This press message was released by the Government of the Socialist Commonwealth of New Endralon.
Official Speech by President Buenaventrua Durruti:
Comrades and Friends,
I would like to thank the people of New Endralon for again electing me as their President and for supporting the Libertarian Socialists in the National Assembly. Our nation has over the last few years seen great division under the rule of the Capitalist Coalition Party and its leader Natalie Jane Prior. Sodali especially has suffered as a result of her illegal attempts to use our nation's army and police to crush the democratic will of the people. In my capacity as President I am ordering an end to these actions at once and I hope that peace and stability can again be restored to our nation as soon as possible.
A lot of lies have been put out by Prior and her government in relation to the events in Sodali. What was in truth a popular revolution by the oppressed sections of society against their capitalist and fascist oppressors has been referred to in the state and corporate media as a “riot”, an attempt by “criminals” to spread “chaos” and “death”. None of these claims are of course true and the people of Sodali have voted with their feet in this elections, giving the Libertarian Socialists an increased share of 54% compared to just 5% for the Capitalist Coalition Party.
What has of course been ignored by the mainstream media is the factors which were responsible for the unrest in Sodali in the first place and these derive from the contemptuous way in which the right-wing government has behaved towards our democracy. The control which working people were once able to exercise over our country's economy has been brutally destroyed, basic civil liberties we had fought so hard for have been trashed and our national anthem and flag which have been symbols of New Endralon since it's foundation have been torn up.
In the absence of these fundamental rights and freedoms the people of Sodali felt they had no choice but to stand up against the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats who clearly care nothing for their rights and for their dignity as free and independent human beings. They have now taken back control over their own lives and they have laid the foundations for a much deeper and more genuine form of political and economic democracy than we have seen for a long time. To deprive them, by force or otherwise, of all these gains would be a great crime and an attack on New Endralon's democracy.
Together let us resolve our differences and get back to the business of building a better nation and a better world!Signed,
the Government of the Socialist Commonwealth of New Endralon
