Gadar!, Beddgelert's state-sponsored media organisation, its name meaning simply, "Revolution!", broadcasts by terrestrial and satellite radio and television and over Indonet, the nation's intranet service, and publishes several newspapers, glossy magazines, and other periodicals, reaching an audience of billions. Its lead story today is an address given just minutes earlier by newly-elected Chairman of the Council of State of the Fifth Indian Soviet Commonwealth, comrade Chivo. Here is what he had to say...
Multi-National Mutual-Assistance Organisation to Unite Igovian-Communists Economically and Militarily
"Much-needed as a successor treaty to the Calcutta Communist Contract Organisation, the New Kolkata Pact (NKP) is set to be a more formidable document. Following the Young Igovian risings across the Indian Soviet Commonwealth of Beddgelert and the creation of the Fifth Commonwealth, a new internationalist agenda has been brought to the fore. The return of Zintharia from its recent international obscurity and the apparent survival there of Igovian sentiment provides a welcome spur to the renewed Igovian push for world revolution and, along with formative efforts to break the isolation enforced upon Wyclyfe by its imperialistic neighbours, highlights the need for a new international Igovian Communist association.
"Yes, it is true that myriad multi-national alliances have lately risen in the world, and that a great many have professed communist or socialist ideals.
"Few if any of these self-described leftists can expect to survive a genuine communist revolution, however, as they continue to respect the supposed sovereignty of bourgeois governments and even of Fascists, and in many cases are themselves capitalist agents, protecting private property, setting interest rates, and pretending that democracy can exist in a political bubble somehow independent of a society's economic life... which is most convenient for rich men such as themselves.
"The NKP will follow a specific programme, and will accept as members any Igovians that constitute a sovereign body beyond that of the individual. This is to say that while Igovian states such as our own mighty Indian Soviet Commonwealth and the valiant Soviet Republic of Wyclyfe may be created full and active members of the Pact that I propose, Igovist political factions, coherent social movements, and rebel armies within non-Igovian states may become observers and full-members-in-waiting within the organisation.
"For those who may not be yet aware of the aims and ideals specific to our movement and our pact, I shall describe the Igovian programme as I see it. Or, perhaps, I shall describe what my comrades have, humblingly, taken to calling the Chivo-Igovian programme. I will be speaking of what we in Soviet India have achieved, or are already working to achieve, and that which new signatories commit to pursuing and shall be helped towards. The Tenets of Igovian Communism are as follows..."
Chivo then related the following list:
1) Establishment of the community as society's base unit
2) Locally, direct democracy
3) Nationally, democratically accountable representation
4) State ownership of capital
5) Worker self-management
6) A fixed value-tax on capital goods
7) Perfect-competition in Igovian free-trade
8) Market-simulation through state control of prices
Emerging from decades of comparative introspection with an enormous and youthful population base fired-up with revolutionary enthusiasm and a sprawling military-industrial complex harbouring untold capacity, Beddgelert was resolved to make a global force of its ideology in a time bearing witness to no small amount of chaos and disunity in the international left.
As Soviet forces swarmed across Myanmar, knocking lumps out of the Fascist establishment, plans were afoot to turn a South Asian great power into a global super power. This time, as Chivo was gradually making plain, the Commonwealth would not so much be constructing an alliance as defining its own sphere of influence. It would be impossible to deny the orbit of prospective NKP members around the massive bulk of Soviet India. Apart from anything else, no comparable powers were likely to be pursuaded to adopt Igovian economics. Igovian 'standardisation of capital' would mean everybody using what Portmeirion decided upon, and the expanded National People's Guard would establish bases over-seas for the first time since the 2nd Commonwealth stationed forces on Madagascar in the course of propping-up the Socialist government there almost two decades ago.
Amidst the pathetic failure of contemporary 'leftist' alliances, the Commonwealth was committed to making a difference... the Beddgelen way.
The membership of the NKP as it stands:
The Indian Soviet Commonwealth of Beddgelert
The Soviet-Socialist Federation of Zintharia
The Soviet Republic of Wyclyfe
Multi-National Mutual-Assistance Organisation to Unite Igovian-Communists Economically and Militarily
"Much-needed as a successor treaty to the Calcutta Communist Contract Organisation, the New Kolkata Pact (NKP) is set to be a more formidable document. Following the Young Igovian risings across the Indian Soviet Commonwealth of Beddgelert and the creation of the Fifth Commonwealth, a new internationalist agenda has been brought to the fore. The return of Zintharia from its recent international obscurity and the apparent survival there of Igovian sentiment provides a welcome spur to the renewed Igovian push for world revolution and, along with formative efforts to break the isolation enforced upon Wyclyfe by its imperialistic neighbours, highlights the need for a new international Igovian Communist association.
"Yes, it is true that myriad multi-national alliances have lately risen in the world, and that a great many have professed communist or socialist ideals.
"Few if any of these self-described leftists can expect to survive a genuine communist revolution, however, as they continue to respect the supposed sovereignty of bourgeois governments and even of Fascists, and in many cases are themselves capitalist agents, protecting private property, setting interest rates, and pretending that democracy can exist in a political bubble somehow independent of a society's economic life... which is most convenient for rich men such as themselves.
"The NKP will follow a specific programme, and will accept as members any Igovians that constitute a sovereign body beyond that of the individual. This is to say that while Igovian states such as our own mighty Indian Soviet Commonwealth and the valiant Soviet Republic of Wyclyfe may be created full and active members of the Pact that I propose, Igovist political factions, coherent social movements, and rebel armies within non-Igovian states may become observers and full-members-in-waiting within the organisation.
"For those who may not be yet aware of the aims and ideals specific to our movement and our pact, I shall describe the Igovian programme as I see it. Or, perhaps, I shall describe what my comrades have, humblingly, taken to calling the Chivo-Igovian programme. I will be speaking of what we in Soviet India have achieved, or are already working to achieve, and that which new signatories commit to pursuing and shall be helped towards. The Tenets of Igovian Communism are as follows..."
Chivo then related the following list:
1) Establishment of the community as society's base unit
2) Locally, direct democracy
3) Nationally, democratically accountable representation
4) State ownership of capital
5) Worker self-management
6) A fixed value-tax on capital goods
7) Perfect-competition in Igovian free-trade
8) Market-simulation through state control of prices
Emerging from decades of comparative introspection with an enormous and youthful population base fired-up with revolutionary enthusiasm and a sprawling military-industrial complex harbouring untold capacity, Beddgelert was resolved to make a global force of its ideology in a time bearing witness to no small amount of chaos and disunity in the international left.
As Soviet forces swarmed across Myanmar, knocking lumps out of the Fascist establishment, plans were afoot to turn a South Asian great power into a global super power. This time, as Chivo was gradually making plain, the Commonwealth would not so much be constructing an alliance as defining its own sphere of influence. It would be impossible to deny the orbit of prospective NKP members around the massive bulk of Soviet India. Apart from anything else, no comparable powers were likely to be pursuaded to adopt Igovian economics. Igovian 'standardisation of capital' would mean everybody using what Portmeirion decided upon, and the expanded National People's Guard would establish bases over-seas for the first time since the 2nd Commonwealth stationed forces on Madagascar in the course of propping-up the Socialist government there almost two decades ago.
Amidst the pathetic failure of contemporary 'leftist' alliances, the Commonwealth was committed to making a difference... the Beddgelen way.
The membership of the NKP as it stands:
The Indian Soviet Commonwealth of Beddgelert
The Soviet-Socialist Federation of Zintharia
The Soviet Republic of Wyclyfe
