@Physici I hope you don't mind if I rapid fire things off.
How much funding would be required to build a Daycare + pre-K 6th grade?
How much funding would be required to create a bus service (either horse drawn or automobile) to service the school? Can I specify that outside school hours it runs as a regular transit service?
Can I do both the school and the accompanying bus line in a single action?
Can I do multiple schools in a single action?
How much funding would be required to build a combined middle + high school?
How much funding would be required to build a university and/or community college?
[X][SUS] Society for Universal Suffrage 1904 Action Plan
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 3 actions, 2000 funds
--[X] Specifically coordinate with other organizations to avoid duplication of effort in secure areas and bolstering support in at-risk areas.
-[X] Organize efforts to help advise women make use of their new rights as well as informing them of it—owning property, free ability to divorce, their illegitimate children are considered legally equal to legitimate ones, ability to vote, etc. 200 funds, 2 per capita.
-[X] Encourage women to go to the newly desegregated colleges and provide help in applying. 100 funds, 1 per capita.
-[X] Set up daycare facilities near working districts so that parents can drop off their children and then go to work. 450 funds.
-[X] Encourage Asian and hispanic (i.e. non-European) communities form Language Federations. 50 funds.
-[X] Provide training to volunteers to form secret paramilitary organizations in the aid of Russian Empire revolutionary groups. 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Provide journalist training, labor organizing training, funds, and supplies for the Lithuanian, Latvian, Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian Federations to use for aiding Russian Empire revolutionary groups in agitation. 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Found new gay bars across the country to serve as safe places for queer people. 150 funds.
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[X] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[X] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[X] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[X] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
The Society for Universal Suffrage is absolutely looking to put that suffrage to use, to help ensure that the SLP maintains a solid majority in government. Our remaining actions are going toward women's liberation, improving our intersectionalist aims, paving the way for the success of the revolution elsewhere, and helping to provide safe places for queer people to gather.
[X][CIA] Committee for Indigenous Advocacy 1904 Action Plan
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] Added Background: After the revolution, and in light of the success of socialist revolutionaries in providing immediate remedy for indigenous causes, contrasted with the mire of corruption scandals and appeasements of the radical-progressives, the Committee moved to embrace the socialist and internationalist cause.
--[X] Supporters: Indigenous peoples, anti-imperialists, socialists.
--[X] Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationist and anti-imperialist socialism among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
-[X] Leave the ARM.
--[X] Motion that the ARM be dissolved. Leave by dissolution if it passes, but leave either way.
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 3 actions, 300 funds (plus whatever is returned from ARM budget)
--[X] Place a particular emphasis on commune and province elections in and near indigenous communities and lands, to ensure protection from settler depredations.
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[X] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[X] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[X] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[X] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
Given that most of the ARM organization players seem to have left, leaving the LLRP and TOD likely to dissolve, I'm not terribly inclined to see the indigenous advocacy group tithing its funds to the completely irrelevant rump group. The majority of the effort this year is going to go toward ensuring that settlers don't continue to abuse local government control to prey on indigenous people.
Given that most of the ARM organization players seem to have left, leaving the LLRP and TOD likely to dissolve, I'm not terribly inclined to see the indigenous advocacy group tithing its funds to the completely irrelevant rump group.
I second this motion. America is, well not reformed per say, smashed into pieces and turned into something completely unrecognizable but, well, the job is done. Without a job there's no point keeping it around.
-[][ARM] Dissolve the organization. America as it was is no more. America as it is now no longer requires the organization. With the job done, it is time we go our seperate ways.
--[] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[] Return the funds to each organization.
I second this motion. America is, well not reformed per say, smashed into pieces and turned into something completely unrecognizable but, well, the job is done. Without a job there's no point keeping it around.
Thinking about it, since it's being tabled as a vote, that's something that we could just have voted here?
-[][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[] Return the funds to each organization.
-[][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
Add the last line to your vote, to support the motion?
With that out of the way, it's time for the New American Patriots to do what I wanted them to do. Be a huge gaggle of nerds going through the motions of power and influence.
And also lobby for tax breaks and subsidies for enterprises which align with my interests.
I wonder if starting research into rockets is allowed now. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky OTL published Exploration of the Universe with Rocket Propelled Vehicles in 1903 which should show that physical space exploration was possible with multi-stage, liquid propellant rocket engines. I know y'all are focused on social issues but if I could knock loose a bit of funding from Congress for that kinda thing I would be super happy.
With that out of the way, it's time for the New American Patriots to do what I wanted them to do. Be a huge gaggle of nerds going through the motions of power and influence.
And also lobby for tax breaks and subsidies for enterprises which align with my interests.
I wonder if starting research into rockets is allowed now. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky OTL published Exploration of the Universe with Rocket Propelled Vehicles in 1903 which should show that physical space exploration was possible with multi-stage, liquid propellant rocket engines. I know y'all are focused on social issues but if I could knock loose a bit of funding from Congress for that kinda thing I would be super happy.
If the current planning is taking place around the beginning of 1904 in universe, the Wright brothers just achieved the first powered flight a little over two weeks ago (December 17, 1903). Working on space travel may be a bit premature.
Funding powered flight experiments could be cool though.
[X] [FHM] Rule of Right
(5/5 free actions, 1/1 Yellow Scarves action, 1/1 Industrial action)
(448/448 funds+300 from UF)
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] With the successful realization of the FHM's goals via the broader American revolution, the FHM now looks towards supporting the prosperity of Asian nations via the spread of socialism and the overthrowing of colonial regimes.
--[X] Supporters: Asian immigrants
--[X] Ideology: Socialist Pan-Asianism
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 1 action, 100 funds.
-[X] Establish an immigrant welcoming committee for the west coast, helping the vast numbers of Asian immigrants integrate into the North America Commonwealth. 40 funds, -20 per turn.
-[X] Keep the Factory Management Council based out of Worker Associations, trying to get as many former FHM factories as WA as possible.
-[X] Build a Machine Shop cooperative in China, further helping local industrialization efforts. 400 funds.
-[X] Send monetary and material support to the MLP. 100 funds.
-[X] Set up free schools in cities. 108 funds. 735/6300
--[X] West Coast, Hawaii and NYC
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[X] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[X] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[X] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[X] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
If the current planning is taking place around the beginning of 1904 in universe, the Wright brothers just achieved the first powered flight a little over two weeks ago (December 17, 1903). Working on space travel may be a bit premature.
It's taking place at around the end of March or beginning of April 1904, but the Wrights' activities were no doubt disrupted somewhat by the Civil War. Powered flight may have been invented in, say, Austria instead.
It's taking place at around the end of March or beginning of April 1904, but the Wrights' activities were no doubt disrupted somewhat by the Civil War. Powered flight may have been invented in, say, Austria instead.
Who knows where. The Wright Brothers didn't invent flight. They just managed to make planes fly long enough they became practical transportation of a sort, and not just a curiosity.
Who knows where. The Wright Brothers didn't invent flight. They just managed to make planes fly long enough they became practical transportation of a sort, and not just a curiosity.
No one knows who really invented flight. The Wright Brothers said that Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont was flying at the speed they've done years ago. Also you shouldn't dismiss them like that, they more than managed. They achieved greatness.
It's taking place at around the end of March or beginning of April 1904, but the Wrights' activities were no doubt disrupted somewhat by the Civil War. Powered flight may have been invented in, say, Austria instead.
We don't know that. It's quite possible they could've moved out of the country to Canada or were just left alone. The only person who has the final say is the author.
[X][SUS] Society for Universal Suffrage 1904 Action Plan
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 3 actions, 2000 funds
--[X] Specifically coordinate with other organizations to avoid duplication of effort in secure areas and bolstering support in at-risk areas.
-[X] Organize efforts to help advise women make use of their new rights as well as informing them of it—owning property, free ability to divorce, their illegitimate children are considered legally equal to legitimate ones, ability to vote, etc. 200 funds, 2 per capita.
-[X] Encourage women to go to the newly desegregated colleges and provide help in applying. 100 funds, 1 per capita.
-[X] Set up daycare facilities near working districts so that parents can drop off their children and then go to work. 450 funds.
-[X] Encourage Asian and hispanic (i.e. non-European) communities form Language Federations. 50 funds.
-[X] Provide training to volunteers to form secret paramilitary organizations in the aid of Russian Empire revolutionary groups. 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Provide journalist training, labor organizing training, funds, and supplies for the Lithuanian, Latvian, Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian Federations to use for aiding Russian Empire revolutionary groups in agitation. 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Found new gay bars across the country to serve as safe places for queer people. 150 funds.
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[X] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[X] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[X] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[X] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
[X][CIA] Committee for Indigenous Advocacy 1904 Action Plan
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] Added Background: After the revolution, and in light of the success of socialist revolutionaries in providing immediate remedy for indigenous causes, contrasted with the mire of corruption scandals and appeasements of the radical-progressives, the Committee moved to embrace the socialist and internationalist cause.
--[X] Supporters: Indigenous peoples, anti-imperialists, socialists.
--[X] Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationist and anti-imperialist socialism among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
-[X] Leave the ARM.
--[X] Motion that the ARM be dissolved. Leave by dissolution if it passes, but leave either way.
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 3 actions, 300 funds (plus whatever is returned from ARM budget)
--[X] Place a particular emphasis on commune and province elections in and near indigenous communities and lands, to ensure protection from settler depredations.
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[X] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[X] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[X] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[X] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
No one knows who really invented flight. The Wright Brothers said that Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont was flying at the speed they've done years ago. Also you shouldn't dismiss them like that, they more than managed. They achieved greatness.
Yeah. 😅
Something that appears a lot but is hardly ever covered, is sometimes it takes a LOT for something to go from concept someone prooved could be done, and then making it so that it is not completely impractical….
Considering Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is Russian, I imagine the Civil war probably wouldn't have disrupted his work much so all I need is @Physici 's blessing and I could probably start in that direction. "Expanding the bounds of America's dominance to the stars themselves" if you will.
And besides, the idea of rising into the heavens atop a column of fury, fire, science, and (hopefully) American Exceptionalism seems right up the alley of my bunch of geeks with too much money, imagination, and nationalism for their own good. The moment one of them caught wind of the possibility, they'd be all over it like a pack of hyenas.
[X][RFAA] Plan Anarchist-Solidarity Compromises
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 action.
--[X] For the SLP. 690 funds.
--[X] As independents. 450 funds.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Many local across NAC: 400 funds, -80 per turn.
-[X] Encourage textile Worker Associations to switch from cotton to hemp.
--[X] Help fund the switch (optional). 250 funds.
-[X] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. 200 funds.
-[X] Establish cadres of local organizers specifically for mutual aid efforts, and to coordinate the different kinds of mutual aid efforts with each other, across the country. 100 funds, variable per turn. 0/800
-[X] Send monetary and material support to the MLP. 555 funds.
-[X] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region. 120 funds. 5691/6500
-[X] Set up free schools in cities. 750 funds. 735/6300
-[X] Transfer funds to the AdP interest group aligned councils. 340 funds (free action).
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Do not support renaming all international affiliates.
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Approve of the resolution in favor of general strikes.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
Funds Remaining: 0
Decided to swap the Small Towns for free schools in the cities, as I feel that'll have a greater effect (unless the rest of the UF really wants me to do the small towns right now.) I also assigned Campaign money at a 15:23 ratio of Independents to SLP, which is the ratio of True Anarchists to Solidarity factions within the RFAA. Plus some slight differences in UF resolutions where I feel it makes IC sense.
[X][SPA] Plan Start of the Second Reconstruction
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] While the Revolution has emerged victorious, the toll it and the preceding years of undeclared war have taken a significant toll on the former US South, and many within it, even those not outright supporting the Grey Army, are wary at best of the victory of Socialism. The SPA's new charter shall involve the rebuilding of the war-ravaged South and ensuring its development both socially and economically as a willing part of the new Socialist Commonwealth, while continuing to give voice to the farmers (and now, hopefully, the urban workers) of the South that they previously lacked.
--[X] New Supporter Base: Farmers and agricultural workers, poor white southerners, primarily rural but with a small and growing urban base, African Americans, radicalized People's Party/Populists and Southern Progressives.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
-[X] Make a standardized bureaucracy for the organization to maintain cohesion in it and all its branches. Gives +1 action, 30 funds, -5 funds per capita
-[X] Expand the program helping to create cooperative mills and shops, targeting the large numbers of new small farmers. 381 funds, costs funds per turn.
-[X] Reestablish the organization's militia out of the Revolutionary Army.
--[X] Write-in how many. Cannot exceed pre-civil war size. (4,000)
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 action, 150 funds.
--[X] For the SLP.
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[X] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[X] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
[X][RFAA] Plan Anarchist-Solidarity Compromises
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 action.
--[X] For the SLP. 690 funds.
--[X] As independents. 450 funds.
-[X] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Many local across NAC: 400 funds, -80 per turn.
-[X] Encourage textile Worker Associations to switch from cotton to hemp.
--[X] Help fund the switch (optional). 250 funds.
-[X] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. 200 funds.
-[X] Establish cadres of local organizers specifically for mutual aid efforts, and to coordinate the different kinds of mutual aid efforts with each other, across the country. 100 funds, variable per turn. 0/800
-[X] Send monetary and material support to the MLP. 555 funds.
-[X] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region. 120 funds. 5691/6500
-[X] Set up free schools in cities. 750 funds. 735/6300
-[X] Transfer funds to the AdP interest group aligned councils. 340 funds (free action).
-[X][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[X][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[X][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[X][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Do not support renaming all international affiliates.
-[X][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[X][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
-[X][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Approve of the resolution in favor of general strikes.
-[X][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
[X] [AB] Reestablishing ourselves
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] With the old Empire dead, any struggle against this new system feels unnecessary. The AB has shifted its course slightly. It still focuses on the needs and concerns of the region it has claimed as Appalachian from the north to the south, but now instead of being for or against the UF, it feels a split between petty nationalism and its anarchism. Those that consider themselves on the anarchist side consider the past focus on petty nationalism of Appalachia to be a mistake that could result in reactionary concerns overriding historically progressive ones in the name of cultural preservation, and that the organization needs to focus on local conditions and the betterment of constituents. Those on the petty nationalism side consider the idea they would override socialism for cultural reasons to be overblown, and even consider petty nationalist agitation to be a good model for stoking resentment and revolution in other empires and capitalist powers in a form of internationalism. This friendly ideological debate seems to want to persist within the organization for the foreseeable future.
--[X] Ideology: Anarchism, Petty Nationalism, International Petty Nationalism
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 actions, 267 funds.
--[X] As independents.
-[X] Establish a high level coordination body within the RFAA for Appalachia. 30 funds, -5 per 100k action. +1 action
-[X] Go to small towns and villages and aid them in establishing commune institutions such as commune owned shops (subsidized by the province) and a local Bank of Exchange. 200 funds. 0/?
-[X] Create Representative Management Structures outside the SLP to work with Appalachian representatives. 20 funds, -4 per capita.
How much funding would be required to build a Daycare + pre-K 6th grade?
How much funding would be required to create a bus service (either horse drawn or automobile) to service the school? Can I specify that outside school hours it runs as a regular transit service?
Can I do both the school and the accompanying bus line in a single action?
Can I do multiple schools in a single action?
How much funding would be required to build a combined middle + high school?
How much funding would be required to build a university and/or community college?
You can do all this stuff in a single action. I've mostly changed this sort of thing to a progress bar i.e. if your goal is to cover all of California just put funds into it and I'll say how much you did. At least double digit funds.
Considering Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is Russian, I imagine the Civil war probably wouldn't have disrupted his work much so all I need is @Physici 's blessing and I could probably start in that direction. "Expanding the bounds of America's dominance to the stars themselves" if you will.
[] Use current available data as well as any self reported data from military and military adjacent enterprises to generate a report on the American Navy's current readiness levels and it's fitness to accomplish its objectives in the case of a near term: "defensive conflict with the UK via Canada", "Expeditionary invasion of the UK home islands", "expeditionary invasion of European mainland powers", "expeditionary invasion of the Japanese home islands".
-[] all scenarios should take into account current industrial capability, projected future industrial capability, and the required resources.
--[] advise immediate recapitalization of the navy's procurement logistics chain and strategic industries such as shipbuilding, advanced weapons, and ammunition manufacture, as well as an urgent expansion and modernization of the existing fleet. Begin with an appendix explaining that "recapitalization" does not mean "return to capitalism" it means "restructure an entity's capital assets".
---[] provide an estimate of the projected resource expenditure and timeline at different levels of investment: "pie in the sky Wishlist", "bare minimum", and "bare minimum + 10%"
--[] Use the report to generate different versions of the report at different levels of readability, the full unabridged one for the supreme military council and congressional office of management and budget, a simplified one (for brevity purposes) for the congressional military committee, one for public release, and one "for those members of the audience elected for their revolutionary fervor rather than their intellectual qualities"
LLRP, SFAF, APFA, TOD, and MIN all still lack a plan. More than I had expected but y'know it's fair, haven't had a normal turn in a while. Inactive orgs will "hibernate" and let new ones join but the old ones will keep their stuff if they come back.
In the future org sizes will be much more dynamic than in the first stage of the quest (as I had listed at the beginning of the plan post) so missing some turns is fine/newer orgs have a chance to compete.
[x] [SFAF] Renewal and Re-Internationalize!
-[x] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[x] Following the end of the old American state, the Society of Friends of All Faith found itself at a crossroads. An initially apolitical group that had steadily radicalized, they were now part of a new social experiment. They maintained their strong religious character, but the organization decided to adapt their goals and structures for the new challenges ahead of them, adding an emphasis on protection of minority religions, the recording and preservation of culture, and a firmer commitment to "social and political revolution."
-[x] Try to get southern churches to break away from the reactionary institutions and leadership, particularly the baptist/methodist churches. 39 funds.
-[x] Try to do an educational campaign targeting conservative churches to promote change from within. 39 funds.
-[x] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in North American Commonwealth cities to find ones willing to officially support your message. 10 funds.
-[x] Expand the rural adult literacy programs. 250 funds, costs funds per turn. 80/3200
--[x] The South and West
-[x] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Montreal. 12 funds, -4 per turn.
[APFA] Plan Garden Tending
-[X] Actually fund more technocratic institutes as independent self-funded institutions. 99 funds.
-[X] Get further involved in the Industrial Planning Association, making a study on how the large scale planning has been going. 10 funds.
-[X] Make inroads with the IPA Economic Board, offering training and advice. (Works better with/after the above action). 80 funds.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
[X] [AdP] Plan Anarcho-Communist Aztlan
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] With the end of the revolutionary struggle in America, and a more secure position to look southwards to our Mexican brethren, the AdP has begun fully embracing an explicitly anarcho-communist outlook on the political situation. With the long-term association with the RFAA, the AdP is now fully committed to the liberation of the peoples of the Hispanic world, not merely that of their Mexican comrades, but even further south, to the farthest reaches of Patagonia, and the reorientation of their systems towards a decisively anarchist structure, based on the guiding principle of free association without exploitation.
-[X] Help encourage central and southern Mexico agricultural and mining workers to join the strike as it goes on. 95 funds. 0/800
-[X] Help encourage other Mexican factory, service, and construction workers to join the strike as it goes on. 300 funds. 291/3500
-[X] Establish more constant contact with the Argentine RFAA, sharing information and tactics. 5 funds, -2 per turn.
-[X] Try to campaign for Puerto Rico's new constitution. 250 funds.
--[X] Insist on a far more explicitly anarchist formation of the island, with provisions granting the formation of freely associating communes without fear of repression from the state, with these communes allowed to negotiate their position within the new state as equal members of a union, should they wish to do so. However, for the sake of unity, these communes will not be allowed the right to secede from the new island nation, limited only to the right of free association within the confines of the state.
[x][ACUA] Rump 1904 Agenda
-[x] Require dues
--[x] Based on income
-[x] Make a newspaper.
--[x] Many local across NAC: 900 funds, –100 per turn.
---[x] Each styled "The [Commune] Worker"
-[x] Cut down on internal factionalism within the ACUA, preventing a split in the industrial union. 10 funds.
-[x] Help encourage central and southern Mexico agricultural and mining workers to join the strike as it goes on. 85 funds. 0/800
-[x] Help encourage other Mexican factory, service, and construction workers to join the strike as it goes on. 270 funds. 291/3,500
-[x][Union] Send organizers to British Columbia to make contacts with local unions, offering support. 25 funds.
-[x] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 1 action, 725 funds.
-[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[x][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[x] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[x] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[x][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[x] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[x] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Montreal. 12 funds, –4 per turn.
-[x] Donate funds to an organization from the UF finances.
--[x] ACUA, 515 funds.
--[x] CIA, 216 funds.
--[x] FAM, 300 funds.
--[x] FHM, 300 funds.
--[x] SUS, 170 funds.
-[x] Build up a proper electoral apparatus in states using local org members.
--[x] The entire rest of the US, 293 funds, –293 per turn
-[x] Fund transport of IWA delegates to Havana. 30 funds.
[X] [AB] Reestablishing ourselves
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] With the old Empire dead, any struggle against this new system feels unnecessary. The AB has shifted its course slightly. It still focuses on the needs and concerns of the region it has claimed as Appalachian from the north to the south, but now instead of being for or against the UF, it feels a split between petty nationalism and its anarchism. Those that consider themselves on the anarchist side consider the past focus on petty nationalism of Appalachia to be a mistake that could result in reactionary concerns overriding historically progressive ones in the name of cultural preservation, and that the organization needs to focus on local conditions and the betterment of constituents. Those on the petty nationalism side consider the idea they would override socialism for cultural reasons to be overblown, and even consider petty nationalist agitation to be a good model for stoking resentment and revolution in other empires and capitalist powers in a form of internationalism. This friendly ideological debate seems to want to persist within the organization for the foreseeable future.
--[X] Ideology: Anarchism, Petty Nationalism, International Petty Nationalism
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 actions, 267 funds.
--[X] As independents.
-[X] Establish a high level coordination body within the RFAA for Appalachia. 30 funds, -5 per 100k action. +1 action
-[X] Go to small towns and villages and aid them in establishing commune institutions such as commune owned shops (subsidized by the province) and a local Bank of Exchange. 200 funds. 0/?
-[X] Create Representative Management Structures outside the SLP to work with Appalachian representatives. 20 funds, -4 per capita.
[X][TFAM] The South's First Industrial Plan
-[x] Create training for (particularly black) new factory workers in the south. 71 funds, costs funds per turn. 0/500
-[x] Expand the Black Belt newspapers. 70 funds, -14 per turn
-[x] Do a massive campaign in Boll Weevil affected areas to convince farmers and the IPA to switch from cotton to hemp. 100 funds.
--[x] Help pay for farmers to make the switch. 200 funds.
-[x] Set up new tractor and farm tools factories to supply southern agriculture. 400 funds.
--[x] In cities
--[x] Let each factory vote whether they want to become part of the IPA or a Worker Association.
-[x] Set up textile and paper factories, allowing hemp to be processed nearby where it's harvested. 350 funds.
-[x] Build more mills for members to cooperatively use, helping farmers change from cotton to grain production. 350 funds.
-[x] Start adult literacy campaigns to get black adults literate. 300 funds, costs funds per turn for several years.
-[x] Campaign in the election. 1 actions, 260 funds.
--[x] For the SLP.
-[x][UF] Have soup kitchens become managed by the
--[x] national state.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[x][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
[X][NAP] New day, new patriots
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] New American Patriots reorganized to The Academy
--[X] Ideology: With the America that was now gone, what remains is to make the most of what's left. While much of the organization's economic philosophical basis has been made obsolescent by the creation of the New American Commonwealth, what still remains is the idea of American Exceptionalism and the idea that America should grow and so too should the sum total of America's citizenry, spreading the benefits of America to all persons of the world. Whether this is by setting the example so that others obtain citizenship of their volition or through the expansion of America's borders into foreign lands and populations, it matters little to the organization as a whole, even if individual members have their own ideas (Idealists vs Imperialists). In order to achieve this, The Academy intends to make sure that its members are able to achieve their own individual self-actualization through academic excellence and through that academic excellence, push the bounds of current knowledge, hopefully achieving and then maintaining the scientific and research dominance of America. The new name, The Academy is intended to cement the organization's purpose in the brave new world it finds itself in, also to get rid of the "new" bit since generally things stop being "new" after 5 years or so.
--[X] Supporters: Intellectuals
--[X] Structure: While much of the old cell structure remains for organizational representation and accounting, the organization's assets underwent a great restructuring with the end of the civil war lead by Richard Anaheim into two overarching branches, Dark Winter Enterprise Consortium and Anaheim Research (after richard, not Anaheim cali). DWEC takes stewardship over all of the organization's enterprise assets to include industry, services, and handling of entitlements provided by the organization beyond the basic welfare provided by the state. Anaheim Research takes stewardship over the organization's Academic, Research, Media, and Archival endeavors and is responsible for checking in on the organization's members to make sure that they are making progress towards what they believe to be their fullest potential.
-[X] Contact the reservation government occupying Dark Winter Tools and ask for a transfer back to WSG ownership now that communication and transport has been re-established.
--[X] Be prepared to make extremely generous and if necessary humiliating concessions to negotiators. 15 funds prepared for repairs, inspections, and updates of the facility as well as potential "surprise donations (if they ask for bribes just to make this clear)" should they be required.
---[X] Also to be absolutely certain, if they're asking for bribes make sure it's formatted as something like a donation to a cause or something like paying for updates to a local school, or funding refurbishment for a building or something of that nature. Don't just hand over the cash in an envelope, that would be illegal.
-[X] Convert Misriah Armor Annex to machine tools manufacturing, and while at it, begin the process of upgrading the annex to production of precision machine tools. 45 funds
-[X] [WSG] Perform research regarding the viability of marketing more "kinetic" services to larger groups to include enterprises, unions, the more resource strapped provincial government entities, and potentially provincial government entities who might require immediate armed responses at a certain remove from media attention. 3 Funds
--[X] Exclude Grey Army and Pinkertons from list of viable employers. Add to preferred enemies list.
--[X] Make absolutely sure any of the more shady shit has a verified signature on it. If you're not sure, run it by the audit office in San Fran. Kinetic response payment requires an up front down payment. Command rights, salvage, and restrictions can be negotiated and clarified as the situation demands.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
[X][SUS] Society for Universal Suffrage 1904 Action Plan
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 3 actions, 2000 funds
--[X] Specifically coordinate with other organizations to avoid duplication of effort in secure areas and bolstering support in at-risk areas.
-[X] Organize efforts to help advise women make use of their new rights as well as informing them of it—owning property, free ability to divorce, their illegitimate children are considered legally equal to legitimate ones, ability to vote, etc. 200 funds, 2 per capita.
-[X] Encourage women to go to the newly desegregated colleges and provide help in applying. 100 funds, 1 per capita.
-[X] Set up daycare facilities near working districts so that parents can drop off their children and then go to work. 450 funds.
-[X] Encourage Asian and hispanic (i.e. non-European) communities form Language Federations. 50 funds.
-[X] Provide training to volunteers to form secret paramilitary organizations in the aid of Russian Empire revolutionary groups. 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Provide journalist training, labor organizing training, funds, and supplies for the Lithuanian, Latvian, Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian Federations to use for aiding Russian Empire revolutionary groups in agitation. 50 funds, -10 per turn.
-[X] Found new gay bars across the country to serve as safe places for queer people. 150 funds.
-[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[x][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[x] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[x] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[x][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[x] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[x] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
[X][CIA] Committee for Indigenous Advocacy 1904 Action Plan
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] Added Background: After the revolution, and in light of the success of socialist revolutionaries in providing immediate remedy for indigenous causes, contrasted with the mire of corruption scandals and appeasements of the radical-progressives, the Committee moved to embrace the socialist and internationalist cause.
--[X] Supporters: Indigenous peoples, anti-imperialists, socialists.
--[X] Ideology: Dedication to cultural preservation and promotion, and reversing the political, economic, and social damage inflicted indigenous peoples. Anti-assimilationist and anti-imperialist socialism among non-indigenous members and sympathizers.
-[X] Leave the ARM.
--[X] Motion that the ARM be dissolved. Leave by dissolution if it passes, but leave either way.
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 3 actions, 300 funds (plus whatever is returned from ARM budget)
--[X] Place a particular emphasis on commune and province elections in and near indigenous communities and lands, to ensure protection from settler depredations.
-[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[x][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[x] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[x] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[x][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[x] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[x] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
[X] [FHM] Rule of Right
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] With the successful realization of the FHM's goals via the broader American revolution, the FHM now looks towards supporting the prosperity of Asian nations via the spread of socialism and the overthrowing of colonial regimes.
--[X] Supporters: Asian immigrants
--[X] Ideology: Socialist Pan-Asianism
-[X] Campaign in the election for the SLP. 1 action, 100 funds.
-[X] Establish an immigrant welcoming committee for the west coast, helping the vast numbers of Asian immigrants integrate into the North America Commonwealth. 40 funds, -20 per turn.
-[X] Keep the Factory Management Council based out of Worker Associations, trying to get as many former FHM factories as WA as possible.
-[X] Build a Machine Shop cooperative in China, further helping local industrialization efforts. 400 funds.
-[X] Send monetary and material support to the MLP. 100 funds.
-[X] Set up free schools in cities. 108 funds. 735/6300
--[X] West Coast, Hawaii and NYC
-[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[x][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[x] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[x] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[x][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
--[x] Even for an absolutist state like Russia, never mind this Congress or the trade unions, forbidding the mass strike is impossible. Forswearing a general strike would only make the trade unions and workers' parties more reluctant to take leadership in mass strikes than they ought to be. But Russia, America, and indeed Holland show that mere extension of strike action is vulnerable as long as it remains economic. Workers must secure the gains of strike action by winning democratic constitutional reforms and legal protections.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
--[x] The power of the workers' movement is found only in unity, whatever faction or strategy is momentarily ascendant. The revisionists will find that the bourgeoisie bought disunity but cheaply, and will recoup its thirty pieces of silver shortly. But the gains of the revolution are inalienable.
[X][RFAA] Plan Anarchist-Solidarity Compromises
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 action.
--[X] For the SLP. 690 funds.
--[X] As independents. 450 funds.
-[x] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Many local across NAC: 400 funds, -80 per turn.
-[X] Encourage textile Worker Associations to switch from cotton to hemp.
--[X] Help fund the switch (optional). 250 funds.
-[X] Send organizers and monetary aid to the Argentine anarchists. 200 funds.
-[X] Establish cadres of local organizers specifically for mutual aid efforts, and to coordinate the different kinds of mutual aid efforts with each other, across the country. 100 funds, variable per turn. 0/800
-[X] Send monetary and material support to the MLP. 555 funds.
-[X] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in a region. 120 funds. 5691/6500
-[X] Set up free schools in cities. 750 funds. 735/6300
-[X] Transfer funds to the AdP interest group aligned councils. 340 funds (free action).
-[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[X][UF] Do not support renaming all international affiliates.
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[X][UF] Approve of the resolution in favor of general strikes.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
[X][SPA] Plan Start of the Second Reconstruction
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[X] While the Revolution has emerged victorious, the toll it and the preceding years of undeclared war have taken a significant toll on the former US South, and many within it, even those not outright supporting the Grey Army, are wary at best of the victory of Socialism. The SPA's new charter shall involve the rebuilding of the war-ravaged South and ensuring its development both socially and economically as a willing part of the new Socialist Commonwealth, while continuing to give voice to the farmers (and now, hopefully, the urban workers) of the South that they previously lacked.
--[X] New Supporter Base: Farmers and agricultural workers, poor white southerners, primarily rural but with a small and growing urban base, African Americans, radicalized People's Party/Populists and Southern Progressives.
-[x] Make a newspaper.
--[X] Many local across core region: 100 funds, -20 per turn.
-[X] Make a standardized bureaucracy for the organization to maintain cohesion in it and all its branches. Gives +1 action, 30 funds, -5 funds per capita
-[X] Expand the program helping to create cooperative mills and shops, targeting the large numbers of new small farmers. 381 funds, costs funds per turn.
-[X] Reestablish the organization's militia out of the Revolutionary Army.
--[X] Write-in how many. Cannot exceed pre-civil war size. (4,000)
-[X] Campaign in the election. 1 action, 150 funds.
--[x] For the SLP.
-[x][UF] Rump 1904 Budget
-[x][UF] Keep all welfare managed by the United Front.
-[x][UF] Change the yearly May Day protests into celebrations instead.
-[x][UF] Push the International Socialist Bureau to change the location of the next IWA meeting from Amsterdam to Havana to avoid a red scare crackdown.
-[x][UF] Support renaming all International affiliates to represent one global proletarian party.
--[x] (country) Section of the Workers' International Party
-[x][UF] Support letting the ISB arrange future International congresses in any country which, in its view, has sufficient political freedom to let it meet and conduct business unmolested by the police.
-[x][UF] Disagree with the resolution on state-welfare.
--[x] Even where imperial states have granted paternalistic reforms, as in Germany, those reforms may be revoked as long as they are not defended by the people's representatives having supreme power. Fighting to preserve or gain social reform necessarily implies fighting for constitutional revolution.
-[x][UF] Pass the resolution with a special condemnation towards GB for their treatment of India, calling for the establishment of self-government by Indians.
-[x][UF] Oppose both resolutions.
-[x][UF] Support a resolution to repudiate the revisionists.
[x] [SFAF] Renewal and Re-Internationalize!
-[X] Reorganize the organization's charter.
--[x] Following the end of the old American state, the Society of Friends of All Faith found itself at a crossroads. An initially apolitical group that had steadily radicalized, they were now part of a new social experiment. They maintained their strong religious character, but the organization decided to adapt their goals and structures for the new challenges ahead of them, adding an emphasis on protection of minority religions, the recording and preservation of culture, and a firmer commitment to "social and political revolution."
-[x] Try to get southern churches to break away from the reactionary institutions and leadership, particularly the baptist/methodist churches. 39 funds.
-[x] Try to do an educational campaign targeting conservative churches to promote change from within. 39 funds.
-[x] Reach out to other churches and synagogues in North American Commonwealth cities to find ones willing to officially support your message. 10 funds.
-[x] Expand the rural adult literacy programs. 250 funds, costs funds per turn. 80/3200
--[x] The South and West
-[x] Send organizers to set up mutual aid networks and soup kitchens in Montreal. 12 funds, –4 per turn.
-[X] Actually fund more technocratic institutes as independent self-funded institutions. 99 funds.
-[X] Get further involved in the Industrial Planning Association, making a study on how the large scale planning has been going. 10 funds.
-[X] Make inroads with the IPA Economic Board, offering training and advice. (Works better with/after the above action). 80 funds.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
AN: Technically speaking, the new Congress isn't inaugurated until 1904, since elections were at the end of the year, and until then the old Congress and various RPGs were in charge. However, I felt like using the new system right away. So nominally speaking IC anything done this turn is by the old Congress (which officially had jurisdiction over everything anyways) and the new one is inaugurated next turn. In the future, elections happen on odd years but the new Congress Composition and various electoral influences will go into effect the next turn, while as always the legislative influence is determined by what is spent that turn.
SLP roll: 45 + 5 (campaigning apparatus) + 5 (union support) + 10 (national and local newspapers) = 65
The SLP did very well this election as expected, capturing a supermajority of seats.
LLRP roll: 70 + 5 (campaigning apparatus) + 2 (The Sons of the Frontier) + 5 (national newspaper) = 82
The LLRP was rife with internal conflicts this year over issues involving several local parties deciding to merge with the Democratic-Populists, the latter party having many Georgists in it. But others opposed this due to the Southern Democrats actions leading up to the Second Civil War, including national leadership. This caused chaos with way too many candidates being added, or not enough, causing both the LLRP and Democratic candidates to get just under the threshold on many, many locations.
Despite this they still got a solid number of votes and if they could pull together would surely be competitive in the next election.
Independent anarchists: 42 + 7 (national and some local newspapers) = 49
Independent representatives from the RFAA held a substantial number of seats. But even here they were split, with many of the Appalachian representatives leaning more (Appalachian) nationalist than anarchist, and may either negotiate as a group or independently. The Appalachians held 77 of the 273 non-SLP anarchist seats, themselves larger than some of the parties.
The Christian Socialists did very well this election, picking up much of the rural vote as the Democratic-Populists lagged. The Populists also did somewhat poorly, but still held onto their western state strongholds. The Republicans were the real winner, getting the second largest share of seats in the chamber despite predictions otherwise and the Democratic-Populists having been larger back during the Constituent Assembly elections. They would become the main Congressional opposition to the SLP and most predicted they would continue growing next election as they reorganized.
Despite this, they along with the other minor parties were willing to work with the SLP should they be given concessions, the SLP's supermajority ensuring that working purely in opposition would be useless.
Independents would also be a surprisingly growing force, with many candidates not wishing to be associated with the tainted images of the Republicans or the Democrats, but also not fitting with the SLP's politics. They would have an eclectic mix of policies, and without unity, in such a large chamber they would have a small voice.
Congress Composition
3815 seats
Socialist Labor Party
2695
Land and Labor Reform Party
12
Christian Socialist Party
56
Populist Party
206
Republican Party
268
Democratic-Populist Party
262
Independent Anarchists
273
Other Independents
43
Influence is calculated as follows:
Each organization automatically has 1 action worth of influence without spending an action. Each action spent is added onto this. Every 3000 supporters in an organization in the country gives 1 influence per action. Then you add their funds spent. This is all then multiplied by the party election roll as a percent.
Organization Name
Electoral Influence (For determining party size and party planks)
Lawmaking Influence (For determining number of policies)
All-Continental Union Association (SLP)
1297
5803
The Land and Labor Reform Party (LLRP)
36
81
The Revolutionary Federation of American Anarchists (SLP, independent anarchists)
It is calculated as follows. Each party gets influence from its supporter organizations. NPC parties get additional influence. This includes independents, who have a variety of ideologies not aligned with each other.
In parentheses I have included their lawmaking influence, which is purely for determining the total number of policy planks, 1 per 4000. This means the SLP can pass 3 policies on their own and an additional one if they coalition with the Republicans or Democrats.
In the electoral turn, each organization proposes legislative actions for Congress. Depending on winning coalition lawmaking influence, Congress will be able to pass a number of major policies, 1 for every 4000 influence.
Not all player organizations are officially affiliated with a party. However, some have worked with one in the past, and may send a plan to hope to influence them. Groups affiliated with multiple parties may make multiple plans or say their one plan applies to both.
Policies passed will be determined as follows. Note this is somewhat complicated—all you really need to know is to follow the vote format below for your organization for what policies and coalition partner(s) you would prefer.
First the intra-party decision making, for each multi-org party (for now just the SLP). Each organization proposes a plan, with planks in order of priority. The Party will take planks in order of influence, proportional to that influence, so one party may take multiple planks while another takes none. That is to say, a party with twice the influence of another one will have twice the number of planks in the final plan. If two organizations share a plank then the one with greater influence gets their next priority. If two organizations share a plan, they will combine their influence for determining plank order.
If an organization is supporting a NPC party, then they vote the same way, but with the NPC party as an opposing vote (their vote seen in Potential NPC Coalitions). That is to say, if a player organization has more influence than the NPC org has without them, the player org's first policy choice becomes their first policy choice, but if they have less, then their first policy choice becomes the party's second policy choice. In this case it may influence the party's planned first policy next year.
An organization may also include in their plan any sort of major policy they wish to veto (which may be a vague description). Things an organization would obviously veto—such as SUS opposing women's rights rollbacks—do not have to be specified. When determining a party's planks, an organization will veto a different organization's planned policy as a replacement of their own plank getting in, making the two organizations cancel out, and thus different orgs get their policies in.
The party then coalitions with any parties based on majority vote by influence.
Then coalition decision making. All parties in the coalition decide their number of planks in the same way, except that every party is guaranteed to get at least one plank. In this way it may be beneficial to not enter a coalition if you have a majority, but sometimes coalitions have more total planks, so then it may be beneficial. Additionally, in order to pass anything at all, a coalition must have a majority of representatives.
These can also serve as examples for how to write a plank.
Christian Socialists: Increase national funding for elementary schools and high schools across the nation to increase availability of education.
Populists: Look at land reform during the revolution in the west, where many Indian Tribes illegally confiscated small single family farms. Find the proper owners to the land deeds and return their land to them.
Republicans: Reach out to Europe to re-establish diplomatic and trade relations, focusing on trying to increase exports.
Democrats: Reduce the currently very high import tariffs to reduce prices on goods domestically.
Player Parties plank order:
SLP: SUS, SUS, SUS, ACUA, TFAM
Vote format:
[][ACUA] Plan unions
-[] Major policy plank 1
-[] Major policy plank 2
-[] Major policy plank 3
-[] Veto plank:
-[] Coalition partners:
Additionally, an organization may wish to influence policy on a provincial or commune level. This roughly scales with population: to influence Michigan you'd need 125 lawmaking influence per plank, the Dakotas you need 37 influence per plank, Appalachia 280 influence per plank, South 1,200 per plank, etc. This does not detract from influence on the national level, but as the country is a unitary state, may be considered superfluous and organizations are not required to do something here.
If multiple organizations try to do things in the same area it works the same as nationally (including veto-ing other organization's planks, which works cross-party if the opposing party does not have a local majority) but otherwise they can just do things.
As a unitary state, provinces and communes do not control stuff like tax policy, just collect them, and have limited control over laws and policies. But they do have control over a wide range of control over spending and policies, including prisons, public universities, hospitals, public schools, infrastructure spending, public transit, how to implement national policy, etc.
Vote format:
[][ABLocal] Plan mountains (requires 560 influence)
-[] Policy plank 1 (Appalachia Province)
-[] Policy plank 2 (Communes in the Appalachia province)
Additionally, organizations may choose to influence the IPA's economic board. Anything here can be overridden in the national policy section, and must be continuously compliant with the national policy section, and it is not necessary to put things here if the national policy section has already done it. Stuff here can be like focusing on industrial production, focusing on consumer goods, focusing on a specific region of the country, etc. This is strictly speaking a change from current policy, not investing additional funding, the latter must be done in the national policy section.
It is not required to do anything here at all. Any plank with a majority will be implemented, so if two orgs have a majority together they could pass everything together and no one else needs to vote on it.
Influence is directly proportional to supporters count, multiplied by percent of org in NAC, further multiplied by a per-org modifier ranging from NAP at 0.3 (mostly university students and other intellectuals who aren't in the IPA) to the ACUA at 2.0. It is as a percentage.
ACUA
33
LLRP
1
RFAA
12
TFAM
15
SFAF
2
APFA
2
FHM
2
TOD
1
NAP
0
SUS
21
MIN
0
SPA
6
AB
3
AdP
1
CIA
1
Vote format:
[][TFAMIPA] Plan southern production
-[] Focus on building up industrial production in the South.
-[] Make a five year plan focusing on capital goods to speed up industrialization.
Major Issues:
These do not have to be legislated on, but are topics that are either time sensitive or high in the public consciousness.
Trade: Sitting in the aftermath of a civil war, foreign trade is less than half of what it was beforehand. As industries are returned to civilian goods production and blockades are ended, this may increase naturally, but foreign nations are extremely wary of the new government. Many European officials would prefer trying to rely on their own industries rather than returning to America's exports, even if it would mean increased prices. On the other hand, China was an ally and eager trading partner, but both countries were concerned with potential economic imperialism, and America's Pacific ports were small and on the other side of the country from its major industry. It is up to the new representatives to decide how to repair trade relations with the world—or if they would prefer to focus on self-sufficiency, taking advantage of the North American Commonwealth having almost all resources necessary to run a modern economy.
Trials: There are thousands of captured officers, officials, and soldiers from the civil war. By default, most are set to be released, with the former two categories disenfranchised, and war criminals imprisoned or executed (mostly southern officers/soldiers). But some sort of mass trials could be set up to send a message, whether it be through show trials or real trials, and prevent them from organizing again.
Land Reform: During the civil war most of the southern land has gone from plantations to either collectivized farms or family farms. But the most recently occupied parts are still going through the process, which may be changed. Currently the farmworkers are allowed to vote on whether to be collectivized under the IPA or to be split up, 40 acres (or so) given to each family. Notably this large area and most choosing to have their own farms has resulted in difficulties actually giving each family an entire 40 acres, in many cases having to move away to more marginal lands, and this has only gotten worse through the process. There are also many reports of small families underutilizing their 40 acres.
Mending Divides: After the second Civil War and the Revolutionary War, many are distrustful of the new regime, especially in the South and Great Plains. Many in government would like to see something done to get them on side, lest they deal with festering resistance and a fifth column.
The Fraternal Revolutions: The Republic of China just finished fighting a war for their independence from the colonizing powers. As the friendliest major power to each other, establishing a formal alliance, giving military aid, or giving industrial aid, may be beneficial to both sides. Meanwhile Mexico itself was just starting one, and aiding them could see a strong ally at the southern border.
Herero Wars: The Herero and Nama peoples in the German African colony have begun a war against colonization. While the tribes are not socialist, the heavy-handed German response has drawn concern, and some have suggested that NAC intervene in addition to the SPD's protests, even if only by arming them. But are they truly ready to get into a colonial conflict across the Atlantic just after their civil war while also intervening in Mexico?
[APFA] Plan Garden Tending
-[X] Actually fund more technocratic institutes as independent self-funded institutions. 99 funds.
-[X] Get further involved in the Industrial Planning Association, making a study on how the large scale planning has been going. 10 funds.
-[X] Make inroads with the IPA Economic Board, offering training and advice. (Works better with/after the above action). 80 funds.
-[X][ARM] Dissolution Budget
--[X] Donate funds to an organization from the ARM finances.
---[X] Return the funds to each organization.
-[X][ARM] Dissolve the ARM
