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[SIZE=3]The United German Workers’ Free Press
July 1921 edition[/SIZE]
A Communique from the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

A simple murder is committed and the world finds itself on the precipice once more!

Well, perhaps it was more than just a simple murder, but the end result may just be another global war. Like so many drunken rugby players leaping head-first into a scrum, the world’s leaders seem unable to resist another bloody conflagration! Have they no memory ? No common sense ? The world is still climbing out of the crater that was the so-called Great War - we can’t let the establishment shove us back in!

We say to our brothers and sisters in Nordmark, do not let those capitalist lackeys in Stockholm steer you towards war! Bury and mourn your dead, and take this opportunity to start the Revolution ! Take to the streets, raise your voices, and build a socialist republic!

We say to our brothers and sisters in Argentina, do not let those warmongering generals in send your youth to fight for a few worthless rocks! Take the road of peace! Depose those criminals, free their prisoners, and build a Socialist Republic !

We in Germany still strive for a Socialist Republic as well, but find ourselves in a quiet war with the fanatical Right - those who would renounce our sworn agreements, hand the country over to the Military-Industrialist Alliance , and send Europe careening into another disaster. They would sign secret treaties that drew us into war, just as they did in 1914.

Not the blatant treaties are any better, of course - we now have two military alliances in Europe - France, Atlantis and Russia on one hand; Iberia and Italy on the other. Will Britain, or Nordmark, or Greece declare with these alliances? Is the Great Game being played once more? Can we avoid it? We must! We call upon Wirth and say to him, “Do not let us be sucked into the matters of other countries! Let us instead stand alone, a solitary beacon for peace!”

Will Wirth listen? Perhaps. We think the Iberians and Italians were Up To Something with that cruiser race last month. We think they tried to woo the Weimar Republic, and that Wirth rejected them. "Why", we do not know, though we are curious.

In closing, comrades, we of the KPD continue to seek to travel the peaceful road to proletarian empowerment. Let us continue to strive for Revolution !

Appearing in an unnamed Stockholm newspaper very early in July

Pacifist agitators from a number of European Socialist-Communist movements found different welcome than they had bargained for when they appeared at the Greater Assembly of the Nordmark National Labour Organisation a few days ago. These foreigners - several of which were German, but France, Italy, Russia, and just about every other nation in Europe were also represented - came to the assembly to make a call for cessation of hostilities with Argentina and a call for armed revolution and overthrowing of the regime in Nordmark.

Renowned as a stronghold of socialism in Nordmark and a regular supporter of both the Nordmark Communist Party and the Nordmark Labourers' Communist Party, the National Labour Organisation's Main Assembly no doubt was seen as a natural starting point for revolutionary agitation, but this was not to be. Within minutes of the foreigners starting their appeal to the Assembly, the majority of said Assembly - more than 600 strong - rose up as one in protest, and chased the foreigners out on the streets.

The visitors were, however, ablebodied young men, and quite possibly would have escaped, had they not run into the Feminists for South Georgia movement doing a rally - rarely has this city seen more skilled employment of umbrella and handbag. Said one bloodthirsty suffragette to this publication: "Oh, there is no doubt that the handbag has an element of oppression of women to it, but it is awfully practical, and it is, moreover, well-suited for self-defence, particularly when heavily laden with communist manifestos."

By fortuity, the police was already out in force - a necessity given the recently heated mood in the nation - and, reinforced by two platoons of the Royal Svea Guards Grenadiers, the police managed to save the foreign revolutionaries from what, judging by the attitudes of the mob, would be certain death. The foreigners have been accommodated in the Royal Guards Barracks for a couple of days, receiving medical treatment as necessary, but are now being sent back to their own countries.

That could make for an interesting communique in a month or two.

Hey, speaking of unwelcome foreigners in Nordmark...

Historically, a great number of right-wing leaders fled from Germany to Sweden after the war and/or the Kapp Putsch, before heading back to Germany later on. Would Nordmark have accepted those guys, or should I assume that they've had to go elsewhere?