "$USA_paternal_autocrat_party_postwar$"
 WCA_paternal_autocrat_party_long: "$USA_paternal_autocrat_party_postwar_long$"

 WCA_national_populist_party: "Union (Populists)"
 WCA_national_populist_party_long: "Union Party - Populist Faction\n§LThe newest major party in US politics, the Union Party was recently formed primarily as a vehicle for Huey Long’s bid for the Presidency, when it became clear he would not be able to attain the Democratic nomination. A broad-tent alliance comprising Democrats, reactionaries, and anti-syndicalist Progressives, they are united by little more than their shared opposition to the Smith Administration, and at least a temporary unity behind Long as their leader.\n\nLong’s primary personal base of support has, for most of his career in national politics, been in the western farm states, where his progressive but decentralist economic ideas hold sway. Long has aligned himself with western senators such as Burton Wheeler, who have come out to support his \"Share Our Wealth\" platform. It is this western faction of Long’s new party which is most loyal to him personally, and likely to stick with him through thick and thin.§!\n"

 WCA_totalist_party_postwar: "TUUL"
 WCA_totalist_party_postwar_long_tt: "Trade Union Unity League"
 WCA_totalist_party_postwar_long: "$WCA_totalist_party_postwar_long_tt$\n§LInitially formed as the \"Trade Union Educational League\" by William Z. Foster, what is now the TUUL was formed in 1920 from the remnants of Foster’s Syndicalist League of North America and International Trade Union Educational League. Working first within the AFL and then within the CIO, the organisation sought to \"bore from within\" the established unions, as opposed to the dual unionist IWW. During the civil war, the League represented a growing tendency of radicals, however during the constitutional convention its attempts to manoeuvre itself into power within the CIO failed. With Foster choosing to retire in the aftermath due to his failing health, his protege Earl Browder, facing the imminent loss of the League's power base in the steel union, chose to formally split the organisation from the CIO.\n\nThe result is America's fourth (and smallest) trade union centre, which advocates for an eclectic mix of Foster's pseudo-Sorelian \"Patriotic Syndicalism\" and Browder's Maximist plannism, all draped in the colours of the previous American revolutionary tradition, with busts of Lincoln and Jefferson taking pride of place at their rallies. Isolated from the emergent major parties, the TUUL is unlikely to have more success as an independent union than as a faction within the CIO.§!\n"

 WCA_totalist_party_postwar_takeover: "CIO"
 WCA_totalist_party_postwar_takeover_long_tt: "Congress of Industrial Organizations"
 WCA_totalist_party_postwar_takeover_long: "$WCA_totalist_party_postwar_takeover_long_tt$\n§LFormed in 1929 from former AFL unions dissatisfied with conservative craft union leadership, the Congress of Industrial Organizations was initially conceived as a broad church containing Industrial Unionists too conservative for the IWW and unable to stomach the elitism and conservatism of the AFL. Aligning with the SPA in forming Farmer-Labor, the CIO was crucial in getting the Red government off the ground, and enthusiastically supported revolution in 1937. Revolution brought about transformation however, and the CIO soon radicalised. Earl Browder and William Z. Foster's Trade Union Educational League, a ultra-syndicalist grouping within the CIO, gained more and more prominence, and during the second constitutional convention was able to take over the CIO, completing Foster's dream of \"boring from within\" the established unions.\n\nNot long after, an ultra-syndialist slate was elected to the provisional executive, and the new TUEL-controlled CIO took command of the state. Far from being the moderate wing of unionism during the civil war, the new leadership combines a commitment to industrial government with a surprising embrace of the previous American revolutionary tradition, with busts of Lincoln and Jefferson taking pride of place at their rallies. Only time will tell if this \"Patriotic Syndicalism\" is what will bring America back into the ranks of the great powers.§!\n"

 WCA_syndicalist_party_postwar: "Социалисты"
 WCA_syndicalist_party_postwar_long_tt: "Социалистическая Партия Америки"
 WCA_syndicalist_party_postwar_long: "$WCA_syndicalist_party_postwar_long_tt$\n§LFounded in 1901, the Socialist Party of America quickly gained traction as the premier socialist political force in the United States. First drawing support from workers, farmers, immigrants, and social reformers, among others, it was soon faced with crisis, as the revolutionary wave of the late 1910s sparked a large factional struggle within the party, between the moderate \"Regulars\" and the \"Radicals\", who supported revolutionary action.\n\nUltimately, it was the Radicals who emerged victorious to shape the future of the party. Membership in the Third International was followed by calls for a \"workers’ and farmers’ government\", albeit of ambiguous form. The SPA nonetheless eventually chose to work from within Farmer-Labor, a move which allowed it to see significant electoral gains in the 1930s.\n\nNow that the revolution has reached the United States, the SPA is faced with the task of stewarding it. Though the Radicals were victorious in the ‘20s, questions remain regarding the form of any post-revolution government. With the victory of Red forces in the Civil War, the moderate element within the SPA has removed itself, splitting off to form the Commonwealth Party. What is left is an explicitly Industrial Unionist party bound by the hip to the IWW.§!\n"

 WCA_radical_socialist_party_postwar: "Содружество"
 WCA_radical_socialist_party_postwar_long_tt: "Партия Американского Содружества"
 WCA_radical_socialist_party_postwar_long: "$WCA_radical_socialist_party_postwar_long_tt$\n§LС победой социалистов в Гражданской войне стало ясно, что относительному военному единству СПА не суждено было продлиться долго. Уход Джона Рида из активной политической жизни означал, что партия вскоре лишится своей объединяющей фигуры, и вскоре внутренняя борьба, которая определяла положение партии в тяжелые годы 1920-х, с ревом возобновилась.\n\nХотя конституционные вопросы решались на съезде, вопрос о власти над самим партийным аппаратом решался отдельно. В конечном счете союзники Рида по промышленному союзу сохранили свое лидерство в СПА, а умеренные последователи Нормана Томаса откололись от него, чтобы сформировать новую партию Американского содружества. Молодая ПАС определила себя с точки зрения ответственной революции, полностью поддерживая революционное преобразование американского общества, делая акцент на сохранении гражданских свобод (даже для реакционеров) и выступая против возрождения милитаризма. Он тесно сотрудничает с CIO, который был отодвинут на второй план новым истеблишментом СПА-ИРМ.§!\n"

### Traits ###
 #Reed:
 WCA_romantic_revolutionary: "Революционный романтик"
 #Browder:
 WCA_new_founding_father: "Новый Отец-Основатель"
 #Foster:
 WCA_herald_of_the_militant_minority: "Глашатай воинствующего меньшинства"
 #Flynn:
 WCA_freedom_above_all: "Свобода превыше всего"
 #Hoan:
 WCA_sewer_socialism: "Водопроводный социализм"
 #Hass:
 WCA_the_de_leonist_revival: "Наследник Де Леона"
 #Roosevelt:
 WCA_first_lady_of_the_revolution: "Первая леди Революции"
 #Zeidler:
 WCA_the_american_haussmann: "Американский барон Осман"
 #Allison:
 WCA_the_toiler: "Работяга"
 #Cannon:
 WCA_fervent_revolutionary: "Страстный революционер"
 #Fraina:
 WCA_cultural_revolutionary: "Культурный революционер"
 #Thomas:
 WCA_all_inclusive_socialist: "Всеобъемлющий социалист"
 #Sinclair:
 WCA_an_end_to_poverty: "Конец бедности"
 #Krueger:
 WCA_militant_academic: "Воинствующий академик"
 #Gitlow:
 WCA_the_red_ruby: "Красный Руби"
 #Reuther:
 WCA_the_most_dangerous_man: "Самый опасный человек Детройта"
 #Minor:
 WCA_revolutionary_cartoonist: "Революционер-мультипликатор"
 #Randolph:
 WCA_peace_and_reconciliation: "Мир и Примирение"
 #Butler/Carlson:
 WCA_maverick_marine: "\"Инакомыслящий морпех\""

 WCA_red_guard_commander: "Красногвардейский коммандир"
 WCA_red_guard_commander_desc: "§LЭтот лидер, хотя и был еще неопытен по обычным военным меркам, проявил мастерство командования ополченцами Красной гвардии перед Гражданской войной в США. Эти знания могут оказаться ценными.§!"

### Flags ###
 WCA_corruption_in_dockyards: "Мы обнаружили коррупцию в морской промышленности"

### Ideas ###
 WCA_american_advisors_1: "Американские советники"
 WCA_on_the_beach_idea: "На берегах"
 WCA_from_the_sky_idea: "С небес"
 WCA_leap_forward_idea: "Большой Скачок
 WCA_free_the_west_idea: "Лидер Нового Света"
 WCA_red_guard_militias: "Ополчение Красной гвардии"
 WCA_war_measures: "Меры военного времени"
 WCA_general_defense_comitte_idea: "Верховный Комитет Обороны"
 WCA_strategic_services_idea: "Стратегические Службы"
 WCA_revolutionary_guards_idea: "Революционная Гвардия"
 WCA_lead_revolution_idea: "Авангард революции"
 WCA_csb_idea: "Центральное Бюро Безопасности"
 WCA_liberty_ships_ideas: "Корабли Свободы"
 WCA_political_officers: "Политические офицеры"
 WCA_revolutionary_NCOs: "Революционные сержанты"
 WCA_leveraging_industry: "Промышленный гигант"
 WCA_red_squadrons: "Красные эскадрильи"
 WCA_continental_air_force: "Континентальные ВВС"
 WCA_american_peoples_navy: "Американский народный флот"
 WCA_reconstruction_armies: "Реконструкция армии"
 WCA_continental_red_guards: "Континентальная Красная Гвардия"
 WCA_motor_production_idea: "Увеличение автомобильного производства"
 WCA_motor_production_idea_2: "Американская автомобильная промышленность"
 WCA_unprofessional_officers: "Непрофессиональные офицеры"
 WCA_continental_marines: "Континентальные морские пехотинцы"

 WCA_central_planning_idea: "Централизованное планирование"
 WCA_syndicalist_economics_idea: "Децентрализованное планирование"
 WCA_foster_economic_policy_idea: "Экономическая политика Фостера"
 WCA_browders_economic_policy_idea: "Экономическая политика Браудера"
 WCA_social_revolution: "Социальная Революция"

 WCA_to_the_bitter_end: "До горького конца"

### Tooltips ###
 WCA_tech_anti_fortification_artillery: "Гаубица М1 240мм"

 WCA_butler: "Батлер"
 WCA_carlson: "Карлсон"

 WCA_states_red_guards_tooltip: "\n§RЭтот план крайне непопулярен в высшем командовании, и многие уйдут в отставку, если мы пойдем по этому пути!§!"
 WCA_demobilization: "§RПока демобилизация не будет завершена, рабочие и бандиты будут создавать проблемы!§!"

### Decisions ###
 WCA_demobilise_mission: "Необходимость демобилизации"

 WCA_expanding_the_revolution_decisions: "Экспорт Революции"
 WCA_expanding_the_revolution_decisions_desc: "Мы не можем остановить Революцию в одних лишь Штатах. Нужно помочь рабочим освободиться от оков и экспортировать революцию в обе Америки."
 WCA_invite_country_to_faction: "Пригласить [FROM.GetNameDef]"
 WCA_expand_revolution: "Освободить [FROM.GetNameDef]"
 WCA_expand_revolution_desc: "Синдикалистская революция должна распространиться по всему Новому Свету, и [WCA.GetNameDef] должна быть в авангарде!"

 WCA_international_decisions: "Америка в Интернационале"
 WCA_international_decisions_desc: "Как член Интернационала, наш долг - внести свой вклад в развитие мировой революции."
 WCA_join_international: "Вступить в Интернационал"
 WCA_join_international_desc: "Наше место в мире было давно предопределено - Европа нуждается в нашей помощи!"
 WCA_work_with_allies: "Сотрудничать с [From.GetAdjective] Allies"
 WCA_work_with_allies_desc: "Мы должны экспортировать американские ноу-хау нашему союзнику, государству [From.GetNameDef], а также послать оружие и советников."

 WCA_protect_hawaii: "Защитить Гавайскую Коммуну"
 WCA_protect_philippines: "Защитить Филиппины"

 WCA_economic_development_decisions: "Экономическое развитие"
 WCA_industrial_research_expansion: "Расширение промышленных исследований"
 WCA_infrastructure_expansion: "Расширение инфраструктуры в [FROM.GetName]"
 WCA_agricultural_investments: "Сельскохозяйственные инвестиции в [FROM.GetName]"
 WCA_industrial_development: "Промышленное развитие в [FROM.GetName]"

 WCA_deal_with_terrorists_decisions: "Уничтожение реакционных террористов"
 WCA_deal_with_terrorists_decisions_desc: "Революция победила, но остатки реакционеров-террористов отказываются сложить оружие. Мы должны разбить их раз и навсегда."
 WCA_destroy_federalist_decision: "Уничтожить террористов-федералистов"
 WCA_destroy_longist_decision: "Уничтожить террористов Лонга"

### Reconstruction Focuses ###
 WCA_rebuilding_the_country: "Восстановление страны"
 WCA_rebuilding_the_country_desc: "Великая Американская Революция окончена, но пока мы не вылечим ее раны, наша страна продолжить страдать, истекая кровью. Мы должны усердно работать, чтобы построить эгалитарную, равную и стойкую Америку на руинах старой."
 WCA_social_revolution_desc: "Страна свободных и дом храбрых не были собою, и нам пора заняться очисткой Америки от коррупции, расизма и шовинизма. Но сперва нужно выкорчевать корень этих страданий - саму капиталистическую систему!"
 WCA_redistribute_wealth: "Перераспределение богатств"
 WCA_redistribute_wealth_desc: "Мы больше не будем терпеть социальное устройство, в котором человек, совершенно не создающий ничего полезного, может накопить миллионы долларов, а миллионы пролетариев, работающих все свои дни, едва сводят концы с концами. Конец всех банков, корпораций и прочих кровососов уже на пороге."
 WCA_homes_for_the_people: "Дома для народа"
 WCA_homes_for_the_people_desc: "Помещики и магнаты недвижимости были настоящей чумой этой страны. Теперь могущественные богачи сброшены с трона, так что вытащим же бедных и нуждающихся из трущоб!"
 WCA_emancipation_for_all: "Эмансипация для всех"
 WCA_emancipation_for_all_desc: "Глуп и тщеславен рабочий, делающий цвет своей кожи ступенькой к его воображаемому превосходству. Пролетариат всех цветов и религий сражался и страдал для создания нашей новой Америки. Лояльным иммигрантам также должно быть предоставлено гражданство родившегося в стране человека, что так же в духе эмансипации."
 WCA_womens_liberation: "Освобождение женщин"
 WCA_womens_liberation_desc: "Пока мужчины умирали на поле боя, женщины управляли заводами, производили снаряжение и кормили нашу революцию! Это не говоря уж о множестве медсестер, пилотов и женщин-ополченцев, отдавших все на войне. Их борьба и жертвы не будут напрасны."
 WCA_revolutionary_education: "Революционное образование"
 WCA_revolutionary_education_desc: "Академия была заботливой матерью многих революционеров, но сама система образования весьма реакционная. За всю историю Америки она была выстроена для производства больше послушных рабочих, больше нечестных капиталистов и бессердечных политиков. Теперь с этим покончено!"
 WCA_reconstruction: "Начать восстановление"
 WCA_reconstruction_desc: "Гражданская война разбила нашу страну на части. Крупные сельскохозяйственные земли теперь состоят из грязи и пепла, а бесчисленные города превратились в тлеющие руины. Мы должны начать строительство нового жилья и инфраструктуры как можно скорее."
 WCA_deal_with_feds: "Разобраться с Федералами"
 WCA_deal_with_feds_desc: "С самого начала революции мы накапливали политических заключенных, ожидающих суда. Теперь, когда война окончена, настало время решить их судьбу. Некоторые из нашего руководства верят в возможность их реабилитации, более радикальные товарищи едва терпят увидеть чрезвычайную революционную справедливость."
 WCA_transformative_justice: "Трансформативное правосудие"
 WCA_transformative_justice_desc: "Хотя мы и расправились со старой элитой Америки, все еще существуют крупные популярные движения, противодействующие нашему режиму. Нам нужно усмирить любые оставшиеся контрреволюционные ячейки и обязательно отследить любые проникновения в нашу среду."
 WCA_deal_with_firsters: "Разобраться с Лонгистами"
 WCA_deal_with_firsters_desc: "Грязная команда из реакционеров-демагогов, бессердечных промышленников и генералов-тиранов Хью Лонга ожидает своего суда. Хотя сам Кингфиш сумел сбежать, мы готовы справедливо наказать любого, кто с ним сотрудничал."
 WCA_destroy_jim_crow: "Сокрушить законы Джима Кроу"
 WCA_destroy_jim_crow_desc: "Не одной лишь военной мощью нам придется избавляться от террористов с юга. Нам нужно искоренить слепую приверженность и расизм, веками отравлявшие Америке, и сокрушить культ личности Лонга. Пусть Линкольн гордится, а мы уничтожим старых Дикси раз и навсегда!"
 WCA_equality_for_all: "Равенство для всех"
 WCA_equality_for_all_desc: "Долгая битва за свободу, кажется, практически закончилась. Старые ужасы и иерархии исчезают, и вскоре несправедливости Америки будут лишь грустными воспоминаниями и параграфами учебников истории."
 WCA_reconstruction_is_over: "Синдикатная государственная служба"
 WCA_reconstruction_is_over_desc: "Агитационная пропаганда не может охватить миллионы американцев, которые возражают против заграничной войны. Мормоны, Меннониты, Свидетели Иеговы и Гуттериты, которые отказались воевать в Гражданской войне, теперь получают доступ в лесное хозяйство, чтобы помочь в восстановлении."
 WCA_a_new_america: "Пересмотреть и запомнить американских героев"
 WCA_a_new_america_desc: "Имена Джо Хилла, Мучеников Хеймаркета и даже Юджина Дебса известны сегодня, но только как верхняя часть долгого наследия американских героев-синдикалистов. Необходимо положить конец годам дезинформации, в том числе сети теорий заговора, которые могли бы поджечь страну погромами, как это случилось в Сибири в 1918 году."

### American Commonwealth Focuses ###
 WCA_second_convention: "Второй Конституционный Съезд"
 WCA_second_convention_desc: "Настало время очередного шага нашей революционной борьбы, поиска пути объединить рабочих под единым делом и идеологией. Хотя наши делегаты приходят из крупного набора профсоюзов и коммун, мы надеемся на консенсус насчет будущего социалистического правительства. Как и было больше сотни лет назад, Филадельфия почетно станет местом Конституционного Съезда!"
 WCA_american_commonwealth: "Трудовое Содружество"
 WCA_american_commonwealth_desc: "Мы зашли так далеко не для того, чтобы откатиться обратно в тиранию. Наша колоссальная поддержка на Конституционном Съезде показала, что господство Профсоюзного Социализма неизбежно, оно сменит национализм Беллами, дав социальную и экономическую свободу всем трудящимся нашей страны!"
 WCA_protect_the_working_class: "Защита рабочего класса"
 WCA_protect_the_working_class_desc: "Рабочие Америки давно стремятся к созданию лучшей экономической системы, которая действительно была бы создана народом, управлялась им и для него, но они были бессильны реализовать такую систему. После победы в гражданской войне у нас появилось достаточно времени и возможностей, чтобы навсегда закрепить в новой Америке правила, благоприятные для рабочих, правила охраны труда и техники безопасности, а также гарантии против несправедливого унижения!"
 WCA_empower_councils: "Демократия ратуш"
 WCA_empower_councils_desc: "Новое Содружество не может быть построено авторитарными методами, нам нужен лучший классовый характер демократии. Через законы, расширяющие полномочия низов и городские собрания, политические решения более не будут далеким шумом Капитолия, они будут прямо в рабочей среде!"
 WCA_mutal_economic_comitee: "Совместный Экономический Комитет"
 WCA_mutal_economic_comitee_desc: "Геркулесовой задачей станет демонтаж капиталистической системы, и он не может быть выполнен без государственных квот и экономических планов. Конгресс собирает местных политических представителей. экономистов и рабочих, чтобы помочь Америке перейти с рыночной экономики к социалистической."
 WCA_permanent_revolution: "Перманентная Революция"
 WCA_permanent_revolution_desc: "Старый буржуазный легализм был инструментом легитимации буржуазного государства. С наступлением эпохи пролетарской революции он устарел. Мы будем двигаться к тому, чтобы конгрессы, советы, коммуны и промышленные союзы стали рабочими органами, которые как разрабатывают законодательство, так и вводят его в действие. В коммуне не должно быть разделения между исполнительной и законодательной властью."
 WCA_enshrine_socialist_democracy: "Укрепление социалистической демократии"
 WCA_enshrine_socialist_democracy_desc: "Конституция, принятая после гражданской войны, была устаревшим документом. Сопротивление синдикалистов формализованным правилам и процедурам привело к тому, что в документ было легко вносить поправки, в котором лишь излагались основы структуры нашего правительства. Это, конечно, уже созрело для злоупотреблений. Мы внесем ряд уточняющих поправок, чтобы защитить наши права и социалистическую демократию, включая разделение властей, к которому питают отвращение анархисты"
 WCA_power_to_the_people: "Закон о едином социальном обеспечении"
 WCA_power_to_the_people_desc: "По настоянию активистов пенсионного движения стариков, Конгресс был вынужден зарезервировать часть денег для фонда социального обеспечения для не состоящих в профсоюзе работников. Эта ценность соответствует нашим социалистическим идеалам и прокладывает путь к тому, чтобы трудящиеся в незащищенных отраслях получали защиту, как это уже делают профсоюзные организации через свои пенсионные фонды."
 WCA_central_planning: "Централизованное планирование"
 WCA_central_planning_desc: "Опыт Британского союза очень четко продемонстрировал одну вещь: будущее за планированием. Анархия производства, присущая капитализму, неспособна вернуть разрушенную войной страну к стабильности. Сегодня это признают даже многие капиталистические государства. Однако буржуазные диктатуры неспособны поставить производство под контроль централизованного аппарата. Мы, однако, можем и сделаем это."
 WCA_monopoly_on_foreign_trade: "Монополия внешней торговли"
 WCA_monopoly_on_foreign_trade_desc: "Пока мировая революция не завершится, торговля с капиталистическими государствами, к сожалению, неизбежна. Если мы не будем осторожны, такая торговля может усилить то, что осталось от нашей отечественной буржуазии. Таким образом, крайне важно, чтобы мы установили государственную монополию на внешнюю торговлю, как для того, чтобы максимизировать нашу переговорную силу, так и для обеспечения того, чтобы плоды торговли направлялись на благо пролетариата."
 WCA_workers_cooperatives: "Рабочие кооперативы"
 WCA_workers_cooperatives_desc: "Доминация промышленных профсоюзов не означает смерти предпринимательства. Мы просто заменим боссов, несправедливо уменьшающих выгоду. Вместо этого пусть рабочие решают на своих местах, как справедливо разделить богатства между собой."
 WCA_full_employment: "Полная занятость"
 WCA_full_employment_desc: "Безработица - это проклятие. За последние два десятилетия она не только обрекла миллионы американцев на нищету, но и привела к массовому недоиспользованию рабочей силы в Америке. Хотя для функционирования капитализма требуется резервная армия рабочей силы, сейчас мы избавлены от этого ограничения. Наша плановая экономика будет стремиться к полной занятости каждого американца."
 WCA_new_planning_districts: "Новые районы планирования"
 WCA_new_planning_districts_desc: "Промышленный подъем Америки потребует совершенно нового подхода к экономическому планированию. Реконструкция существующей промышленности и развитие новой должны происходить в гармонии друг с другом, а не в условиях конкуренции. Если американская промышленность хочет процветать, она должна поддерживать себя как единое целое, а не конкурировать на анархическом рынке."
 WCA_american_syndicalism: "Новый американский синдикализм"
 WCA_american_syndicalism_desc: "Америка наконец-то оставила капиталистическую эксплуатацию позади и вошла в первый переходный период на пути к светлому будущему. 	Некоторые в Конгрессе еще насмехаются над нашей идеей 'Синдикализма с Американским характером', но они не могут оспорить энергичное рвение нашей промышленности и празднование народом доселе неизвестного процветания!"
 WCA_unionist_economics: "Индустриальный Юнионизм"
 WCA_unionist_economics_desc: "Хотя и были попытки объединить Синдикализм и Бизнес-Юнионизм, для нас очевидно, что компромисса со старой системой быть не может. Промышленные профсоюзы должны стать доминирующей силой в нашей экономике, теперь они расширяют возможности правительства Содружества."
 WCA_industrial_unionism: "Синдикалистское доминирование"
 WCA_industrial_unionism_desc: "Ранее рынки определялись спросом и предложением или капризами инвесторов, но наша новая система будет построена для спроса и на нем. Конгресс объявил, что рабочие должны регистрировать профсоюзы в ИРМ или они будут рисковать штрафами и потерей пособий."
 WCA_workers_self_managment: "Рабочее самоуправление"
 WCA_workers_self_managment_desc: "Великой целью этого Конгресса является устранение старых иерархий, пронизывающих Американские рабочие места. Поэтому был принят закон, запрещающий Старшим Помощникам и привилегированным акционерам принимать решения. Теперь профсоюзы могут взять под контроль все средства производства через владение обыкновенными акциями."
 WCA_industrial_democracy: "Индустриальная демократия"
 WCA_industrial_democracy_desc: "Демократия является неотъемлемой частью Американской идентичности. Но слишком уж долго она была фиговым листочком на дверях завода по превращению Американцев в рабов мелких тиранов. Больше никогда. Конгресс поручил Комитету Индустриальной Демократии содействовать сотрудничеству между профсоюзами во благо демократических идей."
 WCA_agricultural_unions: "Сельскохозяйственные Профсоюзы"
 WCA_agricultural_unions_desc: "Сельскохозяйственный сектор обязан накормить нашу страну, но, исключая эту весьма общую задачу, мы можем позволить фермерам действовать в основном независимо. Конгресс расширил защиту профсоюзов на сельскохозяйственных рабочих, позволив им объединиться и вступить в ИРМ."
 WCA_syndicalist_economics: "Децентрализованное планирование"
 WCA_syndicalist_economics_desc: "Руководства штатов пробудили самостоятельные коммуны в городах и даже округах. Они близко сотрудничают со своими соседями и поддерживают хорошее состояние общества. Эта система далеко не утопична, но это первый шаг на пути к истинному рабочему раю!"
 WCA_protect_the_revolution: "Защита революции"
 WCA_protect_the_revolution_desc: "Поддержание и защита революционного духа в ближайшие годы будет крайне важна. Мы подвергаемся огромному давлению со стороны реакционных сил всего мира, саботажу от диссидентов внутри нашей собственной страны и фракционной борьбе даже в нашей верхушке. Наша воля еще не сломлена, борьба продолжается!"
 WCA_general_defense_comitte: "Главный Комитет Обороны"
 WCA_general_defense_comitte_desc: "Если доверить военное руководство и безопасность нашей страны группе элит, то это может плохо кончиться. Наше Содружество должно оставаться меритократичным и свободным от коррупции, поэтому Конгресс организовал комитет профсоюзных советников и военных стратегов. Завтра здесь не будет недостатка в добровольцах и патриотах."
 WCA_independent_media: "Защита свободы слова"
 WCA_independent_media_desc: "Свободные СМИ и право на свободу слова являются неотъемлемыми правами американского народа. Судебная система подтвердила право на свободу слова, несмотря на призывы к цензуре. Пусть реакционеры и предатели кричат что хотят, их изменническая чушь будет заглушена криками наших товарищей, празднующих наступление новой эры процветания!"
 WCA_strategic_services: "Комитет Стратегических Служб"
 WCA_strategic_services_desc: "Главный Комитет Обороны показал себя весьма эффективным, но также был раскритикован за избыточную открытость и публичность. Стыдно вести дела в тайне от наших граждан, но мы позаботимся о том, чтобы второй Комитет поддерживал дух революции и находился под пристальным наблюдением."
 
### Union of American States Focuses ###
 WCA_usas: "Союз Социалистических Штатов Америки"
 WCA_usas_desc: "Авторитарность преобладает: мелкие ссоры на Конституционном Съезде решились в пользу сильного центристского правительства. ССША покажет миру, что гражданская война не ослабила влияние и мощь страны, а перенаправила их на новое дело революционного Авангардизма."
 WCA_lead_the_revolution: "Возглавить Революцию"
 WCA_lead_the_revolution_desc: "Авангардистская Америка центристская страна, неподвластная власти толпы ИРМ или вероотступничеству АФТ. К счастью, преданные нам ремесленные союзы и анти-судебные адвокаты понимают это. Когда мы удостоверимся, что наш новый Союз не рухнет, продолжение борьбы будет первой повесткой дня нашего нового правительства."
 WCA_peoples_commisars: "Народные комиссары"
 WCA_peoples_commisars_desc: "Уже во время войны, многие ополченцы, коммуны и синдикаты внедряли систему Политических Комиссаров. Эти бдительные граждане неусыпно следили за любыми возможными контрреволюционерами в наших рядах. Конгресс перевел этих комиссаров под прямой контроль государства и расширил систему на всю страну."
 WCA_control_townhalls: "Подписать закон Холла-Баллама"
 WCA_control_townhalls_desc: "Проблема преданности стала клином, разделившим Конгресс. Для решения этой проблемы, Гас Холл и Джон Баллам представили законопроект, требующий подтверждения лояльности у избранных должностных лиц ССША. Этот закон обеспечит всеобщую безопасность путем преследования всех каким-либо образом виновных в государственной измене."
 WCA_politics: "Демократический централизм"
 WCA_politics_desc: "Согласно концепции Демократического Централизма, любое решение Центрального Комитета должно быть принято и нижними позициями в партии и правительстве. Центральный Комитет проголосовал перед Конгрессом, и они должны сказать свое окончательное слово об изменении политики. Нас стоит бояться только реакционерам и предателям."
 WCA_communist_party: "Запрет фракционализма"
 WCA_communist_party_desc: "Несмотря на нашу централизацию власти, в Конгрессе все еще есть некоторые трения. Мы не можем продолжать, если ИРМ, АФТ и прочие акронимы колеблются. Они не понимают, что Авангард занимает центристскую позицию, и что лишь мы удерживаем революцию от ее распада."
 WCA_proletarian_dictatorship: "Диктатура пролетариата"
 WCA_proletarian_dictatorship_desc: "Все, чего мы добились, было достигнуто насилием и силой. О буржуазной мысли, все еще цепляющейся за Америку, нельзя отказаться, нельзя оспорить или обсудить, ее нужно просто уничтожить. Как что-то может занять ее место, если мы терпим прошлое? Эти действия измена, а Комитет для них судья."
 WCA_fosters_economics: "Экономическая политика Фостера"
 WCA_fosters_economics_desc: "Уильям З. Фостер успешно протолкнул свою радикальную политику, изложенную в его манифесте 'На пути к Синдикалистической Америке'. Фостер немедленно призвал к массовой национализации всей промышленности и природных ресурсов, а также к серии радикальных реформ и защите некоторых профсоюзов."
 WCA_resource_nationalization: "Национализация ресурсов"
 WCA_resource_nationalization_desc: "Установление настоящего Американского Синдикалистического правительства потребует конфискации крупных земельных владений в каждом Союзном Штате. В том числе и лесные массивы, рудные месторождения, озера и подобные. Не будут больше Американцы находиться под ярмом капитализма."
 WCA_union_managment: "Защита ремесленных союзов"
 WCA_union_managment_desc: "Профсоюзы исполняют важную роль в нашей экономике. Но они не руководят производством сами по себе, за это ответственны правительственные экономические органы. Наши преданные ремесленные союзы с радостью встанут под пристальный местный и государственный надзор Партии для защиты их прав от власти толпы."
 WCA_collective_farming: "Программа 'Зеленые поля'"
 WCA_collective_farming_desc: "Комитет принял программу 'Зеленые Поля' для миллионов акров изъятых земель. Для народа такой выбор выглядит предпочтительнее коллективизации, как возвращающий дух конкуренции в приобретении земель. Эта программа отдает изъятые или отведенные государству земли по самой низкой цене тем, кто обещает наибольшую доходность."
 WCA_decentralized_planning: "Социалистическое самоуправление"
 WCA_decentralized_planning_desc: "Центральный Комитет немедленно займется трудной задачей по созданию адекватного притока надежных инженеров и управленцев для управления промышленностью. Разрозненные технические институты, училища, заочные школы и прочие будут организованы, расширены и напрямую связаны с промышленностью."
 WCA_nat_syndicalist_econ: "Централизованный синдикализм"
 WCA_nat_syndicalist_econ_desc: "Революция Пролетариата делает перемены намного быстрее и глубже, нежели что-либо иное в истории человечества. Сотни миллионов рабочих и крестьян, сокрушив свои рабские оковы, построят общество свободы и разумного процветания. Синдикализм откроет новую эру человеческой расы, строительство нового мира."
 WCA_browders_economics: "Экономическая политика Браудера"
 WCA_browders_economics_desc: "Эрл Расселл Браудер успешно представил серию политик по созданию стабильной, предсказуемой экономики. Они основаны в основном на промышленных планах и прямом управлении некоторыми секторами экономики правительством, проводимом через комиссариаты и квоты. Комитет и ремесленные союзы хорошо приняли это предложение."
 WCA_price_controls: "Управление ценами"
 WCA_price_controls_desc: "Это в духе капитализма, когда его экономическая машина входит в кризис, это немедленно объясняется не недостатком товаров, а наоборот, перепроизводством. Мы должны избежать трагедии сжигании урожая, которую наблюдали во время революции. Поэтому комитет принял решение о предельных ценах и экспроприации неиспользованных излишков. "
 WCA_control_unions: "Запрет ИРМ"
 WCA_control_unions_desc: "ИРМ, несмотря на благородную задумку, изолировали классово сознательных рабочих от лидерства революции, Партии Авангарда. Их продолжительное влияние угрожает не только нашей власти, но и самой стабильности Новой Америки. Истинные составляющие ССША, люди, видят, что Авангардизм лучше представляет их интересы."
 WCA_state_farms: "Коллективные фермы"
 WCA_state_farms_desc: "Государственные сельскохозяйственные организации теперь сгруппированы под Комитетским Комиссариатом Сельского Хозяйства и сформировали трасты под различные культуры и географическое деление хозяйства. Зерновые культуры продаются непосредственно правительству, кооперативам, или, во все растущей степени, на местных открытых рынках."
 WCA_state_quotas: "Государственные квоты"
 WCA_state_quotas_desc: "Внедрение квот позволяет максимально использовать все производственные возможности, машины и людей, и постоянно поднимает эффективность путем систематического внедрения научных принципов. Комитет отказал в идее премировать за выполнение квот, заявив, что прогресс в экономике должен быть наградой, а не ожиданием."
 WCA_planned_economy: "Антикапиталистическое общество Браудера"
 WCA_planned_economy_desc: "Комитет Браудера принял план, который объявляет тотальную экономическую войну против сил монархизма и реакционеров. Поэтому, промышленное развитие должно быть социализировано. Образцовые предприятия будут школами для подтягивания остальных, а слабые предприятия должны исправиться, или же будут ликвидированы."
 WCA_defend_the_revolution: "Защита Революции"
 WCA_defend_the_revolution_desc: "Все реакционные и капиталистические силы замышляют уничтожение нового порядка. Мы встретимся не просто с войной идеалов, а с войной кровавых диверсий и теневых уловок, войной, в которой мы должны победить любой ценой. Предатели в нашей среде, к счастью, могут быть привлечены к ответственности."
 WCA_revolutionary_guards: "Революционная Гвардия"
 WCA_revolutionary_guards_desc: "Сокрушение нашей новой властью террористов, контрреволюционеров и предателей потребует создания новых, хорошо организованных военных и правоохранительных структур, не каких-нибудь самовольных ополченцев или сумасшедших боевиков."
 WCA_state_media: "Революционные передачи"
 WCA_state_media_desc: "'Daily Worker', Голливуд, и теперь и радио, все они теперь в руках Съезда Творцов по милости ЦК. Под опекой таких светил, как Хемингуэй, Уэллс и Хьюс, весь мир узнает об Американской Социалистической Революции."
 WCA_create_the_csb: "Создать ЦОБ"
 WCA_create_the_csb_desc: "Для борьбы с классовыми врагами революции, мы заложили основу для Центрального Охранного Бюро, напрямую управляемого Комитетом. Тайная организация государственной безопасности, всегда имеющая для контрреволюционеров наготове железный кулак или кинжал за спиной."
 WCA_purge_reactionaries: "Репрессии над реакционерами"
 WCA_purge_reactionaries_desc: "Ни в одной стране культура не была унижена капитализмом больше, чем в Соединенных Штатах. По сути, гигантская попытка увековечить грабеж рабочих. Стерильная, лицемерная, безжизненная. Революция Пролетариата в Соединенных Штатах ударила по лабиринту лицемерия и интеллектуального мусора, проложив дорогу к великой новой Америке."

### Army Focuses ###
 WCA_second_continental_army: "Вторая Континентальная армия"
 WCA_second_continental_army_desc: "\"Революция началась!\" - Добровольцы, полные энтузиазма и патриотического рвения, вступают в местные отряды ополчения. Через неделю наши войска войдут в Вашингтон как победители, а гидра реакционной контрреволюции будет обезглавлена!"
 WCA_a_gun_in_hand: "Эх, бей, винтовка!"
 WCA_a_gun_in_hand_desc: "\"Что может быть нужнее человеку, чем верное оружие? Лучшее оружие, конечно!\" Мы должны убедиться, что каждый солдат будет вооружен до зубов."
 WCA_a_boot_under_foot: "Форма и гранаты"
 WCA_a_boot_under_foot_desc: "Наши войска страдают от пестрого разброса формы. Необходимо создать единый стандарт боевого снаряжения, выдать армии мортиры, гранаты и пулеметы, и тогда наши бравые бойцы будут готовы ко всему!"
 WCA_appoint_butler: "Главнокомандующий: Смедли Батлер"
 WCA_appoint_butler_desc: "Бывший генерал корпуса Морской Пехоты США Смедли Батлер вызвался возглавить наши армии в качестве главнокомандующего. Его опыт командования без всякого сомнения позволит нам сокрушить врага."
 WCA_the_first_draft: "Призыв"
 WCA_the_first_draft_desc: "Несмотря на весь энтузиазм и боевой дух Революции, добровольно покинуть свои семьи и родной дом ради неясной судьбы на фронте решаются не многие. Посему Президент Рид подписал приказ о введении ограниченного призыва на фронт."
 WCA_creating_cohesion: "Комиссары-политруки"
 WCA_creating_cohesion_desc: "Нашим бравым ополченцам не занимать энтузиазма, но им явно не хватает тонкого понимания социалистической теории. Дабы поддержать мораль и убедиться, что население освобожденных территорий увидит в Революции благую идею, что мы в нее вкладываем, необходимо прикрепить к действующим отрядам комиссаров, которые всегда будут готовы разъяснить наши идеалы."
 WCA_the_long_haul: "Затяжная война"
 WCA_the_long_haul_desc: "Наше оптимистичное видение скорого конца войны, похоже, было преувеличенным. Судя по всему, освобождение Америки от оков реакционеров и капиталистов займет немало времени, а поэтому необходимо убедиться в соответствии военной мысли перспективе затяжной войны."
 WCA_disciplinary_standards: "Обеспечение дисциплины"
 WCA_disciplinary_standards_desc: "Самые главные проблемы, которые разлагают нашу армию, это инсубординация и отсутствие дисциплины в войсках. Чтобы покончить с дезертирством, мародерством и неподчинением приказам, необходимо восстановить Военную полицию, которая обеспечить порядок."
 WCA_the_second_draft: "Закон о военном равенстве женщин"
 WCA_the_second_draft_desc: "По мере продолжения войны, молодые женщины присоединяются к нашим войскам или даже маскируются под мужчин, чтобы служить в нашей армии. Позволив им служить на линии фронта, мы можем продемонстрировать нашу приверженность равенству и прогрессу женщин в новой Америке."
 WCA_upgrade_the_m1: "Выпуск АО-2"
 WCA_upgrade_the_m1_desc: "Производство новой боевой винтовки, основанной на конструкции Auto-Ordnance, отвергнутой буржуазными военными, должно быть ускорено, чтобы у нас было оружие высочайшего класса. Наши лучшие работники уже начали дискуссию о совершенствовании производственных линий по выпуску новой винтовки."
 WCA_baptism_by_fire: "Новые европейские военные школы"
 WCA_baptism_by_fire_desc: "Военный Армейский Колледж Пенсильвании был закрыт сразу же после появления нашей армии из-за угрозы распространения про-федералистских настроений и гидры реакции, но теперь стало очевидно, что существовавшая система обучения поможет создать офицерские кадры для обеспечения будущего Америки."
 WCA_standardize_unit_sizes: "Реорганизовать размер подразделения"
 WCA_standardize_unit_sizes_desc: "Наше ополчение весьма успешно выполняло поставленные задачи, но разнящиеся от количества добровольцев в том или ином городе количество солдат ставит под угрозу их эффективность. Создав стандартные размеры отрядов и распределив солдат в соответствии, мы облегчим нагрузку на логистику и восстановим дисциплину."
 WCA_field_canon: "Красный Дракон"
 WCA_field_canon_desc: "Двухсот сорока миллиметровая гаубица, с любовью названная в армии Красным Драконом, представляет из себя наиболее передовой образец тяжелого артиллерийского вооружения. Использование орудий подобного масштаба вызывало определенные проблемы с логистикой, но мы убедимся, что наши войска получат всю возможную поддержку при штурме укрепленных позиций."
 WCA_motorisation: "Моторизация"
 WCA_motorisation_desc: "Современная война требует от войск мобильности, которую мы можем обеспечить лишь внедрением грузового транспорта. Необходимо убедиться, что наши войска получат самые быстрые и надежные образцы снаряжения, чтобы обеспечить преимущество в битве с врагом."
 WCA_every_man_a_truck: "Удвоить темпы производства"
 WCA_every_man_a_truck_desc: "С самого верха поступил приказ: революционная борьба требует удвоения темпов производства с минимальными потерями брака. И мы должны выполнить этот приказ."
 WCA_reactivate_the_officer_corps: "Создание полевых школ унтер-офицеров"
 WCA_reactivate_the_officer_corps_desc: "Мы создадим полевые школы для унтер-офицеров, с тем чтобы руководители наших подразделений могли проходить подготовку и обучение у старшего поколения. Наши лучшие командиры, которые в бою встречали врагов синдикализма, станут их учителями."
 WCA_the_dust_settles: "Затишье после шторма"
 WCA_the_dust_settles_desc: "Революция приближается к полной и безоговорочной победе. Возникает необходимость воспользоваться передышкой в бесконечной борьбе для оценки состояния армии и определения путей ее развития."

 WCA_red_magic: "Красная Магия"
 WCA_red_magic_desc: "Название M.A.G.I.C носил проект армии США по дешифровке японских военных кодов. Эти же принципы могут быть использованы в нашей армии для ускорения прогресса в дешифровке."
 WCA_armoured_thrust: "Бронированная тяга"
 WCA_armoured_thrust_desc: "Танки изменили современную войну. В то время как консервативные нации все еще полагаются на тактику Вельткрига, мы должны смотреть в будущее и следить за тем, чтобы наши силы располагали количеством современной техники и танков, которые могут привести нас к победе."

 WCA_organise_pilots: "Организовать пилотов"
 WCA_organise_pilots_desc: "Некоторое время наши авиационные силы состояли из неорганизованных пилотов, которые захватывали свои самолеты или получали их непосредственно от производителей. Это привело к тому, что пилоты свободно перемещались между различными участками фронта - как правило, оставляя наши силы без авиационной поддержки. Эта практика должна быть прекращена, а пилоты должны быть организованы в эскадрильи и прикреплены к местам боевых действий."

 WCA_continental_airforce: "Создать континентальные ВВС"
 WCA_continental_airforce_desc: "Еще до Второй Революции было очевидно, что ВВС работают лучше, если они не привязаны к наземному командованию. Несмотря на то, что наши противники все еще полагаются на старую тактику и организацию авиации, мы должны двигаться вперед и начать организовывать самостоятельные военно-воздушные силы."
 
 WCA_second_continental_navy: "Второй Континентальный флот"
 WCA_second_continental_navy_desc: "Созданный в начале Второй американской революции, наш флот в основном состоит из захваченных кораблей, во главе с идеологическими товарищами в роли адмиралов. В ближайшие месяцы и годы мы должны принять важные решения по доктрине и философии нашего нового военно-морского флота. Поскольку он строится как из захваченных федеральных кораблей, так и из совершенно новых кораблей наших товарищей, находящихся на верфях, наш флот вскоре станет той силой, с которой нужно будет считаться."
 
 WCA_red_angels: "Красные Ангелы"
 WCA_red_angels_desc: "В связи с постоянно растущим присутствием наших ВВС и растущими потребностями на поле боя, была намечена новая экспериментальная воздушная доктрина.  Инновации, представленные нам в ответ на операции на дельтаплане, впервые проведенные в Европе капиталистическими странами. С большим количеством добровольцев из числа ветеранов Гражданской войны армейское командование дало разрешение на проведение экспериментов."
 
 WCA_american_air_industry: "Американская авиационная промышленность"
 WCA_american_air_industry_desc: "Америка - это страна, в которой всегда были лучшие пилоты и самая большая авиационная промышленность в мире. Теперь, с приходом Революции, мы потеряли превосходство в воздухе. Но уверенные действия восстановят одну из гордостей Америки - с новым утвержденным правительством планом мы будем субсидировать нашу авиационную промышленность и будем готовы к битвам на американской земле или за рубежом."
 
 WCA_caf_schools: "Школы ВВС"
 WCA_caf_schools_desc: "После окончания Гражданской войны у нас появилось много опытных асов, которые смогут обучать пилотов и асов следующего поколения и создадут теорию современной воздушной войны. Этот процесс организует создание специальных летных училищ под командованием Континентальных ВВС."
 
 WCA_continental_air_command: "Континентальное воздушное командование"
 WCA_continental_air_command_desc: "Большинство наших военных экспертов предлагают создать Континентальное воздушное командование, которое объединит наши военно-воздушные силы в единое целое. Это отделит их от армейского командования и даст больше свободы в действиях. Хотя этот шаг имеет свои преимущества, он определенно не поддерживается людьми, которые считают это возвращением к политике централизации США."
 
 WCA_state_air_force: "ВВС Штатов"
 WCA_state_air_force_desc: "В то время как некоторые члены правительства предлагают подчинить ВВС центральному командованию - первое намерение заключалось в том, чтобы децентрализовать ВВС и создать их ветви на уровне штатов. Хотя это ограничит наши возможности по подготовке пилотов для дальних полетов, они будут более эффективно поддерживать войска, с которыми они будут делиться подготовкой специалистов даже в мирное время."

 WCA_wings_of_revolution: "Крылья Революции"
 WCA_wings_of_revolution_desc: " Во времена Второй Революции, летчики, которые поставили на кон жизнь тех, кто пришел за ними, принесли большую жертву, чтобы народ Америки был первым в воздухе. Сейчас, когда мы вернули нашу авиационную промышленность на довоенный уровень и обучили наших пилотов мастерству, которого никогда не смогут достичь капиталистические страны, мы готовы защищать трудящихся во всех уголках мира."
 
 WCA_professionalize_continental_army: "Профессионализация Континентальной армии"
 WCA_professionalize_continental_army_desc: "Несмотря на противодействие некоторых политических кругов этому шагу, у нашего Высшего командования есть план по повышению профессионализма наших ополченцев и превращению их в настоящую армию, а красногвардейцы - в резерв. Хотя наши командиры низшего звена и некоторые ополченцы обеспокоены этим шагом и рассматривают его как возвращение в дореволюционные времена, это безусловно, повысит эффективность наших солдат и командования."
 
 WCA_states_red_guards: "Красногвардейцы штатов"
 WCA_states_red_guards_desc: "Большинство нашего политического аппарата настаивает на создании государственного ополчения, которое подчинится центральному командованию только в военное время. Хотя предложенный план близок к довоенной организации армии США, есть большая разница - поскольку любое ополчение будет подчиняться только армейскому командованию местного штата - и которое, в свою очередь, будет подчиняться центральному командованию."

 WCA_distribution_of_duties: "Распределение обязанностей"
 WCA_distribution_of_duties_desc: "В то время как наше Командование Армии Штатов будет планировать сражения, наше центральное командование должно сконцентрировать свои усилия на планировании целых кампаний, линий снабжения и взаимодействия между армиями разных штатов. Это позволит нам быстро и эффективно решать любые проблемы, с которыми армия может столкнуться в ходе войны, и защищать Вторую революцию от реакционеров."
 
 WCA_armies_of_states: "Армии Штатов"
 WCA_armies_of_states_desc: "После реформы новой армии мы решили организовать отдельные государственные армии, которые будут отвечать за подготовку наших солдат, за их оснащение и командование на полях сражений. Хотя это привело к большому рвению и появлению огромного количества новобранцев в наших новых армиях, мы должны установить для них минимальные стандарты."
 
 WCA_american_red_guard_corps: "Американский Красногвардейский Корпус"
 WCA_american_red_guard_corps_desc: "Реформы были успешными, но децентрализованная армия не может быстро реагировать на некоторые проблемы на полях сражений без сил, которые будут непосредственно подчинены нашему Главнокомандующему. Департамент Главнокомандующего уже предложил создать Американский Красный Гвардейский Корпус, который будет находиться в непосредственном подчинении штаба Континентальной армии."

 WCA_revolutionary_naval_industry: "Революционная морская промышленность"
 WCA_revolutionary_naval_industry_desc: "Превосходство старого американского флота было не только в командирах, но и в численности флота. Хотя у нас до сих пор не так много верфей и заводов, как было у США до войны, мы можем сосредоточиться на конкретных кораблях и упростить производство."
 
 WCA_new_american_dockyards: "Новые американские верфи"
 WCA_new_american_dockyards_desc: "Большинство верфей были повреждены или потеряли своих рабочих во время Второй Революции. Восстановление старых и реформирование нынешних военно-морских объектов станет вторым шагом на пути к восстановлению американского флота. Конкурсы новых кораблей уже начались и помогут нам не только воссоздать американский флот, но и избавиться от старых разработок, которые оказались неэффективными."
 
 WCA_martime_industry: "Американская морская промышленность"
 WCA_martime_industry_desc: "Большинство верфей были повреждены или потеряли своих рабочих во время Второй Революции. Восстановление старых и реформирование нынешних военно-морских объектов станет вторым шагом на пути к восстановлению американского флота. Конкурсы новых кораблей уже начались и помогут нам не только воссоздать американский флот, но и избавиться от старых разработок, которые оказались неэффективными."
 
 WCA_new_naval_plan: "Новый морской план"
 WCA_new_naval_plan_desc: "С победой в Гражданской войне, американский флот был сильно поврежден - многие офицеры и моряки присоединились к реакционным силам и боролись против воли народа. В конце концов, когда они потерпели поражение, они повредили и уничтожили свои корабли. Наши старейшие командующие флотом предлагают начать восстановление американского флота до его прежнего статуса."

 WCA_american_peoples_navy_desc: "После окончания Гражданской войны, некоторые политики начали утверждать, что наша нынешняя задача заключается в защите американского народа. Была предложена идея восстановить старую военно-морскую доктрину США - но дополнительное предложение было внесено бывшими членами морского ополчения, примкнувшими к нам, - создание нового американского военно-морского флота на базе Командования штатов, которое объединялось бы под руководством Центрального командования только в военное время."
 
 WCA_refit_old_ships: "Переоборудование старых кораблей"
 WCA_refit_old_ships_desc: "Наш флот в основном состоит из старых кораблей, построенных в начале 20 или даже в конце 19 века. Во время Гражданской войны наши капитаны и инженеры уже начали устанавливать на корабли нестандартные модификации. Некоторые из них разработали планы и оборудование для модернизации наших кораблей в соответствии с современными стандартами."
 
 WCA_liberty_ships: "Корабли Свободы"
 WCA_liberty_ships_desc: "Наша верфь наконец-то перешла на новую модель производства. Мы можем легко производить огромное количество конвоев для снабжения наших союзников по всему миру."
 
 WCA_revolution_on_high_seas: "Революция в открытом море"
 WCA_revolution_on_high_seas_desc: "Старый федеральный флот ограничивался 'морскими традициями', которые не позволяли им предвидеть, что авианосцы будут править океанами в будущем. Хотя наши старейшие адмиралы все еще склоняются к идее 'больших орудий и брони', они соглашались с тем, что самолеты были очень эффективны против вражеских кораблей. Мы должны убедиться, что новый американский военно-морской флот получит авиационную поддержку, когда это будет необходимо в любой точке мира."
 
 WCA_recreate_continental_marines: "Воссоздать Континентальную морскую пехоту"
 WCA_recreate_continental_marines_desc: "В прошлом, Континентальный корпус морской пехоты с гордостью сражался против британских угнетателей. Многие солдаты его преемника, Корпуса американской морской пехоты под командованием Смедли Батлера, присоединились к нам, когда мы столкнулись с капиталистами во время Второй Революционной войны. С восстановлением флота, мы должны быть уверены в том, что организуем и обучаем силы, которые могут встретиться с другими врагами Революции за границей."
 
 WCA_navy_of_new_age: "Флот новой эры"
 WCA_navy_of_new_age_desc: "Вторая Революция почти уничтожила флот, и никто из нас не ожидал, что мы сможем воссоздать старый американский флот. Но он был восстановлен - возможно, не в том же количестве и не в той же форме, но сейчас старые корабли заменены новыми. Без старых предвзятых адмиралов, военно-морская тактика была модернизирована. И теперь 'Новый американский флот' готов защищать свободу в Америке - или во всем мире."

 WCA_armour_development: "Разработка брони"
 WCA_armour_development_desc: "Роль бронетехники игнорировалась старой Америкой, и теперь мы должны сделать большие шаги за очень короткое время, чтобы обновить наши силы. С опытом, который мы приобрели во время Гражданской войны и передали нашим инженерам, у нас уже есть несколько предложений по созданию современного танка."
 
 WCA_armoured_vehicles_industry: "Бронетанковая промышленность"
 WCA_armoured_vehicles_industry_desc: "Гражданская война заставила нас полагаться на моторизованные подразделения и доказала их эффективность. Но она также показала, что мотопехота нуждается в большем количестве бронетехники, которая могла бы защитить ее на поле боя от вражеских пуль и снарядов."
 
 WCA_anti_tank_production: "Противотанковое производство"
 WCA_anti_tank_production_desc: "Вражеская броня бесполезна, когда сталкиваешься с высокими талантами и специальными противотанковыми единицами, которые могут разбить их в клочья. В отличие от танков, мы можем прикрепить противотанковые пушки к нашим подразделениям и производить их в большем количестве."
 
 WCA_continental_red_army: "Континентальная Красная Армия"
 WCA_continental_red_army_desc: "Нашей армии нужны только лучшие солдаты. Для этого местные красногвардейцы будут преобразованы в наши резервные силы, которые в случае войны будут призваны в армию. Уже обученные по армейским стандартам, с таким же снаряжением - при необходимости они могут пополнить нашу армию. Но это также означает, что мы должны повысить наши стандарты для красногвардейцев."
 
 WCA_increase_military_spending: "Увеличение военных расходов"
 WCA_increase_military_spending_desc: "Гражданская война опустошила американскую гражданскую промышленность, но сделала военную промышленность довольно прибыльным предприятием. Хотя Гражданская война, возможно, и закончилась, у Америки все еще есть враги, с которыми нужно сражаться, и войны, которые нужно выигрывать, и поэтому сохранение военных расходов периода Гражданской войны и их расширение отвечает нашим интересам."
 
 WCA_defense_logistics_agency: "Агентство оборонной логистики"
 WCA_defense_logistics_agency_desc: "Америка - это огромная страна с разнообразным рельефом. Нам необходимо создать централизованный совет по логистике, способный координировать войну между различными биомами Америки."
 
 WCA_always_ready_always_there: "Всегда готов, всегда рядом"
 WCA_always_ready_always_there_desc: "Наша Новая армия прошла долгий путь от неопытных ополченцев, до настоящей боевой силы с американским духом в сердце. После проведения финальных реформ, нам необходимо принять девиз старых колониальных сил. Этот девиз покажет, что наша армия всегда готова сражаться за рабочих, всегда готова защищать Вторую Революцию."
 
 WCA_red_ball_express: "'Red Ball' Экспресс"
 WCA_red_ball_express_desc: "Термин 'Red Ball' обозначает службу экспресс-доставки грузов, датированной, по крайней мере, концом 19 века. Теперь этот термин будет означать также поддержку наших товарищей из океана, которые борются с реакционной угрозой."
 
### Foreign Policy ###
 WCA_back_in_business: "Следующий шаг"
 WCA_back_in_business_desc: "Одержав победу, Америка оказалась в авангарде синдикалистской революции. Вопрос в том, куда мы пойдем дальше?"
 WCA_good_soldier: "Хороший солдат-синдикалист"
 WCA_good_soldier_desc: "Наше место рядом с нашими братьями в Европе - мы должны им помочь, и через их победу синдикализм распространился на весь мир."
 WCA_new_lend_lease: "Американская поддержка"
 WCA_new_lend_lease_desc: "Американский опыт должен быть предоставлен в распоряжение наших союзников - или по крайней мере, врагов наших врагов. Если они будут сражаться лучше, то вместе у нас есть шанс на победу."
 WCA_on_the_beach: "На берегу"
 WCA_on_the_beach_desc: "Наши враги должны бояться американских солдат, высаживающихся на их берег, и для этого мы должны работать над тем, чтобы у нас было мастерство и сила использовать в своих интересах наше более дальнее расстояние."
 WCA_from_the_sky: "С неба"
 WCA_from_the_sky_desc: "Наш самый большой шанс проецировать силу через океаны - это использование силы воздуха - мы можем помочь нашим союзникам наилучшим образом, помогая им достичь превосходства в воздухе, и через этот контроль над полем боя."
 WCA_great_leap_forward: "Большой скачок вперёд"
 WCA_great_leap_forward_desc: "При условии консолидации наших усилий и четкой направленности наших усилий, американцы смогут вместе совершить прыжок вперед в грядущий век - намного опережая весь остальной мир."
 WCA_world_revolution: "Мировая революция"
 WCA_world_revolution_desc: "Теперь наш народ может выстоять, зная, что мы сделали все возможное, чтобы распространить синдикалистскую революцию по всему миру - во славу Америки и рабочих всех стран!"
 WCA_free_the_west: "Свободный Новый Свет"
 WCA_free_the_west_desc: "Наше место не в Старом Свете, а в Новом. Наше внимание должно быть сосредоточено на достижении господства в Северной и Южной Америке, а также на том, чтобы стоять высоко, как независимая синдикалистская держава, вместо того, чтобы выступать в качестве подчиненных партнеров европейцев."
 WCA_mexico_friendship: "Дружба с Мексикой"
 WCA_mexico_friendship_desc: "Мексика - дружественная держава, к которой нам было бы неплохо подойти, заключив договор о дружбе и сотрудничестве. Мы должны урегулировать все оставшиеся земельные споры и найти способ улучшить торговлю и военное сотрудничество, чтобы мы могли мирно сосуществовать в Северной Америке."
 WCA_free_mexico: "План войны Зеленый"
 WCA_free_mexico_desc: "Это происходит уже давно - мексиканское государство должно пасть, а его рабочие получить ту же свободу, которую мы достигли для себя."
 WCA_free_canada: "План войны Красный"
 WCA_free_canada_desc: "Теперь наши глаза должны повернуться на север к британцам - настало время для Канады пасть."
 WCA_look_to_the_south: "Посмотреть на Юг"
 WCA_look_to_the_south_desc: "Достигнув господства над Канадой и Мексикой, наши глаза могут быть направлены на юг, на остальную часть Северной и Южной Америки. С теми странами, которые не стали частью революции, следует разобраться сразу."
 WCA_master_of_the_west: "Хозяин Запада"
 WCA_master_of_the_west_desc: "Мы достигли нашей цели: Америка сама по себе является эталоном, хозяином Нового Света и свободна от цепей капиталистического господства. Независимо от того, что происходит в Европе и в других странах, мы будем знать, что Запад, по крайней мере, боролся за свою свободу и одержал победу."

### Intro Screen ###
 WCA_guide: "§MThomas Elected§! / §MFlynn Elected§! (§RRadical Socialist§! / §rSyndicalist§!)\n£white_dot When the constitutional convention begins, select the options that favour the syndicalists or the radical socialists.\n£white_dot Elect Elizabeth Flynn or Norman Thomas.\n\n§MBrowder Elected§! / §MFoster Elected§! (§oTotalist§!)\n£white_dot When the constitutional convention begins, select the options that favour the totalists.\n£white_dot Elect Earl Browder or William Foster.\n\n§MButler Coup§! (§RRadical Socialist§! / §rSyndicalist§!)\n£white_dot Follow the steps to have the totalists in power.\n£white_dot An event about restructuring the army will appear and choose to leave the army as it is.\n£white_dot The Butler Coup will appear later to attempt to restore democracy, have his forces capture the Citadel and you will be able to choose Elizabeth Gurley Flynn or Norman Thomas as the new president.\n\n§MForeign Policy§!\n£white_dot §MThird Internationale§!: Win the civil war and complete the focus \"Good Syndicalist Soldier\" to be able to join them.\n£white_dot §MFree the New World§!: We will create our own faction, be able to invite all socialist countries in the americas and get decisions to declare war on all the non-socialist ones.\n\n§MFuture Elections§!\n§M1940 Elections§!\n£white_dot If Flynn was elected, she will go against Upton Sinclair of the §RCommonwealth Party§!.\n£white_dot If Norman Thomas was elected, he will go against Benjamin Gitlow of the §rSocialist Party§!.\n§M1944 Elections§!\n£white_dot Having Sinclair will put him against Eric Hass. If Both Federalist and Longist generals were pardoned and New England doesn't exist, Hass will be replaced by Eleanor Roosevelt.\n£white_dot Having Flynn will put her against Maynard Krueger.\n£white_dot Having Gitlow will make him go against Maynard Krueger.\n£white_dot Having Norman Thomas will put him against Eric Hass. If Both Federalist and Longist generals were pardoned and New England doesn't exist, Hass will be replaced by Eleanor Roosevelt.\n§M1948 Elections§!\n£white_dot Having Sinclair will put Frank Zeidler against James Cannon.\n£white_dot Having Hass will put him against Daniel Hoan.\n£white_dot Having Roosevelt will put her against Daniel Hoan.\n£white_dot Having Flynn will put Daniel Hoan against Robert Minor.\n£white_dot Having Krueger will put him against James Cannon.\n£white_dot Having Gitlow will put Walter Reuther against Elmer Allison.\n£white_dot Having Norman Thomas will put Frank Zeidler against Elmer Allison.\n§M1952 Elections§!\n£white_dot Having Zeidler will put him against Louis C. Fraina.\n£white_dot Having James Cannon will put him against Norman Thomas.\n£white_dot Having Elmer Allison will put him against Upton Sinclair.\n£white_dot Having Reuther will put him against Louis C. Fraina.\n£white_dot Having Minor will put him against A. Philip Randolph.\n£white_dot Having Hoan will put him against Louis C. Fraina.\n£white_dot Having Franks, Hass, Roosevelt or Krueger will put Louis C. Fraina against A. Philip Randolph."

### Events ###

## Constitutional Convention ###

 america_workers_congress_events.1.t: "Рождение Нового Мира"
 america_workers_congress_events.1.d: "Во временной столице Чикаго царит осторожно приподнятое настроение; на данный момент революция увенчалась успехом. Сегодня Старый Порядок, насилие рабовладельцев и боссов, отменен. Тем не менее, простое разрушение старого общества со всем его насилием и господством не создает нового - эта работа, работа всего пролетариата, только началась.\n\nКонгресс трудящихся, по настоянию председателя Рида, принял предложение о подготовке проекта новой конституции, соответствующей новому социалистическому порядку, хотя революционное единство уже начало ослабевать, поскольку разные делегаты уже начинают спорить о том, какую именно форму примет новое американское общество.\n\nХотя, конечно, все, от Рида до его бывшего помощника Нормана Томаса и \"ультрасиндикалистов\" - уничижительного термина, которым называют сторонников Браудера и Фостера, - выступают против хищничества капитализма и за продолжение Мировой социалистической революции, глубокие разногласия уже начали проявляться в том, как именно они действуют. Представьте, что этот дивный новый мир действительно будет работать. Партийный центр, представляющий альянс наиболее идейных сторонников Рида из СПА, опирающийся на теоретическую поддержку стойкого партийца Луиса Фраина и Элизабет Герли Флинн из ИРМ, представляет себе свободный документ, подобный документу Франции и утраченной Российской Советской Республики, провозглашающий социалистический порядок, закрепляющий социальные и экономические права для рабочего класса, но в остальном допускающий большую степень общинной автономии.\n\nНапротив, прогрессивная фракция Томаса выступала за систему, более похожую на систему Британского союза; вместо общинной автономии и экономического доминирования ИРМ, революционное государство само должно взять на себя прямое управление экономикой через систему централизованного планирования и более формализованную систему социалистической демократии. Со своей стороны, TUEL выступает за нечто среднее - экономическую децентрализацию промышленных профсоюзов, но с сильной федеральной системой прогрессистов. Несмотря на эти разногласия, делегаты, представляющие местные выборные советы и профсоюзное руководство, а также несколько небольших делегаций от Фермеров-трудящихся и наблюдателей от Товарищества по интернационалу, находятся в приподнятом настроении: председатель Рид начал заседание с воодушевленного пения \"Интернационала\" и \"Солидарность навсегда\"."
 america_workers_congress_events.1.a: "Теперь начнется реальная работа."

 america_workers_congress_events.2.t: "Создание революционного государства"
 america_workers_congress_events.2.d: "Рабочий Конгресс с энтузиазмом приступил к выполнению своей задачи по составлению проекта нового Революционного порядка: после некоторых дебатов была согласована преамбула, приблизительно перефразирующая Платформу Социалистической партии, предлагающая краткий, но честный отчет об истории Америки, прежде чем объявить суверенитет ее рабочего класса: рабочих, фермеров и солдат.\n\nПервым настоящим спором дня был вопрос организации: Содружество, термин, который стал более или менее стандартным для нового государства, в настоящее время организовано на временной основе самопровозглашенных коммун, каждая из которых состоит из относительно автономного кольца рабочих советов, фабричных комитетов и профсоюзных организаций, каждая из которых в конечном счете подчиняется различным спонсорам внутри конгресса; советы, как правило, укомплектованы членами ССП, комитеты представляют собой временную смесь беспартийных, но радикальных рабочих, анархистов и интеллектуалов, а профсоюзы расколоты между Конгрессом производственных профсоюзов (КПП) и ИРМ. Эффективность такой системы ставится под сомнение; хотя она, несомненно, выиграла войну, многие прогрессивные делегаты опасаются, что такая органическая система может быть легко парализована или станет неспособной функционировать, если проявится реальная внутренняя оппозиция Революции.\n\nРид осторожно сопротивлялся этому импульсу, указывая на то, что самоорганизация рабочего класса не может быть подавлена ​​государством, которое слишком легко может оказаться в ловушке логики прибыли и рынка. Тем не менее, председатель не мог не признать, что порой система органического классового правления вызывала проблемы. В конечном итоге на одобрение Конгресса претендовали два предложения: проект, сохраняющий систему органической пролетарской демократии, проект создания Унитарной федерации советов или проект, восстанавливающий органы власти на уровне штатов, отражающие сам Конгресс, которые будут избирать местные исполнительные органы для координации местной демократической деятельности, что приведет к созданию Федеративной Социалистической Республики."
 america_workers_congress_events.2.a: "Советы и профсоюзы будут работать сообща, чтобы заложить основу социализма."
 america_workers_congress_events.2.b: "Советы и профсоюзы будут избирать руководителей государственного уровня."
 WCA_totalists_gain_power: "§YТоталисты§! получат преимущество на съезде.\n"
 WCA_syndicalists_gain_power: "§YСиндикалисты§! получат преимущество на съезде.\n"
 WCA_radsocs_gain_power: "§§YРадикальные социалисты§! получат преимущество на съезде.\n"

 america_workers_congress_events.3.t: "Socialist Constitution - For A Workers' Republic"
 america_workers_congress_events.3.d.socialist: "Article 1. The Former United States of America is declared to be a Federal Socialist Republic representing a free association of states, themselves representing the Workers, Farmers, and Soldiers' councils and their delegates, as well as those of the Trade Unions and their representatives.\n\nArticle 2. To bring about the end of the Capitalist System and the exploitation of man by man, the Congress further resolves:\n\nA)That for the purpose of attaining the Socialization of Land, all private property in land is hereby abolished with the entire Land declared Public Property without compensation to former owners, to be jointly worked to the measure of each Farmer's ability to work it.\nB)That all rights of inheritance be Abolished, except to items of purely personal value.\nC)That all national parks, waterways, and resource deposits are declared to be public property.\nD)That as a first step towards the complete socialization of production, the conversion of all Banks, Factories, Railroads, Telegraph Lines, Mines, and other infrastructure to Public Property.\nE)That All Who Work shall be granted suffrage in the Councils and Trade Unions."
 america_workers_congress_events.3.d.syndicalist: "Article 1. The Former United States of America is declared to be a Federation of Communes, themselves representing the Workers, Farmers, and Soldiers' councils and their delegates, as well as those of the Trade Unions and their representatives.\n\nArticle 2. To bring about the end of the Capitalist System and the exploitation of man by man, the Congress further resolves:\n\nA)That for the purpose of attaining the Socialization of Land, all private property in land is hereby abolished with the entire Land declared Public Property without compensation to former owners, to be jointly worked to the measure of each Farmer's ability to work it.\nB)That all rights of inheritance be Abolished, except to items of purely personal value.\nC)That all national parks, waterways, and resource deposits are declared to be public property.\nD)That as a first step towards the complete socialization of production, the conversion of all Banks, Factories, Railroads, Telegraph Lines, Mines, and other infrastructure to Public Property."
 america_workers_congress_events.3.a: "Approved."

 america_workers_congress_events.4.t: "Socialist Constitution - Aims"
 america_workers_congress_events.4.d: "Article 6. The aim of the commonwealth is the total abolition of private property, wage labor, and class. As such, the commonwealth as a state is self-abolishing, as it seeks to bring about the abolition of the conditions from which it emerged.\n\nArticle 7. The commonwealth aims to bring about the self-emancipation of the proletariat both in its own borders and across the world. The commonwealth pledges its support to the workers' struggle globally.\n\nArticle 8. The commonwealth stands against imperialism and colonialism in all forms, and pledges itself to the struggle to end the subjugation of colonized nations and peoples. The commonwealth does not recognize any form of colonial authority as legitimate.\n\nArticle 9. The commonwealth pledges full solidarity with the nations of the Third Internationale, in service of its aim of global liberation."
 america_workers_congress_events.4.a: "Approved."

 america_workers_congress_events.5.t: "Socialist Constitution - Suffrage"
 america_workers_congress_events.5.d: "Though the consititution thus far has not seen significant controversy, a recent proposal from the TUEL has thrown the floor of the convention into frenzied debate. William Z. Foster, the old man of the ultra-syndicalists, has proposed making trade union membership a prerequisite to vote. Though this would disenfranchise all who are not union members, Foster has argued that the right to vote should be restricted to those who work.\n\nThe IWW, SPA, and mainstream of the CIO have all responded harshly to Foster's proposal. The IWW has pointed out the fact that this would leave unorganised and unemployed workers completely disenfranchsed, while the SPA has indignantly denounced the \"socialist poll tax\" that such a system would bring about. The CIO, from whom the TUEL hail, has been most muted in its criticism, however it has still thrown in with the bloc of the revolutionary establishment on the question.\n\nNevertheless, despite the deck being stacked against them, the TUEL position has gained popularity among rank-and-file unionists. After all, what else was the revolution for other than primarily for the workers to assume political power through their unions? As such, many on the fringes of the IWW and other independent unionists have expressed sympathy for the TUEL position, opening the door to a stunning upset on the question."
 america_workers_congress_events.5.a: "He who does not work shall not vote."
 america_workers_congress_events.5.b: "All who don't own property can vote."

 america_workers_congress_events.6.t: "Socialist Constitution - Political Rights"
 america_workers_congress_events.6.d: "Article 15. Residents are guaranteed the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of assembly, the freedom to hold public meetings and demonstrations. Freedom of conscience and freedom of religion are guaranteed to residents. The Church and the State are not obligated to adhere to each others' authority.\n\nArticle 16. Women have equal rights with men in all fields of state, economic and social-political life. Women have the right to collectively bargain as men do for the same work, and as workers or employees they enjoy special protection. The commonwealth reserves the right to pay an equivalent wage up to 20 hours of work a week to mothers before and after childbirth.\n\nArticle 17. Residents of America are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No one may be arrested except by a court decision or on the warrant of a procurator. Residents of America are guaranteed inviolability of the home. No one may, without lawful grounds, enter a home against the will of those residing in it.\n\nArticle 18. The commonwealth promises working people the right to associate and organise themselves to federated industrial units. The commonwealth protects persons' dignity of labour from exploitation by private enterprises, ensuring the right to rest, recreation, and public housing."
 america_workers_congress_events.6.a: "Approved."

 america_workers_congress_events.7.t: "Socialist Constitution - Status of the Executive"
 america_workers_congress_events.7.d: "A surge of unaligned delegates has attempted to leave for recess several times to no avail. It appears that the issue of Executive power has met an impasse, and a decision must be made before the delegates starve in indecision. On one side is the IWW, whose plan for a complete anarcho-syndicalist government requires there not to be an executive officer. Their belief is that a president is an inherently reactionary populist position, and they will ensure that a person like Huey Long can never rise to power in the new America. Thomas suggests a cabinet of equals elected by Congress, which will, in the same manner as France and Britain, elect a \"first among equals\" from their own ranks as its president, who will serve as a de-facto head of state. The industrial unionists and SPA-Progressives have both supported this for different reasons: the industrial unionists of teh SPA and IWW see it as a stepping stone to the abolition of the distinction between executive and legislative power, while the progressives wish to see the executive subordinated to the legislature.\n\nIn opposition to this, the CIO, influenced by the TUEL, has affirmed their support for a powerful and independently-elected Presidency similar to that of the old United States, arguing that Reed’s leadership during the revolution proves the merits of a powerful President. Norman Thomas has condemned the TUEL for what he sees as a 'boulangist coup' to revive the old federal government. Sidney Hillman of the CIO rises to object, saying 'subordination to the IWW programme is no different than a single party state'."
 america_workers_congress_events.7.a: "A Weak Head Can Never Oppress"
 america_workers_congress_events.7.b: "A President with Power We Shall Have"

 america_workers_congress_events.8.t: "Socialist Constitution - Centralisation or Decentralisation"
 america_workers_congress_events.8.d: "The Convention, after resuming, has found themselves more divided than ever. Though there is agreement that the new America should have a federal structure, the distribution of power within that structure is a matter of dispute. The leadership of the SPA and CIO have each strongly advocated for a more centralised and strong central government with extensive powers granted to municipal administrations and workers' organisations, pointing to the constant abuses wrought by conservative state governments prior to the revolution, particularly in the south. SPA moderates such as Norman Thomas, as well as CIO dissidents in the TUEL have disagreed with this however. Thomas advocates for a strong federal system, where state governments shall retain strong authority, rebuking the centralist attitude of his colleagues. He is supported by Browder, who again takes to the stage calling to protect federalism, as it prevents a 'tyranny of the 51% over the 49%'. The IWW, marginalised in this debate due to their radical position, now plays the role of kingmaker, having to decide which level of government to empower."
 america_workers_congress_events.8.a: "A strong central government shall stop abuses."
 america_workers_congress_events.8.b: "Federalism shall protect workers in small states."

 america_workers_congress_events.9.t: "Socialist Constitution - Capital"
 america_workers_congress_events.9.d: "One of the last things to be decided is the capital of America. While Many are advocating for Washington DC as the location of the new capital as it was the old capital, and it easily fits that purpose. Others are advocating for the loyal cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City. Which shall the convention choose?"
 america_workers_congress_events.9.a: "Keep it in Chicago."
 america_workers_congress_events.9.b: "Washington, DC."
 america_workers_congress_events.9.c: "Philadelphia."
 america_workers_congress_events.9.e: "New York City."

 america_workers_congress_events.10.t: "The End Of the Convention Period"
 america_workers_congress_events.10.d.commonwealth: "With most of the substantial work on the constitution itself completed, the past week has seen the domestic political situation realign around the new system. Several political parties and unions have reorganised or held conventions parallel to the main constitutional convention, and their outcomes are set to impact the new American political sphere for years to come.\n\nThe Socialist Party has held its first post-war convention in the immediate aftermath of the constitutional convention. The party voted to ask for formal affiliation from the IWW, cementing the alliance which has formed between the party and the union over the past decade. This measure, as well as the adoption of a new, radical program, proved too much for the moderate Progressive Caucus in the party. Denouncing the Industrial Unionists for having \"sold the party to the anarchists of the IWW\", the supporters of Norman Thomas walked out to form the rival American Commonwealth Party, inspired by the radical faction of the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and intended to be the representative of moderate socialism in the years to come.\n\nMeanwhile, a battle was occuring in the halls of the CIO. the TUEL, under the leadership of William Foster and Earl Browder, attempted to push forward Foster's candidacy for the presidency of the union. Though the TUEL built momentum during the civil war, it was ultimately not enough to oust incumbent Sidney Hillman, who won re-election by a larger than expected margin. In the aftermath, the TUEL floundered; Foster announced he would retire from public life due to ill health, while Browder led what remained out of the CIO to found the rival Trade Union Unity League (TUUL), a dual union with many of the same views as the old TUEL.\n\nAs the dust settled, what remained was a de-facto two-party system. Once the IWW accepted affiliation with the SPA, and the CIO came to a similar arrangement with Commonwealth, the main unions in the country aligned with the new system. Only the TUUL remains isolated, though few consider the rump a threat to the newly established order."
 america_workers_congress_events.10.d.usas: "With most of the substantial work on the constitution itself completed, the past week has seen the domestic political situation realign around the new system. Several political parties and unions have reorganised or held conventions parallel to the main constitutional convention, and their outcomes are set to impact the new American political sphere for years to come.\n\nThe Socialist Party has held its first post-war convention in the immediate aftermath of the constitutional convention. The party voted to ask for formal affiliation from the IWW, cementing the alliance which has formed between the party and the union over the past decade. This measure, as well as the adoption of a new, radical program, proved too much for the moderate Progressive Caucus in the party. Denouncing the Industrial Unionists for having \"sold the party to the anarchists of the IWW\", the supporters of Norman Thomas walked out to form the rival American Commonwealth Party, inspired by the radical faction of the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and intended to be the representative of moderate socialism in the years to come.\n\nMeanwhile, a battle was occuring in the halls of the CIO. the TUEL, under the leadership of William Foster and Earl Browder, attempted to push forward Foster's candidacy for the presidency of the union. After building substantial momentum during the civil war, they saw their moment to strike, and took it. In a shocking victory, Foster was elected, and the TUEL slate won elections for almost all elected offices. The TUEL victory represents the culmination of years of work, and in the crucial weeks that follow American Totalism seems likely to have the initiative.\n\nIn light of this, The Socialists and Commonwealth have, in spite of their differences, mutually agreed to attempt to block the ascent of the newly radicalised CIO. However, with the totalists on the offensive, and with many sympathisers in the parties, it remains to be seen whether they can be stopped."
 america_workers_congress_events.10.a: "Long live the Workers of America!"

 america_workers_congress_events.11.t: "The Interim President"
 america_workers_congress_events.11.d.commonwealth: "On the first day of the newly elected interim Congress, John Reed has announced that he will step down as President of the Commonwealth Executive Council. Rumours of his deteriorating health have been kept away from the press, as part of a gentleman's agreement of sorts, however with the war over it has become difficult to hide. Reed proclaims he will spend his remaining time in retirement, and has emphasised that his role was to see the country through the revolution, but not necessarily into the peace that followed.\n\nIn a show of unity, both the Socialist and Commonwealth parties have agreed to form a joint executive, led by a president who will take into account the views of the opposing side. Though the main composition of this council has been decided, the choice of who will be the next president remains. The Socialist Party, in alliance with the IWW, has nominated IWW President Elizabeth Gurley Flynn for the role. A nomination made possible by the recent IWW-SPA affiliation agreement, Flynn promises a swift end to wartime repression and a steadfastly industrial unionist system. The Commonwealth Party meanwhile has put forward its leader, Norman Thomas. Thomas also promises a return to peace, and a stable and just post-war settlement. Though there will likely be elections long before the Congress' term formally expires, the choice of president is likely to indicate the country's direction for several years to come."
 america_workers_congress_events.11.d.usas: "On the first day of the newly elected interim Congress, John Reed has announced that he will step down as President of the Commonwealth Executive Council. Rumours of his deteriorating health have been kept away from the press, as part of a gentleman's agreement of sorts, however with the war over it has become difficult to hide. Reed proclaims he will spend his remaining time in retirement, and has emphasised that his role was to see the country through the revolution, but not necessarily into the peace that followed.\n\nThough both the Socialist and Commonwealth parties attempted to forge a pact against the CIO, the momentum of the totalists proved to be too much. Buoyed by defectors from both parties (though mainly Commonwealth), the CIO soon assembled a majority on the floor, and elected an executive comprised of itself and its supporters. What remains is the question of the presidency. For a few years after his heart attack in 1932, William Foster was put out of commission, and sidelined by his protege, Earl Browder. With his election to the presidency of the CIO however, Foster has returned to the forefront of totalist politics. Having already eclipsed the master however, Browder will not give up his pride of place without a fight, and the two now jockey behind the scenes for support among their comrades. Though there will likely be elections long before the Congress' term formally expires, the choice of president is likely to indicate the country's direction for several years to come."
 america_workers_congress_events.11.a: "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn will take the position."
 america_workers_congress_events.11.b: "Norman Thomas gets enough votes to win."
 america_workers_congress_events.11.c: "Earl Browder will take the position."
 america_workers_congress_events.11.e: "William Foster gets enough votes to win."

### Reconstruction Events ###

 america_workers_congress_events.12.t: "Trial of the Union Party"
 america_workers_congress_events.12.d: "With the Revolution over, the time comes now to deal with those that fought against us. Huey Long, so according to Earl Browder, could have been a great ally to socialism. We do admit that Long's plan for welfare was in the right direction, but his authoritarian practice was abhorrent. As Long's family and close associates are now in exile, we'll have to make due with putting the leaders that remain in chains. Francis Townsend has defended the actions of the Union Party's core membership, saying that the radical militarism was due to the nature of Southern Populism, not Huey Long-ism. Some in the jury have been swayed, but the final decision is to..."
 america_workers_congress_events.12.a: "Pardon the Longist Leadership."
 america_workers_congress_events.12.b: "Convict the Longist Leaders."
 america_workers_congress_events.12.c: "Seize and arrest all machine supporters."

 america_workers_congress_events.13.t: "Trial of the Federal Government"
 america_workers_congress_events.13.d: "With the Revolution over, the time comes now to deal with those that fought against us. The charges against, among other former Federalist politicians Douglas MacArthur. that of seizing the government and suspending civil rights in defence of conservative Democrats. Henry Morganthau Jr. has appeared in MacArthur's stead, due to his recent exile. Representing the business and social interest of the old regime, Morganthau stated that it was only under MacArthur that the mob violence against Jews committed by the Klan was halted. The testimony of MacArthur's reluctance to accept extra-legal power has swayed some. Ultimately, the jury has decided to..."
 america_workers_congress_events.13.a: "Pardon the Federal leaders."
 america_workers_congress_events.13.b: "Convict the Federal leaders."
 america_workers_congress_events.13.c: "Seize and arrest all regime supporters."

 america_workers_congress_events.14.t: "Avant-Garde Film"
 america_workers_congress_events.14.d: "Avant-Garde art forms are not inherently a political tool, but the artists have shown an overwhelming support for the SPA in 1936. From the surrealists in New York shocking viewers with graphic sex on screen, to the Dadaists who challenge the very concept of popular art. As part of this movement, many of the countries thousands of movie theatres have been expropriated to ensure that work of this calibre is not censored by prudish theatre owners. They are brightly painted and carrying on board a printing press, government complaint office, printed political leaflets and pamphlets, library books, and a mobile movie theatre. Theatres are part of the new revolutionary government to indicate the values and programs to the scattered populace of America, particularly the rural regions of the country."
 america_workers_congress_events.14.a: "Make sure kids don't see the surrealist films."

 america_workers_congress_events.15.t: "Art Deco versus Modernism"
 america_workers_congress_events.15.d: "For most of the 1920s and 1930s the Art Deco art style was the dominant type of architecture, and from coast to coast, buildings were built in the Art Deco way. However, a number of revolutionary architects within the SPA wish to break away from that style and seek a more Modernist approach inspired by the designs coming out of France, Italy, or Britain. Moderates have come out in force to counter that Art Deco is an American style that cannot be erased by political whims. They point to Diego Rivera's recent demolition of the Rockefeller Center artwork, after his modification of chiselling the faces of Marx and Lenin over Zeus and Thor were decried as being in poor taste. Which style shall be supported?"
 america_workers_congress_events.15.a: "Preserve Art Deco."
 america_workers_congress_events.15.b: "Modernism."

 america_workers_congress_events.16.t: "Debates over Union Membership Fees and Racism"
 america_workers_congress_events.16.d: "What sounded like a simple proposition during the revolution, that of abolishing segregation, has run into numerous potholes. Starting with the debate over whether union membership fees were inherently discriminatory towards black workers. Evidence on both sides appears inconclusive, and most of the unions that were rejected from the Constitutional Convention have protested in favour a maximum union membership fee. These protestors claim to be discriminated against based on their race by the openly anti-racist IWW. Then came the union Congressmen from the newly liberated states, who are protesting that forcing integration is a violation of their union rights to collectively bargain. Ultimately the IWW have persevered in Congress, and publicly shamed the new Congressmen and protestors as reactionaries."
 america_workers_congress_events.16.a: "We shall not give in to more racists in disguise!"

 america_workers_congress_events.17.t: "The Rise of Women-Only Unions"
 america_workers_congress_events.17.d: "Since the revolution, more and more women are entering into politics and technical fields. While in certain states the transition to women's liberation has gone smoothly, in other places the wave is impeded. A national poll has shown the number of women-only unions have quadrupled in the past year. When interviewed, these Women-Only Unions claim persistent systematic discrimination in the fields of science and civil service. In the aftermath of this release, the planned Women's Caucus was canceled, as the nation begins to debate the ethical application of women's liberation. [WCA.GetLeader] has settled the debate by decrying both Women-Only Unions and the systematic discrimination, arguing that 'there are people to blame on both sides for discrimination'."
 america_workers_congress_events.17.a: "The Revolutionary Man and Woman are equals."

 america_workers_congress_events.18.t: "Redistributing Corporate Wealth"
 america_workers_congress_events.18.d: "One of the few things Reed had agreed with the villainous Long on is wealth redistribution. Reed's wartime rationing has given way to a peace-time legislation to prevent the robber baronies he had fought all his life. This is enacted in the form of his final wishes to Congress, the expropriation of all assets owned by a single person in excess of $$10 million USD. [WCA.GetLeader] has taken this one step further to decry the idea of corporations, and has threatened to declare the legal concept of corporations to be illegal. The very next day, the state offices were inundated with hundreds if not thousands of formal requests to dissolve corporations into their component businesses, and applications for new Consortium's in the same breath. It is obvious to [WCA.GetLeader] that this is just a ploy for the robber barons to hide their business practices from the government, and has ordered a moratorium on reclassification until wealth redistribution is over."
 america_workers_congress_events.18.a: "You won't get away that easy."

 america_workers_congress_events.19.t: "Land Redistribution Clashes with local Warlords"
 america_workers_congress_events.19.d: "From the mansions of the Rockefeller, the Morgans, the Carnegies, and the Vanderbilts, to the sharecroppers who run company stores. The land of the United States still belongs to the capitalist. The worst example being Murphy Ranch out in California, which was a hive of Silver Shirt activity during the war, and took months to starve out by our forces. It has been decided by Congress to exercise expropriation on these estates. Many of the southern and western estates have been given over to the local communes and established as public housing for the people. As expected, civilian armed resistance has cost us some lives, but few would have expected our own Red Guard to be ineffective at expropriation. One particular tough nut to crack was in Montana, where the initial militia sent in turned traitor, and held onto a large estate for its warlord owner for eight months before our Red Guard were forced to intervene. The programme seems to be working however, so there is no reason to reconsider."
 america_workers_congress_events.19.a: "Who would've thought, warlords?"

 america_workers_congress_events.20.t: "Prisons Overflowing with Reactionaries"
 america_workers_congress_events.20.d: "Nobody could have expected our crime and punishment system would become so overstuffed as to require this decision. The numerous small schisms in the SPA has left our government with its fair share of detractors, as well as the expected resistance. Thousands upon thousands are being fed, clothed and housed on our dime for their crimes against the people. Our more reform minded are worried that prisons will be a breeding ground for reactionary though, so workingmen should be diverted to work camps. There they will be able to pay back the state for what they stole from the people. The TUEL believes that we have been too lenient on these traitors, and must execute the traitors of the highest standing in the prisons, as a rebellion is surely about to come. The Catholic Workers Movement strongly disagree, and claim that exile and life elsewhere is the most Christian thing to do."
 america_workers_congress_events.20.a: "Execute the traitors of high standing."
 america_workers_congress_events.20.b: "Take the working men into work-camps."
 america_workers_congress_events.20.c: "Exile them to Canada and Mexico."

 america_workers_congress_events.21.t: "Education Revolution"
 america_workers_congress_events.21.d: "A notable professor out of John Hopkins University by the name of John Dewey has been appointed Secretary of Education. In Dewey's eyes, the purpose of education should not revolve around the acquisition of a predetermined set of skills, but rather the realisation of one's full potential and the ability to use those skills for the greater good. In particular, he emphasises that schooling must include hands-on learning famously stating 'if knowledge comes from the impressions made upon us by natural objects, it is impossible to procure knowledge without the use of objects which impress the mind'. Dewey's detractors, notably the Catholic Workers Movement, claim his polities are antagonistic to religious education. Ultimately [WCA.GetLeader] has decided to endorse Dewey's reforms."
 america_workers_congress_events.21.a: "Towards a New Generation."

 america_workers_congress_events.22.t: "The President Uncovers the Greater Business Plot"
 america_workers_congress_events.22.d: "[WCA.GetLeader] and the Attorney General appeared at Congress today to allege that they uncovered a connection between the corporations that supported Huey Long, MacArthur, and [ACC.GetNameDef]. This accusation alleges that business interests in America were behind the degradation of civil politics during the revolution, and in the event of the Revolution being defeated, the Corporations would be the true power behind the presidency. The president has proposed the immediate complete dissolution and expropriation to the state of assets belonging to traitors in this grand conspiracy. Congress is taken aback, with most initially supporting this measure. The list of traitors, however, causes concern among certain members of the government. It appears that some of the corporations on the chopping block include large pharmaceutical companies like Merck & Co. Many Congressmen worry that punishing the medical profession will harm the life expectancy of [ROOT.GetNameDef]. An alternate proposal for these corporations to be collectivised and their members rehabilitated and let free."
 america_workers_congress_events.22.a: "Small sacrifice for a future without capitalism."
 america_workers_congress_events.22.b: "We shall have them rehabilitated."

 america_workers_congress_events.23.t: "Resistance to social changes"
 america_workers_congress_events.23.d: "In an attempt to observe the changes in society that socialism is building, Congress has approved of a roaming documentary to film the new America, so that the world may know our progress. The film was shown to Congress to shock and revulsion, with scenes government of propaganda defaced, continued social barring of women from workplaces, and a union representative charging a black worker nearly five times the going rate for union membership. The director, King Vidor, has been advised by colleagues to make himself scarce, as the reaction is not what he intended. Congress has demanded Vidor to release the names of those filmed, so their crimes could be properly prosecuted. A minority of Congressmen came to defend the film, claiming that this shows the systematic difficulty in enforcing such revolutionary acts throughout the nation. These unpopular Congressmen were then ejected from the building."
 america_workers_congress_events.23.a: "Reactionaries will be dealt with!"

 america_workers_congress_events.24.t: "Family Code of [GetYear]"
 america_workers_congress_events.24.d: "With the social revolution in full swing, Congress has passed the Family Code of [GetYear]. The Family Code is a revolutionary code that is driven by an ideological desire to wither away the capitalist model of the family to be replaced by a socialist model of the familial free unions based on mutual love and respect.\n\nThus, to that end, the code included a number of revolutionary changes. It abolishes all impediments to marriage, the biggest one being the abolition of anti-miscegenation laws. Civil marriage is now the only legal type of marriage. The code establishes no-grounds divorce, with both spouses receiving equal division of the property at the time of divorce. Also abolished is the concept of illegitimacy. Now all children are entitled to parental support and equal rights under the law.\n\nFurthermore, in accordance with the revolutionary laws regarding the family, adoption of children that were made homeless by the revolution is subsidised. The European concept of Free Love is still under consideration, as well as decriminalising homosexual behaviour. A Committee of Sexology, led by Magnus Hirschfeld, Wilhelm Reich, and Alain Leroy Locke are still locked in debate over how to approach this."
 america_workers_congress_events.24.a: "The world is changing."

### Commonwealth Events ###
 america_workers_congress_events.26.t: "Flynn vs. Sinclair"
 america_workers_congress_events.26.d: "After some time, the interim government term laid out in the Constitution of [WCA.GetNameDef] has finally drawn to a close - meaning that the time has come for a new permanent executive to be elected by Congress. Although the institution is still young and Syndicalist dominance at the constitutional convention has done much to leave the executive fairly weak, the election still carries much significance - it is a chance to measure the current prevailing attitudes towards the state of the revolution, and the President of the executive is still seen as the face of America abroad. Furthermore, garnering enough support to get their candidate installed in the presidency is strong proof of a faction's leading role in politics - and the split of the SPA has left two opposing parties very interested in doing as such.\n\nAt an appointed time, in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], a stage was set in front of the assembled SPA and ACP delegates. As the joint candidate of the IWW and the Socialist Party, in Portland, Oregon, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn gave a speech appealing for nomination as President of the Executive Council. Flynn drew on her foundational role in the alliance between the IWW and the SPA, calling upon this alliance to elect her. Flynn promised members both in the IWW and SPA that she would further syndicalise the economy and political system, upholding the central role of the industrial unions in public life. The next speech was from California ACP delegate Upton Sinclair, founder of the 'End Poverty in America movement'. Sinclair promised to use his political experience in convincing non-socialists to recognise the legitimacy of the Commonwealth.\n\nSinclair and Flynn spent the next few days in a sporadic debate across union papers, Flynn accusing Upton Sinclair of being an insincere self promoter, using politics to enhance his reputation as an artist prior to the revolution. Sinclair retorted that Flynn and the IWW's collectivisation policy is unpopular with the great body of rural Americans, denouncing both her, and, rather bravely, John Reed, with whom Sinclair has been at odds for over 20 years. Flynn attempted to counter this assertion by arguing that Sinclair's status among this demographic is hardly any better, and that radical action is necessary to eliminate the material basis for opposition to the socialist system - but Sinclair remained adamant that French mindsets cannot be applied to America so soon, and that this line proves that the SPA is too radical and idealistic to remain at the helm.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.26.a: "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn!"
 america_workers_congress_events.26.b: "Upton Sinclair!"

 america_workers_congress_events.27.t: "Gitlow vs. Thomas"
 america_workers_congress_events.27.d: "After some time, the interim government term laid out in the Constitution of [WCA.GetNameDef] has finally drawn to a close - meaning that the time has come for a new permanent executive to be elected by Congress. Although the institution is still young and Syndicalist dominance at the constitutional convention has done much to leave the executive fairly weak, the election still carries much significance - the man elected to the presidency will likely help shape [WCA.GetAdjective] policy for the next four years. Furthermore, garnering enough support to get their candidate installed in the presidency is strong proof of a faction's leading role in politics - and the break-up of the SPA has left two opposing parties very interested in doing as such.\n\nAt an appointed time, in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], a stage was set in front of the assembled SPA and ACP delegates. From the Socialist Party in New York, Benjamin Gitlow gave a speech appealing for nomination as President of the Executive Council. Gitlow promised to defend the legitimacy of the Commonwealth both internally and abroad, and has put forward his successful record in suppressing counterrevolutionary activity during the war, as well as his closeness to the hero of the revolution, John Reed. The next speech was from New York Commonwealth Party delegate Norman Thomas, former Presbyterian preacher turned socialist advocate. Thomas vowed to form a united front with survivors of the Farmer-Labor Party, run a humane and conciliatory administration, and ensure that the country would not experience a drastic government change so soon after its establishment.\n\nGitlow and Thomas spent the next few days in a sporadic debate across union papers. Gitlow accused Thomas of being weak on foreign policy, citing his long record of antiwar activism prior to the civil war and challenging his dedication to the cause of internationalism. Thomas defended himself, saying that antiwar politics were the right path for America to stay out of imperialist wars. He returned that Gitlow was beholden to allies in the IWW, and would undertake radical policies that would alienate key sections of the public, to which Gitlow replied that he and the SPA were very active in moderating the policies of the IWW in their coalition agreement, and that he would pledge not to undertake any collectivisation measures if elected.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.27.a: "Benjamin Gitlow!"
 america_workers_congress_events.27.b: "Norman Thomas!"

 america_workers_congress_events.29.t: "Flynn vs. Krueger"
 america_workers_congress_events.29.d: "Four years have passed since the last election - which means that the current Congress' term is almost up, and that the time has come again to elect new delegates to determine who will sit as the nation's leader. President Flynn's term has seen her work to enact her main promises to the previous assembly - the recovery of industry following the destruction of the war, the rolling back of most wartime measures restraining free speech and free expression, the expansion of women's rights, and the cementing of the industrial unionist system. However, she is not without controversy: the speech issue in particular continues to haunt her, as while the IWW has been in favour of her agenda, certain elements within the SPA have been more sceptical. Secretary of Internal Affairs Benjamin Gitlow in particular has criticised Flynn's quickness in rolling back the state of emergency, and in his position he has effectively blocked many aspects of Flynn's policy.\n\nThe President's new challenger has appeared in the Commonwealth Party leader Maynard C. Krueger, who succeeded Norman Thomas as leader of that party after Thomas' defeat in the last election. Krueger's leadership marks a shift to the left compared to previous years, as the revolutionary \"Militants\" tone down their pacifism.\n\nKrueger has stepped up to the ACP stage to attack Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on several grounds - most importantly, that her administration has been too slow in rolling back the wartime censorship regime. This placed Flynn in a hard spot, as she could either split the IWW-SPA coalition by pushing the issue harder, or she could concede the issue to Krueger. Flynn retorted by claiming that, in fact, important progress on political freedoms had been made, with Farmer-Labor and many progressive independents being represented in Congress. Krueger claimed that, despite this, the security apparatus built during the revolution remains, and warned that it may yet be turned on some party or other.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.29.a: "President Flynn!"
 america_workers_congress_events.29.b: "Maynard Krueger!"

 america_workers_congress_events.30.t: "Gitlow vs. Krueger"
 america_workers_congress_events.30.d: "Four years have passed since the last election - which means that the current Congress' term is almost up, and that the time has come again to elect new delegates to determine who will sit as the nation's leader. President Gitlow's term has seen a combination of industrial unionist ideological thought and Gitlow's continuation of various wartime security measures - recovery from the war is combined with an institutionalisation of security forces, a carrot and stick approach. However, there have been issues - Gitlow's opponents have recently been putting him under fire for a number of recent high profile arrests of alleged foreign agents, who have now become a cause celebre among civil libertarians and opposition activists.\n\nThe President's new challenger has appeared in the Commonwealth Party leader Maynard C. Krueger, who succeeded Norman Thomas as leader of that party after Thomas' defeat in the last election. Krueger's leadership marks a shift to the left compared to previous years, as the revolutionary \"Militants\" tone down their pacifism.\n\nKrueger has stepped up to the ACP stage to attack Benjamin Gitlow on several grounds - most importantly, that his administration has been too slow in rolling back the wartime censorship regime. Gitlow defended his administration's reticence in repealing wartime censorship and security laws, pointing out continued attacks by reactionary terrorist groups such as the Klan, particularly in the south. Gitlow has claimed that Krueger's party is dangerously naive in demanding freedom to organise for reactionary parties and groups.\n\nTo this, IWW leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn issued a rare rebuke to her coalition partners in the SPA. In a press conference, she stated that dual-carding IWW-SPA delegates in Congress would petition the SPA leadership for a free vote on the censorship laws in Congress, an embarrasment to the president.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.30.a: "President Gitlow!"
 america_workers_congress_events.30.b: "Maynard Krueger!"

 america_workers_congress_events.31.t: "Hass vs. Sinclair"
 america_workers_congress_events.31.d: "Four years have passed since the last election - which means that the current Congress' term is almost up, and that the time has come again to elect new delegates to determine who will sit as the nation's leader. President Sinclair's term has seen an aggressive attack against poverty - the End Poverty in America programme has tackled destitution agitated by the civil war with a vengeance, leading to a substantial drop in poverty rates across the country and greatly aiding its recovery. However, the President has found new controversy - increasing press attention has been drawn towards the enigmatic 'Mankind United' group, a cadre of dedicated Sinclair followers who promote a pro-Sinclair theology.\n\nThe President's challenger is the young Socialist Party Chairman, Eric Hass, who heralds from the once marginalised De Leonist tradition of the Industrial Labor Group. Hass stepped up to the stage to attack Upton Sinclair on several grounds - the first of which is that Sinclair's administration has decimated the fuel industry due to his opposition to oil drilling, resulting in domestic fuel shortages. Sinclair retorted that his administration is already working on improving fuel efficiency for military purposes, and that he is by no means blind to the fuel shortages, only for Hass to blast him for being idealistic in a time of public need. For his part, Sinclair holds that oil drilling is only fixing a short-term problem by creating a potentially grave long-term one, and is dangerously short-sighted.\n\nUnsurprisingly, Mankind United made its way into the debate - Hass claimed that Sinclair's affiliation with the shadowy group is undermining public confidence and can only be described as dangerous behaviour. Sinclair denied that the Mankind United group had any affiliation with him or his EPIA programme, maintaining that they are independently organised and appeared spontaneously. The President lambasted the press for making such a scandal out of a group that is not only harmless, but inconsequential.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.31.a: "Eric Hass!"
 america_workers_congress_events.31.b: "President Sinclair!"

 america_workers_congress_events.32.t: "Roosevelt vs. Sinclair"
 america_workers_congress_events.32.d: "Four years have passed since the last election - which means that the current Congress' term is almost up, and that the time has come again to elect new delegates to determine who will sit as the nation's leader. President Sinclair's term has seen an aggressive attack against poverty - the End Poverty in America programme has tackled destitution agitated by the civil war with a vengeance, leading to a substantial drop in poverty rates across the country and greatly aiding its recovery. However, the President has found new controversy - increasing press attention has been drawn to the enigmatic 'Mankind United' group, a cadre of dedicated Sinclair followers who promote a pro-Sinclair theology.\n\nHowever, the Socialist Party have thrown the entire country into chaos by announcing what might be the most controversial candidate possible for the upcoming presidential election - none other than Eleanor Roosevelt, the New York socialite and member of the former political dynasty. The selection of what many perceive as a symbol of the old American elite has created a media frenzy so large that it would make the notorious William Randolph Hearst blush - indeed, the campaign quickly ended up being as much about Roosevelt as it was about the President. The SPA leadership stuck to their guns, however, touting Roosevelt's history of activism, championing the needs of the working-class. The hope seems to be that Roosevelt can muster a coalition of Sinclair opposition, women, African-Americans, and reformists - but whether she can find enough credibility among both the Syndicalist and non-Syndicalist base to make this progressive alliance possible is a very open question.\n\nRoosevelt and the SPA attacked Sinclair on several grounds - the first of which was Sinclair's opposition to oil drilling, which they argued is causing fuel shortages. Sinclair retorted that his administration is not blind to the shortages and is already working on improving fuel efficiency for military purposes, and that oil drilling is not necessary. Roosevelt charged that Sinclair cannot be truly be invested in the worker's wellbeing if he so adamantly refuses to enhance their standard of living.\n\nReopening the Mankind United scandal, Roosevelt claimed that Sinclair's affiliation with the shadowy group is undermining public confidence and can only be described as dangerous behaviour. Sinclair denied that the Mankind United group had any affiliation with him or his EPIA programme, maintaining that they are independently organised and appeared spontaneously. The President lambasted the press for making such a scandal out of a group that is not only harmless, but inconsequential.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.32.a: "Eleanor Roosevelt!"
 america_workers_congress_events.32.b: "President Sinclair!"

 america_workers_congress_events.33.t: "Hass vs. Thomas"
 america_workers_congress_events.33.d: "Four years have passed since the last election - which means that the current Congress' term is almost up, and that the time has come again to elect new delegates to determine who will sit as the nation's leader. President Thomas's term has seen some success in creating a united socialist front to provide a united government as the revolution matures. However, it's proved a double-edged sword - trying to placate such a wide coalition has proved increasingly difficult, so much so that Thomas's once wide majority in the legislature has worn down significantly, often at the cost of the government's prestige\n\nThe President's challenger is the young Socialist Party Chairman, Eric Hass, who heralds from the once marginalised De Leonist tradition of the Industrial Labor Group. Hass stepped up to the stage to attack Norman Thomas on several grounds - the first of which was that he was weak on foreign policy, citing his long record of antiwar activism prior to the civil war and challenging his dedication to the cause of internationalism. Thomas maintains that there is nothing insincere about his positions - after all, Americans are no longer being forced to fight imperial wars, so he felt that it was no longer as necessary to stress pacifism to the same degree. Hass has maintained that it is a pale attempt to maintain the support of the former Red Guards that partake in his coalition - a deception that some have already seen through.\n\nThe debate expanded to the coalition at large - Hass criticised Thomas's doctrine of 'all-inclusive socialism', pointing to his deteriorating position in the legislature as proof that the united front is only rendering the government more divided. The embattled Thomas shot back in a way that he hadn't previously - he argued passionately that we are all connected through the brotherhood of labour, and that we are nothing if we do not attempt to work together and consider all possible viewpoints. Thomas maintains that this is the only way that the revolution can truly thrive.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.33.a: "Eric Hass!"
 america_workers_congress_events.33.b: "President Thomas!"

 america_workers_congress_events.34.t: "Roosevelt vs. Thomas"
 america_workers_congress_events.34.d: "Four years have passed since the last election - which means that the current Congress' term is almost up, and that the time has come again to elect new delegates to determine who will sit as the nation's leader. President Thomas's term has seen some success in creating a united socialist front to provide a united government as the revolution matures. However, it's proved a double-edged sword - trying to placate such a wide coalition has proved increasingly difficult, so much so that Thomas's once wide majority in the legislature has worn down significantly, often at the cost of the government's prestige.\n\nHowever, the Socialist Party have thrown the entire country into chaos by announcing what might be the most controversial candidate possible for the upcoming presidential election - none other than Eleanor Roosevelt, the New York socialite and member of the former political dynasty. The selection of what many perceive as a symbol of the old American elite has created a media frenzy so large that it would make the notorious William Randolph Hearst blush - indeed, the campaign quickly ended up being as much about Roosevelt as it was about the President. The SPA leadership stuck to their guns, however, touting Roosevelt's history of activism, championing the needs of the working-class. The hope seems to be that Roosevelt can muster a coalition of Thomas opposition, women, African-Americans, and reformists - but whether she can find enough credibility among both the Syndicalist and non-Syndicalist base to make this progressive alliance possible is a very open question.\n\nRoosevelt and the SPA attacked Thomas on several grounds - the first of which was the Thomas administration's efforts to obscure his past association with antiwar activists during the 1910s and 1920s, accusing Thomas of insincerity. Thomas struck back, saying Eleanor Roosevelt was in no position to criticise reinvention, as she herself was an activist for establishment parties her family controlled for most of her life. Roosevelt contended that her transformation was not actually that large - as a woman, she had little say in those affairs, and they do not stop her from being a champion of the workers. The back-and-forth on the matter got bitter enough where both candidates had to intervene to prevent a brawl from breaking out.\n\nMoving on, Roosevelt compared her followers, a progressive coalition of African-Americans, women, reformist socialists and even sympathetic liberals, to Thomas's contradictory band of followers. According to her, to be affiliated with both radical militiamen in the Red Guard, pacifist Christians, and radical unionists was a contradiction too far for America to accept. In response, Thomas maintained that her alliance has the same problem, but Roosevelt insists that it's more cohesive than the current government.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.34.a: "Eleanor Roosevelt!"
 america_workers_congress_events.34.b: "President Thomas!"

 america_workers_congress_events.36.t: "Minor vs. Hoan"
 america_workers_congress_events.36.d: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. After many years, The Flynn presidency has decisively shaped the face of the country - the American syndicalist system, and Flynn's brand of free speech protection, have both been entrenched to the point where most neutral delegates are increasingly unwilling to contemplate more than mild reforms to it - leaving the Socialist Party to try and reinvent itself as the political landscape shifts.\n\nTo succeed Flynn, the Socialist Party has elected the Robert Minor as its chairman, and by precedent de facto presidential candidate. His supporters seek to empower the alliance between the SPA and IWW institutionally and bureaucratically, creating a strong alliance of party, union, and state while keeping a weak and symbolic presidency. In response to their political slump, the Commonwealth Party have opted for a more bread and butter message: their candidate is Daniel Hoan, the former Mayor of Milwaukee who has run the Commonwealth campaign on a message of good government, anti-corruption rhetoric, and opposition to the entrenchment of the SPA and IWW in public life, as well as to 'spurious' revolutionary projects. Hoan's moderation has a strong appeal among reconstructed reactionaries who wish for a return to 'sensible' government, however it has made him an easy target for attack from the SPA, who have run a scare campaign targeted at the unions claiming he will restore parliamentary representation, destroying union power.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.36.a: "Robert Minor!"
 america_workers_congress_events.36.b: "Daniel Hoan!"

 america_workers_congress_events.37.t: "Allison vs. Reuther"
 america_workers_congress_events.37.d.gitlow: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. After many years, the Gitlow presidency has established what is being called 'the American syndicalist synthesis' - the institutionalisation of the alliance of the two \"pillars\" of the SPA and IWW, where the IWW has substantial influence in economic affairs while the SPA dominates politics - a system that has grown increasingly accepted within the country.\n\nTo succeed Gitlow, the Socialist Party has elected Elmer Allison of Cleveland, Ohio, the famous socialist newspaper editor, as its chairman and thus expected presidential candidate. His supporters, hoping to ride the momentum of the Gitlow presidency, seek to reduce the power of the executive by transferring more powers to Congress, so as to further align the constitution with industrial unionist views of government, a strategy being deemed 'the gradual path to syndicalism'.\n\nAllison's opponent, Walter Reuther of the Socialist Party, is a man who needs no introduction. Reuther, the leader of the United Automobile Workers, a CIO union, is a hero of the Civil War, having been a crucial figure in the establishment of the Detroit Commune. A fierce advocate for workers and civil rights, Reuther has promised a socially conscious administration. Additionally, he has advocated for a British-style planned economy, being very impressed with our British comrades during his visit to the Union of Britain in the early 1930s.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.37.d.fallback: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive.\n\nTo succeed [ROOT.GetLeader], the Socialist Party has elected Elmer Allison of Cleveland, Ohio, the famous socialist newspaper editor, as its chairman and thus expected presidential candidate. His supporters, hoping to ride the momentum of the Gitlow presidency, seek to reduce the power of the executive by transferring more powers to Congress, so as to further align the constitution with industrial unionist views of government, a strategy being deemed 'the gradual path to syndicalism'.\n\nAllison's opponent, Walter Reuther of the Socialist Party, is a man who needs no introduction. Reuther, the leader of the United Automobile Workers, a CIO union, is a hero of the Civil War, having been a crucial figure in the establishment of the Detroit Commune. A fierce advocate for workers and civil rights, Reuther has promised a socially conscious administration. Additionally, he has advocated for a British-style planned economy, being very impressed with our British comrades during his visit to the Union of Britain in the early 1930s.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.37.a: "Elmer Allison!"
 america_workers_congress_events.37.b: "Walter Reuther!"

 america_workers_congress_events.38.t: "Roosevelt vs. Hoan"
 america_workers_congress_events.38.d: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. Despite the efforts of both her and the Socialist Party, President Roosevelt's term has not been much less controversial than her candidacy - although largely taking a back seat to SPA leadership in Congress, Roosevelt remains too bourgeois and too moderate for many socialists to support, something not helped by her attempt to have many members of her family conditionally pardoned early in the term. (Congress ultimately passed a watered-down version of the pardon, under the auspices of reconciliation.)\n\nSensing weakness from the President, the Commonwealth Party has attempted to capitalise on the backlash with a more bread and butter message: their candidate is Daniel Hoan, the former Mayor of Milwaukee who has run the Commonwealth campaign on a message of good government, anti-corruption rhetoric, and opposition to the entrenchment of the SPA and IWW in public life, as well as to 'spurious' revolutionary projects. Hoan's moderation has a strong appeal among reconstructed reactionaries who wish for a return to 'sensible' government, however it has made him an easy target for attack from the SPA, who have run a scare campaign targeted at the unions claiming he will restore parliamentary representation, destroying union power.\n\nThis has been compounded by Earl Browder's endorsement of Hoan. Browder's presence has loomed large over the campaign - the endorsement by him and the $WCA_totalist_party_postwar_long$ has garnered significant controversy among more anti-authoritarian representatives, something the embattled Roosevelt has gone on the offensive with by accusing Hoan and Commonwealth of trying to subvert democracy. Some have wagered that Foster's endorsement may yet end up being more of a curse than a blessing, as there is a small fear among some Commonwealth members that they may squander the election through a miscalculated nomination. If they do, then it'll likely go down as the biggest upset in American electoral history.\n\nRegardless, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.38.a: "President Roosevelt!"
 america_workers_congress_events.38.b: "Daniel Hoan!"

 america_workers_congress_events.39.t: "Hass vs. Hoan"
 america_workers_congress_events.39.d: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. President Hass's term thus far has seen a more reinvigorated revolutionary spirit - the government has eagerly sought to enact new reforms along De Leonist lines, although the opposition has regularly criticised this direction as weakening the government.\n\nIn a challenge to this revolutionary spirit, the Commonwealth Party have opted for a more bread and butter message: their candidate is Daniel Hoan, the former Mayor of Milwaukee who has run the Commonwealth campaign on a message of good government, anti-corruption rhetoric, and opposition to the entrenchment of the SPA and IWW in public life, as well as to 'spurious' revolutionary projects. Hoan's moderation has a strong appeal among reconstructed reactionaries who wish for a return to 'sensible' government, however it has made him an easy target for attack from the SPA, who have run a scare campaign targeted at the unions claiming he will restore parliamentary representation, destroying union power. However, in nominating him, the Commonwealth Party hopes to prove their good government credentials, and establish that the Socialist Party doesn't have a monopoly on power.\n\nTheir position is that socialism can only be advanced by a strong government. Hass struck back, saying Hoan is too cosy with authoritarian tendencies in the country. Indeed, Hoan's candidacy has been backed by Earl Browder and the $WCA_totalist_party_postwar_long$, something that has garnered controversy among more anti-authoritarian representatives.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.39.a: "President Hass!"
 america_workers_congress_events.39.b: "Daniel Hoan!"

 america_workers_congress_events.40.t: "Cannon vs. Zeidler"
 america_workers_congress_events.40.d.sinclair: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. After many years, President Sinclair has established a particular tone for the government - a turning of the pre-war machinery of the state against poverty and the destitution of the workers. Even among syndicalists, this approach has gained a certain amount of acceptance.\n\nTo succeed Sinclair, the Commonwealth Party has nominated Frank Zeidler, the long-time member of the Commonwealth Party and formerly the Young People's Socialist League, as well as a Communal Chairman of Milwaukee with a sterling record in communal government. Zeidler has been running on a continuation of Sinclair's legacy, with an added emphasis on quality public services, particularly for disadvantaged communities.\n\nMeanwhile, the Socialist Party has elected James Cannon as its chairman and candidate for president, having variously represented Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Cannon and his supporters are industrial unionists who have come to tolerate the current structure of [WCA.GetNameDef] but otherwise find Sinclair and Zeidler too moderate - they claim that the revolutionary cause in America has been allowed to die out, and must be renewed by a more syndicalists government. Cannon also charges that much of Zeidler's touted advances in public services can actually be attributed to Daniel Hoan, not Zeidler - who has in turn decried Cannon as a dangerous radical who threatens to undo all of Sinclair's work.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.40.d.fallback: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive.\n\nTo succeed [ROOT.GetLeader], the Commonwealth Party has nominated Frank Zeidler, the long-time member of the Commonwealth Party and formerly the Young People's Socialist League, as well as a Communal Chairman of Milwaukee with a sterling record in communal government. Zeidler has been running on a continuation of Sinclair's legacy, with an added emphasis on quality public services, particularly for disadvantaged communities.\n\nMeanwhile, the Socialist Party has elected James Cannon as its chairman and candidate for president, having variously represented Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Cannon and his supporters are industrial unionists who have come to tolerate the current structure of [WCA.GetNameDef] but otherwise find Sinclair and Zeidler too moderate - they claim that the revolutionary cause in America has been allowed to die out, and must be renewed by a more syndicalists government. Cannon also charges that much of Zeidler's touted advances in public services can actually be attributed to Daniel Hoan, not Zeidler - who has in turn decried Cannon as a dangerous radical who threatens to undo all of Sinclair's work.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.40.a: "James Cannon!"
 america_workers_congress_events.40.b: "Frank Zeidler!"

 america_workers_congress_events.41.t: "Allison vs. Zeidler"
 america_workers_congress_events.41.d.thomas: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. After many years, President Thomas has cemented the concept of 'all-inclusive socialism' in politics - Thomas has, after some struggle, successfully established a coalition of reformists and militants, incorporating social democrats and even some independent syndicalists into the government. Even the Socialist Party finds it difficult to dispute the President's success in this strategy.\n\nTo succeed Thomas, the Commonwealth Party has nominated Frank Zeidler, the long-time member of the Commonwealth Party and formerly the Young People's Socialist League, as well as a Communal Chairman of Milwaukee with a sterling record in communal government. Zeidler has been running on a continuation of Thomas's legacy, with an added emphasis on quality public services, particularly for disadvantaged communities.\n\nMeanwhile, the Socialist Party has elected Elmer Allison of Cleveland, Ohio, the famous socialist newspaper editor, as its chairman and presidential candidate. Allison has been advocating for a devolution of executive power to congress, as well as towards local arms of government. Allison also claims that much of Zeidler's touted advances in public services can actually be attributed to Daniel Hoan, not Zeidler - who has in turn dismissed Allison as an upstart with no understanding of what makes good government.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.41.d.fallback: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive.\n\nTo succeed [ROOT.GetLeader], the Commonwealth Party has nominated Frank Zeidler, the long-time member of the Commonwealth Party and formerly the Young People's Socialist League, as well as a Communal Chairman of Milwaukee with a sterling record in communal government. Zeidler has been running on a continuation of Thomas's legacy, with an added emphasis on quality public services, particularly for disadvantaged communities.\n\nMeanwhile, the Socialist Party has elected Elmer Allison of Cleveland, Ohio, the famous socialist newspaper editor, as its chairman and presidential candidate. Allison has been advocating for a devolution of executive power to congress, as well as towards local arms of government. Allison also claims that much of Zeidler's touted advances in public services can actually be attributed to Daniel Hoan, not Zeidler - who has in turn dismissed Allison as an upstart with no understanding of what makes good government.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.41.a: "Elmer Allison!"
 america_workers_congress_events.41.b: "Frank Zeidler!"

 america_workers_congress_events.42.t: "Cannon vs. Krueger"
 america_workers_congress_events.42.d: "Yet again, the four-year term of the Congress nears completion, as unions, delegates, and parties mobilise for the elections that will determine the composition of the next executive. Frustratingly for Commonwealth, Maynard C. Krueger's term faced constant opposition from the SPA, who have virulently opposed Krueger's liberalisation of political association laws as facilitating the return of reactionaries to politics, as well as his sidelining of the unions in favour of professional bureaucrats and other representatives.\n\nCapitalising on leftist backlash to Krueger, the Socialist Party have elected the syndicalist James Cannon as their chairman, and thus their candidate for the presidency. Cannon has chosen to run on a platform of revolutionary renewal, eschewing the moderation of Krueger in favour of a more syndicalist government, increased power for the industrial unions, and more active participation abroad.\n\nCannon's primary charge against the Krueger administration is that it has undermined the basis for the revolution by favouring workers' councils, directly elected representatives, and professional bureaucrats over the unions. Krueger has defended his administration by arguing that dogmatic adherence to a fetishised idea of industrial unionism will allow them to hold the Commonwealth hostage. Backing him up is Sidney Hillman of the CIO, a supporter of Commonwealth and a member of Krueger's cabinet, who has supported attempts to rein in the industrial unions.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.42.a: "James Cannon!"
 america_workers_congress_events.42.b: "President Krueger!"

 america_workers_congress_events.44.t: "Minor vs Randolph"
 america_workers_congress_events.44.d: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. As industrial unionism and the Socialist Party continue their monopoly on governance, President Minor's administration has been faced with a growing controversy over the entrenchment of the SPA into the apparatus of state, with many in the opposition concerned that government bureucrats will block any reforms not approved by the SPA or IWW.\n\nIn a bid to put an end to their long period of opposition, the Commonwealth Party has nominated A. Philip Randolph, the first African-American man to be nominated for President in [Root.GetNonIdeologyAdjective] history. Randolph has a very long history as both a labour and civil rights activist, and has become one of the leading faces of the African-American community, who have been increasingly campaigning against the racial discrimination that still persists across the country. By nominating Randolph, Commonwealth hopes to appeal to un-unionised, African-American, and more moderate voters in addition to those discontent with twelve years of SPA-IWW government.\n\nPresident Minor and the SPA have held their ground, pointing to the effectiveness of the SPA-IWW party/union state in rebuilding the country and providing important services to defend their entrenchment in government. They charge that the party has not stopped listening to the needs of the people and has been making good progress in desegregation efforts, and that they remain the \"natural party of government\" as opposed to the moribund Commonwealth Party.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.44.a: "President Minor!"
 america_workers_congress_events.44.b: "Asa Philip Randolph!"

 america_workers_congress_events.45.t: "Allison vs Sinclair"
 america_workers_congress_events.45.d: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. The term of President Allison has turned out to be...uneventful. Allison's primary programme was the transfer of many responsibilities away from the executive and towards Congress, which has come with the curious side effect of drawing a lot of media attention away from the presidency. This has resulted in what is being called the quietest period in the history of [WCA.GetNameDef] - in the public eye, very little happened during the term, with mixed reactions.\n\nTo challenge Allison, the Commonwealth Party has nominated Upton Sinclair, a party veteran. Sinclair brings to the debate his decades of popularity outside politics as a writer, and his appeal to those less than satisfied with the socialist system. The opposition's primary angle of attack on Allison has been calling him the head of a do-nothing government, a charge that Sinclair has carried on by accusing the President of being an ineffective propagandist for the Workers' Commonwealth and alienating westerners who cannot relate their needs to industrial unionism.\n\nAllison, meanwhile, has returned fire by accusing Sinclair of being dubiously socialist, citing his former membership in the Social Democratic Federation and his longtime rivalry with revolutionary hero John Reed. The President holds that the expectations set of him by his opponents are ridiculous - despite his reserved use of the executive, Congress has been active during this term and has not been getting the credit it deserves. However, Sinclair still holds that an active executive can be far more responsive to the issues facing the nation.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.45.a: "President Allison!"
 america_workers_congress_events.45.b: "Upton Sinclair!"

 america_workers_congress_events.46.t: "Fraina vs Randolph"
 america_workers_congress_events.46.d.hass: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. Completing his final term, President Hass has presided over an era of renewed radicalism, as the government attempted to further socialism through means previously thought unthinkable. However, many years of this approach seem to have created a real fatigue among the American people, who increasingly desire a more relaxed political scene after years of a rhetoric of vigilance.\n\nTo succeed President Hass, the Socialist Party has elected old guard leader Louis C. Fraina as their chairman and presidential candidate. Fraina, long a fixture of socialist politics, has been the primary ideologue and theorist of industrial unionism within the SPA since 1920. An academic and propagandist, he is renowned worldwide both for his cultural and economic theory. Now he calls for a \"cultural revolution\", for the government to promote modernist ideas and art.\n\nMeanwhile, the Commonwealth Party has elected to nominate A. Philip Randolph, the first African-American to be nominated to the presidency by a major party - and, if elected, America's first African-American leader. Randolph has a long history as labour and a civil rights leader, and has spent the post-civil war era leading many efforts to desegregate unions as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.\n\nWhile both campaigns have advocated for radical cultural change, they have conflicted over their respective histories - Randolph has criticised the SPA's historic colourblindness on civil rights issues, pointing to an incident at the First Congress of the Third International where Fraina downplayed the oppression of African-Americans by comparing it to anti-immigrant racism. Meanwhile, Fraina has pointed to the historic accomplishments of the IWW on race issues, criticising the Commonwealth-aligned CIO's comparative slowness to desegregate.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.46.d.roosevelt: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. Against all odds, the controversial President Roosevelt has managed to defy expectations and complete a full two terms, championing her personal brand of equality and reconciliation. Although some radicals remain bitter over the perceived undermining of the revolution, the times seem to have changed - both parties have elected to nominate moderate candidates, speaking to a new era in [Root.GetNonIdeologyAdjective] politics.\n\nTo succeed President Roosevelt, the Socialist Party has elected old guard leader Louis C. Fraina as their chairman and presidential candidate. Fraina, long a fixture of socialist politics, has been the primary ideologue and theorist of industrial unionism within the SPA since 1920. An academic and propagandist, he is renowned worldwide both for his cultural and economic theory. Now he calls for a \"cultural revolution\", for the government to promote modernist ideas and art.\n\nMeanwhile, the Commonwealth Party has elected to nominate A. Philip Randolph, the first African-American to be nominated to the presidency by a major party - and, if elected, America's first African-American leader. Randolph has a long history as labour and a civil rights leader, and has spent the post-civil war era leading many efforts to desegregate unions as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.\n\nWhile both campaigns have advocated for radical cultural change, they have conflicted over their respective histories - Randolph has criticised the SPA's historic colourblindness on civil rights issues, pointing to an incident at the First Congress of the Third International where Fraina downplayed the oppression of African-Americans by comparing it to anti-immigrant racism. Meanwhile, Fraina has pointed to the historic accomplishments of the IWW on race issues, criticising the Commonwealth-aligned CIO's comparative slowness to desegregate.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.46.d.krueger: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. President Krueger looks destined to go down as one of the most notable leaders of not only the post-civil war era, but in American history as a whole - Krueger leaves office praised for what his supporters call a rationalisation of the revolution, but decried for what his opponents label a \"Red Thermidor\" for the industrial unions. Although divisions over the Krueger presidency remain, the [Root.GetNonIdeologyAdjective] political scene seems to have changed despite, or perhaps because of, this fact: both parties' have tended in a more moderate direction.\n\nThe Socialist Party has elected old guard leader Louis C. Fraina as their chairman and presidential candidate. Fraina, long a fixture of socialist politics, has been the primary ideologue and theorist of industrial unionism within the SPA since 1920. An academic and propagandist, he is renowned worldwide both for his cultural and economic theory. Now he calls for a \"cultural revolution\", for the government to promote modernist ideas and art.\n\nTo succeed President Krueger, the, Commonwealth Party has elected A. Philip Randolph as chairman, the first African-American to be nominated to the presidency by a major party - and, if elected, America's first African-American leader. Randolph has a long history as labour and a civil rights leader, and has spent the post-civil war era leading many efforts to desegregate unions as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Notably, Randolph seems to be tying himself more to the politics of Norman Thomas than to Maynard Krueger.\n\nWhile both campaigns have advocated for radical cultural change, they have conflicted over their respective histories - Randolph has criticised the SPA's historic colourblindness on civil rights issues, pointing to an incident at the First Congress of the Third International where Fraina downplayed the oppression of African-Americans by comparing it to anti-immigrant racism. Meanwhile, Fraina has pointed to the historic accomplishments of the IWW on race issues, criticising the Commonwealth-aligned CIO's comparative slowness to desegregate.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.46.d.fallback: "Generic desc in case of bugs. If you're seeing this, then please report it on the GitHub issue tracker."
 america_workers_congress_events.46.a: "Louis Fraina!"
 america_workers_congress_events.46.b: "Asa Philip Randolph!"

 america_workers_congress_events.47.t: "Cannon vs Thomas"
 america_workers_congress_events.47.d: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. Thus far, President Cannon has lived up to his word - his term has seen a both a remilitarisation of society in the name of defence against foreign reactionary powers, and a renewal of reforms intended to expand the syndicalist system in America. However, as the civil war becomes an increasingly distant memory, many have questioned the necessity of his hawkish stance - there seems to be an increasing desire among the American people for demobilisation and more relaxed politics.\n\nAiming to ride the anti-militarist wave, the Commonwealth Party has nominated the long-time party veteran Norman Thomas. After participating in the constitutional convention and losing his bid to be [WCA.GetNameDef]'s first president, Thomas took a relatively reduced role in politics, lending his wisdom to ACP members and occasionally taking a position in Congress, but the controversy of Cannon's militarism has spurred him to once again run for the presidency.\n\nCannon has come out of the campaign gate swinging, charging that Norman Thomas would, should he win, revert the country to pacifism typical of his early career, and rendering America vulnerable to enemies both foreign and domestic and water down the socialist revolution. Thomas struck back, criticising Cannon's embrace of civilian militarism as undermining the true aim of the revolution, and bearing a striking similarity to rhetoric used by both Longists and the political establishment before the civil war. Thomas has reaffirmed his commitment to \"all-inclusive socialism\", where socialists and progressives of all stripes have a voice in government, as an alternative to Cannon's itinerant militancy. Although there certainly is a backlash against Cannon's governance, how deep it runs is still untested - and in an age where weapons of unimaginable destructive power seem to be leaving the realm of fiction, Cannon's defensive stance may still find an audience.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.47.a: "President Cannon!"
 america_workers_congress_events.47.b: "Norman Thomas!"

 america_workers_congress_events.48.t: "Fraina vs Hoan"
 america_workers_congress_events.48.d: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. President Hoan's term has seen an unprecedented centralisation of power in the federal government, aided by the tacit support of the Trade Union Unity League - a connection that the opposition has regularly used as ammunition against the government.\n\nIn a bid to capitalise on the perceived weakness of the administration, the Socialist Party elected Louis C. Fraina as their chairman, and expected candidate for the presidency. Fraina, long a fixture of socialist politics, has been the primary ideologue and theorist of industrial unionism within the SPA since 1920. An academic and propagandist, he is renowned worldwide both for his cultural and economic theory. Now he calls for a \"cultural revolution\", for the government to promote modernist ideas and art.\n\nHoan and his allies have charged that Louis C. Fraina would, should he win, divide the nation by imposing a new culture on the nation by government fiat. Fraina struck back, criticising Hoan's abandonment of Reed's ideas of industrial unionism (in actuality mainly theorised by Fraina himself), and has accused the Hoan administration of fostering caesarist tendencies within the government - a shot widely seen as one against the TUUL caucus. However, Hoan has maintained that Earl Browder has largely come to accept the new American democracy, and remain some of the only people who recognise the need for a more centralised government apparatus.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.48.a: "Louis Fraina!"
 america_workers_congress_events.48.b: "President Hoan!"

 america_workers_congress_events.49.t: "Fraina vs Reuther"
 america_workers_congress_events.49.d: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. President Reuther's term has largely been defined by a relative period of calm - as the civil war becomes an increasingly distant memory, there is an increasing sense that America is settling into a new normal as socialist militancy begins to fade into the background, aided by Reuther's cooperation with the moderate Progressive and Farmer-Labor parties.\n\nUpon their defeat in the last election, the Socialist Party elected Louis C. Fraina as their chairman, and expected candidate for the presidency. Fraina, long a fixture of socialist politics, has been the primary ideologue and theorist of industrial unionism within the SPA since 1920. An academic and propagandist, he is renowned worldwide both for his cultural and economic theory. Now he calls for a \"cultural revolution\", for the government to promote modernist ideas and art.\n\nPresident Reuther has charged that Fraina would, should he win, reverse the progress made by his administration by attacking his moderate allies in the service of syndicalism, insinuating that the SPA has not adapted to the views of the American people. Reuther struck back, criticising Fraina for his radicalism, and his attempts to revive revolutionary industrial unionist dogma - he maintains that the mixed constitutional system developed in America since the end of the war is the natural conclusion of the revolution. Fraina has argued that the SPA are the only reliable safeguards of revolutionary values, and that the political victory of the revolution must be supplemented by a cultural victory. Still, Reuther insists that Fraina is alienating the unspoken proletarian masses by proposing to impose a new culture by government fiat.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.49.a: "Louis Fraina!"
 america_workers_congress_events.49.b: "President Reuther!"

 america_workers_congress_events.4901.t: "Fraina vs Zeidler"
 america_workers_congress_events.4901.d: "As [Root.GetNonIdeologyName] looks to a new decade, the time has come once again for the country to vote for a new Congress, and through it, a new executive. The term of President Zeidler has carried on what is now over a decade of unbroken governance by the Commonwealth Party - the ACP and their moderate stance has become almost synonymous with the reigning status quo in America, for better and for worse, as some Americans show signs of fatigue with the ruling party.\n\nUpon their defeat in the last election, the Socialist Party elected Louis C. Fraina as their chairman, and expected candidate for the presidency. Fraina, long a fixture of socialist politics, has been the primary ideologue and theorist of industrial unionism within the SPA since 1920. An academic and propagandist, he is renowned worldwide both for his cultural and economic theory. Now he calls for a \"cultural revolution\", for the government to promote modernist ideas and art.\n\nFraina and the SPA have campaigned on the message of the 'American malaise', charging the Zeidler administration as a do-nothing government that has lost touch with the spirit of the revolution. According to Zeidler, this malaise is an invention of the SPA, and that the relative quiet of his government is indicative of some of the best times in American history. He maintains that he has been active in federal infrastructure programs as he always has been. This has led to the SPA jesting about Zeidler's 'sewer socialism', arguing that Zeidler's economism has come at the expense of any revolutionary content, and that the discontented unions will have the final word.\n\nAt the end of this, the people voted, their newly elected delegates reconvened in [ROOT.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], and Congress chose a new executive. The next President of the Commonwealth Executive Council will be..."
 america_workers_congress_events.4901.a: "Louis Fraina!"
 america_workers_congress_events.4901.b: "President Zeidler!"

### USSA events 51 - 75 ###

 america_workers_congress_events.51.t: "Presidential Election of [GetYear]"
 america_workers_congress_events.51.d: "The presidential election of [GetYear] is here with much fanfare. As expected, [WCA.GetLeader] is in the lead, but as the government has promised a fair and open election it is anyone's guess as to who will win after the debates and all the campaigning is done. Who will emerge victorious in [GetYear]?"
 america_workers_congress_events.51.a: "Congratulations, [WCA.GetLeader]!"
 america_workers_congress_events.51.b: "Oh look, it's still [WCA.GetLeader]!"
 america_workers_congress_events.51.c: "[WCA.GetLeader]? Again?"
 america_workers_congress_events.51.e: "This doesn't seem fair and open at all..."

 america_workers_congress_events.52.t: "Power Struggle within the ranks"
 america_workers_congress_events.52.d: "William Foster and Earl Browder have long viewed each other as the enemy to the people, more than just a stepping block to their own power. To Foster, Browder's economic policies will strip power from the unions and thus the proletariat. To Browder, Foster's ultra-syndicalist policies will spell doom for the revolution by alienating critical sections of the working class, and imposing syndicalist methods of organisation where they are not appropriate. As the revolution has come to an end their struggle has taken on new heights. How this shall end, is hard to say. Though some are fearing what will happen should the other be deposed."
 america_workers_congress_events.52.a: "This could be bad."

 america_workers_congress_events.53.t: "Foster Denounces Browder"
 america_workers_congress_events.53.d: "William Foster and his supporters have denounced President Earl Browder after his dissolution of the IWW - claiming that Browder's actions as tyrannical and contradictory to the revolution. Browder and his supporters on the other hand claim that Foster is a counter-revolutionary who seeks to undermine the success of the American proletariat revolution."
 america_workers_congress_events.53.a: "That traitor will be dealt with."

 america_workers_congress_events.54.t: "Browder Reassigned to Europe"
 america_workers_congress_events.54.d: "Following Earl Browder's denouncement of President Foster in a public speech, Earl Browder has been reassigned to a newly-created party position in Europe. This new position, as dictated by President Foster, entails Browder oversee furniture assembly and candlestick making unions that are so vital to our economy. Such an illustrious post demands that Browder not return until his year-long tenure is up. Unfortunately, communication to this international facility is spotty at times, so Browder will no longer be able to coordinate with his party allies back in America."
 america_workers_congress_events.54.a: "Monitor his telegrams as well."

 america_workers_congress_events.55.t: "The Arrest of Foster"
 america_workers_congress_events.55.d: "The reactionary Foster has been declared a traitor and enemy of the people. Evidence has been found out how William Foster is working with counter-revolutionary groups. Thanks to the Hall-Ballam Act, our government is not powerless to stop Foster. While Foster still reins in his clique, news is being spread throughout the nation about his vile and despicable behaviour in the Daily Worker and he will soon be arrested and brought to trial."
 america_workers_congress_events.55.a: "Another reactionary soon be in prison."

 america_workers_congress_events.56.t: "The Arrest of Browder"
 america_workers_congress_events.56.d: "The traitorous nature of the reactionary Browder has been discovered. Evidence has been found about how Earl Browder is working with counter-revolutionary groups abroad while at his post. Thanks to the Hall-Ballam Act, our government is not powerless to stop Browder. While Browder still reins in his clique, news is being spread throughout Congress about his vile and despicable behaviour in the Daily Worker and he will soon be extradited and brought to trial."
 america_workers_congress_events.56.a: "Another reactionary soon be in prison."

 america_workers_congress_events.57.t: "The Trial of Foster"
 america_workers_congress_events.57.d: "A Committee-appointed Tribunal has unanimously found William Foster guilty of being a reactionary enemy of the people. Evidence displayed prominently in the papers showed secret communication between Foster, MacArthur, and Huey Long. Irrefutable testimony from Foster's emaciated family who attest to seeing Foster moving gold from the old Federal Reserve to his home. The Tribunal has declared that as such that he will be executed. The American people no longer have to deal with his poison damaging America any more."
 america_workers_congress_events.57.a: "He dies a traitor's death."

 america_workers_congress_events.58.t: "The Trial of Browder"
 america_workers_congress_events.58.d: "A Committee-appointed Tribunal has unanimously found Earl Browder guilty of being a reactionary enemy of the people. Evidence displayed prominently in the papers showed secret communication between Browder, MacArthur, and Huey Long. The Tribunal has declared that as such that he will be executed. The American people no longer have to deal with his poison damaging America any more."
 america_workers_congress_events.58.a: "He dies a traitor's death."

 america_workers_congress_events.59.t: "William Foster Escapes Prisons"
 america_workers_congress_events.59.d: "The convict William Foster has escaped prison in America and has fled abroad. According to witnesses, Foster was last seen being moved by what appeared to be G-men from the prison towards the coast. The newly-created CIA has been tasked with finding and extraditing Foster back to America. Any remaining allies of Foster surely have some part in this escape, and will be punished for further endangering the American people. The CIA shall catch this reactionary traitor and make sure that his poison ends."
 america_workers_congress_events.59.a: "He shall be caught."

 america_workers_congress_events.60.t: "Earl Browder Escapes Prison"
 america_workers_congress_events.60.d: "The convict Earl Browder has escaped prison in America and has fled abroad. According to witnesses, Browder was last seen being moved by what appeared to be G-men from the prison towards the coast. The newly-created CIA has been tasked with finding and extraditing Browder back to America. Any remaining allies of Browder surely have some part in this escape, and will be punished for further endangering the American people. The CIA shall catch this reactionary traitor and make sure that his poison ends."
 america_workers_congress_events.60.a: "He shall be caught."

 america_workers_congress_events.61.t: "William Foster has been assassinated"
 america_workers_congress_events.61.d: "In a quiet office building, the newly created C.I.A has secretly killed William Foster. This fact, only known to [WCA.GetLeader], is perfectly covered by a fresh story in the papers about a man Foster wronged rebels spotted in the vicinity of the crime. A single shot has ended the life of one of the most dangerous enemies to America. A eulogy delivered by [WCA.GetLeader] depicts the late William Foster as a martyr for the revolution that is now in safe hands."
 america_workers_congress_events.61.a: "Taken long after his time."

 america_workers_congress_events.62.t: "Earl Browder has been assassinated"
 america_workers_congress_events.62.d: "In a quiet office building, the newly created C.I.A has secretly killed Earl Browder. A single shot has ended the life of one of the most dangerous enemies to America. This fact, only known to [WCA.GetLeader], is perfectly covered by a fresh story in the papers about an act of revenge carried out by one of Browder's disgraced former associates. Upon being spotted near the crime scene, the man was swiftly arrested and charged with the murder of this great American hero. A eulogy delivered by [WCA.GetLeader] depicts the late Earl Browder as a martyr for the revolution that is now in safe hands."
 america_workers_congress_events.62.a: "Taken long after his time"

 america_workers_congress_events.63.t: "Ministers Go Missing"
 america_workers_congress_events.63.d.foster: "A number of ministers in Congress have disappeared without a trace. Notably, most of them have been associated with Earl Browder in the past. It is assumed by most people that they are only going on an extended vacation."
 america_workers_congress_events.63.d.browder: "A number of ministers in Congress have disappeared without a trace. Notably, most of them have been associated with William Foster in the past. It is assumed by most people that they are only going on an extended vacation."
 america_workers_congress_events.63.a: "A long vacation is what they shall get."

 america_workers_congress_events.64.t: "The Army Restructured"
 america_workers_congress_events.64.d: "A proposal has been placed on President [WCA.GetLeader]'s desk about restructuring the Army. The plan would make sure that the army is loyal to the revolution. However, this is likely to anger many within the army. What shall be done?"
 america_workers_congress_events.64.a: "Commence the restructure."
 america_workers_congress_events.64.b: "Leave the Army as it is."

 america_workers_congress_events.65.t: "Henry Wallace Testifies Against Progressives"
 america_workers_congress_events.65.d: "Following the end of the Syndicalist Revolution, numerous members of the Progressive Party had pledged allegiance to the USSA in a massive show of support. While the public at large was fooled by this display, the President is not so easily deceived. President [WCA.GetLeader] has spent the last several weeks building up a case to present to Congress purporting the inherent betrayal of Progressives to the socialist ideal. A gaunt and limping Henry Wallace appeared in a political rally today to denounce the Progressives as 'social chauvinists disguised to deceive the working class.' Wallace then joined [WCA.GetLeader] in announcing that he will testify in the upcoming sedition trial against the Progressives, and they assure the public that traitors of this calibre deserved death."
 america_workers_congress_events.65.a: "The revolution will be pure."

 america_workers_congress_events.66.t: "Show Trials"
 america_workers_congress_events.66.d: "A number of trials have been conducted of prominent politicians, who have shown reactionary tendencies, most of whom are not aligned with [WCA.GetLeader]. Counter-revolutionaries who wish to reverse the revolution have been found guilty of being the enemy of the people. The most repentant of these reactionaries are now on death row, while the stubborn few are still being pressed for information on their accomplices."
 america_workers_congress_events.66.a: "Reactionaries shall meet their fate."

 america_workers_congress_events.67.t: "[WCA_GetButlerOrCarlson]'s Coup"
 america_workers_congress_events.67.d: "The unthinkable has happened. [WCA_GetButlerOrCarlsonName] has gathered supporters among the unions and marched into [Root.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName], denouncing [WCA.GetLeader] as a tyrant and a dictator. The rest of America watches with bated breath to see what happens in [Root.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName]. [WCA.GetLeader] has responded by calling for as many allies in the military, including the Red Guards, to seize the traitorous generals before the revolution dies fighting 'another MacArthur'. The centralist forces, wearing the same uniforms as [WCA_GetButlerOrCarlson]'s forces, have engaged in a chaotic fight in the capital. Through the friendly fire and threatening mortars..."
 america_workers_congress_events.67.a: "[WCA_GetButlerOrCarlson]'s forces capture the Citadel."
 america_workers_congress_events.67.b: "[WCA_GetButlerOrCarlson]'s forces are routed."

 america_workers_congress_events.68.t: "Restoring Democracy"
 america_workers_congress_events.68.d: "'Americans did not fight and die in the revolution to overthrow a capitalistic dictatorship only to install a socialist dictatorship. The president, however, corrupted the revolution and tainted it. I have removed him from power, not to make myself a dictator, but to stop a tyrant. A new and free election shall be held within a year's time.' With these words on the radio from [WCA_GetButlerOrCarlsonName], America was shocked to find that the government had been overthrown. Perhaps, however, some measure of freedom had been restored - the only question left now is who should oversee the difficult transition period."
 america_workers_congress_events.68.a: "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn."
 america_workers_congress_events.68.b: "Norman Thomas."

 america_workers_congress_events.69.t: "Self Determination in the Black Belt"
 america_workers_congress_events.69.d: "Before the revolution, there were plans by [WCA.GetLeader] to implement an autonomous region within the South for the African-American community. With the ascension of William Foster comes a dedication to the dream of creating a more perfect union, as opposed to a greater union. Foster has drafted a plan with James W. Ford to ensure the perpetual safety and self determination of African-American minorities in the South. This plan is to create a Black Belt in the south of autonomous communities with their own representatives separate from Congress. While the ruling party as a whole supports this, several critics from other parties note that this policy would create an unequal standard for civil rights."
 america_workers_congress_events.69.a: "Self Determination is good for all."
 america_workers_congress_events.69.b: "We can't proceed without support."

 america_workers_congress_events.70.t: "Reactions to the Black Belt"
 america_workers_congress_events.70.d: "The African-American community is split over the Black Belt. On one hand it dramatically increased the number of black politicians and in the country overall, as the independent communes required elected officials. On the other hand several dissident black politicians in the North have faced issues with promoting a colourblind society. They debate whether to continue seeking civil rights that would remove all racial differences in laws, or to expand the Black Belt northwards."
 america_workers_congress_events.70.a: "We stand firm."

 america_workers_congress_events.71.t: "The Great Sedition Trial of [GetYear]"
 america_workers_congress_events.71.d: "Demand for food to feed the armies and citizens of a starving, war-torn Europe led many commercially-minded Southern landowners to grow corn and wheat during the years of the Weltkrieg. For nearly a decade, sales to Europe during and after the war made landowners, bankers, and commercial insurers rich, but this prosperity would not last. In 1925, the British Revolution wracked the United Kingdom, precipitating a debt crisis as scores of Britons lost their lives' savings and as even the British government went into a de-facto default, plunging the United States into the Great Depression. To make matters worse for the South, the recovery of the German agricultural sector following demobilisation caused demand for food crops to plummet even further.\n\nThe tenant farmers who had worked the land for the landowners that had profited during the high times responded by unionising during the lows. With some encouragement from Norman Thomas, sharecropper and gas-station worker Harry Leland Mitchell and his friend Clay East formed the Southern Tenants Farmers' Union in 1934, eventually coming to affiliate with the CIO. However, during the turbulent years leading up to the Revolution, many members of the STFU were taken in by Huey Long's populist rhetoric, and openly supported the Kingfish. Since the end of the Second American Civil War, the STFU has only continued to attract Longists and other seditious elements seeking to use it as a cover to legitimise their presence in the new America.\n\nToday, however, the STFU met its fate before the unions as a bailiff presented Mitchell and East to a union court on charges of sedition, high treason, and harbouring reactionaries and crypto-Longists such as Francis Townsend, one of the chief architects of Long's \"Share Our Wealth\" programme and who was found by the CIA in Tyronza, Arkansas after East confessed to CIA agents that he had harboured Townsend and his wife at his home.\n\nPresident Browder, for his part, is said to be privately ecstatic at finally having the chance to destroy such a dangerous pocket of resistance as he turns the increasingly mighty state apparatus of [ROOT.GetNameDef] to the task of dismantling the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and turning their lands directly to the purposes of the state."
 america_workers_congress_events.71.a: "Good riddance to bad unions!"

 america_workers_congress_events.72.t: "The International Peace Movement disbanded"
 america_workers_congress_events.72.d: "The revolution against capitalism drew a line in the sand. You were either with the union or a scab, that mantra worked for John Reed, but not for Earl Browder. It has come to his attention a despicable group of infiltrators into the new America in the form of the International Peace Movement. This dangerous group, led by a little man who thinks he's god, has resisted conscription and collectivisation. Their communes in New York and Philadelphia may be racially integrated, but their adherence to gender segregation in the name of a religious code is utterly reactionary. We have seized IPM members for de-programming, and their communes are now safely in the hands of CIO members."
 america_workers_congress_events.72.a: "You're not God, little man."

 america_workers_congress_events.73.t: "Foster dissolves the AFL"
 america_workers_congress_events.73.d: "The CIO has finally succeeded in reforming the American Federation of Labor, by dissolving it. Foster and the Cabinet were sure that labour leaders within the AFL such as William Green were dismantling the dignity of labour by reviving craft unionist tactics. These tactics include the division of workers based on craft within the same industry, pitting them against one another. The tipping point was when a mail bomb was discovered near President Foster's home, which was traced back to the AFL. All other legal means to stop the AFL leaders from despoiling their craft did not work, so the state is forced to intervene directly. Green, among many other AFL traitors was arrested and will stand trial for their crimes against Labour."
 america_workers_congress_events.73.a: "Good riddance to bad rubbish."

 america_workers_congress_events.74.t: "Browder purges The Revolutionary Age of Reactionaries"
 america_workers_congress_events.74.d: "After months of investigation into the editors of the Revolutionary Age, President Browder has called for their immediate removal. Citing numerous examples of sub-textual betrayals within the newspaper, including ghost-written opinion pieces mouthing reactionary ideas. Browder has come to Congress with a list of candidates to ensure the intellectual sanctity of the Revolutionary Age. This list includes University professors and metropolitan sophisticates, all pioneers in the social ramifications of Planned Economy. All were approved, and thus the mind of America is once again safe from pollution."
 america_workers_congress_events.74.a: "No more crude cartoons, either."

 america_workers_congress_events.75.t: "River Rouge Wildcat Strike Turns Deadly"
 america_workers_congress_events.75.d: "The workshops of the River Rouge Plant have been a known hotbed for violent activity. It was there that Edsel Ford was shot by an anarchist for his betrayal of the working class, a rash action by agitated workers. It comes as no surprise that it was here where workers struck out against the United Auto Workers in a Wildcat Strike. The UAW rightly asked the government for assistance, and boy did they deliver. After the workers were rendered inert, [WCA.GetLeader] broadcast a new policy to America banning Wildcat Strikes. No longer will mobs rule over the appointed American government."
 america_workers_congress_events.75.a: "It's what Reed would have done."

### General Flavour Event

 america_workers_congress_events.76.t: "Premiere of God Save King Billy"
 america_workers_congress_events.76.d: "Today Charlie Chaplin has premiered another movie, titled God Save King Billy, which has quickly received glowing reviews within the press. God Save King Billy is a political satirical comedy-drama and Chaplin's first true sound film. The film follows two principal characters, an unnamed German barber struggling to make ends meet in Germany who bears a great deal of similarity with the Tramp that Chaplin played in his other movies. The other major character is King Billy, who is a cruel but ineffective buffoon of a leader; an obvious satire of Kaiser Wilhelm the 2nd. Throughout the film it shows the plight of the average German worker while viciously mocking the German government and the Kaiser in particular. The film ends with the barber being mistaken for King Billy and giving a rousing speech where he extols the virtues of Good will and Human Brotherhood and gives a strong endorsement for Chaplin's socialist views."
 america_workers_congress_events.76.a: "Chaplin has outdone himself."

 america_workers_congress_events.77.t: "The Catholic Workers Movement"
 america_workers_congress_events.77.d: "While a good number of religious Americans have protested the effects of the revolution, that is not true for all groups. Of these groups the one that has attracted the most attention and popularity recently is the Catholic Workers Movement. Led by Comrade Dorothy Day, the movement has attracted popularity for combining Catholicism with socialist values. They focus on the concept of Works of Mercy. They have also built a number of Hospitality Houses in many major cities. The Hospitality Houses are acting as support shelters for those trying to return to civilian life, now that the revolution has come to fruition."
 america_workers_congress_events.77.a: "Live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ."

 america_workers_congress_events.78.t: "Grapes of Wrath Premiere"
 america_workers_congress_events.78.d: "Today, the film Grapes of Wrath premiered in theatres. The film is based on the book of the same name by acclaimed patriotic author John Steinbeck. The story follows the Joads, a family from Oklahoma and their troubles during the Depression prior to the revolution. The story illustrates the weight that federally enforced capitalism puts onto their average lives and drags their traditional values through the mud of reality. The movie does deviate from the book with the ending on a much more optimistic tone, showing the family working for the revolution to overthrow their California work camp. The main protagonist Tom Joad chooses to stay with his family instead of fleeing into the night, declaring his intention to set up a Red Guard in California to reclaim his farm in Oklahoma. The film has been well regarded by both critics and the public, particularly because of the necessary edit."
 america_workers_congress_events.78.a: "A film for the masses."

 america_workers_congress_events.79.t: "The People's Conservation Committee"
 america_workers_congress_events.79.d: "Since the 1916 National Park Service Act, Americans have been able to preserve natural splendour safe from industrialisation. Since the revolution has now been achieved, a movement has cropped up to combine this conservationism with old Progressive ideals. A number of new National Parks have been created on top of the houses of capitalism, as well as a People's Conservation Committee to guide their preservation. A top priority of the PCC is to replant trees in the Midwest, the source of the dust storms that threaten our food supply. Though it took a lot of convincing to get Congress to fund this project, the PCC hopes that in a few years the dust storms that used to reach Washington D.C will only be a memory."
 america_workers_congress_events.79.a: "And it puts people to work to boot."

 america_workers_congress_events.80.t: "Revolutionary Memorials"
 america_workers_congress_events.80.d: "With the revolution now over, countless memorials have gone up throughout the country to honour the sacrifice of the men and women that made the revolution possible. While many honour those that fought for the revolution itself, there are also ones honouring the struggles like the Haymarket Square Riot. As these memorials are made by the community, nobody was there to check whether the statue was appropriate until the press got a hold of the story. Apparently, statues were erected honouring the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing, and the 1920 Wall Street Bombing. The press claim erroneously that the government approved of these memorials, and are honouring the bombers. These statues were silently taken down, and an official apology was forced out of the city councils responsible for this mean-spirited action."
 america_workers_congress_events.80.a: "Everyone shall be honoured, unless they were bombers."

 america_workers_congress_events.81.t: "Cure for Polio"
 america_workers_congress_events.81.d: "Dr. Jonas Salk has created a cure for Polio. This is a miracle cure that many are calling a breakthrough in modern science. The scourge of Polio in America will now be forever gone from the minds of Americans. Parents are lining up in droves at health clinics across the country to get the vaccine for their children and themselves."
 america_workers_congress_events.81.a: "Thank you, Dr. Salk."

 america_workers_congress_events.82.t: "Fate of the Boy Scouts"
 america_workers_congress_events.82.d: "A question has come up in regards to the Boy Scouts of America. Some within Congress regard it as a reactionary organisation, notable for including a pledge that scouts are loyal to their employers in the days before the revolution among other issues. To that end, a number within Congress believe that a new Pioneer organisation should be created, similar to the ones in socialist countries in Europe, called the Pioneers of America. Unlike the Boy Scouts, this organisation will be for both boys and girls. These Pioneers are supported by the government to help make sure that the new socialist ideas are passed down to the next generation."
 america_workers_congress_events.82.a: "Leave it alone."
 america_workers_congress_events.82.b: "Create the Pioneers of America."

 america_workers_congress_events.83.t: "American Artists' Congress"
 america_workers_congress_events.83.d: "The American Artist Congress is an organisation that has been created to unite artistic people around the country and help promote the arts within America. From traditional artwork to film-making, all are supported within the artists' congress. It quickly has become a popular organisation to show the new Avant-Garde art of the revolution. Their Chairman, Ernest Hemingway, has already begun planning for a series of patriotic publications about life during the revolution. Ernest Hemmingway's appointment to Chairman has caused some backlash from artists like John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck, who claim Ernest's politics have turned authoritarian in recent years due to his work in producing propaganda for the 1936 US election."
 america_workers_congress_events.83.a: "Art for the masses."

 america_workers_congress_events.84.t: "John Reed Clubs Champion Literacy and Marxism Amongst Youth"
 america_workers_congress_events.84.d: "Throughout the country a number of literature clubs called John Reed Clubs have emerged. The clubs, established in various cities, universities, and communities, are creating spaces for young individuals to engage in discussions centred around Marxist principles, socialism, and John Reed Thought. Advocates argue that by fostering a love for literature and critical thinking, the clubs empower participants to analyse societal structures, question norms, and contribute to informed political dialogue. Critics, however, express concerns about the potential for ideological indoctrination and argue that a singular focus on Marxist literature may limit intellectual diversity. Despite the debate surrounding their approach, the John Reed Clubs have undeniably struck a chord with a segment of the younger population."
 america_workers_congress_events.84.a: "Reading for Reed!"

 america_workers_congress_events.85.t: "Paul Robeson Takes A World Tour"
 america_workers_congress_events.85.d: "After a long hiatus from acting, socialist activist Paul Robeson is ready for a world tour. With a powerful voice and a collection of traditional African-American labour music, Robeson has become the Marian Anderson of socialists in America. Just like Anderson before him, he has chosen to embark on a world tour to spread his music and support for black American rights to European theatres. The tour includes stops in London, Paris and even Florence. These European audiences, though in touch with American culture, still see black American culture as exotic."
 america_workers_congress_events.85.a: "Bon voyage, Robeson."

 america_workers_congress_events.86.t: "Promoting Sewer Socialism"
 america_workers_congress_events.86.d: "In the old days of the Socialist Party, successes were measured by how clean your sewer system was. Especially in Wisconsin, where Morris Hillquit made it his campaign promise to clean up the city. In reforming and organising public maintenance services, Hillquit showed that socialism could reorganise society without having to redefine or destroy its foundations. The principles of Sewer Socialism must be taken to the whole of the nation now that the chains of oppression have been broken. Many cities such as Pittsburgh are filled with pollution that covers the skies. Now that the revolution is over, cities all across the country shall be cleaned up and modernised. Americans, and the international community, should appreciate a clean sewer as much as they do a skyscraper."
 america_workers_congress_events.86.a: "Cleanest sewers in the world."

 america_workers_congress_events.87.t: "Anthem for the New America"
 america_workers_congress_events.87.d: "Congress is debating what tune shall become the Official Anthem of [WCA.GetNameDef]. Several songs have quickly become the candidates to debate. The question is which shall be voted on to become the official anthem of America?"
 america_workers_congress_events.87.a: "Solidarity Forever."
 america_workers_congress_events.87.b: "There Is Power In A Union."
 america_workers_congress_events.87.c: "This Land Is Your Land."

 america_workers_congress_events.88.t: "Stone Mountain, Georgia"
 america_workers_congress_events.88.d: "On the face of Stone Mountain, deep in the state of Georgia, lies a long stalled government supported project to carve bas-reliefs to honour the Confederate side of the last civil war. The site has been a hotbed of neo-Confederate activity, a history that has included hosting the site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. Many wish to remove such a blight from the land of the new America, especially as other monuments to the Confederacy are torn down. However, people are divided with regards to the specifics of the incomplete project, which had run out of funding and seen highly public infighting by its patrons in the 1920s. Some believe the limited work done should be destroyed and the mountain allowed to heal the best it can, especially since the face of Robert E. Lee was already blasted off in 1928. James Ford, in a cynical turn, wishes to continue the project but feature Jemmy, John Brown and George Padmore, feeling that these heroes of African-American emancipation are best-suited to inspire the new America. Diego Rivera, the artist behind the renovation of Rockefeller Plaza, suggests a cheap and honourable compromise. The relief will be chiselled down to replace the Confederates with leaders of Socialist thinking and revolution. Those being Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and John Reed. A redesign wouldn't be completely out of order given the numerous development issues the monument has faced and indeed the project had already been scaled back and replanned even before the revolution. But our government's final decision will likely send a lasting message about what our new America stands for."
 america_workers_congress_events.88.a: "Destroy the relief carving."
 america_workers_congress_events.88.b: "The Relief shall show the heroes of emancipation."
 america_workers_congress_events.88.c: "The Relief shall show the history of socialism."

 #Suicide is legal:
 america_workers_congress_events.89.t: "Syndicalist Ethics"
 america_workers_congress_events.89.d: "With the onset of a new society, a new set of ethics must take the place of the old ones. What is truly ethical behaviour? Waging revolution by all means. Before the revolution and during the war, life was hard for our fellow Americans. Many had to suffer the loss of a loved one, life-threatening financial insecurity during the crisis years or persecution. This lead to behaviour the old society may have deemed wrong or sinful, but our brave President Foster must look beyond traditions. For those whose souls suffered too deep an injury to carry on, we must allow them to phase out. Despite our censorship of the Daily Worker, massive protests by Christian Workers Unions, intelligentsia, and community support networks claim that Foster's 'suicide law' is merely a pretence to excuse mysterious deaths and disappearances. The more conspiratorial rightists even claim this is a plot by Foster to legalise murder so long as it looks like suicide. Foster's cabinet has called him in to reconsider, but the ultimate result was..."
 america_workers_congress_events.89.a: "Foster backs down."
 america_workers_congress_events.89.b: "Foster wins them over."

 america_workers_congress_events.90.t: "The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos"
 america_workers_congress_events.90.d: "Film montage, modernist writing, and the socialist spirit comes together in John Dos Passos's new book U.S.A. The story itself is an examination of twelve Americans that lived through the depression and revolution. Passos's writing combines snippets of newspapers, propaganda, and the conversations he recalls on the streets during the terrifying months before liberation. Such an unorthodox and creative writing is usually praised by the Americans Writers Congress, but they have remained silent. This is due to the book's depiction of illegal killings that took place throughout America during the Civil War by our soldiers. Dos Passos has defended this inclusion, saying that the truth in art, as he shows it, must still exist even if it is bleak. To the nominal leader of the Writers Congress, Ernest Hemingway, this book amounted to treason and sedition against the socialist government. However, his decision to censor the book and detain Dos Passos was overruled by the Congress."
 america_workers_congress_events.90.a: "Calm Hemingway down."
 america_workers_congress_events.90.b: "Hemingway is right."

 america_workers_congress_events.91.t: "Union Vacations"
 america_workers_congress_events.91.d: "One of the changes that has come with the Revolution is the transformation of vacationing. The workers of America rarely got to enjoy the luxuries that they created, stolen as they were by capitalists even though they rightly belonged to the people. How many of the struggling masses got to enjoy picnics or visits to the national parks when they had to work so many hours just to survive and feed their children? No longer will this be the case. The various local unions across the country, regardless of which federation they belong to, have begun to take over and manage various cultural centres as well as help sponsor vacations. This is supported by the government at both a local level and national level as a way to boost productivity and encourage comradeship."
 america_workers_congress_events.91.a: "Culture belongs to the people."

 america_workers_congress_events.92.t: "The Family and Freedom Program"
 america_workers_congress_events.92.d: "Our workers in the factories need to be free from distractions, our revolutionary soldiers must not be burdened with unnecessary worries about the well-being of their family. As part of the programme to ensure that the American worker is relieved of responsibilities which President Foster has termed \"A millstone about the neck of the workers\" Today the first train from Chicago to the rural plains in the centre of our country has left with children from mothers and fathers who work in important positions in the industrial heartland. The kids will be safe on the countless fields and ranches in the pastures, making themselves useful in farm labour and running errands, living a healthy life. This frees their parents to wage revolution with all their hearts and energy. With the success of this first train, Foster has proposed to his cabinet to make this a mandatory arrangement throughout the USSA, even going so far as to propose that children be taken by force from more stubborn worker families for their own good."
 america_workers_congress_events.92.a: "Foster's cabinet talks him down."
 america_workers_congress_events.92.b: "Foster's cabinet agrees."

 america_workers_congress_events.93.t: "Woody Guthrie Music Tour"
 america_workers_congress_events.93.d: "With Reconstruction on the way, famed musician Woody Guthrie and his band the Almanac Singers has gone on a musical tour. Popular with many throughout the country, Guthrie and his band play old classics such as Solidarity Forever and There is Power in a Union but they also have written many new songs, such as This Land is your Land, Ease My Revolutionary Mind, Tear the Capitalists down, and All you Capitalists are bound to lose. The tour has proven to be widely popular in all the venues that he and his band play at."
 america_workers_congress_events.93.a: "Roll the Union on."

 america_workers_congress_events.94.t: "1st World Science Fiction Convention"
 america_workers_congress_events.94.d: "Today in New York City, the first ever world Science Fiction Convention was convened, gathering literary minds in science fiction to discuss and talk about the genre. It had such people as John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederick Pohl, John Michel, Robert A. W. Lowndes, and Jack Gillespie. While it had a modest size of 200 participants, it was still considered a success with a second one planned next year."
 america_workers_congress_events.94.a: "The World of Tomorrow."

 america_workers_congress_events.95.t: "The Indian Anti-Capitalist Committee"

 america_workers_congress_events.95.d: "From the very beginnings of the American socialist movement, there has scant been much consideration granted to the rights and demands of the indigenous peoples across the country. On the contrary, early writings from Engels derisively referred to Native societies and economies as primitive. Despite this, the Russian and French Revolutions that reverberated all the way into the New World have brought with them a radical reconsideration of the national question.\n\nArchie Phinney, a Nez Perce Indian travelled abroad to France in 1931 coming into contact with the émigré anti-colonial African communists residing there, as well as Lenin's work \"Theses on the National Question\". Returning to the US in 1935, Phinney lay forward a series of critiques at the broader \"polite American society\" for its anti-socialism, racism, and much of the Socialist Party for their white chauvinism. Of course, Phinney himself is far from a traditionalist, with his ultimate vision for indigenous emancipation occurring through a Socialist Revolution and Radical Cosmopolitanism. Ultimately wishing for a society where being \"Native\" is no longer limited to the narrowness of the reservations.\n\nNow, in [GetYear], Phinney has recently conducted a meeting with Vincent Spotted Eagle, a self-proclaimed American Indian, communist and member of the SPA, alongside the not-quite-so socialist Raymond Francis Gray, D'Arcy McNickle and Zitkala-Sa. Founding the Indian Anti-Capitalist Committee together as a support group for the SPA in the current struggle, their efforts have received notable attention and applaud from the Montana Socialist Party, largely in part due to the fact that they were the first of the regional SPA sections to run a Native American as a candidate for the senate, only a few years ago in 1934."

 america_workers_congress_events.95.a: "A revolution by the workers of all creeds and races."

 america_workers_congress_events.96.t: "Travel in America"
 america_workers_congress_events.96.d: "With the revolution over and reconstruction under way, a debate over the future of travel has come up. Automotive Unions believe that cars will be the perfect vehicle for the new America, a symbol of the Freedom that Americans fought for. However, the train unions contest that claim and believe that America should invest in trains as a way to help connect all the towns and cities. Who shall Congress support?"
 america_workers_congress_events.96.a: "Support the Automotive Unions."
 america_workers_congress_events.96.b: "Support the Train Unions."

 america_workers_congress_events.97.t: "Alternative to Hollywood"
 america_workers_congress_events.97.d: "With the west still occupied by capitalist reactionaries that has meant that Hollywood is no longer available to us. Thus, the various film and artistic unions have been searching for an alternative and they have presented to Congress a number of alternative locations for filming. The ambitious proposal more closely resembles the german Babelsberg than Hollywood. The proposed entertainment complex, is set to be a sprawling hub for film production, television, streaming services, and various other facets of the entertainment industry. The government envisions this complex as a catalyst for promoting American values, fostering creativity, and showcasing the diverse narratives that make up the nation's cultural tapestry. Which city shall be given the support?"
 america_workers_congress_events.97.a: "Dallas."
 america_workers_congress_events.97.b: "Miami."
 america_workers_congress_events.97.c: "Houston."
 america_workers_congress_events.97.e: "St. Louis."

 america_workers_congress_events.98.t: "[GetYear] World Series"
 america_workers_congress_events.98.d: "The [GetYear] World Series of Baseball is here. This is the first world series since the revolution and attendance is high. Seven games of Baseball over six days as the Cincinnati Reds fought the Detroit Tigers. The games are extremely close so the final game is anyone's guess."
 america_workers_congress_events.98.a: "And the winner is..."

 america_workers_congress_events.99.t: "Detroit Tigers win"
 america_workers_congress_events.99.d: "The Tigers have won the game. The final game was close but Hank Greenberg, known as the Hebrew Hammer, scored the final home run in the final inning securing the win for the Detroit Tigers and making it so that they won the [GetYear] World Series."
 america_workers_congress_events.99.a: "Go Tigers!"

 america_workers_congress_events.100.t: "Cincinnati Reds"
 america_workers_congress_events.100.d: "The Reds have won the game. The final game was close but Ernie Lombardi scored the final home run in the final inning securing the win for the Cincinnati Reds and making it so that they won the [GetYear] World Series."
 america_workers_congress_events.100.a: "Go Reds!"

### Foreign Policy ###

 america_workers_congress_events.101.t: "[From.GetNameDefCap] Wants to Join the Internationale"
 america_workers_congress_events.101.d: "[From.GetNameDefCap], having recently become enlightened to the benefits of socialist government, has approached us with a request. They wish to formally join the Internationale. Would such a distant ally be worthwhile?"
 america_workers_congress_events.101.a: "Of course! We welcome them."
 america_workers_congress_events.101.b: "We have no need of them."

 america_workers_congress_events.102.t: "[From.GetNameDefCap] Refuses"
 america_workers_congress_events.102.d: "The [From.GetAdjective] government has refused our request to join their alliance. Perhaps we are not syndicalist enough for their measure, or unworthy as an ally. Either way, the answer was clearly no."
 america_workers_congress_events.102.a: "A poor decision on their part."

 america_workers_congress_events.103.t: "America's Protection"
 america_workers_congress_events.103.d: "[From.GetNameDefCap] has decided to offer protection to make sure that our new Commune does not falter in the Pacific."
 america_workers_congress_events.103.a: "Thank you America."

 # uses america_workers_congress_events.103.t / .a
 america_workers_congress_events.104.d: "[From.GetNameDefCap] has decided to offer protection to make sure that our new republic does not falter in the Pacific."

### Military ###

 america_workers_congress_events.126.t: "Boldness in Science"
 america_workers_congress_events.126.d: "From the bold new class of scientists our generation has produced, none can match the imagination of our Oppenheimer and Pasons. Oppenheimer the ambitious physicist with a connection to the brightest minds in the Internationale can make the atomic weapon dream a reality. Pasons the liberated rocketry pioneer whose devotion to socialism is only matched by his devotion to advancing rocketry research. Unfortunately, we can only fully fund one of these due to budgetary concerns."
 america_workers_congress_events.126.a: "We shall be liberated from the earth."
 america_workers_congress_events.126.b: "We shall liberate the atom."

 america_workers_congress_events.127.t: "No Longer Chained To The Earth"
 america_workers_congress_events.127.d: "Despite his unorthodox lifestyle, Jack Parsons has made hasty work of completing a rocket to our specifications. We've had to hold back many objections from politicians claiming that Jack Parsons is secretly in a cult with his work associates. Easily dismissed hogwash, until a meeting held with the team late into production. Parsons surprised everyone with a film of a successful rocket take-off ahead of schedule, but then dropped a bombshell by asking that his rocket be used primarily for scientific exploration of outer space. This incredible news is still being mulled over by the Committee, with their decision dictating the future of the programme."
 america_workers_congress_events.127.a: "Parsons is off, proceed as planned."
 america_workers_congress_events.127.b: "Parsons request is accepted."

 america_workers_congress_events.128.t: "The Atomic Chain Broken"
 america_workers_congress_events.128.d: "An international cooperation resulted in fantastic progress on the nuclear weapon. The biggest hurdle came when none of the Southwestern states would allow a test of such importance on their land, due to public knowledge of nuclear radiation. We've had to settle for an old munitions test site in West Virginia. There the test was made, and the entire Internationale celebrated this occasion."
 america_workers_congress_events.128.a: "We hold the future now."

 america_workers_congress_events.130.t: "Overtures from [From.GetNameDef]"
 america_workers_congress_events.130.d: "The [From.GetAdjective] ambassador has arrived, offering a treaty of friendship between [Root.GetNameDef] and [From.GetNameDef], suggesting that two countries with so much in common should work together rather than be at odds."
 america_workers_congress_events.130.a: "They are wise."
 america_workers_congress_events.130.b: "We have no use for Americans, syndicalist or otherwise."

 america_workers_congress_events.131.t: "[From.GetNameDefCap] Agrees"
 america_workers_congress_events.131.d: "The [From.GetAdjective] government has agreed to our offer of a treaty of friendship. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new era of cooperation between our nations."
 america_workers_congress_events.131.a: "Excellent."

 america_workers_congress_events.132.t: "[From.GetNameDefCap] Refuses"
 america_workers_congress_events.132.d: "The [From.GetAdjective] government has refused our offer of a treaty of friendship. Perhaps both our nations being part of the revolution is not enough for them."
 america_workers_congress_events.132.a: "A poor decision on their part."

 america_workers_congress_events.150.t: "Provisional Revolutionary Government Formed"
 america_workers_congress_events.150.d: "Following the dissolution of the state government and its replacement by a Congress of Councils and Unions similar to the ones declared in Michigan and elsewhere, the newly-formed Chicago Commune has been chosen by the Workers' Congress to host its sessions for the duration for the conflict. The newly-inaugurated President Reed gave a passionate speech for Revolutionary Unity in the upcoming conflict, harkening back to his experiences during the Russian, French, and British Revolutions. The congress proceeded to pass a resolution calling for the creation of a unified military council with representatives from all factions - including a single representative from Farmer-Labor, Henry Wallace, chaired by President Reed and entrusted with serving as an ad-hoc cabinet for the duration of the coming war."
 america_workers_congress_events.150.a: "It's finally here!"

 america_workers_congress_events.151.t: "John Reed Declares the [GetMonth] Revolution"
 america_workers_congress_events.151.d: "To a full session of the Workers' Congress and broadcasted on all available radiowaves, in what had formerly been the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, John Reed delivered a fiery speech describing the history and wealth of America; since the time of the Pilgrims, exploitation had ruled the continent -- nothing less than the naked domination of man over man, the sacrifice of humanity on the altar of surplus-profit. Slavery and Wage-Slavery were not abberations, argued Reed, but the core of the United States - but the same Working Class that had built the bourgeois their great Beast now had the tools to tear it down.\n\nLike a great volcano, the great class struggle that had stewed for so long was now erupting into the open; declaring that direct action against capitalist society was now a vital necessity for all American Workers, regardless of race, religion, or nationality. Telegrams from the Third International poured in in support of the Socialist Party, the IWW, and the CIO, each meeting resounding cheers from the delegates. After a nearly unanimous vote, a symbolic shot across the bow was fired in a declaration of Revolutionary Unity with the Workers of the World, and the immediate nationalization and collectivization of all privately held property without compensation. The proceedings came to an end with a final speech from Reed, one ending with the refrain that had now become familiar across the nation:"
 america_workers_congress_events.151.a: "\"Workers of the World, Unite!\""

 america_workers_congress_events.152.t: "The Social Revolution"
 america_workers_congress_events.152.d: "As the General Strike continues and the Proletarian Revolution begins in earnest, the IWW and CIO, with coordination thanks to the SPA, have begun to coordinate the ground-level seizure of state power. Across WCA controlled territory Red Guards have occupied Railroads, Telegraph Lines, Post Offices, Hospitals, and other vital infrastructure - meanwhile, all elected government besides local Workers' Councils and Union Congresses have been dissolved — for the first time in history, the American Workers are running their own lives. These congresses, having sent their delegates to the Workers' Congress in Chicago, will serve as the future basis for all political, economic, and perhaps even social life.\n\nIn this temporary state until a real economic plan can be agreed upon, production itself is operating in a state of flux: local communes have begun a crude system of resource allocation with the IWW and CIO providing infrastrucutral support, keeping prices relatively steady as our ad-hoc confiscations allow the sputtering engines of the old economic system to run until we so deem it proper. Like in 1917, 1919, and 1925, a feeling of change is in the air: a feeling that the 20th century has arrived at last.\n\n\"A republic, if you can keep it.\"\nSo said the Bourgeois Revolutionary Franklin so long ago. We have gone a step farther: we shall have a Workers' Commonwealth, if we can defend it."
 america_workers_congress_events.152.a: "For the Brotherhood of All Mankind!"

 america_workers_congress_events.153.t: "Deadline Looms"
 america_workers_congress_events.153.d: "As the federal government's deadline looms, it has become clear there will be no budging on either side. Across the part of the country controlled by Reed's supporters, Red Guards have been raised in large numbers and a growing determination to see the country remade in a syndicalist image by force has taken hold. The federal government, in turn, has also made it clear they see no path to compromise."
 america_workers_congress_events.153.a: "It is only a matter of time."

 america_workers_congress_events.154.t: "Reconcile with [WCA.GetNameDef]?"
 america_workers_congress_events.154.d: "Against all odds, [WCA.GetNameDef] has triumphed against all opposition, radically transforming America overnight. From their constitutional convention, a new system has arisen, one centred around the principles of syndicalism and workers' democracy - biased as it may be, it's still democratic at is core, something which surprised many people expecting the revolution to inevitably collapse into tyranny. With the recent election of the Farmer-Labor Party, a furious debate has broken out regarding the possibility of a peaceful reunification. While our government is favourable to many of [WCA.GetNameDef]'s policies, they are also far more radical, and will be negotiating from a position of strength - meaning we will be forced to accept many hard compromises. On the other hand, [WCA.GetNameDef] has proven its resilience, with both the Federal Government and Huey Long's [APG.GetName] crushed under their armies. Perhaps we should accept the inevitable and avoid more bloodshed, before the victors turn their eyes towards California."
 america_workers_congress_events.154.a: "Yes, let us end this ruinous war.\n\n(Play as [WCA.GetNameDef])"
 america_workers_congress_events.154.b: "We are the true America and we shall unite America ourselves!"

 america_workers_congress_events.155.t: "America is Reunited!"
 america_workers_congress_events.155.d: "The rebel government out west has decided to lay down their arms and rejoin America. The military checkpoints along the ceasefire line are being dismantled and people from both sides of the country are crossing over. At long last the country is reunited."
 america_workers_congress_events.155.a: "From Sea to Shining Sea!"

 america_workers_congress_events.156.t: "No Reconciliation"
 america_workers_congress_events.156.d: "With the recent election of the Farmer-Labor Party, many in [Root.GetNameDef] hoped the rebel government to the west would prove amenable to a peaceful end to the conflict that's ravaged America. However it seems that the rebels out west have decided that they shall not reunite with us. In their senate, they have bitterly denounced the Revolutionary Congress as a hollow mockery of democracy, no better than the tyrants in Washington and Baton Rouge it had replaced. It seems that once again, force of arms will be needed to reunite the shattered pieces of the country."
 america_workers_congress_events.156.a: "America one day shall be reunited."

 america_workers_congress_events.205.t: "Commander of the Second Continental Navy"
 america_workers_congress_events.205.d: "After the start of the Civil War, some high ranking captains and commanders of the U.S. navy have chosen the side of people. Some of them even brought with them ships under their command into our revolutionary endeavour. In our time of need, we need to appoint a Chief to our Navy which will lead us to victory against Federal forces. One of the best choices is experienced William Rea Furlong, a supporter of old U.S. naval doctrine, but we are still not in position to fight in open battle against the Federalist navy. Opposite of him, Hyman Rickover suggests to concentrate our attention against convoys in deep oceans. Finally the young but promising Arleigh Burke suggests to concentrate our effort on use of light ships and give to their captains freedom from high command."
 america_workers_congress_events.205.a: "Furlong is our man."
 america_workers_congress_events.205.b: "Rickover will strangle the Federalist supply lines."
 america_workers_congress_events.205.c: "Burke's decentralisation is the future."

 america_workers_congress_events.206.t: "Naval Industry after the Revolution"
 america_workers_congress_events.206.d.ACW: "With the outbreak of civil war, most of the shipyards were captured by the enemies of the Revolution. The shipyards that remain in our hands do not allow us to recreate the old US fleet, and we cannot fight against the enemy fleet in our present situation. But there is good for us - most of our shipyard workers have experience, and some of them have already proposed plans to simplify ship production and organisation of work. This will take resources and experienced workers from other places, but allow us to prepare for a naval war against the Federal Government. Our captains are divided into two groups - supporters of destroyers or submarines. The first group are insisting destroyers can fight against most enemy ships, and can also support our main ships in battle. The second group says that submarines are more efficient and can work alone at large distances without the support of the main forces of the fleet. Meanwhile, our leading engineers have proposed an option between them. Although this option is not as effective as specialising in one of the production lines, it will allow us to create a flexible fleet."
 america_workers_congress_events.206.d.post_ACW: "During the civil war, most of the shipyards were captured by the enemies of the Revolution. Now, despite our triumph, the US fleet stands in tatters, broken in the war, leaving us dangerously exposed against enemy fleets in our present situation. But there is good for us - most of our shipyard workers have experience, and some of them have already proposed plans to simplify ship production and organisation of work. This will take resources and experienced workers from other places, but allow us to prepare for a naval war against the reactionaries. Our captains are divided into two groups - supporters of destroyers or submarines. The first group are insisting destroyers can fight against most enemy ships, and can also support our main ships in battle. The second group says that submarines are more efficient and can work alone at large distances without the support of the main forces of the fleet. Meanwhile, our leading engineers have proposed an option between them. Although this option is not as effective as specialising in one of the production lines, it will allow us to create a flexible fleet."
 america_workers_congress_events.206.a: "Focus on submarine production"
 america_workers_congress_events.206.b: "Focus on destroyer production"
 america_workers_congress_events.206.c: "Let's keep our options open"

 america_workers_congress_events.207.t: "Corruption in the Shipyards"
 america_workers_congress_events.207.d: "After the end of the Second Revolutionary War, our previous decision to increase ship production shows this model does not work in peacetime. A leading engineer at one of the shipyards was recently caught receiving a bribe from one of the union members, in a private arrangement to prioritise their own work before others. To make matters worse, various shipyards spent money intended for building ships to \"improve working conditions\". Despite those claims, that money ended up lining the pockets of the navy officers who supervised the construction and assigned foremen, not the workers.\n\nThe growing corruption in shipyards has become a problem. We must reorganise ship production processes in order to root it out of our system."
 america_workers_congress_events.207.a: "We must purge this rot."

 america_workers_congress_events.208.t: "First Paradrop Exercise"
 america_workers_congress_events.208.d: "While technically speaking, the first paradropping exercises were practised by U.S army in 1930 with biplanes dropping machine gun squads, today a major breakthrough has been achieved. After finishing a rigorous conditioning and training programme started two weeks ago, a lottery was made to decide the jumping order of the experimental paradropping platoon made up of volunteers. When the Douglas C-33 took off from Alpena Airfield and finally was put into position to start the experiment, Lieutenant William T. Ryder became the first American Paratrooper after making his jump and landing near Fort Custer. The second man, however, refused to jump, and so the first enlisted man to become a paratrooper was William N. \"Red\" King, and then the remaining 8 platoon members in the aircraft. After their touchdown, they quickly reached the rendezvous point and completed their exercise goals, making the experiment a success."
 america_workers_congress_events.208.a: "What an achievement!"

 america_workers_congress_events.209.t: "Formation of the First Parachute Battalions"
 america_workers_congress_events.209.d: "With the success of our scheduled mass jumps and with the blessing of high officers and politicians, Fort Custer had begun taking volunteers for paratrooper units. While originally the high training standards and relatively high mortal risk initially caused few volunteers to show up, the high command authorised a triplication of the paratrooper wage as opposed to the foot soldier wage. Soon enough, the 501st Parachute Battalion was formed, quickly followed by other battalions and regiments. After a recruitment drive, the number of volunteers was enough to form 3 paratrooper divisions for us to utilise. While these divisions still lack combat experience, this breakthrough in Airborne tactics should not be underestimated, and the Continental Army Command is looking forward to seeing their investment in these divisions pay off."
 america_workers_congress_events.209.a: "Those boys are crazy..."

 america_workers_congress_events.210.t.butler: "Smedley Butler Leaves the Army"
 america_workers_congress_events.210.d.butler: "After our decision to organise the army on a state principle, our Commander-in-Chief Smedley Butler, an opponent of this decision, decided to leave the army. Following his example, many of our officers who fled the federal army during the Civil War, also decided to resign - and we don't have any possibility to stop them and not harm our image in the process. Unfortunately, we will need to reorganise our entire senior command and replace at least half of our field commanders, which will take at least several years."
 america_workers_congress_events.210.t.butler_dead: "Mass Resignations in the High Command"
 america_workers_congress_events.210.d.butler_dead: "After our decision to organise the army on a state principle, many opponents of this decision have decided to leave the army. Following their examples, several of our officers who fled the federal army during the Civil War, also decided to resign - and we don't have any possibility to stop them and not harm our image in the process. Unfortunately, we will need to reorganise much of our senior command and replace at least a quarter of our field commanders, which will take at least a year."
 america_workers_congress_events.210.a: "If this is the price to be safe from tyrants, so be it."

 america_workers_congress_events.212.t: "Former Red Guards Rob a Small Town!"
 america_workers_congress_events.212.d: "A group of former members of our Red Guard robbed a small town. While the local militia tried to confront them, the bandits had artillery, which soon ended the battle in their favour. The city was devastated, people were killed, and these bandits left the territory without any problems.\n\nAfter the news of this event reached large cities, people began to massively criticise our government, which cannot protect citizens from its former soldiers."
 america_workers_congress_events.212.a: "Catch them - this is not China!"

 america_workers_congress_events.213.t: "Violence in the Factories!"
 america_workers_congress_events.213.d: "The workers of one of our states cooperated and began a mass strike against a 12-hour working day and demanded better working conditions. Although the strike was at first peaceful, the violence began when the Red Guard tried to calm them down and demanded that the workers go home. No one knows who fired the first shot, but many workers were killed and the factory was seriously damaged."
 america_workers_congress_events.213.a: "But we are protecting the working class!"

 america_workers_congress_events.214.t: "Clashes between Bandits and Rebels!"
 america_workers_congress_events.214.d: "A group of bandits and one of the rebel cells recently met. This led to turning the area near one of the small cities into a battlefield. While we are still not sure who won the battle, one of the groups retreated to the neighbouring town and was caught by the enemy. Huge damage was done and many citizens died in this accent. There is no doubt that the rebels will use this episode for propaganda purposes against us."
 america_workers_congress_events.214.a: "Just get rid of both of them!"

 america_workers_congress_events.215.t: "Growing Banditry and Protests"
 america_workers_congress_events.215.d: "Our advantage in the civil war - the number of troops - became a problem after the war ended. With ruined and damaged infrastructure and no government support to help them get to their homes, most of the former militias have turned into a bunch of bandits who rob people for food. This became a common problem in territories that were under enemy control in the last stages of the war. These bandits not only rob people, but also start shooting with small groups of reactionaries when they meet. Some newspapers have already stated that “The Second Civil War did not end and became a procession of warlords,” which seriously damaged our authority, as these people fought for us in a civil war.\n\nAs if that wasn't enough, some of the workers started protests - at least now peacefully - with demands to reduce working hours and stop mass production of weapons.\n\nIf we do not start the demobilisation programme in the near future, this will only lead to the ongoing devastation of the country."
 america_workers_congress_events.215.a: "We need to start the demobilisation programme!"

 america_workers_congress_events.216.t: "Smedley Butler Passes Away"
 america_workers_congress_events.216.d.WCA: "A day of national mourning has been called out amongst [Root.GetNameDef], as news of the passing of former Field Marshal Smedley Butler was announced by the government this morning. The war hero had checked into the Philadelphia Naval Hospital the month prior, reportedly having been sick for several weeks. Upon admission, doctors discovered he had an incurable gastrointestinal condition and in spite of their best care, Butler passed away the following fortnight surrounded by his loved ones.\n\nHaving only recently announced his retirement after seeing the end of the Second American Civil War, Butler oversaw important reforms and overhauls to the Second Continental Army, transforming it into a well organised fighting force that ultimately saw the emancipation of the working class all across the continental United States. His death has rocked the nation to its core, with many in the army still believing his work in guiding it to be unfinished.\n\nAt Capitol Hill, a full state funeral was given in commemoration of him including military honours. The procession led by fellow Marines who had fought alongside him for many years. His coffin was laid in state at the Capitol Rotunda for three days, before being buried at Arlington National Cemetery."
 america_workers_congress_events.216.d.WCA_weltkrieg: "A day of national mourning has been called out amongst [Root.GetNameDef], as news of the passing of former Field Martial Smedley Butler was announced by the government at [Root.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName]. The war hero was found dead in his office this morning, having spent the past few weeks coordinating the American war effort. Taking very few breaks and only permitting those in the upper echelons of the military command to visit him. The coroners' report of his autopsy would eventually reveal that he had died from gastrointestinal complications compounded by excessive overworking.\n\nHaving announced his plans for retirement once the current conflicts our nation is entangled in finally come to an end, Butler oversaw important reforms and overhauls to the People's Vanguard, transforming it into a well organised fighting force that ultimately saw the emancipation of the working class all across the continental United States. His sudden death has rocked the nation to its core, with many in the army still believing his work in guiding it to be unfinished.\n\nAt Capitol Hill, a full state funeral was given in commemoration of him including military honours. The procession led by fellow Marines who had fought alongside him for many years. His coffin was laid in state at the Capitol Rotunda for three days, before being buried at Arlington National Cemetery."
 america_workers_congress_events.216.d.not_WCA: "Today the passing of Smedley Butler was announced by his family. The war veteran had checked into the Philadelphia Naval Hospital the month prior, reportedly having been sick for several weeks. Upon admission, doctors discovered he had an incurable gastrointestinal condition and in spite of their best care, Butler passed away the following fortnight surrounded by his loved ones.\n\nA man whose loyalty was often the subject of scepticism and doubt by those in the upper echelons of the Federal Army, Butler fought with distinction under the Olson Administration during the Second American Civil War, seeing the conflict come to a close before announcing his retirement.\n\nHis funeral was attended by members of the Philadelphia Police Department as well as former Marines who had served alongside him for many years. Several politicians were also present, most notable amongst which was Quentin Roosevelt, who personally paid tribute to the deceased general. He was buried at Oaklands Cemetery, Pennsylvania."
 america_workers_congress_events.216.a: "Your contributions will never be forgotten. Rest in peace."

 america_workers_congress_events.217.t: "A New Flag for a New America"
 america_workers_congress_events.217.d: "As revolutionary forces sweep out the last White remnants, questions of the symbols of the old regime gain prominence in the constitutional convention. One debate which has risen to the forefront in recent weeks has been that of the flag of our country. During the war, we flew many banners, however among the most popular and most \"official\" was a variation of the old U.S. flag with the stripes dipped in red dye. Combining the old stars with the red of the revolution, it was well received at the time, however some more radical elements in the IWW and SPA were uncomfortable with the continuity with existing symbolism.\n\nWith the constitutional convention almost complete, a number of redesigns have been considered by a special committee. The first option is simply to keep the flag as is. Though it was a haphazard design, some have made the emotive argument that many died for the revolution under it, and after years of instability many yearn for a flag that represents stability and continuity as well as the new regime.\n\nAlternatively, one proposed design places the new state emblem in white in the middle of a red banner. This striking design does away with traditional American iconography, while being politically acceptable to most factions. Though a striking departure from the old, many regard it as a logical continuation of the revolutionisation of American culture, and as of now it appears to be the most popular alternative to the current flag.\n\nMeanwhile, the IWW bloc has launched a campaign for a flag drawn straight from their iconography. A red and black flag with a white globe, lettering, and stars might scream wobbly, but it has clear advocates on the left of the convention.\n\nFinally, a popular petition has been launched for a design incorporating the stripes of the old U.S. flag. Though the petition has a large number of signatures, the radical committee has refused to consider the "counterrevolutionary" proposal. Earl Browder has criticised the provisional government for this slight, promising that a TUUL-led executive would instate a flag incorporating the stripes and the state emblem.\n\nIn any case, the time has come for the committee to choose the flag of the new commonwealth. The new symbol of America is to be decided."
 america_workers_congress_events.217.a: "Maintain the wartime blue and red."
 america_workers_congress_events.217.b: "The IWW's black and red gains support."
 america_workers_congress_events.217.c: "White and red have never failed anyone."

 america_workers_congress_events.1000.t: "[WCA.GetNameDefCap] Arises"
 america_workers_congress_events.1000.d: "Following a harrowing civil war, the old hegemony of the American continent has been painted red with the colours of revolutionary syndicalism! Having successfully overthrown the federal government in Washington and crushed the counter-revolution launched by Huey Long, the $WCA_ACW$ called for a second Constitutional Convention in order to lay the groundwork for a new nation. During this lengthy deliberation, numerous factions bickered, debated and discussed until a consensus was reached.\nThe new America has rejected the growing threat of Totalism and tyranny, in favour of a socialist republic, maintaining the spirit of American freedom. It remains to be seen how stable the new government will be, and if the syndicalists can successfully root out capitalism in their new bastion of liberty."
 america_workers_congress_events.1000.a: "Long live our comrades in America!"
 america_workers_congress_events.1000.b: "Will it truly be revolutionary democracy, or\nmob rule?"

 america_workers_congress_events.1001.t: "William Foster Named President"
 america_workers_congress_events.1001.d: "Following the harrowing civil war, the new syndicalist hegemon of America called for a constitutional convention in order to sort out a new form of government. After lengthy debates, an influential clique of Centralists persuaded in the convention to adapt an authoritarian constitution, concentrating power in the hand of a single political elite. At the head of that elite was William Foster. A noted political activist and theorist, Foster stirred up some controversy with his new policies which rejected syndicalist dominance over the economy.\nInstead, he has fashioned the new America after the bureaucracy of the old, with additional socialist amendments and more direct control from the central government. His supporters praise this as a means to slowly transform the country, while his critics are calling it a betrayal of the revolution's ideology."
 america_workers_congress_events.1001.a: "Long live Comrade Foster!"
 america_workers_congress_events.1001.b: "Nothing but a despot, in charge of an\nindustrial titan."

 america_workers_congress_events.1002.t: "Earl Browder Named President"
 america_workers_congress_events.1002.d: "Following the harrowing civil war, the new syndicalist hegemon of America called for a constitutional convention in order to sort out a new form of government. After lengthy debates, an influential clique of Centralists persuaded in the convention to adapt an authoritarian constitution, concentrating power in the hand of a single political elite. At the head of that elite was Earl Browder. A noted political activist and theorist, Browder stirred up some controversy with his new policies which rejected syndicalist dominance over the economy. Instead, he has fashioned the new America after the bureaucracy of the old, with additional socialist amendments and more direct control from the central government. His supporters praise this as a means to slowly transform the country, while his critics are calling it a betrayal of the revolution's ideology."
 america_workers_congress_events.1002.a: "Long live Comrade Browder!"
 america_workers_congress_events.1002.b: "Nothing but a despot, in charge of an\nindustrial titan."

 america_workers_congress_events.1003.t: "[WCA_GetButlerOrCarlsonName]'s Coup"
 america_workers_congress_events.1003.d: "Seeing how the revolution he fought for was steadily slipping towards dictatorship, the famed American General [WCA_GetButlerOrCarlsonName] launched today a coup against [WCA.GetNameDef]'s recently inaugurated centralist government.\n\nRelying on his connections to the syndicalist militias and several political friends in the more moderate factions, [WCA_GetButlerOrCarlson] has taken control of [Root.Capital.GetCapitalVictoryPointName] and set himself up as a provisional president in charge of overturning the tyrannical policies set by his predecessor. It remains to be seen how long this period will last, but celebrations are already erupting throughout [WCA.GetNameDef], praising [WCA_GetButlerOrCarlson]'s name."
 america_workers_congress_events.1003.a: "Down with the Centralists, long live\n[WCA_GetButlerOrCarlsonName]!"
 america_workers_congress_events.1003.b: "The stranglehold of revolution loosens, ever\nso slightly."

# Companies
 WCA_USA_colt: "Синдикат Кольт"
 WCA_USA_chrysler: "Арсенал Детройта"

### Characters ###
 WCA_earl_browder: "Эрл Рассел Браудер"
 WCA_earl_browder_leader_desc: "Браудер стал убежденным социалистом в возрасте 16 лет. Его приверженность социализму была непоколебима, и благодаря ранней дружбе с Уильямом Фостером он стал синдикалистом. С годами эти двое мужчин начали отдаляться друг от друга. В то время как Фостер выступал за авторитарную форму синдикализма, Браудер начал видеть в этом движении все больше и больше ограничений. Американская революция, по его словам, доказала, что те же убеждения и стратегии, которые использовались в Европе, не могут быть применены к Америке. Его новая экономическая политика была основана на максимизме, а также на большом количестве оригинальных идей. Браудер также намерен покончить с устойчивой тенденцией анархизма в Конгрессе и преследовать развратные ультрарадикальные элементы в социалистическом государстве. Браудер никогда не бросал Конгресс производственных профсоюзов(CIO), но, занимая свою новую авторитарную позицию, он намерен гарантировать, что CIO никогда не бросит его."

 WCA_william_edward_foster: "Уильям Эдвард Фостер"
 WCA_william_edward_foster_leader_desc: "Радикальный председатель профсоюза и зачинатель синдикалистического движения в Америке, Уильям З. Фостер стал легендой среди американских левых. Его главенство в забастовках 20-ых годов привело к тому, что Социалистическая Партия Америки переняла часть его идей, сделав Фостера одним из отцов партии. Его знаменитый манифест о "Построении синдикалистической Америки" стал учебником практически для каждого члена партии, что о многом определило нынешнее состояние страны. С победой партии Авангарда, Фостер был избран Председателем страны. Некоторые из его старых идей вскоре найдут своё применение на практике. Это означает полное переосмысление человеческой морали и построение полностью синдикалистического общества"

 WCA_jack_reed: "Джон Сайлас Рид"
 WCA_jack_reed_leader_desc: "Когда Соединенные Штаты охватило пламя, а в Стальном поясе разрасталась синдикалистская революция, в ее авангарде стоял Джон 'Джек' Рид - писатель, профсоюзный деятель, журналист и сенатор, если не больше. Родившись в семье бизнесмена на Западном побережье, он жил непритязательной жизнью высшего класса до учебы в Гарварде, в котором, соприкасаясь с социалистическими клубами и литературой, пришел к пониманию, что есть мир за пределами скучных залов колледжа, и этот мир страдал от постоянных трудностей. Несмотря на слабое здоровье от рождения, Рид выбрал жизнь путешественника, работая простым рабочим, чтобы заработать на жизнь, путешествуя из страны в страну и получив известность как военный корреспондент.\n\nЧто принесло ему большую известность, так это участие в великих революциях того периода. Первой, свидетелем которой он стал, была мексиканская революция 1913 года, затем русская революция 1917 года, которую он горячо поддерживал и которая укрепила его революционные социалистические убеждения. Именно в этот период он написал '10 дней, которые потрясли мир', свою самую известную работу. В 1918 году он вернулся в Америку, но Америка и ее антиэмигрантские законы больше не принимали его, поэтому через год он снова бежал - на этот раз во Францию, к новой, назревающей революции, и в отличие от русской, фактически успешной. Сражаясь вместе с французскими синдикалистами, Рид поставил перед собой цель - перенести этот успех в Америку, чтобы он стал следующим, и с помощью непостижимой промышленной мощи Америки произвести мировую революцию.\n\n С тех пор прошло много времени, и Рид достиг многого - он помог объединить американских социалистов в единый фронт, был сенатором, кандидатом в президенты, и наконец, призвал Стальной пояс к революции. Однако его цель остается прежней - стать следующим великим революционером, стать той самой фигурой, о которой двадцать лет назад написал бы ничтожный военный корреспондент"

 WCA_elizabeth_gurley_flynn: "Элизабет Герли Флинн"
 WCA_elizabeth_gurley_flynn_leader_desc: "§Элизабет Флинн начала свою адвокатскую карьеру в подвале одного из домов в Гарлеме, где находился клуб социалистов. Флинн отстаивала права рабочих и была яростным членом ИРМ, что стоило ей целых 10 арестов. Перед началом войны, Флинн организовала множество забастовок по всему Западному Побережью. Несмотря на это, избрание Флинн Председателем было неожиданностью для всех, ведь для многих соратников она была паршивой овцой этих выборов. Многие всё ещё считают, что женщине не место в политике, но Флинн докажет всем, как сильно они ошибаются."

 WCA_daniel_hoan: "Дэниел Вебстер Хоан "
 WCA_daniel_hoan_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMarch 12th, 1881, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LDaniel Webster Hoan is one of the enduring figures of the American left. Hoan enrolled in the University of Wisconsin and swiftly laid out the foundation for the university's Socialist Club, back when it had a mere four members. Hoan was admitted to the state bar in 1908 and moved to Milwaukee, where he began working with Victor Berger, editor of The Milwaukee Leader, in advocating for radical reforms to the city: public ownership of utilities, urban development programs, free legal, medical, and educational services, and other policies widely unheard of in most of the country. In 1916, Hoan was elected mayor, the second Socialist to hold that office. As mayor, Hoan codified what is sometimes called 'constructive socialism', emphasising practical reforms over haughty revolutionary ideals - some more itinerant socialists derisively called the Milwaukee branch members 'sewer socialists' for their constant touting of their city's sewer system.\n\nHoan's constructive socialism led him to side with Berger in the factional conflict of 1920. With Berger and the rest of the losing side of that dispute, Hoan entered the breakaway Social Democratic Party, which later reformed itself into the Social Democratic Federation. What followed was years of intermittent conflict between party loyalists and the SDF in Milwaukee, which led to Hoan intermittently losing the mayorship. Berger's death however gave Hoan control over the Milwaukee SDF, and through Farmer-Labor he reconciled with the Socialists to a limited degree.\n\nWhen the Civil War came, Hoan did not hesitate to align his city with the revolutionary government. Decidedly on the left end of the SDF, Hoan's ties to Norman Thomas' \"Progressive Caucus\" grew. When, after the war, the caucus broke away to form the Commonwealth Party, Hoan left the SDF and joined it, eventually being nominated by it to the presidency. Though Hoan's moderate past may seem out of sync with the revolution, Hoan, ever the opportunist, has adapted well to changing circumstances, and to many represents a new sense of practicality for a revolution looking to settle down.§!"

 WCA_eric_hass: "Eric Hass"
 WCA_eric_hass_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMarch 4th, 1905, in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LA native of the state of Nebraska, Eric Hass attended public school and, for a time, was a student at the University of Nebraska. Reaching his adult years just at the onset of the Great Depression, he struggled to make a living, and worked whatever odd jobs he could find. While working as an advertising salesman in 1928, Hass came into contact with the Socialist Party, which he soon joined, as did many in his generation. Soon however, Hass found himself in a very particular circle of socialists: the Industial Labor Group, the rump of the old Socialist Labor Party of Daniel De Leon, which had merged into the SPA in 1918. Though the ILG was aligned with the reigning Industrial Unionist faction of the SPA, they were generally considered a group of has beens.\n\nHass however soon endevoured to revive the group's fortunes. An energetic organiser, he brought a spirit of youth and creativity to the ILG headquarters. When he was elected editor of the ILG newspaper, the Weekly People, he successfully returned it to a daily format by 1936. Under the patronage of former SLPer Louis C. Fraina, the ILG regained influence, and De Leonist views became more and more explicitly mainstream.\n\nNow, with Hass' election to the presidency, De Leonism has returned in force. No longer is it only influential by proxy and by its sympathetic apostates like Fraina. Now, it is a leading tendency in American socialism, and headed by the young turk Hass, it flourishes§!"

 WCA_eleanor_roosevelt: "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt"
 WCA_eleanor_roosevelt_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 11th, 1884, in New York City, New York, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LAt first glance, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt as the leader of a Syndicalist revolution seems to be a paradox. Born and raised as a socialite in the wealthy and influential Roosevelt family, she was not with the $WCA_ACW$ when the revolution began, remaining in New England and hoping until the last moment that a peace could be found. While supportive of the workers' struggle, her revolutionary credentials are lacking, and she hardly fits the image of the jumped-up union boss that many associate with our young nation's leadership. Her opponents insist that these appearances are not deceiving - diehard supporters of the revolution call her a Trojan horse for the bourgeoisie, while opponents of the new government decry her as a laughable attempt by the socialists to convince the American people that they aren't bloodthirsty tyrants.\n\nAnd yet, when one considers it, the logic becomes a bit more clear. The triumph of the $WCA_ACW$ created a problem for both the old American elite and the new revolutionary government: the former had been defeated and left ostracised in the new America, while the latter was faced with a population that was and is reluctant to trust them. In Roosevelt, the Socialist Party saw a solution to both - a reconciliatory figure that might unite the supporters of the revolution with feminists, African-Americans, and reformists and ease the reintegration of old elites into society. Whether this controversial plan will work remains to be seen, but what is certain is that with her ascent to the presidency, America will yet again never be the same.§!"

 WCA_frank_zeidler: "Frank Paul Zeidler"
 WCA_frank_zeidler_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 12th, 1912, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LFrank Paul Zeidler has spent much of his life in poor health - an unfortunate reality that prevented him from completing his studies. Perhaps because of this, Zeidler was drawn to socialism from a young age - growing up in the throes of the Great Depression, Zeidler read extensively from left-wing writers like Norman Thomas and Eugene V. Debs. When asked about his reasons for supporting socialism in 1933, Zeidler cited the tenets of international brotherhood, the struggle for peace, equal distribution of goods, cooperation, and democratic planning. He would become active in the Socialist Party of America's youth wing, the Young People's Socialist League, and shortly before the civil war became the head of the Milwaukee branch of the Red Falcons, another SPA organisation aimed at educating children. Frank was aided in his activist work by his brother, Carl Zeidler, who would go on to volunteer for the navy of the $WCA_ACW$, only to die in the effort.\n\nDespite his perpetual sickly health and the untimely death of his brother, Zeidler did what he could to support the socialist war effort on the home front, and attended the constitutional convention as an ally of the libertarian socialist \"Militant\" faction. Joining the Militants in the newly formed Commonwealth Party, Zeidler succeeded Hoan as Mayor of Milwaukee, continuing the city's tradition of good, constructive socialist government. It was this clean and effective record which compelled Zeidler's party to nominate him to the executive, and then the presidency.§!"

 WCA_elmer_allison: "Elmer Thompson Allison"
 WCA_elmer_allison_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 5th, 1883, in Houstonia, Missouri, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LA self-taught radical from Missouri, Elmer Allison was a founding member of both the Socialist Party of America and the IWW. He was a leading figure in the SPA's radical Washington affiliate, spending much of his life either working in the local cedar mills or atop a soapbox in the streets of Seattle. A series of raids and near arrests by the Department of Justice saw him go underground, but he remerged as a political figure when he helped lead the brief rebellion known as the Seattle Commune in 1923. During the Commune's existence he met John Reed, striking up a friendship with the famed journalist and following him to New York City. There he was a major figure in running Reed's numerous political campaigns and leading the SPA's entry into mainstream politics. Following the revolution, his close comradeship to Reed and his zealous socialist beliefs has made him an obvious candidate for the presidency. A candidacy he gladly pursued!§!"

 WCA_james_cannon: "James Patrick Cannon"
 WCA_james_cannon_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LFebruary 11th, 1890, in Rosedale, Kansas, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LPersonally mentored by Big Bill Haywood and well-versed in the struggles of the American left, James Cannon became an unshakable presence within the Socialist Party of America. Although initially a fanatic adherent to Bolshevism, the failure of the Russian Revolution contrasted with the triumph of the French syndicalists caused Cannon to adopt a more libertarian view on socialism. As a formal representative of the SPA, he spent much time abroad in France and Britain, before returning to America after the outbreak of the civil war. Helping to organise foreign volunteers and the Internationale's advisors, he cemented his reliability as a brilliant administrator. With the war won, Cannon immediately began to build the momentum needed to run for President, and has now finally fulfilled his ambition!§!"

 WCA_louis_fraina: "Louis Fraina"
 WCA_louis_fraina_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 7th, 1892, in Campagna, Kingdom of Italy§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn as Luigi Carlo Fraina in southern Italy, Fraina immigrated to the United States at the age of 6, anglicising his name to Louis on his arrival. Fraina's father was an Italian radical republican, and his death prevented Fraina from completing his secondary education, as the young man had to obtain a full-time job to support his family. Instead, Fraina pursued forms of self-education, engrossing himself in radical and freethinking literature. In 1909, he published his first essay. By 1910, he was a prolific writer for the Daily People, the newspaper of Daniel De Leon's Socialist Labor Party.\n\nThough Fraina had briefly been a member of the Socialist Party, the SLP was where he developed his ideas more fully. Embracing De Leon's views on revolutionary industrial unionism, Fraina became a more prolific writer for the Daily People than De Leon himself. He covered the Lawrence Textile Strike, a heroic moment in labour history which left its mark on Fraina. Though he left the SLP in 1914, he continued his carreer in radical journalism, writing for avant garde cultural publications, developing ideas of socialist cultural modernism.\n\nThe growth in the left-wing of the Socialist Party from 1917 brought Fraina back into that organisation. A co-author of the Left-Wing Manifesto of 1919, Fraina wrote that \"Industrial Unions or Councils, or a combination of both, may serve as the basis of a revolutionary system\", predicting future developments in world socialism.\n\nWhen the left took over the party, Fraina took a leading role, both as a member of its Executive Committee, and later, after John Reed became party chairman, in the position of international secretary. Though Fraina's administrative ability was limited, he was a key propagandist, ideologue, and theorist for the Industrial Unionist faction and the Socialist Party as a whole. He continued to publish works of economics, sociology, and culture, and was regarded as the country's foremost Marxist economist.\n\nA key architect of the post-war constitution, Fraina served in several cabinet positions in several administrations, helping to bring about his vision of a revolutionary industrial unionist commonwealth. Now as president, he aims to further the cultural transformation of the revolution, and to continue in the tradition of his and Reed's faction.§!"

 WCA_norman_thomas: "Norman Mattoon Thomas"
 WCA_norman_thomas_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LNovember 20th, 1884, in Marion, Ohio, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LNorman Thomas has seen the lows and the highs of social stature, and remained dedicated to socialism the entire way through from newspaper boy to Princeton magna cum laude to conscientious objector. Prior to the civil war he had served as New York City's mayor and John Reed's vice-presidential candidate. Thomas pivoted his pacifism during the war into advocacy for socialists living in the Federal lands to resist conscription. After the war, he used his learned experience and close friendship to John Reed, preaching on behalf of the Progressives to lead the democratic socialists to victory in the Second Constitutional Convention. With a heart of gold and unshakable morals, Norman Thomas has ascended to the presidency.§!"

 WCA_upton_sinclair: "Upton Beall Sinclair Jr."
 WCA_upton_sinclair_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 20th, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LUpton Sinclair was an aspiring author from an early age. In his teens he wrote pulp magazines and poetry to make a living, eventually moving into investigative journalism. His moment in the spotlight came after he spent seven weeks disguised as a worker in Chicago's meatpacking plants, drafting a political expose on the poor labour conditions of the plants. Although Sinclair had hoped to rally the country behind the worker's cause, he instead merely exposed the lack of hygiene in the meatpacking industry; in response to this reaction, he declared \"I aimed for the country's heart, but hit them in the stomach\". With the profits from his literary career, Sinclair pursued politics in California, launching the \"End Poverty In California\" campaign. E.P.I.C, as it came to be known, was not the roaring triumph he had expected, but gave Sinclair enough fame and recognition that he could later pursue a second political career in the new America. Now championing an E.P.I.C movement applied nationwide, Upton Sinclair has won the recent presidential election with a startling margin.§!"

 WCA_maynard_krueger: "Maynard Krueger"
 WCA_maynard_krueger_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJanuary 16th, 1906, in Alexandria, Missouri, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn on a farm near Alexandria, Missouri, from a young age Maynard Krueger distinguished himself academically. A gifted student, Krueger completed his high school work at the age of 15. At the University of Missouri, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1926 and a Master's degree in 1927. Academia was his calling, and while he was an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania he spent time at universities in Paris, Berlin, and Geneva. Paris in particular was important in bringing the leftist Krueger in contact with the worldwide socialist movement, and he made many lasting contacts there.\n\nHis acceptance of a position at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor also marked Krueger's increasing involvement in politics. A member of the Socialist Party, Krueger was part of the growing \"Militant\" tendency, a group of young turks who both believed in a revolutionary road to power while also opposing the authoritarian attitudes of John Reed's party leadership. As such, the Militants became close to Norman Thomas' \"Progressive\" faction, becoming arguably its left-wing.\n\nKrueger, a leader of the Militants, was a national director of research for the Socialist Party during the 1932 election. He was also involved with the Chicago Workers Committee on Unemployment, and was vice president of the American Federation of Teachers. When Civil War broke out in 1937, Krueger was a leading member of the Chicago Commune, serving as a leader of the moderate opposition to the Industrial Unionists in the city. After the war, he led the Militants into the Commonwealth Party, a party that was as much his own creation as it was Thomas'.\n\nWhen Thomas retired after Commonwealth's defeat in the post-war elections, Krueger was the obvious choice to succeed him. Leading the party in a more revolutionary, militant, and less pacifistic direction, Krueger has nonetheless upheld the party's opposition to all forms of repression. Now as president, Krueger seeks to bring about a just, principled, and humane revolution.§!"

 WCA_benjamin_gitlow: "Benjamin Gitlow"
 WCA_benjamin_gitlow_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 22nd, 1891, in Elizabethport, New Jersey, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBenjamin Gitlow was a child of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Growing up in a family of radicals, he often heard stories of the exploits of Russian socialists, and he was familiar with socialist ideas from a young age. As he worked as a retail clerk while studying law, he helped organise the Retail Clerks Union, political activity for which he was discharged from his job and blacklisted by the Merchants' Association.\n\nAfter being blacklisted from the retail sales industry, he worked briefly as a garmant cutter before entering the world of radical journalism. A member of the Socialist Party of America from the moment he turned 18, in 1919 he immediately gravitated towards the party's emerging left-wing. With Louis C. Fraina and Charles Ruthenberg he co-authored the Left-Wing Manifesto of 1919, and soon struck up a lifelong friendship with John Reed. Eventually, he became the business manager of The Revolutionary Age, the publication of the left-wing and later the party as a whole.\n\nAfter the left-wing captured the party, Gitlow was elected to the New York State Assembly. Balancing his duties as a parliamentarian and prominent party administrator, Gitlow combined legal and illegal work. The Red Scare during the British Revolution was a moment of crisis for the party. The New York legislature's failure to expel Gitlow and his fellow partisans marked its end, and the Socialist Party's victory.\n\nIn the period prior to the revolution, Gitlow alternated between running for several offices, including governor, senate, state house, and the federal house. He also remained close to Reed, becoming perhaps his closest confidant in the party. For this, he was entrusted with command of the revolutionary government's security forces, working to suppress reactionary resistance, and working with Jay Lovestone's intelligence services to ferment revolutionary sentiment in areas not controlled by the Reds.\n\nNow that Gitlow has returned Reed's party to power, he is determined to uphold the legacy of his friend and comrade. A principled yet often authoritarian revolutionary, Gitlow will give no quarter to enemies of the revolution, and aims to ensure Socialist Party dominance in the years to come.§!"

 WCA_walter_reuther: "Walter Philip Reuther"
 WCA_walter_reuther_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 1st, 1907, in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LOne of the Socialist Party's brightest young stars, Walter Phillip Reuther has fought tooth-and-nail for the emancipation of the working classes for his whole life. The second son in a family of German-American socialist immigrants, Reuther grew up in the midst of the vicious struggle waged by the Socialist Party for workers' liberty; one of his most formative experiences was a meeting with the famous Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, during his last campaign for the presidency in 1920. From the age of 19, Reuther organized and worked in Detroit, his impressive technical skill securing for himself a life-long profession as a tool and die maker. From 1932, as an official representative of the Socialist Party, Reuther spent time working in the factories of Britain and France, where he saw firsthand the power of syndicalist organization. His skilled leadership as head of United Auto Workers Local 174 saw him quickly propelled to the union's higher elected positions; in 1936 he became famous nationwide for the 'Battle of the Overpass', where Ford thugs crossed the picket line to beat him nearly to death.\n\nStill, Reuther has never relented. Elected chairman of the Detroit Commune during the outbreak of the Revolution, Reuther played an important role in organizing production across the entirety of the vital Steel Belt. He made a name for himself postwar after he aligned himself with Norman Thomas' Commonwealth Party - a strong supporter of a robust socialist state, workplace democracy, and the massive expansion of Civil Rights.§!"

 WCA_robert_minor: "Robert Berkeley Minor"
 WCA_robert_minor_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 15th, 1884, in San Antonio, Texas, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LRobert Minor was born into well respected Texas family lines. On his father's side was General John Minor, Thomas Jefferson's campaign manager. On his mother's side was Sam Houston, President of Texas. His father would be elected as a judge, while his maternal grandfather was a doctor. In spite of this, Minor's family struggled financially, and he was only able to go to school for four years before needing to get a job.\n\nAfter working a variety of jobs, Minor was hired as an assistant stereotypist and handyman at the San Antonio Gazette. There, he developed his artistic skills, and emerged as a respected political cartoonist. Moving to St. Louis to work for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Minor became regarded as one of the best political cartoonists in the country. By 1911, he was the highest paid cartoonist in the United States. Moving to France to study art, he found the experience unsatisfying, and returned in 1914 just before the outbreak of war in Europe.\n\nPolitically, Minor joined the Socialist Party in 1907 before moving towards anarchism in 1912. An advocate for revolutionary industrial unionism, he lost work because of his refusal to draw pro-war cartoons. In 1915, he moved to the Socialist Party's New York Call, and began drawing for Max Eastman's radical monthly The Masses. The Call sent Minor to Europe in 1918 as a war correspondant, where he visited Soviet Russia, Germany, and France, where he witnessed the 1919 Revolution. These experiences returned Minor to the realm of party socialism, and he became more involved in the radicalising SPA.\n\nThrough the 1920s and early 1930s, Minor got into the good graces of the Industrial Unionist faction which dominated the party. He served as a delegate to the Third International, and ran for several offices in New York. Now transformed into a loyal party cadre, Minor served in several administrative roles both during and after the Revolution, and was elected to the presidency as a largely inoffensive compromise candidate. Nevertheless, he is committed to industrial unionism and America's role in the international revolution, and will seek to fully commit the Commonwealth to the good fight.§!"

 WCA_asa_philip_randolph: "Asa Philip Randolph"
 WCA_asa_philip_randolph_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LApril 12th, 1889, in Crescent City, Florida, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LA. Philip Randolph was born to a minister father and a seamstress mother. As a child growing up in Jacksonville, Randolph learned the importance of character over skin colour from the former, and the importance of education and defending oneself from the latter - he would later vividly recall a night from his youth where his mother sat in the front room of his house with a loaded shotgun, while his father took a pistol and left to prevent a man from being lynched at the county jail. A gifted student, Randolph enrolled in the Cookman Institute - then the only high school in Florida for African-Americans - before being forced by employment segregation to move to New York City to study at City College. After a short attempt at theatre, Randolph became increasingly familiar with socialism, determining that people could only be free if not subjected to economic deprivation - with this in mind, Randolph began his civil rights career by establishing an employment office in Harlem aimed at providing work training to southern migrants. Randolph, along with his partner Chandler Owens and the aid of the Socialist Party of America, founded 'The Messenger', a radical magazine calling for African-Americans to organise and fight for an integrated society. Randolph also developed strong union credentials, most famously organising the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to address the deplorable working conditions of the primarily African-American industry.\n\nAlthough Randolph was somewhat hesitant to embrace the cause of revolution by force, he, like many others, was left with little choice as civil war broke out regardless. During and after the war, Randolph continued to concern himself with the needs of African-Americans as he always had, shifting his focus to union discrimination - arguing that the destruction of the colour barrier is a necessary component of a socialist America. For his efforts, he was picked as the Socialist Party's nominee for president - and with his election, President Randolph has become the first African-American to lead America, providing hope to many that the days of racial inequality might, at long last, be drawing to a close.§!"

 WCA_revolutionary_congress: "Revolutionary Workers' Congress"
 WCA_revolutionary_congress_sic_desc: "§YFounded:§! §LMarch 25th, 1937, in Chicago, Illnois, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHeeding John Reed's call for revolution, an assembly of dedicated proletarian tribunes has been assembled. Though they lack the wealth and connections of the United States Congress they supplant, members retain a dedication to serving their constituents.§!"
 WCA_revolutionary_congress_syndicalist: "All-Industrial Congress"
 WCA_revolutionary_congress_socialist: "Federal Workers' Congress"

 WCA_dorothy_day: "Dorothy Day"
 WCA_dorothy_day_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LNovember 8th, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LInspired by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Dorothy Day has devoted her life emancipating the poor. She founded the Catholic Workers Movement to combine her religious and political attitudes with charity. She strongly opposes the Integralist movement and motivates American Catholics to reject it.§!"
 WCA_paul_leroy_robeson: "Paul Leroy Robeson"
 WCA_paul_leroy_robeson_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LApril 9th, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LGraduating in law but failing to gain employment due to his race, Paul Robeson's first career was on the stage. As a singer and actor, he starred in Broadway plays like Emperor Jones, and was inspired to infuse politics with his acting. Hollywood studios constrained his acting and musical roles, leading him to the underground syndicalist media. Robeson has also invited socialist artists from Europe to come to America and start an artistic revolution free of censorship. His rich bass voice is tireless in its calls for equality.§!"
 WCA_whittaker_chambers: "Whittaker Chambers"
 WCA_whittaker_chambers_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LApril 1st, 1901, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LWhittaker Chambers got his start in collegiate drama, where he came into contact with student syndicalists. Chambers worked with european syndicalists to bring their art to America. Syndicalist revolutionaries see Chambers as an effective communicator and mediator knowledgable in the American populist tradition.§!"
 WCA_alger_hiss: "Alger Hiss"
 WCA_alger_hiss_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LNovember 11th, 1904, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHiss's early career in law brought him towards the liberal and interventionist policies of Robert Wagner. After being promoted to the State Department, Hiss became infatuated with syndicalism. Hiss attempted to utilise syndicalist rhetoric to attack the establishment parties for their failure to prevent recessions. Eventually, revolutionary syndicalists convinced him to abandon Wagner and the State Department and begin fully working for the them.§!"
 WCA_james_william_ford: "James William Ford"
 WCA_james_william_ford_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 22nd, 1893, in Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LFord is a lifelong champion of desegregation and worker rights. From his early days working as a machinist while attending Fisk University, Ford forged ties that cut across economic and racial barriers. Ford was employed by Earl Browder as a representative for the Totalist Charter in France, giving his insight into how the Third Internationale can correct the mistakes of previous regimes and treat all ethnicities with human dignity.§!"
 WCA_angelo_braxton_herndon: "Angelo Braxton Herndon"
 WCA_angelo_braxton_herndon_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMay 6th, 1913, in Wyoming, Ohio, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn to a poor African-American family, Herndon suffered from racial discrimination growing up. At the age of 14, he opted to leave school and work in the mines of Kentucky. In three years time, he was working in Birmingham, Alabama for the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. After being given the Communist Manifesto by the Unemployed Councils, a group affiliated with the SPA, Herndon became interested in the cause of labour reform, racial equality, and class conflict.\n\nAs a socialist activist for the Unemployed Councils, Herndon went to Georgia to organise labour. Herndon alarmed officials in Georgia for recruiting both white and black workers to demonstrate as a united front, and he was arrested for insurrection again and held for six months. Although the state prosecutors wanted to charge him with the Death Penalty due to possession of socialist literature, his defence whittled down his sentence to 20 years of hard labour on the chain gang.\n\nOn December 7th, 1935, his conviction was overturned by the state court and he was released on bail. He spent the year of 1936 touring the country to promote his case, which was heading towards the Supreme Court. Ultimately, the Supreme Court did not have a chance to view his case, as the United States erupted into the 2nd American Civil War in early 1937. A staunch socialist and labour organiser, Herndon operates now in Chicago to continue his fight for labour and racial equality.§!"
 WCA_ernest_miller_hemingway: "Ernest Miller Hemingway"
 WCA_ernest_miller_hemingway_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 21st, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LErnest Hemingway served as a reporter during the Weltkrieg, eventually becoming a multitalented writer. Time spent in France after the war convinced Hemingway of the socialist cause. While vacationing in Spain, Hemingway was witness to the arranged murder of Jose Robles, a dissident friend of his. Upon finding out that the French government was complicit in the murder, Hemingway was galvanised in favour of a more radical authoritarian socialist system that wasn't reduced to dishonourable acts like what he witnessed.§!"
 WCA_ralph_hosea_chaplin: "Ralph Hosea Chaplin"
 WCA_ralph_hosea_chaplin_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §L1887, in Ames, Kansas, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LRalph Chaplin was active in syndicalist causes since age seven, when he saw a man shot during the Pullman Strike. in Mexico, Chaplin joined the Zapatistas, and in West Virginia he was the first to sing \"Solidarity Forever\". Syndicalists across North America have reproduced his art and sung his songs in order to rally more workers to their cause.§!"
 WCA_harry_dexter_white: "Harry Dexter White"
 WCA_harry_dexter_white_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 29th, 1892, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHarry White taught economics at Lawrence College for several years, raising his acumen among capitalist academics. White was employed briefly under Henry Morgenthau Jr's Treasury Dept. This ended when White objected to American neutrality, pushing him into the syndicalist cause. White has a hobby of brainstorming plans for radical foreign policies to be enacted if America ever leads the Third Internationale.§!"
 WCA_william_weinstone: "William Wolf Weinstone"
 WCA_william_weinstone_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 15th, 1897, in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire§!\n§YBackground:§! §LLike many American socialists, William Weinstone (born Weinstein) was born in the Russian Empire and immigrated to the United States at an early age. Growing up in Brooklyn and embracing Marxism as a teenager, Weinstone was soon to embrace the growing left-wing tendency in the Socialist Party of America in the late 1910s, becoming a peer of Jay Lovestone and Bertram Wolfe at the City College of New York, acting as secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. When the left captured the party in 1920, Weinstone went through a series of important administrative positions, a rise which would place him among the ranks of the most important figures in the party.\n\nSoon however, he had split with Lovestone and Charles Ruthenberg's communist faction, and became a factional power player. Within the span of four years, he shifted factional allegiances three times, earning him the moniker \"Wobbly Will\". This faction fighting however paid off in 1932, when Lovestone successfully removed party rival James P. Cannon from his position as Executive Secretary. In his place, a compromise was reached whereby the widely mistrusted Weinstone would be elevated to the party's top post.\n\nThough few trust Weinstone, he is an able administrator and faction fighter, and as an Executive Secretary retains prestige within the party. Ideologically flexible, he may come into the employ of any of the significant socialist factional groupings.§!"
 WCA_abraham_johannes_muste: "Abraham Johannes Muste"
 WCA_abraham_johannes_muste_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJanuary 8th, 1885, in Zierikzee, Zeeland, Kingdom of the Netherlands§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn to a coachman in the Netherlands, Muste's family emigrated to the United States when he was six. Although he grew up attending the Grand Rapids Dutch Reformed Church and trained to become a Reformed Minister, Muste came to question the fundamental principles of the church. Muste became influenced by the teachings of the Social Gospel and became attracted to the ideas of the radical thinkers of the day, supporting Eugene Debs for president in 1912.\n\nIn 1914, Muste found his views irreconcilable with his local church of the Fort Washington Collegiate Church and left the Reformed Church. A staunch pacifist, Muste joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1916. In 1918, Muste went to Rhode Island and became a Quaker minister. The following year, Muste became involved in the Lawrence Textile Strike, where many of the strikers were only recent immigrants to the US and did not speak english. Muste became the spokesman for the strikers, and was jailed for being a strike leader.\n\nAfter his case was dismissed, Muste returned to the strikes and pursued a path of nonviolence. Ultimately, both sides came to a compromise. In 1921, Muste became chairman of the Brookwood Labor College and stayed there for 10 years. In 1929, Muste formed the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, which organised many of the SPA elements in the CIO, and helped lead the Auto-Lite strike of 1934. When the Civil war broke out, Muste pledged his support to Chicago, and promoted his socialist christian ideology in areas controlled by the Revolutionary government.§!"
 WCA_hammie_snipes: "Hammie Snipes"
 WCA_hammie_snipes_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 31st, 1906, in Harlem, New York, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn to an African-American family in Harlem, Snipes became attracted to the socialist cause. Snipes would join with the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League as well as an SPA activist as an adult. In October 1936, Snipes was giving a speech in support of pay equality for African-American members of the Meat Cutters Union when he was stabbed by Sufi Abdul Hamid and Allen McAlpine, requiring him to get ten stitches. When the American Civil War started, Snipes went to Chicago to offer his services to the Revolutionary government.§!"
 WCA_william_ross_knudsen: "William Ross Knudsen"
 WCA_william_ross_knudsen_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 30th, 1892, in Petaluma, California, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LWilliam Knudsen has been active for decades in California socialist politics. Starting with an arrest at a free speech demonstration, Knudsen has attempted multiple times to run for Mayor of San Francisco. Knudsen organised labour unions across California, and attended radical trade union congresses representing thousands of labourers.§!"
 WCA_harold_maskell_ware: "Harold Maskell Ware"
 WCA_harold_maskell_ware_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LAugust 19th, 1889, in Woodstown, New Jersey, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LAn early member of the Social Democracy of America party with Eugene V. Debs and Victor Berger, Ware was an expert in agronomics and raised money for an experimental farm in the Commune of France. The Department of Agriculture tapped Ware for his talent, but refused to promote him due to his dealings in France. This motivated Ware to the syndicalist cause, and transferred all his efforts to them.§!"
 WCA_clarence_senior: "Clarence Ollson Senior"
 WCA_clarence_senior_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJune 9th, 1903, in Clinton, Missouri, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LA child of the midwest, Clarence Senior had a mostly uneventful middle-class childhood. Though economic necessity forced the young Senior to leave high school after his sophomore year to help support his family, after a few years in the labour force his aunt encouraged him to finish his education. Attending the University of Kansas, Senior was converted to socialism, participating in the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. The year he graduated, Senior joined the Socialist Party, associating with rising moderate star Norman Thomas. Senior represented precisely the type of middle-class intellectual who Thomas wanted to recruit to his vision of a \"respectable\" Socialist Party.\n\nSenior entered at a time when the moderate wing of the party was all but completely sidelined. A motely rump following Thomas and Pennsylvania's James H. Maurer, the party's right was locked out of power. Senior proved instrumental to its revival, taking up administrative work in New York, where he was credited with rescuing the party's finances and re-energising Thomas' so-called \"Progressive\" faction. His energetic contributions to the party right brought in allies, as the young \"Militants\", revolutionary democratic socialists, sought to ally with the Progressives against the establishment of the old left-wing section. In siding with the Militants and establishing a firm dialogue, Senior has become a key figure in turning the right from a rump into a grouping capable of contesting the party leadership.§!"
 WCA_jay_lovestone: "Jay Lovestone"
 WCA_jay_lovestone_advisor_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 15th, 1897, in Molchad, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn Jacob Liebstein to a Lithuanian-Jewish family in the Russian Empire, Liebstein arrived at Ellis Island with his mother and siblings at age 9. Attracted to socialist politics from an early age, young Liebstein was drawn, like many New Yorkers, to the politics of Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party, attending the old man's funeral in 1914. A member of the Socialist Party, Liebstein was a party activist at the City College of New York, before his graduation in 1918. The Russian Revolution brought about a revival of the left in the Socialist Party, and Liebstein was a member of the first organising committee of the left-wing section of the party. Though he had an at times antagonistic relationship with John Reed and Benjamin Gitlow, he came to be an invaluable party organiser in the city.\n\nWith the takeover of the Socialist Party by the left, Lovestone (who in 1919, like many American Jews, legally changed his name) joined with Charles Ruthenberg's \"communist\" faction of the party, becoming Ruthenberg's protege. In spite of a rocky relationship with his mentor (including one episode where Ruthenberg stole Lovestone's girlfriend), Lovestone attempted to position himself as the heir to Ruthenberg's position of Executive Secretary when he died. Though Lovestone failed to win the position, he took leadership of the communist faction, supporting the party's participation in Farmer-Labor and foisting the compromise choice of William Weinstone as Executive Secretary on John Reed and the industrial unionists.\n\nWith the outbreak of revolution, Lovestone has been placed in charge of the new state's external intelligence services. Though the \"Red Eminence\" of the party is seldom trusted, he is feared and respected, and even his adversaries acknowledge his organisational skills.§!"

 WCA_smedley_butler: "Smedley Darlington Butler"
 WCA_smedley_butler_leader_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 30th, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LMarine, General and Senator Smedley Butler has done the unthinkable, in the revolution's darkest moment he has overthrown the would-be usurpers and traitors in the Centralist clique, and kept the flame of liberty alive. The old general has been an invaluable warrior for the $WCA_ACW$, and his latest startling victory has endeared him to the population tenfold. Although Butler has confided to friends and political allies that he is uneasy to now be in the spotlight, he has agreed to take on the job as the temporarily acting President of the new America until the scars torn open by Totalism can be healed.§!"
 WCA_smedley_butler_WCA_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 30th, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LIn 1898 'The Fighting Quaker' Smedley Darlington Butler lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps to join the American force in the Spanish-American war. Due to his high education level he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and would be transferred to the recently captured Guantanamo following basic training. He didn't manage to see combat as his company would soon return to the US, where he was reassigned to the USS New York, becoming a first lieutenant in April 1899.\n\nHe was later transferred to the Philippines, where he mainly did garrison duty, although he took part in some engagements against the Insurrectos. In 1900, he'd accompany Littleton Walker during the Boxer Rebellion, taking part in the Battle of Tianjin and the Gaselee Expedition, being wounded in the thigh while trying to rescue a fellow marine, for which he earned a brevet promotion to captain.\n\nAfterwards, Butler would take part in the Banana wars, first in Honduras to defend the American consulate in 1903 and then in Nicaragua between 1909 and 1913, where he took part in breaking the siege of Granada, in the battle of Masaya and the capture of Coyotepe Hill. He took part in the occupation of Veracruz in Mexico in 1914, earning his first Medal of Honor in combat and was promoted to Major. He'd be transferred to Haiti, where he earned his second Medal of Honor for fighting the Caco rebellion. He'd be transferred back to the United States, where he served garrison duties until being promoted to Brigadier General in 1921. In 1927 he was sent to China to take charge of the Marine Expeditionary Force in the Legation Cities, earning his promotion to Major General, returning to America in 1929, and then competing and winning the role of Commandant of the USMC in 1931. He earned the rank of General in 1935, amidst the rising tension in the Hoover administration. When the situation started to deteriorate, Butler decided to resign from his post and presented his services to the Socialist Party, becoming the highest ranking military official to join the Red Guard and earning the rank of General of the Armies.§!"
 WCA_smedley_butler_army_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 30th, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LSmedley Darlington 'The Fighting Quaker' Butler lied about his age and enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1898 to join the American force fighting the Spanish-American war. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant for his higher education and would be transferred to the recently captured Guantanamo after basic training. He didn't manage to see combat, as his company would soon return to the US, where he was reassigned to the USS New York, becoming a first lieutenant in April 1899. He was then transferred to the Philippines, where he mainly did garrison duty, although he took part in some engagements against the Insurrectos. In 1900, he'd accompany Littleton Walker during the Boxer Rebellion, taking part in the Battle of Tianjin and the Gaselee Expedition, being wounded in the thigh for trying to rescue a fellow marine and earning a brevet promotion to captain. Afterwards, Butler would take part in the Banana wars, first to Honduras to defend the American consulate in 1903 and to Nicaragua between 1909 and 1913, where he took part in breaking the siege of Granada, in the battle of Masaya and the capture of Coyotepe Hill. He'd take part in the occupation of Veracruz in Mexico in 1914, earning his first Medal of Honor in combat and being promoted to major. He'd be transferred to Haiti, where he earned his second Medal of Honor for fighting the Caco rebellion. He'd be transferred back to the United States, where he served garrison duties until being promoted to Brigadier General in 1921. In 1927 he was sent to China to take charge of the Marine Expeditionary Force in the Legation Cities, earning his promotion to Major General, returning to America in 1929, and then competing and winning the role of Commandant of the USMC in 1931. He earned the rank of General in 1935, amidst the rising tension of the Hoover administration despite Butler's criticism of Hoover. He remains however as one of the most influential and decorated officers of the United States Marine Corps, and his influence should not be taken lightly.§!"

 WCA_herbert_charles_heitke: "Herbert Charles Heitke"
 WCA_herbert_charles_heitke_WCA_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMarch 6th, 1892, in Wyandotte, Michigan, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHerbert Charles Heitke was born in a German immigrant family, and would sign up for West Point in 1913, graduating in 1917 as an infantry second lieutenant. He was first assigned to the Quartermaster Corps of the Army's Reserve in Georgia, reaching the rank of First Lieutenant in 1920 and Captain in 1923. In 1925, while he was still in the Reserve Corps, he transferred to the Cavalry corps and was assigned as Assistant Professor of History and Social Sciences at West Point. In late 1929, he was transferred to the Army's Cavalry School at Fort Riley, and remained in this position until early 1937, earning the promotion to Colonel in 1934. As soon as street violence began escalating, Heitke decided to resign and move back to New York with his family, signing up for the local Red Guard, where his military experience granted him a promotion from Smedley Butler himself. Now a General of the Syndicalist Army, Heitke has become, along with Maurice Rose and Smedley Butler, one of the few military generals of the US Army to join the revolution.§!"
 WCA_herbert_charles_heitke_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMarch 6th, 1892, in Wyandotte, Michigan, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHerbert Charles Heitke was born in a German immigrant family, and would sign up for West Point in 1913, graduating in 1917 as an infantry second lieutenant. He was first assigned to the Quartermaster Corps of the Army's Reserve in Georgia, reaching the rank of first lieutenant in 1920 and captain in 1923. In 1925, while he was still in the Reserve Corps, he transferred to the Cavalry corps and was assigned as Assistant Professor of History and Social Sciences at West Point. In late 1929, he was transferred to the Army's Cavalry School at Fort Riley, and remained in this position until now, earning the promotion to Colonel in 1934. He has remained a relevant member of the staff, but his constant criticism of the Hoover Administration are starting to make a dent in the government's legitimacy...§!"

 WCA_james_kelly_parsons: "James Kelly Parsons"
 WCA_james_kelly_parsons_army_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LFebruary 11th, 1877, in Rockford, Alabama, United States§!\n§YBackground:§! §LThe grandson of a Confederate lieutenant and Alabama governor who had reluctantly overseen the abolition of slavery in the state, Parsons came from a traditionally conservative family but his early life was one marked by political radicalism. At the age of 21 he enlisted in the army during the Spanish-American War and was promoted to First Lieutenant of the 3rd Alabama Volunteer Infantry, a black unit commanded by white officers. He did not see combat until the end of the war, when he was sent to deal with insurgents in the Philippines and was once again put in charge of soldiers of a different race. Parsons began to get gradually involved in military office politics, relying on his old superior Robert Lee Bullard from the Alabama 3rd to provide him with support for his unorthodox proposals. Parsons was an adamant champion of racial integration. His radical proposal for an immediate and total racial integration of the army was dismissed as ludicrous and he was advised to focus on less controversial affairs.\n\nHe took up work commanding various National Guards before being sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, where he established a tank school and began to promote new theories about armoured warfare that he had learned from studying the Weltkrieg and the military of the Union of Britain. His subsequent recommendation to the U.S Army was to establish dedicated tank divisions who could punch through enemy defences at lightning speed, going far and beyond any scale of armoured warfare that had been seen before. Tank units were normally only the size of a regiment, but Parsons called for the establishment of six entire divisions as the optimal fighting force. This was quietly ignored, much like his integration proposals. By the time of the American Civil War, Parsons knew well and truly which side he was on. Having been appointed in 1936 to lead the 6th Infantry Division in Illinois, which was then in reserve, Parsons presented his credentials to Provisional Government in Chicago, which immediately made great use of his vigorous political commitment and his revolutionary military doctrines.§!"

 WCA_evans_fordyce_carlson: "Evans Fordyce Carlson"
 WCA_evans_fordyce_carlson_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LFebruary 26th, 1896, in Sidney, New York, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LThe son of a Congregationalist minister, Evans Carlson began his military career in 1912 when he left High School and signed up for the US Army as a private, serving in the Philippines and Hawaii, and finishing his four years of service in 1916 as a sargeant. He then rejoined the Army right during the start of the Punitive Expedition where he took up a garrison job in Mexico. He then signed up for an officers' course, from where he graduated as a second Lieutenant in 1917, and even did a short term in the Artillery corps, becoming an Artillery Captain in 1918. However, he was unsatisfied with his army positions, so he signed up in the Marine Corps in 1922 as a private, regardless of his previous postings. He was quickly promoted to Second Lieutenant, and served in a Marine outpost in Quantico, Virginia. He then sailed towards Culebra, Puerto Rico, in 1924 and remained there five months before being ordered to the West Coast for duty with the Pacific Fleet. Applying for aviation training in 1925, he went to Pensacola, Florida, for instruction, but subsequently returned to duty with ground units. He served another tour of foreign shore duty from 1927 to 1929 at Shanghai, China. He later returned to America and was quickly sent to Nicaragua to fight against Sandino's insurgency, earning a navy cross after facing around 100 rebels with just 12 marines. He also received a commendation after the 1931 earthquake and for his work as Chief of Police of Occupied Nicaragua. He returned to the US in 1933, and was sent to Shanghai, to the Marine Detachment in the American Legation in the Legation Cities, serving as Adjutant and studying Chinese. He returned to Quantico in 1936, attending the Marine Corps Schools while also taking a course on International Law and Politics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C... As the Nation spiralled into chaos, Smedley Butler began probing the Marine Corps for signs of dissenting opinions, and quickly found an ally in Evans. When the time finally came to join the Chicago Syndicalists in their fight, even despite being severely torn, Carlson decided to follow Butler and is now one of our Highest Ranking officers, and Butler's most trusted General.§!"

 WCA_jacob_loucks_devers: "Jacob Loucks Devers"
 WCA_jacob_loucks_devers_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 8th, 1887, in York, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LDevers began his military career when Congressman Daniel F. Lafean offered him an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1906 and graduated on 11 June 1909 as an artillery second lieutenant. Among his classmates was George S. Patton and the two men became fast friends. Devers' first posting was to the 1st Battalion, 4th Mountain Artillery in Washington and for his next assignment in late 1912, Devers was sent back to West Point to teach mathematics. On 1 April 1916, he was promoted to first lieutenant and he was transferred to the newly activated 9th Field Artillery at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii and promoted to Captain in early 1917. In May 1919, Devers was sent on a three-month temporary duty assignment to study the Weltkrieg in Europe, which inspired jealousy from Patton and led the men to gradually drift apart during the time that Devers spent attending the Preußische Kriegsakademie in Berlin to study the equipment and tactics used by both sides during the Weltkrieg. He was promoted to major in 1920 and he was later selected to attend the Command and General Staff School, graduating in 1925.\n\nHe was then posted to Fort Sill as the director of the Field Artillery School's Gunnery Department until 31 August 1929 where Devers was transferred to Washington, D.C., to serve on the staff of the Chief of Field Artillery. In 1932, he was chosen to attend the Army War College and graduated on June 1933. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 26 February 1934. With the country spiralling into Civil War, Devers found himself fighting more and more against his superiors inability to react to internal issues, starting a deep rivalry between him and Dwight Eisenhower, even putting him at odds with his old friend Lesley McNair. He also grew increasingly conscious of racial issues in America, writing letters of complaints about how poor the facilities were for black soldiers at the various locales he served in, as well as how there seemed to be a two tiered justice system that treated black soldiers much more harshly than white ones. Finding himself in Pennsylvania during the fateful few weeks before violence erupted, Devers asked his wife to flee to Canada before he presented himself to the government in Chicago and was put in charge of the Detroit XVI Corps.§!"

 WCA_david_monroe_shoup: "David Monroe Shoup"
 WCA_david_monroe_shoup_army_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 30th, 1904, in Battle Ground, Indiana, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LDavid Shoup was born in an impoverished family in the heart of the steel belt. From an early age, Shoup leaned politically to the left - having been moulded by the progressive ideas of Indiana politicians fighting against Wall Street's big businesses. Excelling in academics and extracurriculars such as wrestling and football, he joined the United States Marine Corps for financial reasons. In the Marine Corps, Shoup was recognised for his athletics, marksmanship, and leadership skills - impressing his commanders and subordinates for his ability to keep morale with his sense of humour. From 1927 to 1934, Shoup served in China, protecting American interests in the war-torn country, a mission he was personally opposed to seeing his actions as simply an imperialist exploitation of the Chinese people. As the nation began to spiral into chaos, Shoup's anti-imperialist stance and personal beliefs made him a staunch supporter and ally of fellow Marine Corps General Smedly Butler. When the time came for revolution, Shoup committed himself to the syndicalist cause and Butler, bringing the experience and leadership the Second Continental Army desperately needed.§!"

 WCA_robert_sharon_allen: "Robert Sharon Allen"
 WCA_robert_sharon_allen_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 14th, 1900, in Latonia, Kentucky, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LRobert S. Allen was born Herman Greenberg until his father officially changed his name as the Weltkrieg raged on to avoid connections to Germany and to pick a real \"American\" last name. Lying about his age, Allen joined Pershing's expedition to seek out Pancho Villa after which he graduated from the University of Wisconsin and took up reporting. It was in Wisconsin, one of the key hotbeds of American socialism that Allen became dedicated to Reed's cause. As racial tensions seeped into American society with the ongoing economic crisis, Allen used his investigative journaling skills to successfully infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. A foreign correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor, Allen's dissatisfaction with the Hoover administration compelled him to write an anonymous expose \"Washington Merry Go-Round.\" Disillusioned with MacArthur's military clique in Washington and Hoover's incompetence brought Allen more and more committed to the vision of America held by the SPA. A proponent of speed and armour due to his experiences in the Pershing Expedition, Allen has pledged himself to the worker's cause in the wake of the civil war.§!"

 WCA_maurice_rose: "Maurice Rose"
 WCA_maurice_rose_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LNovember 26th, 1899, in Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LMaurice Rose, born into a Jewish family, lied about his age to enlist in the Colorado National Guard in 1916 with the hopes of being able to join Pershing's Punitive Expedition to Mexico, but was discharged six weeks later for being underage. He worked with his brother in a meatpacking plant until he came of age, after which he enlisted and was selected to officer training, graduating from the Officer Candidate School in 1917 as an infantry second lieutenant. He reached the rank of Captain in 1923, and would start the Infantry Company Officer Course, graduating in 1926. With the growing schism between the pro-mechanisation officers and the traditionalists, Rose joined the former, meeting higher ranking officers like Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton, who instilled some of their theoretical armoured warfare knowledge into him. He'd undergo the Cavalry Officer Course in 1928, graduating in 1931, and then joining the Command and General Staff College, where he was still undergoing the final stages of his training when the Civil War was about to break out.\n\nRose's career had unfortunately been plagued with discrimination because of his Jewish origin, both from his commanding officers and fellow colleagues, most notably from General George Van Horn Moseley and Pedro Augusto del Valle, who are even said to have held his promotions back because of his background.\n\nAs a reaction to his treatment, Rose began to be seduced by the promises of social equality by the Socialist Party of America and when the situation finally seemed unsalvageable, Rose decided to defect northwards, where he joined the Red Guard. After having been recognised by Butler, he was promoted to the rank of General, and is widely considered the main mechanised warfare expert in the Congress' army.§!\n\n§YNotes: He hasn't pledged his allegiance to any of the political factions, and he's rumoured to only be in our army in order to fight the anti-semitic officers of the People's Government who once hindered his career.§!"

 WCA_robert_hale_merriman: "Robert Hale Merriman"
 WCA_robert_hale_merriman_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LNovember 17th, 1908, in Eureka, California, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LThe son of a lumberjack, Robert Hale Merriman grew up in a poor family hit hard by the Depression. Forced to take odd jobs to continue his education after graduating from high school, he ended up joining the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) branch at the University of Nevada, where he graduated in 1932, marrying his wife Marion, also a student, on their graduation day. After this, he enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue a master's degree in economics. With the Depression's grip worsening in America and fascinated by French and British economic structures, he and Marion moved to Paris for a year to study at the Sorbonne. Returning to California in 1935, he finished his master's degree and was accepted to the University of Chicago's PhD programme in 1936, drawn to the growing revolutionary activity in the city.\n\nAs MacArthur's deadline loomed over Reed's conference, Merriman, with his background in the ROTC, began teaching students of all ages the rudimentary military training he had learned half a decade ago. Though he was not a devoted syndicalist, Merriman was outraged by the widespread political repression and authoritarian tenancies demonstrated by the American government in the summer of 1936, and with his warm personality and commanding figure he was elected to lead the University's branch of the Red Militia.\n\nUnlike many of the other young officers voted into command by their peers, Merriman's military training and educated background made him stand out to Smedley Butler, who hand-picked the young man for higher command, and began to nurture what he saw as his strong talent for leadership and command.§!\n\n§YNotes: It is unclear where exactly Merriman's political loyalties lie within the greater Congress. He has an academic interest in Syndicalist economic policy, but his distaste for authoritarianism has alienated him from the more centralist faction of the Congress lead by Browder.§!"

 WCA_benjamin_oliver_davis_sr: "Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr."
 WCA_benjamin_oliver_davis_sr_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJuly 1st, 1877, in Washington, D.C., United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBorn to an Interior Department functionary father and a nurse mother, Benjamin O. Davis defied his parents wishes and enlisted in the US military upon the outbreak of the Spanish American war in 1898. His first posting as a temporary first lieutenant in the segregated all-black 8th US Volunteer Infantry, but he was unable to see combat during the war. Still, he reenlisted as a private for the 9th Cavalry Regiment, joining the so-called \"Buffalo Soldiers\". Tutored by Charles Young, the only black US military officer at the time, Davis was able to attend West Point and become a second lieutenant in the Cavalry. He fought in the Philippine-American war in 1901, before returning home to help teach Military Science and Tactics at the traditionally black Wilberforce College in Ohio - a position he would assume multiple times in his career. He also had a stint in Liberia and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was promoted to Colonel in the regular army in 1930, matching a feat his mentor Charles Young accomplished about a decade prior\n\nThe deteriorating political situation in America and harassment by Longists and Klansmen in Alabama saw Davis quietly ask to return north to Wilberforce to resume his position as a professor there for a third time. Although not known to be a socialist, Davis was sympathetic to the egalitarian message of the SPA and was one of the few high ranking American Army officers not openly hostile to John Reed. Disillusioned by the election of 1936 and the outbreak of civil war, when Ohio's governor declared its loyalty to the Chicago government Davis remained at his post as a national guard commander. Recognising his long experience and his influence among his former students, Davis quickly appeared on the short-list before John Reed for potential generals of the new Continental Red Army.§!"

 WCA_campbell_carrington_johnson: "Campbell Carrington Johnson"
 WCA_campbell_carrington_johnson_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 30th, 1895, in Washington, D.C., United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LA native of Washington, DC, Campbell Johnson was educated at Howard University and began his association with military affairs by entering the army reserve during the First Weltkrieg, reaching the rank of a senior colonel. In 1918, he assisted in the organisation of the Students Army Training Corps Instructors Camp at Howard University, serving as its senior military instructor. During his tenure, Campbell also assisted in the organisation of the Reserve Officer's Training Corps unit, and taught military science and tactics at the institution as a Captain. He later received a Bachelors degree, and then a law degree from Howard University, maintaining a law practice in DC. In 1932, Campbell assisted in the establishment of a Black youth recreation camp known as Camp Lichtman. Believing strongly in the equitable treatment of Black men and women, deterioration of the American political scene, and the increase of support for Long became the push needed to align with the egalitarian message of the SPA. With an established organisational background, and experience in the Army reserve, Campbell presented his services to the SPA, and was swiftly elevated to General.§!"

 WCA_ralph_ernest_jones: "Ralph Ernest Jones"
 WCA_ralph_ernest_jones_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMay 13th, 1885, in Manchester, Iowa, United States of America§!"

 WCA_milton_wolff: "Milton Wolff"
 WCA_milton_wolff_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 7th, 1915, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LMilton 'Milt' Wolff, born into a Lithuanian-Hungarian immigrant family and previously an art student, joined the Red Guard as soon as it formed. He was accepted into the ranks, and became quite popular amongst his peers for his leadership during the clashes against the Minutemen militias in late 1936 and early 1937.\n\nOnce John Reed announced the Revolution, it became immediately apparent there was a major lack of command staff available to the WCA, and it was in this void that Wolff was promoted to General following a vote held by his peers and colleagues who saw him as a good fit for the role. However, his ability to lead large armies has yet to be put to the test.§!\n\n§YNotes: Member of the Centralist Faction, aligned mostly with Browder.§!"

 WCA_edward_allen_carter_jr: "Edward Allen Carter Jr."
 WCA_edward_allen_carter_jr_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMay 26th, 1916, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LEdward Allen Carter Jr. was born to a Black American father and an East Indian mother, who shortly after his birth moved to India. With the collapse of the British Empire, and the proclamation of the Bharatiya People's Republic, Carter came into contact with socialism for the first time as a child, although it was short lived as his parents would move again in 1932, this time to Shanghai, where he tried to join the local American garrison, only to be rejected on account of his young age.\n\nWith the American Civil War brewing in the distance, he travelled to America as a stowaway in one of the Legation's transports, reaching Seattle and joining the local branch of the Red Guard. As their numbers discreetly mobilised eastwards to start the revolution, Carter slowly became popular amongst the soldiers, retelling the stories of bravery and revolution he had seen in his infancy in East India. When the Revolution finally started, Carter was voted in as a General, becoming the one of the only black members of the WCA staff along with Oliver Law and Campbell Johnson.§!\n\n§YNotes: Member of the Federalist Faction.§!"

 WCA_benjamin_katine: "Benjamin Katine"
 WCA_benjamin_katine_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 7th, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LBenjamin Katine, a mechanic and electrician of some renown in New York, joined the Industrial Workers of the World militias as soon as they started recruitment. Becoming popular amongst the automobile unions, he was voted as an officer in February 1937, and was chosen by the Central Staff as a general. Despite the Automotive unions backing his position, Katine still has a lot to learn before becoming a valuable general for the WCA.§!\n\n§YNotes: Member of the Unionist Faction.§!"

 WCA_james_patrick_murphy: "James Patrick Murphy"
 WCA_james_patrick_murphy_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LFebruary 9th, 1901, in San Francisco, California, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LJames Patrick Murphy graduated from the California State University in 1926 as a Radio Engineer and moved to San Francisco. While he was unremarkable in the major unrest of the 1930s, he joined the Red Guard after the 1936 election, where his mechanical expertise with radios allowed him to connect the workers of California with those of Chicago. As the workers were discreetly mobilised into Chicago, Murphy was assigned to several cities across what now is the Syndicalist stronghold, improving radio communications between the Red Guard detachments. For his service, he was granted the rank of General within the Red Guard, but even many within the General Staff doubt this Radio Engineer will be capable of leading vast armies across the American landscape.§!"

 WCA_john_tisa: "John Tisa"
 WCA_john_tisa_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LApril 6th, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LJohn Tisa comes from a Cuban-Italian immigrant family. Previously working mostly as a factory worker and as an amateur writer in his spare time, Tisa joined the Red Guard the 31st of December, 1936. Since then, he has earned the respect of the Syndicalist soldiers in New Jersey, and was voted as their CO at their staff elections. Tisa was then promoted to general, where, for better or worse, he will have to learn from scratch the art of warfare if he hopes to come out ahead of the enemy during the revolution.§!"

 WCA_oliver_law: "Oliver Law"
 WCA_oliver_law_commander_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 23rd, 1900, in Texas, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LOliver Law enlisted to the US Army in 1919 as a private, serving with the 24th Infantry regiment stationed on the Mexican Border. He left the military in 1925 after being refused any kind of promotion on the basis of his skin colour, moving first to Bluffton, Indiana, where he worked at a cement plant and then shortly thereafter to Chicago where he drove a cab for the Yellow Cab Company. When the Great Depression hit, Law was left unemployed for years, until he managed to become a stevedore and joined the International Longshoremen's Association. With his savings, he tried to open a restaurant in 1932 but ultimately failed and unemployed once more, he joined the International Labor Defense. With a Civil War looming over the United States, Law was amongst the first to volunteer for the Red Guard. Because of his military background and leadership skills, he was quickly voted in as an officer by his fellow soldiers, before later reaching the rank of General thanks to the sponsoring of the National Negro Congress.§!\n\n§YNotes: Loyal Member of the Unionist Faction, and he is rumoured to keep close relations with both Bayard Rustin and Asa Philip Randolph.§!"

 WCA_william_rea_furlong: "William Rea Furlong"
 WCA_william_rea_furlong_navy_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMay 26th, 1881, in Allenport, Pennsylvania, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LWilliam Rea Furlong attended the Normal School in California, Pennsylvania, where he earned his teaching degree. In 1901, he was recommended for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Furlong graduated in 1905 with the rank of ensign and was assigned to the armoured cruiser USS Maryland. In 1910, Furlong was assigned to the protected cruiser USS Chicago, which was posted as the reserve of the Massachusetts Naval Militia, briefly commanding the cruiser. He served on Chicago until 1912, when he attended the Columbia University, New York and graduated with the Master of Science degree in electrical and radio engineering in 1914. Furlong was then assigned as fleet radio officer and aide on the staff of the commander-in-chief, United States Atlantic Fleet. In April 1914, he participated in the Veracruz Expedition in Mexico. From 1916 to 1917, Furlong served as a gunnery officer on board battleships USS South Carolina and USS New York and in 1918 he was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance. From 1921 to 1923 he served as an aide on the staff and fleet gunnery officer to the commander-in-chief, United States Pacific Fleet. This was followed by an assignment from 1923 to 1926 where he served in office of the Chief of Naval Operations. From 1926 to 1928 Furlong served as executive officer of the battleship USS West Virginia, and then served as commander of the oiler USS Neches. He also served as division commander of destroyers in the Pacific. From 1928 to 1931 he served as Chief of Policy and Liaison Section, Office of Island Government. From 1931 to 1933 he commanded the light cruiser USS Marblehead and then served as inspector of ordnance in charge at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren from 1933 to 1936. With outbreak of the Civil War he joined the Worke of America and as oldest captain to join the C.S.A became the first admiral of the Second Continental Navy.§!"

 WCA_arthur_schuyler_carpender: "Arthur Schuyler Carpender"
 WCA_arthur_schuyler_carpender_admiral_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 24th, 1884, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LArthur Schuyler 'Chips' Carpender, a direct descendant of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - one of the early settlers the New Netherland colony, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1908, and served on the battleship Minnesota of the Great White Fleet sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on voyage around the world in 1907. Amidst the backdrop of the Banana Wars, he commanded a 16-man landing force from the Marietta that was put ashore at Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Leaving the Marietta in 1911, Carpender was involved with the fitting out of the new battleship USS Utah. Carpender participated in the United States occupation of Veracruz in April 1914 during the Mexican Revolution and on returning to the United States, Carpender was assigned to the Office of Naval Militia Affairs. In 1916, 1917 and 1919, Carpender helped fit out and commission the new destroyers USS Davis, USS Fanning and USS Radford respectfully. Carpender returned to the United States in 1920, and became a Member of the Naval Examining Board, and Judge Advocate General of the General Court Martial at the Naval Training Station Great Lakes. In 1922 he assumed command of the USS Barry. He reported to the Naval Submarine Base at New London for training in 1923, after which he was posted to the United States Asiatic Fleet as commander of 6th Submarine Division. In 1924 Carpender returned to Washington, where he served ashore for the next two years in the Bureau of Navigation, before becoming executive officer of the USS Pittsburgh in 1926 until 1928, when he assumed command of the destroyer USS Macdonough. Following the familiar pattern of shore duty alternating with sea duty, Carpender served in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1929 until 1932. This was followed by two years as executive officer of the light cruiser USS Omaha. He then attended the Naval War College at Newport after which he returned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. At the start of 1937, he became Chief of Staff of Destroyers, Battle Fleet. With the start of the Civil War he joined the Second Continental Fleet and was promoted to admiral of the C.S Fleet.§!"

 WCA_arleigh_albert_burke: "Arleigh Albert Burke"
 WCA_arleigh_albert_burke_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 19th, 1901, in Boulder, Colorado, United States of America§!\n§YBackground:§! §LArleigh Albert '31-knot Burke' Burke never graduated from high school due to the 1918 influenza outbreak but instead won an alternate appointment to the United States Naval Academy given by his local congressman. He graduated from the academy in June 1923, and was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy. From then until April 1928 he was an officer in the battleship Arizona. Burke was next assigned to the Fleet Base Force flagship Procyon, in which he was Flag Lieutenant and Force Personnel Officer. Resuming his formal education in June 1929, Lieutenant Burke received a Master's Degree from the University of Michigan two years later, then served in the heavy cruiser Chester. He spent the middle 1930s on the Base Force staff and at the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington, D.C. In 1936 he joined the destroyer Gilmer and with outbreak of the Civil War he with his crew supported the WCA for which he was promoted to the rank of admiral and became one of the first flag officers of the Second Continental Navy.§!"

 WCA_hyman_godalia_rickover: "Hyman Godalia Rickover"
 WCA_hyman_godalia_rickover_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJanuary 27th, 1900, in Maków Mazowiecki, Łomża Governorate, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHyman Godalia \"George\" Rickover, born into a Polish Jewish family and made passage to New York City with his mother and sister in March 1906, fleeing anti-Semitic pogroms during the Revolution of 1905 in Russia, and later moved to Chicago. Rickover's naval career began in 1918 at the Naval Academy and he was graduated in 1922. He joined the destroyer Overton and impressed his commanding officer with his hard work and efficiency, and was made engineer officer in 1923, becoming the youngest such officer in the squadron. He next served on board the battleship Mississippi before earning a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1930 by way of a year at the Naval Postgraduate School. From 1929 to 1933, Rickover qualified for submarine duty and command aboard the submarines S-9 and O-3. While at the Office of the Inspector of Naval Material in Philadelphia in 1933, Rickover translated Das Unterseeboot (The Submarine) by Weltkrieg German Imperial Navy Admiral Hermann Bauer. In the early 1937 he was appointed as Commander, 3rd Submarine Division. With start of the Civil War he joined the Second Continental Navy and ordered the 3rd Submarine Division go to Philadelphia, for which he was promoted to the rank of admiral and became one of the first admirals of the Continental Navy.§!"

 WCA_hugh_nathaniel_mulzac: "Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac"
 WCA_hugh_nathaniel_mulzac_navy_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMarch 26th, 1886, on Union Island, British Windward Islands§!\n§YBackground:§! §LHugh Nathaniel Mulzac life at sea started immediately after high school when he served on British schooners. He was sent to Swansea Nautical College in Wales to train for his ship masters license. In 1918, Hugh Mulzac emigrated to the United States. Within two years he had earned his shipping master's certificate, the first ever issued to an African-American. He joined with Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and served as a Captain on the SS Yarmouth of the Black Star Line. However, disagreements with the UNIA lead to his resignation in 1921 and later to joining the International Seamen's Union of America (ISUA) in 1927. Before 1937 the only shipboard work Mulzac could get was in the steward's departments on several shipping lines. In 1934, after pressure from side of ISUA, he could become a captain of a ship with crew consisting only of african-americans, but he refused with the words 'Under no circumstances will I command a Jim Crow'. After the start of the Second American Civil War with need of the WCA in captains of ships he was appointed as commander the destroyer CNS Smith Thompson and was chosen for senior courses. After finishing them he became famous for being the first ever black admiral.§!"

 WCA_george_whelan_anderson_jr: "George Whelan Anderson Jr."
 WCA_george_whelan_anderson_jr_admiral_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LDecember 15th, 1906, in New York City, New York, United States of America§!"
 WCA_willard_john_smith: "Willard John Smith"
 WCA_willard_john_smith_admiral_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMay 14th, 1910, in Suttons Bay, Michigan, United States of America§!"
 WCA_youngblood_nance: "Youngblood Nance"
 WCA_youngblood_nance_admiral_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMay 1st, 1912, in Greenwood, South Carolina, United States of America§!"
 WCA_norman_scott: "Norman Scott"
 WCA_norman_scott_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LAugust 10th, 1889, in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America§!"
 WCA_marc_andrew_mitscher: "Marc Andrew Mitscher"
 WCA_marc_andrew_mitscher_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJanuary 26th, 1887, in Hillsboro, Wisconsin, United States of America§!"
 WCA_donald_wilson: "Donald Wilson"
 WCA_donald_wilson_air_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LSeptember 25th, 1892, in Hiner's Mill, West Virginia, United States of America§!"
 WCA_james_edmond_fechet: "James Edmond Fechet"
 WCA_james_edmond_fechet_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LAugust 21st, 1877, in Fort Ringgold, Texas, United States of America§!"
 WCA_terry_de_la_mesa_allen_sr: "Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr"
 WCA_terry_de_la_mesa_allen_sr_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LApril 1st, 1888, in Fort Douglas, Utah, United States of America§!"
 WCA_john_benjamin_anderson: "John Benjamin Anderson"
 WCA_john_benjamin_anderson_theorist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LMarch 10th, 1891, in Parkersburg, Iowa, United States of America§!"

 WCA_nathan_farragut_twining: "Nathan Farragut Twining"
 WCA_nathan_farragut_twining_air_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 11th, 1897, in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America§!"
 WCA_willis_henry_hale: "Willis Henry Hale"
 WCA_willis_henry_hale_air_chief_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJanuary 7th, 1893, in Pittsburg, Kansas, United States of America§!"
 WCA_bessie_coleman: "Bessie Coleman"
 WCA_bessie_coleman_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LJanuary 26th, 1892, in Atlanta, Texas, United States of America§!"
 WCA_eddie_august_henry_schneider: "Eddie August Henry Schneider"
 WCA_eddie_august_henry_schneider_high_command_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 20th, 1911, in New York City, New York, United States of America§!"

 WCA_freda_josephine_baker: "Freda Josephine Baker"
 WCA_lucille_desiree_ball: "Lucille Désirée Ball"
 WCA_lee_pressman: "Lee Pressman"

 WCA_john_whiteside_parsons: "John Whiteside Parsons"
 WCA_john_whiteside_parsons_scientist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LOctober 2nd, 1914, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America§!"
 WCA_julius_robert_oppenheimer: "Julius Robert Oppenheimer"
 WCA_julius_robert_oppenheimer_scientist_desc: "§YBorn:§! §LApril 22nd, 1904, in New York City, New York, United States of America§!"
 WCA_karl_probst: "Karl Probst"
 WCA_peyton_marshall_magruder: "Peyton Marshall Magruder"
