[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 !