Revolutionaries

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Revolutionaries
Riefalozes
Ryfalizies / Zarjenehŏzes
Revolutionaries yaraa.png
Political Ideology Yaraan secessionism
Yaraan resistance
Yaraan civic nationalism
Socialism
Homaitism
Political Position Kryfona-far-left
Political Compass
Economic Left/Right
N/A
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian
N/A
Spekr
Spekr Basic.png
X,Y
Motto
Revolution, now!
Kryfona: Riefaloz, naj!
Yaraan: Zarjenehŏ, naj!
Founded 1 July, 1960
Founder Vihu Mirgŏ
Party Leader Drisi Haria
Secretary Nys Vŏhaje
Headquarters 1 Zarjenehŏ Rd.
City Yarasil, Yar.
Nation Kryfona Kingdom
Organizations
Labor Branch Revolutionaries in Labor
Youth Branch none
Kryfonsparliszaiye
0 / 81
Provincial parliaments
5 / 1,164

Revolutionaries (Kryfona: Riefalozes; For. Kryf. /ˈrˌfɑ.l.zɛs/; Yaraan: Ryfalizies; RZ), sometimes known as Ryfalizies or the more politically-charged Zarjenehŏzes is a minor political party in the Kryfona Kingdom with a significant base in Yaraa Province. The party is one of the prominent far-left parties in the Kryfona Kingdom, and stands for a mixed ideology of Yaraan secessionism, Yaraan nationalism, Socialism, and Homaitism. It was founded on 1 July, 1960, at the beginning of a period of tensions between the crown of the Kryfona Kingdom Tyeri Awaseq and the YKM run government of Yaraa. Although the party is not federal, and therefore cannot stand in federal elections, it has a significant voting base in Yaraa Province and holds 5 seats in the Yaraan House, where it is a member of the Secondary Opposition. The current party leader is Drisi Haria, who has led the party since 2004.

Because of its revolutionary and openly far-left ideology, Revolutionaries is an extremely controversial party and has been since its inception. Under its original leader, Vihu Mirgŏ, the party openly rejected Kryfona rule and vehemently opposed both paying taxes to the crown and supporting the crown in any capacity. After the party swept 23 seats in the 1963 local elections in Yaraa, just behind the 30 of the YKM, the party attempted to force through radical reforms with acts of bribery directed towards potentially sympathetic MPs. This program was exposed in a Yadysima front-page story in April of 1964, leading to massive backlash against the party and an attempt to suspend several of the party's MPs that ultimately failed. Further controversy arose in August 1964 during the Yaraan Crisis (also known as the Yaraan Insurgency), when the party expressed support of the insurgency and released a widely criticized statement in which the party said it was "high time that the Kryfona Kingdom get a kick in the mouth and learn to deal with its own affairs." For this the party was suspended for two weeks by the Yaraan House from holding its seats. The also-left-wing Patriotic Secessionists party was suspended with them for similar statements.

Between 1965 and 1967, the party openly expressed its support of the Revolutionary Front, who eventually went on to kill 231 people and injure over 1,000 in the two worst attacks of the Yaraan Crisis. The party was massively criticized and openly derided as "terrorist supporting" for this; a Kryfonsparliszaiye attempt to ban the party for its support of the Front was only narrowly voted down 42-39. Only in 1968, when the Revolutionary Front collapsed, did the party officially renounce its support of the Front–for its associations, the party's support in the Yaraan House collapsed, and in 1969 the party won just 10 seats. Party leader Vihu Mirgŏ resigned in the aftermath of the result, saying that he had "...sold the party out."

Although the party decisively lost in 1969, it retained a large majority of its base, and in fact actually grew in terms of membership in the aftermath of the result. In 1973, the party counted over 54,000 members–up from a little over 40,000 in 1969–making it one of the largest sub-federal parties in the Kryfona Kingdom by membership. In 1974, the party applied to and joined the Homaitist Party Union, which it remains a part of to this day. The party also joined the Far Left Party Union, a collection of far-left parties in the Kryfona Kingdom and the rest of the Old World, which it also remains a part of. The party won 14 seats in 1975, in part because of its increase in membership and turnover of party members who had served during the leadership of Vihu Mirgŏ. Despite the party's success in 1975, the party gradually declined after the result, losing 2 seats in 1981, 4 seats in 1987, and another 2 in 1993. Although membership remained rather steady, the growth of the Yaraan province and the increase in turnout slowly overwhelmed the party's "reliable" districts. By 1993, the party was down to 6 seats scattered around Yaraa, most of which it retained through massive vote splitting. The party staved off the lost of further seats in 1999 and 2005, but in 2011 lost another seat, leaving them with just 5.

The party currently holds 5 of the 72 constituencies which return members to the Yaraan House. Despite this extremely low number, the party holds the 5th most seats in the House, after the YKM, Social-Populists, KLP, and KRP. The party is the founding member and largest party of the Secondary Opposition, a group of left-wing parties which refuse to affiliate with the Official Opposition. The Secondary Opposition controls 12 of the 72 seats in the Yaraan House.

History

Background

Revolutionaries was a byproduct of the period in which it was founded–that is to say, it was founded at the apex of the Yaraan far-left, and just before the pinnacle of its power in the province. In the late 1950s, just before the founding of the party, the Yaraan far-left had gone from a relatively fringe portion of the political voting population to a significant proportion of it, riding on a wave of YKM unpopularity and the back of a militant desire of the Yaraan youth to confront their "oppressors" and take the fight back to Impurism. However, the far-left–predominantly student-based and rejecting the status quo ante ideals of the Yaraan Kryfon's Movement–quickly found that it had essentially zero representation in any Yaraan party, nor did it have the influence of the other, larger Yaraan parties such as the YKM. Subsequently, these far-leftists took it upon themselves to carve out a niche for themselves where they could, and by the end of 1958 there were a number of small student organizations that sought to take control of the young, far-left electorate. One of these groups, the Yaraan Youth Electoral Movement (YYRM), was the brainchild of Vihu Mirgŏ, the then-23-year-old eventual founder of Revolutionaries.

Yaraan Youth Electoral Movement: 1958-60

The Yaraan Youth Electoral Movement was the functional predecessor to Revolutionaries, and had been founded by Mirgŏ and his friend Zasye Tebrizs on 11 January, 1958 at the Yadysim University. Mirgŏ and Zasye, both 23, were political majors and were on the verge of graduating at the time they founded the organization. Mirgŏ was an order of magnitude further to the left than Zasye, but Zasye would go on to serve as the Revolutionaries' first party secretary from 1960 to 1965.

The Yaraan Youth Electoral Movement began its life mostly as a get-out-to-vote organization, serving to organize the operations of the left-leaning campus during elections. Yadysim had some of the lowest turnout numbers in all of Yaraa for federal elections as well as provincial elections, and in particular its left-wingers were notorious for failing to turn out in large numbers. This had been true in the 1957 elections at both levels; although Yaraan left-wingers did win at the federal level, they posted some of their worst numbers in the city of Yadysim, while provincially, the city elected a moderate to the Yaraan House. Both events had demoralized the far-left in the city considerably, and going into the off-year elections of 1958 and 1959 it was obvious that there was going to be trouble with the city's leftist bloc, and it was under these auspices that Mirgŏ and Zasye first operated the YYRM.

Yaraan House results

Yaraan House Leader Governor Government
1963
23 / 72
Increase 23 Vihu Mirgŏ Syinu Talga Opposition member
1969
10 / 72
Decrease 13
1975
14 / 72
Increase 4 Lautu Sano Gelyŭ Darŏ
1981
12 / 72
Decrease 2
1987
8 / 72
Decrease 4 Lŭla Petajk
1993
6 / 72
Decrease 1 Aaro Sadye Secondary
opposition member
1999
6 / 72
Steady 0 Uyseila Livaqiyats
2005
6 / 72
Steady 0 Drisi Haria
2011
5 / 72
Decrease 1
2017
8 / 72
Increase 3
2018
24 / 72
Increase 16 Drisi Haria Minority government

See also