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{{Infobox political party
| name = The Workers' Party (TWP)
| logo_alt =
| colorcode = #be0411 <!-- HTML color code (e.g. "red", "#FF0000" or Party metadata color template) otherwise "transparent" -->
| leader =
| slogan = Liberté, Égalité, Sororité
| president =
| chairperson = [[BolleDeBoll]]
| general_secretary =
| first_secretary = [[SandFalls]]
| secretary_general =
| presidium =
| leader1_title = Central Committee
| leader1_name = *[[smal]]
*[[SandFalls]]
*[[BolleDeBoll]]
| secretary =
| spokesperson =
| founder = [[ZombieLenin]]
| founded = {{start date|2010|12|27}}
| headquarters = *South Lucassio, [[Pavia]]
*New Danzilona, [[FWC Danzilona]]
*[[Proxima]]
| ideology = '''Majority:''' <br/>
ZombieLeninism-Bolleshevism<br/>
'''Factions:''' <br/>
''[[Mery#Politics|rha'yara]]''
ZombieLeninism
| membership = 24
| position = Far left
| seats2_title = National Forum ([[CDM]])
| seats2 = {{Composition bar|1|7|#be0411}}
| seats3_title = [[Venne (CivMC)|Vennish]] High Council
| seats3 = {{Composition bar|1|3|#be0411}}
| international =
| website = https://discord.gg/mA4aBzD <br/>
https://twitter.com/twpciv
| country =
}}
'''The Workers' Party''', often abbreviated to '''TWP''', is an organization founded on December 27th 2010<ref>https://civbooks.github.io/books/CivClassic_2/SandFalls/Manifesto_of_TWP.html </ref> in the GoldenCreeper server<ref name=":2" /> that has
== History ==
[[File:TWP Family Tree Civball.png|Loose Family History of TWP<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivBall/comments/t68hwu/the_workers_party_family_tree_updated/?/</ref>|thumb]]
=== Foundation ===
Founded on the 27th of December 2010 in the GoldenCreeper server at the same time as a
=== CivCraft 1.0 ===
[To be written]
=== CivCraft 2.0 ===
At the beginning of 2.0, Comrade [[ZombieLenin]] would go to the +- and found the city of [[New Leningrad]].
[Early 2.0 History]
After the retirement of Comrade ZombieLenin, he appointed Comrade [[Romec]] to the role of Party leadership. However, Romec quickly developed a severe case of Obsidian Lung due to prolonged shifts in the obsidian mines serving the ZombieLeninist ideal. He was put into intensive care in the New Leningrad Hospital, and Party leadership was passed on to BolleDeBoll. Very soon after this, Romec broke quarantine from his hospital room and escaped to the Capitalist world due to serious neurodegenerative side-effects from Obsidian Lung.
BolleDeBoll led New Leningrad during the Olympics, admission to the [[North East Alliance|North Eastern Alliance]], the formation of the [[Eastern Bloc]], and the formation of the [[Federal Socialist Republics|Federal Socialist Republic]] along with [[Centauri]] and Montarnis.
During the era of the FSR, The Workers' Party was an official part of the National Soviet, with its Central Committee given a guaranteed seat.
=== In
In [[Mount Augusta (CivClassic)|Civ Classic Mount Augusta]], The Workers' Party took hold in the south of MtA through [[BolleDeBoll]], where Little Leningrad now stands. However, with the foundation of Maltovia by the Party, their lands in MtA went abandoned until Renrits1 and his brothers built the Anti-Fascist Wall, which prompted the return of SandFalls to Augustan lands. The lands of the Party expanded and were developed. organized a large voting block to elect favorable Judges or Mayors<ref name=":0">https://civbooks.github.io/books/CivClassic_2/SwissAndHam/TWP_Constitution.html
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===== First Secretary =====
The First Secretary, also known as eternal party head, was the elected head of the party who was tasked with "the maintenance and management of the Central Committee to which it is responsible to"<ref name=":0" /> and who, after being elected, kept their position until they retired. The First Secretary could be recalled through 3/4ths vote of the entire Party membership.
===== Central Committee =====
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Unless decided otherwise by the Central Committee, all full members voted in party-wide votes to elect the "candidate the Party endorses". The election was cut up into two stages. The first stage, lasting 48 hours and known as the nomination period, is the stage in which full members may declare their candidacy and discuss relevant issues. The second stage, also lasting 48 hours, known as the election period, is when full members may vote for a candidate.
=== In
Historically, The Worker's Party was not officially involved in the governance of the [[Union of Socialist Augusta|USA]] and the [[Confederation of Socialist Augusta|CSA]] per their respective charters<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ES0lg0qIbxyH3GcmME_ScQwYn3P_9Y_WlzsLFhXmQD4/edit</ref><ref>https://hackmd.io/9GWoWrR-RsqNWKR8UOieCA?view</ref>, however, many citizens of the USA and thus CSA were members of the Party, including [[SandFalls]], leader of both the former and later. The USA/CSA discord was the same one as the Party and party members hold admin status in the discord.
=== In the Confederation of Cities, Communes and Protectorates ===
The Party took a more official role with the implementation of the charter of the [[Confederation of Cities Communes and Protectorates|Confederation of Cities, Communes and Protectorates]]<ref name=":1" /> following the merger between the CSA and the [[Communist Cities Caretaker-Protectorate]]. In the new CCCP, the leader of the Confederation is the leader of the Party, and only Party members may vote in CCCP-wide votes, such as the election of the Vice-Premier and votes on legislation. The Workers' Party is thus one of the most important organizations of the Confederation, and, by extension, of leftism on the [[CivClassic 2.0|CivClassic]] server.
=== Mery-Statist Schism ===
''Main Article: [[Mery]]''
After the closure of CivClassic in late 2021, The Worker's Party would move to [[CivRev]] as the [[Mery Horde]] and later to [[Vintage Civ]] as [[Hwillotati]]. This period marked a significant shift in the Party, as many of its rank-and-file members would move in this religiously anarchist direction and form the [[Mery]] culture, which party leaders would go on to describe as their "rebellious phase." Though it would not be dominated by the party, its leaders would double down on the more authoritarian side of its politics and planned to establish [[The State]] on [[CivMC]], a self-described Noocracy led by a council of esoteric Apocryphals who are not to be questioned. In contrast, the anarchist Mery people would go on to found the ''[[Djani Wirehtshig Mehriteht]],'' or Holy Realm of the Mery, in which they lived by the principles of mutual aid and fluid self-governance. Though the members of the two sides would still remain close friends and allies, this era would be the first time in over 6 years where the party members were not only not united under one banner, but also where the party would have no ruling authority over any state its members resided in.
On May 22, 2022, TWP central committee members withdrew from their involvement in The State, making them outside of any government going into CivMC. The State was never actually established once CivMC launched on June 2, 2022.
=== In Pavia, Danzilona, and Proxima (CivMC) ===
[[File:Danz commune palace.png|thumb|351x351px|The TWP Danzilonan Commune's Palace]]
With much of their former party members now dedicated to the Mery and other, non-Mery party leaders being mostly inactive, instead of founding their own nation, TWP decided to found its own semi-autonomous communes within friendly nations on [[CivMC]], most notably in [[Pavia]] and in [[Danzilona]]. In Pavia, [[SandFalls]] heads the County of South Lucassio, which contains communal buildings, farms, and a church to ZombieLenin that contains some TWP artefacts. In Danzilona, both SandFalls and [[BolleDeBoll]] run the Danzilonan Commune, consisting of a TWP headquarters in the central DanzShaft and a bigger palace located on an island right off the coast. However, due to Bolle's IRL busyness and Sand's departure from Danzilona following the failed [[2023 Danzilonan coup d'état attempt]], the Danzilonan Commune is currently dormant.
On February 20, 2023, TWP was granted its very own sovereign nation by the [[Elysian Pact]] on former [[Kallos]] land in the aftermath of the [[Purple War]].<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/117k7ds/purple_war_sentencing_land_claims/</ref> SandFalls named this new country [[Proxima]] as a sequel to the [[CivCraft 2.0]] nation of [[Centauri]], which she helped co-found. A site of many public works spearheaded by Sand and [[Red_Steel]], Proxima is currently TWP's most active headquarters.
== Ideology ==
[[File:Zombieleninism-bolleshevism.png|thumb|The symbol of TWP's ideology. From left to right: The heads of [[ZombieLenin]], [[BolleDeBoll]], and [[SandFalls]]. ]]
=== ZombieLeninism ===
Much of the core ideology of The Workers' Party was derived from the ideas of its founder, [[ZombieLenin]]. ZombieLenin (aka ZL) was a self-described Left-Communist<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1h9nnp/leninist_intro_and_qa_now_reintroducing_your/</ref> and Leninist<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1d8q8o/iama_zombielenin_leader_of_leningrad_buenos_aires/c9nzx03/</ref> who was the leader of TWP and the nations it controlled (most notably [[Leningrad]] on [[CivCraft 1.0]]) from the party's foundation in 2010 until stepping down as party chairman in August 2013.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Leningrad/comments/1kf0ug/im_afraid_ill_have_to_leave/</ref> ZL's ideology was anti-democratic, as he believed a political party (which may or may not be internally democratic) should lead the nation unilaterally, backed up by a paramilitary wing.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1p1x8m/moment_with_lenin_how_to_thrive_in_a_democratic/</ref> ZL believed workers should be included in the party as much as possible, even if they only held low-level positions, and they should always have jobs to do through means of public works projects.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1mlvpp/i_can_leninism_and_so_can_you/</ref> Propaganda is also a major aspect of ZombieLeninism, as ZL himself was keen on making posters and art in order to boost worker morale.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Leningrad/comments/1i5ut2/requesting_posters/</ref>
Following his departure, TWP donned ZL the "Eternal President" of the party, cementing his influence within the party regardless of his actual activity.
=== ZombieLeninism-Bolleshevism ===
The emergence of ZombieLeninism-Bolleshevism can date its origins back to [[Maltovia]], which TWP founded on [[CivClassic 2.0]] in June 2018.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Maltovia/comments/a2u34l/about_the_republic/</ref> However, it really took shape when it was implemented by [[SandFalls]] as the system of governance of the [[Confederation of Socialist Augusta]] and subsequently the [[Confederation of Cities Communes and Protectorates]] in 2021. Also known as '''Anarcho-Stalinism''', the oxymoron of the ideology describes its two-pronged approach to governance. On a day-to-day basis, governance is mostly ''anarchic'', with citizens living by means of mutual aid and free association and largely doing whatever they want with only basic regulation, regardless of their affiliation with the party itself. However, whenever there is an unresolvable dispute in regards to policy, foreign affairs, or between at least two citizens, the Party steps in and rules unilaterally, hence the ''Stalinism''.
== Governance and Structure ==
Since the renaming of the USA to the CSA and even before, The Workers' Party has become very informal in its structure in governance, with no written text to determine hierarchy or roles. However, structure can still be observed, mainly on the CCCP/TWP discord and in what the First Secretary, [[SandFalls]], says.
=== Eternal President and Eternal Chairman ===
There are two honorary titles within The Workers' Party<ref>{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=SandFalls|sender=Courtney|url=https://discord.com/channels/457923148969410562/460878545057480714/914255412772098059|text=there are currently two positions other than the CC
Eternal President - ZL
Eternal Chairmain - Bolle|date=November 27, 2021|access-date=November 28, 2021|channel=party-general|server=CCCP/TWP (CivClassic)}}</ref>: Eternal President, held by ZombieLenin, and Eternal Chairman, held by BolleDeBoll after his retirement. In theory, both these positions have simply delegated their powers to the current First Secretary and can revoke those delegations at any moment and take back power<ref name=":3">{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=SandFalls|sender=Courtney|url=https://discord.com/channels/457923148969410562/460878545057480714/914518031097528350|text=How it works:
- Party head is appointed by previous Party head
- Central Committee is an organization of equals, with Party head first of equals. (Why I call myself First Secretary)
- New members are added to the CC (at least now) by consent of existing CC. Same for removal.
- CC could technically coup me, but that would be very mean. I would be sad.
- I am technically not the highest position in the Party, I am still outranked by Bolle and ZL who have simply delegated their powers to me, and at any time can rescind that delegation and retake the Party|date=November 28, 2021|access-date=November 28, 2021|channel=party-general|server=CCCP/TWP (CivClassic)}}</ref>, however in practice both people who hold these titles are largely inactive and are unlikely to rescind their delegations of power to the First Secretary [[SandFalls]].
=== First Secretary ===
The First Secretary of The Workers' Party is the ''de facto'' leader of the Party in day-to-day affairs. The current First Secretary is [[SandFalls]]. She is the fourth leader of TWP, succeeding [[BolleDeBoll]]. The First Secretary is appointed by the previous Party head when they retire<ref name=":3" />.
=== Central Committee ===
The Central Committee is the central organ of TWP. There are three current Central Committee members: [[SandFalls]], [[Smal]], and [[BolleDeBoll]]. Central Committee members are added or removed with the consent of a majority of extant Central Committee members<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite Discord message|sender-link=SandFalls|sender=Courtney|url=https://discord.com/channels/457923148969410562/460878545057480714/914243398028886048|text=CC members added by consent of existing CC|date=November 27, 2021|access-date=November 27, 2021|channel=party-general|server=CCCP/TWP (CivClassic)}}</ref>.
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