For true freedom, the Union must end!
By Marinho Gadhavi
I had a friend, a lecturer at Sao Tiago university, who demonstrated when President Amero interfered in Estado Sao Tiago’s Comissão election in November. She was arrested over new year. I haven’t heard from her since. As far as the world is concerned, she’s vanished. As far as the security forces are concerned, she never existed. Another friend of mine, a street vendor in Nirapanza, was shot in the head when he failed to pay back a loan he’d taking from a local Sindicato thug. My friend needed the money to put food on his shelf. The man who shot him still walks free. The priorities of the security forces are not to protect the common Totzka citizen, only to protect the government.
We are fortunate in the South that the government has not yet stripped away our social mobility. It’s a constitutional guarantee, although that counts for little now. But the Pamil have no such mobility. In many ways us Ilha are the opposites of the Pamil. In Pamilya young people who have the potential to be educated at the best universities of the Isles work in the lithium mines for the featherbrained children of inbred landlords. I have nothing against the so-called Material Executive Ethno-Unions of Pamilya – they are increasingly the victims of the foreign exploitation of Totzka, forced to bankruptcy by the Marians, the Almoreans and the Muslim and Jews of Survunia and Vibor.
Suman Courtemanche, the State-President of the city of Cas Vilsti since the late 1980s, is the epitome of the Totzkan political elite, a representative of everything wrong with his class. Courtemanche is of Stiuraian heritage - claiming the descent from the Cas Vilsti’s former Gaeltic overlords as our other leaders look to claim some Magarati or the Portuguese heritage, and in doing so becomes a continuation of the foreign oppression of the Totzkan people. He is often hailed as the man of compromise, of bipartisanship, for his reconciliation of the difference between city’s ethno-factions. Yet under Courtemanche the Plébéien, the children of migrants and slaves, are forgotten, supressed and silenced when necessary.
This is the Totzkan Union laid bare. A collection of states defined by corruption, hypocrisy and avarice. The system survives on the blood, sweat and sacrifice of the common Totzkan all to service a dream of liberation and unity. We will accept this nightmare no longer. We demand freedom from a vile and monstrous state.
The system is breaking down. Our politicians may think they are untouchable, but they are also weak and lazy. The Yhai have roared for their freedom and the President and the Comissão Popular flinched and caved. Either through democracy or violence Yhaiva will soon be free. Let the independence of the Yhai be the precipice of a second revolution that will free all of Totzka. Let the cities of Okhary-Karoletz, Mount Lonli and Cas Vilsti stand as equals to Parazina as capitals of their own sovereign nations.
Our parent’s generation is cowardly and still shell-shocked from the horrors of the first Totzkan Revolution. It is up to the youth of Totzka to take the torch first lit in 1961 and delivering on the promises of 1974. Direct action is against tyranny is not aggression, it is self-defence.
The 26th of August is celebrated as “Liberation Day”. The lie that we were ever liberated must end. Soon a new day will be chosen where the sun will rise on the Isles and the five ‘nations’ of Totzka will one again be nations in the truest sense of the word. Hail Ouronna. Hail Pamilya. Hail Terras dos Picos. Hail Yhaiva. Hail Cas Vilsti. Death to the Totzkan Union.
